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<H3>SCENE II. Another part of the wood.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter OBERON</i>
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<A NAME=speech1><b>OBERON</b></a>
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<A NAME=1>I wonder if Titania be awaked;</A><br>
<A NAME=2>Then, what it was that next came in her eye,</A><br>
<A NAME=3>Which she must dote on in extremity.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter PUCK</i></p>
<A NAME=4>Here comes my messenger.</A><br>
<A NAME=5>How now, mad spirit!</A><br>
<A NAME=6>What night-rule now about this haunted grove?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech2><b>PUCK</b></a>
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<A NAME=7>My mistress with a monster is in love.</A><br>
<A NAME=8>Near to her close and consecrated bower,</A><br>
<A NAME=9>While she was in her dull and sleeping hour,</A><br>
<A NAME=10>A crew of patches, rude mechanicals,</A><br>
<A NAME=11>That work for bread upon Athenian stalls,</A><br>
<A NAME=12>Were met together to rehearse a play</A><br>
<A NAME=13>Intended for great Theseus' nuptial-day.</A><br>
<A NAME=14>The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort,</A><br>
<A NAME=15>Who Pyramus presented, in their sport</A><br>
<A NAME=16>Forsook his scene and enter'd in a brake</A><br>
<A NAME=17>When I did him at this advantage take,</A><br>
<A NAME=18>An ass's nole I fixed on his head:</A><br>
<A NAME=19>Anon his Thisbe must be answered,</A><br>
<A NAME=20>And forth my mimic comes. When they him spy,</A><br>
<A NAME=21>As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,</A><br>
<A NAME=22>Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,</A><br>
<A NAME=23>Rising and cawing at the gun's report,</A><br>
<A NAME=24>Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky,</A><br>
<A NAME=25>So, at his sight, away his fellows fly;</A><br>
<A NAME=26>And, at our stamp, here o'er and o'er one falls;</A><br>
<A NAME=27>He murder cries and help from Athens calls.</A><br>
<A NAME=28>Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears</A><br>
<A NAME=29>thus strong,</A><br>
<A NAME=30>Made senseless things begin to do them wrong;</A><br>
<A NAME=31>For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch;</A><br>
<A NAME=32>Some sleeves, some hats, from yielders all</A><br>
<A NAME=33>things catch.</A><br>
<A NAME=34>I led them on in this distracted fear,</A><br>
<A NAME=35>And left sweet Pyramus translated there:</A><br>
<A NAME=36>When in that moment, so it came to pass,</A><br>
<A NAME=37>Titania waked and straightway loved an ass.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech3><b>OBERON</b></a>
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<A NAME=38>This falls out better than I could devise.</A><br>
<A NAME=39>But hast thou yet latch'd the Athenian's eyes</A><br>
<A NAME=40>With the love-juice, as I did bid thee do?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech4><b>PUCK</b></a>
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<A NAME=41>I took him sleeping,--that is finish'd too,--</A><br>
<A NAME=42>And the Athenian woman by his side:</A><br>
<A NAME=43>That, when he waked, of force she must be eyed.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter HERMIA and DEMETRIUS</i></p>
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<A NAME=speech5><b>OBERON</b></a>
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<A NAME=44>Stand close: this is the same Athenian.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech6><b>PUCK</b></a>
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<A NAME=45>This is the woman, but not this the man.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech7><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
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<A NAME=46>O, why rebuke you him that loves you so?</A><br>
<A NAME=47>Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech8><b>HERMIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=48>Now I but chide; but I should use thee worse,</A><br>
<A NAME=49>For thou, I fear, hast given me cause to curse,</A><br>
<A NAME=50>If thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep,</A><br>
<A NAME=51>Being o'er shoes in blood, plunge in the deep,</A><br>
<A NAME=52>And kill me too.</A><br>
<A NAME=53>The sun was not so true unto the day</A><br>
<A NAME=54>As he to me: would he have stolen away</A><br>
<A NAME=55>From sleeping Hermia? I'll believe as soon</A><br>
<A NAME=56>This whole earth may be bored and that the moon</A><br>
<A NAME=57>May through the centre creep and so displease</A><br>
<A NAME=58>Her brother's noontide with Antipodes.</A><br>
<A NAME=59>It cannot be but thou hast murder'd him;</A><br>
<A NAME=60>So should a murderer look, so dead, so grim.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech9><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
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<A NAME=61>So should the murder'd look, and so should I,</A><br>
