135133Of some thing, nerely that concernes your selues.

136134Ege. With duety and desire, we follow you. Exeunt.

138135Lysand. How now my loue? Why is your cheeke so pale?

139136How chance the roses there doe fade so fast?

140137Her. Belike, for want of raine: which I could well

141138Beteeme them, from the tempest of my eyes.

142139Lis. Eigh me: for aught that I could euer reade,

143140Could euer here by tale or history,

144141The course of true loue neuer did runne smoothe:

145142But either it was different in bloud;

146143Her. O crosse! too high to be inthrald to loue.

147144Lis. Or else misgraffed, in respect of yeares;

148145Her. O spight! too olde to be ingag'd to young.

149146Lis. Or else, it stoode vpon the choyce of friends;

150147Her. O hell, to choose loue by anothers eyes!

151148Lys. Or, if there were a sympathy in choyce,

152149Warre, death or sicknesse, did lay siege to it;

153150Making it momentany, as a sound;

154151Swift, as a shadowe; short, as any dreame;

155152Briefe, as the lightning in the collied night,

156153That (in a spleene) vnfolds both heauen and earth;

157154And, ere a man hath power to say, beholde,

158155The iawes of darkenesse do deuoure it vp:

159156So quicke bright things come to confusion.

160157Her. If then true louers haue bin euer crost,

161158It stands as an edict, in destiny:

162159Then let vs teach our triall patience:

163160Because it is a customary crosse,

164161As dewe to loue, as thoughts, and dreames, and sighes,

165162Wishes, and teares; poore Fancies followers.

166163Lys. A good perswasion: therefore heare mee, Hermia:

167164I haue a widowe aunt, a dowager,

168165Of great reuenew, and she hath no childe:

169166From Athens is her house remote, seauen leagues:

170167And she respectes mee, as her only sonne: