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<H3>SCENE I. A wood near Athens.</h3>
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<i>Enter, from opposite sides, a Fairy, and PUCK</i>
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<A NAME=speech1><b>PUCK</b></a>
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<A NAME=1>How now, spirit! whither wander you?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech2><b>Fairy</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2> Over hill, over dale,</A><br>
<A NAME=3>Thorough bush, thorough brier,</A><br>
<A NAME=4>Over park, over pale,</A><br>
<A NAME=5>Thorough flood, thorough fire,</A><br>
<A NAME=6>I do wander everywhere,</A><br>
<A NAME=7>Swifter than the moon's sphere;</A><br>
<A NAME=8>And I serve the fairy queen,</A><br>
<A NAME=9>To dew her orbs upon the green.</A><br>
<A NAME=10>The cowslips tall her pensioners be:</A><br>
<A NAME=11>In their gold coats spots you see;</A><br>
<A NAME=12>Those be rubies, fairy favours,</A><br>
<A NAME=13>In those freckles live their savours:</A><br>
<A NAME=14>I must go seek some dewdrops here</A><br>
<A NAME=15>And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.</A><br>
<A NAME=16>Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone:</A><br>
<A NAME=17>Our queen and all our elves come here anon.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech3><b>PUCK</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=18>The king doth keep his revels here to-night:</A><br>
<A NAME=19>Take heed the queen come not within his sight;</A><br>
<A NAME=20>For Oberon is passing fell and wrath,</A><br>
<A NAME=21>Because that she as her attendant hath</A><br>
<A NAME=22>A lovely boy, stolen from an Indian king;</A><br>
<A NAME=23>She never had so sweet a changeling;</A><br>
<A NAME=24>And jealous Oberon would have the child</A><br>
<A NAME=25>Knight of his train, to trace the forests wild;</A><br>
<A NAME=26>But she perforce withholds the loved boy,</A><br>
<A NAME=27>Crowns him with flowers and makes him all her joy:</A><br>
<A NAME=28>And now they never meet in grove or green,</A><br>
<A NAME=29>By fountain clear, or spangled starlight sheen,</A><br>
<A NAME=30>But, they do square, that all their elves for fear</A><br>
<A NAME=31>Creep into acorn-cups and hide them there.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech4><b>Fairy</b></a>
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<A NAME=32>Either I mistake your shape and making quite,</A><br>
<A NAME=33>Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite</A><br>
<A NAME=34>Call'd Robin Goodfellow: are not you he</A><br>
<A NAME=35>That frights the maidens of the villagery;</A><br>
<A NAME=36>Skim milk, and sometimes labour in the quern</A><br>
<A NAME=37>And bootless make the breathless housewife churn;</A><br>
<A NAME=38>And sometime make the drink to bear no barm;</A><br>
<A NAME=39>Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm?</A><br>
<A NAME=40>Those that Hobgoblin call you and sweet Puck,</A><br>
<A NAME=41>You do their work, and they shall have good luck:</A><br>
<A NAME=42>Are not you he?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech5><b>PUCK</b></a>
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<A NAME=43> Thou speak'st aright;</A><br>
<A NAME=44>I am that merry wanderer of the night.</A><br>
<A NAME=45>I jest to Oberon and make him smile</A><br>
<A NAME=46>When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,</A><br>
<A NAME=47>Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:</A><br>
<A NAME=48>And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl,</A><br>
<A NAME=49>In very likeness of a roasted crab,</A><br>
<A NAME=50>And when she drinks, against her lips I bob</A><br>
<A NAME=51>And on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale.</A><br>
<A NAME=52>The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale,</A><br>
<A NAME=53>Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me;</A><br>
<A NAME=54>Then slip I from her bum, down topples she,</A><br>
<A NAME=55>And 'tailor' cries, and falls into a cough;</A><br>
<A NAME=56>And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh,</A><br>
<A NAME=57>And waxen in their mirth and neeze and swear</A><br>
<A NAME=58>A merrier hour was never wasted there.</A><br>
<A NAME=59>But, room, fairy! here comes Oberon.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech6><b>Fairy</b></a>
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<A NAME=60>And here my mistress. Would that he were gone!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter, from one side, OBERON, with his train; from the other, TITANIA, with hers</i></p>
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<A NAME=speech7><b>OBERON</b></a>
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<A NAME=61>Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech8><b>TITANIA</b></a>
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<A NAME=62>What, jealous Oberon! Fairies, skip hence:</A><br>
<A NAME=63>I have forsworn his bed and company.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech9><b>OBERON</b></a>
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<A NAME=64>Tarry, rash wanton: am not I thy lord?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech10><b>TITANIA</b></a>
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<A NAME=65>Then I must be thy lady: but I know</A><br>
