Fetch me this herb, and be thou here again, Puck. I'll put a girdly round about the earth Ob. Having once this juice, I'll watch Titania when she is asleep, And drop the liquor of it in her eyes: The next thing which fhe waking looks upon, Dem. I SCENE III. Enter Demetrius, Helena following him. Love thee not, therefore purfue me not. The one I'll flay; the other flayeth me. [Exit. Thou told'st me, they were stoll'n into this wood; And here am I, and wood within this wood; Hermia. Because I cannot meet my heart Is true as fteel. Leave you your pow'r to draw, Dem. 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? The more you beat I will fawn on you: me, Ufe Ufe me but as your spaniel, fpurn me, ftrike me, you. What worfer place can I beg in your love, (And yet a place of high refpect with me) Than to be used, as you use your dog? Dem. Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit; For I am fick, when I do look on thee. Hel. And I am fick, when I look not on you. And the ill counsel of a defart place, When all the world is here to look on me? Dem. I'll run from thee and hide me in the brakes, And leave thee to the mercy of wild Beafts. Hel. The wildeft hath not fuch a heart as you; Run when you will, the ftory fhall be chang'd: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chafe; The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes fpeed to catch the tyger. Bootlefs fpeed! When cowardife purfues, and valour flies. Dem. I will not ftay thy questions; let me go: Or if thou follow me, do not believe, But I fhall do thee mifchief in the wood. Hel. Ay, in the temple, in the town, the field, You do me mifchief. Fie, Demetrius, Your wrongs do fet a scandal on my sex, We cannot fight for love, as men may do; We should be woo'd, and were not made to woo. I I follow thee, and make a heav'n of hell; FARE SCENE IV. [Exeunt. Ob. ARE thee well, nymph; ere he doth leave this grove, Thou shalt fly him, and he shall seek thy love. Puck. Ay, there it is. Ob. I pray thee, give it me; I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, With fweet mufk-rofes, and with eglantine. And with the juice of this I'll streak her eyes, Take thou fome of it, and feek through this grove; A fweet Athenian lady is in love With a difdainful youth; anoint his eyes; But do it, when the next thing he espies [Exeunt. SCENE Enter Queen of Fairies, with her train. Qu. COME, now a roundel, and a Fairy fong: Then, for the third part of the midnight, Some to kill cankers in the mufk-rofe buds, [hence; Some war with rear-mice for their leathern wings, To make my fmall elves coats; and fome keep back The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots, and wonders At our quiant sports. Sing me now asleep: Then to your Offices, and let me rest. Fairies fing. You spotted fnakes with double tongue, Sing in your fweet lullaby; Lulla, lulla, lullaby; lulla, lulla, lullaby : Never harm, nor Spell, nor charm, Come our lovely lady nigh; So good night with lullaby. Enter Oberon. Ob. What thou feeft, when thou doft wake, Do it for thy true love take: Love and languifh for his fake; Be it ounce, or cat, or bear, Pard, or boar with briftled hair, that fhall In thy eye appear, When thou wak'ft, it is thy dear; Wake, when some vile thing is near. [Exit Oberon. Enter Lyfander and Hermia. Lyf. FAIR love, you faint with wandring in the wood; And, to speak troth, I have forgot our way: Her. Be't fo, Lyfander; find you out a bed, Lys. One turf shall serve as pillow for us both, One heart, one bed, two bofoms, and one troth. Her. Nay, good Lyfander; for my fake, my dear, Lie further off yet, do not lie fo near. Lyf. O take the sense, sweet, of my conference; Love takes the meaning, in love's innocense; I mean, that my heart unto yours is knit; So that but one heart can you make of it: Two bofoms, interchained with an oath; So then two bofoms, and a fingle troth: Then, by your fide no bed-room me deny; For lying fo, Hermia, I do not lie. Her. Lyfander riddles very prettily; Now much befhrew my manners, and If Hermia meant to fay, Lyfander ly'd. my pride, } But |