A Midsommer nightes dreame.
14071357Then cru
sh this hearbe into
Lysanders eye;
14081358Who
se liquor hath this vertuous property,
14091359To take from thence all errour, with his might,
14101360And make his eyebals roule with wonted
sight.
14111361When they next wake, all this deri
sion
14121362Shall
seeme a dreame, and fruitele
sse vi
sion.
14131363And backe to
Athens shall the louers wend,
14141364With league, who
se date, till death
shall neuer end.
14151365Whiles I, in this a
ffaire, doe thee imploy,
14161366Ile to my Queene and beg her
Indian boy:
14171367And then I will her charmed eye relea
se
14181368From mon
sters viewe, and all things
shall be peace.
14191369Puck. My Faiery Lord, this mu
st be done with ha
ste.
14201370For nights
swift Dragons cut the clouds full fa
st,
14211371And yonder
shines
Auroras harbinger:
14221372At who
se approach, Gho
sts, wandring here and there,
14231373Troope home to Churchyards: damned
spirits all,
14241374That in cro
sse waies and
floods haue buriall,
14251375Already to their wormy beds are gone:
14261376For feare lea
st day
should looke their
shames vpon,
14271377They wilfully them
selues exile from light,
14281378And mu
st for aye con
sort with black browed night.
14291379Ober. But we are
spirits of another
sort.
14301380I, with the mornings loue, haue oft made
sport,
14311381And like a forre
ster, the groues may tread
14321382Euen till the Ea
sterne gate all
fiery red,
14331383Opening on
Neptune, with faire ble
ssed beames,
14341384Turnes, into yellow golde, his
salt greene
streames.
14351385But notwith
standing, ha
ste, make no delay:
14361386We may e
ffe
ct this bu
sine
sse, yet ere day.
14371387Pu. Vp & down, vp & down, I will lead them vp & down:
14381388I am feard in
field & town.
Goblin, lead them vp & downe.
14411390Lys Where art thou, proud
Demetrius? Speak thou now.
14431391Rob. Here villaine, drawne & ready. Where art thou?
Lys.