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8o FRANCIS BACON'S CRYPTIC RHYMES then, until finally Bottom expresses his intention to go and relate the matter to his friend Quince and get him to write a ballad of the dream. Me-thought I was, and me-thought I had. Thus we hear Bottom cogitating, but what he was, and what he had, that he cannot remember. In other words, he cannot hit upon the rhyme to the words he utters. That rhyme would have told him what he wanted to know: Me-thought I was ... an ass (says the rhyme). Me-thought I had ... an ass's head (says the rhyme). We would, in the same sense hinted atj by the poet, term such a rhyme "that hath no bottom," a bottom less rhyme. For, does not Bottom, after having decided to ask his friend Quince to write a ballad, say, at the close of the scene : It shall be called Bottomes Dream, because it hath no bottome. The play on the words " Zettel" (Bottom!) and " anzetteln," chosen by Schlegel, does but poor justice to the original. The ballad has no bottom, nor has the rhyme, for the time : being such is the idea conveyed by the English words. And now, before concluding our discourse upon the predilection for rhyme evinced by the author of Shakespeare, we have still to consider the strangest sort of rhyme contained in those plays, namely, that in which the actual rhyme is substituted by a word that does not rhyme. We might call it a vexing-rhyme. A clear instance of a vexing-rhyme is contained in the comedies, but the tragedies furnish a still better example.
FRANCIS BACON'S CRYPTIC RHYMES 81 At the close of the comic performance of " Pyramus and Thisbe " in A Midsummer- Night's Dream, four stanzas are introduced, each consisting of twelve rhymed verses ; couplets, or forty-eight rhymed so that we should expect twenty-four words. But such is not the case. There are only twenty-three couplets, representing forty-six rhymed words in all ; for in the very passage in which Thisbe bewails the death of her Pyramus one rhyme is omitted ; THISBE. Asleep, my love ? What, dead, my dove ? O Pyramus, arise ! Speak, speak. Quite dumb ? Dead, dead ? A tomb Must cover thy sweet eyes. These lily lips, This cherry nose, These yellow cowslip cheeks, Are gone, are gone : Lovers make moan : His eyes were green as leeks. (From the Tauchnitz Edition.) Schlegel translates : THISBE. Schlafst du, mein Kind Steh auf geschwind ! Wie, Taubchen, bist du tot ? O sprich ! o sprich ! O rege dich I Ach ! tot ist er ! o Not ! Dein Lilienmund, Dein Auge rund, Wie Schnittlauch frisch und grtin,
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