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.
– William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 4, Scene 1. When Bottom wakes up after a night of passion with Queen Titania, we are treated to some wonderful examples of Bottom-speak. He manages to bastardize the English language and the Bible, as he tells us of his strange "dream." In his garbled quotation from Saint Paul in 1 Corinthians, he has the eye hearing, ear seeing, hand tasting, tongue conceiving, and heart reporting.