<A NAME=66>When thou hast stolen away from fairy land,</A><br>
<A NAME=67>And in the shape of Corin sat all day,</A><br>
<A NAME=68>Playing on pipes of corn and versing love</A><br>
<A NAME=69>To amorous Phillida. Why art thou here,</A><br>
<A NAME=70>Come from the farthest Steppe of India?</A><br>
<A NAME=71>But that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon,</A><br>
<A NAME=72>Your buskin'd mistress and your warrior love,</A><br>
<A NAME=73>To Theseus must be wedded, and you come</A><br>
<A NAME=74>To give their bed joy and prosperity.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech11><b>OBERON</b></a>
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<A NAME=75>How canst thou thus for shame, Titania,</A><br>
<A NAME=76>Glance at my credit with Hippolyta,</A><br>
<A NAME=77>Knowing I know thy love to Theseus?</A><br>
<A NAME=78>Didst thou not lead him through the glimmering night</A><br>
<A NAME=79>From Perigenia, whom he ravished?</A><br>
<A NAME=80>And make him with fair AEgle break his faith,</A><br>
<A NAME=81>With Ariadne and Antiopa?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech12><b>TITANIA</b></a>
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<A NAME=82>These are the forgeries of jealousy:</A><br>
<A NAME=83>And never, since the middle summer's spring,</A><br>
<A NAME=84>Met we on hill, in dale, forest or mead,</A><br>
<A NAME=85>By paved fountain or by rushy brook,</A><br>
<A NAME=86>Or in the beached margent of the sea,</A><br>
<A NAME=87>To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind,</A><br>
<A NAME=88>But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.</A><br>
<A NAME=89>Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain,</A><br>
<A NAME=90>As in revenge, have suck'd up from the sea</A><br>
<A NAME=91>Contagious fogs; which falling in the land</A><br>
<A NAME=92>Have every pelting river made so proud</A><br>
<A NAME=93>That they have overborne their continents:</A><br>
<A NAME=94>The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain,</A><br>
<A NAME=95>The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn</A><br>
<A NAME=96>Hath rotted ere his youth attain'd a beard;</A><br>
<A NAME=97>The fold stands empty in the drowned field,</A><br>
<A NAME=98>And crows are fatted with the murrion flock;</A><br>
<A NAME=99>The nine men's morris is fill'd up with mud,</A><br>
<A NAME=100>And the quaint mazes in the wanton green</A><br>
<A NAME=101>For lack of tread are undistinguishable:</A><br>
<A NAME=102>The human mortals want their winter here;</A><br>
<A NAME=103>No night is now with hymn or carol blest:</A><br>
<A NAME=104>Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,</A><br>
<A NAME=105>Pale in her anger, washes all the air,</A><br>
<A NAME=106>That rheumatic diseases do abound:</A><br>
<A NAME=107>And thorough this distemperature we see</A><br>
<A NAME=108>The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts</A><br>
<A NAME=109>Far in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,</A><br>
<A NAME=110>And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown</A><br>
<A NAME=111>An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds</A><br>
<A NAME=112>Is, as in mockery, set: the spring, the summer,</A><br>
<A NAME=113>The childing autumn, angry winter, change</A><br>
<A NAME=114>Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world,</A><br>
<A NAME=115>By their increase, now knows not which is which:</A><br>
<A NAME=116>And this same progeny of evils comes</A><br>
<A NAME=117>From our debate, from our dissension;</A><br>
<A NAME=118>We are their parents and original.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech13><b>OBERON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=119>Do you amend it then; it lies in you:</A><br>
<A NAME=120>Why should Titania cross her Oberon?</A><br>
<A NAME=121>I do but beg a little changeling boy,</A><br>
<A NAME=122>To be my henchman.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech14><b>TITANIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=123> Set your heart at rest:</A><br>
<A NAME=124>The fairy land buys not the child of me.</A><br>
<A NAME=125>His mother was a votaress of my order:</A><br>
<A NAME=126>And, in the spiced Indian air, by night,</A><br>
<A NAME=127>Full often hath she gossip'd by my side,</A><br>
<A NAME=128>And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands,</A><br>
<A NAME=129>Marking the embarked traders on the flood,</A><br>
<A NAME=130>When we have laugh'd to see the sails conceive</A><br>
<A NAME=131>And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind;</A><br>
<A NAME=132>Which she, with pretty and with swimming gait</A><br>
<A NAME=133>Following,--her womb then rich with my young squire,--</A><br>
<A NAME=134>Would imitate, and sail upon the land,</A><br>
<A NAME=135>To fetch me trifles, and return again,</A><br>
<A NAME=136>As from a voyage, rich with merchandise.</A><br>
<A NAME=137>But she, being mortal, of that boy did die;</A><br>
<A NAME=138>And for her sake do I rear up her boy,</A><br>
<A NAME=139>And for her sake I will not part with him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>OBERON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=140>How long within this wood intend you stay?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>TITANIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=141>Perchance till after Theseus' wedding-day.</A><br>
