How many times does the word moon appear in A Midsummer Night's Dream and where?

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Thirty times, not counting the large number of references to "moonlight" (six) and "moonshine" (eight, not counting stage directions which refer to the character Moonshine). It occurs fifteen times in the Pyramus and Thisbe play alone. The others can be found in every act in every part of the play, from the very first lines in Act 1 ("four happy days bring in Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow This old moon wanes") to Puck's speech at the very end of the play ("Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon"). Some of the better known ones are as follows:

"Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon" (I, 1)

"a mile without the town, by moonlight; there will we rehearse" (I, 2)

"I do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moon's sphere" (II, 1)

"Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania." (II, 1)

"The moon methinks looks with a watery eye" (III, 1)

"This lanthorn doth the horned moon present; Myself the man i' the moon do seem to be" (V, 1)

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