xen, when she went to school;
she be but little, she is fierce.
in? nothing but low and little ?
u suffer her to flout me thus ?
e to her.
Get you gone, you dwarf;
s, of hind'ring knot-grass a made;
You are too officious
If that scorns your services. e; speak not of Helena;
er part: for if thou dost intend b
tle show of love to her,
Now she holds me not,
- if thou dar'st, to try whose right,
- mine, is most in Helena.
nay, I'll go with thee, cheek by jole. Stress, all this coil is 'long of you: t back.
I will not trust you, I;
- stay in your curst company.
than mine are quicker for a fray;
e longer though, to run away.
az'd, and know not what to say d.
hy negligence: still thou mistak'st,
nmitt'st thy knaveries willingly.
› me, king of shadows, I mistook.
u tell me, I should know the man
nenian garments he had on?
blameless proves my enterprise,
ie 'nointed an Athenian's eyes:
am I glad it so did sort,
eir jangling I esteem a sport.
est, these lovers seek a place to fight:
ore, Robin, overcast the night;
"a low reptant herb," according to Richard Tomlinson, a botanical apothecary of century. It was a vulgar error that it had the power of hindering growth.
vens explains this word by pretend. That is scarcely the meaning, which is
r for it. Thus, in Beaumont and Fletcher:
"Foolhardy knight, full soon thou shalt aby
This fond reproach."
former instance, has abide.
ot found in the folio of 1623, but is in the previous quartos.
the folio; wilfully in the quartos.
The starry welkin cover thou anon
With drooping fog, as black as Acheron;
And lead these testy rivals so astray,
As one come not within another's way
Like to Lysander sometime frame thy tongue,
Then stir Demetrius up with bitter wrong;
And sometime rail thou like Demetrius;
And from each other look thou lead them thus,
Till o'er their brows death-counterfeiting sleep
With leaden legs and batty wings doth creep:
Then crush this herb into Lysander's eye,
Whose liquor hath this virtuous property,
To take from thence all error, with his might,
And make his eyeballs roll with wonted sight.
When they next wake, all this derision
Shall seem a dream, and fruitless vision 23;
And back to Athens shall the lovers wend,
With league, whose date till death shall never end.
Whiles I in this affair do thee employ,
I'll to my queen, and beg her Indian boy;
And then I will her charmed eye release
From monster's view, and all things shall be peace.
PUCK. My fairy lord, this must be done with haste;
For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast 24,
And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger;
At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there,
Troop home to churchyards: damned spirits all,
That in cross-ways and floods have burial,
Already to their wormy beds are gone;
For fear lest day should look their shames upon,
They wilfully themselves exile from light,
And must for aye consort with black-brow'd night.
OBE. But we are spirits of another sort:
I with the morning's love have oft made sport 25;
And, like a forester, the groves may tread,
Even till the eastern gate, all fiery-red,
Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams,
Turns into yellow gold his salt-green streams 26.
But, notwithstanding, haste; make no delay:
We may effect this business yet ere day.
РUCK. Up and down, up and down;
I will lead them up and down:
I am fear'd in field and town;
Goblin, lead them up and down.
Here comes one.
d copies. This may be meant for the aby used before; but buy it dear is still xpression.
HEL. O, weary night, O, long and tedious night,
Abate thy hours: shine, comforts, from the east,
That I may back to Athens by daylight,
From these that my poor company detest:-
And sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's
Steal me awhile from mine own company.
PUCK. Yet but three? Come one more;
Two of both kinds makes up four.
Here she comes, curst and sad:
Cupid is a knavish lad,
Thus to make poor females mad.
HER. Never so weary, never so in woe,
Gentle lover, remedy. [Squeezing the juice on Lys.'s eye.
When thou wak'st,
Thou tak'st 28
True delight
In the sight
Of thy former lady's eye:
And the country proverb known,
That every man should take his own,
In your waking shall be shown:
Jack shall have Jill;
Nought shall go ill;
The man shall have his mare again,
[Exit PUCK.-DEM., HEL., &c., sleep.
• The country proverb to which Puck alludes is also given in Fletcher's Chaucer:' "Why, the man has his mare again, and all 's well."
ANIA and BOTTOM, Fairies attending; OBERON behind unseen.
it thee down upon this flowery bed,
thy amiable cheeks do coya,
nusk-roses in thy sleek smooth head, thy fair large ears, my gentle joy. Peas-blossom?
Do coy. To coy is here to caress.
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