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Table of Contents<\/a><\/p>\n

ACT 1 SCENE 1 <\/b> Setting: Athens. The palace of THESEUS.<\/p>\n

Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, and Attendants.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
THESEUS <\/td>\nNow, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDraws on apace; four happy days bring in<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnother moon: but, O, methinks, how slow<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThis old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLike to a step–dame or a dowager<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLong withering out a young man revenue.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HIPPOLYTA <\/td>\nFour days will quickly steep themselves in night;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFour nights will quickly dream away the time;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd then the moon, like to a silver bow<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNew–bent in heaven, shall behold the night<\/td>\n 10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOf our solemnities.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
THESEUS <\/td>\nGo, Philostrate,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nStir up the Athenian youth to merriments;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAwake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTurn melancholy forth to funerals;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe pale companion is not for our pomp.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nExit PHILOSTRATE.<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHippolyta, I woo'd thee with my sword,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd won thy love, doing thee injuries;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut I will wed thee in another key,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWith pomp, with triumph and with revelling.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Enter EGEUS, HERMIA, LYSANDER, and DEMETRIUS.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
EGEUS <\/td>\nHappy be Theseus, our renowned duke!<\/td>\n 20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
THESEUS <\/td>\nThanks, good Egeus: what's the news with thee?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
EGEUS <\/td>\nFull of vexation come I, with complaint<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAgainst my child, my daughter Hermia.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nStand forth, Demetrius. My noble lord,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThis man hath my consent to marry her.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nStand forth, Lysander: and my gracious duke,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThis man hath bewitch'd the bosom of my child;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd interchanged love–tokens with my child:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThou hast by moonlight at her window sung,<\/td>\n 30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWith feigning voice verses of feigning love,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd stolen the impression of her fantasy<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWith bracelets of thy hair, rings, gawds, conceits,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nKnacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats, messengers<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOf strong prevailment in unharden'd youth:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWith cunning hast thou filch'd my daughter's heart,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTurn'd her obedience, which is due to me,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo stubborn harshness: and, my gracious duke,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBe it so she; will not here before your grace<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nConsent to marry with Demetrius,<\/td>\n 40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI beg the ancient privilege of Athens,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs she is mine, I may dispose of her:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhich shall be either to this gentleman<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOr to her death, according to our law<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nImmediately provided in that case.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
THESEUS <\/td>\nWhat say you, Hermia? be advised fair maid:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo you your father should be as a god;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOne that composed your beauties, yea, and one<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo whom you are but as a form in wax<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBy him imprinted and within his power<\/td>\n 50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo leave the figure or disfigure it.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDemetrius is a worthy gentleman.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nSo is Lysander.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
THESEUS <\/td>\nIn himself he is;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut in this kind, wanting your father's voice,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe other must be held the worthier.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nI would my father look'd but with my eyes.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
THESEUS <\/td>\nRather your eyes must with his judgment look.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nI do entreat your grace to pardon me.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI know not by what power I am made bold,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNor how it may concern my modesty,<\/td>\n 60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIn such a presence here to plead my thoughts;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut I beseech your grace that I may know<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe worst that may befall me in this case,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIf I refuse to wed Demetrius.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
THESEUS <\/td>\nEither to die the death or to abjure<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor ever the society of men.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTherefore, fair Hermia, question your desires;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nKnow of your youth, examine well your blood,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhether, if you yield not to your father's choice,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYou can endure the livery of a nun,<\/td>\n 70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor aye to be in shady cloister mew'd,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo live a barren sister all your life,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nChanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThrice–blessed they that master so their blood,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo undergo such maiden pilgrimage;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut earthlier happy is the rose distill'd,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThan that which withering on the virgin thorn<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nGrows, lives and dies in single blessedness.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nSo will I grow, so live, so die, my lord,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEre I will my virgin patent up<\/td>\n 80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nUnto his lordship, whose unwished yoke<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMy soul consents not to give sovereignty.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
THESEUS <\/td>\nTake time to pause; and, by the nest new moon––<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe sealing–day betwixt my love and me,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor everlasting bond of fellowship––<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nUpon that day either prepare to die<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor disobedience to your father's will,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOr else to wed Demetrius, as he would;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOr on Diana's altar to protest<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor aye austerity and single life.<\/td>\n 90<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEMETRIUS <\/td>\nRelent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThy crazed title to my certain right.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nYou have her father's love, Demetrius;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLet me have Hermia's: do you marry him.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
EGEUS <\/td>\nScornful Lysander! true, he hath my love,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd what is mine my love shall render him.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd she is mine, and all my right of her<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI do estate unto Demetrius.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nI am, my lord, as well derived as he,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs well possess'd; my love is more than his;<\/td>\n 100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMy fortunes every way as fairly rank'd,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIf not with vantage, as Demetrius';<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd, which is more than all these boasts can be,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI am beloved of beauteous Hermia:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhy should not I then prosecute my right?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDemetrius, I'll avouch it to his head,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMade love to Nedar's daughter, Helena,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd won her soul; and she, sweet lady, dotes,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDevoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nUpon this spotted and inconstant man.<\/td>\n 110<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
THESEUS <\/td>\nI must confess that I have heard so much,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd with Demetrius thought to have spoke thereof;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut, being over–full of self–affairs,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMy mind did lose it. But, Demetrius, come;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd come, Egeus; you shall go with me,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI have some private schooling for you both.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor you, fair Hermia, look you arm yourself<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo fit your fancies to your father's will;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOr else the law of Athens yields you up––<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhich by no means we may extenuate––<\/td>\n 120<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo death, or to a vow of single life.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCome, my Hippolyta: what cheer, my love?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDemetrius and Egeus, go along:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI must employ you in some business<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAgainst our nuptial and confer with you<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOf something nearly that concerns yourselves.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
