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| <H3>ACT I</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, and Attendants</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.1>Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.2>Draws on apace; four happy days bring in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.3>Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.4>This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.5>Like to a step-dame or a dowager</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.6>Long withering out a young man revenue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>HIPPOLYTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.7>Four days will quickly steep themselves in night;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.8>Four nights will quickly dream away the time;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.9>And then the moon, like to a silver bow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.10>New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.11>Of our solemnities.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.12>Go, Philostrate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.13>Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.14>Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.15>Turn melancholy forth to funerals;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.16>The pale companion is not for our pomp.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit PHILOSTRATE</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.17>Hippolyta, I woo'd thee with my sword,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.18>And won thy love, doing thee injuries;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.19>But I will wed thee in another key,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.20>With pomp, with triumph and with revelling.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter EGEUS, HERMIA, LYSANDER, and DEMETRIUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>EGEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.21>Happy be Theseus, our renowned duke!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.22>Thanks, good Egeus: what's the news with thee?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>EGEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.23>Full of vexation come I, with complaint</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.24>Against my child, my daughter Hermia.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.25>Stand forth, Demetrius. My noble lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.26>This man hath my consent to marry her.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.27>Stand forth, Lysander: and my gracious duke,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.28>This man hath bewitch'd the bosom of my child;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.29>Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.30>And interchanged love-tokens with my child:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.31>Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.32>With feigning voice verses of feigning love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.33>And stolen the impression of her fantasy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.34>With bracelets of thy hair, rings, gawds, conceits,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.35>Knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats, messengers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.36>Of strong prevailment in unharden'd youth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.37>With cunning hast thou filch'd my daughter's heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.38>Turn'd her obedience, which is due to me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.39>To stubborn harshness: and, my gracious duke,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.40>Be it so she; will not here before your grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.41>Consent to marry with Demetrius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.42>I beg the ancient privilege of Athens,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.43>As she is mine, I may dispose of her:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.44>Which shall be either to this gentleman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.45>Or to her death, according to our law</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.46>Immediately provided in that case.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.47>What say you, Hermia? be advised fair maid:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.48>To you your father should be as a god;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.49>One that composed your beauties, yea, and one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.50>To whom you are but as a form in wax</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.51>By him imprinted and within his power</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.52>To leave the figure or disfigure it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.53>Demetrius is a worthy gentleman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.54>So is Lysander.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.55> In himself he is;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.56>But in this kind, wanting your father's voice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.57>The other must be held the worthier.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.58>I would my father look'd but with my eyes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.59>Rather your eyes must with his judgment look.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.60>I do entreat your grace to pardon me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.61>I know not by what power I am made bold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.62>Nor how it may concern my modesty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.63>In such a presence here to plead my thoughts;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.64>But I beseech your grace that I may know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.65>The worst that may befall me in this case,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.66>If I refuse to wed Demetrius.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.67>Either to die the death or to abjure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.68>For ever the society of men.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.69>Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.70>Know of your youth, examine well your blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.71>Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.72>You can endure the livery of a nun,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.73>For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.74>To live a barren sister all your life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.75>Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.76>Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.77>To undergo such maiden pilgrimage;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.78>But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.79>Than that which withering on the virgin thorn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.80>Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.81>So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.82>Ere I will my virgin patent up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.83>Unto his lordship, whose unwished yoke</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.84>My soul consents not to give sovereignty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.85>Take time to pause; and, by the next new moon--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.86>The sealing-day betwixt my love and me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.87>For everlasting bond of fellowship--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.88>Upon that day either prepare to die</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.89>For disobedience to your father's will,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.90>Or else to wed Demetrius, as he would;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.91>Or on Diana's altar to protest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.92>For aye austerity and single life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.93>Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.94>Thy crazed title to my certain right.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.95>You have her father's love, Demetrius;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.96>Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>EGEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.97>Scornful Lysander! true, he hath my love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.98>And what is mine my love shall render him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.99>And she is mine, and all my right of her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.100>I do estate unto Demetrius.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.101>I am, my lord, as well derived as he,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.102>As well possess'd; my love is more than his;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.103>My fortunes every way as fairly rank'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.104>If not with vantage, as Demetrius';</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.105>And, which is more than all these boasts can be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.106>I am beloved of beauteous Hermia:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.107>Why should not I then prosecute my right?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.108>Demetrius, I'll avouch it to his head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.109>Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.110>And won her soul; and she, sweet lady, dotes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.111>Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.112>Upon this spotted and inconstant man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.113>I must confess that I have heard so much,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.114>And with Demetrius thought to have spoke thereof;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.115>But, being over-full of self-affairs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.116>My mind did lose it. But, Demetrius, come;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.117>And come, Egeus; you shall go with me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.118>I have some private schooling for you both.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.119>For you, fair Hermia, look you arm yourself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.120>To fit your fancies to your father's will;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.121>Or else the law of Athens yields you up--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.122>Which by no means we may extenuate--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.123>To death, or to a vow of single life.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.124>Come, my Hippolyta: what cheer, my love?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.125>Demetrius and Egeus, go along:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.126>I must employ you in some business</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.127>Against our nuptial and confer with you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.128>Of something nearly that concerns yourselves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>EGEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.129>With duty and desire we follow you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but LYSANDER and HERMIA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.130>How now, my love! why is your cheek so pale?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.131>How chance the roses there do fade so fast?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.132>Belike for want of rain, which I could well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.133>Beteem them from the tempest of my eyes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.134>Ay me! for aught that I could ever read,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.135>Could ever hear by tale or history,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.136>The course of true love never did run smooth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.137>But, either it was different in blood,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.138>O cross! too high to be enthrall'd to low.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.139>Or else misgraffed in respect of years,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.140>O spite! too old to be engaged to young.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.141>Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.142>O hell! to choose love by another's eyes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.143>Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.144>War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.145>Making it momentany as a sound,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.146>Swift as a shadow, short as any dream;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.147>Brief as the lightning in the collied night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.148>That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.149>And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.150>The jaws of darkness do devour it up:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.151>So quick bright things come to confusion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.152>If then true lovers have been ever cross'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.153>It stands as an edict in destiny:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.154>Then let us teach our trial patience,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.155>Because it is a customary cross,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.156>As due to love as thoughts and dreams and sighs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.157>Wishes and tears, poor fancy's followers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.158>A good persuasion: therefore, hear me, Hermia.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.159>I have a widow aunt, a dowager</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.160>Of great revenue, and she hath no child:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.161>From Athens is her house remote seven leagues;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.162>And she respects me as her only son.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.163>There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.164>And to that place the sharp Athenian law</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.165>Cannot pursue us. If thou lovest me then,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.166>Steal forth thy father's house to-morrow night;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.167>And in the wood, a league without the town,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.168>Where I did meet thee once with Helena,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.169>To do observance to a morn of May,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.170>There will I stay for thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.171>My good Lysander!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.172>I swear to thee, by Cupid's strongest bow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.173>By his best arrow with the golden head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.174>By the simplicity of Venus' doves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.175>By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.176>And by that fire which burn'd the Carthage queen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.177>When the false Troyan under sail was seen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.178>By all the vows that ever men have broke,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.179>In number more than ever women spoke,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.180>In that same place thou hast appointed me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.181>To-morrow truly will I meet with thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.182>Keep promise, love. Look, here comes Helena.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter HELENA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.183>God speed fair Helena! whither away?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.184>Call you me fair? that fair again unsay.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.185>Demetrius loves your fair: O happy fair!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.186>Your eyes are lode-stars; and your tongue's sweet air</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.187>More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.188>When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.189>Sickness is catching: O, were favour so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.190>Yours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.191>My ear should catch your voice, my eye your eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.192>My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.193>Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.194>The rest I'd give to be to you translated.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.195>O, teach me how you look, and with what art</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.196>You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.197>I frown upon him, yet he loves me still.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.198>O that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.199>I give him curses, yet he gives me love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.200>O that my prayers could such affection move!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.201>The more I hate, the more he follows me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.202>The more I love, the more he hateth me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.203>His folly, Helena, is no fault of mine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.204>None, but your beauty: would that fault were mine!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.205>Take comfort: he no more shall see my face;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.206>Lysander and myself will fly this place.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.207>Before the time I did Lysander see,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.208>Seem'd Athens as a paradise to me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.209>O, then, what graces in my love do dwell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.210>That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.211>Helen, to you our minds we will unfold:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.212>To-morrow night, when Phoebe doth behold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.213>Her silver visage in the watery glass,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.214>Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.215>A time that lovers' flights doth still conceal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.216>Through Athens' gates have we devised to steal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.217>And in the wood, where often you and I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.218>Upon faint primrose-beds were wont to lie,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.219>Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.220>There my Lysander and myself shall meet;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.221>And thence from Athens turn away our eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.222>To seek new friends and stranger companies.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.223>Farewell, sweet playfellow: pray thou for us;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.224>And good luck grant thee thy Demetrius!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.225>Keep word, Lysander: we must starve our sight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.226>From lovers' food till morrow deep midnight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.227>I will, my Hermia.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit HERMIA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.228>Helena, adieu:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.229>As you on him, Demetrius dote on you!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.230>How happy some o'er other some can be!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.231>Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.232>But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.233>He will not know what all but he do know:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.234>And as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.235>So I, admiring of his qualities:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.236>Things base and vile, folding no quantity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.237>Love can transpose to form and dignity:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.238>Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.239>And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.240>Nor hath Love's mind of any judgement taste;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.241>Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.242>And therefore is Love said to be a child,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.243>Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.244>As waggish boys in game themselves forswear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.245>So the boy Love is perjured every where:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.246>For ere Demetrius look'd on Hermia's eyne,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.247>He hail'd down oaths that he was only mine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.248>And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.249>So he dissolved, and showers of oaths did melt.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.250>I will go tell him of fair Hermia's flight:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.251>Then to the wood will he to-morrow night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.252>Pursue her; and for this intelligence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.253>If I have thanks, it is a dear expense:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.254>But herein mean I to enrich my pain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.255>To have his sight thither and back again.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Athens. QUINCE'S house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter QUINCE, SNUG, BOTTOM, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.1>Is all our company here?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.2>You were best to call them generally, man by man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.3>according to the scrip.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.4>Here is the scroll of every man's name, which is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.5>thought fit, through all Athens, to play in our</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.6>interlude before the duke and the duchess, on his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.7>wedding-day at night.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.8>First, good Peter Quince, say what the play treats</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.9>on, then read the names of the actors, and so grow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.10>to a point.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.11>Marry, our play is, The most lamentable comedy, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.12>most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.13>A very good piece of work, I assure you, and a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.14>merry. Now, good Peter Quince, call forth your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.15>actors by the scroll. Masters, spread yourselves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.16>Answer as I call you. Nick Bottom, the weaver.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.17>Ready. Name what part I am for, and proceed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.18>You, Nick Bottom, are set down for Pyramus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.19>What is Pyramus? a lover, or a tyrant?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.20>A lover, that kills himself most gallant for love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.21>That will ask some tears in the true performing of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.22>it: if I do it, let the audience look to their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.23>eyes; I will move storms, I will condole in some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.24>measure. To the rest: yet my chief humour is for a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.25>tyrant: I could play Ercles rarely, or a part to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.26>tear a cat in, to make all split.