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 consent:

16841616Of my consent, that she should be your wife.

16851617Deme. My Lord, faire Helen told me of their stealth,

16861618Of this their purpose 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,

16911623To Hermia (melted as the snowe)

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 obiect and the pleasure of mine eye,

16961628Is onely Helena. To her, my Lord,

16971629Was I betrothed, ere I see Hermia:

16981630But, like a sicknesse, did I loath this foode.

16991631But, as in health, come to my naturall taste,

17001632Now I doe wish it, loue it, long for it,

17011633And will for euermore be true to it.

17021634The. Faire louers, you are fortunately met.

17031635Of this discourse, we more will here anon.