Select Plays; A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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Now , fair Hippolyta , our nuptial hour Draws on apace ; four happy days bring in
Another moon ; but , 0 , methinks , how slow This old moon wanes ! she lingers
my desires , Like to a step - dame or a dowager Long withering out a young
man's ...
Now , fair Hippolyta , our nuptial hour Draws on apace ; four happy days bring in
Another moon ; but , 0 , methinks , how slow This old moon wanes ! she lingers
my desires , Like to a step - dame or a dowager Long withering out a young
man's ...
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Therefore , fair Hermia , question your desires ; Know of your youth , examine
well your blood , Whether , if you yield not to your father's choice , You can
endure the livery of a nun , 70 For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd , To live a
barren ...
Therefore , fair Hermia , question your desires ; Know of your youth , examine
well your blood , Whether , if you yield not to your father's choice , You can
endure the livery of a nun , 70 For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd , To live a
barren ...
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Demetrius and Egeus , go along : I must employ you in some business Against
our nuptial and confer with you Of something nearly that concerns yourselves .
Ege . With duty and desire we follow you . [ Exeunt all but Lysander and Hermia .
Demetrius and Egeus , go along : I must employ you in some business Against
our nuptial and confer with you Of something nearly that concerns yourselves .
Ege . With duty and desire we follow you . [ Exeunt all but Lysander and Hermia .
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But , masters , here are your parts : and I am to entreat you , request you and
desire you , to con them by to - morrow night ; and meet me in the palace wood ,
a mile without the town , by moonlight ; there will we rehearse , for if we meet in
the ...
But , masters , here are your parts : and I am to entreat you , request you and
desire you , to con them by to - morrow night ; and meet me in the palace wood ,
a mile without the town , by moonlight ; there will we rehearse , for if we meet in
the ...
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Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful . Bot . Not so , neither : but if I had wit
enough to get out of this wood , I have enough to serve mine own turn . Tita . Out
of this wood do not desire to go : Thou shalt remain here , whether thou wilt or no
.
Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful . Bot . Not so , neither : but if I had wit
enough to get out of this wood , I have enough to serve mine own turn . Tita . Out
of this wood do not desire to go : Thou shalt remain here , whether thou wilt or no
.
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| Title | Select Plays; A Midsummer Night's Dream Clarendon press series. English classics |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, 1879 |
| Length | 147 pages |
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