<A NAME=62>Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty:</A><br>
<A NAME=63>Yet you, the murderer, look as bright, as clear,</A><br>
<A NAME=64>As yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech10><b>HERMIA</b></a>
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<A NAME=65>What's this to my Lysander? where is he?</A><br>
<A NAME=66>Ah, good Demetrius, wilt thou give him me?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech11><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
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<A NAME=67>I had rather give his carcass to my hounds.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech12><b>HERMIA</b></a>
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<A NAME=68>Out, dog! out, cur! thou drivest me past the bounds</A><br>
<A NAME=69>Of maiden's patience. Hast thou slain him, then?</A><br>
<A NAME=70>Henceforth be never number'd among men!</A><br>
<A NAME=71>O, once tell true, tell true, even for my sake!</A><br>
<A NAME=72>Durst thou have look'd upon him being awake,</A><br>
<A NAME=73>And hast thou kill'd him sleeping? O brave touch!</A><br>
<A NAME=74>Could not a worm, an adder, do so much?</A><br>
<A NAME=75>An adder did it; for with doubler tongue</A><br>
<A NAME=76>Than thine, thou serpent, never adder stung.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech13><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
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<A NAME=77>You spend your passion on a misprised mood:</A><br>
<A NAME=78>I am not guilty of Lysander's blood;</A><br>
<A NAME=79>Nor is he dead, for aught that I can tell.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech14><b>HERMIA</b></a>
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<A NAME=80>I pray thee, tell me then that he is well.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech15><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
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<A NAME=81>An if I could, what should I get therefore?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech16><b>HERMIA</b></a>
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<A NAME=82>A privilege never to see me more.</A><br>
<A NAME=83>And from thy hated presence part I so:</A><br>
<A NAME=84>See me no more, whether he be dead or no.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=85>There is no following her in this fierce vein:</A><br>
<A NAME=86>Here therefore for a while I will remain.</A><br>
<A NAME=87>So sorrow's heaviness doth heavier grow</A><br>
<A NAME=88>For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe:</A><br>
<A NAME=89>Which now in some slight measure it will pay,</A><br>
<A NAME=90>If for his tender here I make some stay.</A><br>
<p><i>Lies down and sleeps</i></p>
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<A NAME=speech18><b>OBERON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=91>What hast thou done? thou hast mistaken quite</A><br>
<A NAME=92>And laid the love-juice on some true-love's sight:</A><br>
<A NAME=93>Of thy misprision must perforce ensue</A><br>
<A NAME=94>Some true love turn'd and not a false turn'd true.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech19><b>PUCK</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=95>Then fate o'er-rules, that, one man holding troth,</A><br>
<A NAME=96>A million fail, confounding oath on oath.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech20><b>OBERON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=97>About the wood go swifter than the wind,</A><br>
<A NAME=98>And Helena of Athens look thou find:</A><br>
<A NAME=99>All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer,</A><br>
<A NAME=100>With sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear:</A><br>
<A NAME=101>By some illusion see thou bring her here:</A><br>
<A NAME=102>I'll charm his eyes against she do appear.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech21><b>PUCK</b></a>
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<A NAME=103>I go, I go; look how I go,</A><br>
<A NAME=104>Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>OBERON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=105> Flower of this purple dye,</A><br>
<A NAME=106>Hit with Cupid's archery,</A><br>
<A NAME=107>Sink in apple of his eye.</A><br>
<A NAME=108>When his love he doth espy,</A><br>
<A NAME=109>Let her shine as gloriously</A><br>
<A NAME=110>As the Venus of the sky.</A><br>
<A NAME=111>When thou wakest, if she be by,</A><br>
<A NAME=112>Beg of her for remedy.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter PUCK</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>PUCK</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=113> Captain of our fairy band,</A><br>
<A NAME=114>Helena is here at hand;</A><br>
<A NAME=115>And the youth, mistook by me,</A><br>
<A NAME=116>Pleading for a lover's fee.</A><br>
<A NAME=117>Shall we their fond pageant see?</A><br>
<A NAME=118>Lord, what fools these mortals be!</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech24><b>OBERON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=119>Stand aside: the noise they make</A><br>
<A NAME=120>Will cause Demetrius to awake.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>PUCK</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=121>Then will two at once woo one;</A><br>
<A NAME=122>That must needs be sport alone;</A><br>
<A NAME=123>And those things do best please me</A><br>
<A NAME=124>That befal preposterously.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter LYSANDER and HELENA</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=125>Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?</A><br>
<A NAME=126>Scorn and derision never come in tears:</A><br>
<A NAME=127>Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born,</A><br>
<A NAME=128>In their nativity all truth appears.</A><br>
<A NAME=129>How can these things in me seem scorn to you,</A><br>
<A NAME=130>Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=131>You do advance your cunning more and more.</A><br>
<A NAME=132>When truth kills truth, O devilish-holy fray!</A><br>
<A NAME=133>These vows are Hermia's: will you give her o'er?</A><br>
<A NAME=134>Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh:</A><br>
<A NAME=135>Your vows to her and me, put in two scales,</A><br>
<A NAME=136>Will even weigh, and both as light as tales.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=137>I had no judgment when to her I swore.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=138>Nor none, in my mind, now you give her o'er.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech30><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=139>Demetrius loves her, and he loves not you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=140>[Awaking] O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine!</A><br>
<A NAME=141>To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne?</A><br>
<A NAME=142>Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show</A><br>
<A NAME=143>Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!</A><br>
<A NAME=144>That pure congealed white, high Taurus snow,</A><br>
<A NAME=145>Fann'd with the eastern wind, turns to a crow</A><br>
<A NAME=146>When thou hold'st up thy hand: O, let me kiss</A><br>
<A NAME=147>This princess of pure white, this seal of bliss!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=148>O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent</A><br>
<A NAME=149>To set against me for your merriment:</A><br>
<A NAME=150>If you we re civil and knew courtesy,</A><br>
<A NAME=151>You would not do me thus much injury.</A><br>
<A NAME=152>Can you not hate me, as I know you do,</A><br>
<A NAME=153>But you must join in souls to mock me too?</A><br>
<A NAME=154>If you were men, as men you are in show,</A><br>
<A NAME=155>You would not use a gentle lady so;</A><br>
<A NAME=156>To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts,</A><br>
<A NAME=157>When I am sure you hate me with your hearts.</A><br>
<A NAME=158>You both are rivals, and love Hermia;</A><br>
<A NAME=159>And now both rivals, to mock Helena:</A><br>
<A NAME=160>A trim exploit, a manly enterprise,</A><br>
<A NAME=161>To conjure tears up in a poor maid's eyes</A><br>
<A NAME=162>With your derision! none of noble sort</A><br>
<A NAME=163>Would so offend a virgin, and extort</A><br>
<A NAME=164>A poor soul's patience, all to make you sport.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=165>You are unkind, Demetrius; be not so;</A><br>
<A NAME=166>For you love Hermia; this you know I know:</A><br>
<A NAME=167>And here, with all good will, with all my heart,</A><br>
<A NAME=168>In Hermia's love I yield you up my part;</A><br>
<A NAME=169>And yours of Helena to me bequeath,</A><br>
<A NAME=170>Whom I do love and will do till my death.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=171>Never did mockers waste more idle breath.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech35><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=172>Lysander, keep thy Hermia; I will none:</A><br>
<A NAME=173>If e'er I loved her, all that love is gone.</A><br>
<A NAME=174>My heart to her but as guest-wise sojourn'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=175>And now to Helen is it home return'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=176>There to remain.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech36><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=177> Helen, it is not so.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech37><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=178>Disparage not the faith thou dost not know,</A><br>
<A NAME=179>Lest, to thy peril, thou aby it dear.</A><br>
<A NAME=180>Look, where thy love comes; yonder is thy dear.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter HERMIA</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>HERMIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=181>Dark night, that from the eye his function takes,</A><br>
<A NAME=182>The ear more quick of apprehension makes;</A><br>
