{"id":11667,"date":"2017-09-04T22:04:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T22:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=11667"},"modified":"2017-09-04T22:04:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T22:04:57","slug":"Shakespeare4Btext1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/Shakespeare4Btext1\/","title":{"rendered":"Act 2, page 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

ACT 2 SCENE 2 <\/b> Setting: Another part of the wood.<\/p>\n

Enter TITANIA, with her train<\/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
TITANIA <\/td>\nCome, now a roundel and a fairy song;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThen, for the third part of a minute, hence;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSome to kill cankers in the musk–rose buds,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSome war with rere–mice for their leathern wings,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo make my small elves coats, and some keep back<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAt our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThen to your offices and let me rest.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nFAIRIES' SONG<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYou spotted snakes with double tongue,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThorny hedgehogs, be not seen;<\/td>\n 10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNewts and blind–worms, do no wrong,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCome not near our fairy queen.'<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPhilomel, with melody<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSing in our sweet lullaby;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNever harm,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNor spell nor charm,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCome our lovely lady nigh;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSo, good night, with lullaby.'<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nII.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWeaving spiders, come not here;<\/td>\n 20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHence, you long–legg'd spinners, hence!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBeetles black, approach not near;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWorm nor snail, do no offence.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPhilomel, with melody, &c.'<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fairy <\/td>\nHence, away! now all is well:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOne aloof stand sentinel.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nExeunt Fairies. TITANIA sleeps.<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Enter OBERON and squeezes the flower on TITANIA's eyelids<\/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
OBERON <\/td>\nWhat thou seest when thou dost wake,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDo it for thy true–love take,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLove and languish for his sake:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBe it ounce, or cat, or bear,<\/td>\n 30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPard, or boar with bristled hair,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIn thy eye that shall appear<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhen thou wakest, it is thy dear:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWake when some vile thing is near.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nExit<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nEnter LYSANDER and HERMIA<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nFair love, you faint with wandering in the wood;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd to speak troth, I have forgot our way:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWe'll rest us, Hermia, if you think it good,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd tarry for the comfort of the day.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nBe it so, Lysander: find you out a bed;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor I upon this bank will rest my head.<\/td>\n 40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nOne turf shall serve as pillow for us both;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOne heart, one bed, two bosoms and one troth.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nNay, good Lysander; for my sake, my dear,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLie further off yet, do not lie so near.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nO, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLove takes the meaning in love's conference.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI mean, that my heart unto yours is knit<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSo that but one heart we can make of it;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTwo bosoms interchained with an oath;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSo then two bosoms and a single troth.<\/td>\n 50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThen by your side no bed–room me deny;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor lying so, Hermia, I do not lie.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nLysander riddles very prettily:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNow much beshrew my manners and my pride,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIf Hermia meant to say Lysander lied.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut, gentle friend, for love and courtesy<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLie further off; in human modesty,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSuch separation as may well be said<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBecomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSo far be distant; and, good night, sweet friend:<\/td>\n 60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThy love ne'er alter till thy sweet life end!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nAmen, amen, to that fair prayer, say I;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd then end life when I end loyalty!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHere is my bed: sleep give thee all his rest!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nWith half that wish the wisher's eyes be press'd!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThey sleep.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nEnter PUCK.<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PUCK <\/td>\nThrough the forest have I gone.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut Athenian found I none,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOn whose eyes I might approve<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThis flower's force in stirring love.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNight and silence.––Who is here?<\/td>\n 70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWeeds of Athens he doth wear:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThis is he, my master said,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDespised the Athenian maid;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd here the maiden, sleeping sound,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOn the dank and dirty ground.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPretty soul! she durst not lie<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNear this lack–love, this kill–courtesy.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nChurl, upon thy eyes I throw<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAll the power this charm doth owe.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhen thou wakest, let love forbid<\/td>\n 80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSleep his seat on thy eyelid:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSo awake when I am gone;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor I must now to Oberon.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nExit<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Enter DEMETRIUS and HELENA, running.<\/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
HELENA <\/td>\nStay, though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEMETRIUS <\/td>\nI charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nO, wilt thou darkling leave me? do not so.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEMETRIUS <\/td>\nStay, on thy peril: I alone will go.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nExit<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nO, I am out of breath in this fond chase!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe more my prayer, the lesser is my grace.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHappy is Hermia, wheresoe'er she lies;<\/td>\n 90<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor she hath blessed and attractive eyes.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHow came her eyes so bright? Not with salt tears:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIf so, my eyes are oftener wash'd than hers.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNo, no, I am as ugly as a bear;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor beasts that meet me run away for fear:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTherefore no marvel though Demetrius<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDo, as a monster fly my presence thus.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhat wicked and dissembling glass of mine<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMade me compare with Hermia's sphery eyne?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut who is here? Lysander! on the ground!<\/td>\n 100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDead? or asleep? I see no blood, no wound.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLysander if you live, good sir, awake.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/i><\/td>\nAwaking.<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTransparent Helena! Nature shows art,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat through thy bosom makes me see thy heart.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhere is Demetrius? O, how fit a word<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIs that vile name to perish on my sword!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nDo not say so, Lysander; say not so<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhat though he love your Hermia? Lord, what though?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYet Hermia still loves you: then be content.<\/td>\n 110<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nContent with Hermia! No; I do repent<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe tedious minutes I with her have spent.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNot Hermia but Helena I love:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWho will not change a raven for a dove?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe will of man is by his reason sway'd;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd reason says you are the worthier maid.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThings growing are not ripe until their season<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSo I, being young, till now ripe not to reason;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd touching now the point of human skill,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nReason becomes the marshal to my will<\/td>\n 120<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd leads me to your eyes, where I o'erlook<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLove's stories written in love's richest book.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nWherefore was I to this keen mockery born?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhen at your hands did I deserve this scorn?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIs't not enough, is't not enough, young man,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat I did never, no, nor never can,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDeserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut you must flout my insufficiency?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nGood troth, you do me wrong, good sooth, you do,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIn such disdainful manner me to woo.<\/td>\n 130<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut fare you well: perforce I must confess<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI thought you lord of more true gentleness.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nO, that a lady, of one man refused.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nShould of another therefore be abused!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nExit<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nShe sees not Hermia. Hermia, sleep thou there:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd never mayst thou come Lysander near!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor as a surfeit of the sweetest things<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe deepest loathing to the stomach brings,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOr as tie heresies that men do leave<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAre hated most of those they did deceive,<\/td>\n 140<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSo thou, my surfeit and my heresy,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOf all be hated, but the most of me!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd, all my powers, address your love and might<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo honour Helen and to be her knight!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nExit<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/i><\/td>\nAwaking.<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo pluck this crawling serpent from my breast!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAy me, for pity! what a dream was here!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLysander, look how I do quake with fear:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMethought a serpent eat my heart away,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd you sat smiling at his cruel prey.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLysander! what, removed? Lysander! lord!<\/td>\n 151<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhat, out of hearing? gone? no sound, no word?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAlack, where are you speak, an if you hear;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSpeak, of all loves! I swoon almost with fear.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNo? then I well perceive you all not nigh<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEither death or you I'll find immediately.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nExit<\/i><\/td>\n<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/h3>\n

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