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

ACT 3 SCENE 2 <\/b>Setting: Another part of the wood.<\/p>\n

Enter OBERON, solus<\/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
OBERON <\/td>\nI wonder if Titania be awaked;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThen, what it was that next came in her eye,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhich she must dote on in extremity.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nEnter PUCK<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHere comes my messenger.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHow now, mad spirit!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhat night–rule now about this haunted grove?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PUCK <\/td>\nMy mistress with a monster is in love.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNear to her close and consecrated bower,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhile she was in her dull and sleeping hour,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nA crew of patches, rude mechanicals,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat work for bread upon Athenian stalls,<\/td>\n 10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWere met together to rehearse a play<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIntended for great Theseus' nuptial–day.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe shallowest thick–skin of that barren sort,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWho Pyramus presented, in their sport<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nForsook his scene and enter'd in a brake<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhen I did him at this advantage take,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAn ass's nole I fixed on his head:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnon his Thisbe must be answered,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd forth my mimic comes. When they him spy,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,<\/td>\n 20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOr russet–pated choughs, many in sort,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nRising and cawing at the gun's report,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSever themselves and madly sweep the sky,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSo, at his sight, away his fellows fly;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd, at our stamp, here o'er and o'er one falls;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHe murder cries and help from Athens calls.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTheir sense thus weak, lost with their fears<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nthus strong,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMade senseless things begin to do them wrong;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor briers and thorns at their apparel snatch;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSome sleeves, some hats, from yielders all<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nthings catch.<\/td>\n 30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI led them on in this distracted fear,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd left sweet Pyramus translated there:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhen in that moment, so it came to pass,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTitania waked and straightway loved an ass.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
OBERON <\/td>\nThis falls out better than I could devise.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut hast thou yet latch'd the Athenian's eyes<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWith the love–juice, as I did bid thee do?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PUCK <\/td>\nI took him sleeping,––that is finish'd too,––<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd the Athenian woman by his side:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat, when he waked, of force she must be eyed.<\/td>\n 40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Enter HERMIA 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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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>\nStand close: this is the same Athenian.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PUCK <\/td>\nThis is the woman, but not this the man.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEMETRIUS <\/td>\nO, why rebuke you him that loves you so?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nNow I but chide; but I should use thee worse,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor thou, I fear, hast given me cause to curse,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIf thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBeing o'er shoes in blood, plunge in the deep,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd kill me too.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe sun was not so true unto the day<\/td>\n 50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs he to me: would he have stolen away<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFrom sleeping Hermia? I'll believe as soon<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThis whole earth may be bored and that the moon<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMay through the centre creep and so displease<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHer brother's noontide with Antipodes.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIt cannot be but thou hast murder'd him;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSo should a murderer look, so dead, so grim.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEMETRIUS <\/td>\nSo should the murder'd look, and so should I,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPierced through the heart with your stern cruelty:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYet you, the murderer, look as bright, as clear,<\/td>\n 60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nWhat's this to my Lysander? where is he?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAh, good Demetrius, wilt thou give him me?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEMETRIUS <\/td>\nI had rather give his carcass to my hounds.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nOut, dog! out, cur! thou drivest me past the bounds<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOf maiden's patience. Hast thou slain him, then?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHenceforth be never number'd among men!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nO, once tell true, tell true, even for my sake!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDurst thou have look'd upon him being awake,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd hast thou kill'd him sleeping? O brave touch!<\/td>\n 70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCould not a worm, an adder, do so much?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAn adder did it; for with doubler tongue<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThan thine, thou serpent, never adder stung.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEMETRIUS <\/td>\nYou spend your passion on a misprised mood:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI am not guilty of Lysander's blood;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNor is he dead, for aught that I can tell.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nI pray thee, tell me then that he is well.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEMETRIUS <\/td>\nAn if I could, what should I get therefore?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nA privilege never to see me more.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd from thy hated presence part I so:<\/td>\n 80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSee me no more, whether he be dead or no.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nExit<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEMETRIUS <\/td>\nThere is no following her in this fierce vein:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHere therefore for a while I will remain.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSo sorrow's heaviness doth heavier grow<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhich now in some slight measure it will pay,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIf for his tender here I make some stay.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLies down and sleeps<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
OBERON <\/td>\nWhat hast thou done? thou hast mistaken quite<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd laid the love–juice on some true–love's sight:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOf thy misprision must perforce ensue<\/td>\n 90<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSome true love turn'd and not a false turn'd true.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PUCK <\/td>\nThen fate o'er–rules, that, one man holding troth,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nA million fail, confounding oath on oath.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
