A Midsummer Night's Dream Snug Quotes

Snug > Flute

Quote 1

SNUG
Masters, the Duke is coming from the temple,
and there is two or three lords and ladies more 
married. If our sport had gone forward, we had all
been made men.
FLUTE 
O, sweet bully Bottom! Thus hath he lost sixpence a day during his life; he could not have sixpence a day: an the duke had not given him'scaped six pence a day for playing Pyramus, I'll be hanged. He would have deserved it. Six pence a day in Pyramus, or nothing. (4.2.15-24)

Snug is excited at the prospect of getting to perform before the Duke because he thinks it's an opportunity for social advancement. He imagines his crew becoming "made men" and earning "sixpence" for their efforts.  

Brain Snack:  Technically, Shakespeare the actor/playwright was a commoner, but he was so successful that he was able to buy property and even applied for a coat of arms.  However, it doesn't seem like the Mechanicals are headed in the same direction, does it?