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Author:
William Shakespeare
Editor:
Suzanne Westfall
Not Peer Reviewed
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Modern)
Epilogue
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Puck
If we shadows have offended,
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Think but this, and all is mended:
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That you have but slumbered here,
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While these visions did appear.
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And this weak and idle theme,
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No more yielding but a dream.
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Gentles, do not reprehend.
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If you pardon, we will mend.
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And, as I am an honest Puck,
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If we have unearnèd luck
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Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
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We will make amends ere long.
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Else the Puck a liar call.
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So, good night unto you all.
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Give me your hands, if we be friends,
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And Robin shall restore amends.