OBERON <\/td>\nAbout the wood go swifter than the wind,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd Helena of Athens look thou find:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAll fancy–sick she is and pale of cheer,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWith sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBy some illusion see thou bring her here:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI'll charm his eyes against she do appear.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PUCK <\/td>\nI go, I go; look how I go,<\/td>\n 100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSwifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nExit<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
OBERON <\/td>\nFlower of this purple dye,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHit with Cupid's archery,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSink in apple of his eye.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhen his love he doth espy,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLet her shine as gloriously<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs the Venus of the sky.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhen thou wakest, if she be by,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBeg of her for remedy.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nRe–enter PUCK<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PUCK <\/td>\nCaptain of our fairy band,<\/td>\n 110<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHelena is here at hand;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd the youth, mistook by me,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPleading for a lover's fee.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nShall we their fond pageant see?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLord, what fools these mortals be!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
OBERON <\/td>\nStand aside: the noise they make<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWill cause Demetrius to awake.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PUCK <\/td>\nThen will two at once woo one;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat must needs be sport alone;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd those things do best please me<\/td>\n 120<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat befal preposterously.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nEnter LYSANDER and HELENA<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nWhy should you think that I should woo in scorn?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nScorn and derision never come in tears:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLook, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIn their nativity all truth appears.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHow can these things in me seem scorn to you,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nYou do advance your cunning more and more.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhen truth kills truth, O devilish–holy fray!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThese vows are Hermia's: will you give her o'er?<\/td>\n 130<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWeigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYour vows to her and me, put in two scales,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWill even weigh, and both as light as tales.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nI had no judgment when to her I swore.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nNor none, in my mind, now you give her o'er.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nDemetrius loves her, and he loves not you.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEMETRIUS <\/i><\/td>\nAwaking<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCrystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!<\/td>\n 140<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat pure congealed white, high Taurus snow,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFann'd with the eastern wind, turns to a crow<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhen thou hold'st up thy hand: O, let me kiss<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThis princess of pure white, this seal of bliss!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nO spite! O hell! I see you all are bent<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo set against me for your merriment:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIf you we re civil and knew courtesy,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYou would not do me thus much injury.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCan you not hate me, as I know you do,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut you must join in souls to mock me too?<\/td>\n 150<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIf you were men, as men you are in show,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYou would not use a gentle lady so;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhen I am sure you hate me with your hearts.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYou both are rivals, and love Hermia;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd now both rivals, to mock Helena:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nA trim exploit, a manly enterprise,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo conjure tears up in a poor maid's eyes<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWith your derision! none of noble sort<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWould so offend a virgin, and extort<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nA poor soul's patience, all to make you sport.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nYou are unkind, Demetrius; be not so;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor you love Hermia; this you know I know:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd here, with all good will, with all my heart,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIn Hermia's love I yield you up my part;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd yours of Helena to me bequeath,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhom I do love and will do till my death.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nNever did mockers waste more idle breath.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEMETRIUS <\/td>\nLysander, keep thy Hermia; I will none:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIf e'er I loved her, all that love is gone.<\/td>\n 170<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMy heart to her but as guest–wise sojourn'd,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd now to Helen is it home return'd,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThere to remain.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nHelen, it is not so.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEMETRIUS <\/td>\nDisparage not the faith thou dost not know,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLest, to thy peril, thou aby it dear.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLook, where thy love comes; yonder is thy dear.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nRe–enter HERMIA<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nDark night, that from the eye his function takes,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe ear more quick of apprehension makes;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWherein it doth impair the seeing sense,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIt pays the hearing double recompense.<\/td>\n 180<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThou art not by mine eye, Lysander, found;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMine ear, I thank it, brought me to thy sound<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut why unkindly didst thou leave me so?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nWhy should he stay, whom love doth press to go?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nWhat love could press Lysander from my side?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nLysander's love, that would not let him bide,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFair Helena, who more engilds the night<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThan all you fiery oes and eyes of light.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhy seek'st thou me? could not this make thee know,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe hate I bear thee made me leave thee so?<\/td>\n 190<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nYou speak not as you think: it cannot be.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nLo, she is one of this confederacy!