[...]... love as thoughts and dreams and sighs, it is Wishes and tears, poor fancy's followers Lysander A good persuasion Hermia I have a : hear therefore, widow aunt, a dowager revenue, and she hath no child Of great From Athens is her house remote seven And she respects me as her only son : leagues marry thee And to that place the sharp Athenian law If thou lovest me, then, Cannot pursue us Steal forth thy father's... Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, Behold ' * ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up So quick bright things come to confusion : then true lovers have been ever cross'd, stands as an edict in destiny Hermia It If : Then let Because As us teach our trial patience, a customary... [Act II Sc II.} Bottom Why make me Titania 144 do they run away afeard ? this [Act III Sc /.] Be kind and courteous is a knavery of to this gentleman Sc.L] Titania 80 sport [Act II Sc I.] Helena 64 them to 160 [Act III 176 [Act IV.] 184 vii List of Illustrations PAGE Theseus Now, Hippolyta, our nuptial hour fair Draws on apace and Lysander she, sweet lady, dotes, Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry,... TITANIA, Queen of the fairies PUCK, or Robin Goodfellow PEASEBLOSSOM, COBWEB, MOTH, MUSTARDSEED, i\/r ] } fairies J King and Queen THESEUS and HIPPOLYTA Other fairies attending on their SCENE Athens and a wood near XII it Attendants on ACT I ^Midsummer T^ream ACT SCENE Enter The palace of Theseus Athens I THESEUS, I and HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, Attendants Theseus ' OW, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour-... never had so sweet a changeling Puck break I Sc I.] Hermia Sc PACE [Act II Sc /.] fair Titania [Act I [Act II Sc /.] But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our 96 Flying between the cold moon Cupid all arm'd [Act II Sc /.] and the earth, Oberon To die Lysander I'll follow thee, upon the hand and make I a heaven of love so well .112 hell, [Act II Sc /.] 128 Fair love, you faint with wandering... speed you me fair fair ? Demetrius loves your Your eyes Helena whither away ? that fair again unsay fair are lode-stars ! ; : O happy fair ! and your tongue's sweet air More When tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear, wheat Sickness is I green, catching Yours would ACT is I : catch, when hawthorn buds O, were favour fair 12 Hermia, ere appear so, I go ; Sc i ... Demetrius am, my lord, as well derived as he, love is more than his possess'd ; fortunes every way as fairly rank'd, As well My my If not with vantage, as Demetrius' And, which I ; am Why more than is all Demetrius, I'll Made love to And won her I then prosecute avouch it ; these boasts can be, beloved of beauteous Hermia should not ; : my right ? to his head, Nedar's daughter, Helena, soul ; and, she,... gentleman death, according to our law What maid ; this Immediately provided in that Theseus me, : say you, case Hermia ? be advised, fair : you your father should be as a god ; One that composed your beauties ; yea, and one are but as a form in wax To whom you By him imprinted, and within his power To leave the figure or disfigure it Demetrius is a worthy gentleman So Hermia is Lysander In himself... Take time to pause ; and by the next My new moon, The sealing-day betwixt my love and me, For everlasting bond of fellowship, ACT I 6 Sc i and she, sweet lady, Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry, Upon this spotted and inconstant man Lysander dotes, MIDSUMMER NIGHT' S DREAM A that day either prepare to die disobedience to father's will, Upon For your Or else to wed Demetrius, as he would Or on Diana's... on Diana's altar to protest austerity and Relent, For aye sweet Demetrius single ; life Hermia : and, Lysander, yield crazed Thy title to certain right my Lysander You have her father's love, Demetrius do you marry him Let me have Hermia's ; : Egeus Scornful Lysander ! true, he hath my love, And what is mine my love shall render him And she is mine, and all my right of her I do estate I Lysander unto . this gentleman. [Act III. Sc.L] 176 Titania. [Act IV.] 184 vii