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<H3>SCENE II. Another part of the wood.</h3>

<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter TITANIA, with her train</i>
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<A NAME=speech1><b>TITANIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1>Come, now a roundel and a fairy song;</A><br>
<A NAME=2>Then, for the third part of a minute, hence;</A><br>
<A NAME=3>Some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds,</A><br>
<A NAME=4>Some war with rere-mice for their leathern wings,</A><br>
<A NAME=5>To make my small elves coats, and some keep back</A><br>
<A NAME=6>The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders</A><br>
<A NAME=7>At our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep;</A><br>
<A NAME=8>Then to your offices and let me rest.</A><br>
<p><i>The Fairies sing</i></p>
<A NAME=9>You spotted snakes with double tongue,</A><br>
<A NAME=10>Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen;</A><br>
<A NAME=11>Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong,</A><br>
<A NAME=12>Come not near our fairy queen.</A><br>
<A NAME=13>Philomel, with melody</A><br>
<A NAME=14>Sing in our sweet lullaby;</A><br>
<A NAME=15>Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby:</A><br>
<A NAME=16>Never harm,</A><br>
<A NAME=17>Nor spell nor charm,</A><br>
<A NAME=18>Come our lovely lady nigh;</A><br>
<A NAME=19>So, good night, with lullaby.</A><br>
<A NAME=20>Weaving spiders, come not here;</A><br>
<A NAME=21>Hence, you long-legg'd spinners, hence!</A><br>
<A NAME=22>Beetles black, approach not near;</A><br>
<A NAME=23>Worm nor snail, do no offence.</A><br>
<A NAME=24>Philomel, with melody,  & c.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech2><b>Fairy</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=25>Hence, away! now all is well:</A><br>
<A NAME=26>One aloof stand sentinel.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt Fairies. TITANIA sleeps</i></p>
<p><i>Enter OBERON and squeezes the flower on TITANIA's eyelids</i></p>
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<A NAME=speech3><b>OBERON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=27>What thou seest when thou dost wake,</A><br>
<A NAME=28>Do it for thy true-love take,</A><br>
<A NAME=29>Love and languish for his sake:</A><br>
<A NAME=30>Be it ounce, or cat, or bear,</A><br>
<A NAME=31>Pard, or boar with bristled hair,</A><br>
<A NAME=32>In thy eye that shall appear</A><br>
<A NAME=33>When thou wakest, it is thy dear:</A><br>
<A NAME=34>Wake when some vile thing is near.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
<p><i>Enter LYSANDER and HERMIA</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=35>Fair love, you faint with wandering in the wood;</A><br>
<A NAME=36>And to speak troth, I have forgot our way:</A><br>
<A NAME=37>We'll rest us, Hermia, if you think it good,</A><br>
<A NAME=38>And tarry for the comfort of the day.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech5><b>HERMIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=39>Be it so, Lysander: find you out a bed;</A><br>
<A NAME=40>For I upon this bank will rest my head.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=41>One turf shall serve as pillow for us both;</A><br>
<A NAME=42>One heart, one bed, two bosoms and one troth.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech7><b>HERMIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=43>Nay, good Lysander; for my sake, my dear,</A><br>
<A NAME=44>Lie further off yet, do not lie so near.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech8><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=45>O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence!</A><br>
<A NAME=46>Love takes the meaning in love's conference.</A><br>
<A NAME=47>I mean, that my heart unto yours is knit</A><br>
<A NAME=48>So that but one heart we can make of it;</A><br>
<A NAME=49>Two bosoms interchained with an oath;</A><br>
<A NAME=50>So then two bosoms and a single troth.</A><br>
<A NAME=51>Then by your side no bed-room me deny;</A><br>
<A NAME=52>For lying so, Hermia, I do not lie.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech9><b>HERMIA</b></a>
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<A NAME=53>Lysander riddles very prettily:</A><br>
<A NAME=54>Now much beshrew my manners and my pride,</A><br>
<A NAME=55>If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied.</A><br>
<A NAME=56>But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy</A><br>
<A NAME=57>Lie further off; in human modesty,</A><br>
<A NAME=58>Such separation as may well be said</A><br>
<A NAME=59>Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid,</A><br>
<A NAME=60>So far be distant; and, good night, sweet friend:</A><br>
<A NAME=61>Thy love ne'er alter till thy sweet life end!</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech10><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
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<A NAME=62>Amen, amen, to that fair prayer, say I;</A><br>
<A NAME=63>And then end life when I end loyalty!</A><br>
<A NAME=64>Here is my bed: sleep give thee all his rest!</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech11><b>HERMIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=65>With half that wish the wisher's eyes be press'd!</A><br>
<p><i>They sleep</i></p>
<p><i>Enter PUCK</i></p>
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<A NAME=speech12><b>PUCK</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=66>Through the forest have I gone.</A><br>
<A NAME=67>But Athenian found I none,</A><br>
<A NAME=68>On whose eyes I might approve</A><br>
<A NAME=69>This flower's force in stirring love.</A><br>
<A NAME=70>Night and silence.--Who is here?</A><br>
<A NAME=71>Weeds of Athens he doth wear:</A><br>
<A NAME=72>This is he, my master said,</A><br>
<A NAME=73>Despised the Athenian maid;</A><br>
<A NAME=74>And here the maiden, sleeping sound,</A><br>
<A NAME=75>On the dank and dirty ground.</A><br>
<A NAME=76>Pretty soul! she durst not lie</A><br>
<A NAME=77>Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.</A><br>
<A NAME=78>Churl, upon thy eyes I throw</A><br>
<A NAME=79>All the power this charm doth owe.</A><br>
<A NAME=80>When thou wakest, let love forbid</A><br>
<A NAME=81>Sleep his seat on thy eyelid:</A><br>
<A NAME=82>So awake when I am gone;</A><br>
<A NAME=83>For I must now to Oberon.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
<p><i>Enter DEMETRIUS and HELENA, running</i></p>
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<A NAME=speech13><b>HELENA</b></a>
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<A NAME=84>Stay, though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech14><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
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<A NAME=85>I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech15><b>HELENA</b></a>
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<A NAME=86>O, wilt thou darkling leave me? do not so.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech16><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=87>Stay, on thy peril: I alone will go.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech17><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=88>O, I am out of breath in this fond chase!</A><br>
<A NAME=89>The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace.</A><br>
<A NAME=90>Happy is Hermia, wheresoe'er she lies;</A><br>
<A NAME=91>For she hath blessed and attractive eyes.</A><br>
<A NAME=92>How came her eyes so bright? Not with salt tears:</A><br>
<A NAME=93>If so, my eyes are oftener wash'd than hers.</A><br>
<A NAME=94>No, no, I am as ugly as a bear;</A><br>
<A NAME=95>For beasts that meet me run away for fear:</A><br>
<A NAME=96>Therefore no marvel though Demetrius</A><br>
<A NAME=97>Do, as a monster fly my presence thus.</A><br>
<A NAME=98>What wicked and dissembling glass of mine</A><br>
<A NAME=99>Made me compare with Hermia's sphery eyne?</A><br>
<A NAME=100>But who is here? Lysander! on the ground!</A><br>
<A NAME=101>Dead? or asleep? I see no blood, no wound.</A><br>
<A NAME=102>Lysander if you live, good sir, awake.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech18><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=103>[Awaking]  And run through fire I will for thy sweet sake.</A><br>
<A NAME=104>Transparent Helena! Nature shows art,</A><br>
<A NAME=105>That through thy bosom makes me see thy heart.</A><br>
<A NAME=106>Where is Demetrius? O, how fit a word</A><br>
<A NAME=107>Is that vile name to perish on my sword!</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech19><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=108>Do not say so, Lysander; say not so</A><br>
<A NAME=109>What though he love your Hermia? Lord, what though?</A><br>
<A NAME=110>Yet Hermia still loves you: then be content.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech20><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=111>Content with Hermia! No; I do repent</A><br>
<A NAME=112>The tedious minutes I with her have spent.</A><br>
<A NAME=113>Not Hermia but Helena I love:</A><br>
<A NAME=114>Who will not change a raven for a dove?</A><br>
<A NAME=115>The will of man is by his reason sway'd;</A><br>
<A NAME=116>And reason says you are the worthier maid.</A><br>
<A NAME=117>Things growing are not ripe until their season</A><br>
<A NAME=118>So I, being young, till now ripe not to reason;</A><br>
<A NAME=119>And touching now the point of human skill,</A><br>
<A NAME=120>Reason becomes the marshal to my will</A><br>
<A NAME=121>And leads me to your eyes, where I o'erlook</A><br>
<A NAME=122>Love's stories written in love's richest book.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech21><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=123>Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?</A><br>
<A NAME=124>When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?</A><br>
<A NAME=125>Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man,</A><br>
<A NAME=126>That I did never, no, nor never can,</A><br>
<A NAME=127>Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye,</A><br>
<A NAME=128>But you must flout my insufficiency?</A><br>
<A NAME=129>Good troth, you do me wrong, good sooth, you do,</A><br>
<A NAME=130>In such disdainful manner me to woo.</A><br>
<A NAME=131>But fare you well: perforce I must confess</A><br>
<A NAME=132>I thought you lord of more true gentleness.</A><br>
<A NAME=133>O, that a lady, of one man refused.</A><br>
<A NAME=134>Should of another therefore be abused!</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech22><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=135>She sees not Hermia. Hermia, sleep thou there:</A><br>
<A NAME=136>And never mayst thou come Lysander near!</A><br>
<A NAME=137>For as a surfeit of the sweetest things</A><br>
<A NAME=138>The deepest loathing to the stomach brings,</A><br>
<A NAME=139>Or as tie heresies that men do leave</A><br>
<A NAME=140>Are hated most of those they did deceive,</A><br>
<A NAME=141>So thou, my surfeit and my heresy,</A><br>
<A NAME=142>Of all be hated, but the most of me!</A><br>
<A NAME=143>And, all my powers, address your love and might</A><br>
<A NAME=144>To honour Helen and to be her knight!</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech23><b>HERMIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=145>[Awaking]  Help me, Lysander, help me! do thy best</A><br>
<A NAME=146>To pluck this crawling serpent from my breast!</A><br>
<A NAME=147>Ay me, for pity! what a dream was here!</A><br>
<A NAME=148>Lysander, look how I do quake with fear:</A><br>
<A NAME=149>Methought a serpent eat my heart away,</A><br>
<A NAME=150>And you sat smiling at his cruel pray.</A><br>
<A NAME=151>Lysander! what, removed? Lysander! lord!</A><br>
<A NAME=152>What, out of hearing? gone? no sound, no word?</A><br>
<A NAME=153>Alack, where are you speak, an if you hear;</A><br>
<A NAME=154>Speak, of all loves! I swoon almost with fear.</A><br>
<A NAME=155>No? then I well perceive you all not nigh</A><br>
<A NAME=156>Either death or you I'll find immediately.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
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