Again I Will Come Over There and Night View

Enter a Fairy at i door and Robin Goodfellow at
some other.

ROBIN
How now, spirit? Whither wander you?
FAIRY
Over loma, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough bramble,
Over park, over pale,
5 Thorough flood, thorough fire;
I exercise wander everywhere,
Swifter than the moon's sphere.
And I serve the Fairy Queen,
To dew her orbs upon the light-green.
x The cowslips tall her pensioners exist;
In their aureate coats spots you come across;
Those be rubies, fairy favors;
In those freckles live their savors.
I must go seek some dewdrops here
xv And hang a pearl in every cowslip'due south ear.
Adieu, thou lob of spirits. I'll be gone.
Our queen and all her elves come hither anon.
ROBIN
The Male monarch doth go along his revels here this night.
Take listen the Queen come not within his sight,

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37

A Midsummer Dark's Dream

ACT 2. SC. ane

20 For Oberon is passing cruel and wrath
Because that she, every bit her bellboy, hath
A lovely boy stolen from an Indian rex;
She never had and then sweet a changeling.
And jealous Oberon would have the kid
25 Knight of his train, to trace the forests wild.
But she perforce withholds the lovèd boy,
Crowns him with flowers and makes him all her
joy.
And now they never meet in grove or green,
thirty Past fountain articulate or spangled starlight sheen,
Just they do foursquare, that all their elves for fright
Creep into acorn cups and hide them there.
FAIRY
Either I mistake your shape and making quite,
Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite
35 Called Robin Goodfellow. Are not y'all he
That frights the maidens of the villagery,
Skim milk, and sometimes labor in the quern
And bootless make the incoherent huswife churn,
And sometime make the drink to acquit no barm,
40 Mislead night wanderers, laughing at their impairment?
Those that "Hobgoblin" call you and "sweetness Puck,"
Yous practice their work, and they shall have good luck.
Are not you lot he?
ROBIN Thou speakest aright.
45 I am that merry wanderer of the dark.
I jest to Oberon and make him grin
When I a fat and bean-fed equus caballus beguile,
Neighing in likeness of a filly foal.
And sometime lurk I in a gossip's basin
50 In very likeness of a roasted crab,
And, when she drinks, against her lips I bob
And on her withered dewlap cascade the ale.
The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale,
Onetime for three-human foot stool mistaketh me;

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39

A Midsummer Night's Dream

ACT 2. SC. 1

55 Then sideslip I from her bum, down topples she
And "Tailor!" cries and falls into a cough,
And so the whole choir hold their hips and loffe
And waxen in their mirth and neeze and swear
A merrier hour was never wasted there.
sixty Only room, fairy. Here comes Oberon.
FAIRY
And here my mistress. Would that he were gone!

Enter ⌜Oberon⌝ the King of Fairies at i door, with his
train, and ⌜Titania⌝ the Queen at another, with hers.

OBERON
Ill met past moonlight, proud Titania.
TITANIA
What, jealous Oberon? ⌜Fairies,⌝ skip hence.
I have forsworn his bed and company.
OBERON
65 Tarry, rash wanton. Am not I thy lord?
TITANIA
And so I must be thy lady. But I know
When thou hast stolen away from Fairyland
And in the shape of Corin sat all solar day
Playing on pipes of corn and versing beloved
70 To amorous Phillida. Why art thou here,
Come up from the uttermost steep of India,
Just that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon,
Your buskined mistress and your warrior love,
To Theseus must exist wedded, and yous come up
75 To give their bed joy and prosperity?
OBERON
How canst thou thus for shame, Titania,
Glance at my credit with Hippolyta,
Knowing I know thy beloved to Theseus?
Didst non thou lead him through the glimmering
80 night
From ⌜Perigouna,⌝ whom he ravishèd,

