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Bot. I cry your worship's mercy heartily; b befeech, your worship's name. Etnatorq qurangi odl Cob. Cobwebyd & ni b'istas bas,9090) eid doolhof Bot. I fhail defire of you more acquaintance, good mafter Cobweb; if I cut my finger, I shall make bold with you. Your name, honeft gentleman? zid nonA Peafe. Peafeblooms moo borim you do? b..A Bot. I pray you, commend me to mistress Squa your mother, and to mafter Peafcod your father. Good mafter Peafebloom, I fhall defire of you more acquain tance too. Your name, I beseech you,sSirona 19798 Muf. Muftardfeed. id yw Jdgh aid is 02 Bot. Good mafter Muftardfeed, I know your patience. well that fame cowardly giant-like ox-beefu hath devour'd many a gentleman of your houfe: spromife you, your kindred hath made my eyes water ere now.. I defire more of your acquaintance, good mafter Muftardfeed

Queen. Come, wait upon him, lead him to my bower.
The moon, methinks, looks with a watry eye, baA.
And when the weeps, weep ev'ry little flower,m,asdW
Lamenting fome enforced chastitylow mots]
Tie up my love's tongue, bring him filently. [Exeunt e“ ·
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Enter King of Fairies and add
dout I Am I

Ob. I wonder, if Titania be awak'd:
Then what it was that next came in her eye, s
Which the muft doat on in extremity.

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Here comes my meffenger! how now, mad fprite,
What night-rule now about this haunted grove?
Puck. My miftrefs with a monfter is in love and yau
Near to her:
clofe and confecrated bower, wold wedd
While he was in her dull and fleeping hour, o83 15
A crew of patches, rude mechanicals,
That work for bread upon Athenian stalls,

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Were met together to rehearse a play,
Intended for great Thefeus' nuptial day.

The fhallow' thick skin of that barren fort,

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Who Pyramus prefented, in their sports how 120%
Forfook his feene, and enter'd in a brake

When I did him at this advantage take,
Ancafs's nole I fixed on his head

Anon, his Thiby muft be anfwer'd,potcf

And forth my minnock comes: when they him spy,,
As wild geele, that the creeping fowler eye,
Orruffet-pated choughs, many in fort,
Rifing and cawing at the gun's report,

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Sever themfelves, and madly fweep the sky; na
So, at his fight, away his fellows Ay;

And, at our ftamp, here o'er and o'er one falls,
He murder cries, and help from Athens calls.

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Their fenfe thus weak, loft with their fears thus ftrong, Made fenfelefs things begin to do them wrong.

For briars and thorns at their apparel fnatch,

Some fleeves, fome hats; from yielders all things catch,.
I led them on in this distracted fear,

And left fweet Pyramus tranflated there:
When in that moment (fo it came to pass)
Titania wak'd, and ftraitway lov'd-an-afs.

06. This falls out better, than I could devife.

But haft thou yet latch'd the Athenian's eyes
With the love-juice, as I did bid thee do?
Puck. I took him fleeping; that is finish'd too;
And the Athenian woman by his fide,
That, when

he wakes, of force the muft be ey'd.

Enter Demetrius and Hermia.

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Ob. Stand clofe, this is the fame Athenian.

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Puck. This is the woman, but not this the manors f Dem. O, why rebuke you him that loves you fo? Lay breath fo bitter on your bitter foe.

Her. Now I but chide, but I fhould ufe thee worfe For thou, I fear, haft giv'n me caufe to curfestiv If thou haft flain Lyfander in his fleep,

Being o'er fhoes in blood, plunge in the deep, T And kill me too.

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The fun was not fo true unto the day, r
As he to me. Would he have ftol'n away
From fleeping Hermia? I'll believe as foon,
This whole earth may be bor'd, and that the moon
May through the center creep, and fo difpleafe
Her brother's noon-tide with th' Antipodes.
It cannot be, but thou haft murder'd him
So fhould a murderer look, fo dread, fo grim.

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Dem: So fhould the murder'd look; and fo fhould I, Pierc'd through the heart with your ftern cruelty: 'I Yet you the murderer look as bright, and clear, As yonder Venus in her glimm'ring sphere..

Her. What's this to my Lyfander? where is he?. Modiwe Ah, good Demetrius, wilt thou give him me ?