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNow I perceive they have conjoin'd all three<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo fashion this false sport, in spite of me.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nInjurious Hermia! most ungrateful maid!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHave you conspired, have you with these contrived<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo bait me with this foul derision?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIs all the counsel that we two have shared,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhen we have chid the hasty–footed time<\/td>\n 200<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor parting us,––O, is it all forgot?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAll school–days' friendship, childhood innocence?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWe, Hermia, like two artificial gods,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHave with our needles created both one flower,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBoth on one sampler, sitting on one cushion,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBoth warbling of one song, both in one key,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs if our hands, our sides, voices and minds,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHad been incorporate. So we grow together,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLike to a double cherry, seeming parted,<\/td>\n 210<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut yet an union in partition;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTwo lovely berries moulded on one stem;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSo, with two seeming bodies, but one heart;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTwo of the first, like coats in heraldry,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDue but to one and crowned with one crest.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd will you rent our ancient love asunder,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo join with men in scorning your poor friend?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIt is not friendly, 'tis not maidenly:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOur sex, as well as I, may chide you for it,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThough I alone do feel the injury.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nI am amazed at your passionate words.<\/td>\n 220<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI scorn you not: it seems that you scorn me.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nHave you not set Lysander, as in scorn,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo follow me and praise my eyes and face?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd made your other love, Demetrius,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWho even but now did spurn me with his foot,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo call me goddess, nymph, divine and rare,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPrecious, celestial? Wherefore speaks he this<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo her he hates? and wherefore doth Lysander<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDeny your love, so rich within his soul,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd tender me, forsooth, affection,<\/td>\n 230<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut by your setting on, by your consent?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhat thought I be not so in grace as you,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSo hung upon with love, so fortunate,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut miserable most, to love unloved?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThis you should pity rather than despise.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERNIA <\/td>\nI understand not what you mean by this.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nAy, do, persever, counterfeit sad looks,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMake mouths upon me when I turn my back;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWink each at other; hold the sweet jest up:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThis sport, well carried, shall be chronicled.<\/td>\n 240<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIf you have any pity, grace, or manners,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYou would not make me such an argument.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut fare ye well: 'tis partly my own fault;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhich death or absence soon shall remedy.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nStay, gentle Helena; hear my excuse:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMy love, my life my soul, fair Helena!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nO excellent!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nSweet, do not scorn her so.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEMETRIUS <\/td>\nIf she cannot entreat, I can compel.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nThou canst compel no more than she entreat:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThy threats have no more strength than her weak prayers.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHelen, I love thee; by my life, I do:<\/td>\n 251<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI swear by that which I will lose for thee,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo prove him false that says I love thee not.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEMETRIUS <\/td>\nI say I love thee more than he can do.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nIf thou say so, withdraw, and prove it too.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEMETRIUS <\/td>\nQuick, come!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nLysander, whereto tends all this?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nAway, you Ethiope!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEMETRIUS <\/td>\nNo, no; he'll …<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSeem to break loose; take on as you would follow,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut yet come not: you are a tame man, go!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nHang off, thou cat, thou burr! vile thing, let loose,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOr I will shake thee from me like a serpent!<\/td>\n 261<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nWhy are you grown so rude? what change is this?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSweet love,––<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nThy love! out, tawny Tartar, out!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOut, loathed medicine! hated potion, hence!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nDo you not jest?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nYes, sooth; and so do you.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nDemetrius, I will keep my word with thee.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEMETRIUS <\/td>\nI would I had your bond, for I perceive<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nA weak bond holds you: I'll not trust your word.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nWhat, should I hurt her, strike her, kill her dead?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAlthough I hate her, I'll not harm her so.<\/td>\n 270<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nWhat, can you do me greater harm than hate?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHate me! wherefore? O me! what news, my love!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAm not I Hermia? are not you Lysander?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI am as fair now as I was erewhile.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSince night you loved me; yet since night you left<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nme:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhy, then you left me––O, the gods forbid!––<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIn earnest, shall I say?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nAy, by my life;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd never did desire to see thee more.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTherefore be out of hope, of question, of doubt;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBe certain, nothing truer; 'tis no jest<\/td>\n 280<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat I do hate thee and love Helena.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nO me! you juggler! you canker–blossom!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYou thief of love! what, have you come by night<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd stolen my love's heart from him?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nFine, i'faith!