Thus die I, thus, thus, thus.
Now am I dead;
Now am I fled;
My soul is in the sky.
Tongue, lose thy light!
Moon, take thy flight! [Moonshine exits.]
Now die, die, die, die, die. [Pyramus falls.]
– William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 5, Scene 1. Bottom as Pyramus, on finding Thisbe’s bloody cape, delivers this dramatic monologue and stabs himself. It is a botched death speech, as a tongue can’t lose its light. He most likely meant to tell his eyes to lose their light and his soul to take flight. The death scene is made to sound even more ridiculous, when Bottom tells himself to "die" – five times over!