We will meet, and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously. Take pains. Be perfect. Adieu.
– William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, Scene 2. Bottom has a talent for misspeaking and constantly misspeaks about the theater throughout the play. On the matter of rehearsals for the Duke Theseus’ play, he probably meant to say "seemly" instead of "obscenely." But ironically his description turns out to be accurate, in view of the way he and his fellow performers mangle the tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe and unintentionally turn it into something awful but comic.