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41

A Midsummer Night'due south Dream

ACT 2. SC. 1

And make him with off-white ⌜Aegles⌝ break his faith,
With Ariadne and Antiopa?
TITANIA
These are the forgeries of jealousy;
85 And never, since the middle summer's jump,
Met nosotros on hill, in dale, forest, or mead,
By pavèd fountain or by rushy brook,
Or in the beachèd margent of the sea,
To trip the light fantastic toe our ringlets to the whistling current of air,
90 Only with thy brawls one thousand hast disturbed our sport.
Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain,
Every bit in revenge have sucked upwards from the sea
Contagious fogs, which, falling in the state,
Hath every pelting river made so proud
95 That they have overborne their continents.
The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain,
The plowman lost his sweat, and the light-green corn
Hath rotted ere his youth attained a beard.
The fold stands empty in the drownèd field,
100 And crows are fatted with the murrain flock.
The ix-men'south-morris is filled up with mud,
And the quaint mazes in the wanton green,
For lack of tread, are undistinguishable.
The human mortals want their winter here.
105 No dark is now with hymn or carol blessed.
Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,
Pale in her anger, washes all the air,
That rheumatic diseases exercise abound.
And thorough this distemperature we see
110 The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
Fall in the fresh lap of the ruddy rose,
And on one-time Hiems' ⌜thin⌝ and icy crown
An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds
Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer,
115 The childing autumn, angry winter, modify
Their wonted liveries, and the mazèd earth

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43

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Act 2. SC. 1

By their increase now knows not which is which.
And this same progeny of evils comes
From our debate, from our dissension;
120 We are their parents and original.
OBERON
Do you amend information technology, then. It lies in you.
Why should Titania cross her Oberon?
I practise simply beg a footling changeling boy
To exist my henchman.
TITANIA 125 Set your heart at rest:
The Fairyland buys not the kid of me.
His mother was a vot'ress of my gild,
And in the spicèd Indian air by nighttime
Total often hath she gossiped past my side
130 And sat with me on Neptune'south yellow sands,
Marking th' embarkèd traders on the flood,
When we take laughed to see the sails conceive
And abound big-bellied with the wanton wind;
Which she, with pretty and with swimming gait,
135 Following (her womb then rich with my young
squire),
Would imitate and sheet upon the land
To fetch me trifles and return again,
Equally from a voyage, rich with merchandise.
140 But she, existence mortal, of that boy did die,
And for her sake practice I rear up her boy,
And for her sake I will not part with him.
OBERON
How long inside this wood intend you stay?
TITANIA
Perchance till later Theseus' wedding day.
145 If you lot will patiently dance in our round
And run into our moonlight revels, go with us.
If non, shun me, and I volition spare your haunts.
OBERON
Give me that male child and I will go with thee.

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45

A Midsummer Dark's Dream

Act 2. SC. 1

TITANIA
Not for thy fairy kingdom. Fairies, away.
150 Nosotros shall chide downright if I longer stay.
⌜Titania and her fairies⌝ exit.
OBERON
Well, become thy way. Thousand shalt not from this grove
Till I torment thee for this injury.—
My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememb'residuum
Since one time I sat upon a promontory
155 And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's dorsum
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious jiff
That the rude body of water grew civil at her vocal
And sure stars shot madly from their spheres
To hear the sea-maid's music.
ROBIN 160 I remember.
OBERON
That very time I saw (merely thou couldst not),
Flying between the common cold moon and the Earth,
Cupid all armed. A certain aim he took
At a off-white vestal thronèd by ⌜the⌝ westward,
165 And loosed his dearest-shaft smartly from his bow
As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts.
But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft
Quenched in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon,
And the imperial vot'ress passèd on
170 In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Nevertheless marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell.
It fell upon a little western flower,
Before, milk-white, at present imperial with beloved's wound,
And maidens call information technology "love-in-idleness."
175 Fetch me that flower; the herb I showed thee one time.
The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid
Will make or man or woman madly dote
Upon the side by side live creature that information technology sees.
Fetch me this herb, and be m hither once more
180 Ere the leviathan tin can swim a league.

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47

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Human action two. SC. one

ROBIN
I'll put a girdle round most the Earth
In forty minutes. ⌜He exits.⌝
OBERON Having one time this juice,
I'll lookout Titania when she is asleep
185 And drop the liquor of information technology in her eyes.
The next matter then she, waking, looks upon
(Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull,
On meddling monkey, or on busy ape)
She shall pursue it with the soul of honey.
190 And ere I take this charm from off her sight
(As I tin can accept it with some other herb),
I'll make her render upward her page to me.
Just who comes hither? I am invisible,
And I will eavesdrop their conference.

