A Midsommer nightes dreame.
10098Deme. Relent,
sweete
Hermia, and,
Lysander, yeeld
10199Thy crazed title to my certaine right.
102100Lys. You haue her fathers loue,
Demetrius: 103101Let me haue
Hermias: doe you marry him.
104102Egeus. Scornefull
Lysander, true, he hath my loue:
105103And what is mine, my loue
shall render him.
106104And
she is mine, and all my right of her
107105I doe e
state vnto
Demetrius.
108106Lysand. I am my Lord, as well deriu'd as hee,
109107As well po
sse
st: my loue is more than his:
110108My fortunes euery way as fairely rankt
111109(If not with vantage) as
Demetrius: 112110And (which is more then all the
se boa
stes can be)
113111I am belou'd of beautious
Hermia.
114112Why
should not I then pro
secute my right?
115113Demetrius, Ile auouch it to his heade,
116114Made loue to
Nedars daughter,
Helena,
117115And won her
soule: and
she (
sweete Ladie) dotes,
118116Deuoutly dotes, dotes in Idolatry,
119117Vpon this
spotted and incon
stant man.
120118The. I mu
st confe
sse, that I haue heard
so much;
121119And, with
Demetrius, thought to haue
spoke thereof:
122120But, being ouer full of
selfe a
ffaires,
123121My minde did loo
se it. But
Demetrius come,
124122And come
Egeus, you
shall goe with mee:
125123I haue
some priuate
schooling for you both.
126124For you, faire
Hermia, looke you arme your
selfe,
127125To
fit your fancies, to your fathers will;
128126Or el
se, the Law of
Athens yeelds you vp
129127(Which by no meanes we may extenuate)
130128To death, or to a vowe of
single life.
131129Come my
Hyppolita: what cheare my loue?
132130Demetrius and
Egeus goe along:
133131I mu
st employ you in
some bu
sine
sse,
134132Again
st our nuptiall, and conferre with you
Of