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author | android-build-team Robot <android-build-team-robot@google.com> | 2018-01-17 08:29:18 +0000 |
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committer | android-build-team Robot <android-build-team-robot@google.com> | 2018-01-17 08:29:18 +0000 |
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Snap for 4548429 from 2399db2c26ccd68d4226e2aad57d98e3e60c0a7b to pi-releaseandroid-wear-9.0.0_r9android-wear-9.0.0_r8android-wear-9.0.0_r7android-wear-9.0.0_r6android-wear-9.0.0_r5android-wear-9.0.0_r4android-wear-9.0.0_r34android-wear-9.0.0_r33android-wear-9.0.0_r32android-wear-9.0.0_r31android-wear-9.0.0_r30android-wear-9.0.0_r3android-wear-9.0.0_r29android-wear-9.0.0_r28android-wear-9.0.0_r27android-wear-9.0.0_r26android-wear-9.0.0_r25android-wear-9.0.0_r24android-wear-9.0.0_r23android-wear-9.0.0_r22android-wear-9.0.0_r21android-wear-9.0.0_r20android-wear-9.0.0_r2android-wear-9.0.0_r19android-wear-9.0.0_r18android-wear-9.0.0_r17android-wear-9.0.0_r16android-wear-9.0.0_r15android-wear-9.0.0_r14android-wear-9.0.0_r13android-wear-9.0.0_r12android-wear-9.0.0_r11android-wear-9.0.0_r10android-wear-9.0.0_r1android-vts-9.0_r9android-vts-9.0_r8android-vts-9.0_r7android-vts-9.0_r6android-vts-9.0_r5android-vts-9.0_r4android-vts-9.0_r19android-vts-9.0_r18android-vts-9.0_r17android-vts-9.0_r16android-vts-9.0_r15android-vts-9.0_r14android-vts-9.0_r13android-vts-9.0_r12android-vts-9.0_r11android-vts-9.0_r10android-security-9.0.0_r76android-security-9.0.0_r75android-security-9.0.0_r74android-security-9.0.0_r73android-security-9.0.0_r72android-security-9.0.0_r71android-security-9.0.0_r70android-security-9.0.0_r69android-security-9.0.0_r68android-security-9.0.0_r67android-security-9.0.0_r66android-security-9.0.0_r65android-security-9.0.0_r64android-security-9.0.0_r63android-security-9.0.0_r62android-cts-9.0_r9android-cts-9.0_r8android-cts-9.0_r7android-cts-9.0_r6android-cts-9.0_r5android-cts-9.0_r4android-cts-9.0_r3android-cts-9.0_r20android-cts-9.0_r2android-cts-9.0_r19android-cts-9.0_r18android-cts-9.0_r17android-cts-9.0_r16android-cts-9.0_r15android-cts-9.0_r14android-cts-9.0_r13android-cts-9.0_r12android-cts-9.0_r11android-cts-9.0_r10android-cts-9.0_r1android-9.0.0_r9android-9.0.0_r8android-9.0.0_r7android-9.0.0_r61android-9.0.0_r60android-9.0.0_r6android-9.0.0_r59android-9.0.0_r58android-9.0.0_r57android-9.0.0_r56android-9.0.0_r55android-9.0.0_r54android-9.0.0_r53android-9.0.0_r52android-9.0.0_r51android-9.0.0_r50android-9.0.0_r5android-9.0.0_r49android-9.0.0_r48android-9.0.0_r3android-9.0.0_r2android-9.0.0_r18android-9.0.0_r17android-9.0.0_r10android-9.0.0_r1security-pi-releasepie-vts-releasepie-security-releasepie-s2-releasepie-release-2pie-releasepie-r2-s2-releasepie-r2-s1-releasepie-r2-releasepie-platform-releasepie-gsipie-cuttlefish-testingpie-cts-release
Change-Id: I61f57b27a6c8527f677df61313c19f618edfac58
-rw-r--r-- | Android.bp | 19 | ||||
-rwxr-xr-x | resources/dream.xml | 4546 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | resources/empty.xml | 0 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | resources/out/readme.txt | 1 | ||||
-rwxr-xr-x | resources/utf8test.xml | 11 | ||||
-rwxr-xr-x | resources/utf8testverify.xml | 11 |
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@@ -8,7 +8,10 @@ cc_library { srcs: ["tinyxml2.cpp"], - cflags: ["-Wall", "-Werror"], + cflags: [ + "-Wall", + "-Werror", + ], shared_libs: ["liblog"], @@ -24,3 +27,17 @@ cc_library { export_include_dirs: ["."], } + +cc_test { + name: "tinyxml2-tests", + srcs: ["xmltest.cpp"], + shared_libs: ["libtinyxml2"], + // "resources/*" doesn't work: http://b/71906438 + data: [ + "resources/dream.xml", + "resources/empty.xml", + "resources/out/readme.txt", + "resources/utf8testverify.xml", + "resources/utf8test.xml", + ], +} diff --git a/resources/dream.xml b/resources/dream.xml new file mode 100755 index 0000000..0a0b17c --- /dev/null +++ b/resources/dream.xml @@ -0,0 +1,4546 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<!DOCTYPE PLAY SYSTEM "play.dtd"> + +<PLAY> +<TITLE>A Midsummer Night's Dream</TITLE> + +<FM> +<P>Text placed in the public domain by Moby Lexical Tools, 1992.</P> +<P>SGML markup by Jon Bosak, 1992-1994.</P> +<P>XML version by Jon Bosak, 1996-1998.</P> +<P>This work may be freely copied and distributed worldwide.</P> +</FM> + + +<PERSONAE> +<TITLE>Dramatis Personae</TITLE> + +<PERSONA>THESEUS, Duke of Athens.</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>EGEUS, father to Hermia.</PERSONA> + +<PGROUP> +<PERSONA>LYSANDER</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>DEMETRIUS</PERSONA> +<GRPDESCR>in love with Hermia.</GRPDESCR> +</PGROUP> + +<PERSONA>PHILOSTRATE, master of the revels to Theseus.</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>QUINCE, a carpenter.</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>SNUG, a joiner.</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>BOTTOM, a weaver.</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>FLUTE, a bellows-mender.</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>SNOUT, a tinker.</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>STARVELING, a tailor.</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>HIPPOLYTA, queen of the Amazons, betrothed to Theseus.</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>HERMIA, daughter to Egeus, in love with Lysander.</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>HELENA, in love with Demetrius.</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>OBERON, king of the fairies.</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>TITANIA, queen of the fairies.</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>PUCK, or Robin Goodfellow.</PERSONA> + +<PGROUP> +<PERSONA>PEASEBLOSSOM</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>COBWEB</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>MOTH</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>MUSTARDSEED</PERSONA> +<GRPDESCR>fairies.</GRPDESCR> +</PGROUP> + +<PERSONA>Other fairies attending their King and Queen.</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>Attendants on Theseus and Hippolyta.</PERSONA> +</PERSONAE> + +<SCNDESCR>SCENE Athens, and a wood near it.</SCNDESCR> + +<PLAYSUBT>A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM</PLAYSUBT> + +<ACT><TITLE>ACT I</TITLE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS.</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, and +Attendants</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour</LINE> +<LINE>Draws on apace; four happy days bring in</LINE> +<LINE>Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow</LINE> +<LINE>This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,</LINE> +<LINE>Like to a step-dame or a dowager</LINE> +<LINE>Long withering out a young man revenue.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HIPPOLYTA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Four days will quickly steep themselves in night;</LINE> +<LINE>Four nights will quickly dream away the time;</LINE> +<LINE>And then the moon, like to a silver bow</LINE> +<LINE>New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night</LINE> +<LINE>Of our solemnities.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Go, Philostrate,</LINE> +<LINE>Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments;</LINE> +<LINE>Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth;</LINE> +<LINE>Turn melancholy forth to funerals;</LINE> +<LINE>The pale companion is not for our pomp.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Exit PHILOSTRATE</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>Hippolyta, I woo'd thee with my sword,</LINE> +<LINE>And won thy love, doing thee injuries;</LINE> +<LINE>But I will wed thee in another key,</LINE> +<LINE>With pomp, with triumph and with revelling.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter EGEUS, HERMIA, LYSANDER, and DEMETRIUS</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>EGEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Happy be Theseus, our renowned duke!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Thanks, good Egeus: what's the news with thee?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>EGEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Full of vexation come I, with complaint</LINE> +<LINE>Against my child, my daughter Hermia.</LINE> +<LINE>Stand forth, Demetrius. My noble lord,</LINE> +<LINE>This man hath my consent to marry her.</LINE> +<LINE>Stand forth, Lysander: and my gracious duke,</LINE> +<LINE>This man hath bewitch'd the bosom of my child;</LINE> +<LINE>Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes,</LINE> +<LINE>And interchanged love-tokens with my child:</LINE> +<LINE>Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung,</LINE> +<LINE>With feigning voice verses of feigning love,</LINE> +<LINE>And stolen the impression of her fantasy</LINE> +<LINE>With bracelets of thy hair, rings, gawds, conceits,</LINE> +<LINE>Knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats, messengers</LINE> +<LINE>Of strong prevailment in unharden'd youth:</LINE> +<LINE>With cunning hast thou filch'd my daughter's heart,</LINE> +<LINE>Turn'd her obedience, which is due to me,</LINE> +<LINE>To stubborn harshness: and, my gracious duke,</LINE> +<LINE>Be it so she; will not here before your grace</LINE> +<LINE>Consent to marry with Demetrius,</LINE> +<LINE>I beg the ancient privilege of Athens,</LINE> +<LINE>As she is mine, I may dispose of her:</LINE> +<LINE>Which shall be either to this gentleman</LINE> +<LINE>Or to her death, according to our law</LINE> +<LINE>Immediately provided in that case.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What say you, Hermia? be advised fair maid:</LINE> +<LINE>To you your father should be as a god;</LINE> +<LINE>One that composed your beauties, yea, and one</LINE> +<LINE>To whom you are but as a form in wax</LINE> +<LINE>By him imprinted and within his power</LINE> +<LINE>To leave the figure or disfigure it.</LINE> +<LINE>Demetrius is a worthy gentleman.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>So is Lysander.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>In himself he is;</LINE> +<LINE>But in this kind, wanting your father's voice,</LINE> +<LINE>The other must be held the worthier.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I would my father look'd but with my eyes.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Rather your eyes must with his judgment look.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I do entreat your grace to pardon me.</LINE> +<LINE>I know not by what power I am made bold,</LINE> +<LINE>Nor how it may concern my modesty,</LINE> +<LINE>In such a presence here to plead my thoughts;</LINE> +<LINE>But I beseech your grace that I may know</LINE> +<LINE>The worst that may befall me in this case,</LINE> +<LINE>If I refuse to wed Demetrius.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Either to die the death or to abjure</LINE> +<LINE>For ever the society of men.</LINE> +<LINE>Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires;</LINE> +<LINE>Know of your youth, examine well your blood,</LINE> +<LINE>Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice,</LINE> +<LINE>You can endure the livery of a nun,</LINE> +<LINE>For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd,</LINE> +<LINE>To live a barren sister all your life,</LINE> +<LINE>Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.</LINE> +<LINE>Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood,</LINE> +<LINE>To undergo such maiden pilgrimage;</LINE> +<LINE>But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd,</LINE> +<LINE>Than that which withering on the virgin thorn</LINE> +<LINE>Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord,</LINE> +<LINE>Ere I will my virgin patent up</LINE> +<LINE>Unto his lordship, whose unwished yoke</LINE> +<LINE>My soul consents not to give sovereignty.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Take time to pause; and, by the nest new moon--</LINE> +<LINE>The sealing-day betwixt my love and me,</LINE> +<LINE>For everlasting bond of fellowship--</LINE> +<LINE>Upon that day either prepare to die</LINE> +<LINE>For disobedience to your father's will,</LINE> +<LINE>Or else to wed Demetrius, as he would;</LINE> +<LINE>Or on Diana's altar to protest</LINE> +<LINE>For aye austerity and single life.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield</LINE> +<LINE>Thy crazed title to my certain right.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You have her father's love, Demetrius;</LINE> +<LINE>Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>EGEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Scornful Lysander! true, he hath my love,</LINE> +<LINE>And what is mine my love shall render him.</LINE> +<LINE>And she is mine, and all my right of her</LINE> +<LINE>I do estate unto Demetrius.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I am, my lord, as well derived as he,</LINE> +<LINE>As well possess'd; my love is more than his;</LINE> +<LINE>My fortunes every way as fairly rank'd,</LINE> +<LINE>If not with vantage, as Demetrius';</LINE> +<LINE>And, which is more than all these boasts can be,</LINE> +<LINE>I am beloved of beauteous Hermia:</LINE> +<LINE>Why should not I then prosecute my right?</LINE> +<LINE>Demetrius, I'll avouch it to his head,</LINE> +<LINE>Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena,</LINE> +<LINE>And won her soul; and she, sweet lady, dotes,</LINE> +<LINE>Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry,</LINE> +<LINE>Upon this spotted and inconstant man.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I must confess that I have heard so much,</LINE> +<LINE>And with Demetrius thought to have spoke thereof;</LINE> +<LINE>But, being over-full of self-affairs,</LINE> +<LINE>My mind did lose it. But, Demetrius, come;</LINE> +<LINE>And come, Egeus; you shall go with me,</LINE> +<LINE>I have some private schooling for you both.</LINE> +<LINE>For you, fair Hermia, look you arm yourself</LINE> +<LINE>To fit your fancies to your father's will;</LINE> +<LINE>Or else the law of Athens yields you up--</LINE> +<LINE>Which by no means we may extenuate--</LINE> +<LINE>To death, or to a vow of single life.</LINE> +<LINE>Come, my Hippolyta: what cheer, my love?</LINE> +<LINE>Demetrius and Egeus, go along:</LINE> +<LINE>I must employ you in some business</LINE> +<LINE>Against our nuptial and confer with you</LINE> +<LINE>Of something nearly that concerns yourselves.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>EGEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>With duty and desire we follow you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt all but LYSANDER and HERMIA</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>How now, my love! why is your cheek so pale?</LINE> +<LINE>How chance the roses there do fade so fast?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Belike for want of rain, which I could well</LINE> +<LINE>Beteem them from the tempest of my eyes.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Ay me! for aught that I could ever read,</LINE> +<LINE>Could ever hear by tale or history,</LINE> +<LINE>The course of true love never did run smooth;</LINE> +<LINE>But, either it was different in blood,--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O cross! too high to be enthrall'd to low.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Or else misgraffed in respect of years,--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O spite! too old to be engaged to young.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O hell! to choose love by another's eyes.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,</LINE> +<LINE>War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,</LINE> +<LINE>Making it momentany as a sound,</LINE> +<LINE>Swift as a shadow, short as any dream;</LINE> +<LINE>Brief as the lightning in the collied night,</LINE> +<LINE>That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,</LINE> +<LINE>And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'</LINE> +<LINE>The jaws of darkness do devour it up:</LINE> +<LINE>So quick bright things come to confusion.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If then true lovers have been ever cross'd,</LINE> +<LINE>It stands as an edict in destiny:</LINE> +<LINE>Then let us teach our trial patience,</LINE> +<LINE>Because it is a customary cross,</LINE> +<LINE>As due to love as thoughts and dreams and sighs,</LINE> +<LINE>Wishes and tears, poor fancy's followers.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>A good persuasion: therefore, hear me, Hermia.</LINE> +<LINE>I have a widow aunt, a dowager</LINE> +<LINE>Of great revenue, and she hath no child:</LINE> +<LINE>From Athens is her house remote seven leagues;</LINE> +<LINE>And she respects me as her only son.</LINE> +<LINE>There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee;</LINE> +<LINE>And to that place the sharp Athenian law</LINE> +<LINE>Cannot pursue us. If thou lovest me then,</LINE> +<LINE>Steal forth thy father's house to-morrow night;</LINE> +<LINE>And in the wood, a league without the town,</LINE> +<LINE>Where I did meet thee once with Helena,</LINE> +<LINE>To do observance to a morn of May,</LINE> +<LINE>There will I stay for thee.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>My good Lysander!</LINE> +<LINE>I swear to thee, by Cupid's strongest bow,</LINE> +<LINE>By his best arrow with the golden head,</LINE> +<LINE>By the simplicity of Venus' doves,</LINE> +<LINE>By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves,</LINE> +<LINE>And by that fire which burn'd the Carthage queen,</LINE> +<LINE>When the false Troyan under sail was seen,</LINE> +<LINE>By all the vows that ever men have broke,</LINE> +<LINE>In number more than ever women spoke,</LINE> +<LINE>In that same place thou hast appointed me,</LINE> +<LINE>To-morrow truly will I meet with thee.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Keep promise, love. Look, here comes Helena.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter HELENA</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>God speed fair Helena! whither away?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Call you me fair? that fair again unsay.</LINE> +<LINE>Demetrius loves your fair: O happy fair!</LINE> +<LINE>Your eyes are lode-stars; and your tongue's sweet air</LINE> +<LINE>More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear,</LINE> +<LINE>When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear.</LINE> +<LINE>Sickness is catching: O, were favour so,</LINE> +<LINE>Yours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go;</LINE> +<LINE>My ear should catch your voice, my eye your eye,</LINE> +<LINE>My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody.</LINE> +<LINE>Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated,</LINE> +<LINE>The rest I'd give to be to you translated.</LINE> +<LINE>O, teach me how you look, and with what art</LINE> +<LINE>You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I frown upon him, yet he loves me still.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I give him curses, yet he gives me love.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O that my prayers could such affection move!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>The more I hate, the more he follows me.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>The more I love, the more he hateth me.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>His folly, Helena, is no fault of mine.