...was, and methought I had, — but man is but a patched fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man...Quince to write a ballad of this dream : it shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom, and I will sing it in the latter end of a play,...

...was, and methought I had, — but man is but a patched fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was." Warner, in his manuscript annotations on Shakespeare, says, that " this seems to be a humorous allusion...

...was, and methought I had, — but man is but a patched fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man...Quince to write a ballad of this dream : it shall be called " Bottom's Dream," because it hath no bottom ; and I will sing it in the latter end of a...

...Methought I was, and methought I had - but man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man...Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream. It shall be called 'Bottom's Dream,' because it hath no bottom, and I will sing it in the latter end of a play,...

...I was — and methought I had — but man is a patched fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. Bottom— MND IV.i True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing...

...stumbling attempt to articulate his dream should paraphrase a celebrated passage from 1 Corinthians (2.9): "the eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was" (4.1.209-12). The biblical passage refers to the "hidden wisdom" of "the deep things of God" whose...

...sense of it, and he tangles up the senses while paraphrasing St Paul to express his puzzlement and awe: 'The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was' (4.1.208-11). Human senses and powers collapse under the effort to report the experience that he recalls....

...is most evident from the remarks he makes upon waking from his dream, when he declares in amazement 'The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was' (4.1.209-12). The perceptual confusion indicated in the speech is an unintentional effect of the confusion...

...noted. No eye has seen [them], O God, but You, Who act for those who trust in You." (Isaiah 64:3) 8. "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was" (A Midsummer Night's Dream, IV.i.21 8-221). 9. In germ, this is precisely the kind of a priori argument...

...was, and methought I had, — but "inn is but a patcht fool, if he will offer to say what methought ne be not crost, I have a father, you a daughter, lost. [Exit. Enter the Maskers G repon, what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballet of this dream: it shall be called...