A Midsommer nightes dreame.
16701602To
sleepe by hate, and feare no enmitie,
16711603Lys. My Lord, I
shal reply amazedly,
16721604Halfe
sleepe, halfe waking. But, as yet, I
sweare,
16731605I cannot truely
say how I came here.
16741606But as I thinke (for truely would I
speake)
16751607And now I doe bethinke mee,
so it is;
16761608I came with
Hermia, hither. Our intent
16771609Was to be gon from
Athens: where we might
16781610Without the perill of the
Athenian lawe,
16791611Ege. Enough, enough my Lord: you haue enough.
16801612I begge the law, the law, vpon his head:
16811613They would haue
stolne away, they would,
Demetrius,
16821614Thereby to haue defeated you and me:
16831615You of your wife, and mee, of my con
sent:
16841616Of my con
sent, that
she
should be your wife.
16851617Deme. My Lord, faire
Helen told me of their
stealth,
16861618Of this their purpo
se hither, to this wood,
16871619And I in fury hither followed them;
16881620Faire
Helena, in fancy following mee.
16891621But my good Lord, I wote not by what power
16901622(But by
some power it is) my loue,
16921624Seemes to me now as the remembrance of an idle gaude,
16931625Which in my childehoode I did dote vpon:
16941626And all the faith, the vertue of my heart,
16951627The obie
ct and the plea
sure of mine eye,
16961628Is onely
Helena. To her, my Lord,
16971629Was I betrothed, ere I
see
Hermia: 16981630But, like a
sickne
sse, did I loath this foode.
16991631But, as in health, come to my naturall ta
ste,
17001632Now I doe wi
sh it, loue it, long for it,
17011633And will for euermore be true to it.
17021634The. Faire louers, you are fortunately met.
17031635Of this di
scour
se, we more will here anon.
Egeus,