A Midsommer nightes dreame.
436413Qu. What, Iealous
Oberon? Fairy
skippe hence.
437414I haue for
sworne his bedde, and company.
438415Ob. Tarry, ra
sh wanton. Am not I thy Lord?
439416Qu. Then I mu
st be thy Lady: but I know
440417When thou ha
st stollen away from Fairy land,
441418And in the
shape of
Corin,
sat all day,
442419Playing on pipes of corne, and ver
sing loue,
443420To amorous
Phillida. Why art thou here
444421Come from the farthe
st steppe of
India?
445422But that, for
sooth, the boun
sing
Amason,
446423Your bu
skind mi
stre
sse, and your warriour loue,
447424To
Theseus mu
st be wedded; and you come,
448425To giue their bedde, ioy and pro
speritie.
449426Ob. How can
st thou thus, for
shame,
Tytania,
450427Glaunce at my credit, with
Hippolita?
451428Knowing, I know thy loue to
Theseus.
452429Did
st not thou lead him through the glimmering night,
453430From
Perigenia, whom he raui
shed?
454431And make him, with faire Eagles, breake his faith
455432With
Ariadne, and
Antiopa?
456433Quee. The
se are the forgeries of iealou
sie:
457434And neuer,
since the middle Sommers
spring,
458435Met we on hill, in dale, forre
st, or meade,
459436By paued fountaine, or by ru
shie brooke,
460437Or in the beached margent of the Sea,
461438To daunce our ringlets to the whi
stling winde,
462439But with thy brawles thou ha
st di
sturbd 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 lo
st his
sweat, and the greene corne
470447Hath rotted, ere his youth attainde a bearde:
The