<A NAME=183>Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense,</A><br>
<A NAME=184>It pays the hearing double recompense.</A><br>
<A NAME=185>Thou art not by mine eye, Lysander, found;</A><br>
<A NAME=186>Mine ear, I thank it, brought me to thy sound</A><br>
<A NAME=187>But why unkindly didst thou leave me so?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech39><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
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<A NAME=188>Why should he stay, whom love doth press to go?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech40><b>HERMIA</b></a>
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<A NAME=189>What love could press Lysander from my side?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=190>Lysander's love, that would not let him bide,</A><br>
<A NAME=191>Fair Helena, who more engilds the night</A><br>
<A NAME=192>Than all you fiery oes and eyes of light.</A><br>
<A NAME=193>Why seek'st thou me? could not this make thee know,</A><br>
<A NAME=194>The hate I bear thee made me leave thee so?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech42><b>HERMIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=195>You speak not as you think: it cannot be.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=196>Lo, she is one of this confederacy!</A><br>
<A NAME=197>Now I perceive they have conjoin'd all three</A><br>
<A NAME=198>To fashion this false sport, in spite of me.</A><br>
<A NAME=199>Injurious Hermia! most ungrateful maid!</A><br>
<A NAME=200>Have you conspired, have you with these contrived</A><br>
<A NAME=201>To bait me with this foul derision?</A><br>
<A NAME=202>Is all the counsel that we two have shared,</A><br>
<A NAME=203>The sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent,</A><br>
<A NAME=204>When we have chid the hasty-footed time</A><br>
<A NAME=205>For parting us,--O, is it all forgot?</A><br>
<A NAME=206>All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence?</A><br>
<A NAME=207>We, Hermia, like two artificial gods,</A><br>
<A NAME=208>Have with our needles created both one flower,</A><br>
<A NAME=209>Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion,</A><br>
<A NAME=210>Both warbling of one song, both in one key,</A><br>
<A NAME=211>As if our hands, our sides, voices and minds,</A><br>
<A NAME=212>Had been incorporate. So we grow together,</A><br>
<A NAME=213>Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,</A><br>
<A NAME=214>But yet an union in partition;</A><br>
<A NAME=215>Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;</A><br>
<A NAME=216>So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart;</A><br>
<A NAME=217>Two of the first, like coats in heraldry,</A><br>
<A NAME=218>Due but to one and crowned with one crest.</A><br>
<A NAME=219>And will you rent our ancient love asunder,</A><br>
<A NAME=220>To join with men in scorning your poor friend?</A><br>
<A NAME=221>It is not friendly, 'tis not maidenly:</A><br>
<A NAME=222>Our sex, as well as I, may chide you for it,</A><br>
<A NAME=223>Though I alone do feel the injury.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>HERMIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=224>I am amazed at your passionate words.</A><br>
<A NAME=225>I scorn you not: it seems that you scorn me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=226>Have you not set Lysander, as in scorn,</A><br>
<A NAME=227>To follow me and praise my eyes and face?</A><br>
<A NAME=228>And made your other love, Demetrius,</A><br>
<A NAME=229>Who even but now did spurn me with his foot,</A><br>
<A NAME=230>To call me goddess, nymph, divine and rare,</A><br>
<A NAME=231>Precious, celestial? Wherefore speaks he this</A><br>
<A NAME=232>To her he hates? and wherefore doth Lysander</A><br>
<A NAME=233>Deny your love, so rich within his soul,</A><br>
<A NAME=234>And tender me, forsooth, affection,</A><br>
<A NAME=235>But by your setting on, by your consent?</A><br>
<A NAME=236>What thought I be not so in grace as you,</A><br>
<A NAME=237>So hung upon with love, so fortunate,</A><br>
<A NAME=238>But miserable most, to love unloved?</A><br>
<A NAME=239>This you should pity rather than despise.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>HERNIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=240>I understand not what you mean by this.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=241>Ay, do, persever, counterfeit sad looks,</A><br>
<A NAME=242>Make mouths upon me when I turn my back;</A><br>
<A NAME=243>Wink each at other; hold the sweet jest up:</A><br>
<A NAME=244>This sport, well carried, shall be chronicled.</A><br>
<A NAME=245>If you have any pity, grace, or manners,</A><br>
<A NAME=246>You would not make me such an argument.</A><br>
<A NAME=247>But fare ye well: 'tis partly my own fault;</A><br>
<A NAME=248>Which death or absence soon shall remedy.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=249>Stay, gentle Helena; hear my excuse:</A><br>
<A NAME=250>My love, my life my soul, fair Helena!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=251>O excellent!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>HERMIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=252> Sweet, do not scorn her so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=253>If she cannot entreat, I can compel.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=254>Thou canst compel no more than she entreat:</A><br>
<A NAME=255>Thy threats have no more strength than her weak prayers.</A><br>
<A NAME=256>Helen, I love thee; by my life, I do:</A><br>
<A NAME=257>I swear by that which I will lose for thee,</A><br>
<A NAME=258>To prove him false that says I love thee not.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=259>I say I love thee more than he can do.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=260>If thou say so, withdraw, and prove it too.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=261>Quick, come!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>HERMIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=262>Lysander, whereto tends all this?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech57><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=263>Away, you Ethiope!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech58><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=264> No, no; he'll [ ]</A><br>
<A NAME=265>Seem to break loose; take on as you would follow,</A><br>
<A NAME=266>But yet come not: you are a tame man, go!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech59><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=267>Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! vile thing, let loose,</A><br>
<A NAME=268>Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech60><b>HERMIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=269>Why are you grown so rude? what change is this?</A><br>
<A NAME=270>Sweet love,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech61><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=271>Thy love! out, tawny Tartar, out!</A><br>
<A NAME=272>Out, loathed medicine! hated potion, hence!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech62><b>HERMIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=273>Do you not jest?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech63><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=274>Yes, sooth; and so do you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech64><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=275>Demetrius, I will keep my word with thee.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech65><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=276>I would I had your bond, for I perceive</A><br>
<A NAME=277>A weak bond holds you: I'll not trust your word.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech66><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=278>What, should I hurt her, strike her, kill her dead?</A><br>
<A NAME=279>Although I hate her, I'll not harm her so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech67><b>HERMIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=280>What, can you do me greater harm than hate?</A><br>
<A NAME=281>Hate me! wherefore? O me! what news, my love!</A><br>
<A NAME=282>Am not I Hermia? are not you Lysander?</A><br>
<A NAME=283>I am as fair now as I was erewhile.</A><br>
<A NAME=284>Since night you loved me; yet since night you left</A><br>
<A NAME=285>me:</A><br>
<A NAME=286>Why, then you left me--O, the gods forbid!--</A><br>
<A NAME=287>In earnest, shall I say?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech68><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=288>Ay, by my life;</A><br>
<A NAME=289>And never did desire to see thee more.</A><br>
<A NAME=290>Therefore be out of hope, of question, of doubt;</A><br>
<A NAME=291>Be certain, nothing truer; 'tis no jest</A><br>
<A NAME=292>That I do hate thee and love Helena.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech69><b>HERMIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=293>O me! you juggler! you canker-blossom!</A><br>
<A NAME=294>You thief of love! what, have you come by night</A><br>
<A NAME=295>And stolen my love's heart from him?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech70><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=296>Fine, i'faith!</A><br>
<A NAME=297>Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,</A><br>
<A NAME=298>No touch of bashfulness? What, will you tear</A><br>
<A NAME=299>Impatient answers from my gentle tongue?</A><br>
<A NAME=300>Fie, fie! you counterfeit, you puppet, you!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech71><b>HERMIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=301>Puppet? why so? ay, that way goes the game.</A><br>
<A NAME=302>Now I perceive that she hath made compare</A><br>
<A NAME=303>Between our statures; she hath urged her height;</A><br>
<A NAME=304>And with her personage, her tall personage,</A><br>
<A NAME=305>Her height, forsooth, she hath prevail'd with him.</A><br>
<A NAME=306>And are you grown so high in his esteem;</A><br>
<A NAME=307>Because I am so dwarfish and so low?</A><br>
<A NAME=308>How low am I, thou painted maypole? speak;</A><br>
<A NAME=309>How low am I? I am not yet so low</A><br>
<A NAME=310>But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech72><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=311>I pray you, though you mock me, gentlemen,</A><br>
<A NAME=312>Let her not hurt me: I was never curst;</A><br>
<A NAME=313>I have no gift at all in shrewishness;</A><br>
<A NAME=314>I am a right maid for my cowardice:</A><br>
<A NAME=315>Let her not strike me. You perhaps may think,</A><br>
<A NAME=316>Because she is something lower than myself,</A><br>
<A NAME=317>That I can match her.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech73><b>HERMIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=318>Lower! hark, again.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech74><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=319>Good Hermia, do not be so bitter with me.</A><br>
<A NAME=320>I evermore did love you, Hermia,</A><br>
<A NAME=321>Did ever keep your counsels, never wrong'd you;</A><br>
<A NAME=322>Save that, in love unto Demetrius,</A><br>
<A NAME=323>I told him of your stealth unto this wood.</A><br>
<A NAME=324>He follow'd you; for love I follow'd him;</A><br>
<A NAME=325>But he hath chid me hence and threaten'd me</A><br>
<A NAME=326>To strike me, spurn me, nay, to kill me too:</A><br>
<A NAME=327>And now, so you will let me quiet go,</A><br>
<A NAME=328>To Athens will I bear my folly back</A><br>
<A NAME=329>And follow you no further: let me go:</A><br>
<A NAME=330>You see how simple and how fond I am.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech75><b>HERMIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=331>Why, get you gone: who is't that hinders you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech76><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=332>A foolish heart, that I leave here behind.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech77><b>HERMIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=333>What, with Lysander?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech78><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=334>With Demetrius.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech79><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=335>Be not afraid; she shall not harm thee, Helena.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech80><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=336>No, sir, she shall not, though you take her part.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech81><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=337>O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd!</A><br>
<A NAME=338>She was a vixen when she went to school;</A><br>
<A NAME=339>And though she be but little, she is fierce.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech82><b>HERMIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=340>'Little' again! nothing but 'low' and 'little'!</A><br>
<A NAME=341>Why will you suffer her to flout me thus?</A><br>
<A NAME=342>Let me come to her.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech83><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=343>Get you gone, you dwarf;</A><br>
<A NAME=344>You minimus, of hindering knot-grass made;</A><br>
<A NAME=345>You bead, you acorn.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech84><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=346>You are too officious</A><br>
<A NAME=347>In her behalf that scorns your services.</A><br>
<A NAME=348>Let her alone: speak not of Helena;</A><br>
<A NAME=349>Take not her part; for, if thou dost intend</A><br>
<A NAME=350>Never so little show of love to her,</A><br>
<A NAME=351>Thou shalt aby it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech85><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=352> Now she holds me not;</A><br>
<A NAME=353>Now follow, if thou darest, to try whose right,</A><br>
<A NAME=354>Of thine or mine, is most in Helena.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech86><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=355>Follow! nay, I'll go with thee, cheek by jole.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt LYSANDER and DEMETRIUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech87><b>HERMIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=356>You, mistress, all this coil is 'long of you:</A><br>
<A NAME=357>Nay, go not back.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech88><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=358> I will not trust you, I,</A><br>
<A NAME=359>Nor longer stay in your curst company.</A><br>
<A NAME=360>Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray,</A><br>
<A NAME=361>My legs are longer though, to run away.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech89><b>HERMIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=362>I am amazed, and know not what to say.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech90><b>OBERON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=363>This is thy negligence: still thou mistakest,</A><br>
