I'll make her render up her page to me. Enter DEMETRIUS, HELENA following him. Thou told'st me they were stolen unto this wood; Hence, get thee gone, and follow me no more. Is true as steel: leave you your power to draw, Dem. Do I entice you? do I speak you fair? Tell you, I do not, nor I cannot love you? Hel. And even for that do I love you the more. I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius, The more you beat me, I will fawn on you: Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me, What worser place can I beg in your love,— Dem. Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit, For I am sick when I do look on thee. Hel. And I am sick when I look not on you. Dem. You do impeach your modesty too much, To leave the city and commit yourself Into the hands of one that loves you not; To trust the opportunity of night And the ill counsel of a desert place C 190 200 210 Hel. Your virtue is my privilege: for that Dem. I'll run from thee and hide me in the brakes, And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts. Hel. The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Dem. I will not stay thy questions; let me go: But I shall do thee mischief in the wood. Hel. Ay, in the temple, in the town, the field, Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex: We should be woo'd and were not made to woo. I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, 220 230 240 [Exit Demetrius. [Exit. Obe. Fare thee well, nymph: ere he do leave this grove, Thou shalt fly him and he shall seek thy love. Re-enter PUCK. Hast thou the flower there? Welcome, wanderer. Obe. 250 There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, And with the juice of this I'll streak her eyes, And make her full of hateful fantasies. Take thou some of it, and seek through this grove: A sweet Athenian lady is in love 260 With a disdainful youth: anoint his eyes; But do it when the next thing he espies SCENE II. Another part of the wood. Enter TITANIA, with her train. [Exeunt. Tita. Come, now a roundel and a fairy song; The Fairies sing. You spotted snakes with double tongue, Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen; Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong, Sing in our sweet lullaby; Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby: 10 Never harm, Nor spell nor charm, Come our lovely lady nigh; So, good night, with lullaby. Weaving spiders, come not here; Hence, you long-legg'd spinners, hence! Worm nor snail, do no offence. A Fairy. Hence, away! now all is well: 20 Enter OBERON, and squeezes the flower on Titania's eyelids. Obe. What thou seest when thou dost wake, Do it for thy true-love take, Love and languish for his sake: Be it ounce, or cat, or bear, Wake when some vile thing is near. Enter LYSANDER and HERMIA. 30 [Exit. Lys. Fair love, you faint with wandering in the wood; And to speak troth, I have forgot our way: We'll rest us, Hermia, if you think it good, And tarry for the comfort of the day. Lys. One turf shall serve as pillow for us both; Lys. O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence! 40 Two bosoms interchained with an oath; Then by your side no bed-room me deny; Her. Lysander riddles very prettily: 50 So far be distant; and, good night, sweet friend: 60 Lys. Amen, amen, to that fair prayer, say I; And then end life when I end loyalty! Here is my bed: sleep give thee all his rest! Her. With half that wish the wisher's eyes be press'd! Enter PUCK. Puck. Through the forest have I gone, This is he, my master said, Despised the Athenian maid; And here the maiden, sleeping sound, Pretty soul! she durst not lie [They sleep. 70 |