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>None, but your beauty: would that fault were mine!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Take comfort: he no more shall see my face;</LINE> +<LINE>Lysander and myself will fly this place.</LINE> +<LINE>Before the time I did Lysander see,</LINE> +<LINE>Seem'd Athens as a paradise to me:</LINE> +<LINE>O, then, what graces in my love do dwell,</LINE> +<LINE>That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Helen, to you our minds we will unfold:</LINE> +<LINE>To-morrow night, when Phoebe doth behold</LINE> +<LINE>Her silver visage in the watery glass,</LINE> +<LINE>Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass,</LINE> +<LINE>A time that lovers' flights doth still conceal,</LINE> +<LINE>Through Athens' gates have we devised to steal.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And in the wood, where often you and I</LINE> +<LINE>Upon faint primrose-beds were wont to lie,</LINE> +<LINE>Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet,</LINE> +<LINE>There my Lysander and myself shall meet;</LINE> +<LINE>And thence from Athens turn away our eyes,</LINE> +<LINE>To seek new friends and stranger companies.</LINE> +<LINE>Farewell, sweet playfellow: pray thou for us;</LINE> +<LINE>And good luck grant thee thy Demetrius!</LINE> +<LINE>Keep word, Lysander: we must starve our sight</LINE> +<LINE>From lovers' food till morrow deep midnight.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I will, my Hermia.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Exit HERMIA</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>Helena, adieu:</LINE> +<LINE>As you on him, Demetrius dote on you!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>How happy some o'er other some can be!</LINE> +<LINE>Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.</LINE> +<LINE>But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so;</LINE> +<LINE>He will not know what all but he do know:</LINE> +<LINE>And as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes,</LINE> +<LINE>So I, admiring of his qualities:</LINE> +<LINE>Things base and vile, folding no quantity,</LINE> +<LINE>Love can transpose to form and dignity:</LINE> +<LINE>Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;</LINE> +<LINE>And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind:</LINE> +<LINE>Nor hath Love's mind of any judgement taste;</LINE> +<LINE>Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste:</LINE> +<LINE>And therefore is Love said to be a child,</LINE> +<LINE>Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.</LINE> +<LINE>As waggish boys in game themselves forswear,</LINE> +<LINE>So the boy Love is perjured every where:</LINE> +<LINE>For ere Demetrius look'd on Hermia's eyne,</LINE> +<LINE>He hail'd down oaths that he was only mine;</LINE> +<LINE>And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,</LINE> +<LINE>So he dissolved, and showers of oaths did melt.</LINE> +<LINE>I will go tell him of fair Hermia's flight:</LINE> +<LINE>Then to the wood will he to-morrow night</LINE> +<LINE>Pursue her; and for this intelligence</LINE> +<LINE>If I have thanks, it is a dear expense:</LINE> +<LINE>But herein mean I to enrich my pain,</LINE> +<LINE>To have his sight thither and back again.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> +</SCENE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE II. Athens. QUINCE'S house.</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter QUINCE, SNUG, BOTTOM, FLUTE, SNOUT, and +STARVELING</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Is all our company here?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You were best to call them generally, man by man,</LINE> +<LINE>according to the scrip.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Here is the scroll of every man's name, which is</LINE> +<LINE>thought fit, through all Athens, to play in our</LINE> +<LINE>interlude before the duke and the duchess, on his</LINE> +<LINE>wedding-day at night.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>First, good Peter Quince, say what the play treats</LINE> +<LINE>on, then read the names of the actors, and so grow</LINE> +<LINE>to a point.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Marry, our play is, The most lamentable comedy, and</LINE> +<LINE>most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>A very good piece of work, I assure you, and a</LINE> +<LINE>merry. Now, good Peter Quince, call forth your</LINE> +<LINE>actors by the scroll. Masters, spread yourselves.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Answer as I call you. Nick Bottom, the weaver.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Ready. Name what part I am for, and proceed.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You, Nick Bottom, are set down for Pyramus.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What is Pyramus? a lover, or a tyrant?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>A lover, that kills himself most gallant for love.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>That will ask some tears in the true performing of</LINE> +<LINE>it: if I do it, let the audience look to their</LINE> +<LINE>eyes; I will move storms, I will condole in some</LINE> +<LINE>measure. To the rest: yet my chief humour is for a</LINE> +<LINE>tyrant: I could play Ercles rarely, or a part to</LINE> +<LINE>tear a cat in, to make all split.</LINE> +<LINE>The raging rocks</LINE> +<LINE>And shivering shocks</LINE> +<LINE>Shall break the locks</LINE> +<LINE>Of prison gates;</LINE> +<LINE>And Phibbus' car</LINE> +<LINE>Shall shine from far</LINE> +<LINE>And make and mar</LINE> +<LINE>The foolish Fates.</LINE> +<LINE>This was lofty! Now name the rest of the players.</LINE> +<LINE>This is Ercles' vein, a tyrant's vein; a lover is</LINE> +<LINE>more condoling.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Francis Flute, the bellows-mender.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FLUTE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Here, Peter Quince.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Flute, you must take Thisby on you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FLUTE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What is Thisby? a wandering knight?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>It is the lady that Pyramus must love.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FLUTE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>That's all one: you shall play it in a mask, and</LINE> +<LINE>you may speak as small as you will.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>An I may hide my face, let me play Thisby too, I'll</LINE> +<LINE>speak in a monstrous little voice. 'Thisne,</LINE> +<LINE>Thisne;' 'Ah, Pyramus, lover dear! thy Thisby dear,</LINE> +<LINE>and lady dear!'</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No, no; you must play Pyramus: and, Flute, you Thisby.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well, proceed.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Robin Starveling, the tailor.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>STARVELING</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Here, Peter Quince.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Robin Starveling, you must play Thisby's mother.</LINE> +<LINE>Tom Snout, the tinker.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>SNOUT</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Here, Peter Quince.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You, Pyramus' father: myself, Thisby's father:</LINE> +<LINE>Snug, the joiner; you, the lion's part: and, I</LINE> +<LINE>hope, here is a play fitted.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>SNUG</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Have you the lion's part written? pray you, if it</LINE> +<LINE>be, give it me, for I am slow of study.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Let me play the lion too: I will roar, that I will</LINE> +<LINE>do any man's heart good to hear me; I will roar,</LINE> +<LINE>that I will make the duke say 'Let him roar again,</LINE> +<LINE>let him roar again.'</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>An you should do it too terribly, you would fright</LINE> +<LINE>the duchess and the ladies, that they would shriek;</LINE> +<LINE>and that were enough to hang us all.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>ALL</SPEAKER> +<LINE>That would hang us, every mother's son.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I grant you, friends, if that you should fright the</LINE> +<LINE>ladies out of their wits, they would have no more</LINE> +<LINE>discretion but to hang us: but I will aggravate my</LINE> +<LINE>voice so that I will roar you as gently as any</LINE> +<LINE>sucking dove; I will roar you an 'twere any</LINE> +<LINE>nightingale.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You can play no part but Pyramus; for Pyramus is a</LINE> +<LINE>sweet-faced man; a proper man, as one shall see in a</LINE> +<LINE>summer's day; a most lovely gentleman-like man:</LINE> +<LINE>therefore you must needs play Pyramus.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well, I will undertake it. What beard were I best</LINE> +<LINE>to play it in?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, what you will.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I will discharge it in either your straw-colour</LINE> +<LINE>beard, your orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain</LINE> +<LINE>beard, or your French-crown-colour beard, your</LINE> +<LINE>perfect yellow.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Some of your French crowns have no hair at all, and</LINE> +<LINE>then you will play bare-faced. But, masters, here</LINE> +<LINE>are your parts: and I am to entreat you, request</LINE> +<LINE>you and desire you, to con them by to-morrow night;</LINE> +<LINE>and meet me in the palace wood, a mile without the</LINE> +<LINE>town, by moonlight; there will we rehearse, for if</LINE> +<LINE>we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with</LINE> +<LINE>company, and our devices known. In the meantime I</LINE> +<LINE>will draw a bill of properties, such as our play</LINE> +<LINE>wants. I pray you, fail me not.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>We will meet; and there we may rehearse most</LINE> +<LINE>obscenely and courageously. Take pains; be perfect: adieu.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>At the duke's oak we meet.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Enough; hold or cut bow-strings.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR> +</SCENE> + +</ACT> + +<ACT><TITLE>ACT II</TITLE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE I. A wood near Athens.</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter, from opposite sides, a Fairy, and PUCK</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>How now, spirit! whither wander you?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Fairy</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Over hill, over dale,</LINE> +<LINE>Thorough bush, thorough brier,</LINE> +<LINE>Over park, over pale,</LINE> +<LINE>Thorough flood, thorough fire,</LINE> +<LINE>I do wander everywhere,</LINE> +<LINE>Swifter than the moon's sphere;</LINE> +<LINE>And I serve the fairy queen,</LINE> +<LINE>To dew her orbs upon the green.</LINE> +<LINE>The cowslips tall her pensioners be:</LINE> +<LINE>In their gold coats spots you see;</LINE> +<LINE>Those be rubies, fairy favours,</LINE> +<LINE>In those freckles live their savours:</LINE> +<LINE>I must go seek some dewdrops here</LINE> +<LINE>And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.</LINE> +<LINE>Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone:</LINE> +<LINE>Our queen and all our elves come here anon.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>The king doth keep his revels here to-night:</LINE> +<LINE>Take heed the queen come not within his sight;</LINE> +<LINE>For Oberon is passing fell and wrath,</LINE> +<LINE>Because that she as her attendant hath</LINE> +<LINE>A lovely boy, stolen from an Indian king;</LINE> +<LINE>She never had so sweet a changeling;</LINE> +<LINE>And jealous Oberon would have the child</LINE> +<LINE>Knight of his train, to trace the forests wild;</LINE> +<LINE>But she perforce withholds the loved boy,</LINE> +<LINE>Crowns him with flowers and makes him all her joy:</LINE> +<LINE>And now they never meet in grove or green,</LINE> +<LINE>By fountain clear, or spangled starlight sheen,</LINE> +<LINE>But, they do square, that all their elves for fear</LINE> +<LINE>Creep into acorn-cups and hide them there.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Fairy</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Either I mistake your shape and making quite,</LINE> +<LINE>Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite</LINE> +<LINE>Call'd Robin Goodfellow: are not you he</LINE> +<LINE>That frights the maidens of the villagery;</LINE> +<LINE>Skim milk, and sometimes labour in the quern</LINE> +<LINE>And bootless make the breathless housewife churn;</LINE> +<LINE>And sometime make the drink to bear no barm;</LINE> +<LINE>Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm?</LINE> +<LINE>Those that Hobgoblin call you and sweet Puck,</LINE> +<LINE>You do their work, and they shall have good luck:</LINE> +<LINE>Are not you he?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Thou speak'st aright;</LINE> +<LINE>I am that merry wanderer of the night.</LINE> +<LINE>I jest to Oberon and make him smile</LINE> +<LINE>When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,</LINE> +<LINE>Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:</LINE> +<LINE>And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl,</LINE> +<LINE>In very likeness of a roasted crab,</LINE> +<LINE>And when she drinks, against her lips I bob</LINE> +<LINE>And on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale.</LINE> +<LINE>The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale,</LINE> +<LINE>Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me;</LINE> +<LINE>Then slip I from her bum, down topples she,</LINE> +<LINE>And 'tailor' cries, and falls into a cough;</LINE> +<LINE>And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh,</LINE> +<LINE>And waxen in their mirth and neeze and swear</LINE> +<LINE>A merrier hour was never wasted there.</LINE> +<LINE>But, room, fairy! here comes Oberon.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Fairy</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And here my mistress. Would that he were gone!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter, from one side, OBERON, with his train; +from the other, TITANIA, with hers</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>TITANIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What, jealous Oberon! Fairies, skip hence:</LINE> +<LINE>I have forsworn his bed and company.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Tarry, rash wanton: am not I thy lord?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>TITANIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Then I must be thy lady: but I know</LINE> +<LINE>When thou hast stolen away from fairy land,</LINE> +<LINE>And in the shape of Corin sat all day,</LINE> +<LINE>Playing on pipes of corn and versing love</LINE> +<LINE>To amorous Phillida. Why art thou here,</LINE> +<LINE>Come from the farthest Steppe of India?</LINE> +<LINE>But that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon,</LINE> +<LINE>Your buskin'd mistress and your warrior love,</LINE> +<LINE>To Theseus must be wedded, and you come</LINE> +<LINE>To give their bed joy and prosperity.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>How canst thou thus for shame, Titania,</LINE> +<LINE>Glance at my credit with Hippolyta,</LINE> +<LINE>Knowing I know thy love to Theseus?</LINE> +<LINE>Didst thou not lead him through the glimmering night</LINE> +<LINE>From Perigenia, whom he ravished?</LINE> +<LINE>And make him with fair AEgle break his faith,</LINE> +<LINE>With Ariadne and Antiopa?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>TITANIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>These are the forgeries of jealousy:</LINE> +<LINE>And never, since the middle summer's spring,</LINE> +<LINE>Met we on hill, in dale, forest or mead,</LINE> +<LINE>By paved fountain or by rushy brook,</LINE> +<LINE>Or in the beached margent of the sea,</LINE> +<LINE>To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind,</LINE> +<LINE>But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.</LINE> +<LINE>Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain,</LINE> +<LINE>As in revenge, have suck'd up from the sea</LINE> +<LINE>Contagious fogs; which falling in the land</LINE> +<LINE>Have every pelting river made so proud</LINE> +<LINE>That they have overborne their continents:</LINE> +<LINE>The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain,</LINE> +<LINE>The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn</LINE> +<LINE>Hath rotted ere his youth attain'd a beard;</LINE> +<LINE>The fold stands empty in the drowned field,</LINE> +<LINE>And crows are fatted with the murrion flock;</LINE> +<LINE>The nine men's morris is fill'd up with mud,</LINE> +<LINE>And the quaint mazes in the wanton green</LINE> +<LINE>For lack of tread are undistinguishable:</LINE> +<LINE>The human mortals want their winter here;</LINE> +<LINE>No night is now with hymn or carol blest:</LINE> +<LINE>Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,</LINE> +<LINE>Pale in her anger, washes all the air,</LINE> +<LINE>That rheumatic diseases do abound:</LINE> +<LINE>And thorough this distemperature we see</LINE> +<LINE>The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts</LINE> +<LINE>Far in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,</LINE> +<LINE>And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown</LINE> +<LINE>An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds</LINE> +<LINE>Is, as in mockery, set: the spring, the summer,</LINE> +<LINE>The childing autumn, angry winter, change</LINE> +<LINE>Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world,</LINE> +<LINE>By their increase, now knows not which is which:</LINE> +<LINE>And this same progeny of evils comes</LINE> +<LINE>From our debate, from our dissension;</LINE> +<LINE>We are their parents and original.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Do you amend it then; it lies in you:</LINE> +<LINE>Why should Titania cross her Oberon?</LINE> +<LINE>I do but beg a little changeling boy,</LINE> +<LINE>To be my henchman.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>TITANIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Set your heart at rest:</LINE> +<LINE>The fairy land buys not the child of me.</LINE> +<LINE>His mother was a votaress of my order:</LINE> +<LINE>And, in the spiced Indian air, by night,</LINE> +<LINE>Full often hath she gossip'd by my side,</LINE> +<LINE>And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands,</LINE> +<LINE>Marking the embarked traders on the flood,</LINE> +<LINE>When we have laugh'd to see the sails conceive</LINE> +<LINE>And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind;</LINE> +<LINE>Which she, with pretty and with swimming gait</LINE> +<LINE>Following,--her womb then rich with my young squire,--</LINE> +<LINE>Would imitate, and sail upon the land,</LINE> +<LINE>To fetch me trifles, and return again,</LINE> +<LINE>As from a voyage, rich with merchandise.</LINE> +<LINE>But she, being mortal, of that boy did die;</LINE> +<LINE>And for her sake do I rear up her boy,</LINE> +<LINE>And for her sake I will not part with him.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>How long within this wood intend you stay?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>TITANIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Perchance till after Theseus' wedding-day.</LINE> +<LINE>If you will patiently dance in our round</LINE> +<LINE>And see our moonlight revels, go with us;</LINE> +<LINE>If not, shun me, and I will spare your haunts.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Give me that boy, and I will go with thee.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>TITANIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Not for thy fairy kingdom. Fairies, away!</LINE> +<LINE>We shall chide downright, if I longer stay.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit TITANIA with her train</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove</LINE> +<LINE>Till I torment thee for this injury.</LINE> +<LINE>My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememberest</LINE> +<LINE>Since once I sat upon a promontory,</LINE> +<LINE>And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back</LINE> +<LINE>Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath</LINE> +<LINE>That the rude sea grew civil at her song</LINE> +<LINE>And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,</LINE> +<LINE>To hear the sea-maid's music.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I remember.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>That very time I saw, but thou couldst not,</LINE> +<LINE>Flying between the cold moon and the earth,</LINE> +<LINE>Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took</LINE> +<LINE>At a fair vestal throned by the west,</LINE> +<LINE>And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow,</LINE> +<LINE>As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts;</LINE> +<LINE>But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft</LINE> +<LINE>Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon,</LINE> +<LINE>And the imperial votaress passed on,</LINE> +<LINE>In maiden meditation, fancy-free.</LINE> +<LINE>Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell:</LINE> +<LINE>It fell upon a little western flower,</LINE> +<LINE>Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,</LINE> +<LINE>And maidens call it love-in-idleness.</LINE> +<LINE>Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once:</LINE> +<LINE>The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid</LINE> +<LINE>Will make or man or woman madly dote</LINE> +<LINE>Upon the next live creature that it sees.</LINE> +<LINE>Fetch me this herb; and be thou here again</LINE> +<LINE>Ere the leviathan can swim a league.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I'll put a girdle round about the earth</LINE> +<LINE>In forty minutes.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Having once this juice,</LINE> +<LINE>I'll watch Titania when she is asleep,</LINE> +<LINE>And drop the liquor of it in her eyes.</LINE> +<LINE>The next thing then she waking looks upon,</LINE> +<LINE>Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull,</LINE> +<LINE>On meddling monkey, or on busy ape,</LINE> +<LINE>She shall pursue it with the soul of love:</LINE> +<LINE>And ere I take this charm from off her sight,</LINE> +<LINE>As I can take it with another herb,</LINE> +<LINE>I'll make her render up her page to me.</LINE> +<LINE>But who comes here? I am invisible;</LINE> +<LINE>And I will overhear their conference.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter DEMETRIUS, HELENA, following him</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I love thee not, therefore pursue me not.</LINE> +<LINE>Where is Lysander and fair Hermia?</LINE> +<LINE>The one I'll slay, the other slayeth me.</LINE> +<LINE>Thou told'st me they were stolen unto this wood;</LINE> +<LINE>And here am I, and wode within this wood,</LINE> +<LINE>Because I cannot meet my Hermia.</LINE> +<LINE>Hence, get thee gone, and follow me no more.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant;</LINE> +<LINE>But yet you draw not iron, for my heart</LINE> +<LINE>Is true as steel: leave you your power to draw,</LINE> +<LINE>And I shall have no power to follow you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Do I entice you? do I speak you fair?</LINE> +<LINE>Or, rather, do I not in plainest truth</LINE> +<LINE>Tell you, I do not, nor I cannot love you?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And even for that do I love you the more.</LINE> +<LINE>I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius,</LINE> +<LINE>The more you beat me, I will fawn on you:</LINE> +<LINE>Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me,</LINE> +<LINE>Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave,</LINE> +<LINE>Unworthy as I am, to follow you.</LINE> +<LINE>What worser place can I beg in your love,--</LINE> +<LINE>And yet a place of high respect with me,--</LINE> +<LINE>Than to be used as you use your dog?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit;</LINE> +<LINE>For I am sick when I do look on thee.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And I am sick when I look not on you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You do impeach your modesty too much,</LINE> +<LINE>To leave the city and commit yourself</LINE> +<LINE>Into the hands of one that loves you not;</LINE> +<LINE>To trust the opportunity of night</LINE> +<LINE>And the ill counsel of a desert place</LINE> +<LINE>With the rich worth of your virginity.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Your virtue is my privilege: for that</LINE> +<LINE>It is not night when I do see your face,</LINE> +<LINE>Therefore I think I am not in the night;</LINE> +<LINE>Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company,</LINE> +<LINE>For you in my respect are all the world:</LINE> +<LINE>Then how can it be said I am alone,</LINE> +<LINE>When all the world is here to look on me?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I'll run from thee and hide me in the brakes,</LINE> +<LINE>And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>The wildest hath not such a heart as you.</LINE> +<LINE>Run when you will, the story shall be changed:</LINE> +<LINE>Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase;</LINE> +<LINE>The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind</LINE> +<LINE>Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed,</LINE> +<LINE>When cowardice pursues and valour flies.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I will not stay thy questions; let me go:</LINE> +<LINE>Or, if thou follow me, do not believe</LINE> +<LINE>But I shall do thee mischief in the wood.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Ay, in the temple, in the town, the field,</LINE> +<LINE>You do me mischief. Fie, Demetrius!</LINE> +<LINE>Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex:</LINE> +<LINE>We cannot fight for love, as men may do;</LINE> +<LINE>We should be wood and were not made to woo.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Exit DEMETRIUS</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,</LINE> +<LINE>To die upon the hand I love so well.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Fare thee well, nymph: ere he do leave this grove,</LINE> +<LINE>Thou shalt fly him and he shall seek thy love.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Re-enter PUCK</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>Hast thou the flower there? Welcome, wanderer.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Ay, there it is.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I pray thee, give it me.</LINE> +<LINE>I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,</LINE> +<LINE>Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,</LINE> +<LINE>Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,</LINE> +<LINE>With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:</LINE> +<LINE>There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,</LINE> +<LINE>Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight;</LINE> +<LINE>And there the snake throws her enamell'd skin,</LINE> +<LINE>Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in:</LINE> +<LINE>And with the juice of this I'll streak her eyes,</LINE> +<LINE>And make her full of hateful fantasies.</LINE> +<LINE>Take thou some of it, and seek through this grove:</LINE> +<LINE>A sweet Athenian lady is in love</LINE> +<LINE>With a disdainful youth: anoint his eyes;</LINE> +<LINE>But do it when the next thing he espies</LINE> +<LINE>May be the lady: thou shalt know the man</LINE> +<LINE>By the Athenian garments he hath on.</LINE> +<LINE>Effect it with some care, that he may prove</LINE> +<LINE>More fond on her than she upon her love:</LINE> +<LINE>And look thou meet me ere the first cock crow.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Fear not, my lord, your servant shall do so.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR> +</SCENE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE II. Another part of the wood.</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter TITANIA, with her train</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>TITANIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Come, now a roundel and a fairy song;</LINE> +<LINE>Then, for the third part of a minute, hence;</LINE> +<LINE>Some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds,</LINE> +<LINE>Some war with rere-mice for their leathern wings,</LINE> +<LINE>To make my small elves coats, and some keep back</LINE> +<LINE>The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders</LINE> +<LINE>At our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep;</LINE> +<LINE>Then to your offices and let me rest.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>The Fairies sing</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>You spotted snakes with double tongue,</LINE> +<LINE>Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen;</LINE> +<LINE>Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong,</LINE> +<LINE>Come not near our fairy queen.</LINE> +<LINE>Philomel, with melody</LINE> +<LINE>Sing in our sweet lullaby;</LINE> +<LINE>Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby:</LINE> +<LINE>Never harm,</LINE> +<LINE>Nor spell nor charm,</LINE> +<LINE>Come our lovely lady nigh;</LINE> +<LINE>So, good night, with lullaby.</LINE> +<LINE>Weaving spiders, come not here;</LINE> +<LINE>Hence, you long-legg'd spinners, hence!</LINE> +<LINE>Beetles black, approach not near;</LINE> +<LINE>Worm nor snail, do no offence.</LINE> +<LINE>Philomel, with melody, &c.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Fairy</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Hence, away! now all is well:</LINE> +<LINE>One aloof stand sentinel.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt Fairies. TITANIA sleeps</STAGEDIR> +<STAGEDIR>Enter OBERON and squeezes the flower on TITANIA's eyelids</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What thou seest when thou dost wake,</LINE> +<LINE>Do it for thy true-love take,</LINE> +<LINE>Love and languish for his sake:</LINE> +<LINE>Be it ounce, or cat, or bear,</LINE> +<LINE>Pard, or boar with bristled hair,</LINE> +<LINE>In thy eye that shall appear</LINE> +<LINE>When thou wakest, it is thy dear:</LINE> +<LINE>Wake when some vile thing is near.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> +<STAGEDIR>Enter LYSANDER and HERMIA</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Fair love, you faint with wandering in the wood;</LINE> +<LINE>And to speak troth, I have forgot our way:</LINE> +<LINE>We'll rest us, Hermia, if you think it good,</LINE> +<LINE>And tarry for the comfort of the day.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Be it so, Lysander: find you out a bed;</LINE> +<LINE>For I upon this bank will rest my head.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>One turf shall serve as pillow for us both;</LINE> +<LINE>One heart, one bed, two bosoms and one troth.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Nay, good Lysander; for my sake, my dear,</LINE> +<LINE>Lie further off yet, do not lie so near.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence!</LINE> +<LINE>Love takes the meaning in love's conference.</LINE> +<LINE>I mean, that my heart unto yours is knit</LINE> +<LINE>So that but one heart we can make of it;</LINE> +<LINE>Two bosoms interchained with an oath;</LINE> +<LINE>So then two bosoms and a single troth.</LINE> +<LINE>Then by your side no bed-room me deny;</LINE> +<LINE>For lying so, Hermia, I do not lie.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Lysander riddles very prettily:</LINE> +<LINE>Now much beshrew my manners and my pride,</LINE> +<LINE>If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied.</LINE> +<LINE>But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy</LINE> +<LINE>Lie further off; in human modesty,</LINE> +<LINE>Such separation as may well be said</LINE> +<LINE>Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid,</LINE> +<LINE>So far be distant; and, good night, sweet friend:</LINE> +<LINE>Thy love ne'er alter till thy sweet life end!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Amen, amen, to that fair prayer, say I;</LINE> +<LINE>And then end life when I end loyalty!</LINE> +<LINE>Here is my bed: sleep give thee all his rest!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>With half that wish the wisher's eyes be press'd!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<STAGEDIR>They sleep</STAGEDIR> +<STAGEDIR>Enter PUCK</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Through the forest have I gone.</LINE> +<LINE>But Athenian found I none,</LINE> +<LINE>On whose eyes I might approve</LINE> +<LINE>This flower's force in stirring love.</LINE> +<LINE>Night and silence.--Who is here?</LINE> +<LINE>Weeds of Athens he doth wear:</LINE> +<LINE>This is he, my master said,</LINE> +<LINE>Despised the Athenian maid;</LINE> +<LINE>And here the maiden, sleeping sound,</LINE> +<LINE>On the dank and dirty ground.</LINE> +<LINE>Pretty soul! she durst not lie</LINE> +<LINE>Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.</LINE> +<LINE>Churl, upon thy eyes I throw</LINE> +<LINE>All the power this charm doth owe.</LINE> +<LINE>When thou wakest, let love forbid</LINE> +<LINE>Sleep his seat on thy eyelid:</LINE> +<LINE>So awake when I am gone;</LINE> +<LINE>For I must now to Oberon.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> +<STAGEDIR>Enter DEMETRIUS and HELENA, running</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Stay, though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O, wilt thou darkling leave me? do not so.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Stay, on thy peril: I alone will go.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O, I am out of breath in this fond chase!</LINE> +<LINE>The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace.</LINE> +<LINE>Happy is Hermia, wheresoe'er she lies;</LINE> +<LINE>For she hath blessed and attractive eyes.</LINE> +<LINE>How came her eyes so bright? Not with salt tears:</LINE> +<LINE>If so, my eyes are oftener wash'd than hers.</LINE> +<LINE>No, no, I am as ugly as a bear;</LINE> +<LINE>For beasts that meet me run away for fear:</LINE> +<LINE>Therefore no marvel though Demetrius</LINE> +<LINE>Do, as a monster fly my presence thus.</LINE> +<LINE>What wicked and dissembling glass of mine</LINE> +<LINE>Made me compare with Hermia's sphery eyne?</LINE> +<LINE>But who is here? Lysander! on the ground!</LINE> +<LINE>Dead? or asleep? I see no blood, no wound.</LINE> +<LINE>Lysander if you live, good sir, awake.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE><STAGEDIR>Awaking</STAGEDIR> And run through fire I will for thy sweet sake.</LINE> +<LINE>Transparent Helena! Nature shows art,</LINE> +<LINE>That through thy bosom makes me see thy heart.</LINE> +<LINE>Where is Demetrius? O, how fit a word</LINE> +<LINE>Is that vile name to perish on my sword!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Do not say so, Lysander; say not so</LINE> +<LINE>What though he love your Hermia? Lord, what though?</LINE> +<LINE>Yet Hermia still loves you: then be content.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Content with Hermia! No; I do repent</LINE> +<LINE>The tedious minutes I with her have spent.</LINE> +<LINE>Not Hermia but Helena I love:</LINE> +<LINE>Who will not change a raven for a dove?</LINE> +<LINE>The will of man is by his reason sway'd;</LINE> +<LINE>And reason says you are the worthier maid.</LINE> +<LINE>Things growing are not ripe until their season</LINE> +<LINE>So I, being young, till now ripe not to reason;</LINE> +<LINE>And touching now the point of human skill,</LINE> +<LINE>Reason becomes the marshal to my will</LINE> +<LINE>And leads me to your eyes, where I o'erlook</LINE> +<LINE>Love's stories written in love's richest book.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?</LINE> +<LINE>When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?</LINE> +<LINE>Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man,</LINE> +<LINE>That I did never, no, nor never can,</LINE> +<LINE>Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye,</LINE> +<LINE>But you must flout my insufficiency?</LINE> +<LINE>Good troth, you do me wrong, good sooth, you do,</LINE> +<LINE>In such disdainful manner me to woo.</LINE> +<LINE>But fare you well: perforce I must confess</LINE> +<LINE>I thought you lord of more true gentleness.</LINE> +<LINE>O, that a lady, of one man refused.</LINE> +<LINE>Should of another therefore be abused!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>She sees not Hermia. Hermia, sleep thou there:</LINE> +<LINE>And never mayst thou come Lysander near!</LINE> +<LINE>For as a surfeit of the sweetest things</LINE> +<LINE>The deepest loathing to the stomach brings,</LINE> +<LINE>Or as tie heresies that men do leave</LINE> +<LINE>Are hated most of those they did deceive,</LINE> +<LINE>So thou, my surfeit and my heresy,</LINE> +<LINE>Of all be hated, but the most of me!</LINE> +<LINE>And, all my powers, address your love and might</LINE> +<LINE>To honour Helen and to be her knight!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE><STAGEDIR>Awaking</STAGEDIR> Help me, Lysander, help me! do thy best</LINE> +<LINE>To pluck this crawling serpent from my breast!</LINE> +<LINE>Ay me, for pity! what a dream was here!</LINE> +<LINE>Lysander, look how I do quake with fear:</LINE> +<LINE>Methought a serpent eat my heart away,</LINE> +<LINE>And you sat smiling at his cruel pray.</LINE> +<LINE>Lysander! what, removed? Lysander! lord!</LINE> +<LINE>What, out of hearing? gone? no sound, no word?</LINE> +<LINE>Alack, where are you speak, an if you hear;</LINE> +<LINE>Speak, of all loves! I swoon almost with fear.</LINE> +<LINE>No? then I well perceive you all not nigh</LINE> +<LINE>Either death or you I'll find immediately.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> +</SCENE> + +</ACT> + +<ACT><TITLE>ACT III</TITLE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE I. The wood. TITANIA lying asleep.</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter QUINCE, SNUG, BOTTOM, FLUTE, SNOUT, and +STARVELING</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Are we all met?