<A NAME=364>Or else committ'st thy knaveries wilfully.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech91><b>PUCK</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=365>Believe me, king of shadows, I mistook.</A><br>
<A NAME=366>Did not you tell me I should know the man</A><br>
<A NAME=367>By the Athenian garment be had on?</A><br>
<A NAME=368>And so far blameless proves my enterprise,</A><br>
<A NAME=369>That I have 'nointed an Athenian's eyes;</A><br>
<A NAME=370>And so far am I glad it so did sort</A><br>
<A NAME=371>As this their jangling I esteem a sport.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech92><b>OBERON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=372>Thou see'st these lovers seek a place to fight:</A><br>
<A NAME=373>Hie therefore, Robin, overcast the night;</A><br>
<A NAME=374>The starry welkin cover thou anon</A><br>
<A NAME=375>With drooping fog as black as Acheron,</A><br>
<A NAME=376>And lead these testy rivals so astray</A><br>
<A NAME=377>As one come not within another's way.</A><br>
<A NAME=378>Like to Lysander sometime frame thy tongue,</A><br>
<A NAME=379>Then stir Demetrius up with bitter wrong;</A><br>
<A NAME=380>And sometime rail thou like Demetrius;</A><br>
<A NAME=381>And from each other look thou lead them thus,</A><br>
<A NAME=382>Till o'er their brows death-counterfeiting sleep</A><br>
<A NAME=383>With leaden legs and batty wings doth creep:</A><br>
<A NAME=384>Then crush this herb into Lysander's eye;</A><br>
<A NAME=385>Whose liquor hath this virtuous property,</A><br>
<A NAME=386>To take from thence all error with his might,</A><br>
<A NAME=387>And make his eyeballs roll with wonted sight.</A><br>
<A NAME=388>When they next wake, all this derision</A><br>
<A NAME=389>Shall seem a dream and fruitless vision,</A><br>
<A NAME=390>And back to Athens shall the lovers wend,</A><br>
<A NAME=391>With league whose date till death shall never end.</A><br>
<A NAME=392>Whiles I in this affair do thee employ,</A><br>
<A NAME=393>I'll to my queen and beg her Indian boy;</A><br>
<A NAME=394>And then I will her charmed eye release</A><br>
<A NAME=395>From monster's view, and all things shall be peace.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech93><b>PUCK</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=396>My fairy lord, this must be done with haste,</A><br>
<A NAME=397>For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,</A><br>
<A NAME=398>And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger;</A><br>
<A NAME=399>At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there,</A><br>
<A NAME=400>Troop home to churchyards: damned spirits all,</A><br>
<A NAME=401>That in crossways and floods have burial,</A><br>
<A NAME=402>Already to their wormy beds are gone;</A><br>
<A NAME=403>For fear lest day should look their shames upon,</A><br>
<A NAME=404>They willfully themselves exile from light</A><br>
<A NAME=405>And must for aye consort with black-brow'd night.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech94><b>OBERON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=406>But we are spirits of another sort:</A><br>
<A NAME=407>I with the morning's love have oft made sport,</A><br>
<A NAME=408>And, like a forester, the groves may tread,</A><br>
<A NAME=409>Even till the eastern gate, all fiery-red,</A><br>
<A NAME=410>Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams,</A><br>
<A NAME=411>Turns into yellow gold his salt green streams.</A><br>
<A NAME=412>But, notwithstanding, haste; make no delay:</A><br>
<A NAME=413>We may effect this business yet ere day.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech95><b>PUCK</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=414> Up and down, up and down,</A><br>
<A NAME=415>I will lead them up and down:</A><br>
<A NAME=416>I am fear'd in field and town:</A><br>
<A NAME=417>Goblin, lead them up and down.</A><br>
<A NAME=418>Here comes one.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter LYSANDER</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech96><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=419>Where art thou, proud Demetrius? speak thou now.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech97><b>PUCK</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=420>Here, villain; drawn and ready. Where art thou?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech98><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=421>I will be with thee straight.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech99><b>PUCK</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=422>Follow me, then,</A><br>
<A NAME=423>To plainer ground.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit LYSANDER, as following the voice</i></p>
<p><i>Re-enter DEMETRIUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech100><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=424> Lysander! speak again:</A><br>
