A Midsommer nightes dreame.
612588Makes
speede to catch the Tigre. Bootele
sse
speede,
613589When cowardi
se pur
sues, and valour
flies.
614590Demet. I will not
stay thy que
stions. Let me goe:
615591Or if thou followe mee, do not beleeue,
616592But I
shall doe thee mi
schiefe, in the wood.
617593Hel. I, in the Temple, in the towne, the
fielde,
618594You doe me mi
schiefe. Fy
Demetrius.
619595Your wrongs doe
set a
scandall on my
sex:
620596We cannot
fight for loue, as men may doe:
621597We
should be woo'd, and were not made to wooe.
622598Ile follow thee and make a heauen of hell,
623599To dy vpon the hand I loue
so well.
624600Ob. Fare thee well Nymph. Ere he do leaue this groue,
625601Thou
shalt
fly him, and he
shall
seeke thy loue.
626602Ha
st thou the
flower there? Welcome wanderer.
629605Ob. I pray thee giue it mee.
630606I know a banke where the wilde time blowes,
631607Where Oxlips, and the nodding Violet growes,
632608Quite ouercanopi'd with lu
shious woodbine,
633609With
sweete mu
ske ro
ses, and with Eglantine:
634610There
sleepes
Tytania,
sometime of the night,
635611Luld in the
se
flowers, with daunces and delight:
636612And there the
snake throwes her enammeld
skinne,
637613Weed wide enough to wrappe a Fairy in.
638614And, with the iuyce of this, Ile
streake her eyes,
639615And make her full of hatefull phanta
sies.
640616Take thou
some of it, and
seeke through this groue:
641617A
sweete
Athenian Lady is in loue,
642618With a di
sdainefull youth: annoint his eyes.
643619But doe it, when the next thing he e
spies,
644620May be the Ladie. Thou
shalt know the man,
645621By the
Athenian garments he hath on.
646622E
ffe
ct it with
some care; that he may prooue
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