Текст песни A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Have You Sent to Bottom's House?" - Norman Lumsden feat. Keith Raggett, Robert Tear, Kenneth McDonald, Owen Brannigan, David Kelly, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

Have you sent for Bottom's house?
Is he commoted?
He cannot be heard of
Out of doubt he is transported
If he cannot then the play is marred
It goes not forward
It is not possible
You have not a man in all Athens able to discharge Pyramus but him
No, he hath simply the best wit of any and the top man in Athens
Yes, and the best person too
Masters, the Duke is coming from the temple
If our sport had gone forward, we had all been made men
Oh, sweet poor Bottom
Thus hath he lost six months
Six months a day during his life, and the Duke hath
Not given him six months a day for playing Pyramus
I'll be hanged
He would have deserved it
Six months a day
Six months in Pyramus or nothing
He could not have escaped it
He could not have escaped it
Six months or nothing
He could not have escaped it
Where, oh, where, oh, where oh where is Bottom?
Where, oh, where, oh, where oh where is Bottom?
Bottom!
Bottom!
I am to discourse wonders, but ask me not what
Let us hear sweet Bottom
Not a word of me
All that I will tell you is that the Duke
Has dined and our play is preferred
Our play is preferred!
Our play is preferred!
Our play is preferred!
Our play is preferred!
Get your apparel together
Get your apparel together
Put strings to your feet
Put strings to your feet
Fill your ribbons to your parts
Fill your ribbons to your parts
Let Thisbe have clean linen
Let Thisbe have clean linen
No onions to garland
No onions to garland
No more words, no more words
To the palace, go away
Go away
Go away
Go!
Go!
Go!
Go!