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.27>The raging rocks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.28>And shivering shocks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.29>Shall break the locks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.30>Of prison gates;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.31>And Phibbus' car</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.32>Shall shine from far</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.33>And make and mar</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.34>The foolish Fates.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.35>This was lofty! Now name the rest of the players.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.36>This is Ercles' vein, a tyrant's vein; a lover is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.37>more condoling.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.38>Francis Flute, the bellows-mender.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>FLUTE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.39>Here, Peter Quince.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.40>Flute, you must take Thisby on you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>FLUTE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.41>What is Thisby? a wandering knight?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.42>It is the lady that Pyramus must love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>FLUTE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.43>Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.44>That's all one: you shall play it in a mask, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.45>you may speak as small as you will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.46>An I may hide my face, let me play Thisby too, I'll</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.47>speak in a monstrous little voice. 'Thisne,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.48>Thisne;' 'Ah, Pyramus, lover dear! thy Thisby dear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.49>and lady dear!'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.50>No, no; you must play Pyramus: and, Flute, you Thisby.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.51>Well, proceed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.52>Robin Starveling, the tailor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>STARVELING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.53>Here, Peter Quince.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.54>Robin Starveling, you must play Thisby's mother.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.55>Tom Snout, the tinker.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>SNOUT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.56>Here, Peter Quince.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.57>You, Pyramus' father: myself, Thisby's father:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.58>Snug, the joiner; you, the lion's part: and, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.59>hope, here is a play fitted.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>SNUG</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.60>Have you the lion's part written? pray you, if it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.61>be, give it me, for I am slow of study.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.62>You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.63>Let me play the lion too: I will roar, that I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.64>do any man's heart good to hear me; I will roar,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.65>that I will make the duke say 'Let him roar again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.66>let him roar again.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.67>An you should do it too terribly, you would fright</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.68>the duchess and the ladies, that they would shriek;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.69>and that were enough to hang us all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>ALL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.70>That would hang us, every mother's son.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.71>I grant you, friends, if that you should fright the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.72>ladies out of their wits, they would have no more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.73>discretion but to hang us: but I will aggravate my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.74>voice so that I will roar you as gently as any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.75>sucking dove; I will roar you an 'twere any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.76>nightingale.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.77>You can play no part but Pyramus; for Pyramus is a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.78>sweet-faced man; a proper man, as one shall see in a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.79>summer's day; a most lovely gentleman-like man:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.80>therefore you must needs play Pyramus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.81>Well, I will undertake it. What beard were I best</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.82>to play it in?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.83>Why, what you will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.84>I will discharge it in either your straw-colour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.85>beard, your orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.86>beard, or your French-crown-colour beard, your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.87>perfect yellow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.88>Some of your French crowns have no hair at all, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.89>then you will play bare-faced. But, masters, here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.90>are your parts: and I am to entreat you, request</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.91>you and desire you, to con them by to-morrow night;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.92>and meet me in the palace wood, a mile without the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.93>town, by moonlight; there will we rehearse, for if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.94>we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.95>company, and our devices known. In the meantime I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.96>will draw a bill of properties, such as our play</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.97>wants. I pray you, fail me not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.98>We will meet; and there we may rehearse most</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.99>obscenely and courageously. Take pains; be perfect: adieu.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.100>At the duke's oak we meet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.101>Enough; hold or cut bow-strings.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT II</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. A wood near Athens.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter, from opposite sides, a Fairy, and PUCK</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.1>How now, spirit! whither wander you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Fairy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.2> Over hill, over dale,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.3>Thorough bush, thorough brier,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.4>Over park, over pale,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.5>Thorough flood, thorough fire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.6>I do wander everywhere,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.7>Swifter than the moon's sphere;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.8>And I serve the fairy queen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.9>To dew her orbs upon the green.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.10>The cowslips tall her pensioners be:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.11>In their gold coats spots you see;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.12>Those be rubies, fairy favours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.13>In those freckles live their savours:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.14>I must go seek some dewdrops here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.15>And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.16>Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.17>Our queen and all our elves come here anon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.18>The king doth keep his revels here to-night:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.19>Take heed the queen come not within his sight;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.20>For Oberon is passing fell and wrath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.21>Because that she as her attendant hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.22>A lovely boy, stolen from an Indian king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.23>She never had so sweet a changeling;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.24>And jealous Oberon would have the child</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.25>Knight of his train, to trace the forests wild;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.26>But she perforce withholds the loved boy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.27>Crowns him with flowers and makes him all her joy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.28>And now they never meet in grove or green,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.29>By fountain clear, or spangled starlight sheen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.30>But, they do square, that all their elves for fear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.31>Creep into acorn-cups and hide them there.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Fairy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.32>Either I mistake your shape and making quite,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.33>Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.34>Call'd Robin Goodfellow: are not you he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.35>That frights the maidens of the villagery;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.36>Skim milk, and sometimes labour in the quern</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.37>And bootless make the breathless housewife churn;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.38>And sometime make the drink to bear no barm;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.39>Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.40>Those that Hobgoblin call you and sweet Puck,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.41>You do their work, and they shall have good luck:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.42>Are not you he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.43> Thou speak'st aright;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.44>I am that merry wanderer of the night.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.45>I jest to Oberon and make him smile</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.46>When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.47>Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.48>And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.49>In very likeness of a roasted crab,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.50>And when she drinks, against her lips I bob</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.51>And on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.52>The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.53>Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.54>Then slip I from her bum, down topples she,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.55>And 'tailor' cries, and falls into a cough;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.56>And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.57>And waxen in their mirth and neeze and swear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.58>A merrier hour was never wasted there.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.59>But, room, fairy! here comes Oberon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Fairy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.60>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> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.61>Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>TITANIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.62>What, jealous Oberon! Fairies, skip hence:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.63>I have forsworn his bed and company.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.64>Tarry, rash wanton: am not I thy lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>TITANIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.65>Then I must be thy lady: but I know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.66>When thou hast stolen away from fairy land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.67>And in the shape of Corin sat all day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.68>Playing on pipes of corn and versing love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.69>To amorous Phillida. Why art thou here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.70>Come from the farthest Steppe of India?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.71>But that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.72>Your buskin'd mistress and your warrior love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.73>To Theseus must be wedded, and you come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.74>To give their bed joy and prosperity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.75>How canst thou thus for shame, Titania,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.76>Glance at my credit with Hippolyta,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.77>Knowing I know thy love to Theseus?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.78>Didst thou not lead him through the glimmering night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.79>From Perigenia, whom he ravished?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.80>And make him with fair AEgle break his faith,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.81>With Ariadne and Antiopa?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>TITANIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.82>These are the forgeries of jealousy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.83>And never, since the middle summer's spring,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.84>Met we on hill, in dale, forest or mead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.85>By paved fountain or by rushy brook,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.86>Or in the beached margent of the sea,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.87>To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.88>But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.89>Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.90>As in revenge, have suck'd up from the sea</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.91>Contagious fogs; which falling in the land</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.92>Have every pelting river made so proud</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.93>That they have overborne their continents:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.94>The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.95>The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.96>Hath rotted ere his youth attain'd a beard;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.97>The fold stands empty in the drowned field,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.98>And crows are fatted with the murrion flock;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.99>The nine men's morris is fill'd up with mud,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.100>And the quaint mazes in the wanton green</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.101>For lack of tread are undistinguishable:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.102>The human mortals want their winter here;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.103>No night is now with hymn or carol blest:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.104>Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.105>Pale in her anger, washes all the air,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.106>That rheumatic diseases do abound:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.107>And thorough this distemperature we see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.108>The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.109>Far in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.110>And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.111>An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.112>Is, as in mockery, set: the spring, the summer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.113>The childing autumn, angry winter, change</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.114>Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.115>By their increase, now knows not which is which:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.116>And this same progeny of evils comes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.117>From our debate, from our dissension;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.118>We are their parents and original.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.119>Do you amend it then; it lies in you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.120>Why should Titania cross her Oberon?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.121>I do but beg a little changeling boy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.122>To be my henchman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>TITANIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.123> Set your heart at rest:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.124>The fairy land buys not the child of me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.125>His mother was a votaress of my order:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.126>And, in the spiced Indian air, by night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.127>Full often hath she gossip'd by my side,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.128>And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.129>Marking the embarked traders on the flood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.130>When we have laugh'd to see the sails conceive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.131>And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.132>Which she, with pretty and with swimming gait</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.133>Following,--her womb then rich with my young squire,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.134>Would imitate, and sail upon the land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.135>To fetch me trifles, and return again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.136>As from a voyage, rich with merchandise.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.137>But she, being mortal, of that boy did die;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.138>And for her sake do I rear up her boy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.139>And for her sake I will not part with him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.140>How long within this wood intend you stay?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>TITANIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.141>Perchance till after Theseus' wedding-day.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.142>If you will patiently dance in our round</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.143>And see our moonlight revels, go with us;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.144>If not, shun me, and I will spare your haunts.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.145>Give me that boy, and I will go with thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>TITANIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.146>Not for thy fairy kingdom. Fairies, away!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.147>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=2.1.148>Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.149>Till I torment thee for this injury.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.150>My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememberest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.151>Since once I sat upon a promontory,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.152>And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.153>Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.154>That the rude sea grew civil at her song</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.155>And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.156>To hear the sea-maid's music.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.157>I remember.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.158>That very time I saw, but thou couldst not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.159>Flying between the cold moon and the earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.160>Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.161>At a fair vestal throned by the west,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.162>And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.163>As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.164>But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.165>Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.166>And the imperial votaress passed on,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.167>In maiden meditation, fancy-free.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.168>Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.169>It fell upon a little western flower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.170>Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.171>And maidens call it love-in-idleness.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.172>Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.173>The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.174>Will make or man or woman madly dote</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.175>Upon the next live creature that it sees.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.176>Fetch me this herb; and be thou here again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.177>Ere the leviathan can swim a league.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.178>I'll put a girdle round about the earth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.179>In forty minutes.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.180> Having once this juice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.181>I'll watch Titania when she is asleep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.182>And drop the liquor of it in her eyes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.183>The next thing then she waking looks upon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.184>Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.185>On meddling monkey, or on busy ape,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.186>She shall pursue it with the soul of love:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.187>And ere I take this charm from off her sight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.188>As I can take it with another herb,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.189>I'll make her render up her page to me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.190>But who comes here? I am invisible;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.191>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=2.1.192>I love thee not, therefore pursue me not.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.193>Where is Lysander and fair Hermia?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.194>The one I'll slay, the other slayeth me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.195>Thou told'st me they were stolen unto this wood;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.196>And here am I, and wode within this wood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.197>Because I cannot meet my Hermia.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.198>Hence, get thee gone, and follow me no more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.199>You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.200>But yet you draw not iron, for my heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.201>Is true as steel: leave you your power to draw,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.202>And I shall have no power to follow you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.203>Do I entice you? do I speak you fair?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.204>Or, rather, do I not in plainest truth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.205>Tell you, I do not, nor I cannot love you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.206>And even for that do I love you the more.