A Midsommer nightes dreame.
506483Which
she, with prettie, and with
swimming gate,
507484Following (her wombe then rich with my young
squire)
508485Would imitate, and
saile vpon the land,
509486To fetch me tri
fles, and returne againe,
510487As from a voyage, rich with marchandi
se.
511488But
she, being mortall, of that boy did dye,
512489And, for her
sake, doe I reare vp her boy:
513490And, for her
sake, I will not part with him.
514491Ob. How long, within this wood, entend you
stay?
515492Quee. Perchaunce, till after
Theseus wedding day.
516493If you will patiently daunce in our Round,
517494And
see our Moonelight Reuelles, goe with vs:
518495If not,
shunne me, and I will
spare your haunts.
519496Ob. Giue mee that boy, and I will goe with thee.
520497Quee. Not for thy Fairy kingdome. Fairies away.
521498We
shall chide downeright, if I longer
stay.
Exeunt. 522499Ob. Well: goe thy way. Thou
shalt not from this groue,
523500Till I torment thee, for this iniury.
524501My gentle
Pucke come hither: thou remembre
st,
525502Since once I
sat vpon a promontory,
526503And heard a Mearemaide, on a Dolphins backe,
527504Vttering
such dulcet and hermonious breath,
528505That the rude
sea grewe ciuill at her
song,
529506And cettaine
starres
shot madly from their Spheares,
530507To heare the Sea-maids mu
sicke.
532509Ob. That very time, I
saw (but thou could'
st not)
533510Flying betweene the colde Moone and the earth,
534511Cupid, all arm'd: a certaine aime he tooke
535512At a faire Ve
stall, throned by we
st,
536513And loos'd his loue-
shaft
smartly, from his bowe,
537514As it
should pearce a hundred thou
sand hearts:
538515But, I might
see young
Cupids fiery
shaft
539516Quencht in the cha
st beames of the watry Moone:
540517And the imperiall Votre
sse pa
ssed on,
In