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Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 1] |
Theseus |
50 |
What say you, Hermia? be advised fair maid:
To you your father should be as a god;
One that composed your beauties, yea, and one
To whom you are but as a form in wax
By him imprinted and within his power
To leave the figure or disfigure it.
Demetrius is a worthy gentleman.
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2 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 1] |
Lysander |
147 |
Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
Making it momentany as a sound,
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream;
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'
The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
So quick bright things come to confusion.
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3 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Bottom |
272 |
First, good Peter Quince, say what the play treats
on, then read the names of the actors, and so grow
to a point.
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4 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Bottom |
327 |
Let me play the lion too: I will roar, that I will
do any man's heart good to hear me; I will roar,
that I will make the duke say 'Let him roar again,
let him roar again.'
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5 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[II, 2] |
Hermia |
707 |
Lysander riddles very prettily:
Now much beshrew my manners and my pride,
If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied.
But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy
Lie further off; in human modesty,
Such separation as may well be said
Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid,
So far be distant; and, good night, sweet friend:
Thy love ne'er alter till thy sweet life end!
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6 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[II, 2] |
Lysander |
716 |
Amen, amen, to that fair prayer, say I;
And then end life when I end loyalty!
Here is my bed: sleep give thee all his rest!
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7 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[II, 2] |
Helena |
767 |
Do not say so, Lysander; say not so
What though he love your Hermia? Lord, what though?
Yet Hermia still loves you: then be content.
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8 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1] |
Bottom |
833 |
Not a whit: I have a device to make all well.
Write me a prologue; and let the prologue seem to
say, we will do no harm with our swords, and that
Pyramus is not killed indeed; and, for the more
better assurance, tell them that I, Pyramus, am not
Pyramus, but Bottom the weaver: this will put them
out of fear.
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9 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1] |
Quince |
871 |
Ay; or else one must come in with a bush of thorns
and a lanthorn, and say he comes to disfigure, or to
present, the person of Moonshine. Then, there is
another thing: we must have a wall in the great
chamber; for Pyramus and Thisby says the story, did
talk through the chink of a wall.
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10 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1] |
Snout |
877 |
You can never bring in a wall. What say you, Bottom?
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11 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1] |
Titania |
959 |
I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again:
Mine ear is much enamour'd of thy note;
So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;
And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me
On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.
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12 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1] |
Bottom |
964 |
Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason
for that: and yet, to say the truth, reason and
love keep little company together now-a-days; the
more the pity that some honest neighbours will not
make them friends. Nay, I can gleek upon occasion.
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13 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2] |
Demetrius |
1295 |
I say I love thee more than he can do.
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14 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2] |
Lysander |
1296 |
If thou say so, withdraw, and prove it too.
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15 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2] |
Hermia |
1316 |
What, can you do me greater harm than hate?
Hate me! wherefore? O me! what news, my love!
Am not I Hermia? are not you Lysander?
I am as fair now as I was erewhile.
Since night you loved me; yet since night you left
me:
Why, then you left me—O, the gods forbid!—
In earnest, shall I say?
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Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2] |
Hermia |
1400 |
I am amazed, and know not what to say.
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17 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 1] |
Titania |
1575 |
Or say, sweet love, what thou desirest to eat.
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Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 1] |
Theseus |
1657 |
Go, one of you, find out the forester;
For now our observation is perform'd;
And since we have the vaward of the day,
My love shall hear the music of my hounds.
Uncouple in the western valley; let them go:
Dispatch, I say, and find the forester.
[Exit an Attendant]
We will, fair queen, up to the mountain's top,
And mark the musical confusion
Of hounds and echo in conjunction.
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Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 1] |
Lysander |
1704 |
My lord, I shall reply amazedly,
Half sleep, half waking: but as yet, I swear,
I cannot truly say how I came here;
But, as I think,—for truly would I speak,
And now do I bethink me, so it is,—
I came with Hermia hither: our intent
Was to be gone from Athens, where we might,
Without the peril of the Athenian law.
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Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 1] |
Bottom |
1762 |
[Awaking] When my cue comes, call me, and I will
answer: my next is, 'Most fair Pyramus.' Heigh-ho!
Peter Quince! Flute, the bellows-mender! Snout,
the tinker! Starveling! God's my life, stolen
hence, and left me asleep! I have had a most rare
vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to
say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go
about to expound this dream. Methought I was—there
is no man can tell what. Methought I was,—and
methought I had,—but man is but a patched fool, if
he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye
of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not
seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue
to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream
was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of
this dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream,
because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the
latter end of a play, before the duke:
peradventure, to make it the more gracious, I shall
sing it at her death.
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