Starveling - the Tailor Quotes in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)

Starveling - the Tailor: [Precariously gets up onto a chair, holding up a lantern to speak as the moon, and a thorn bush tied to a dog's collar in his other hand; all cheer as he manages to stand on the chair] This lanthorn doth the horned moon present; Myself the man...

Theseus - Duke of Athens: He should have worn horns on his head.

Starveling - the Tailor: This lanthorn doth the horned moon present; Myself the man i' the moon do seem to be. This do...

Theseus - Duke of Athens: This is the greatest error of all the rest: the man should be put into the lantern.

Starveling - the Tailor: This lan...

Theseus - Duke of Athens: How is it else the man i' the moon?

Starveling - the Tailor: This lantern doth...

Hippolyta - Queen of the Amazons - Betrothed to Theseus: I am so weary of this moon: would he would change!

Starveling - the Tailor: [Near tears] This lantern...

Demetrius, in Love with Hermia: Proceed, Moon.

Starveling - the Tailor: [sighs, then speaks very quickly] All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the lantern is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog.

Starveling - the Tailor: [Precariously gets up onto a chair, holding up a lantern to speak as the moon, and a thorn bush tied to a dog's collar in his other hand; all cheer as he manages to stand on the chair] This lantern doth the horned moon present; Myself the man...

Theseus - Duke of Athens: He should have worn horns on his head.

Starveling - the Tailor: This lantern doth the horned moon present; Myself the man i' the moon do seem to be. This do...

Theseus - Duke of Athens: This is the greatest error of all the rest: the man should be put into the lantern.

Starveling - the Tailor: This lan...

Theseus - Duke of Athens: How is it else the man i' the moon?

Starveling - the Tailor: This lantern doth...

Hippolyta - Queen of the Amazons - Betrothed to Theseus: I am so weary of this moon: would he would change!

Starveling - the Tailor: [Near tears] This lantern...

Lysander: Proceed, Moon.

Starveling - the Tailor: [sighs, then speaks very quickly] All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the lantern is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog.