Bottom: The ousel cock, so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill, The throstle, with his note so true, The wren with little quill-- Titania: What angel wakes me from my flowery bed? Bottom: The finch, the sparrow, and the lark, The plain-song cuckoo gray, Whose note full many a man doth mark, And dares not answer nay-- (3.1.120-8)

30. Sukiyaki Song Left alone on stage, Bottom sings Shakespeare's lines (3.1.120-128) to the tune of The Sukiyaki Song, and awakens Titania. Although Bottom's words remain unchanged in translation, his song ends with words which echoing those of "Sukiyaki": "It is Bottom left alone who is singing this strange song". The audience laughs at the last words of his song, because he plainly admits that the song he is singing is strange and makes little sense in Japanese. And, on top of this, the last words are obviously a parody of "Sukiyaki". From the beginning of the play, Bottom has been presented as the odd-one-out as if to foreshadow this "translation" scene where he is abandoned by his fellow mechanicals. Although normally shy and timid, he becomes "translated" when drunk. (See earlier, Bar 8. Bottom with hostess where he is so bold as to put his legs on the table and his arm around a hostess, and to demand that Quince let him play all the parts.) Bottom's abandonment by his fellows here possibly echoes his earlier moments of isolation.