A Midsummer Night's Dream (Quarto 1, 1600)
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A Midsommer nightes dreame.
¶Thy crazed title to my certaine right.
¶Lys. You haue her fathers loue, Demetrius:
¶Let me haue Hermias: doe you marry him.
105And what is mine, my loue shall render him.
¶And she is mine, and all my right of her
¶I doe estate vnto Demetrius.
¶Lysand. I am my Lord, as well deriu'd as hee,
110My fortunes euery way as fairely rankt
¶(If not with vantage) as Demetrius:
¶I am belou'd of beautious Hermia.
115Demetrius, Ile auouch it to his heade,
¶Made loue to Nedars daughter, Helena,
¶Deuoutly dotes, dotes in Idolatry,
¶And, with Demetrius, thought to haue spoke thereof:
¶But, being ouer full of selfe affaires,
¶My minde did loose it. But Demetrius come,
¶And come Egeus, you shall goe with mee:
¶For you, faire Hermia, looke you arme your selfe,
¶To fit your fancies, to your fathers will;
¶Or else, the Law of Athens yeelds you vp
¶(Which by no meanes we may extenuate)
130To death, or to a vowe of single life.
¶Come my Hyppolita: what cheare my loue?
¶Demetrius and Egeus goe along:
¶Against our nuptiall, and conferre with you
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