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Pat, pat; and here's a marvellous convenient place</LINE> +<LINE>for our rehearsal. This green plot shall be our</LINE> +<LINE>stage, this hawthorn-brake our tiring-house; and we</LINE> +<LINE>will do it in action as we will do it before the duke.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Peter Quince,--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What sayest thou, bully Bottom?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>There are things in this comedy of Pyramus and</LINE> +<LINE>Thisby that will never please. First, Pyramus must</LINE> +<LINE>draw a sword to kill himself; which the ladies</LINE> +<LINE>cannot abide. How answer you that?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>SNOUT</SPEAKER> +<LINE>By'r lakin, a parlous fear.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>STARVELING</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I believe we must leave the killing out, when all is done.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Not a whit: I have a device to make all well.</LINE> +<LINE>Write me a prologue; and let the prologue seem to</LINE> +<LINE>say, we will do no harm with our swords, and that</LINE> +<LINE>Pyramus is not killed indeed; and, for the more</LINE> +<LINE>better assurance, tell them that I, Pyramus, am not</LINE> +<LINE>Pyramus, but Bottom the weaver: this will put them</LINE> +<LINE>out of fear.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well, we will have such a prologue; and it shall be</LINE> +<LINE>written in eight and six.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No, make it two more; let it be written in eight and eight.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>SNOUT</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Will not the ladies be afeard of the lion?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>STARVELING</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I fear it, I promise you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Masters, you ought to consider with yourselves: to</LINE> +<LINE>bring in--God shield us!--a lion among ladies, is a</LINE> +<LINE>most dreadful thing; for there is not a more fearful</LINE> +<LINE>wild-fowl than your lion living; and we ought to</LINE> +<LINE>look to 't.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>SNOUT</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Nay, you must name his name, and half his face must</LINE> +<LINE>be seen through the lion's neck: and he himself</LINE> +<LINE>must speak through, saying thus, or to the same</LINE> +<LINE>defect,--'Ladies,'--or 'Fair-ladies--I would wish</LINE> +<LINE>You,'--or 'I would request you,'--or 'I would</LINE> +<LINE>entreat you,--not to fear, not to tremble: my life</LINE> +<LINE>for yours. If you think I come hither as a lion, it</LINE> +<LINE>were pity of my life: no I am no such thing; I am a</LINE> +<LINE>man as other men are;' and there indeed let him name</LINE> +<LINE>his name, and tell them plainly he is Snug the joiner.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well it shall be so. But there is two hard things;</LINE> +<LINE>that is, to bring the moonlight into a chamber; for,</LINE> +<LINE>you know, Pyramus and Thisby meet by moonlight.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>SNOUT</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Doth the moon shine that night we play our play?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>A calendar, a calendar! look in the almanac; find</LINE> +<LINE>out moonshine, find out moonshine.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yes, it doth shine that night.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, then may you leave a casement of the great</LINE> +<LINE>chamber window, where we play, open, and the moon</LINE> +<LINE>may shine in at the casement.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Ay; or else one must come in with a bush of thorns</LINE> +<LINE>and a lanthorn, and say he comes to disfigure, or to</LINE> +<LINE>present, the person of Moonshine. Then, there is</LINE> +<LINE>another thing: we must have a wall in the great</LINE> +<LINE>chamber; for Pyramus and Thisby says the story, did</LINE> +<LINE>talk through the chink of a wall.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>SNOUT</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You can never bring in a wall. What say you, Bottom?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Some man or other must present Wall: and let him</LINE> +<LINE>have some plaster, or some loam, or some rough-cast</LINE> +<LINE>about him, to signify wall; and let him hold his</LINE> +<LINE>fingers thus, and through that cranny shall Pyramus</LINE> +<LINE>and Thisby whisper.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If that may be, then all is well. Come, sit down,</LINE> +<LINE>every mother's son, and rehearse your parts.</LINE> +<LINE>Pyramus, you begin: when you have spoken your</LINE> +<LINE>speech, enter into that brake: and so every one</LINE> +<LINE>according to his cue.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter PUCK behind</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What hempen home-spuns have we swaggering here,</LINE> +<LINE>So near the cradle of the fairy queen?</LINE> +<LINE>What, a play toward! I'll be an auditor;</LINE> +<LINE>An actor too, perhaps, if I see cause.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Speak, Pyramus. Thisby, stand forth.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Thisby, the flowers of odious savours sweet,--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Odours, odours.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>--odours savours sweet:</LINE> +<LINE>So hath thy breath, my dearest Thisby dear.</LINE> +<LINE>But hark, a voice! stay thou but here awhile,</LINE> +<LINE>And by and by I will to thee appear.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>A stranger Pyramus than e'er played here.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FLUTE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Must I speak now?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Ay, marry, must you; for you must understand he goes</LINE> +<LINE>but to see a noise that he heard, and is to come again.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FLUTE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Most radiant Pyramus, most lily-white of hue,</LINE> +<LINE>Of colour like the red rose on triumphant brier,</LINE> +<LINE>Most brisky juvenal and eke most lovely Jew,</LINE> +<LINE>As true as truest horse that yet would never tire,</LINE> +<LINE>I'll meet thee, Pyramus, at Ninny's tomb.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>'Ninus' tomb,' man: why, you must not speak that</LINE> +<LINE>yet; that you answer to Pyramus: you speak all your</LINE> +<LINE>part at once, cues and all Pyramus enter: your cue</LINE> +<LINE>is past; it is, 'never tire.'</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FLUTE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O,--As true as truest horse, that yet would</LINE> +<LINE>never tire.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Re-enter PUCK, and BOTTOM with an ass's head</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If I were fair, Thisby, I were only thine.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O monstrous! O strange! we are haunted. Pray,</LINE> +<LINE>masters! fly, masters! Help!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt QUINCE, SNUG, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I'll follow you, I'll lead you about a round,</LINE> +<LINE>Through bog, through bush, through brake, through brier:</LINE> +<LINE>Sometime a horse I'll be, sometime a hound,</LINE> +<LINE>A hog, a headless bear, sometime a fire;</LINE> +<LINE>And neigh, and bark, and grunt, and roar, and burn,</LINE> +<LINE>Like horse, hound, hog, bear, fire, at every turn.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why do they run away? this is a knavery of them to</LINE> +<LINE>make me afeard.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Re-enter SNOUT</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>SNOUT</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O Bottom, thou art changed! what do I see on thee?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What do you see? you see an asshead of your own, do</LINE> +<LINE>you?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<STAGEDIR>Exit SNOUT</STAGEDIR> +<STAGEDIR>Re-enter QUINCE</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art</LINE> +<LINE>translated.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I see their knavery: this is to make an ass of me;</LINE> +<LINE>to fright me, if they could. But I will not stir</LINE> +<LINE>from this place, do what they can: I will walk up</LINE> +<LINE>and down here, and I will sing, that they shall hear</LINE> +<LINE>I am not afraid.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Sings</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>The ousel cock so black of hue,</LINE> +<LINE>With orange-tawny bill,</LINE> +<LINE>The throstle with his note so true,</LINE> +<LINE>The wren with little quill,--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>TITANIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE><STAGEDIR>Awaking</STAGEDIR> What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE><STAGEDIR>Sings</STAGEDIR></LINE> +<LINE>The finch, the sparrow and the lark,</LINE> +<LINE>The plain-song cuckoo gray,</LINE> +<LINE>Whose note full many a man doth mark,</LINE> +<LINE>And dares not answer nay;--</LINE> +<LINE>for, indeed, who would set his wit to so foolish</LINE> +<LINE>a bird? who would give a bird the lie, though he cry</LINE> +<LINE>'cuckoo' never so?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>TITANIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again:</LINE> +<LINE>Mine ear is much enamour'd of thy note;</LINE> +<LINE>So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;</LINE> +<LINE>And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me</LINE> +<LINE>On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason</LINE> +<LINE>for that: and yet, to say the truth, reason and</LINE> +<LINE>love keep little company together now-a-days; the</LINE> +<LINE>more the pity that some honest neighbours will not</LINE> +<LINE>make them friends. Nay, I can gleek upon occasion.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>TITANIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Not so, neither: but if I had wit enough to get out</LINE> +<LINE>of this wood, I have enough to serve mine own turn.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>TITANIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Out of this wood do not desire to go:</LINE> +<LINE>Thou shalt remain here, whether thou wilt or no.</LINE> +<LINE>I am a spirit of no common rate;</LINE> +<LINE>The summer still doth tend upon my state;</LINE> +<LINE>And I do love thee: therefore, go with me;</LINE> +<LINE>I'll give thee fairies to attend on thee,</LINE> +<LINE>And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep,</LINE> +<LINE>And sing while thou on pressed flowers dost sleep;</LINE> +<LINE>And I will purge thy mortal grossness so</LINE> +<LINE>That thou shalt like an airy spirit go.</LINE> +<LINE>Peaseblossom! Cobweb! Moth! and Mustardseed!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter PEASEBLOSSOM, COBWEB, MOTH, and MUSTARDSEED</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PEASEBLOSSOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Ready.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>COBWEB</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And I.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MOTH</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And I.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MUSTARDSEED</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And I.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>ALL</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Where shall we go?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>TITANIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Be kind and courteous to this gentleman;</LINE> +<LINE>Hop in his walks and gambol in his eyes;</LINE> +<LINE>Feed him with apricocks and dewberries,</LINE> +<LINE>With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries;</LINE> +<LINE>The honey-bags steal from the humble-bees,</LINE> +<LINE>And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs</LINE> +<LINE>And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes,</LINE> +<LINE>To have my love to bed and to arise;</LINE> +<LINE>And pluck the wings from Painted butterflies</LINE> +<LINE>To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes:</LINE> +<LINE>Nod to him, elves, and do him courtesies.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PEASEBLOSSOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Hail, mortal!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>COBWEB</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Hail!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MOTH</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Hail!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MUSTARDSEED</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Hail!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I cry your worship's mercy, heartily: I beseech your</LINE> +<LINE>worship's name.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>COBWEB</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Cobweb.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I shall desire you of more acquaintance, good Master</LINE> +<LINE>Cobweb: if I cut my finger, I shall make bold with</LINE> +<LINE>you. Your name, honest gentleman?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PEASEBLOSSOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Peaseblossom.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I pray you, commend me to Mistress Squash, your</LINE> +<LINE>mother, and to Master Peascod, your father. Good</LINE> +<LINE>Master Peaseblossom, I shall desire you of more</LINE> +<LINE>acquaintance too. Your name, I beseech you, sir?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MUSTARDSEED</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Mustardseed.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Good Master Mustardseed, I know your patience well:</LINE> +<LINE>that same cowardly, giant-like ox-beef hath</LINE> +<LINE>devoured many a gentleman of your house: I promise</LINE> +<LINE>you your kindred had made my eyes water ere now. I</LINE> +<LINE>desire your more acquaintance, good Master</LINE> +<LINE>Mustardseed.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>TITANIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Come, wait upon him; lead him to my bower.</LINE> +<LINE>The moon methinks looks with a watery eye;</LINE> +<LINE>And when she weeps, weeps every little flower,</LINE> +<LINE>Lamenting some enforced chastity.</LINE> +<LINE>Tie up my love's tongue bring him silently.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR> +</SCENE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE II. Another part of the wood.</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter OBERON</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I wonder if Titania be awaked;</LINE> +<LINE>Then, what it was that next came in her eye,</LINE> +<LINE>Which she must dote on in extremity.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter PUCK</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>Here comes my messenger.</LINE> +<LINE>How now, mad spirit!</LINE> +<LINE>What night-rule now about this haunted grove?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>My mistress with a monster is in love.</LINE> +<LINE>Near to her close and consecrated bower,</LINE> +<LINE>While she was in her dull and sleeping hour,</LINE> +<LINE>A crew of patches, rude mechanicals,</LINE> +<LINE>That work for bread upon Athenian stalls,</LINE> +<LINE>Were met together to rehearse a play</LINE> +<LINE>Intended for great Theseus' nuptial-day.</LINE> +<LINE>The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort,</LINE> +<LINE>Who Pyramus presented, in their sport</LINE> +<LINE>Forsook his scene and enter'd in a brake</LINE> +<LINE>When I did him at this advantage take,</LINE> +<LINE>An ass's nole I fixed on his head:</LINE> +<LINE>Anon his Thisbe must be answered,</LINE> +<LINE>And forth my mimic comes. When they him spy,</LINE> +<LINE>As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,</LINE> +<LINE>Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,</LINE> +<LINE>Rising and cawing at the gun's report,</LINE> +<LINE>Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky,</LINE> +<LINE>So, at his sight, away his fellows fly;</LINE> +<LINE>And, at our stamp, here o'er and o'er one falls;</LINE> +<LINE>He murder cries and help from Athens calls.</LINE> +<LINE>Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears</LINE> +<LINE>thus strong,</LINE> +<LINE>Made senseless things begin to do them wrong;</LINE> +<LINE>For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch;</LINE> +<LINE>Some sleeves, some hats, from yielders all</LINE> +<LINE>things catch.</LINE> +<LINE>I led them on in this distracted fear,</LINE> +<LINE>And left sweet Pyramus translated there:</LINE> +<LINE>When in that moment, so it came to pass,</LINE> +<LINE>Titania waked and straightway loved an ass.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>This falls out better than I could devise.</LINE> +<LINE>But hast thou yet latch'd the Athenian's eyes</LINE> +<LINE>With the love-juice, as I did bid thee do?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I took him sleeping,--that is finish'd too,--</LINE> +<LINE>And the Athenian woman by his side:</LINE> +<LINE>That, when he waked, of force she must be eyed.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter HERMIA and DEMETRIUS</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Stand close: this is the same Athenian.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>This is the woman, but not this the man.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O, why rebuke you him that loves you so?</LINE> +<LINE>Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Now I but chide; but I should use thee worse,</LINE> +<LINE>For thou, I fear, hast given me cause to curse,</LINE> +<LINE>If thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep,</LINE> +<LINE>Being o'er shoes in blood, plunge in the deep,</LINE> +<LINE>And kill me too.</LINE> +<LINE>The sun was not so true unto the day</LINE> +<LINE>As he to me: would he have stolen away</LINE> +<LINE>From sleeping Hermia? I'll believe as soon</LINE> +<LINE>This whole earth may be bored and that the moon</LINE> +<LINE>May through the centre creep and so displease</LINE> +<LINE>Her brother's noontide with Antipodes.</LINE> +<LINE>It cannot be but thou hast murder'd him;</LINE> +<LINE>So should a murderer look, so dead, so grim.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>So should the murder'd look, and so should I,</LINE> +<LINE>Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty:</LINE> +<LINE>Yet you, the murderer, look as bright, as clear,</LINE> +<LINE>As yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What's this to my Lysander? where is he?</LINE> +<LINE>Ah, good Demetrius, wilt thou give him me?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I had rather give his carcass to my hounds.