436413Qu. What, Iealous Oberon? Fairy skippe hence.

437414I haue forsworne his bedde, and company.

438415Ob. Tarry, rash wanton. Am not I thy Lord?

439416Qu. Then I must be thy Lady: but I know

440417When thou hast stollen away from Fairy land,

441418And in the shape of Corin, sat all day,

442419Playing on pipes of corne, and versing loue,

443420To amorous Phillida. Why art thou here

444421Come from the farthest steppe of India?

445422But that, forsooth, the bounsing Amason,

446423Your buskind mistresse, and your warriour loue,

447424To Theseus must be wedded; and you come,

448425To giue their bedde, ioy and prosperitie.

449426Ob. How canst thou thus, for shame, Tytania,

450427Glaunce at my credit, with Hippolita?

451428Knowing, I know thy loue to Theseus.

452429Didst not thou lead him through the glimmering night,

453430From Perigenia, whom he rauished?

454431And make him, with faire Eagles, breake his faith

455432With Ariadne, and Antiopa?

456433Quee. These are the forgeries of iealousie:

457434And neuer, since the middle Sommers spring,

458435Met we on hill, in dale, forrest, or meade,

459436By paued fountaine, or by rushie brooke,

460437Or in the beached margent of the Sea,

461438To daunce our ringlets to the whistling winde,

462439But with thy brawles thou hast disturbd our sport.

463440Therefore the windes, pyping to vs in vaine,

464441As in reuenge, haue suckt vp, from the Sea,

465442Contagious fogges: which, falling in the land,

466443Hath euery pelting riuer made so proude,

467444That they haue ouerborne their Continents.

468445The Oxe hath therefore stretcht his yoake in vaine,

469446The Ploughman lost his sweat, and the greene corne

470447Hath rotted, ere his youth attainde a bearde: