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Ob. There lies your love.

Queen. How came these things to pass?
Oh, how mine eye doth loath his visage now!
Ob. Silence, a while.-Robin, take off this head.-
Titania, mufick call: and ftrike more dead
Than common fleep, of all these five the fenfe.

Queen. Mufick, ho! mufick; fuch as charmeth sleep.
Puck. When thou awak'ft, with thine own fool's eyes

peep.

Ob. Sound, mufick. [Still mufick.] Come my queen, take hands with me,

And rock the ground whereon these fleepers be.
Now thou and I are new in amity;

And will, to-morrow midnight, folemnly,
Dance in duke Thefeus' houfe triumphantly,
And bless it to all "fair posterity:

There shall these pairs of faithful lovers be
Wedded, with Thefeus, all in jollity.

Puck. Fairy king, attend, and mark;
I do hear the morning lark.

Ob. Then my queen, in filence° fad,
Trip we after the night's fhade:

We the globe can compass foon,

Swifter than the wand'ring moon.

Queen, Come, my lord: and in our flight,

Tell me how it came this night,

That I fleeping here was found,

With thefe mortals, on the ground.

[Exeunt.

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fair pofterity:]-with a numerous and fair pofterity-far pofterityto the remoteft-fair profperity-to the enjoyment of it, that all things may profper in it.

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fad,]-deep, ftill.

P Trip we after the night's fhade :-
Following darkness as a dream."

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Act V, S, 2. Puck.
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Enter

Enter Thefeus, Egeus, Hippolita, and train.
The. Go, one of you, find out the forefter ;-
For now our observation is perform'd:

And fince we have the ' vaward of the day,
My love fhall hear the mufick of my hounds.-
'Uncouple in the western valley; go:-
Dispatch, I fay, and find the forefter.

We will, fair queen, up to the mountain's top,
And mark the mufical confufion

Of hounds and echo in conjunction.

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Hip. 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, befides the groves,
The fkies, the fountains, every region near
Seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard
So mufical a difcord, fuch fweet thunder.

The. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind,
So 'flew'd, fo fanded, and their heads are hung
With ears that sweep away the morning dew;
Crook-knee'd, and dew-lap'd like Theffalian bulls;
Slow in purfuit, but match'd in mouth like bells,
Each under each. A cry more tuneable

Was never halloo'd to, nor cheer'd with horn,

In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Theffaly :

Judge, when you hear.-But, foft; what nymphs are these?

Ege. My lord, this is my daughter here asleep; And this, Lyfander; this Demetrius is;

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obfervation is perform'd :]-obfervance of the time fixed for the nuptials; or the rites of May Day's morning.

1vaward]—the fore part; the day is yet but young.

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Uncoupl'd-let them go.

bay'd the bear]-chas'd the boar.

'gallant chiding ;]-melodious notes.

w mountains.

› flew'd, so fanded,】-deep-mouth'd; of a fandy colour.

This Helena, old Nedar's Helena :

I wonder at their being here together.

The. No doubt, they rose up early, to observe
The rite of May; and, hearing our intent,
Came here in grace of our folemnity.-
But, fpeak, Egeus; is not this the day

That Hermia should give anfwer of her choice?

Ege. It is, my lord.

The. Go, bid the huntsmen wake them with their horns,

Horns, and fhout within; Demetrius, Lyfander, Hermia, and Helena, wake and start up.

The. Good-morrow, friends. Saint Valentine is past; Begin these wood-birds but to couple now?

Lys. Pardon, my lord.

The. I pray you all, ftand up.

[They all kneel to Thefeus,

I know, you two are rival enemies;

How comes this gentle concord in the world,
That hatred is fo far from jealousy,

To fleep by hate, and fear no enmity?

Lys. My lord, I fhall reply amazedly,
Half 'fleep, half waking: But as yet, I fwear,
I cannot truly fay how I came here;

But, as I think, (for truly would I speak,-
And now I do bethink me, fo it is ;)

I came with Hermia hither our intent

Was to be gone from Athens, where we might be

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Without the peril of the Athenian law.

Ege. Enough, enough, my lord; you have enough;

I beg the law, the law, upon his head.

They would have ftol'n away, they would, Demetrius,

Y Saint Valentine]-the feafon for pairing.

2 by hate,]-the perfon hated.

Without the peril]-Beyond the reach.

Thereby

Thereby to have defeated you and me :

You, of your wife; and me, of my confent;

Of

my consent that she should be your wife.

Dem. 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 fome power it is) my love to Hermia,
Melted as is the fnow, feems to me now
As the remembrance of an idle gawd,
Which in my childhood I did doat 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 faw Hermia:
But, like a ficknefs, did I loath this food:
But, as in health, come to my natural taste,
Now do I wish it, love it, long for it,
And will for evermore be true to it.

The. Fair lovers, you are fortunately met:
Of this difcourfe we fhall hear more anon.-
Egeus, I will over-bear your will;

For in the temple, by and by with us,
These couples fhall eternally be knit.
And, for the morning now is fomething worn,
Our purpos'd hunting shall be set aside.-
Away, with us, to Athens: Three and three,

We'll hold a feaft in great folemnity,—

Come my Hippolita. [Exe. Thefeus, Hippolita, and train. Lyf. These things feem fmall, and undistinguishable, Like far-off mountains turned into clouds.

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in fancy]-from motives of affection.

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a fickness,]-a person fick.

turned into the form of; almoft loft in.

Her.

Her. Methinks I see these things with parted eye, When every thing feems double.

Hel. So methinks:

And I have found Demetrius like a jewel,
Mine own, and not mine own.

Dem. But are you fure

That we are well awake?-it seems to me,
That yet we fleep, we dream.-Do not you think,
The duke was here, and bid us follow him?
Her. Yea, and my father.

Hel. And Hippolita.

Lys. And he did bid us follow to the temple.
Dem. Why then, we are awake: let's follow him;
And, by the way, let us recount our dreams.

As they go out, Bottom awakes.

[Exeunt.

Bot. When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer: -my next is, Moft fair Pyramus- Hey, ho!-Peter Quince! Flute, the bellows-mender! Snout the tinker! Starveling! God's my life! ftol'n hence, and left me afleep! I have had a most rare vision. vifion. I have had a dream,-past the wit of man to fay what dream it was: Man is but an afs, if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had,-But man is but a patch'd fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not feen; man's hand is not able to tafte, 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 fhall be call'd Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom; and I will

e like a jewel,]-long loft, and fo unexpectedly recovered, that I can fcarcely credit my own good fortune-difcovered by accident, and there. fore of doubtful title-gemell-an actor of a double part.

a patch'd fool.]-one of the party-colour'd tribe.

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