A Midsommer nightes dreame.
15581497O how I loue thee! how I dote on thee!
15601499Ob. Welcome good
Robin. See
st thou this
sweete
sight?
15621500Her dotage now I doe beginne to pittie.
15631501For meeting her of late, behinde the wood,
15641502Seeking
sweete fauours for this hatefull foole,
15651503I did vpbraid her, and fall out with her.
15661504For
she his hairy temples then had rounded,
15671505With coronet of fre
sh and fragrant
flowers.
15681506And that
same deawe which
sometime on the buddes,
15691507Was wont to
swell, like round and orient pearles;
15701508Stood now within the pretty
flouriets eyes,
15711509Like teares, that did their owne di
sgrace bewaile.
15721510When I had, at my plea
sure, taunted her,
15731511And
she, in milde tearmes, begd my patience,
15741512I then did a
ske of her, her changeling childe:
15751513Which
straight
she gaue mee, and her Fairy
sent
15761514To beare him, to my bower, in Fairie land.
15771515And now I haue the boy, I will vndoe
15781516This hatefull imperfe
ction of her eyes.
15791517And, gentle
Puck, take this tran
sformed
scalpe,
15801518From of the heade of this
Athenian swaine;
15811519That hee, awaking when the other do,
15821520May all to
Athens backe againe repaire,
15831521And thinke no more of this nights accidents,
15841522But as the fearce vexation of a dreame.
15851523But
fir
st I will relea
se the Fairy Queene.
Be, as thou wast wont to bee:
15891527Hath
such force, and ble
ssed power.
15901528Now, my
Titania, wake you, my
sweete Queene.
15911529Tita. My
Oberon, what vi
sions haue I
seene!
15921530Me thought I was enamourd of an A
sse.
Tita.