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.207>I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.208>The more you beat me, I will fawn on you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.209>Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.210>Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.211>Unworthy as I am, to follow you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.212>What worser place can I beg in your love,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.213>And yet a place of high respect with me,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.214>Than to be used as you use your dog?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.215>Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.216>For I am sick when I do look on thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.217>And I am sick when I look not on you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.218>You do impeach your modesty too much,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.219>To leave the city and commit yourself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.220>Into the hands of one that loves you not;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.221>To trust the opportunity of night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.222>And the ill counsel of a desert place</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.223>With the rich worth of your virginity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.224>Your virtue is my privilege: for that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.225>It is not night when I do see your face,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.226>Therefore I think I am not in the night;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.227>Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.228>For you in my respect are all the world:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.229>Then how can it be said I am alone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.230>When all the world is here to look on me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.231>I'll run from thee and hide me in the brakes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.232>And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.233>The wildest hath not such a heart as you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.234>Run when you will, the story shall be changed:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.235>Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.236>The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.237>Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.238>When cowardice pursues and valour flies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.239>I will not stay thy questions; let me go:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.240>Or, if thou follow me, do not believe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.241>But I shall do thee mischief in the wood.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.242>Ay, in the temple, in the town, the field,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.243>You do me mischief. Fie, Demetrius!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.244>Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.245>We cannot fight for love, as men may do;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.246>We should be wood and were not made to woo.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit DEMETRIUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.247>I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.248>To die upon the hand I love so well.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.249>Fare thee well, nymph: ere he do leave this grove,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.250>Thou shalt fly him and he shall seek thy love.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter PUCK</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.251>Hast thou the flower there? Welcome, wanderer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.252>Ay, there it is.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.253>I pray thee, give it me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.254>I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.255>Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.256>Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.257>With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.258>There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.259>Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.260>And there the snake throws her enamell'd skin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.261>Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.262>And with the juice of this I'll streak her eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.263>And make her full of hateful fantasies.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.264>Take thou some of it, and seek through this grove:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.265>A sweet Athenian lady is in love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.266>With a disdainful youth: anoint his eyes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.267>But do it when the next thing he espies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.268>May be the lady: thou shalt know the man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.269>By the Athenian garments he hath on.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.270>Effect it with some care, that he may prove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.271>More fond on her than she upon her love:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.272>And look thou meet me ere the first cock crow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.273>Fear not, my lord, your servant shall do so.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Another part of the wood.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter TITANIA, with her train</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>TITANIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.1>Come, now a roundel and a fairy song;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.2>Then, for the third part of a minute, hence;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.3>Some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.4>Some war with rere-mice for their leathern wings,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.5>To make my small elves coats, and some keep back</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.6>The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.7>At our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.8>Then to your offices and let me rest.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>The Fairies sing</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.9>You spotted snakes with double tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.10>Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.11>Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.12>Come not near our fairy queen.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.13>Philomel, with melody</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.14>Sing in our sweet lullaby;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.15>Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.16>Never harm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.17>Nor spell nor charm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.18>Come our lovely lady nigh;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.19>So, good night, with lullaby.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.20>Weaving spiders, come not here;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.21>Hence, you long-legg'd spinners, hence!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.22>Beetles black, approach not near;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.23>Worm nor snail, do no offence.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.24>Philomel, with melody, & c.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Fairy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.25>Hence, away! now all is well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.26>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> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.27>What thou seest when thou dost wake,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.28>Do it for thy true-love take,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.29>Love and languish for his sake:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.30>Be it ounce, or cat, or bear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.31>Pard, or boar with bristled hair,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.32>In thy eye that shall appear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.33>When thou wakest, it is thy dear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.34>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=2.2.35>Fair love, you faint with wandering in the wood;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.36>And to speak troth, I have forgot our way:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.37>We'll rest us, Hermia, if you think it good,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.38>And tarry for the comfort of the day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.39>Be it so, Lysander: find you out a bed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.40>For I upon this bank will rest my head.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.41>One turf shall serve as pillow for us both;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.42>One heart, one bed, two bosoms and one troth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.43>Nay, good Lysander; for my sake, my dear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.44>Lie further off yet, do not lie so near.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.45>O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.46>Love takes the meaning in love's conference.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.47>I mean, that my heart unto yours is knit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.48>So that but one heart we can make of it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.49>Two bosoms interchained with an oath;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.50>So then two bosoms and a single troth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.51>Then by your side no bed-room me deny;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.52>For lying so, Hermia, I do not lie.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.53>Lysander riddles very prettily:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.54>Now much beshrew my manners and my pride,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.55>If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.56>But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.57>Lie further off; in human modesty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.58>Such separation as may well be said</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.59>Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.60>So far be distant; and, good night, sweet friend:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.61>Thy love ne'er alter till thy sweet life end!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.62>Amen, amen, to that fair prayer, say I;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.63>And then end life when I end loyalty!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.64>Here is my bed: sleep give thee all his rest!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.65>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> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.66>Through the forest have I gone.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.67>But Athenian found I none,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.68>On whose eyes I might approve</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.69>This flower's force in stirring love.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.70>Night and silence.--Who is here?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.71>Weeds of Athens he doth wear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.72>This is he, my master said,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.73>Despised the Athenian maid;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.74>And here the maiden, sleeping sound,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.75>On the dank and dirty ground.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.76>Pretty soul! she durst not lie</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.77>Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.78>Churl, upon thy eyes I throw</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.79>All the power this charm doth owe.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.80>When thou wakest, let love forbid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.81>Sleep his seat on thy eyelid:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.82>So awake when I am gone;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.83>For I must now to Oberon.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter DEMETRIUS and HELENA, running</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.84>Stay, though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.85>I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.86>O, wilt thou darkling leave me? do not so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.87>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=2.2.88>O, I am out of breath in this fond chase!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.89>The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.90>Happy is Hermia, wheresoe'er she lies;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.91>For she hath blessed and attractive eyes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.92>How came her eyes so bright? Not with salt tears:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.93>If so, my eyes are oftener wash'd than hers.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.94>No, no, I am as ugly as a bear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.95>For beasts that meet me run away for fear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.96>Therefore no marvel though Demetrius</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.97>Do, as a monster fly my presence thus.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.98>What wicked and dissembling glass of mine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.99>Made me compare with Hermia's sphery eyne?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.100>But who is here? Lysander! on the ground!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.101>Dead? or asleep? I see no blood, no wound.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.102>Lysander if you live, good sir, awake.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.103>[Awaking] And run through fire I will for thy sweet sake.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.104>Transparent Helena! Nature shows art,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.105>That through thy bosom makes me see thy heart.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.106>Where is Demetrius? O, how fit a word</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.107>Is that vile name to perish on my sword!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.108>Do not say so, Lysander; say not so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.109>What though he love your Hermia? Lord, what though?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.110>Yet Hermia still loves you: then be content.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.111>Content with Hermia! No; I do repent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.112>The tedious minutes I with her have spent.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.113>Not Hermia but Helena I love:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.114>Who will not change a raven for a dove?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.115>The will of man is by his reason sway'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.116>And reason says you are the worthier maid.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.117>Things growing are not ripe until their season</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.118>So I, being young, till now ripe not to reason;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.119>And touching now the point of human skill,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.120>Reason becomes the marshal to my will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.121>And leads me to your eyes, where I o'erlook</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.122>Love's stories written in love's richest book.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.123>Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.124>When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.125>Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.126>That I did never, no, nor never can,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.127>Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.128>But you must flout my insufficiency?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.129>Good troth, you do me wrong, good sooth, you do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.130>In such disdainful manner me to woo.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.131>But fare you well: perforce I must confess</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.132>I thought you lord of more true gentleness.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.133>O, that a lady, of one man refused.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.134>Should of another therefore be abused!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.135>She sees not Hermia. Hermia, sleep thou there:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.136>And never mayst thou come Lysander near!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.137>For as a surfeit of the sweetest things</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.138>The deepest loathing to the stomach brings,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.139>Or as tie heresies that men do leave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.140>Are hated most of those they did deceive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.141>So thou, my surfeit and my heresy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.142>Of all be hated, but the most of me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.143>And, all my powers, address your love and might</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.144>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=2.2.145>[Awaking] Help me, Lysander, help me! do thy best</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.146>To pluck this crawling serpent from my breast!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.147>Ay me, for pity! what a dream was here!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.148>Lysander, look how I do quake with fear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.149>Methought a serpent eat my heart away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.150>And you sat smiling at his cruel pray.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.151>Lysander! what, removed? Lysander! lord!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.152>What, out of hearing? gone? no sound, no word?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.153>Alack, where are you speak, an if you hear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.154>Speak, of all loves! I swoon almost with fear.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.155>No? then I well perceive you all not nigh</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.156>Either death or you I'll find immediately.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT III</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. The wood. TITANIA lying asleep.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter QUINCE, SNUG, BOTTOM, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.1>Are we all met?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.2>Pat, pat; and here's a marvellous convenient place</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.3>for our rehearsal. This green plot shall be our</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.4>stage, this hawthorn-brake our tiring-house; and we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.5>will do it in action as we will do it before the duke.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.6>Peter Quince,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.7>What sayest thou, bully Bottom?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.8>There are things in this comedy of Pyramus and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.9>Thisby that will never please. First, Pyramus must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.10>draw a sword to kill himself; which the ladies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.11>cannot abide. How answer you that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>SNOUT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.12>By'r lakin, a parlous fear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>STARVELING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.13>I believe we must leave the killing out, when all is done.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.14>Not a whit: I have a device to make all well.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.15>Write me a prologue; and let the prologue seem to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.16>say, we will do no harm with our swords, and that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.17>Pyramus is not killed indeed; and, for the more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.18>better assurance, tell them that I, Pyramus, am not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.19>Pyramus, but Bottom the weaver: this will put them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.20>out of fear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.21>Well, we will have such a prologue; and it shall be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.22>written in eight and six.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.23>No, make it two more; let it be written in eight and eight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>SNOUT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.24>Will not the ladies be afeard of the lion?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>STARVELING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.25>I fear it, I promise you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.26>Masters, you ought to consider with yourselves: to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.27>bring in--God shield us!--a lion among ladies, is a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.28>most dreadful thing; for there is not a more fearful</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.29>wild-fowl than your lion living; and we ought to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.30>look to 't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>SNOUT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.31>Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.32>Nay, you must name his name, and half his face must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.33>be seen through the lion's neck: and he himself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.34>must speak through, saying thus, or to the same</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.35>defect,--'Ladies,'--or 'Fair-ladies--I would wish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.36>You,'--or 'I would request you,'--or 'I would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.37>entreat you,--not to fear, not to tremble: my life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.38>for yours. If you think I come hither as a lion, it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.39>were pity of my life: no I am no such thing; I am a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.40>man as other men are;' and there indeed let him name</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.41>his name, and tell them plainly he is Snug the joiner.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.42>Well it shall be so. But there is two hard things;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.43>that is, to bring the moonlight into a chamber; for,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.44>you know, Pyramus and Thisby meet by moonlight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>SNOUT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.45>Doth the moon shine that night we play our play?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.46>A calendar, a calendar! look in the almanac; find</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.47>out moonshine, find out moonshine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.48>Yes, it doth shine that night.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.49>Why, then may you leave a casement of the great</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.50>chamber window, where we play, open, and the moon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.51>may shine in at the casement.