A Midsommer nightes dreame.
17041636Egeus, I will ouerbeare your will:
17051637For in the Temple, by and by, with vs,
17061638The
se couples
shall eternally be knit.
17071639And, for the morning now is
somthing worne,
17081640Our purpos'd hunting
shall be
set a
side.
17091641Away, with vs, to
Athens. Three and three,
17101642Weele holde a fea
st, in great
solemnitie. Come
Hyppolita.
17121643Deme. The
se things
seeme
small and vndi
stingui
shable,
17131644Like farre o
ff mountaines turned into clouds.
17141645Her. Me thinks I
see the
se things, with parted eye,
17171648And I haue found
Demetrius, like a iewell,
17191651That we are awake? It
seemes to me,
17201652That yet we
sleepe, we dreame. Do not you thinke,
17211653The Duke was here, and bid vs follow him?
17241656Lys. And he did bid vs follow to the Temple.
17251657Dem. Why then, we are awake: lets follow him, and by
17261658the way lets recount our dreames.
17281659Clo. When my cue comes, call mee, and I will an
swere.
17291660My next is, mo
st faire
Pyramus. Hey ho.
Peeter Quince?
17301661Flute, the bellowes mender?
Snout the tinker?
Starueling?
17311662Gods my life! Stolne hence, and left mee a
sleepe? I haue
17321663had a mo
st rare vi
sion. I haue had a dreame, pa
st the wit
17331664of man, to
say; what dreame it was. Man is but an A
sse, if
17341665hee goe about expound this dreame. Me thought I was,
17351666there is no man can tell what. Me thought I was, and me
17361667thought I had. But man is but patcht a foole, If hee will
17371668o
ffer to
say, what mee thought I had. The eye of man
17381669hath not heard, the eare of man hath not
seene, mans
hand