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Atlanta Shakespeare Company, As You Like It. To Jun. 24, 2012.
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, The Comedy of Errors. To Jul. 29, 2012.
American Shakespeare Center, The Winter's Tale. To Jun. 16, 2012.
American Shakespeare Center, A Midsummer Night's Dream. To Jun. 14, 2012.
American Shakespeare Center, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. To Jun. 16, 2012.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Quarto 1, 1600)

Author: William Shakespeare
Editor: Suzanne Westfall
Not Peer Reviewed
A Midsommer nightes dreame.
100Deme. Relent, sweete Hermia, and, Lysander, yeeld
Thy crazed title to my certaine right.
Lys. You haue her fathers loue, Demetrius:
Let me haue Hermias: doe you marry him.
Egeus. Scornefull Lysander, true, he hath my loue:
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,
As well possest: my loue is more than his:
110My fortunes euery way as fairely rankt
(If not with vantage) as Demetrius:
And (which is more then all these boastes can be)
I am belou'd of beautious Hermia.
Why should not I then prosecute my right?
115Demetrius, Ile auouch it to his heade,
Made loue to Nedars daughter, Helena,
And won her soule: and she (sweete Ladie) dotes,
Deuoutly dotes, dotes in Idolatry,
Vpon this spotted and inconstant man.
120The. I must confesse, that I haue heard so much;
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:
125I haue some priuate schooling for you both.
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:
I must employ you in some businesse,
Against our nuptiall, and conferre with you
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