Tita. How came these things to pass? O, how mine eyes do loath this visage now! Obe. Silence, awhile.-Robin, take off this head. Titania, musick call; and strike more dead· Than common sleep, of all these five 54 the sense. Tita. Musick, ho! musick; such as charmeth sleep. Puck. Now, when thou wak'st, with thine own fool's eyes peep. Obe. Sound, musick. [Still musick.] Come, my queen, take hands with me, And rock the ground whereon these sleepers be. And will, to-morrow midnight, solemnly, There shall the pairs of faithful lovers be Puck. Fairy king, attend, and mark; Obe. Then, my queen, in silence sad, Tita. Come, my lord; and in our flight, That I sleeping here was found, With these mortals, on the ground. [Exeunt. [Horns sound within. VOL. III. Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, EGEUS, and Train. The. Go, one of you, find out the forester ;- And since we have the vaward of the day, Despatch, I say, and find the forester.- Of hounds and echo in conjunction. Hip. I was with Hercules, and Cadmus, once, The. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, Judge, when you hear.-But, soft: what nymphis are these? Ege. My lord, this is my daughter here asleep; And this, Lysander; this Demetrius is; This Helena, old Nedar's Helena: I wonder of their being here together. The. No doubt, they rose up early, to observe That Hermia should give answer of her choice? The. Go, bid the huntsmen wake them with their horns. Horns, and shouts within. DEMETRIUS, LYSAnder, HERMIA, and HELENA, wake and start up. The. Good-morrow, friends. Saint Valentine is past 56; Begin these wood-birds but to couple now? Lys. Pardon, my lord. The. [He and the rest kneel to Theseus. up. I pray you all, stand I know, you two are rival enemies; How comes this gentle concord in the world, To sleep by hate, and fear no enmity? Lys. My lord, I shall reply amazedly, Half 'sleep, half waking: But as yet, I swear, I cannot truly say how I came here: But, as I think, (for truly would I speak,- I came with Hermia hither: our intent Was, to be gone from Athens, where we might be Without the peril of the Athenian law. Ege. Enough, enough, my lord; you have enough: I beg the law, the law, upon his head.— They would have stol'n away, they would, Demetrius, You, of your wife; and me, of my consent; Dem. My lord, fair Helen told me of their stealth, Fair Helena in fancy following me. But, my good lord, wot not by what power, The. Fair lovers, you are fortunately met: For in the temple, by and by with us, And, for the morning now is something worn, Our purpos'd hunting shall be set aside.- [Exeunt Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus, and train. Dem. These things seem small, and undistinguishable, Like far-off mountains turned into clouds. Her. Methinks, I see these things with parted eye, When every thing seems double. Hel. So methinks: And I have found Demetrius like a jewel 57, Mine own, and not mine own. Dem. It seems to me, That yet we sleep, we dream.-Do not you think, The duke was here, and bid us follow him? Her. Yea; and my father. Hel. And Hippolyta. Lys. And he did bid us follow to the temple. Dem. Why then, we are awake: let's follow him; And, by the way, let us recount our dreams. [Exeunt. As they go out, BOTTOM awakes. Bot. When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer :-my next is, Most fair Pyramus.-Hey, ho!— Peter Quince! Flute, the bellows-mender! Snout the tinker! Starveling! God's my life! stolen hence, and left me asleep! I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream,-past the wit of man to say what dream it was: Man is but an ass, if he go about to |