midsummer-nights-dream-gutenberg.txt

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