A Midsommer nightes dreame.
577553And I
shall haue no power to follow you.
578554Deme. Doe I enti
se you? Doe I
speake you faire?
579555Or rather doe I not in plaine
st truthe,
580556Tell you I doe not, not I cannot loue you?
581557Hele. And euen, for that, do I loue you, the more:
582558I am your Spaniell: and,
Demetrius,
583559The more you beat mee, I will fawne on you.
584560V
se me but as your Spaniell:
spurne me,
strike mee,
585561Negle
ct mee, loo
se me: onely giue me leaue
586562(Vnworthie as I am) to follow you.
587563What wor
ser place can I begge, in your loue
588564(And yet, a place of high re
spe
ct with mee)
589565Then to be v
sed as you v
se your dogge.
590566Deme. Tempt not, too much, the hatred of my
spirit.
591567For I am
sick, when I do looke on thee.
592568Hele. And I am
sick, when I looke not on you.
593569Deme. You doe impeach your mode
stie too much,
594570To leaue the citie, and commit your
selfe,
595571Into the hands of one that loues you not,
596572To tru
st the opportunitie of night,
597573And the ill coun
sell of a de
sert place,
598574With the rich worth of your virginitie.
599575Hel. Your vertue is my priuiledge: For that
600576It is not night, when I doe
see your face.
601577Therefore, I thinke, I am not in the night,
602578Nor doth this wood lacke worlds of company.
603579For you, in my re
spe
ct, are all the world.
604580Then, how can it be
saide, I am alone,
605581When all the world is here, to looke on mee?
606582Deme. Ile runne from thee, and hide me in the brakes,
607583And leaue thee to the mercy of wilde bea
stes.
608584Hel. The wilde
st hath not
such a heart as you.
609585Runne when you will: The
story
shall be chaung'd:
610586Apollo flies and
Daphne holds the cha
se:
611587The Doue pur
sues the Gri
ffon: the milde Hinde
Makes