A Midsommer nightes dreame.
12311182Haue with our needles, created both one
flower,
12321183Both on one
sampler,
sitting on one cu
shion,
12331184Both warbling of one
song, both in one key;
12341185As if our hands, our
sides, voyces, and mindes
12351186Had bin incorporate. So wee grewe together,
12361187Like to a double cherry,
seeming parted;
12381189Two louely berries moulded on one
stemme:
12391190So with two
seeming bodies, but one heart,
12401191Two of the
fir
st life coats in heraldry,
12411192Due but to one, and crowned with one crea
st.
12421193And will you rent our auncient loue a
sunder,
12431194To ioyne with men, in
scorning your poore friend?
12441195It is not friendly, tis not maidenly.
12451196Our
sex, as well as I, may chide you for it;
12461197Though I alone doe fele the iniury.
12481199I
scorne you not. It
seemes that you
scorne mee.
12491200Hel. Haue you not
set
Lysander, as in
scorne,
12501201To follow mee, and prai
se my eyes and face?
12511202And made your other loue,
Demetrius 12521203(Who euen but now did
spurne mee with his foote)
12531204To call mee godde
sse, nymph, diuine, and rare,
12541205Pretious cele
stiall? VVherefore
speakes he this,
12551206To her he hates? And wherfore doth
Lysander 12561207Deny your loue (
so rich within his
soule)
12571208And tender mee (for
sooth) a
ffe
ction,
12581209But by your
setting on, by your con
sent?
12591210VVhat, though I be not
so in grace as you,
12601211So hung vpon with loue,
so fortunate?
12611212(But mi
serable mo
st, to loue vnlou'd)
12621213This you
should pittie, rather then de
spi
se.
12631214Her. I vnder
stand not, what you meane by this.
12641215Hel. I doe. Per
seuer, counterfait
sad lookes:
12651216Make mouthes vpon mee, when I turne my back:
Winke