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Out, dog! out, cur! thou drivest me past the bounds</LINE> +<LINE>Of maiden's patience. Hast thou slain him, then?</LINE> +<LINE>Henceforth be never number'd among men!</LINE> +<LINE>O, once tell true, tell true, even for my sake!</LINE> +<LINE>Durst thou have look'd upon him being awake,</LINE> +<LINE>And hast thou kill'd him sleeping? O brave touch!</LINE> +<LINE>Could not a worm, an adder, do so much?</LINE> +<LINE>An adder did it; for with doubler tongue</LINE> +<LINE>Than thine, thou serpent, never adder stung.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You spend your passion on a misprised mood:</LINE> +<LINE>I am not guilty of Lysander's blood;</LINE> +<LINE>Nor is he dead, for aught that I can tell.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I pray thee, tell me then that he is well.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>An if I could, what should I get therefore?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>A privilege never to see me more.</LINE> +<LINE>And from thy hated presence part I so:</LINE> +<LINE>See me no more, whether he be dead or no.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>There is no following her in this fierce vein:</LINE> +<LINE>Here therefore for a while I will remain.</LINE> +<LINE>So sorrow's heaviness doth heavier grow</LINE> +<LINE>For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe:</LINE> +<LINE>Which now in some slight measure it will pay,</LINE> +<LINE>If for his tender here I make some stay.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Lies down and sleeps</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What hast thou done? thou hast mistaken quite</LINE> +<LINE>And laid the love-juice on some true-love's sight:</LINE> +<LINE>Of thy misprision must perforce ensue</LINE> +<LINE>Some true love turn'd and not a false turn'd true.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Then fate o'er-rules, that, one man holding troth,</LINE> +<LINE>A million fail, confounding oath on oath.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>About the wood go swifter than the wind,</LINE> +<LINE>And Helena of Athens look thou find:</LINE> +<LINE>All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer,</LINE> +<LINE>With sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear:</LINE> +<LINE>By some illusion see thou bring her here:</LINE> +<LINE>I'll charm his eyes against she do appear.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I go, I go; look how I go,</LINE> +<LINE>Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Flower of this purple dye,</LINE> +<LINE>Hit with Cupid's archery,</LINE> +<LINE>Sink in apple of his eye.</LINE> +<LINE>When his love he doth espy,</LINE> +<LINE>Let her shine as gloriously</LINE> +<LINE>As the Venus of the sky.</LINE> +<LINE>When thou wakest, if she be by,</LINE> +<LINE>Beg of her for remedy.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Re-enter PUCK</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Captain of our fairy band,</LINE> +<LINE>Helena is here at hand;</LINE> +<LINE>And the youth, mistook by me,</LINE> +<LINE>Pleading for a lover's fee.</LINE> +<LINE>Shall we their fond pageant see?</LINE> +<LINE>Lord, what fools these mortals be!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Stand aside: the noise they make</LINE> +<LINE>Will cause Demetrius to awake.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Then will two at once woo one;</LINE> +<LINE>That must needs be sport alone;</LINE> +<LINE>And those things do best please me</LINE> +<LINE>That befal preposterously.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter LYSANDER and HELENA</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?</LINE> +<LINE>Scorn and derision never come in tears:</LINE> +<LINE>Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born,</LINE> +<LINE>In their nativity all truth appears.</LINE> +<LINE>How can these things in me seem scorn to you,</LINE> +<LINE>Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You do advance your cunning more and more.</LINE> +<LINE>When truth kills truth, O devilish-holy fray!</LINE> +<LINE>These vows are Hermia's: will you give her o'er?</LINE> +<LINE>Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh:</LINE> +<LINE>Your vows to her and me, put in two scales,</LINE> +<LINE>Will even weigh, and both as light as tales.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I had no judgment when to her I swore.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Nor none, in my mind, now you give her o'er.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Demetrius loves her, and he loves not you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE><STAGEDIR>Awaking</STAGEDIR> O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine!</LINE> +<LINE>To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne?</LINE> +<LINE>Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show</LINE> +<LINE>Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!</LINE> +<LINE>That pure congealed white, high Taurus snow,</LINE> +<LINE>Fann'd with the eastern wind, turns to a crow</LINE> +<LINE>When thou hold'st up thy hand: O, let me kiss</LINE> +<LINE>This princess of pure white, this seal of bliss!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent</LINE> +<LINE>To set against me for your merriment:</LINE> +<LINE>If you we re civil and knew courtesy,</LINE> +<LINE>You would not do me thus much injury.</LINE> +<LINE>Can you not hate me, as I know you do,</LINE> +<LINE>But you must join in souls to mock me too?</LINE> +<LINE>If you were men, as men you are in show,</LINE> +<LINE>You would not use a gentle lady so;</LINE> +<LINE>To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts,</LINE> +<LINE>When I am sure you hate me with your hearts.</LINE> +<LINE>You both are rivals, and love Hermia;</LINE> +<LINE>And now both rivals, to mock Helena:</LINE> +<LINE>A trim exploit, a manly enterprise,</LINE> +<LINE>To conjure tears up in a poor maid's eyes</LINE> +<LINE>With your derision! none of noble sort</LINE> +<LINE>Would so offend a virgin, and extort</LINE> +<LINE>A poor soul's patience, all to make you sport.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You are unkind, Demetrius; be not so;</LINE> +<LINE>For you love Hermia; this you know I know:</LINE> +<LINE>And here, with all good will, with all my heart,</LINE> +<LINE>In Hermia's love I yield you up my part;</LINE> +<LINE>And yours of Helena to me bequeath,</LINE> +<LINE>Whom I do love and will do till my death.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Never did mockers waste more idle breath.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Lysander, keep thy Hermia; I will none:</LINE> +<LINE>If e'er I loved her, all that love is gone.</LINE> +<LINE>My heart to her but as guest-wise sojourn'd,</LINE> +<LINE>And now to Helen is it home return'd,</LINE> +<LINE>There to remain.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Helen, it is not so.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Disparage not the faith thou dost not know,</LINE> +<LINE>Lest, to thy peril, thou aby it dear.</LINE> +<LINE>Look, where thy love comes; yonder is thy dear.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Re-enter HERMIA</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Dark night, that from the eye his function takes,</LINE> +<LINE>The ear more quick of apprehension makes;</LINE> +<LINE>Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense,</LINE> +<LINE>It pays the hearing double recompense.</LINE> +<LINE>Thou art not by mine eye, Lysander, found;</LINE> +<LINE>Mine ear, I thank it, brought me to thy sound</LINE> +<LINE>But why unkindly didst thou leave me so?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why should he stay, whom love doth press to go?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What love could press Lysander from my side?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Lysander's love, that would not let him bide,</LINE> +<LINE>Fair Helena, who more engilds the night</LINE> +<LINE>Than all you fiery oes and eyes of light.</LINE> +<LINE>Why seek'st thou me? could not this make thee know,</LINE> +<LINE>The hate I bear thee made me leave thee so?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You speak not as you think: it cannot be.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Lo, she is one of this confederacy!</LINE> +<LINE>Now I perceive they have conjoin'd all three</LINE> +<LINE>To fashion this false sport, in spite of me.</LINE> +<LINE>Injurious Hermia! most ungrateful maid!</LINE> +<LINE>Have you conspired, have you with these contrived</LINE> +<LINE>To bait me with this foul derision?</LINE> +<LINE>Is all the counsel that we two have shared,</LINE> +<LINE>The sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent,</LINE> +<LINE>When we have chid the hasty-footed time</LINE> +<LINE>For parting us,--O, is it all forgot?</LINE> +<LINE>All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence?</LINE> +<LINE>We, Hermia, like two artificial gods,</LINE> +<LINE>Have with our needles created both one flower,</LINE> +<LINE>Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion,</LINE> +<LINE>Both warbling of one song, both in one key,</LINE> +<LINE>As if our hands, our sides, voices and minds,</LINE> +<LINE>Had been incorporate. So we grow together,</LINE> +<LINE>Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,</LINE> +<LINE>But yet an union in partition;</LINE> +<LINE>Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;</LINE> +<LINE>So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart;</LINE> +<LINE>Two of the first, like coats in heraldry,</LINE> +<LINE>Due but to one and crowned with one crest.</LINE> +<LINE>And will you rent our ancient love asunder,</LINE> +<LINE>To join with men in scorning your poor friend?</LINE> +<LINE>It is not friendly, 'tis not maidenly:</LINE> +<LINE>Our sex, as well as I, may chide you for it,</LINE> +<LINE>Though I alone do feel the injury.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I am amazed at your passionate words.</LINE> +<LINE>I scorn you not: it seems that you scorn me.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Have you not set Lysander, as in scorn,</LINE> +<LINE>To follow me and praise my eyes and face?</LINE> +<LINE>And made your other love, Demetrius,</LINE> +<LINE>Who even but now did spurn me with his foot,</LINE> +<LINE>To call me goddess, nymph, divine and rare,</LINE> +<LINE>Precious, celestial? Wherefore speaks he this</LINE> +<LINE>To her he hates? and wherefore doth Lysander</LINE> +<LINE>Deny your love, so rich within his soul,</LINE> +<LINE>And tender me, forsooth, affection,</LINE> +<LINE>But by your setting on, by your consent?</LINE> +<LINE>What thought I be not so in grace as you,</LINE> +<LINE>So hung upon with love, so fortunate,</LINE> +<LINE>But miserable most, to love unloved?</LINE> +<LINE>This you should pity rather than despise.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERNIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I understand not what you mean by this.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Ay, do, persever, counterfeit sad looks,</LINE> +<LINE>Make mouths upon me when I turn my back;</LINE> +<LINE>Wink each at other; hold the sweet jest up:</LINE> +<LINE>This sport, well carried, shall be chronicled.</LINE> +<LINE>If you have any pity, grace, or manners,</LINE> +<LINE>You would not make me such an argument.</LINE> +<LINE>But fare ye well: 'tis partly my own fault;</LINE> +<LINE>Which death or absence soon shall remedy.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Stay, gentle Helena; hear my excuse:</LINE> +<LINE>My love, my life my soul, fair Helena!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O excellent!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Sweet, do not scorn her so.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If she cannot entreat, I can compel.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Thou canst compel no more than she entreat:</LINE> +<LINE>Thy threats have no more strength than her weak prayers.</LINE> +<LINE>Helen, I love thee; by my life, I do:</LINE> +<LINE>I swear by that which I will lose for thee,</LINE> +<LINE>To prove him false that says I love thee not.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I say I love thee more than he can do.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If thou say so, withdraw, and prove it too.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Quick, come!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Lysander, whereto tends all this?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Away, you Ethiope!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No, no; he'll</LINE> +<LINE>Seem to break loose; take on as you would follow,</LINE> +<LINE>But yet come not: you are a tame man, go!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! vile thing, let loose,</LINE> +<LINE>Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why are you grown so rude? what change is this?</LINE> +<LINE>Sweet love,--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Thy love! out, tawny Tartar, out!</LINE> +<LINE>Out, loathed medicine! hated potion, hence!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Do you not jest?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yes, sooth; and so do you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Demetrius, I will keep my word with thee.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I would I had your bond, for I perceive</LINE> +<LINE>A weak bond holds you: I'll not trust your word.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What, should I hurt her, strike her, kill her dead?</LINE> +<LINE>Although I hate her, I'll not harm her so.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What, can you do me greater harm than hate?</LINE> +<LINE>Hate me! wherefore? O me! what news, my love!</LINE> +<LINE>Am not I Hermia? are not you Lysander?</LINE> +<LINE>I am as fair now as I was erewhile.</LINE> +<LINE>Since night you loved me; yet since night you left</LINE> +<LINE>me:</LINE> +<LINE>Why, then you left me--O, the gods forbid!--</LINE> +<LINE>In earnest, shall I say?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Ay, by my life;</LINE> +<LINE>And never did desire to see thee more.</LINE> +<LINE>Therefore be out of hope, of question, of doubt;</LINE> +<LINE>Be certain, nothing truer; 'tis no jest</LINE> +<LINE>That I do hate thee and love Helena.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O me! you juggler! you canker-blossom!</LINE> +<LINE>You thief of love! what, have you come by night</LINE> +<LINE>And stolen my love's heart from him?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Fine, i'faith!</LINE> +<LINE>Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,</LINE> +<LINE>No touch of bashfulness? What, will you tear</LINE> +<LINE>Impatient answers from my gentle tongue?</LINE> +<LINE>Fie, fie! you counterfeit, you puppet, you!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Puppet? why so? ay, that way goes the game.</LINE> +<LINE>Now I perceive that she hath made compare</LINE> +<LINE>Between our statures; she hath urged her height;</LINE> +<LINE>And with her personage, her tall personage,</LINE> +<LINE>Her height, forsooth, she hath prevail'd with him.</LINE> +<LINE>And are you grown so high in his esteem;</LINE> +<LINE>Because I am so dwarfish and so low?</LINE> +<LINE>How low am I, thou painted maypole? speak;</LINE> +<LINE>How low am I? I am not yet so low</LINE> +<LINE>But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I pray you, though you mock me, gentlemen,</LINE> +<LINE>Let her not hurt me: I was never curst;</LINE> +<LINE>I have no gift at all in shrewishness;</LINE> +<LINE>I am a right maid for my cowardice:</LINE> +<LINE>Let her not strike me. You perhaps may think,</LINE> +<LINE>Because she is something lower than myself,</LINE> +<LINE>That I can match her.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Lower! hark, again.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Good Hermia, do not be so bitter with me.</LINE> +<LINE>I evermore did love you, Hermia,</LINE> +<LINE>Did ever keep your counsels, never wrong'd you;</LINE> +<LINE>Save that, in love unto Demetrius,</LINE> +<LINE>I told him of your stealth unto this wood.</LINE> +<LINE>He follow'd you; for love I follow'd him;</LINE> +<LINE>But he hath chid me hence and threaten'd me</LINE> +<LINE>To strike me, spurn me, nay, to kill me too:</LINE> +<LINE>And now, so you will let me quiet go,</LINE> +<LINE>To Athens will I bear my folly back</LINE> +<LINE>And follow you no further: let me go:</LINE> +<LINE>You see how simple and how fond I am.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, get you gone: who is't that hinders you?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>A foolish heart, that I leave here behind.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What, with Lysander?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>With Demetrius.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Be not afraid; she shall not harm thee, Helena.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No, sir, she shall not, though you take her part.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd!</LINE> +<LINE>She was a vixen when she went to school;</LINE> +<LINE>And though she be but little, she is fierce.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>'Little' again! nothing but 'low' and 'little'!</LINE> +<LINE>Why will you suffer her to flout me thus?</LINE> +<LINE>Let me come to her.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Get you gone, you dwarf;</LINE> +<LINE>You minimus, of hindering knot-grass made;</LINE> +<LINE>You bead, you acorn.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You are too officious</LINE> +<LINE>In her behalf that scorns your services.</LINE> +<LINE>Let her alone: speak not of Helena;</LINE> +<LINE>Take not her part; for, if thou dost intend</LINE> +<LINE>Never so little show of love to her,</LINE> +<LINE>Thou shalt aby it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Now she holds me not;</LINE> +<LINE>Now follow, if thou darest, to try whose right,</LINE> +<LINE>Of thine or mine, is most in Helena.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Follow! nay, I'll go with thee, cheek by jole.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt LYSANDER and DEMETRIUS</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You, mistress, all this coil is 'long of you:</LINE> +<LINE>Nay, go not back.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I will not trust you, I,</LINE> +<LINE>Nor longer stay in your curst company.</LINE> +<LINE>Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray,</LINE> +<LINE>My legs are longer though, to run away.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I am amazed, and know not what to say.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>This is thy negligence: still thou mistakest,</LINE> +<LINE>Or else committ'st thy knaveries wilfully.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Believe me, king of shadows, I mistook.</LINE> +<LINE>Did not you tell me I should know the man</LINE> +<LINE>By the Athenian garment be had on?</LINE> +<LINE>And so far blameless proves my enterprise,</LINE> +<LINE>That I have 'nointed an Athenian's eyes;</LINE> +<LINE>And so far am I glad it so did sort</LINE> +<LINE>As this their jangling I esteem a sport.