Puck. Fairy king, attend, and mark; Ob. Then my queen, in silence sad, Swifter than the wand'ring moon. 100 Queen. Come, my lord; and in our flight, Tell me how it came this night, That I sleeping here was found, With these mortals, on the ground. [Exeunt. [Wind Horns within. Enter THESEUS, EGEUS, HIPPOLITA, and Train. The. Go, one of you, find out the forester ;For now our observation is perform'd: And since we have the vaward of the day, My love shall hear the musick of my hounds.- Dispatch, I say, and find the forester.- Hip. I was with Hercules, and Cadmus, once, 110 120 The. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So So flew'd, so sanded, and their heads are hung Judge, when you hear.-But, soft; what nymphs are these? Ege. My lord, this is my daughter here asleep; I wonder at their being here together. The. No doubt, they rose up early, to observe That Hermia should give answer of her choice? 129 The. Go, bid the huntsmen wake them with their horns. 140 Horns, and Shout within; DEMETRIUS, LYSANDER, HERMIA, and HELENA, wake and start up. The. Good-morrow, friends. Saint Valentine is past; Begin these wood-birds but to couple now? Lys. Pardon, my lord. [They all kneel to THESEUS. The. I pray you all, stand up. 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, 150 But, as I think (for truly would I speak,— I came with Hermia hither: our intent 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; 160 Dem. My lord, fair Helen told me of their stealth, Of this their purpose hither, to this wood; But, my good lord, I wot not by what power As the remembrance of an idle gawd, 170 Which in my childhood I did doat upon : And all the faith, the virtue of my heart, But, But, like a sickness, did I loathe this food: The. Fair lovers, you are fortunately met : Come Hippolita. 180 [Exeunt THE. HIP. and Train. Dem. These things seem small, and undistinguish able, Like far-off mountains turned into clouds. 199 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, Mine own, and not mine own. Dem. Are you sure That we are awake ?-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 Hippolita. 200 Lys. And he did bid us follow to the temple. 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 PyramusHey, ho! —Peter Quince! Flute, the bellows-mender! Snout, the tinker! Starveling! God's my life! stol'n 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 expound this dream. Methought I was-there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had,- -But man is but a patch'd fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen; man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream : it shall be call'd Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the latter end of a play, before the duke: Peradventure, to make it the more gracious, I shall sing it at her death. [Exit. SCENE II. Athens. QUINCE's House. Enter QUINCE, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING. Quin. Have you sent to Bottom's house? is he come hoine yet? 226 Star, |