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.52>Ay; or else one must come in with a bush of thorns</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.53>and a lanthorn, and say he comes to disfigure, or to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.54>present, the person of Moonshine. Then, there is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.55>another thing: we must have a wall in the great</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.56>chamber; for Pyramus and Thisby says the story, did</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.57>talk through the chink of a wall.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>SNOUT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.58>You can never bring in a wall. What say you, Bottom?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.59>Some man or other must present Wall: and let him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.60>have some plaster, or some loam, or some rough-cast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.61>about him, to signify wall; and let him hold his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.62>fingers thus, and through that cranny shall Pyramus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.63>and Thisby whisper.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.64>If that may be, then all is well. Come, sit down,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.65>every mother's son, and rehearse your parts.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.66>Pyramus, you begin: when you have spoken your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.67>speech, enter into that brake: and so every one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.68>according to his cue.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PUCK behind</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.69>What hempen home-spuns have we swaggering here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.70>So near the cradle of the fairy queen?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.71>What, a play toward! I'll be an auditor;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.72>An actor too, perhaps, if I see cause.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.73>Speak, Pyramus. Thisby, stand forth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.74>Thisby, the flowers of odious savours sweet,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.75>Odours, odours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.76>--odours savours sweet:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.77>So hath thy breath, my dearest Thisby dear.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.78>But hark, a voice! stay thou but here awhile,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.79>And by and by I will to thee appear.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.80>A stranger Pyramus than e'er played here.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>FLUTE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.81>Must I speak now?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.82>Ay, marry, must you; for you must understand he goes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.83>but to see a noise that he heard, and is to come again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>FLUTE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.84>Most radiant Pyramus, most lily-white of hue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.85>Of colour like the red rose on triumphant brier,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.86>Most brisky juvenal and eke most lovely Jew,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.87>As true as truest horse that yet would never tire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.88>I'll meet thee, Pyramus, at Ninny's tomb.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.89>'Ninus' tomb,' man: why, you must not speak that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.90>yet; that you answer to Pyramus: you speak all your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.91>part at once, cues and all Pyramus enter: your cue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.92>is past; it is, 'never tire.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>FLUTE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.93>O,--As true as truest horse, that yet would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.94>never tire.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter PUCK, and BOTTOM with an ass's head</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.95>If I were fair, Thisby, I were only thine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.96>O monstrous! O strange! we are haunted. Pray,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.97>masters! fly, masters! Help!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt QUINCE, SNUG, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.98>I'll follow you, I'll lead you about a round,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.99>Through bog, through bush, through brake, through brier:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.100>Sometime a horse I'll be, sometime a hound,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.101>A hog, a headless bear, sometime a fire;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.102>And neigh, and bark, and grunt, and roar, and burn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.103>Like horse, hound, hog, bear, fire, at every turn.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.104>Why do they run away? this is a knavery of them to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.105>make me afeard.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter SNOUT</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>SNOUT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.106>O Bottom, thou art changed! what do I see on thee?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.107>What do you see? you see an asshead of your own, do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.108>you?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit SNOUT</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter QUINCE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.109>Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.110>translated.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.111>I see their knavery: this is to make an ass of me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.112>to fright me, if they could. But I will not stir</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.113>from this place, do what they can: I will walk up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.114>and down here, and I will sing, that they shall hear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.115>I am not afraid.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Sings</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.116>The ousel cock so black of hue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.117>With orange-tawny bill,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.118>The throstle with his note so true,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.119>The wren with little quill,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>TITANIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.120>[Awaking] What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.121>[Sings]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.122>The finch, the sparrow and the lark,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.123>The plain-song cuckoo gray,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.124>Whose note full many a man doth mark,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.125>And dares not answer nay;--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.126>for, indeed, who would set his wit to so foolish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.127>a bird? who would give a bird the lie, though he cry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.128>'cuckoo' never so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>TITANIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.129>I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.130>Mine ear is much enamour'd of thy note;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.131>So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.132>And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.133>On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.134>Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.135>for that: and yet, to say the truth, reason and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.136>love keep little company together now-a-days; the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.137>more the pity that some honest neighbours will not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.138>make them friends. Nay, I can gleek upon occasion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>TITANIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.139>Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.140>Not so, neither: but if I had wit enough to get out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.141>of this wood, I have enough to serve mine own turn.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>TITANIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.142>Out of this wood do not desire to go:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.143>Thou shalt remain here, whether thou wilt or no.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.144>I am a spirit of no common rate;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.145>The summer still doth tend upon my state;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.146>And I do love thee: therefore, go with me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.147>I'll give thee fairies to attend on thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.148>And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.149>And sing while thou on pressed flowers dost sleep;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.150>And I will purge thy mortal grossness so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.151>That thou shalt like an airy spirit go.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.152>Peaseblossom! Cobweb! Moth! and Mustardseed!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PEASEBLOSSOM, COBWEB, MOTH, and MUSTARDSEED</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>PEASEBLOSSOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.153>Ready.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>COBWEB</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.154> And I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.155> And I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>MUSTARDSEED</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.156> And I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>ALL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.157>Where shall we go?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>TITANIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.158>Be kind and courteous to this gentleman;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.159>Hop in his walks and gambol in his eyes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.160>Feed him with apricocks and dewberries,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.161>With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.162>The honey-bags steal from the humble-bees,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.163>And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.164>And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.165>To have my love to bed and to arise;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.166>And pluck the wings from Painted butterflies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.167>To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.168>Nod to him, elves, and do him courtesies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>PEASEBLOSSOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.169>Hail, mortal!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>COBWEB</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.170>Hail!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.171>Hail!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>MUSTARDSEED</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.172>Hail!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.173>I cry your worship's mercy, heartily: I beseech your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.174>worship's name.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>COBWEB</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.175>Cobweb.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.176>I shall desire you of more acquaintance, good Master</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.177>Cobweb: if I cut my finger, I shall make bold with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.178>you. Your name, honest gentleman?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>PEASEBLOSSOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.179>Peaseblossom.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.180>I pray you, commend me to Mistress Squash, your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.181>mother, and to Master Peascod, your father. Good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.182>Master Peaseblossom, I shall desire you of more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.183>acquaintance too. Your name, I beseech you, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>MUSTARDSEED</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.184>Mustardseed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.185>Good Master Mustardseed, I know your patience well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.186>that same cowardly, giant-like ox-beef hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.187>devoured many a gentleman of your house: I promise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.188>you your kindred had made my eyes water ere now. I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.189>desire your more acquaintance, good Master</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.190>Mustardseed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>TITANIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.191>Come, wait upon him; lead him to my bower.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.192>The moon methinks looks with a watery eye;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.193>And when she weeps, weeps every little flower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.194>Lamenting some enforced chastity.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.195>Tie up my love's tongue bring him silently.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Another part of the wood.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter OBERON</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.1>I wonder if Titania be awaked;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.2>Then, what it was that next came in her eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.3>Which she must dote on in extremity.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PUCK</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.4>Here comes my messenger.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.5>How now, mad spirit!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.6>What night-rule now about this haunted grove?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.7>My mistress with a monster is in love.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.8>Near to her close and consecrated bower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.9>While she was in her dull and sleeping hour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.10>A crew of patches, rude mechanicals,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.11>That work for bread upon Athenian stalls,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.12>Were met together to rehearse a play</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.13>Intended for great Theseus' nuptial-day.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.14>The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.15>Who Pyramus presented, in their sport</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.16>Forsook his scene and enter'd in a brake</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.17>When I did him at this advantage take,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.18>An ass's nole I fixed on his head:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.19>Anon his Thisbe must be answered,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.20>And forth my mimic comes. When they him spy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.21>As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.22>Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.23>Rising and cawing at the gun's report,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.24>Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.25>So, at his sight, away his fellows fly;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.26>And, at our stamp, here o'er and o'er one falls;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.27>He murder cries and help from Athens calls.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.28>Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.29>thus strong,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.30>Made senseless things begin to do them wrong;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.31>For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.32>Some sleeves, some hats, from yielders all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.33>things catch.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.34>I led them on in this distracted fear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.35>And left sweet Pyramus translated there:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.36>When in that moment, so it came to pass,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.37>Titania waked and straightway loved an ass.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.38>This falls out better than I could devise.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.39>But hast thou yet latch'd the Athenian's eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.40>With the love-juice, as I did bid thee do?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.41>I took him sleeping,--that is finish'd too,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.42>And the Athenian woman by his side:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.43>That, when he waked, of force she must be eyed.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter HERMIA and DEMETRIUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.44>Stand close: this is the same Athenian.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.45>This is the woman, but not this the man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.46>O, why rebuke you him that loves you so?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.47>Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.48>Now I but chide; but I should use thee worse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.49>For thou, I fear, hast given me cause to curse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.50>If thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.51>Being o'er shoes in blood, plunge in the deep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.52>And kill me too.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.53>The sun was not so true unto the day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.54>As he to me: would he have stolen away</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.55>From sleeping Hermia? I'll believe as soon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.56>This whole earth may be bored and that the moon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.57>May through the centre creep and so displease</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.58>Her brother's noontide with Antipodes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.59>It cannot be but thou hast murder'd him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.60>So should a murderer look, so dead, so grim.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.61>So should the murder'd look, and so should I,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.62>Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.63>Yet you, the murderer, look as bright, as clear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.64>As yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.65>What's this to my Lysander? where is he?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.66>Ah, good Demetrius, wilt thou give him me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.67>I had rather give his carcass to my hounds.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.68>Out, dog! out, cur! thou drivest me past the bounds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.69>Of maiden's patience. Hast thou slain him, then?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.70>Henceforth be never number'd among men!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.71>O, once tell true, tell true, even for my sake!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.72>Durst thou have look'd upon him being awake,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.73>And hast thou kill'd him sleeping? O brave touch!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.74>Could not a worm, an adder, do so much?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.75>An adder did it; for with doubler tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.76>Than thine, thou serpent, never adder stung.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.77>You spend your passion on a misprised mood:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.78>I am not guilty of Lysander's blood;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.79>Nor is he dead, for aught that I can tell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.80>I pray thee, tell me then that he is well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.81>An if I could, what should I get therefore?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.82>A privilege never to see me more.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.83>And from thy hated presence part I so:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.84>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=3.2.85>There is no following her in this fierce vein:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.86>Here therefore for a while I will remain.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.87>So sorrow's heaviness doth heavier grow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.88>For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.89>Which now in some slight measure it will pay,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.90>If for his tender here I make some stay.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Lies down and sleeps</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.91>What hast thou done? thou hast mistaken quite</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.92>And laid the love-juice on some true-love's sight:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.93>Of thy misprision must perforce ensue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.94>Some true love turn'd and not a false turn'd true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.95>Then fate o'er-rules, that, one man holding troth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.96>A million fail, confounding oath on oath.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.97>About the wood go swifter than the wind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.98>And Helena of Athens look thou find:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.99>All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.100>With sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.101>By some illusion see thou bring her here:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.102>I'll charm his eyes against she do appear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.103>I go, I go; look how I go,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.104>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=3.2.105> Flower of this purple dye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.106>Hit with Cupid's archery,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.107>Sink in apple of his eye.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.108>When his love he doth espy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.109>Let her shine as gloriously</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.110>As the Venus of the sky.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.111>When thou wakest, if she be by,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.112>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=3.2.113> Captain of our fairy band,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.114>Helena is here at hand;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.115>And the youth, mistook by me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.116>Pleading for a lover's fee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.117>Shall we their fond pageant see?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.118>Lord, what fools these mortals be!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.119>Stand aside: the noise they make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.120>Will cause Demetrius to awake.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.121>Then will two at once woo one;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.122>That must needs be sport alone;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.123>And those things do best please me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.124>That befal preposterously.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter LYSANDER and HELENA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.125>Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.126>Scorn and derision never come in tears:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.127>Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.128>In their nativity all truth appears.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.129>How can these things in me seem scorn to you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.130>Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.131>You do advance your cunning more and more.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.132>When truth kills truth, O devilish-holy fray!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.133>These vows are Hermia's: will you give her o'er?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.134>Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.135>Your vows to her and me, put in two scales,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.136>Will even weigh, and both as light as tales.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.137>I had no judgment when to her I swore.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.138>Nor none, in my mind, now you give her o'er.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.139>Demetrius loves her, and he loves not you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.140>[Awaking] O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.141>To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.142>Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.143>Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.144>That pure congealed white, high Taurus snow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.145>Fann'd with the eastern wind, turns to a crow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.146>When thou hold'st up thy hand: O, let me kiss</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.147>This princess of pure white, this seal of bliss!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.148>O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.149>To set against me for your merriment:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.150>If you we re civil and knew courtesy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.151>You would not do me thus much injury.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.152>Can you not hate me, as I know you do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.153>But you must join in souls to mock me too?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.154>If you were men, as men you are in show,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.155>You would not use a gentle lady so;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.156>To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.157>When I am sure you hate me with your hearts.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.158>You both are rivals, and love Hermia;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.159>And now both rivals, to mock Helena:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.160>A trim exploit, a manly enterprise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.161>To conjure tears up in a poor maid's eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.162>With your derision! none of noble sort</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.163>Would so offend a virgin, and extort</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.164>A poor soul's patience, all to make you sport.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.165>You are unkind, Demetrius; be not so;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.166>For you love Hermia; this you know I know:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.167>And here, with all good will, with all my heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.168>In Hermia's love I yield you up my part;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.169>And yours of Helena to me bequeath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.170>Whom I do love and will do till my death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.171>Never did mockers waste more idle breath.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.172>Lysander, keep thy Hermia; I will none:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.173>If e'er I loved her, all that love is gone.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.174>My heart to her but as guest-wise sojourn'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.175>And now to Helen is it home return'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.176>There to remain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.177> Helen, it is not so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.178>Disparage not the faith thou dost not know,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.179>Lest, to thy peril, thou aby it dear.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.180>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=3.2.181>Dark night, that from the eye his function takes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.182>The ear more quick of apprehension makes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.183>Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.184>It pays the hearing double recompense.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.185>Thou art not by mine eye, Lysander, found;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.186>Mine ear, I thank it, brought me to thy sound</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.187>But why unkindly didst thou leave me so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.188>Why should he stay, whom love doth press to go?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.189>What love could press Lysander from my side?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.190>Lysander's love, that would not let him bide,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.191>Fair Helena, who more engilds the night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.192>Than all you fiery oes and eyes of light.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.193>Why seek'st thou me? could not this make thee know,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.194>The hate I bear thee made me leave thee so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.195>You speak not as you think: it cannot be.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.196>Lo, she is one of this confederacy!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.197>Now I perceive they have conjoin'd all three</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.198>To fashion this false sport, in spite of me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.199>Injurious Hermia! most ungrateful maid!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.200>Have you conspired, have you with these contrived</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.201>To bait me with this foul derision?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.202>Is all the counsel that we two have shared,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.203>The sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.204>When we have chid the hasty-footed time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.205>For parting us,--O, is it all forgot?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.206>All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.207>We, Hermia, like two artificial gods,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.208>Have with our needles created both one flower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.209>Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.210>Both warbling of one song, both in one key,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.211>As if our hands, our sides, voices and minds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.212>Had been incorporate. So we grow together,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.213>Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.214>But yet an union in partition;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.215>Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.216>So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.217>Two of the first, like coats in heraldry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.218>Due but to one and crowned with one crest.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.219>And will you rent our ancient love asunder,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.220>To join with men in scorning your poor friend?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.221>It is not friendly, 'tis not maidenly:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.222>Our sex, as well as I, may chide you for it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.223>Though I alone do feel the injury.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.224>I am amazed at your passionate words.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.225>I scorn you not: it seems that you scorn me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.226>Have you not set Lysander, as in scorn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.227>To follow me and praise my eyes and face?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.228>And made your other love, Demetrius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.229>Who even but now did spurn me with his foot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.230>To call me goddess, nymph, divine and rare,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.231>Precious, celestial? Wherefore speaks he this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.232>To her he hates? and wherefore doth Lysander</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.233>Deny your love, so rich within his soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.234>And tender me, forsooth, affection,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.235>But by your setting on, by your consent?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.236>What thought I be not so in grace as you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.237>So hung upon with love, so fortunate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.238>But miserable most, to love unloved?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.239>This you should pity rather than despise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>HERNIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.240>I understand not what you mean by this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.241>Ay, do, persever, counterfeit sad looks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.242>Make mouths upon me when I turn my back;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.243>Wink each at other; hold the sweet jest up:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.244>This sport, well carried, shall be chronicled.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.245>If you have any pity, grace, or manners,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.246>You would not make me such an argument.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.247>But fare ye well: 'tis partly my own fault;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.248>Which death or absence soon shall remedy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.249>Stay, gentle Helena; hear my excuse:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.250>My love, my life my soul, fair Helena!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.251>O excellent!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.252> Sweet, do not scorn her so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.253>If she cannot entreat, I can compel.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.254>Thou canst compel no more than she entreat:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.255>Thy threats have no more strength than her weak prayers.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.256>Helen, I love thee; by my life, I do:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.257>I swear by that which I will lose for thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.258>To prove him false that says I love thee not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.259>I say I love thee more than he can do.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.260>If thou say so, withdraw, and prove it too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.261>Quick, come!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.262>Lysander, whereto tends all this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.263>Away, you Ethiope!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.264> No, no; he'll [ ]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.265>Seem to break loose; take on as you would follow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.266>But yet come not: you are a tame man, go!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.267>Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! vile thing, let loose,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.268>Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.269>Why are you grown so rude? what change is this?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.270>Sweet love,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.271>Thy love! out, tawny Tartar, out!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.272>Out, loathed medicine! hated potion, hence!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.273>Do you not jest?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.274>Yes, sooth; and so do you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.275>Demetrius, I will keep my word with thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.276>I would I had your bond, for I perceive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.277>A weak bond holds you: I'll not trust your word.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.278>What, should I hurt her, strike her, kill her dead?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.279>Although I hate her, I'll not harm her so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.280>What, can you do me greater harm than hate?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.281>Hate me! wherefore? O me! what news, my love!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.282>Am not I Hermia? are not you Lysander?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.283>I am as fair now as I was erewhile.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.284>Since night you loved me; yet since night you left</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.285>me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.286>Why, then you left me--O, the gods forbid!--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.287>In earnest, shall I say?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.288>Ay, by my life;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.289>And never did desire to see thee more.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.290>Therefore be out of hope, of question, of doubt;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.291>Be certain, nothing truer; 'tis no jest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.292>That I do hate thee and love Helena.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.293>O me! you juggler! you canker-blossom!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.294>You thief of love! what, have you come by night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.295>And stolen my love's heart from him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.296>Fine, i'faith!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.297>Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.298>No touch of bashfulness? What, will you tear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.299>Impatient answers from my gentle tongue?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.300>Fie, fie! you counterfeit, you puppet, you!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.301>Puppet? why so? ay, that way goes the game.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.302>Now I perceive that she hath made compare</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.303>Between our statures; she hath urged her height;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.304>And with her personage, her tall personage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.305>Her height, forsooth, she hath prevail'd with him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.306>And are you grown so high in his esteem;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.307>Because I am so dwarfish and so low?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.308>How low am I, thou painted maypole? speak;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.309>How low am I? I am not yet so low</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.310>But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.311>I pray you, though you mock me, gentlemen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.312>Let her not hurt me: I was never curst;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.313>I have no gift at all in shrewishness;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.314>I am a right maid for my cowardice:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.315>Let her not strike me. You perhaps may think,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.316>Because she is something lower than myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.317>That I can match her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.318>Lower! hark, again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.319>Good Hermia, do not be so bitter with me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.320>I evermore did love you, Hermia,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.321>Did ever keep your counsels, never wrong'd you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.322>Save that, in love unto Demetrius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.323>I told him of your stealth unto this wood.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.324>He follow'd you; for love I follow'd him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.325>But he hath chid me hence and threaten'd me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.326>To strike me, spurn me, nay, to kill me too:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.327>And now, so you will let me quiet go,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.328>To Athens will I bear my folly back</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.329>And follow you no further: let me go:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.330>You see how simple and how fond I am.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.331>Why, get you gone: who is't that hinders you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.332>A foolish heart, that I leave here behind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.333>What, with Lysander?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.334>With Demetrius.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.335>Be not afraid; she shall not harm thee, Helena.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.336>No, sir, she shall not, though you take her part.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.337>O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.338>She was a vixen when she went to school;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.339>And though she be but little, she is fierce.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.340>'Little' again! nothing but 'low' and 'little'!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.341>Why will you suffer her to flout me thus?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.342>Let me come to her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.343>Get you gone, you dwarf;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.344>You minimus, of hindering knot-grass made;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.345>You bead, you acorn.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.346>You are too officious</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.347>In her behalf that scorns your services.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.348>Let her alone: speak not of Helena;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.349>Take not her part; for, if thou dost intend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.350>Never so little show of love to her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.351>Thou shalt aby it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.352> Now she holds me not;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.353>Now follow, if thou darest, to try whose right,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.354>Of thine or mine, is most in Helena.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.355>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=3.2.356>You, mistress, all this coil is 'long of you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.357>Nay, go not back.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.358> I will not trust you, I,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.359>Nor longer stay in your curst company.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.360>Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.361>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=3.2.362>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=3.2.363>This is thy negligence: still thou mistakest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.364>Or else committ'st thy knaveries wilfully.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.365>Believe me, king of shadows, I mistook.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.366>Did not you tell me I should know the man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.367>By the Athenian garment be had on?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.368>And so far blameless proves my enterprise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.369>That I have 'nointed an Athenian's eyes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.370>And so far am I glad it so did sort</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.371>As this their jangling I esteem a sport.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.372>Thou see'st these lovers seek a place to fight:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.373>Hie therefore, Robin, overcast the night;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.374>The starry welkin cover thou anon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.375>With drooping fog as black as Acheron,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.376>And lead these testy rivals so astray</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.377>As one come not within another's way.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.378>Like to Lysander sometime frame thy tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.379>Then stir Demetrius up with bitter wrong;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.380>And sometime rail thou like Demetrius;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.381>And from each other look thou lead them thus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.382>Till o'er their brows death-counterfeiting sleep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.383>With leaden legs and batty wings doth creep:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.384>Then crush this herb into Lysander's eye;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.385>Whose liquor hath this virtuous property,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.386>To take from thence all error with his might,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.387>And make his eyeballs roll with wonted sight.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.388>When they next wake, all this derision</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.389>Shall seem a dream and fruitless vision,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.390>And back to Athens shall the lovers wend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.391>With league whose date till death shall never end.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.392>Whiles I in this affair do thee employ,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.393>I'll to my queen and beg her Indian boy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.394>And then I will her charmed eye release</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.395>From monster's view, and all things shall be peace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.396>My fairy lord, this must be done with haste,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.397>For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.398>And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.399>At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.400>Troop home to churchyards: damned spirits all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.401>That in crossways and floods have burial,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.402>Already to their wormy beds are gone;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.403>For fear lest day should look their shames upon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.404>They willfully themselves exile from light</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.405>And must for aye consort with black-brow'd night.