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHave you no modesty, no maiden shame,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNo touch of bashfulness? What, will you tear<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nImpatient answers from my gentle tongue?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFie, fie! you counterfeit, you puppet, you!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nPuppet? why so? ay, that way goes the game.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNow I perceive that she hath made compare<\/td>\n 290<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBetween our statures; she hath urged her height;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd with her personage, her tall personage,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHer height, forsooth, she hath prevail'd with him.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd are you grown so high in his esteem;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBecause I am so dwarfish and so low?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHow low am I, thou painted maypole? speak;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHow low am I? I am not yet so low<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut that my nails can reach unto thine eyes.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nI pray you, though you mock me, gentlemen,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLet her not hurt me: I was never curst;<\/td>\n 300<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI have no gift at all in shrewishness;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI am a right maid for my cowardice:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLet her not strike me. You perhaps may think,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBecause she is something lower than myself,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat I can match her.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nLower! hark, again.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nGood Hermia, do not be so bitter with me.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI evermore did love you, Hermia,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDid ever keep your counsels, never wrong'd you;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSave that, in love unto Demetrius,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI told him of your stealth unto this wood.<\/td>\n 310<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHe follow'd you; for love I follow'd him;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut he hath chid me hence and threaten'd me<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo strike me, spurn me, nay, to kill me too:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd now, so you will let me quiet go,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo Athens will I bear my folly back<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd follow you no further: let me go:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYou see how simple and how fond I am.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nWhy, get you gone: who is't that hinders you?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nA foolish heart, that I leave here behind.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nWhat, with Lysander?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nWith Demetrius.<\/td>\n 320<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nBe not afraid; she shall not harm thee, Helena.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEMETRIUS <\/td>\nNo, sir, she shall not, though you take her part.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nO, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd!<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nShe was a vixen when she went to school;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd though she be but little, she is fierce.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nLittle' again! nothing but 'low' and 'little'!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhy will you suffer her to flout me thus?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLet me come to her.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nGet you gone, you dwarf;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYou minimus, of hindering knot–grass made;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYou bead, you acorn.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEMETRIUS <\/td>\nYou are too officious<\/td>\n 330<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIn her behalf that scorns your services.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLet her alone: speak not of Helena;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTake not her part; for, if thou dost intend<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNever so little show of love to her,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThou shalt aby it.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nNow she holds me not;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNow follow, if thou darest, to try whose right,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOf thine or mine, is most in Helena.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEMETRIUS <\/td>\nFollow! nay, I'll go with thee, cheek by jole.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nExeunt LYSANDER and DEMETRIUS<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nYou, mistress, all this coil is 'long of you:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNay, go not back.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nI will not trust you, I,<\/td>\n 340<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNor longer stay in your curst company.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYour hands than mine are quicker for a fray,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMy legs are longer though, to run away.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nExit<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nI am amazed, and know not what to say.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nExit<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
OBERON <\/td>\nThis is thy negligence: still thou mistakest,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOr else committ'st thy knaveries wilfully.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PUCK <\/td>\nBelieve me, king of shadows, I mistook.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDid not you tell me I should know the man<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBy the Athenian garment be had on?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd so far blameless proves my enterprise,<\/td>\n 350<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat I have 'nointed an Athenian's eyes;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd so far am I glad it so did sort<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs this their jangling I esteem a sport.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
OBERON <\/td>\nThou see'st these lovers seek a place to fight:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHie therefore, Robin, overcast the night;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe starry welkin cover thou anon<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWith drooping fog as black as Acheron,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd lead these testy rivals so astray<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs one come not within another's way.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLike to Lysander sometime frame thy tongue,<\/td>\n 360<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThen stir Demetrius up with bitter wrong;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd sometime rail thou like Demetrius;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd from each other look thou lead them thus,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTill o'er their brows death–counterfeiting sleep<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWith leaden legs and batty wings doth creep:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThen crush this herb into Lysander's eye;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhose liquor hath this virtuous property,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo take from thence all error with his might,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd make his eyeballs roll with wonted sight.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhen they next wake, all this derision<\/td>\n 370<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nShall seem a dream and fruitless vision,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd back to Athens shall the lovers wend,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWith league whose date till death shall never end.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhiles I in this affair do thee employ,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI'll to my queen and beg her Indian boy;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd then I will her charmed eye release<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFrom monster's view, and all things shall be peace.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PUCK <\/td>\nMy fairy lord, this must be done with haste,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd yonder shines Aurora's harbinger;<\/td>\n 380<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAt whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTroop home to churchyards: damned spirits all,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat in crossways and floods have burial,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAlready to their wormy beds are gone;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor fear lest day should look their shames upon,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThey willfully themselves exile from light<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd must for aye consort with black–brow'd night.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
