Both Uses of
loam
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- BOTTOM Some man or other must present wall: and let him have some plaster, or some loam, or some rough-cast about him, to signify wall; and let him hold his fingers thus, and through that cranny shall Pyramus and Thisby whisper.†
Scene 3.1 *loam = rich soil
- This loam, this rough-cast, and this stone, doth show That I am that same wall; the truth is so: And this the cranny is, right and sinister, Through which the fearful lovers are to whisper.†
Scene 5.1
Definition:
a rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials