With Ariadne, and Antiopa? Tita. These are the forgeries of jealousy: By paved fountain, or by rushy brook, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, 4 Petty. 5 Banks which contain them. • A game played by boys. An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set: The spring, the summer, 7 Their wonted liveries; and the 'mazed world, 8 By their increase, now knows not which is which: From our debate, from our dissention; Obe. Do you amend it then; it lies in you: I do but beg a little changeling boy, To be my Tita. henchman." Set your heart at rest, The fairy land buys not the child of me. Would imitate; and sail upon the land, Autumn producing flowers unseasonably. Obe. How long within this wood intend you stay? Tita. Perchance, till after Theseus' wedding-day. If you will patiently dance in our round, And see our moon-light revels, go with us; If not, shun me, and I will spare your haunts. Obe. Give me that boy, and I will go with thee. Tita. Not for thy kingdom.-Fairies, away: We shall chide down-right, if I longer stay. [Exeunt TITANIA, and her train. Obe. Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove, Till I torment thee for this injury.— My gentle Puck, come hither: Thou remember'st And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, Puck. I remember. Obe. That very time I saw, (but thou could'st not,) And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.' Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: 1 Exempt from love. 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 show'd thee once : The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid, Upon the next live creature that it sees. Fetch me this herb: and be thou here again, Puck. I'll put a girdle round about the earth Having once this juice, T 1 [Exit Pud Obe. U And drop the liquor of it in her eyes : U The next thing then she waking looks upon, W (Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull, On meddling monkey, or on busy ape,) T She shall pursue it with the soul of love. Enter DEMETRIUS, HELENA following him. Dem. 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 stol'n into this wood, And here am I, and wood within this wood, Because I cannot meet with Hermia. 2 Mad, raving. T T Hence, get thee gone, and follow me no more. Is true as steel: Leave you your power to draw, you. ell you-I do not, nor I cannot love you? Hel. And even for that do I love am your spaniel; and, Demetrius, you the more. he more you beat me, I will fawn on you: What worser place can I beg in your love, Dem. Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit; For I am sick, when I do look on thee. Hel. And I am sick, when I look not on you. Dem. You do impeach3 your modesty too much, › leave the city, and commit yourself to the hands of one that loves you not; o trust the opportunity of night, nd the ill counsel of a desert place, With the rich worth of your virginity. Hel. 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 : 3 Bring in question. |