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Dem. I'ad rather give his carcass to my hounds.
Her.Out,dog! out, cur! thou driv'ft me paft the bounds
Of maiden's patience. Haft thou flain him then ?
Henceforth be never number'd among men.
O! once tell true, and even for my fake,

Durft thou have look'd upon him, being awake?
And haft thou kill'd him fleeping? O brave touch!
Could not a worm, an adder do fo much?.
An adder did it, for with doubler tongue
Than thine, thou ferpent, never adder stung.

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Dem. You fpend your paffion on a mifpris'd mood; I am not guilty of Lysander's blood,

Nor is he dead, for ought that I can tell.

Her. I pray thee, tell me then that he is well.
Dem. And if I could, what fhould I get therefore?
Her. A privilege never to fee me more;

And from thy hated prefence part 1 fo
See me no more, whether he's dead or no.

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Dem. There is no following her in this fierce vein,
Here, therefore, for a while I will remain par dindi
So forrow's heavinefs doth heavier grow,

For debt, that bankrupt fleep doth forrow owe;
Which now in fome flight meafure it will pay,

If for his tender here I make fome ftay. Lies dorn.\
Ob. What haft thou done? thou haft mistaken quite,

And laid thy love-juice on fome true love's fight

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Of thy mifprifion must perforce enfueto

Some true love turn'd, and not a falfe turn'd true.
Puck. Then fate o'er-rules, that one man holding troth
A million fail, confounding oath on oath.

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Ob. About the wood fwifter than the wind,
And Helena of Athens, fee, thou find. Com 1910
All fancy fick the is, and pale of cheer;"
With fighs of love, that cofts the fresh blood dear
By fofon, fee, thou bring her here;
I'll charm his eyes, againft the doth appear.
Puck. I go, I go; look, how I go;
Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.
Ob. Flower of this purple dye,.

Capid's

Hit with archery,

Sink in apple

his eye!

When his love he doth efpy,.

Let her fhine as glorioully

As the Venus of the fky.

When thou wak'ft, if the be by,

Beg of her for remedy.

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Enter Puck..

Puck. Captain of our fairy band,

Helena is here at hand,

And the youth, miftook by me,

Pleading for a lover's fee.

Shall we their fond pageant fee?

Lord, what fools thefe mortals be?

Ob. Stand afide: the noife, they make,.

Will caufe Demetrius to awake.

Puck. Then will two at once woo one;

That muft needs be fport alone.

And thofe things do beft please me,

That befal prepoft'roufly.

Enter Lyfander and Helena.

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Ly.Why fhould you think, that I fhould woo in fcorn?
Scorn and derifion never come in tears.

Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows fo born,
In their nativity-all truth appears :

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How can these things in me feem fcorn to you,
Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?oy
Hel. You do advance your cunning more and more
When truth kills truth, O devilish, holy, fray!!
Thefe vows are Hermia's will you give her o'er?y baA
Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh
Your vows to her and me, put in two fcales, vobit
Will even weigh, and both as light as tales. maⱭ
Ly. I had no judgment, when to her I fwored 15'3 M
Hel. Nor none, in my mind, now you give her o'era
Lyf. Demetrius loves her, and he loves not your biA
Dem.[awak.]O Helen, goddefs, nymph,perfect, diviner
To what, my love, fhall I compare thine eyne?) Al
Crystal is muddy; O how ripe in how squad,
Thy lips, thofe kiffing cherries, tempting grow
That pure, congealed white, high Taurus fnow,
Fann'd with the eaftern wind, turns to a crow
When thou hold'ft up thy hand. Olet me kifs
This Princess of pure white, this feal of bliss. "skI
Hel. O fpight, O hell! I fee, you all are bent r
To fet against me, for your merriment o
If you were civil, and knew courtefy,
You would not do me thus much injury.
Can you not hate me, as I know you do,

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But you must join in fouls to mock me too? 0% 20%
If you are men, as men you are in fhow,
You would not use a gentle Lady fo:

To yow and fwear, and fuper-praise my parts

When, I am fure, you hate me with your hearts.VIE
You both are rivals, and love Hermia, 1

And now both rivals to mock Helena, u don'dɔt gd W
A trim exploit, a manly enterprize, (18)₫ 1,91d 9dT
To conjure tears up in a poor maid's eyes of „B
With your derifion! none of noble fort

Would fo offend a virgin, and extort

A poor foul's patience, all to make you sport.

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(18) A trim exploit, a manly enterprize,] This reproach, in the

form of it,

Eneid;

COI19L Told ELEK

Egregiam vero laudem, & Spolia ampla refertis,
Una dulo, Divum, &c. .

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