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Thou see'st these lovers seek a place to fight:</LINE> +<LINE>Hie therefore, Robin, overcast the night;</LINE> +<LINE>The starry welkin cover thou anon</LINE> +<LINE>With drooping fog as black as Acheron,</LINE> +<LINE>And lead these testy rivals so astray</LINE> +<LINE>As one come not within another's way.</LINE> +<LINE>Like to Lysander sometime frame thy tongue,</LINE> +<LINE>Then stir Demetrius up with bitter wrong;</LINE> +<LINE>And sometime rail thou like Demetrius;</LINE> +<LINE>And from each other look thou lead them thus,</LINE> +<LINE>Till o'er their brows death-counterfeiting sleep</LINE> +<LINE>With leaden legs and batty wings doth creep:</LINE> +<LINE>Then crush this herb into Lysander's eye;</LINE> +<LINE>Whose liquor hath this virtuous property,</LINE> +<LINE>To take from thence all error with his might,</LINE> +<LINE>And make his eyeballs roll with wonted sight.</LINE> +<LINE>When they next wake, all this derision</LINE> +<LINE>Shall seem a dream and fruitless vision,</LINE> +<LINE>And back to Athens shall the lovers wend,</LINE> +<LINE>With league whose date till death shall never end.</LINE> +<LINE>Whiles I in this affair do thee employ,</LINE> +<LINE>I'll to my queen and beg her Indian boy;</LINE> +<LINE>And then I will her charmed eye release</LINE> +<LINE>From monster's view, and all things shall be peace.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>My fairy lord, this must be done with haste,</LINE> +<LINE>For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,</LINE> +<LINE>And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger;</LINE> +<LINE>At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there,</LINE> +<LINE>Troop home to churchyards: damned spirits all,</LINE> +<LINE>That in crossways and floods have burial,</LINE> +<LINE>Already to their wormy beds are gone;</LINE> +<LINE>For fear lest day should look their shames upon,</LINE> +<LINE>They willfully themselves exile from light</LINE> +<LINE>And must for aye consort with black-brow'd night.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>But we are spirits of another sort:</LINE> +<LINE>I with the morning's love have oft made sport,</LINE> +<LINE>And, like a forester, the groves may tread,</LINE> +<LINE>Even till the eastern gate, all fiery-red,</LINE> +<LINE>Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams,</LINE> +<LINE>Turns into yellow gold his salt green streams.</LINE> +<LINE>But, notwithstanding, haste; make no delay:</LINE> +<LINE>We may effect this business yet ere day.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Up and down, up and down,</LINE> +<LINE>I will lead them up and down:</LINE> +<LINE>I am fear'd in field and town:</LINE> +<LINE>Goblin, lead them up and down.</LINE> +<LINE>Here comes one.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Re-enter LYSANDER</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Where art thou, proud Demetrius? speak thou now.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Here, villain; drawn and ready. Where art thou?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I will be with thee straight.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Follow me, then,</LINE> +<LINE>To plainer ground.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<STAGEDIR>Exit LYSANDER, as following the voice</STAGEDIR> +<STAGEDIR>Re-enter DEMETRIUS</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Lysander! speak again:</LINE> +<LINE>Thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled?</LINE> +<LINE>Speak! In some bush? Where dost thou hide thy head?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Thou coward, art thou bragging to the stars,</LINE> +<LINE>Telling the bushes that thou look'st for wars,</LINE> +<LINE>And wilt not come? Come, recreant; come, thou child;</LINE> +<LINE>I'll whip thee with a rod: he is defiled</LINE> +<LINE>That draws a sword on thee.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea, art thou there?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Follow my voice: we'll try no manhood here.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR> +<STAGEDIR>Re-enter LYSANDER</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>He goes before me and still dares me on:</LINE> +<LINE>When I come where he calls, then he is gone.</LINE> +<LINE>The villain is much lighter-heel'd than I:</LINE> +<LINE>I follow'd fast, but faster he did fly;</LINE> +<LINE>That fallen am I in dark uneven way,</LINE> +<LINE>And here will rest me.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Lies down</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>Come, thou gentle day!</LINE> +<LINE>For if but once thou show me thy grey light,</LINE> +<LINE>I'll find Demetrius and revenge this spite.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<STAGEDIR>Sleeps</STAGEDIR> +<STAGEDIR>Re-enter PUCK and DEMETRIUS</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Ho, ho, ho! Coward, why comest thou not?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Abide me, if thou darest; for well I wot</LINE> +<LINE>Thou runn'st before me, shifting every place,</LINE> +<LINE>And darest not stand, nor look me in the face.</LINE> +<LINE>Where art thou now?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Come hither: I am here.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Nay, then, thou mock'st me. Thou shalt buy this dear,</LINE> +<LINE>If ever I thy face by daylight see:</LINE> +<LINE>Now, go thy way. Faintness constraineth me</LINE> +<LINE>To measure out my length on this cold bed.</LINE> +<LINE>By day's approach look to be visited.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<STAGEDIR>Lies down and sleeps</STAGEDIR> +<STAGEDIR>Re-enter HELENA</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O weary night, O long and tedious night,</LINE> +<LINE>Abate thy hour! Shine comforts from the east,</LINE> +<LINE>That I may back to Athens by daylight,</LINE> +<LINE>From these that my poor company detest:</LINE> +<LINE>And sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye,</LINE> +<LINE>Steal me awhile from mine own company.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Lies down and sleeps</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yet but three? Come one more;</LINE> +<LINE>Two of both kinds make up four.</LINE> +<LINE>Here she comes, curst and sad:</LINE> +<LINE>Cupid is a knavish lad,</LINE> +<LINE>Thus to make poor females mad.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Re-enter HERMIA</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Never so weary, never so in woe,</LINE> +<LINE>Bedabbled with the dew and torn with briers,</LINE> +<LINE>I can no further crawl, no further go;</LINE> +<LINE>My legs can keep no pace with my desires.</LINE> +<LINE>Here will I rest me till the break of day.</LINE> +<LINE>Heavens shield Lysander, if they mean a fray!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Lies down and sleeps</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>On the ground</LINE> +<LINE>Sleep sound:</LINE> +<LINE>I'll apply</LINE> +<LINE>To your eye,</LINE> +<LINE>Gentle lover, remedy.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Squeezing the juice on LYSANDER's eyes</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>When thou wakest,</LINE> +<LINE>Thou takest</LINE> +<LINE>True delight</LINE> +<LINE>In the sight</LINE> +<LINE>Of thy former lady's eye:</LINE> +<LINE>And the country proverb known,</LINE> +<LINE>That every man should take his own,</LINE> +<LINE>In your waking shall be shown:</LINE> +<LINE>Jack shall have Jill;</LINE> +<LINE>Nought shall go ill;</LINE> +<LINE>The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> +</SCENE> + +</ACT> + +<ACT><TITLE>ACT IV</TITLE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE I. The same. LYSANDER, DEMETRIUS, HELENA, and HERMIA lying asleep.</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter TITANIA and BOTTOM; PEASEBLOSSOM, COBWEB, MOTH, +MUSTARDSEED, and other Fairies attending; OBERON +behind unseen</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>TITANIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed,</LINE> +<LINE>While I thy amiable cheeks do coy,</LINE> +<LINE>And stick musk-roses in thy sleek smooth head,</LINE> +<LINE>And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Where's Peaseblossom?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PEASEBLOSSOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Ready.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Scratch my head Peaseblossom. Where's Mounsieur Cobweb?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>COBWEB</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Ready.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Mounsieur Cobweb, good mounsieur, get you your</LINE> +<LINE>weapons in your hand, and kill me a red-hipped</LINE> +<LINE>humble-bee on the top of a thistle; and, good</LINE> +<LINE>mounsieur, bring me the honey-bag. Do not fret</LINE> +<LINE>yourself too much in the action, mounsieur; and,</LINE> +<LINE>good mounsieur, have a care the honey-bag break not;</LINE> +<LINE>I would be loath to have you overflown with a</LINE> +<LINE>honey-bag, signior. Where's Mounsieur Mustardseed?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MUSTARDSEED</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Ready.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Give me your neaf, Mounsieur Mustardseed. Pray you,</LINE> +<LINE>leave your courtesy, good mounsieur.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MUSTARDSEED</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What's your Will?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Nothing, good mounsieur, but to help Cavalery Cobweb</LINE> +<LINE>to scratch. I must to the barber's, monsieur; for</LINE> +<LINE>methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face; and I</LINE> +<LINE>am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me,</LINE> +<LINE>I must scratch.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>TITANIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What, wilt thou hear some music,</LINE> +<LINE>my sweet love?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I have a reasonable good ear in music. Let's have</LINE> +<LINE>the tongs and the bones.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>TITANIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Or say, sweet love, what thou desirest to eat.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Truly, a peck of provender: I could munch your good</LINE> +<LINE>dry oats. Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle</LINE> +<LINE>of hay: good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>TITANIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I have a venturous fairy that shall seek</LINE> +<LINE>The squirrel's hoard, and fetch thee new nuts.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I had rather have a handful or two of dried peas.</LINE> +<LINE>But, I pray you, let none of your people stir me: I</LINE> +<LINE>have an exposition of sleep come upon me.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>TITANIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms.</LINE> +<LINE>Fairies, begone, and be all ways away.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt fairies</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle</LINE> +<LINE>Gently entwist; the female ivy so</LINE> +<LINE>Enrings the barky fingers of the elm.</LINE> +<LINE>O, how I love thee! how I dote on thee!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<STAGEDIR>They sleep</STAGEDIR> +<STAGEDIR>Enter PUCK</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE><STAGEDIR>Advancing</STAGEDIR> Welcome, good Robin.</LINE> +<LINE>See'st thou this sweet sight?</LINE> +<LINE>Her dotage now I do begin to pity:</LINE> +<LINE>For, meeting her of late behind the wood,</LINE> +<LINE>Seeking sweet favours from this hateful fool,</LINE> +<LINE>I did upbraid her and fall out with her;</LINE> +<LINE>For she his hairy temples then had rounded</LINE> +<LINE>With a coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers;</LINE> +<LINE>And that same dew, which sometime on the buds</LINE> +<LINE>Was wont to swell like round and orient pearls,</LINE> +<LINE>Stood now within the pretty flowerets' eyes</LINE> +<LINE>Like tears that did their own disgrace bewail.</LINE> +<LINE>When I had at my pleasure taunted her</LINE> +<LINE>And she in mild terms begg'd my patience,</LINE> +<LINE>I then did ask of her her changeling child;</LINE> +<LINE>Which straight she gave me, and her fairy sent</LINE> +<LINE>To bear him to my bower in fairy land.</LINE> +<LINE>And now I have the boy, I will undo</LINE> +<LINE>This hateful imperfection of her eyes:</LINE> +<LINE>And, gentle Puck, take this transformed scalp</LINE> +<LINE>From off the head of this Athenian swain;</LINE> +<LINE>That, he awaking when the other do,</LINE> +<LINE>May all to Athens back again repair</LINE> +<LINE>And think no more of this night's accidents</LINE> +<LINE>But as the fierce vexation of a dream.</LINE> +<LINE>But first I will release the fairy queen.</LINE> +<LINE>Be as thou wast wont to be;</LINE> +<LINE>See as thou wast wont to see:</LINE> +<LINE>Dian's bud o'er Cupid's flower</LINE> +<LINE>Hath such force and blessed power.</LINE> +<LINE>Now, my Titania; wake you, my sweet queen.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>TITANIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>My Oberon! what visions have I seen!</LINE> +<LINE>Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>There lies your love.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>TITANIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>How came these things to pass?</LINE> +<LINE>O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Silence awhile. Robin, take off this head.</LINE> +<LINE>Titania, music call; and strike more dead</LINE> +<LINE>Than common sleep of all these five the sense.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>TITANIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Music, ho! music, such as charmeth sleep!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Music, still</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Now, when thou wakest, with thine</LINE> +<LINE>own fool's eyes peep.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Sound, music! Come, my queen, take hands with me,</LINE> +<LINE>And rock the ground whereon these sleepers be.</LINE> +<LINE>Now thou and I are new in amity,</LINE> +<LINE>And will to-morrow midnight solemnly</LINE> +<LINE>Dance in Duke Theseus' house triumphantly,</LINE> +<LINE>And bless it to all fair prosperity:</LINE> +<LINE>There shall the pairs of faithful lovers be</LINE> +<LINE>Wedded, with Theseus, all in jollity.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Fairy king, attend, and mark:</LINE> +<LINE>I do hear the morning lark.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Then, my queen, in silence sad,</LINE> +<LINE>Trip we after the night's shade:</LINE> +<LINE>We the globe can compass soon,</LINE> +<LINE>Swifter than the wandering moon.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>TITANIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Come, my lord, and in our flight</LINE> +<LINE>Tell me how it came this night</LINE> +<LINE>That I sleeping here was found</LINE> +<LINE>With these mortals on the ground.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR> +</SPEECH> + +<STAGEDIR>Horns winded within</STAGEDIR> +<STAGEDIR>Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, EGEUS, and train</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Go, one of you, find out the forester;</LINE> +<LINE>For now our observation is perform'd;</LINE> +<LINE>And since we have the vaward of the day,</LINE> +<LINE>My love shall hear the music of my hounds.</LINE> +<LINE>Uncouple in the western valley; let them go:</LINE> +<LINE>Dispatch, I say, and find the forester.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Exit an Attendant</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>We will, fair queen, up to the mountain's top,</LINE> +<LINE>And mark the musical confusion</LINE> +<LINE>Of hounds and echo in conjunction.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HIPPOLYTA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I was with Hercules and Cadmus once,</LINE> +<LINE>When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear</LINE> +<LINE>With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear</LINE> +<LINE>Such gallant chiding: for, besides the groves,</LINE> +<LINE>The skies, the fountains, every region near</LINE> +<LINE>Seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard</LINE> +<LINE>So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind,</LINE> +<LINE>So flew'd, so sanded, and their heads are hung</LINE> +<LINE>With ears that sweep away the morning dew;</LINE> +<LINE>Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls;</LINE> +<LINE>Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells,</LINE> +<LINE>Each under each. A cry more tuneable</LINE> +<LINE>Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn,</LINE> +<LINE>In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly:</LINE> +<LINE>Judge when you hear. But, soft! what nymphs are these?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>EGEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>My lord, this is my daughter here asleep;</LINE> +<LINE>And this, Lysander; this Demetrius is;</LINE> +<LINE>This Helena, old Nedar's Helena:</LINE> +<LINE>I wonder of their being here together.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No doubt they rose up early to observe</LINE> +<LINE>The rite of May, and hearing our intent,</LINE> +<LINE>Came here in grace our solemnity.</LINE> +<LINE>But speak, Egeus; is not this the day</LINE> +<LINE>That Hermia should give answer of her choice?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>EGEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>It is, my lord.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Go, bid the huntsmen wake them with their horns.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Horns and shout within. LYSANDER, DEMETRIUS, +HELENA, and HERMIA wake and start up</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>Good morrow, friends. Saint Valentine is past:</LINE> +<LINE>Begin these wood-birds but to couple now?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Pardon, my lord.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I pray you all, stand up.</LINE> +<LINE>I know you two are rival enemies:</LINE> +<LINE>How comes this gentle concord in the world,</LINE> +<LINE>That hatred is so far from jealousy,</LINE> +<LINE>To sleep by hate, and fear no enmity?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>My lord, I shall reply amazedly,</LINE> +<LINE>Half sleep, half waking: but as yet, I swear,</LINE> +<LINE>I cannot truly say how I came here;</LINE> +<LINE>But, as I think,--for truly would I speak,</LINE> +<LINE>And now do I bethink me, so it is,--</LINE> +<LINE>I came with Hermia hither: our intent</LINE> +<LINE>Was to be gone from Athens, where we might,</LINE> +<LINE>Without the peril of the Athenian law.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>EGEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Enough, enough, my lord; you have enough:</LINE> +<LINE>I beg the law, the law, upon his head.</LINE> +<LINE>They would have stolen away; they would, Demetrius,</LINE> +<LINE>Thereby to have defeated you and me,</LINE> +<LINE>You of your wife and me of my consent,</LINE> +<LINE>Of my consent that she should be your wife.