A Midsummer Night's DreamMix-ups and mishaps occur when Oberon, the King of the Fairies, doses his sleeping wife with a magical potion that causes her to fall in love with the first living thing she sees upon awakening. |
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... Dead ? or asleep ? —I see no blood , no wound.- Lysander ! If you live , good sir , awake . Lys . [ Awaking ] And run through fire I will , for thy sweet sake . Transparent Helen ! Nature here shows art , That through thy bosom makes me ...
... Dead ? or asleep ? —I see no blood , no wound.- Lysander ! If you live , good sir , awake . Lys . [ Awaking ] And run through fire I will , for thy sweet sake . Transparent Helen ! Nature here shows art , That through thy bosom makes me ...
Page 64
... dead , so grim . Dem . So should the murdered look , and so should I , Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty Yet you , the murderer , look as bright , as clear , As yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere . Her . What's this ...
... dead , so grim . Dem . So should the murdered look , and so should I , Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty Yet you , the murderer , look as bright , as clear , As yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere . Her . What's this ...
Page 65
... dead , for aught that I can tell . Her . I pray thee , tell me then , that he is well . Dem . An if I could , what should I get there- fore ? - Her . A privilege never to see me more.- And from thy hated presence part I so ; See me no ...
... dead , for aught that I can tell . Her . I pray thee , tell me then , that he is well . Dem . An if I could , what should I get there- fore ? - Her . A privilege never to see me more.- And from thy hated presence part I so ; See me no ...
Page 74
... dead ! Although I hate her , I'll not harm her so . Her . What can you do me greater harm than hate ? Hate me ? wherefore ? O me , what news , my love ? Am not I Hermia ? Are not you Lysander ? I am as fair now as I was erewhile . Since ...
... dead ! Although I hate her , I'll not harm her so . Her . What can you do me greater harm than hate ? Hate me ? wherefore ? O me , what news , my love ? Am not I Hermia ? Are not you Lysander ? I am as fair now as I was erewhile . Since ...
Page 88
... dead Than common sleep of all these five the sense . Tita . Music , ho , music , such as charmeth sleep ! [ Still music . Puck . Now , when thou wak'st , with thine own fool's eyes peep . [ Takes off the ass's head . Obe . Sound , music ...
... dead Than common sleep of all these five the sense . Tita . Music , ho , music , such as charmeth sleep ! [ Still music . Puck . Now , when thou wak'st , with thine own fool's eyes peep . [ Takes off the ass's head . Obe . Sound , music ...
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art thou Athenian Athens awake Bergomask bless Bottom brier bush Cobweb comedy comedy of errors dance dead dear death Demetrius dote doth duke Egeus Errors Exeunt Exit eyes fairy father fear flower FLUTE follow gentle Gleek gone grace hast thou hate hath hear heart Hercules Hermia Hippolyta hounds kill Knight's Tale ladies lion look lord love thee love's lovers Lysander Lysander's marry methinks Methought Midsummer-Night's Dream monsieur moon Moonshine Mustard-seed never o'er oath Oberon Peter Quince PHILOSTRATE Pittheus play pray prologue Puck Pyramus and Thisbe queen Quin Re-enter PUCK roar Robin Robin Starveling SCENE scorn Shak Shakspere Shakspere's shine sleep Snout Snug speak sport STARVELING stol'n sweet tears tell Theseus things Thisbe's thou hast Thou shalt thou wak'st thy love Tita Titania tongue true unto vile vows wake wall wonder wood