OBERON <\/td>\nBut we are spirits of another sort:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI with the morning's love have oft made sport,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd, like a forester, the groves may tread,<\/td>\n 390<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEven till the eastern gate, all fiery–red,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOpening on Neptune with fair blessed beams,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTurns into yellow gold his salt green streams.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut, notwithstanding, haste; make no delay:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWe may effect this business yet ere day.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nExit OBERON<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PUCK <\/td>\nUp and down, up and down,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI will lead them up and down:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI am fear'd in field and town:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nGoblin, lead them up and down.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHere comes one.<\/td>\n 400<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nRe–enter LYSANDER<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nWhere art thou, proud Demetrius? speak thou now.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PUCK <\/td>\nHere, villain; drawn and ready. Where art thou?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nI will be with thee straight.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PUCK <\/td>\nFollow me, then,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo plainer ground.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nExit LYSANDER, as following the voice.<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nRe–enter DEMETRIUS<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEMETRIUS <\/td>\nLysander! speak again.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSpeak! In some bush? Where dost thou hide thy head?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PUCK <\/td>\nThou coward, art thou bragging to the stars,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTelling the bushes that thou look'st for wars,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd wilt not come? Come, recreant; come, thou child;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI'll whip thee with a rod: he is defiled<\/td>\n 410<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat draws a sword on thee.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEMETRIUS <\/td>\nYea, art thou there?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PUCK <\/td>\nFollow my voice: we'll try no manhood here.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nExeunt<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nRe–enter LYSANDER<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LYSANDER <\/td>\nHe goes before me and still dares me on:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhen I come where he calls, then he is gone.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe villain is much lighter–heel'd than I:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI follow'd fast, but faster he did fly;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat fallen am I in dark uneven way,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd here will rest me.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLies down<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCome, thou gentle day!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor if but once thou show me thy grey light,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI'll find Demetrius and revenge this spite.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSleeps<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nRe–enter PUCK and DEMETRIUS<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PUCK <\/td>\nHo, ho, ho! Coward, why comest thou not?<\/td>\n 421<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEMETRIUS <\/td>\nAbide me, if thou darest; for well I wot<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThou runn'st before me, shifting every place,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd darest not stand, nor look me in the face.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhere art thou now?<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PUCK <\/td>\nCome hither: I am here.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEMETRIUS <\/td>\nNay, then, thou mock'st me. Thou shalt buy this dear,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIf ever I thy face by daylight see:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNow, go thy way. Faintness constraineth me<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo measure out my length on this cold bed.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBy day's approach look to be visited.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLies down and sleeps.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nRe–enter HELENA<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HELENA <\/td>\nO weary night, O long and tedious night,<\/td>\n 431<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAbate thy hour! Shine comforts from the east,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat I may back to Athens by daylight,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFrom these that my poor company detest:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSteal me awhile from mine own company.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLies down and sleeps<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PUCK <\/td>\nYet but three? Come one more;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTwo of both kinds make up four.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHere she comes, curst and sad:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCupid is a knavish lad,<\/td>\n 440<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThus to make poor females mad.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nRe–enter HERMIA<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HERMIA <\/td>\nNever so weary, never so in woe,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBedabbled with the dew and torn with briers,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI can no further crawl, no further go;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMy legs can keep no pace with my desires.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHere will I rest me till the break of day.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHeavens shield Lysander, if they mean a fray!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLies down and sleeps.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PUCK <\/td>\nOn the ground<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSleep sound:<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI'll apply<\/td>\n 450<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo your eye,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nGentle lover, remedy.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nSqueezing the juice on LYSANDER's eyes.<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhen thou wakest,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThou takest<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTrue delight<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIn the sight<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOf thy former lady's eye:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd the country proverb known,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat every man should take his own,<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIn your waking shall be shown:<\/td>\n 460<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJack shall have Jill;<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNought shall go ill;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well.<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nExit<\/i><\/td>\n <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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