Did not you tell me, I should know the man As this their jangling I esteem a sport. Obe. Thou seest, these lovers seek a place to fight: Hie therefore, Robin, overcast the night; The starry welkin cover thou anon And back to Athens shall the lovers wend,3 With league, whose date till death shall never end. ' Happen. 2 Medicinal efficacy. 3 Go. Whiles I in this affair do thee employ, I'll to my queen, and beg her Indian boy‹; From monster's view, and all things shall be peace. Puck. My fairy lord, this must be done with haste; For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there, Troop home to church-yards: damned spirits all, For fear lest day should look their shames upon, I with the morning's love 1 have oft made sport; [Exit Oberon Puck. Up and down, up and down; I will lead them up and down: SHAK. Cephalus, the paramour of Aurora. III. I am fear'd in field and town: Goblin, lead them up and down. Here comes one. Enter LYSAnder. Lys. Where art thou, proud Demetrius? speak thou now. Puck. Here, villain; drawn and ready. Where art thou? Lys. I will be with thee straight. Puck. To plainer ground. Dem. Follow me then [Exit Lys. as following the voice. Enter DEMETRIUS. Lysander! speak again. Thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled? Speak. In some bush? Where dost thou hide thy head? Puck. Thou coward, art thou bragging to the stars, Telling the bushes that thou look'st for wars, And wilt not come? Come, recreant; come, thou child; I'll whip thee with a rod. He is defiled, That draws a sword on thee. Dem. Yea; art thou there? Puck. Follow my voice; we'll try no manhood here. [Exeunt. Re-enter LYSANDER. Lys. He goes before me, and still dares me on; When I come where he calls, then he is gone. The villain is much lighter-heel'd than I: I follow'd fast, but faster he did fly; That fallen am I in dark uneven way, And here will rest me. Come, thou gentle day! [lies down. For if but once thou show me thy gray light, I'll find Demetrius, and revenge this spite. [sleeps. Re-enter PUCK and DEMETRIUS. Puck. Ho, ho! ho, ho! Coward, why comest thou not? Dem. Abide me, if thou darest; for well I wot, Thou run'st before me, shifting every place; And darest not stand, nor look me in the face. Puck. Come hither; I am here. Dem. Nay, then thou mock'st me. Thou shalt buy this dear, If ever I thy face by daylight see: Now, go thy way. Faintness constraineth me [lies down and sleeps. Enter HELENA. Hel. O weary night, O long and tedious night, Abate thy hours: shine, comforts, from the east; That I may back to Athens, by daylight, From these that my poor company detest:And, sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company. [sleeps. Puck. Yet but three? Come one more; Two of both kinds makes up four. Her. Never so weary, never so in woe, Bedabbled with the dew, and torn with briers: I can no farther crawl, no farther go; My legs can keep no pace with my desires. Here will I rest me till the break of day. Puck. On the ground [lies down. Sleep sound: I'll apply To your eye, Gentle lover, remedy. [squeezing the juice on Lysander's eye. |