A Midsommer nightes dreame.
1019972Lamenting
some enforced cha
stitie.
1020973Ty vp my louers tongue, bring him
silently.
Exit. 1021974Enter King of Fairies, and Robin goodfellow. 1022975Ob. I wonder if
Titania be awak't;
1023976Then what it was, that next came in her eye,
1024977Which
she mu
st dote on, in extreamitie.
1026978Here comes my me
ssenger. How now, mad
spirit?
1027979What nightrule now about this haunted groue?
1028980Puck. My mi
stre
sse with a mon
ster is in loue,
1029981Neere to her clo
se and con
secrated bower.
1030982While
she was in her dull, and
sleeping hower,
1031983A crew of patches, rude Mechanicals,
1032984That worke for bread, vpon
Athenian stalles,
1033985Were met together to rehear
se a play,
1034986Intended for great
Theseus nuptiall day:
1035987The
shallowe
st thick
skinne, of that barraine
sort,
1036988Who
Pyramus pre
sented, in their
sport,
1037989For
sooke his Scene, and entred in a brake,
1038990VVhen I did him at this aduantage take:
1039991An A
sses nole I
fixed on his head.
1040992Anon his
Thisbie mu
st be an
swered,
1041993And forth my Minnick comes. When they him
spy;
1042994As wilde gee
se, that the creeping Fouler eye,
1043995Or ru
sset pated choughes, many in
sort
1044996(Ry
sing, and cawing, at the gunnes report)
1045997Seuer them
selues, and madly
sweepe the
sky:
1046998So, at his
sight, away his fellowes
fly,
1047999And at our
stampe, here ore and ore, one falles:
10481000He murther cryes, and helpe from
Athens cals.
10491001Their
sen
se, thus weake, lo
st with their feares, thus
strong,
10501002Made
sen
sele
sse things begin to doe them wrong.
10511003For, briers and thornes, at their apparell,
snatch:
10521004Some
sleeues,
some hats; from yeelders, all things catch.
10531005I led them on, in this di
stra
cted feare,
10541006And left
sweete
Pyramus tran
slated there:
When