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darkness do devour it up, so quick, bright things come to confusion!.. Lys. a. 1 s. 1

If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, it stands as an edict in destiny; then let us teach our trial patience, because it is a customary cross.. Hermia a. 1 s. 1

In the wood, where often you and I, upon faint primrose beds, were wont to lie, emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet, there my Lysander and myself shall meet..Hermia a. 1. s. 1

I will aggravate my voice, so that I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove, I will roar you and twere any nightingale..Bottom a. 1 s. 2

I am your Spaniel 1 and the more you beat me, I will fawn on you, use me but as your Spaniel, spurn me, strike me, neglect me, lose me; only give me leave, unworthy as I am, to follow you.. Helena a. 2 8. 2

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.. Helena a. 2 s. 2

I know a bank whereon the wild Thyme blows, Where

tremely stretch'd and conn'd with cruel pain, to do you service.. Philo. a. 5 s. 1

I love not to see wretched

ness o'er charged, and duty in his service perishing..Hip. 5 8. 1

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It is not enough to speak, but to speak true. Lys. a. 5 s. 1

Love looks not with the Eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.. Helena a. 8. 1

Lovers, and mad-men have such seething brains such shaping phantasies, that comprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.. The. a. 5 8. 1

Love therefore, and tongue tied simplicity, in least speak most, to my capacity.. The. a. 5 s. 1

My hounds are bred, out of the Spartan kind, so flew'd so sanded and their heads are hung with ears, that sweep away the morning dew &c... The. a. 4 s. 1

My love to Hermia melted as doth the suow, seems to me now as the remembrance of idle gaud, which in my childhood I did doat upon..Dem.

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things with parted-eye, when every thing seems double.. Hermia. a. 4 8. 1

Merry, and tragical, tedious and brief, that is hot ice and wondrous strange snow! How shall we find the concord of this discord.. The. a. 5 s. 1

Now they never meet, in grove or green, by fountain clear or spangled star-light sheen but they do square; that all their elves for fear, creep into acorn cups, and hide them there Puck. a. 2 s. 1

Nature here shows art, that through thy bosom. makes me see thy heart.. Lysander a. 2 s. 3

Not Hermia, but Helena, do I love, who will not change a Raven for a Dove..Lysander a. 2 s. 3

Nights swift dragons, cut the clouds full fast, and yonder shines Aurora's harbinger .. Puck a. 3 s. 2

Never so weary, never so in woe, bedabbl'd with dew, and torn with briars, I can no further crawl, no further go, my legs, can keep no pace with my desires.. Her. a. 3 s. 2

Never did I hear, such gallant chiding! for besides the groves, the skies, the

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Fairy a. 2 s. 1 One turf shall serve as pillow for us both, one heart, one bed two bosoms, and one troth.. Lysander a. 2 s. 3

O take the sense sweet of mine innocence love takes the meanings in love's conference, I mean that my heart, unto yours is knit, so that, but one heart we can make of it.. Lys. a. 2 s. 3 O, and is all forgot! all

school-days friendship, childhood Innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial God's have with our neelds created both one flower &c... Helena a. 3 s. 2

Oh weary night! oh long and tedious night, abate thy hours, shine comfort from, the East, that I may back to Athens by daylight. Helen a

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Sleep that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye, steal awhile from mine own company.. Hel. a. 3 s. 2

So doth the woodbine, the honeysuckle, gently entwine, the female ivy so enrings the barky fingers of the elm..

Titania a. 4 s. 1

Such tricks hath strong imagination, that if it would but comprehend some joy, it comprehends some bringer of that joy.-Or in the night imagining some fear, how easy is a bush supposed a bear.. The. a. 5 s. 1

Say, what abridgment have you for this evening ?..The. a. 5 s. 1

To you, your father should be as a God, one that composed your beauties; yea, and one to whom you are but

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity..Helena a. 1 s. 1

That will ask some tears in the true performing of it, if I do it let the audience look to their eyes.. Bottom a. 1 8. 2

Through this distemperature we see the seasons alter; hoary-headed frosts fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, and on old Hiems' chin and icy crown an odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds, is as in mockery set. The spring, the summer, the chiding autumn, the angry winter, change their liveries; and the mazed world, by their increase now knows not which is which.. Titania a. 2 8. 2

Thou rememberest since

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once, I sat upon a promontory and heard a mermaid on a Dolphin's back, uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, that the rude sea, grew civil at her song, and certain stars shot madly from their spheres, to hear the sea-maids music.. Oberon a. 2 s. 2

Tempt not too much, the hatred of my spirit !..Dem. a. 2 s. 2

The will of man is by his reason swayed, and reason says you are the worthier maid; things growing are not ripe until their season, so I being young, till now, not ripe to reason, and tuching now the point of human skill, Reason becomes the marshall to my will, and leads me to your eyes, where I o'erlook love's stories written in love's richest book.. Lysander a. 2 s. 3

The sun was not so true unto the day, as he to me; would he have stolen away from sleeping Hermia? I'll believe as soon, this whole earth may be bor'd, and that the moon may through the centre creep, and so displease her brother's noontide with the Antipodes.. Hermia a. 3

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