<P> "(...) 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; and I will sing it in the latter end of a play, before the Duke . Peradventure, to make it the more gracious, I shall sing it at her death ." (4.1. 209--216) </P> <P> This speech seems to be a comically jumbled evocation of a passage from the New Testament's 1 Corinthians 2.9--10: </P> <P> "The things which eye hathe not sene, nether eare hath heard, nether came into man's heart, are, which God hathe prepared for them that love him . But God hathe reveiled them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deepe things of God ." </P> <P> Steven Doloff also suggests that Bottom's humorous and foolish performance at the end of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" mimics a passage from the previous chapter of Corinthians: </P>

Who played bottom in a midsummer night's dream