<A NAME=142>If you will patiently dance in our round</A><br>
<A NAME=143>And see our moonlight revels, go with us;</A><br>
<A NAME=144>If not, shun me, and I will spare your haunts.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>OBERON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=145>Give me that boy, and I will go with thee.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>TITANIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=146>Not for thy fairy kingdom. Fairies, away!</A><br>
<A NAME=147>We shall chide downright, if I longer stay.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit TITANIA with her train</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>OBERON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=148>Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove</A><br>
<A NAME=149>Till I torment thee for this injury.</A><br>
<A NAME=150>My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememberest</A><br>
<A NAME=151>Since once I sat upon a promontory,</A><br>
<A NAME=152>And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back</A><br>
<A NAME=153>Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath</A><br>
<A NAME=154>That the rude sea grew civil at her song</A><br>
<A NAME=155>And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,</A><br>
<A NAME=156>To hear the sea-maid's music.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech20><b>PUCK</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=157>I remember.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>OBERON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=158>That very time I saw, but thou couldst not,</A><br>
<A NAME=159>Flying between the cold moon and the earth,</A><br>
<A NAME=160>Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took</A><br>
<A NAME=161>At a fair vestal throned by the west,</A><br>
<A NAME=162>And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow,</A><br>
<A NAME=163>As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts;</A><br>
<A NAME=164>But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft</A><br>
<A NAME=165>Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon,</A><br>
<A NAME=166>And the imperial votaress passed on,</A><br>
<A NAME=167>In maiden meditation, fancy-free.</A><br>
<A NAME=168>Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell:</A><br>
<A NAME=169>It fell upon a little western flower,</A><br>
<A NAME=170>Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,</A><br>
<A NAME=171>And maidens call it love-in-idleness.</A><br>
<A NAME=172>Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once:</A><br>
<A NAME=173>The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid</A><br>
<A NAME=174>Will make or man or woman madly dote</A><br>
<A NAME=175>Upon the next live creature that it sees.</A><br>
<A NAME=176>Fetch me this herb; and be thou here again</A><br>
<A NAME=177>Ere the leviathan can swim a league.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>PUCK</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=178>I'll put a girdle round about the earth</A><br>
<A NAME=179>In forty minutes.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>OBERON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=180> Having once this juice,</A><br>
<A NAME=181>I'll watch Titania when she is asleep,</A><br>
<A NAME=182>And drop the liquor of it in her eyes.</A><br>
<A NAME=183>The next thing then she waking looks upon,</A><br>
<A NAME=184>Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull,</A><br>
<A NAME=185>On meddling monkey, or on busy ape,</A><br>
<A NAME=186>She shall pursue it with the soul of love:</A><br>
<A NAME=187>And ere I take this charm from off her sight,</A><br>
<A NAME=188>As I can take it with another herb,</A><br>
<A NAME=189>I'll make her render up her page to me.</A><br>
<A NAME=190>But who comes here? I am invisible;</A><br>
<A NAME=191>And I will overhear their conference.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter DEMETRIUS, HELENA, following him</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=192>I love thee not, therefore pursue me not.</A><br>
<A NAME=193>Where is Lysander and fair Hermia?</A><br>
<A NAME=194>The one I'll slay, the other slayeth me.</A><br>
<A NAME=195>Thou told'st me they were stolen unto this wood;</A><br>
<A NAME=196>And here am I, and wode within this wood,</A><br>
<A NAME=197>Because I cannot meet my Hermia.</A><br>
<A NAME=198>Hence, get thee gone, and follow me no more.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=199>You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant;</A><br>
<A NAME=200>But yet you draw not iron, for my heart</A><br>
<A NAME=201>Is true as steel: leave you your power to draw,</A><br>
<A NAME=202>And I shall have no power to follow you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=203>Do I entice you? do I speak you fair?</A><br>
<A NAME=204>Or, rather, do I not in plainest truth</A><br>
<A NAME=205>Tell you, I do not, nor I cannot love you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=206>And even for that do I love you the more.</A><br>
<A NAME=207>I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius,</A><br>
<A NAME=208>The more you beat me, I will fawn on you:</A><br>
<A NAME=209>Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me,</A><br>