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>My lord, fair Helen told me of their stealth,</LINE> +<LINE>Of this their purpose hither to this wood;</LINE> +<LINE>And I in fury hither follow'd them,</LINE> +<LINE>Fair Helena in fancy following me.</LINE> +<LINE>But, my good lord, I wot not by what power,--</LINE> +<LINE>But by some power it is,--my love to Hermia,</LINE> +<LINE>Melted as the snow, seems to me now</LINE> +<LINE>As the remembrance of an idle gaud</LINE> +<LINE>Which in my childhood I did dote upon;</LINE> +<LINE>And all the faith, the virtue of my heart,</LINE> +<LINE>The object and the pleasure of mine eye,</LINE> +<LINE>Is only Helena. To her, my lord,</LINE> +<LINE>Was I betroth'd ere I saw Hermia:</LINE> +<LINE>But, like in sickness, did I loathe this food;</LINE> +<LINE>But, as in health, come to my natural taste,</LINE> +<LINE>Now I do wish it, love it, long for it,</LINE> +<LINE>And will for evermore be true to it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Fair lovers, you are fortunately met:</LINE> +<LINE>Of this discourse we more will hear anon.</LINE> +<LINE>Egeus, I will overbear your will;</LINE> +<LINE>For in the temple by and by with us</LINE> +<LINE>These couples shall eternally be knit:</LINE> +<LINE>And, for the morning now is something worn,</LINE> +<LINE>Our purposed hunting shall be set aside.</LINE> +<LINE>Away with us to Athens; three and three,</LINE> +<LINE>We'll hold a feast in great solemnity.</LINE> +<LINE>Come, Hippolyta.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, EGEUS, and train</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>These things seem small and undistinguishable,</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Methinks I see these things with parted eye,</LINE> +<LINE>When every thing seems double.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>So methinks:</LINE> +<LINE>And I have found Demetrius like a jewel,</LINE> +<LINE>Mine own, and not mine own.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Are you sure</LINE> +<LINE>That we are awake? It seems to me</LINE> +<LINE>That yet we sleep, we dream. Do not you think</LINE> +<LINE>The duke was here, and bid us follow him?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERMIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea; and my father.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HELENA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And Hippolyta.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And he did bid us follow to the temple.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, then, we are awake: let's follow him</LINE> +<LINE>And by the way let us recount our dreams.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE><STAGEDIR>Awaking</STAGEDIR> When my cue comes, call me, and I will</LINE> +<LINE>answer: my next is, 'Most fair Pyramus.' Heigh-ho!</LINE> +<LINE>Peter Quince! Flute, the bellows-mender! Snout,</LINE> +<LINE>the tinker! Starveling! God's my life, stolen</LINE> +<LINE>hence, and left me asleep! I have had a most rare</LINE> +<LINE>vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to</LINE> +<LINE>say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go</LINE> +<LINE>about to expound this dream. Methought I was--there</LINE> +<LINE>is no man can tell what. Methought I was,--and</LINE> +<LINE>methought I had,--but man is but a patched fool, if</LINE> +<LINE>he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye</LINE> +<LINE>of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not</LINE> +<LINE>seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue</LINE> +<LINE>to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream</LINE> +<LINE>was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of</LINE> +<LINE>this dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream,</LINE> +<LINE>because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the</LINE> +<LINE>latter end of a play, before the duke:</LINE> +<LINE>peradventure, to make it the more gracious, I shall</LINE> +<LINE>sing it at her death.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> +</SCENE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE II. Athens. QUINCE'S house.</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter QUINCE, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Have you sent to Bottom's house? is he come home yet?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>STARVELING</SPEAKER> +<LINE>He cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he is</LINE> +<LINE>transported.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FLUTE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If he come not, then the play is marred: it goes</LINE> +<LINE>not forward, doth it?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>It is not possible: you have not a man in all</LINE> +<LINE>Athens able to discharge Pyramus but he.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FLUTE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No, he hath simply the best wit of any handicraft</LINE> +<LINE>man in Athens.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea and the best person too; and he is a very</LINE> +<LINE>paramour for a sweet voice.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FLUTE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You must say 'paragon:' a paramour is, God bless us,</LINE> +<LINE>a thing of naught.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter SNUG</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>SNUG</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Masters, the duke is coming from the temple, and</LINE> +<LINE>there is two or three lords and ladies more married:</LINE> +<LINE>if our sport had gone forward, we had all been made</LINE> +<LINE>men.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FLUTE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O sweet bully Bottom! Thus hath he lost sixpence a</LINE> +<LINE>day during his life; he could not have 'scaped</LINE> +<LINE>sixpence a day: an the duke had not given him</LINE> +<LINE>sixpence a day for playing Pyramus, I'll be hanged;</LINE> +<LINE>he would have deserved it: sixpence a day in</LINE> +<LINE>Pyramus, or nothing.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter BOTTOM</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Where are these lads? where are these hearts?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy hour!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Masters, I am to discourse wonders: but ask me not</LINE> +<LINE>what; for if I tell you, I am no true Athenian. I</LINE> +<LINE>will tell you every thing, right as it fell out.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>QUINCE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Let us hear, sweet Bottom.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Not a word of me. All that I will tell you is, that</LINE> +<LINE>the duke hath dined. Get your apparel together,</LINE> +<LINE>good strings to your beards, new ribbons to your</LINE> +<LINE>pumps; meet presently at the palace; every man look</LINE> +<LINE>o'er his part; for the short and the long is, our</LINE> +<LINE>play is preferred. In any case, let Thisby have</LINE> +<LINE>clean linen; and let not him that plays the lion</LINE> +<LINE>pair his nails, for they shall hang out for the</LINE> +<LINE>lion's claws. And, most dear actors, eat no onions</LINE> +<LINE>nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath; and I</LINE> +<LINE>do not doubt but to hear them say, it is a sweet</LINE> +<LINE>comedy. No more words: away! go, away!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR> +</SCENE> + +</ACT> + +<ACT><TITLE>ACT V</TITLE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS.</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, Lords and +Attendants</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HIPPOLYTA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>'Tis strange my Theseus, that these</LINE> +<LINE>lovers speak of.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>More strange than true: I never may believe</LINE> +<LINE>These antique fables, nor these fairy toys.</LINE> +<LINE>Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,</LINE> +<LINE>Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend</LINE> +<LINE>More than cool reason ever comprehends.</LINE> +<LINE>The lunatic, the lover and the poet</LINE> +<LINE>Are of imagination all compact:</LINE> +<LINE>One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,</LINE> +<LINE>That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,</LINE> +<LINE>Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:</LINE> +<LINE>The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,</LINE> +<LINE>Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;</LINE> +<LINE>And as imagination bodies forth</LINE> +<LINE>The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen</LINE> +<LINE>Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing</LINE> +<LINE>A local habitation and a name.</LINE> +<LINE>Such tricks hath strong imagination,</LINE> +<LINE>That if it would but apprehend some joy,</LINE> +<LINE>It comprehends some bringer of that joy;</LINE> +<LINE>Or in the night, imagining some fear,</LINE> +<LINE>How easy is a bush supposed a bear!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HIPPOLYTA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>But all the story of the night told over,</LINE> +<LINE>And all their minds transfigured so together,</LINE> +<LINE>More witnesseth than fancy's images</LINE> +<LINE>And grows to something of great constancy;</LINE> +<LINE>But, howsoever, strange and admirable.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter LYSANDER, DEMETRIUS, HERMIA, and HELENA</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love</LINE> +<LINE>Accompany your hearts!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>More than to us</LINE> +<LINE>Wait in your royal walks, your board, your bed!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Come now; what masques, what dances shall we have,</LINE> +<LINE>To wear away this long age of three hours</LINE> +<LINE>Between our after-supper and bed-time?</LINE> +<LINE>Where is our usual manager of mirth?</LINE> +<LINE>What revels are in hand? Is there no play,</LINE> +<LINE>To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?</LINE> +<LINE>Call Philostrate.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PHILOSTRATE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Here, mighty Theseus.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?</LINE> +<LINE>What masque? what music? How shall we beguile</LINE> +<LINE>The lazy time, if not with some delight?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PHILOSTRATE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>There is a brief how many sports are ripe:</LINE> +<LINE>Make choice of which your highness will see first.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Giving a paper</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE><STAGEDIR>Reads</STAGEDIR> 'The battle with the Centaurs, to be sung</LINE> +<LINE>By an Athenian eunuch to the harp.'</LINE> +<LINE>We'll none of that: that have I told my love,</LINE> +<LINE>In glory of my kinsman Hercules.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Reads</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>'The riot of the tipsy Bacchanals,</LINE> +<LINE>Tearing the Thracian singer in their rage.'</LINE> +<LINE>That is an old device; and it was play'd</LINE> +<LINE>When I from Thebes came last a conqueror.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Reads</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>'The thrice three Muses mourning for the death</LINE> +<LINE>Of Learning, late deceased in beggary.'</LINE> +<LINE>That is some satire, keen and critical,</LINE> +<LINE>Not sorting with a nuptial ceremony.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Reads</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>'A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus</LINE> +<LINE>And his love Thisbe; very tragical mirth.'</LINE> +<LINE>Merry and tragical! tedious and brief!</LINE> +<LINE>That is, hot ice and wondrous strange snow.</LINE> +<LINE>How shall we find the concord of this discord?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PHILOSTRATE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>A play there is, my lord, some ten words long,</LINE> +<LINE>Which is as brief as I have known a play;</LINE> +<LINE>But by ten words, my lord, it is too long,</LINE> +<LINE>Which makes it tedious; for in all the play</LINE> +<LINE>There is not one word apt, one player fitted:</LINE> +<LINE>And tragical, my noble lord, it is;</LINE> +<LINE>For Pyramus therein doth kill himself.</LINE> +<LINE>Which, when I saw rehearsed, I must confess,</LINE> +<LINE>Made mine eyes water; but more merry tears</LINE> +<LINE>The passion of loud laughter never shed.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What are they that do play it?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PHILOSTRATE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Hard-handed men that work in Athens here,</LINE> +<LINE>Which never labour'd in their minds till now,</LINE> +<LINE>And now have toil'd their unbreathed memories</LINE> +<LINE>With this same play, against your nuptial.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And we will hear it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PHILOSTRATE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No, my noble lord;</LINE> +<LINE>It is not for you: I have heard it over,</LINE> +<LINE>And it is nothing, nothing in the world;</LINE> +<LINE>Unless you can find sport in their intents,</LINE> +<LINE>Extremely stretch'd and conn'd with cruel pain,</LINE> +<LINE>To do you service.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I will hear that play;</LINE> +<LINE>For never anything can be amiss,</LINE> +<LINE>When simpleness and duty tender it.</LINE> +<LINE>Go, bring them in: and take your places, ladies.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit PHILOSTRATE</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HIPPOLYTA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I love not to see wretchedness o'er charged</LINE> +<LINE>And duty in his service perishing.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, gentle sweet, you shall see no such thing.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HIPPOLYTA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>He says they can do nothing in this kind.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>The kinder we, to give them thanks for nothing.</LINE> +<LINE>Our sport shall be to take what they mistake:</LINE> +<LINE>And what poor duty cannot do, noble respect</LINE> +<LINE>Takes it in might, not merit.</LINE> +<LINE>Where I have come, great clerks have purposed</LINE> +<LINE>To greet me with premeditated welcomes;</LINE> +<LINE>Where I have seen them shiver and look pale,</LINE> +<LINE>Make periods in the midst of sentences,</LINE> +<LINE>Throttle their practised accent in their fears</LINE> +<LINE>And in conclusion dumbly have broke off,</LINE> +<LINE>Not paying me a welcome. Trust me, sweet,</LINE> +<LINE>Out of this silence yet I pick'd a welcome;</LINE> +<LINE>And in the modesty of fearful duty</LINE> +<LINE>I read as much as from the rattling tongue</LINE> +<LINE>Of saucy and audacious eloquence.</LINE> +<LINE>Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity</LINE> +<LINE>In least speak most, to my capacity.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Re-enter PHILOSTRATE</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PHILOSTRATE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>So please your grace, the Prologue is address'd.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Let him approach.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<STAGEDIR>Flourish of trumpets</STAGEDIR> +<STAGEDIR>Enter QUINCE for the Prologue</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Prologue</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If we offend, it is with our good will.</LINE> +<LINE>That you should think, we come not to offend,</LINE> +<LINE>But with good will. To show our simple skill,</LINE> +<LINE>That is the true beginning of our end.</LINE> +<LINE>Consider then we come but in despite.</LINE> +<LINE>We do not come as minding to contest you,</LINE> +<LINE>Our true intent is. All for your delight</LINE> +<LINE>We are not here. That you should here repent you,</LINE> +<LINE>The actors are at hand and by their show</LINE> +<LINE>You shall know all that you are like to know.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>This fellow doth not stand upon points.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>He hath rid his prologue like a rough colt; he knows</LINE> +<LINE>not the stop. A good moral, my lord: it is not</LINE> +<LINE>enough to speak, but to speak true.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HIPPOLYTA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Indeed he hath played on his prologue like a child</LINE> +<LINE>on a recorder; a sound, but not in government.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>His speech, was like a tangled chain; nothing</LINE> +<LINE>impaired, but all disordered. Who is next?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter Pyramus and Thisbe, Wall, Moonshine, and Lion</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Prologue</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show;</LINE> +<LINE>But wonder on, till truth make all things plain.</LINE> +<LINE>This man is Pyramus, if you would know;</LINE> +<LINE>This beauteous lady Thisby is certain.</LINE> +<LINE>This man, with lime and rough-cast, doth present</LINE> +<LINE>Wall, that vile Wall which did these lovers sunder;</LINE> +<LINE>And through Wall's chink, poor souls, they are content</LINE> +<LINE>To whisper. At the which let no man wonder.</LINE> +<LINE>This man, with lanthorn, dog, and bush of thorn,</LINE> +<LINE>Presenteth Moonshine; for, if you will know,</LINE> +<LINE>By moonshine did these lovers think no scorn</LINE> +<LINE>To meet at Ninus' tomb, there, there to woo.</LINE> +<LINE>This grisly beast, which Lion hight by name,</LINE> +<LINE>The trusty Thisby, coming first by night,</LINE> +<LINE>Did scare away, or rather did affright;</LINE> +<LINE>And, as she fled, her mantle she did fall,</LINE> +<LINE>Which Lion vile with bloody mouth did stain.</LINE> +<LINE>Anon comes Pyramus, sweet youth and tall,</LINE> +<LINE>And finds his trusty Thisby's mantle slain:</LINE> +<LINE>Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade,</LINE> +<LINE>He bravely broach'd is boiling bloody breast;</LINE> +<LINE>And Thisby, tarrying in mulberry shade,</LINE> +<LINE>His dagger drew, and died. For all the rest,</LINE> +<LINE>Let Lion, Moonshine, Wall, and lovers twain</LINE> +<LINE>At large discourse, while here they do remain.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt Prologue, Thisbe, Lion, and Moonshine</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I wonder if the lion be to speak.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No wonder, my lord: one lion may, when many asses do.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Wall</SPEAKER> +<LINE>In this same interlude it doth befall</LINE> +<LINE>That I, one Snout by name, present a wall;</LINE> +<LINE>And such a wall, as I would have you think,</LINE> +<LINE>That had in it a crannied hole or chink,</LINE> +<LINE>Through which the lovers, Pyramus and Thisby,</LINE> +<LINE>Did whisper often very secretly.