And crows are fatted with the murrain flock; From our debate, from our dissention; We are their parents and original. Obe. 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 31. Tita. Set your heart at rest, And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands, Would imitate; and sail upon the land, Obe. How long within this wood intend you stay? 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 Since once I sat upon a promontory, 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,) At a fair vestal 32, throned by the west; And the imperial vot'ress 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 33. Fetch me that flower; the herb I show'd thee once; Will make or man or woman madly dote Puck. I'll put a girdle round about the earth Obe. [Exit PUCK. And drop the liquor of it in her eyes: |