| The second act ushered in the Pyramus and Thisbe sequence, the play within a play performed by the rustics at Theseus and Hippolyta's nuptials. |
| Won't the degenerate rustics of Sherston, so clearly in need of protection from themselves, go back to their ancient uncouth ways? |
| But if you visualise Owen as one of those red-faced rustics going about his business with a straw in his mouth, you are well off track. |
| The very nature of the urban renaissance in Bristol was to exclude rustics from participation rather than to transform them into citified wannabes. |
| Still the rustics were at a loss to explain why they continued to consume non-vegetarian food. |
| We rubbed shoulders with the local rustics, but only shoulders. |
