13361287I am a right maid, for my cowardize:

13371288Let her not strike mee. You perhaps, may thinke,

13381289Because she is something lower then my selfe,

13391290That I can match her.

13401291Her. Lower? harke againe.

13411292Hel. Good Hermia, do not be so bitter with mee,

13421293I euermore did loue you Hermia,

13431294Did euer keepe your counsels, neuer wrongd you;

13441295Saue that in loue, vnto Demetrius,

13451296I tould him of your stealth vnto this wood.

13461297He followed you: for loue, I followed him.

13471298But he hath chid me hence, and threatned mee

13481299To strike mee, spurne mee; nay to kill mee to.

13491300And now, so you will let me quiet goe,

13501301To Athens will I beare my folly backe,

13511302And follow you no further. Let me goe.

13521303You see how simple, and how fond I am.

13531304Herm. Why? get you gon. Who ist that hinders you?

13541305Hel. A foolish heart, that I leaue here behind.

13551306Her. What, with Lysander?

13561307Hel. With Demetrius.

13571308Lys. Be not afraid: she shall not harme thee Helena.

13581309Deme. No sir: she shall not, though you take her part.

13591310Hel. O, when she is angry, she is keene and shrewd.

13601311She was a vixen, when she went to schoole:

13611312And though she be but little, she is fierce.

13621313Her. Little againe? Nothing hut low and little?

13631314Why will you suffer her to floute me thus?

13641315Let me come to her.

13651316Lys. Get you gon, you dwarfe;

13661317You minimus, of hindring knot grasse, made;

13671318You bead, you acorne

13681319Deme. You are too officious,

13691320In her behalfe, that scornes your seruices.

13701321Let her alone: speake not of Helena,