“My Oberon, what visions have I seen!Methought I was enamored of an ass.”

“I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was--there is no man can tell what. 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 hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom...”

“Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.”

“I hardly loathe myself. Have you seen my ass?”

“I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.”

“But be warned, Queen Mab, this is not yet over. One way or another, I will have my daughter back." Oberon”