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Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 1] |
Helena |
237 |
How happy some o'er other some can be!
Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.
But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so;
He will not know what all but he do know:
And as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes,
So I, admiring of his qualities:
Things base and vile, folding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity:
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind:
Nor hath Love's mind of any judgement taste;
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste:
And therefore is Love said to be a child,
Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.
As waggish boys in game themselves forswear,
So the boy Love is perjured every where:
For ere Demetrius look'd on Hermia's eyne,
He hail'd down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved, and showers of oaths did melt.
I will go tell him of fair Hermia's flight:
Then to the wood will he to-morrow night
Pursue her; and for this intelligence
If I have thanks, it is a dear expense:
But herein mean I to enrich my pain,
To have his sight thither and back again.
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2 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Quince |
282 |
You, Nick Bottom, are set down for Pyramus.
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Midsummer Night's Dream
[II, 1] |
Puck |
410 |
Thou speak'st aright;
I am that merry wanderer of the night.
I jest to Oberon and make him smile
When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,
Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:
And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl,
In very likeness of a roasted crab,
And when she drinks, against her lips I bob
And on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale.
The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale,
Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me;
Then slip I from her bum, down topples she,
And 'tailor' cries, and falls into a cough;
And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh,
And waxen in their mirth and neeze and swear
A merrier hour was never wasted there.
But, room, fairy! here comes Oberon.
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4 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1] |
Quince |
883 |
If that may be, then all is well. Come, sit down,
every mother's son, and rehearse your parts.
Pyramus, you begin: when you have spoken your
speech, enter into that brake: and so every one
according to his cue.
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5 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1] |
Bottom |
940 |
I see their knavery: this is to make an ass of me;
to fright me, if they could. But I will not stir
from this place, do what they can: I will walk up
and down here, and I will sing, that they shall hear
I am not afraid.
[Sings]
The ousel cock so black of hue,
With orange-tawny bill,
The throstle with his note so true,
The wren with little quill,—
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Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2] |
(stage directions) |
1122 |
[Lies down and sleeps]
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7 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2] |
Puck |
1454 |
Up and down, up and down,
I will lead them up and down:
I am fear'd in field and town:
Goblin, lead them up and down.
Here comes one.
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8 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2] |
Lysander |
1479 |
He goes before me and still dares me on:
When I come where he calls, then he is gone.
The villain is much lighter-heel'd than I:
I follow'd fast, but faster he did fly;
That fallen am I in dark uneven way,
And here will rest me.
[Lies down]
Come, thou gentle day!
For if but once thou show me thy grey light,
I'll find Demetrius and revenge this spite.
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9 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2] |
(stage directions) |
1502 |
[Lies down and sleeps]
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10 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2] |
(stage directions) |
1510 |
[Lies down and sleeps]
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11 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2] |
(stage directions) |
1523 |
[Lies down and sleeps]
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12 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 1] |
Titania |
1546 |
Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed,
While I thy amiable cheeks do coy,
And stick musk-roses in thy sleek smooth head,
And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy.
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13 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1] |
Theseus |
2052 |
Now is the mural down between the two neighbours.
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Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1] |
Bottom |
2197 |
[Starting up] No assure you; the wall is down that
parted their fathers. Will it please you to see the
epilogue, or to hear a Bergomask dance between two
of our company?
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