According to Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, regarding Shakespeare's character Bottom in Midsummer Night's Dream, "one of the numerous meanings of 'bottom' is a 'skein of thread.'" Thus the bard gets, with the donkey jokes, a twofer of a pun.
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