<A NAME=210>Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave,</A><br>
<A NAME=211>Unworthy as I am, to follow you.</A><br>
<A NAME=212>What worser place can I beg in your love,--</A><br>
<A NAME=213>And yet a place of high respect with me,--</A><br>
<A NAME=214>Than to be used as you use your dog?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=215>Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit;</A><br>
<A NAME=216>For I am sick when I do look on thee.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=217>And I am sick when I look not on you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=218>You do impeach your modesty too much,</A><br>
<A NAME=219>To leave the city and commit yourself</A><br>
<A NAME=220>Into the hands of one that loves you not;</A><br>
<A NAME=221>To trust the opportunity of night</A><br>
<A NAME=222>And the ill counsel of a desert place</A><br>
<A NAME=223>With the rich worth of your virginity.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech31><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=224>Your virtue is my privilege: for that</A><br>
<A NAME=225>It is not night when I do see your face,</A><br>
<A NAME=226>Therefore I think I am not in the night;</A><br>
<A NAME=227>Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company,</A><br>
<A NAME=228>For you in my respect are all the world:</A><br>
<A NAME=229>Then how can it be said I am alone,</A><br>
<A NAME=230>When all the world is here to look on me?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech32><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=231>I'll run from thee and hide me in the brakes,</A><br>
<A NAME=232>And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech33><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=233>The wildest hath not such a heart as you.</A><br>
<A NAME=234>Run when you will, the story shall be changed:</A><br>
<A NAME=235>Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase;</A><br>
<A NAME=236>The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind</A><br>
<A NAME=237>Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed,</A><br>
<A NAME=238>When cowardice pursues and valour flies.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech34><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=239>I will not stay thy questions; let me go:</A><br>
<A NAME=240>Or, if thou follow me, do not believe</A><br>
<A NAME=241>But I shall do thee mischief in the wood.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech35><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=242>Ay, in the temple, in the town, the field,</A><br>
<A NAME=243>You do me mischief. Fie, Demetrius!</A><br>
<A NAME=244>Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex:</A><br>
<A NAME=245>We cannot fight for love, as men may do;</A><br>
<A NAME=246>We should be wood and were not made to woo.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit DEMETRIUS</i></p>
<A NAME=247>I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,</A><br>
<A NAME=248>To die upon the hand I love so well.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
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<A NAME=speech36><b>OBERON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=249>Fare thee well, nymph: ere he do leave this grove,</A><br>
<A NAME=250>Thou shalt fly him and he shall seek thy love.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter PUCK</i></p>
<A NAME=251>Hast thou the flower there? Welcome, wanderer.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>PUCK</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=252>Ay, there it is.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech38><b>OBERON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=253>I pray thee, give it me.</A><br>
<A NAME=254>I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,</A><br>
<A NAME=255>Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,</A><br>
<A NAME=256>Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,</A><br>
<A NAME=257>With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:</A><br>
<A NAME=258>There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,</A><br>
<A NAME=259>Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight;</A><br>
<A NAME=260>And there the snake throws her enamell'd skin,</A><br>
<A NAME=261>Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in:</A><br>
<A NAME=262>And with the juice of this I'll streak her eyes,</A><br>
<A NAME=263>And make her full of hateful fantasies.</A><br>
<A NAME=264>Take thou some of it, and seek through this grove:</A><br>
<A NAME=265>A sweet Athenian lady is in love</A><br>
<A NAME=266>With a disdainful youth: anoint his eyes;</A><br>
<A NAME=267>But do it when the next thing he espies</A><br>
<A NAME=268>May be the lady: thou shalt know the man</A><br>
<A NAME=269>By the Athenian garments he hath on.</A><br>
<A NAME=270>Effect it with some care, that he may prove</A><br>
<A NAME=271>More fond on her than she upon her love:</A><br>
<A NAME=272>And look thou meet me ere the first cock crow.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech39><b>PUCK</b></a>
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<A NAME=273>Fear not, my lord, your servant shall do so.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
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