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.406>But we are spirits of another sort:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.407>I with the morning's love have oft made sport,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.408>And, like a forester, the groves may tread,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.409>Even till the eastern gate, all fiery-red,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.410>Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.411>Turns into yellow gold his salt green streams.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.412>But, notwithstanding, haste; make no delay:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.413>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=3.2.414> Up and down, up and down,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.415>I will lead them up and down:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.416>I am fear'd in field and town:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.417>Goblin, lead them up and down.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.418>Here comes one.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter LYSANDER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.419>Where art thou, proud Demetrius? speak thou now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.420>Here, villain; drawn and ready. Where art thou?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.421>I will be with thee straight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.422>Follow me, then,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.423>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=3.2.424> Lysander! speak again:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.425>Thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.426>Speak! In some bush? Where dost thou hide thy head?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.427>Thou coward, art thou bragging to the stars,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.428>Telling the bushes that thou look'st for wars,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.429>And wilt not come? Come, recreant; come, thou child;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.430>I'll whip thee with a rod: he is defiled</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.431>That draws a sword on thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.432>Yea, art thou there?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.433>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=3.2.434>He goes before me and still dares me on:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.435>When I come where he calls, then he is gone.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.436>The villain is much lighter-heel'd than I:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.437>I follow'd fast, but faster he did fly;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.438>That fallen am I in dark uneven way,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.439>And here will rest me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Lies down</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.440>Come, thou gentle day!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.441>For if but once thou show me thy grey light,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.442>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=3.2.443>Ho, ho, ho! Coward, why comest thou not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.444>Abide me, if thou darest; for well I wot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.445>Thou runn'st before me, shifting every place,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.446>And darest not stand, nor look me in the face.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.447>Where art thou now?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.448>Come hither: I am here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.449>Nay, then, thou mock'st me. Thou shalt buy this dear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.450>If ever I thy face by daylight see:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.451>Now, go thy way. Faintness constraineth me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.452>To measure out my length on this cold bed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.453>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=3.2.454>O weary night, O long and tedious night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.455>Abate thy hour! Shine comforts from the east,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.456>That I may back to Athens by daylight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.457>From these that my poor company detest:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.458>And sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.459>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=3.2.460>Yet but three? Come one more;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.461>Two of both kinds make up four.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.462>Here she comes, curst and sad:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.463>Cupid is a knavish lad,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.464>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=3.2.465>Never so weary, never so in woe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.466>Bedabbled with the dew and torn with briers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.467>I can no further crawl, no further go;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.468>My legs can keep no pace with my desires.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.469>Here will I rest me till the break of day.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.470>Heavens shield Lysander, if they mean a fray!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Lies down and sleeps</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech112><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.471> On the ground</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.472>Sleep sound:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.473>I'll apply</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.474>To your eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.475>Gentle lover, remedy.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Squeezing the juice on LYSANDER's eyes</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.476>When thou wakest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.477>Thou takest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.478>True delight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.479>In the sight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.480>Of thy former lady's eye:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.481>And the country proverb known,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.482>That every man should take his own,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.483>In your waking shall be shown:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.484>Jack shall have Jill;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.485>Nought shall go ill;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.486>The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT IV</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. The same. LYSANDER, DEMETRIUS, HELENA, and HERMIA</h3> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.1>lying asleep.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter TITANIA and BOTTOM; PEASEBLOSSOM, COBWEB, MOTH, MUSTARDSEED, and other Fairies attending; OBERON behind unseen</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>TITANIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.2>Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.3>While I thy amiable cheeks do coy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.4>And stick musk-roses in thy sleek smooth head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.5>And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.6>Where's Peaseblossom?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>PEASEBLOSSOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.7>Ready.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.8>Scratch my head Peaseblossom. Where's Mounsieur Cobweb?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>COBWEB</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.9>Ready.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.10>Mounsieur Cobweb, good mounsieur, get you your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.11>weapons in your hand, and kill me a red-hipped</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.12>humble-bee on the top of a thistle; and, good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.13>mounsieur, bring me the honey-bag. Do not fret</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.14>yourself too much in the action, mounsieur; and,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.15>good mounsieur, have a care the honey-bag break not;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.16>I would be loath to have you overflown with a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.17>honey-bag, signior. Where's Mounsieur Mustardseed?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>MUSTARDSEED</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.18>Ready.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.19>Give me your neaf, Mounsieur Mustardseed. Pray you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.20>leave your courtesy, good mounsieur.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MUSTARDSEED</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.21>What's your Will?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.22>Nothing, good mounsieur, but to help Cavalery Cobweb</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.23>to scratch. I must to the barber's, monsieur; for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.24>methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face; and I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.25>am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.26>I must scratch.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>TITANIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.27>What, wilt thou hear some music,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.28>my sweet love?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.29>I have a reasonable good ear in music. Let's have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.30>the tongs and the bones.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>TITANIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.31>Or say, sweet love, what thou desirest to eat.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.32>Truly, a peck of provender: I could munch your good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.33>dry oats. Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.34>of hay: good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>TITANIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.35>I have a venturous fairy that shall seek</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.36>The squirrel's hoard, and fetch thee new nuts.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.37>I had rather have a handful or two of dried peas.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.38>But, I pray you, let none of your people stir me: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.39>have an exposition of sleep come upon me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>TITANIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.40>Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.41>Fairies, begone, and be all ways away.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt fairies</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.42>So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.43>Gently entwist; the female ivy so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.44>Enrings the barky fingers of the elm.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.45>O, how I love thee! how I dote on thee!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They sleep</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter PUCK</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.46>[Advancing] Welcome, good Robin.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.47>See'st thou this sweet sight?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.48>Her dotage now I do begin to pity:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.49>For, meeting her of late behind the wood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.50>Seeking sweet favours from this hateful fool,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.51>I did upbraid her and fall out with her;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.52>For she his hairy temples then had rounded</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.53>With a coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.54>And that same dew, which sometime on the buds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.55>Was wont to swell like round and orient pearls,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.56>Stood now within the pretty flowerets' eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.57>Like tears that did their own disgrace bewail.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.58>When I had at my pleasure taunted her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.59>And she in mild terms begg'd my patience,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.60>I then did ask of her her changeling child;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.61>Which straight she gave me, and her fairy sent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.62>To bear him to my bower in fairy land.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.63>And now I have the boy, I will undo</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.64>This hateful imperfection of her eyes:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.65>And, gentle Puck, take this transformed scalp</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.66>From off the head of this Athenian swain;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.67>That, he awaking when the other do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.68>May all to Athens back again repair</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.69>And think no more of this night's accidents</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.70>But as the fierce vexation of a dream.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.71>But first I will release the fairy queen.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.72>Be as thou wast wont to be;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.73>See as thou wast wont to see:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.74>Dian's bud o'er Cupid's flower</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.75>Hath such force and blessed power.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.76>Now, my Titania; wake you, my sweet queen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>TITANIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.77>My Oberon! what visions have I seen!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.78>Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.79>There lies your love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>TITANIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.80>How came these things to pass?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.81>O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.82>Silence awhile. Robin, take off this head.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.83>Titania, music call; and strike more dead</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.84>Than common sleep of all these five the sense.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>TITANIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.85>Music, ho! music, such as charmeth sleep!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Music, still</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.86>Now, when thou wakest, with thine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.87>own fool's eyes peep.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.88>Sound, music! Come, my queen, take hands with me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.89>And rock the ground whereon these sleepers be.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.90>Now thou and I are new in amity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.91>And will to-morrow midnight solemnly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.92>Dance in Duke Theseus' house triumphantly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.93>And bless it to all fair prosperity:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.94>There shall the pairs of faithful lovers be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.95>Wedded, with Theseus, all in jollity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.96>Fairy king, attend, and mark:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.97>I do hear the morning lark.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.98>Then, my queen, in silence sad,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.99>Trip we after the night's shade:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.100>We the globe can compass soon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.101>Swifter than the wandering moon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>TITANIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.102>Come, my lord, and in our flight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.103>Tell me how it came this night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.104>That I sleeping here was found</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.105>With these mortals on the ground.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Horns winded within</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, EGEUS, and train</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.106>Go, one of you, find out the forester;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.107>For now our observation is perform'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.108>And since we have the vaward of the day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.109>My love shall hear the music of my hounds.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.110>Uncouple in the western valley; let them go:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.111>Dispatch, I say, and find the forester.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit an Attendant</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.112>We will, fair queen, up to the mountain's top,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.113>And mark the musical confusion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.114>Of hounds and echo in conjunction.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>HIPPOLYTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.115>I was with Hercules and Cadmus once,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.116>When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.117>With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.118>Such gallant chiding: for, besides the groves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.119>The skies, the fountains, every region near</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.120>Seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.121>So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.122>My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.123>So flew'd, so sanded, and their heads are hung</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.124>With ears that sweep away the morning dew;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.125>Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.126>Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.127>Each under each. A cry more tuneable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.128>Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.129>In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.130>Judge when you hear. But, soft! what nymphs are these?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>EGEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.131>My lord, this is my daughter here asleep;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.132>And this, Lysander; this Demetrius is;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.133>This Helena, old Nedar's Helena:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.134>I wonder of their being here together.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.135>No doubt they rose up early to observe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.136>The rite of May, and hearing our intent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.137>Came here in grace our solemnity.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.138>But speak, Egeus; is not this the day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.139>That Hermia should give answer of her choice?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>EGEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.140>It is, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.141>Go, bid the huntsmen wake them with their horns.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Horns and shout within. LYSANDER, DEMETRIUS, HELENA, and HERMIA wake and start up</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.142>Good morrow, friends. Saint Valentine is past:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.143>Begin these wood-birds but to couple now?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.144>Pardon, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.145> I pray you all, stand up.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.146>I know you two are rival enemies:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.147>How comes this gentle concord in the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.148>That hatred is so far from jealousy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.149>To sleep by hate, and fear no enmity?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.150>My lord, I shall reply amazedly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.151>Half sleep, half waking: but as yet, I swear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.152>I cannot truly say how I came here;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.153>But, as I think,--for truly would I speak,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.154>And now do I bethink me, so it is,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.155>I came with Hermia hither: our intent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.156>Was to be gone from Athens, where we might,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.157>Without the peril of the Athenian law.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>EGEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.158>Enough, enough, my lord; you have enough:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.159>I beg the law, the law, upon his head.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.160>They would have stolen away; they would, Demetrius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.161>Thereby to have defeated you and me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.162>You of your wife and me of my consent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.163>Of my consent that she should be your wife.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.164>My lord, fair Helen told me of their stealth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.165>Of this their purpose hither to this wood;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.166>And I in fury hither follow'd them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.167>Fair Helena in fancy following me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.168>But, my good lord, I wot not by what power,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.169>But by some power it is,--my love to Hermia,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.170>Melted as the snow, seems to me now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.171>As the remembrance of an idle gaud</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.172>Which in my childhood I did dote upon;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.173>And all the faith, the virtue of my heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.174>The object and the pleasure of mine eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.175>Is only Helena. To her, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.176>Was I betroth'd ere I saw Hermia:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.177>But, like in sickness, did I loathe this food;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.178>But, as in health, come to my natural taste,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.179>Now I do wish it, love it, long for it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.180>And will for evermore be true to it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.181>Fair lovers, you are fortunately met:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.182>Of this discourse we more will hear anon.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.183>Egeus, I will overbear your will;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.184>For in the temple by and by with us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.185>These couples shall eternally be knit:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.186>And, for the morning now is something worn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.187>Our purposed hunting shall be set aside.