EGEUS <\/td>\nWith duty and desire we follow you.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Exeunt all but LYSANDER and HERMIA.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nHow now, my love! why is your cheek so pale?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHow chance the roses there do fade so fast?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nBelike for want of rain, which I could well<\/td>\n 130<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBeteem them from the tempest of my eyes.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nAy me! for aught that I could ever read,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCould ever hear by tale or history,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe course of true love never did run smooth;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut, either it was different in blood,––<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nO cross! too high to be enthrall'd to low.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nOr else misgraffed in respect of years,––<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nO spite! too old to be engaged to young.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nOr else it stood upon the choice of friends,––<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nO hell! to choose love by another's eyes.<\/td>\n 140<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nOr, if there were a sympathy in choice,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWar, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMaking it momentany as a sound,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSwift as a shadow, short as any dream;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBrief as the lightning in the collied night,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe jaws of darkness do devour it up:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSo quick bright things come to confusion.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nIf then true lovers have been ever cross'd,<\/td>\n 150<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIt stands as an edict in destiny:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThen let us teach our trial patience,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBecause it is a customary cross,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs due to love as thoughts and dreams and sighs,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWishes and tears, poor fancy's followers.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nA good persuasion: therefore, hear me, Hermia.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI have a widow aunt, a dowager<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOf great revenue, and she hath no child:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFrom Athens is her house remov'd seven leagues;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd she respects me as her only son.<\/td>\n 160<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThere, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd to that place the sharp Athenian law<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCannot pursue us. If thou lovest me then,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSteal forth thy father's house to–morrow night;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd in the wood, a league without the town,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhere I did meet thee once with Helena,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo do observance to a morn of May,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThere will I stay for thee.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nMy good Lysander!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI swear to thee, by Cupid's strongest bow,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBy his best arrow with the golden head,<\/td>\n 170<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBy the simplicity of Venus' doves,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBy that which knitteth souls and prospers loves,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd by that fire which burn'd the Carthage queen,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhen the false Troyan under sail was seen,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBy all the vows that ever men have broke,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIn number more than ever women spoke,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIn that same place thou hast appointed me,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo–morrow truly will I meet with thee.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nKeep promise, love. Look, here comes Helena.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nEnter HELENA.<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nGod speed fair Helena! whither away?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nCall you me fair? that fair again unsay.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDemetrius loves your fair: O happy fair!<\/td>\n 182<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYour eyes are lode–stars; and your tongue's sweet air<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMore tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhen wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSickness is catching: O, were favour so,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMy ear should catch your voice, my eye your eye,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMy tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWere the world mine, Demetrius being bated,<\/td>\n 190<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe rest I'd give to be to you translated.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nO, teach me how you look, and with what art<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYou sway the motion of Demetrius' heart.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nI frown upon him, yet he loves me still.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nO that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nI give him curses, yet he gives me love.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nO that my prayers could such affection move!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nThe more I hate, the more he follows me.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nThe more I love, the more he hateth me.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nHis folly, Helena, is no fault of mine.<\/td>\n 200<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nNone, but your beauty: would that fault were mine!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nTake comfort: he no more shall see my face;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLysander and myself will fly this place.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBefore the time I did Lysander see,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSeem'd Athens as a paradise to me:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nO, then, what graces in my love do dwell,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nHelen, to you our minds we will unfold:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo–morrow night, when Phoebe doth behold<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHer silver visage in the watery glass,<\/td>\n 210<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDecking with liquid pearl the bladed grass,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nA time that lovers' flights doth still conceal,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThrough Athens' gates have we devised to steal.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nAnd in the wood, where often you and I<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nUpon faint primrose–beds were wont to lie,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEmptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThere my Lysander and myself shall meet;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd thence from Athens turn away our eyes,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo seek new friends and stranger companies.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFarewell, sweet playfellow: pray thou for us;<\/td>\n 220<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd good luck grant thee thy Demetrius!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nKeep word, Lysander: we must starve our sight<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFrom lovers' food till morrow deep midnight.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nI will, my Hermia.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nExit HERMIA.<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHelena, adieu:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs you on him, Demetrius dote on you!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nExit<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nHow happy some o'er other some can be!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThrough Athens I am thought as fair as she.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut what of that? Demetrius thinks not so;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHe will not know what all but he do know:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes,<\/td>\n 230<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSo I, admiring of his qualities:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThings base and vile, folding no quantity,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLove can transpose to form and dignity:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLove looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNor hath Love's mind of any judgement taste;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWings and no eyes figure unheedy haste:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd therefore is Love said to be a child,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBecause in choice he is so oft beguiled.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs waggish boys in game themselves forswear,<\/td>\n 240<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSo the boy Love is perjured every where:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor ere Demetrius look'd on Hermia's eyne,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHe hail'd down oaths that he was only mine;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSo he dissolved, and showers of oaths did melt.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI will go tell him of fair Hermia's flight:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThen to the wood will he to–morrow night<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPursue her; and for this intelligence<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIf I have thanks, it is a dear expense:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut herein mean I to enrich my pain,<\/td>\n 250<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo have his sight thither and back again.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nExit<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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