And the country proverb known, Nought fhall go ill; The man fhall have his mare again, and all fhall be well. [Exit PUCK. DEM. HEL. &c. fleep. ACT IV, SCENE 1. A Wood. Enter TITANIA, and BOTTOM, Fairies attending: OBERON behind, unfeen. Titania. COME, fit thee down upon this flowery bed, Peafe. Ready. Bot. Scratch my head, Peafe-bloffom.-Where's monfieur Cobweb? Cob. Ready. Bot. Monfieur Cobweb; good monfieur, get your weapons in your hand, and kill me a red-hipp'd humblebee on the top of a thistle; and, good monfieur, bring me the honey-bag. Do not fret yourself too much in the action, monfieur; and, good monfieur, have a care the honey-bag break not; I would be loth to have you over-flown with a honey-bag, fignior.Where's monficur Mustard-feed? Muft. Ready. Bot. Give me your neif, monfieur Mustard-feed. Pray you, leave your courtesy, good monfieur. Muft. What's your will? Bot. Nothing, good monfieur, but to help cavalero Cobweb to scratch. I muft to the barber's, monfieur; for, methinks, I am marvellous hairy about the face: and I am fuch a tender afs, if my hair do but tickle me, I must scratch. Tita, What, wilt thou hear fome mufic, myfweet love? Bot. I have a reasonable good ear in music: let us have the tongs and the bones. Tita. Or, fay, fweet love, what thou defir'st to eat. Bot. Truly, a peck of provender; I could munch your good dry oats. Methinks I have a great defire to a bottle of hay good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow. Tita. I have a venturous fairy that shall seek The fquirrel's hoard, and fetch thee new nuts. Bot. I had rather have a handful, or two, of dried peafe. But, I pray you, let none of your people ftir me; I have an expofition of fleep come upon me. Tita. Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms. Fairies, be gone, and be all ways away. So doth the woodbine, the fweet honey-fuckle, Enrings the barky fingers of the elm. O, how I love thee! how I dote on thee! OBERON advances. Enter PUCK. [light? Ob. Welcome, good Robin. Seeft thou this sweet Her dotage now I do begin to pity. For meeting her of late, behind the wood, Seeking fweet favours for this hateful fool, I did upbraid her, and fall out with her: E 2 For For fhe his hairy temples then had rounded [Touching her eyes with an herb, See, as thou waft wont to fee: Now, my Ob. There lies your love. Tita. How came these things to pass? O, how mine eyes do loath his vifage now! Ob. Silence, a while.-Robin, take off this head.→→ Titania, mufic call; and ftrike more dead Than common sleep, of all these five the sense. Tita. Mufic, ho! mufic; fuch as charmeth fleep. Puck. Now, when thou wak'it, with thine own fool's eyes peep. Ob. Sound, mufic. [Still Mufic.] Come my queen, take hands with me, And rock the ground whereon these fleepers be. Puck. Fairy king, attend, and mark; Ol. Then, my queen, in filence fad, Tita. Come, my lord; and in our flight, That I fleeping here was found, With thefe mortals, on the ground. [Exeunt. [Horns found within. Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLITA, EGEUS, and Train. The. Go, one of you, find out the forester ;- Of hounds and echo in conjunction. E 3 Hip. Hip. I was with Hercules, and Cadmus, once, The. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horp, Judge, when you hear. But, foft; what nymphs are thefe? Ege. My lord, this is my daughter here asleep; And this, Lyfander; this Demetrius is; This Helena, old Nedar's Helena : I wonder of their being here together. The. No doubt, they rofe up early, to observe But, fpeak, Egeus; is not this the day That Hermia fhould give answer of her choice? The. Go, bid the huntfien wake them with their horns. Horns, and fhout within. DEMETRIUS, LYSANDER, Lyf |