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.188>Away with us to Athens; three and three,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.189>We'll hold a feast in great solemnity.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.190>Come, Hippolyta.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, EGEUS, and train</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.191>These things seem small and undistinguishable,</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.192>Methinks I see these things with parted eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.193>When every thing seems double.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.194>So methinks:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.195>And I have found Demetrius like a jewel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.196>Mine own, and not mine own.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.197>Are you sure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.198>That we are awake? It seems to me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.199>That yet we sleep, we dream. Do not you think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.200>The duke was here, and bid us follow him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>HERMIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.201>Yea; and my father.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.202>And Hippolyta.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.203>And he did bid us follow to the temple.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.204>Why, then, we are awake: let's follow him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.205>And by the way let us recount our dreams.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.206>[Awaking] When my cue comes, call me, and I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.207>answer: my next is, 'Most fair Pyramus.' Heigh-ho!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.208>Peter Quince! Flute, the bellows-mender! Snout,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.209>the tinker! Starveling! God's my life, stolen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.210>hence, and left me asleep! I have had a most rare</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.211>vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.212>say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.213>about to expound this dream. Methought I was--there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.214>is no man can tell what. Methought I was,--and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.215>methought I had,--but man is but a patched fool, if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.216>he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.217>of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.218>seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.219>to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.220>was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.221>this dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.222>because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.223>latter end of a play, before the duke:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.224>peradventure, to make it the more gracious, I shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.225>sing it at her death.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Athens. QUINCE'S house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter QUINCE, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.1>Have you sent to Bottom's house ? is he come home yet?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>STARVELING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.2>He cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.3>transported.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>FLUTE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.4>If he come not, then the play is marred: it goes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.5>not forward, doth it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.6>It is not possible: you have not a man in all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.7>Athens able to discharge Pyramus but he.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>FLUTE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.8>No, he hath simply the best wit of any handicraft</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.9>man in Athens.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.10>Yea and the best person too; and he is a very</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.11>paramour for a sweet voice.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>FLUTE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.12>You must say 'paragon:' a paramour is, God bless us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.13>a thing of naught.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SNUG</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>SNUG</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.14>Masters, the duke is coming from the temple, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.15>there is two or three lords and ladies more married:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.16>if our sport had gone forward, we had all been made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.17>men.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>FLUTE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.18>O sweet bully Bottom! Thus hath he lost sixpence a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.19>day during his life; he could not have 'scaped</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.20>sixpence a day: an the duke had not given him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.21>sixpence a day for playing Pyramus, I'll be hanged;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.22>he would have deserved it: sixpence a day in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.23>Pyramus, or nothing.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BOTTOM</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.24>Where are these lads? where are these hearts?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.25>Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy hour!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.26>Masters, I am to discourse wonders: but ask me not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.27>what; for if I tell you, I am no true Athenian. I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.28>will tell you every thing, right as it fell out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>QUINCE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.29>Let us hear, sweet Bottom.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.30>Not a word of me. All that I will tell you is, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.31>the duke hath dined. Get your apparel together,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.32>good strings to your beards, new ribbons to your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.33>pumps; meet presently at the palace; every man look</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.34>o'er his part; for the short and the long is, our</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.35>play is preferred. In any case, let Thisby have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.36>clean linen; and let not him that plays the lion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.37>pair his nails, for they shall hang out for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.38>lion's claws. And, most dear actors, eat no onions</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.39>nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath; and I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.40>do not doubt but to hear them say, it is a sweet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.41>comedy. No more words: away! go, away!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT V</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, Lords and Attendants</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>HIPPOLYTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.1>'Tis strange my Theseus, that these</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.2>lovers speak of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.3>More strange than true: I never may believe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.4>These antique fables, nor these fairy toys.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.5>Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.6>Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.7>More than cool reason ever comprehends.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.8>The lunatic, the lover and the poet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.9>Are of imagination all compact:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.10>One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.11>That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.12>Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.13>The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.14>Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.15>And as imagination bodies forth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.16>The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.17>Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.18>A local habitation and a name.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.19>Such tricks hath strong imagination,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.20>That if it would but apprehend some joy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.21>It comprehends some bringer of that joy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.22>Or in the night, imagining some fear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.23>How easy is a bush supposed a bear!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>HIPPOLYTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.24>But all the story of the night told over,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.25>And all their minds transfigured so together,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.26>More witnesseth than fancy's images</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.27>And grows to something of great constancy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.28>But, howsoever, strange and admirable.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.29>Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter LYSANDER, DEMETRIUS, HERMIA, and HELENA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.30>Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.31>Accompany your hearts!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.32>More than to us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.33>Wait in your royal walks, your board, your bed!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.34>Come now; what masques, what dances shall we have,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.35>To wear away this long age of three hours</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.36>Between our after-supper and bed-time?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.37>Where is our usual manager of mirth?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.38>What revels are in hand? Is there no play,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.39>To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.40>Call Philostrate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>PHILOSTRATE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.41> Here, mighty Theseus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.42>Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.43>What masque? what music? How shall we beguile</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.44>The lazy time, if not with some delight?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>PHILOSTRATE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.45>There is a brief how many sports are ripe:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.46>Make choice of which your highness will see first.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Giving a paper</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.47>[Reads] 'The battle with the Centaurs, to be sung</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.48>By an Athenian eunuch to the harp.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.49>We'll none of that: that have I told my love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.50>In glory of my kinsman Hercules.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Reads</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.51>'The riot of the tipsy Bacchanals,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.52>Tearing the Thracian singer in their rage.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.53>That is an old device; and it was play'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.54>When I from Thebes came last a conqueror.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Reads</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.55>'The thrice three Muses mourning for the death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.56>Of Learning, late deceased in beggary.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.57>That is some satire, keen and critical,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.58>Not sorting with a nuptial ceremony.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Reads</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.59>'A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.60>And his love Thisbe; very tragical mirth.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.61>Merry and tragical! tedious and brief!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.62>That is, hot ice and wondrous strange snow.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.63>How shall we find the concord of this discord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>PHILOSTRATE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.64>A play there is, my lord, some ten words long,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.65>Which is as brief as I have known a play;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.66>But by ten words, my lord, it is too long,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.67>Which makes it tedious; for in all the play</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.68>There is not one word apt, one player fitted:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.69>And tragical, my noble lord, it is;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.70>For Pyramus therein doth kill himself.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.71>Which, when I saw rehearsed, I must confess,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.72>Made mine eyes water; but more merry tears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.73>The passion of loud laughter never shed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.74>What are they that do play it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>PHILOSTRATE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.75>Hard-handed men that work in Athens here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.76>Which never labour'd in their minds till now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.77>And now have toil'd their unbreathed memories</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.78>With this same play, against your nuptial.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.79>And we will hear it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>PHILOSTRATE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.80>No, my noble lord;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.81>It is not for you: I have heard it over,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.82>And it is nothing, nothing in the world;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.83>Unless you can find sport in their intents,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.84>Extremely stretch'd and conn'd with cruel pain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.85>To do you service.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.86> I will hear that play;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.87>For never anything can be amiss,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.88>When simpleness and duty tender it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.89>Go, bring them in: and take your places, ladies.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit PHILOSTRATE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>HIPPOLYTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.90>I love not to see wretchedness o'er charged</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.91>And duty in his service perishing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.92>Why, gentle sweet, you shall see no such thing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>HIPPOLYTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.93>He says they can do nothing in this kind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.94>The kinder we, to give them thanks for nothing.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.95>Our sport shall be to take what they mistake:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.96>And what poor duty cannot do, noble respect</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.97>Takes it in might, not merit.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.98>Where I have come, great clerks have purposed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.99>To greet me with premeditated welcomes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.100>Where I have seen them shiver and look pale,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.101>Make periods in the midst of sentences,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.102>Throttle their practised accent in their fears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.103>And in conclusion dumbly have broke off,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.104>Not paying me a welcome. Trust me, sweet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.105>Out of this silence yet I pick'd a welcome;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.106>And in the modesty of fearful duty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.107>I read as much as from the rattling tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.108>Of saucy and audacious eloquence.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.109>Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.110>In least speak most, to my capacity.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter PHILOSTRATE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PHILOSTRATE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.111>So please your grace, the Prologue is address'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.112>Let him approach.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish of trumpets</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter QUINCE for the Prologue</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>Prologue</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.113>If we offend, it is with our good will.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.114>That you should think, we come not to offend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.115>But with good will. To show our simple skill,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.116>That is the true beginning of our end.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.117>Consider then we come but in despite.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.118>We do not come as minding to contest you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.119>Our true intent is. All for your delight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.120>We are not here. That you should here repent you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.121>The actors are at hand and by their show</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.122>You shall know all that you are like to know.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.123>This fellow doth not stand upon points.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.124>He hath rid his prologue like a rough colt; he knows</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.125>not the stop. A good moral, my lord: it is not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.126>enough to speak, but to speak true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>HIPPOLYTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.127>Indeed he hath played on his prologue like a child</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.128>on a recorder; a sound, but not in government.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.129>His speech, was like a tangled chain; nothing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.130>impaired, but all disordered. Who is next?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Pyramus and Thisbe, Wall, Moonshine, and Lion</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>Prologue</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.131>Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.132>But wonder on, till truth make all things plain.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.133>This man is Pyramus, if you would know;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.134>This beauteous lady Thisby is certain.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.135>This man, with lime and rough-cast, doth present</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.136>Wall, that vile Wall which did these lovers sunder;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.137>And through Wall's chink, poor souls, they are content</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.138>To whisper. At the which let no man wonder.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.139>This man, with lanthorn, dog, and bush of thorn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.140>Presenteth Moonshine; for, if you will know,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.141>By moonshine did these lovers think no scorn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.142>To meet at Ninus' tomb, there, there to woo.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.143>This grisly beast, which Lion hight by name,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.144>The trusty Thisby, coming first by night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.145>Did scare away, or rather did affright;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.146>And, as she fled, her mantle she did fall,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.147>Which Lion vile with bloody mouth did stain.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.148>Anon comes Pyramus, sweet youth and tall,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.149>And finds his trusty Thisby's mantle slain:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.150>Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.151>He bravely broach'd is boiling bloody breast;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.152>And Thisby, tarrying in mulberry shade,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.153>His dagger drew, and died. For all the rest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.154>Let Lion, Moonshine, Wall, and lovers twain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.155>At large discourse, while here they do remain.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Prologue, Thisbe, Lion, and Moonshine</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.156>I wonder if the lion be to speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.157>No wonder, my lord: one lion may, when many asses do.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>Wall</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.158>In this same interlude it doth befall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.159>That I, one Snout by name, present a wall;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.160>And such a wall, as I would have you think,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.161>That had in it a crannied hole or chink,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.162>Through which the lovers, Pyramus and Thisby,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.163>Did whisper often very secretly.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.164>This loam, this rough-cast and this stone doth show</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.165>That I am that same wall; the truth is so:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.166>And this the cranny is, right and sinister,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.167>Through which the fearful lovers are to whisper.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.168>Would you desire lime and hair to speak better?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.169>It is the wittiest partition that ever I heard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.170>discourse, my lord.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Pyramus</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.171>Pyramus draws near the wall: silence!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>Pyramus</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.172>O grim-look'd night! O night with hue so black!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.173>O night, which ever art when day is not!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.174>O night, O night! alack, alack, alack,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.175>I fear my Thisby's promise is forgot!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.176>And thou, O wall, O sweet, O lovely wall,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.177>That stand'st between her father's ground and mine!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.178>Thou wall, O wall, O sweet and lovely wall,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.179>Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Wall holds up his fingers</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.180>Thanks, courteous wall: Jove shield thee well for this!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.181>But what see I? No Thisby do I see.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.182>O wicked wall, through whom I see no bliss!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.183>Cursed be thy stones for thus deceiving me!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.184>The wall, methinks, being sensible, should curse again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>Pyramus</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.185>No, in truth, sir, he should not. 'Deceiving me'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.186>is Thisby's cue: she is to enter now, and I am to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.187>spy her through the wall. You shall see, it will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.188>fall pat as I told you. Yonder she comes.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Thisbe</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>Thisbe</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.189>O wall, full often hast thou heard my moans,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.190>For parting my fair Pyramus and me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.191>My cherry lips have often kiss'd thy stones,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.192>Thy stones with lime and hair knit up in thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>Pyramus</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.193>I see a voice: now will I to the chink,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.194>To spy an I can hear my Thisby's face. Thisby!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>Thisbe</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.195>My love thou art, my love I think.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>Pyramus</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.196>Think what thou wilt, I am thy lover's grace;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.197>And, like Limander, am I trusty still.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>Thisbe</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.198>And I like Helen, till the Fates me kill.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>Pyramus</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.199>Not Shafalus to Procrus was so true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>Thisbe</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.200>As Shafalus to Procrus, I to you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>Pyramus</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.201>O kiss me through the hole of this vile wall!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>Thisbe</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.202>I kiss the wall's hole, not your lips at all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>Pyramus</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.203>Wilt thou at Ninny's tomb meet me straightway?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>Thisbe</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.204>'Tide life, 'tide death, I come without delay.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Pyramus and Thisbe</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>Wall</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.205>Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.206>And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.207>Now is the mural down between the two neighbours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.208>No remedy, my lord, when walls are so wilful to hear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.209>without warning.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>HIPPOLYTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.210>This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.211>The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.212>are no worse, if imagination amend them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>HIPPOLYTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.213>It must be your imagination then, and not theirs.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.214>If we imagine no worse of them than they of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.215>themselves, they may pass for excellent men. Here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.216>come two noble beasts in, a man and a lion.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Lion and Moonshine</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>Lion</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.217>You, ladies, you, whose gentle hearts do fear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.218>The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.219>May now perchance both quake and tremble here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.220>When lion rough in wildest rage doth roar.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.221>Then know that I, one Snug the joiner, am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.222>A lion-fell, nor else no lion's dam;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.223>For, if I should as lion come in strife</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.224>Into this place, 'twere pity on my life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.225>A very gentle beast, of a good conscience.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.226>The very best at a beast, my lord, that e'er I saw.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.227>This lion is a very fox for his valour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.228>True; and a goose for his discretion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.229>Not so, my lord; for his valour cannot carry his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.230>discretion; and the fox carries the goose.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.231>His discretion, I am sure, cannot carry his valour;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.232>for the goose carries not the fox. It is well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.233>leave it to his discretion, and let us listen to the moon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>Moonshine</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.234>This lanthorn doth the horned moon present;--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.235>He should have worn the horns on his head.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.236>He is no crescent, and his horns are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.237>invisible within the circumference.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>Moonshine</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.238>This lanthorn doth the horned moon present;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.239>Myself the man i' the moon do seem to be.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.240>This is the greatest error of all the rest: the man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.241>should be put into the lanthorn. How is it else the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.242>man i' the moon?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.243>He dares not come there for the candle; for, you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.244>see, it is already in snuff.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>HIPPOLYTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.245>I am aweary of this moon: would he would change!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.246>It appears, by his small light of discretion, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.247>he is in the wane; but yet, in courtesy, in all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.248>reason, we must stay the time.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.249>Proceed, Moon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>Moonshine</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.250>All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.251>lanthorn is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.252>thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.253>Why, all these should be in the lanthorn; for all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.254>these are in the moon. But, silence! here comes Thisbe.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Thisbe</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>Thisbe</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.255>This is old Ninny's tomb. Where is my love?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>Lion</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.256>[Roaring] Oh--</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Thisbe runs off</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.257>Well roared, Lion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.258>Well run, Thisbe.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>HIPPOLYTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.259>Well shone, Moon. Truly, the moon shines with a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.260>good grace.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>The Lion shakes Thisbe's mantle, and exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.261>Well moused, Lion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.262>And so the lion vanished.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.263>And then came Pyramus.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Pyramus</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>Pyramus</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.264>Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.265>I thank thee, Moon, for shining now so bright;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.266>For, by thy gracious, golden, glittering gleams,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.267>I trust to take of truest Thisby sight.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.268>But stay, O spite!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.269>But mark, poor knight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.270>What dreadful dole is here!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.271>Eyes, do you see?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.272>How can it be?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.273>O dainty duck! O dear!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.274>Thy mantle good,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.275>What, stain'd with blood!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.276>Approach, ye Furies fell!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.277>O Fates, come, come,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.278>Cut thread and thrum;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.279>Quail, crush, conclude, and quell!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.280>This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.281>go near to make a man look sad.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>HIPPOLYTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.282>Beshrew my heart, but I pity the man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>Pyramus</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.283>O wherefore, Nature, didst thou lions frame?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.284>Since lion vile hath here deflower'd my dear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.285>Which is--no, no--which was the fairest dame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.286>That lived, that loved, that liked, that look'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.287>with cheer.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.288>Come, tears, confound;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.289>Out, sword, and wound</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.290>The pap of Pyramus;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.291>Ay, that left pap,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.292>Where heart doth hop:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Stabs himself</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.293>Thus die I, thus, thus, thus.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.294>Now am I dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.295>Now am I fled;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.296>My soul is in the sky:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.297>Tongue, lose thy light;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.298>Moon take thy flight:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Moonshine</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.299>Now die, die, die, die, die.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Dies</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.300>No die, but an ace, for him; for he is but one.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.301>Less than an ace, man; for he is dead; he is nothing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.302>With the help of a surgeon he might yet recover, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.303>prove an ass.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>HIPPOLYTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.304>How chance Moonshine is gone before Thisbe comes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.305>back and finds her lover?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.306>She will find him by starlight. Here she comes; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.307>her passion ends the play.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter Thisbe</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>HIPPOLYTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.308>Methinks she should not use a long one for such a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.309>Pyramus: I hope she will be brief.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.310>A mote will turn the balance, which Pyramus, which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.311>Thisbe, is the better; he for a man, God warrant us;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.312>she for a woman, God bless us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>LYSANDER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.313>She hath spied him already with those sweet eyes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.314>And thus she means, videlicet:--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>Thisbe</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.315> Asleep, my love?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.316>What, dead, my dove?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.317>O Pyramus, arise!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.318>Speak, speak. Quite dumb?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.319>Dead, dead? A tomb</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.320>Must cover thy sweet eyes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.321>These My lips,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.322>This cherry nose,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.323>These yellow cowslip cheeks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.324>Are gone, are gone:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.325>Lovers, make moan:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.326>His eyes were green as leeks.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.327>O Sisters Three,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.328>Come, come to me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.329>With hands as pale as milk;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.330>Lay them in gore,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.331>Since you have shore</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.332>With shears his thread of silk.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.333>Tongue, not a word:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.334>Come, trusty sword;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.335>Come, blade, my breast imbrue:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Stabs herself</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.336>And, farewell, friends;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.337>Thus Thisby ends:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.338>Adieu, adieu, adieu.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Dies</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.339>Moonshine and Lion are left to bury the dead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.340>Ay, and Wall too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>BOTTOM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.341>[Starting up] No assure you; the wall is down that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.342>parted their fathers. Will it please you to see the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.343>epilogue, or to hear a Bergomask dance between two</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.344>of our company?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>THESEUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.345>No epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.346>excuse. Never excuse; for when the players are all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.347>dead, there needs none to be blamed. Marry, if he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.348>that writ it had played Pyramus and hanged himself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.349>in Thisbe's garter, it would have been a fine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.350>tragedy: and so it is, truly; and very notably</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.351>discharged. But come, your Bergomask: let your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.352>epilogue alone.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A dance</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.353>The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.354>Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.355>I fear we shall out-sleep the coming morn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.356>As much as we this night have overwatch'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.357>This palpable-gross play hath well beguiled</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.358>The heavy gait of night. Sweet friends, to bed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.359>A fortnight hold we this solemnity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.360>In nightly revels and new jollity.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter PUCK</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.361> Now the hungry lion roars,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.362>And the wolf behowls the moon;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.363>Whilst the heavy ploughman snores,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.364>All with weary task fordone.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.365>Now the wasted brands do glow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.366>Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.367>Puts the wretch that lies in woe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.368>In remembrance of a shroud.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.369>Now it is the time of night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.370>That the graves all gaping wide,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.371>Every one lets forth his sprite,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.372>In the church-way paths to glide:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.373>And we fairies, that do run</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.374>By the triple Hecate's team,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.375>From the presence of the sun,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.376>Following darkness like a dream,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.377>Now are frolic: not a mouse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.378>Shall disturb this hallow'd house:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.379>I am sent with broom before,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.380>To sweep the dust behind the door.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter OBERON and TITANIA with their train</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.381> Through the house give gathering light,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.382>By the dead and drowsy fire:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.383>Every elf and fairy sprite</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.384>Hop as light as bird from brier;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.385>And this ditty, after me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.386>Sing, and dance it trippingly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>TITANIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.387>First, rehearse your song by rote</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.388>To each word a warbling note:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.389>Hand in hand, with fairy grace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.390>Will we sing, and bless this place.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Song and dance</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>OBERON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.391>Now, until the break of day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.392>Through this house each fairy stray.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.393>To the best bride-bed will we,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.394>Which by us shall blessed be;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.395>And the issue there create</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.396>Ever shall be fortunate.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.397>So shall all the couples three</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.398>Ever true in loving be;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.399>And the blots of Nature's hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.400>Shall not in their issue stand;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.401>Never mole, hare lip, nor scar,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.402>Nor mark prodigious, such as are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.403>Despised in nativity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.404>Shall upon their children be.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.405>With this field-dew consecrate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.406>Every fairy take his gait;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.407>And each several chamber bless,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.408>Through this palace, with sweet peace;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.409>And the owner of it blest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.410>Ever shall in safety rest.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.411>Trip away; make no stay;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.412>Meet me all by break of day.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt OBERON, TITANIA, and train</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>PUCK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.413>If we shadows have offended,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.414>Think but this, and all is mended,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.415>That you have but slumber'd here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.416>While these visions did appear.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.417>And this weak and idle theme,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.418>No more yielding but a dream,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.419>Gentles, do not reprehend:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.420>if you pardon, we will mend:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.421>And, as I am an honest Puck,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.422>If we have unearned luck</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.423>Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.424>We will make amends ere long;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.425>Else the Puck a liar call;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.426>So, good night unto you all.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.427>Give me your hands, if we be friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.428>And Robin shall restore amends.</A><br> | |
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