<A NAME=425>Thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled?</A><br>
<A NAME=426>Speak! In some bush? Where dost thou hide thy head?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech101><b>PUCK</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=427>Thou coward, art thou bragging to the stars,</A><br>
<A NAME=428>Telling the bushes that thou look'st for wars,</A><br>
<A NAME=429>And wilt not come? Come, recreant; come, thou child;</A><br>
<A NAME=430>I'll whip thee with a rod: he is defiled</A><br>
<A NAME=431>That draws a sword on thee.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech102><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=432>Yea, art thou there?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech103><b>PUCK</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=433>Follow my voice: we'll try no manhood here.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
<p><i>Re-enter LYSANDER</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech104><b>LYSANDER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=434>He goes before me and still dares me on:</A><br>
<A NAME=435>When I come where he calls, then he is gone.</A><br>
<A NAME=436>The villain is much lighter-heel'd than I:</A><br>
<A NAME=437>I follow'd fast, but faster he did fly;</A><br>
<A NAME=438>That fallen am I in dark uneven way,</A><br>
<A NAME=439>And here will rest me.</A><br>
<p><i>Lies down</i></p>
<A NAME=440>Come, thou gentle day!</A><br>
<A NAME=441>For if but once thou show me thy grey light,</A><br>
<A NAME=442>I'll find Demetrius and revenge this spite.</A><br>
<p><i>Sleeps</i></p>
<p><i>Re-enter PUCK and DEMETRIUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech105><b>PUCK</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=443>Ho, ho, ho! Coward, why comest thou not?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech106><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=444>Abide me, if thou darest; for well I wot</A><br>
<A NAME=445>Thou runn'st before me, shifting every place,</A><br>
<A NAME=446>And darest not stand, nor look me in the face.</A><br>
<A NAME=447>Where art thou now?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech107><b>PUCK</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=448>Come hither: I am here.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech108><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=449>Nay, then, thou mock'st me. Thou shalt buy this dear,</A><br>
<A NAME=450>If ever I thy face by daylight see:</A><br>
<A NAME=451>Now, go thy way. Faintness constraineth me</A><br>
<A NAME=452>To measure out my length on this cold bed.</A><br>
<A NAME=453>By day's approach look to be visited.</A><br>
<p><i>Lies down and sleeps</i></p>
<p><i>Re-enter HELENA</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech109><b>HELENA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=454>O weary night, O long and tedious night,</A><br>
<A NAME=455>Abate thy hour! Shine comforts from the east,</A><br>
<A NAME=456>That I may back to Athens by daylight,</A><br>
<A NAME=457>From these that my poor company detest:</A><br>
<A NAME=458>And sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye,</A><br>
<A NAME=459>Steal me awhile from mine own company.</A><br>
<p><i>Lies down and sleeps</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech110><b>PUCK</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=460>Yet but three? Come one more;</A><br>
<A NAME=461>Two of both kinds make up four.</A><br>
<A NAME=462>Here she comes, curst and sad:</A><br>
<A NAME=463>Cupid is a knavish lad,</A><br>
<A NAME=464>Thus to make poor females mad.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter HERMIA</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech111><b>HERMIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=465>Never so weary, never so in woe,</A><br>
<A NAME=466>Bedabbled with the dew and torn with briers,</A><br>
<A NAME=467>I can no further crawl, no further go;</A><br>
<A NAME=468>My legs can keep no pace with my desires.</A><br>
<A NAME=469>Here will I rest me till the break of day.</A><br>
<A NAME=470>Heavens shield Lysander, if they mean a fray!</A><br>
<p><i>Lies down and sleeps</i></p>
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<A NAME=speech112><b>PUCK</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=471> On the ground</A><br>
<A NAME=472>Sleep sound:</A><br>
<A NAME=473>I'll apply</A><br>
<A NAME=474>To your eye,</A><br>
<A NAME=475>Gentle lover, remedy.</A><br>
<p><i>Squeezing the juice on LYSANDER's eyes</i></p>
<A NAME=476>When thou wakest,</A><br>
<A NAME=477>Thou takest</A><br>
<A NAME=478>True delight</A><br>
<A NAME=479>In the sight</A><br>
<A NAME=480>Of thy former lady's eye:</A><br>
<A NAME=481>And the country proverb known,</A><br>
<A NAME=482>That every man should take his own,</A><br>
<A NAME=483>In your waking shall be shown:</A><br>
<A NAME=484>Jack shall have Jill;</A><br>
<A NAME=485>Nought shall go ill;</A><br>
<A NAME=486>The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
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