Enter Demetrius, Helena following him.

DEMETRIUS
195 I love thee non; therefore pursue me not.
Where is Lysander and fair Hermia?
The one I'll stay; the other stayeth me.
Thou told'st me they were stol'northward unto this wood,
And here am I, and wood within this wood
200 Because I cannot meet my Hermia.
Hence, become thee gone, and follow me no more.
HELENA
Y'all depict me, you lot hard-hearted adamant!
But notwithstanding you depict not iron, for my heart
Is true every bit steel. Leave you lot your power to draw,
205 And I shall have no power to follow y'all.
DEMETRIUS
Do I entice y'all? Do I speak you fair?
Or rather practise I non in plainest truth
Tell you I do non, ⌜nor⌝ I cannot love y'all?
HELENA
And even for that practise I love you the more.

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49

A Midsummer Night's Dream

ACT two. SC. 1

210 I am your spaniel, and, Demetrius,
The more y'all beat me I will fawn on you.
Use me but as your spaniel: spurn me, strike me,
Neglect me, lose me; but give me leave
(Unworthy equally I am) to follow you lot.
215 What worser place can I beg in your beloved
(And yet a place of high respect with me)
Than to be usèd as you use your canis familiaris?
DEMETRIUS
Tempt not also much the hatred of my spirit,
For I am sick when I do look on thee.
HELENA
220 And I am sick when I expect not on yous.
DEMETRIUS
You do impeach your modesty as well much
To leave the city and commit yourself
Into the hands of one that loves you not,
To trust the opportunity of night
225 And the ill counsel of a desert place
With the rich worth of your virginity.
HELENA
Your virtue is my privilege. For that
It is not night when I do come across your face,
Therefore I think I am non in the night.
230 Nor doth this wood lack worlds of visitor,
For yous, in my respect, are all the world.
And then, how can it be said I am solitary
When all the globe is here to await on me?
DEMETRIUS
I'll run from thee and hibernate me in the brakes
235 And get out thee to the mercy of wild beasts.
HELENA
The wildest hath not such a heart equally yous.
Run when yous volition. The story shall be changed:
Apollo flies and Daphne holds the chase;
The dove pursues the griffin; the balmy hind

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51

A Midsummer Night's Dream

ACT ii. SC. 1

240 Makes speed to catch the tiger. Bootless speed
When cowardice pursues and valor flies!
DEMETRIUS
I will not stay thy questions. Permit me go,
Or if yard follow me, do not believe
But I shall do thee mischief in the wood.
HELENA
245 Ay, in the temple, in the boondocks, the field,
You do me mischief. Fie, Demetrius!
Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex activity.
Nosotros cannot fight for dearest as men may practice.
Nosotros should be wooed and were not fabricated to woo.
⌜Demetrius exits.⌝
250 I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell
To die upon the hand I love and then well. ⌜Helena exits.⌝
OBERON
Fare thee well, nymph. Ere he exercise exit this grove,
Thou shalt fly him, and he shall seek thy honey.

Enter ⌜Robin.⌝

Hast one thousand the flower there? Welcome, wanderer.
ROBIN
255 Ay, there information technology is.
OBERON I pray thee give information technology me.
⌜Robin gives him the bloom.⌝
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite overcanopied with luscious woodbine,
260 With sweet muskroses, and with eglantine.
In that location sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lulled in these flowers with dances and please.
And there the ophidian throws her enameled peel,
Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in.
265 And with the juice of this I'll streak her optics
And make her full of mean fantasies.
Take grand some of it, and seek through this grove.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

Human activity two. SC. ii

⌜He gives Robin role of the bloom.⌝
A sugariness Athenian lady is in love
With a disdainful youth. Bless his eyes,
270 But do it when the side by side affair he espies
May be the lady. Thousand shalt know the man
By the Athenian garments he hath on.
Consequence it with some intendance, that he may prove
More addicted on her than she upon her love.
275 And look thou meet me ere the first cock crow.
ROBIN
Fearfulness not, my lord. Your servant shall exercise so.
They exit.

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Source: https://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/a-midsummer-nights-dream/act-2-scene-1/

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