NOW Theseus. OW fair Hippolita, our nuptial hour Her. I do besedt vor fi The worst of it if Thes. Either to de te val For ever the society of ter For are to be in stacy cout BERS Chanting fain, hymus i tes cor! Let us wander far away Her. My good Lysander, I swear to thee, by Cupid's strongest bow, By that which knitteth souls, and prospers loves, SCENE. IV. Enter HELENA. Her, Good speed, fair Helena, whither away? Hel. Call you me fair? that fair again unsay, Demetrius loves you, AIR. O Hermia fair, O bappy, happy fair, Your eyes are load-stars, and your tongue's sweet air ; When wheat is green, when bawthorn buds appear : You sway the motion of your lover's beart. Her. I frown upon him, yet he loves me still. Hel. Oh that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill! Her. Take comfort; he no more shall see my face, Lysander and myself will fly this place. AIR. Before the time I did Lysander see, O then O then, what graces in my love do dwell, Lys. Helen, to you our minds we will unfold: Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass, Lys. Helen, adieu, As you on him, Demetrius doat on you. [Exeunt Lys. and Her. SCENE V. HELENA. I'll tell Demetrius of fair Hermia's flight; Then to the wood will he to-morrow night Pursue her; I'll at distance steal behind, His sight alone will ease my tortur'd mind. How happy some o'er other some can be? Through Athens I am thought as fair as she. But what of that, Demetrius thinks not so. AIR. Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind, SCENE VI. Changes to a Forest. Enter a FAIRY at one Door, and Рuck at another. Puck. How now, spirit, whither wander you? Through bush, through briar, Through flood, through fire, To dew her orbs upon the green. Puck. I must go seek some dew drops-here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear, AIR. Where the bee sucks, there lurk 1, In a cowslip's hell I lie, There I couch when owls do cry : On the but's back I do fly After sun-set merrily, Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Uuder the blossom that bangs on the bough. The king doth keep his revels here to night, But make room, Fairy, here comes Oberon. Fair. And here my mistress; would that we were gone. Enter OBERON and his Train at one door. QUEEN and ber Train at another. OBERON. I'll meet by moon-light, proud Titania. Queen. |