</LINE> +<LINE>This loam, this rough-cast and this stone doth show</LINE> +<LINE>That I am that same wall; the truth is so:</LINE> +<LINE>And this the cranny is, right and sinister,</LINE> +<LINE>Through which the fearful lovers are to whisper.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Would you desire lime and hair to speak better?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>It is the wittiest partition that ever I heard</LINE> +<LINE>discourse, my lord.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter Pyramus</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Pyramus draws near the wall: silence!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Pyramus</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O grim-look'd night! O night with hue so black!</LINE> +<LINE>O night, which ever art when day is not!</LINE> +<LINE>O night, O night! alack, alack, alack,</LINE> +<LINE>I fear my Thisby's promise is forgot!</LINE> +<LINE>And thou, O wall, O sweet, O lovely wall,</LINE> +<LINE>That stand'st between her father's ground and mine!</LINE> +<LINE>Thou wall, O wall, O sweet and lovely wall,</LINE> +<LINE>Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne!</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Wall holds up his fingers</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>Thanks, courteous wall: Jove shield thee well for this!</LINE> +<LINE>But what see I? No Thisby do I see.</LINE> +<LINE>O wicked wall, through whom I see no bliss!</LINE> +<LINE>Cursed be thy stones for thus deceiving me!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>The wall, methinks, being sensible, should curse again.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Pyramus</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No, in truth, sir, he should not. 'Deceiving me'</LINE> +<LINE>is Thisby's cue: she is to enter now, and I am to</LINE> +<LINE>spy her through the wall. You shall see, it will</LINE> +<LINE>fall pat as I told you. Yonder she comes.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter Thisbe</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Thisbe</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O wall, full often hast thou heard my moans,</LINE> +<LINE>For parting my fair Pyramus and me!</LINE> +<LINE>My cherry lips have often kiss'd thy stones,</LINE> +<LINE>Thy stones with lime and hair knit up in thee.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Pyramus</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I see a voice: now will I to the chink,</LINE> +<LINE>To spy an I can hear my Thisby's face. Thisby!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Thisbe</SPEAKER> +<LINE>My love thou art, my love I think.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Pyramus</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Think what thou wilt, I am thy lover's grace;</LINE> +<LINE>And, like Limander, am I trusty still.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Thisbe</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And I like Helen, till the Fates me kill.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Pyramus</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Not Shafalus to Procrus was so true.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Thisbe</SPEAKER> +<LINE>As Shafalus to Procrus, I to you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Pyramus</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O kiss me through the hole of this vile wall!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Thisbe</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I kiss the wall's hole, not your lips at all.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Pyramus</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Wilt thou at Ninny's tomb meet me straightway?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Thisbe</SPEAKER> +<LINE>'Tide life, 'tide death, I come without delay.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt Pyramus and Thisbe</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Wall</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so;</LINE> +<LINE>And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Now is the mural down between the two neighbours.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No remedy, my lord, when walls are so wilful to hear</LINE> +<LINE>without warning.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HIPPOLYTA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst</LINE> +<LINE>are no worse, if imagination amend them.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HIPPOLYTA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>It must be your imagination then, and not theirs.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If we imagine no worse of them than they of</LINE> +<LINE>themselves, they may pass for excellent men. Here</LINE> +<LINE>come two noble beasts in, a man and a lion.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter Lion and Moonshine</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Lion</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You, ladies, you, whose gentle hearts do fear</LINE> +<LINE>The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor,</LINE> +<LINE>May now perchance both quake and tremble here,</LINE> +<LINE>When lion rough in wildest rage doth roar.</LINE> +<LINE>Then know that I, one Snug the joiner, am</LINE> +<LINE>A lion-fell, nor else no lion's dam;</LINE> +<LINE>For, if I should as lion come in strife</LINE> +<LINE>Into this place, 'twere pity on my life.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>A very gentle beast, of a good conscience.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>The very best at a beast, my lord, that e'er I saw.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>This lion is a very fox for his valour.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>True; and a goose for his discretion.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Not so, my lord; for his valour cannot carry his</LINE> +<LINE>discretion; and the fox carries the goose.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>His discretion, I am sure, cannot carry his valour;</LINE> +<LINE>for the goose carries not the fox. It is well:</LINE> +<LINE>leave it to his discretion, and let us listen to the moon.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Moonshine</SPEAKER> +<LINE>This lanthorn doth the horned moon present;--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>He should have worn the horns on his head.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>He is no crescent, and his horns are</LINE> +<LINE>invisible within the circumference.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Moonshine</SPEAKER> +<LINE>This lanthorn doth the horned moon present;</LINE> +<LINE>Myself the man i' the moon do seem to be.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>This is the greatest error of all the rest: the man</LINE> +<LINE>should be put into the lanthorn. How is it else the</LINE> +<LINE>man i' the moon?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>He dares not come there for the candle; for, you</LINE> +<LINE>see, it is already in snuff.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HIPPOLYTA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I am aweary of this moon: would he would change!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>It appears, by his small light of discretion, that</LINE> +<LINE>he is in the wane; but yet, in courtesy, in all</LINE> +<LINE>reason, we must stay the time.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Proceed, Moon.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Moonshine</SPEAKER> +<LINE>All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the</LINE> +<LINE>lanthorn is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this</LINE> +<LINE>thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, all these should be in the lanthorn; for all</LINE> +<LINE>these are in the moon. But, silence! here comes Thisbe.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter Thisbe</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Thisbe</SPEAKER> +<LINE>This is old Ninny's tomb. Where is my love?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Lion</SPEAKER> +<LINE><STAGEDIR>Roaring</STAGEDIR> Oh--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Thisbe runs off</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well roared, Lion.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well run, Thisbe.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HIPPOLYTA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well shone, Moon. Truly, the moon shines with a</LINE> +<LINE>good grace.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>The Lion shakes Thisbe's mantle, and exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well moused, Lion.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And so the lion vanished.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And then came Pyramus.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter Pyramus</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Pyramus</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams;</LINE> +<LINE>I thank thee, Moon, for shining now so bright;</LINE> +<LINE>For, by thy gracious, golden, glittering gleams,</LINE> +<LINE>I trust to take of truest Thisby sight.</LINE> +<LINE>But stay, O spite!</LINE> +<LINE>But mark, poor knight,</LINE> +<LINE>What dreadful dole is here!</LINE> +<LINE>Eyes, do you see?</LINE> +<LINE>How can it be?</LINE> +<LINE>O dainty duck! O dear!</LINE> +<LINE>Thy mantle good,</LINE> +<LINE>What, stain'd with blood!</LINE> +<LINE>Approach, ye Furies fell!</LINE> +<LINE>O Fates, come, come,</LINE> +<LINE>Cut thread and thrum;</LINE> +<LINE>Quail, crush, conclude, and quell!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would</LINE> +<LINE>go near to make a man look sad.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HIPPOLYTA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Beshrew my heart, but I pity the man.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Pyramus</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O wherefore, Nature, didst thou lions frame?</LINE> +<LINE>Since lion vile hath here deflower'd my dear:</LINE> +<LINE>Which is--no, no--which was the fairest dame</LINE> +<LINE>That lived, that loved, that liked, that look'd</LINE> +<LINE>with cheer.</LINE> +<LINE>Come, tears, confound;</LINE> +<LINE>Out, sword, and wound</LINE> +<LINE>The pap of Pyramus;</LINE> +<LINE>Ay, that left pap,</LINE> +<LINE>Where heart doth hop:</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Stabs himself</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>Thus die I, thus, thus, thus.</LINE> +<LINE>Now am I dead,</LINE> +<LINE>Now am I fled;</LINE> +<LINE>My soul is in the sky:</LINE> +<LINE>Tongue, lose thy light;</LINE> +<LINE>Moon take thy flight:</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Exit Moonshine</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>Now die, die, die, die, die.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Dies</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No die, but an ace, for him; for he is but one.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Less than an ace, man; for he is dead; he is nothing.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>With the help of a surgeon he might yet recover, and</LINE> +<LINE>prove an ass.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HIPPOLYTA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>How chance Moonshine is gone before Thisbe comes</LINE> +<LINE>back and finds her lover?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>She will find him by starlight. Here she comes; and</LINE> +<LINE>her passion ends the play.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Re-enter Thisbe</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HIPPOLYTA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Methinks she should not use a long one for such a</LINE> +<LINE>Pyramus: I hope she will be brief.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>A mote will turn the balance, which Pyramus, which</LINE> +<LINE>Thisbe, is the better; he for a man, God warrant us;</LINE> +<LINE>she for a woman, God bless us.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LYSANDER</SPEAKER> +<LINE>She hath spied him already with those sweet eyes.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And thus she means, videlicet:--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Thisbe</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Asleep, my love?</LINE> +<LINE>What, dead, my dove?</LINE> +<LINE>O Pyramus, arise!</LINE> +<LINE>Speak, speak. Quite dumb?</LINE> +<LINE>Dead, dead? A tomb</LINE> +<LINE>Must cover thy sweet eyes.</LINE> +<LINE>These My lips,</LINE> +<LINE>This cherry nose,</LINE> +<LINE>These yellow cowslip cheeks,</LINE> +<LINE>Are gone, are gone:</LINE> +<LINE>Lovers, make moan:</LINE> +<LINE>His eyes were green as leeks.</LINE> +<LINE>O Sisters Three,</LINE> +<LINE>Come, come to me,</LINE> +<LINE>With hands as pale as milk;</LINE> +<LINE>Lay them in gore,</LINE> +<LINE>Since you have shore</LINE> +<LINE>With shears his thread of silk.</LINE> +<LINE>Tongue, not a word:</LINE> +<LINE>Come, trusty sword;</LINE> +<LINE>Come, blade, my breast imbrue:</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Stabs herself</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>And, farewell, friends;</LINE> +<LINE>Thus Thisby ends:</LINE> +<LINE>Adieu, adieu, adieu.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Dies</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Moonshine and Lion are left to bury the dead.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DEMETRIUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Ay, and Wall too.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BOTTOM</SPEAKER> +<LINE><STAGEDIR>Starting up</STAGEDIR> No assure you; the wall is down that</LINE> +<LINE>parted their fathers. Will it please you to see the</LINE> +<LINE>epilogue, or to hear a Bergomask dance between two</LINE> +<LINE>of our company?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>THESEUS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no</LINE> +<LINE>excuse. Never excuse; for when the players are all</LINE> +<LINE>dead, there needs none to be blamed. Marry, if he</LINE> +<LINE>that writ it had played Pyramus and hanged himself</LINE> +<LINE>in Thisbe's garter, it would have been a fine</LINE> +<LINE>tragedy: and so it is, truly; and very notably</LINE> +<LINE>discharged. But come, your Bergomask: let your</LINE> +<LINE>epilogue alone.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>A dance</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve:</LINE> +<LINE>Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.</LINE> +<LINE>I fear we shall out-sleep the coming morn</LINE> +<LINE>As much as we this night have overwatch'd.</LINE> +<LINE>This palpable-gross play hath well beguiled</LINE> +<LINE>The heavy gait of night. Sweet friends, to bed.</LINE> +<LINE>A fortnight hold we this solemnity,</LINE> +<LINE>In nightly revels and new jollity.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR> +<STAGEDIR>Enter PUCK</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Now the hungry lion roars,</LINE> +<LINE>And the wolf behowls the moon;</LINE> +<LINE>Whilst the heavy ploughman snores,</LINE> +<LINE>All with weary task fordone.</LINE> +<LINE>Now the wasted brands do glow,</LINE> +<LINE>Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud,</LINE> +<LINE>Puts the wretch that lies in woe</LINE> +<LINE>In remembrance of a shroud.</LINE> +<LINE>Now it is the time of night</LINE> +<LINE>That the graves all gaping wide,</LINE> +<LINE>Every one lets forth his sprite,</LINE> +<LINE>In the church-way paths to glide:</LINE> +<LINE>And we fairies, that do run</LINE> +<LINE>By the triple Hecate's team,</LINE> +<LINE>From the presence of the sun,</LINE> +<LINE>Following darkness like a dream,</LINE> +<LINE>Now are frolic: not a mouse</LINE> +<LINE>Shall disturb this hallow'd house:</LINE> +<LINE>I am sent with broom before,</LINE> +<LINE>To sweep the dust behind the door.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter OBERON and TITANIA with their train</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Through the house give gathering light,</LINE> +<LINE>By the dead and drowsy fire:</LINE> +<LINE>Every elf and fairy sprite</LINE> +<LINE>Hop as light as bird from brier;</LINE> +<LINE>And this ditty, after me,</LINE> +<LINE>Sing, and dance it trippingly.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>TITANIA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>First, rehearse your song by rote</LINE> +<LINE>To each word a warbling note:</LINE> +<LINE>Hand in hand, with fairy grace,</LINE> +<LINE>Will we sing, and bless this place.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Song and dance</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>OBERON</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Now, until the break of day,</LINE> +<LINE>Through this house each fairy stray.</LINE> +<LINE>To the best bride-bed will we,</LINE> +<LINE>Which by us shall blessed be;</LINE> +<LINE>And the issue there create</LINE> +<LINE>Ever shall be fortunate.</LINE> +<LINE>So shall all the couples three</LINE> +<LINE>Ever true in loving be;</LINE> +<LINE>And the blots of Nature's hand</LINE> +<LINE>Shall not in their issue stand;</LINE> +<LINE>Never mole, hare lip, nor scar,</LINE> +<LINE>Nor mark prodigious, such as are</LINE> +<LINE>Despised in nativity,</LINE> +<LINE>Shall upon their children be.</LINE> +<LINE>With this field-dew consecrate,</LINE> +<LINE>Every fairy take his gait;</LINE> +<LINE>And each several chamber bless,</LINE> +<LINE>Through this palace, with sweet peace;</LINE> +<LINE>And the owner of it blest</LINE> +<LINE>Ever shall in safety rest.</LINE> +<LINE>Trip away; make no stay;</LINE> +<LINE>Meet me all by break of day.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt OBERON, TITANIA, and train</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>PUCK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If we shadows have offended,</LINE> +<LINE>Think but this, and all is mended,</LINE> +<LINE>That you have but slumber'd here</LINE> +<LINE>While these visions did appear.</LINE> +<LINE>And this weak and idle theme,</LINE> +<LINE>No more yielding but a dream,</LINE> +<LINE>Gentles, do not reprehend:</LINE> +<LINE>if you pardon, we will mend:</LINE> +<LINE>And, as I am an honest Puck,</LINE> +<LINE>If we have unearned luck</LINE> +<LINE>Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,</LINE> +<LINE>We will make amends ere long;</LINE> +<LINE>Else the Puck a liar call;</LINE> +<LINE>So, good night unto you all.</LINE> +<LINE>Give me your hands, if we be friends,</LINE> +<LINE>And Robin shall restore amends.</LINE> +</SPEECH> +</SCENE> +</ACT> +</PLAY> diff --git a/resources/empty.xml b/resources/empty.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 --- /dev/null +++ b/resources/empty.xml diff --git a/resources/out/readme.txt b/resources/out/readme.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5c8861a --- /dev/null +++ b/resources/out/readme.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +This file is here to create this output directory when the source is pulled from git.
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