A Midsommer nightes dreame.
398378And now, they neuer meete in groue, or greene,
399379By fountaine cleare, or
spangled
starlight
sheene,
400380But they doe
square, that all their Elues, for feare,
401381Creepe into acorne cups, and hide them there.
402382Fa. Either I mi
stake your
shape, and making, quite,
403383Or els you are that
shrewde and knaui
sh sprite,
404384Call'd
Robin goodfellow. Are not you hee,
405385That frights the maidens of the Villageree,
406386Skim milke, and
sometimes labour in the querne,
407387And bootle
sse make the breathle
sse hu
swife cherne,
408388And
sometime make the drinke to beare no barme,
409389Mi
sselead nightwanderers, laughing at their harme?
410390Tho
se, that Hobgoblin call you, and
sweete Puck,
411391You doe their worke, and they
shall haue good luck.
413393Rob. Thou
speake
st aright; I am that merry wanderer of
(the night. 415394I iea
st to
Oberon, and make him
smile,
416395When I a fat and beane-fed hor
se beguile;
417396Neyghing, in likene
sse of a
filly fole,
418397And
sometime lurke I in a go
ssippes bole,
419398In very likene
sse of a ro
sted crabbe,
420399And when
she drinkes, again
st her lips I bob,
421400And on her withered dewlop, poure the ale.
422401The wi
se
st Aunt, telling the
sadde
st tale,
423402Sometime, for three foote
stoole, mi
staketh mee:
424403Then
slippe I from her bumme, downe topples
she,
425404And tailour cryes, and falles into a co
ffe;
426405And then the whole Quire hould their hippes, and lo
ffe,
427406And waxen in their myrth, and neeze, and
sweare
428407A merrier hower was neuer wa
sted there.
429408But roome Faery: here comes
Oberon.
430409Fa. And here, my mi
stre
sse. Would that he were gon.
432410 Enter the King of Fairies, at one doore, with his traine; 433411and the Queene, at another, with hers. 434412Ob. Ill met by moonelight, proud
Tytania.
Qu.