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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Page 11
... lives of mortals , blessing the bridal bed and presid- ing over the golden summer - time , with those later creatures of the darkness , in Macbeth , incentive to crimes of horror , foreboding dire calamity . " him all Puck's fairy lore ...
... lives of mortals , blessing the bridal bed and presid- ing over the golden summer - time , with those later creatures of the darkness , in Macbeth , incentive to crimes of horror , foreboding dire calamity . " him all Puck's fairy lore ...
Page 15
... Lives , englisht in 1579 ( other editions in 1595 , 1603 , 1612 , & c . ) from Amiot's French translation , Mr. Hazlitt has reprinted the Life in his Shakspere's Library , Pt . I. , vol . i . , pp . 5–51 . The names Perigenia ...
... Lives , englisht in 1579 ( other editions in 1595 , 1603 , 1612 , & c . ) from Amiot's French translation , Mr. Hazlitt has reprinted the Life in his Shakspere's Library , Pt . I. , vol . i . , pp . 5–51 . The names Perigenia ...
Page 21
... lives , and dies in single blessedness . Her . So will I grow , so live , so die , my lord , Ere I will yield my virgin patent up Unto his lordship to whose unwished yoke My soul consents not to give sovereignty . The . Take time to ...
... lives , and dies in single blessedness . Her . So will I grow , so live , so die , my lord , Ere I will yield my virgin patent up Unto his lordship to whose unwished yoke My soul consents not to give sovereignty . The . Take time to ...
Page 33
... spots you see , - Those be rubies , fairy favours , In those freckles live their savours ; I must go seek some dew - drops here , And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear . Farewell 33 ACT TWO A Midsummer - Night's Dream SC . ONE.
... spots you see , - Those be rubies , fairy favours , In those freckles live their savours ; I must go seek some dew - drops here , And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear . Farewell 33 ACT TWO A Midsummer - Night's Dream SC . ONE.
Page 40
... showed thee once : The juice of it , on sleeping eyelids laid , Will make or man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees . Fetch me this herb ; and be thou here again 40 ACT TWO SC . TWO A Midsummer - Night's Dream.
... showed thee once : The juice of it , on sleeping eyelids laid , Will make or man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees . Fetch me this herb ; and be thou here again 40 ACT TWO SC . TWO A Midsummer - Night's Dream.
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