Good master Peafebloffom, I fhall defire of you more acquaintance too. Your name, I beseech you, Sir. Muf. Mustardfeed. Bot. Good mafter Muftardfeed, I know your (a) parentage well: that fame cowardly giant-like Ox-beef hath devour'd many a gentleman of your houfe, I promise you, your kindred hath made my eyes water I defire more of your acquaintance, good ere now. mafter Mustardfeed. Queen. Come, wait upon him, lead him to my bower. The moon, methinks, looks with a watry eye; And when the weeps, weep ev'ry little flower, Lamenting fome enforced chastity! Tie up my love's tongue, bring him filently. [Exeunt, Ob. I wonder, if Titania be awak'd: Then what it was that next came in her eye, Which the muft doat on in extremity. Enter Puck. Here comes my meffenger! how now, mad fprite, [(a)parentage. Oxford Edit. Vulg. patience well.] Forfook his fcene, and enter'd in a brake; And forth my minnock comes: when they him spy, And, at our ftamp, here o'er and o'er one falls; I led them on in this diftracted fear, And left fweet Pyramus tranflated there: . Ob. This falls out better, than I could devife. Puck. I took him fleeping; that is finish'd too; And the Athenian woman by his fide, That when he wakes, of force fhe must be ey❜d. Enter Demetrius and Hermia. Ob. Stand close, this is the fame Athenian. Lay breath fo bitter on your bitter foe. Her. Now I but chide, but I should use thee worse; For thou, I fear, haft given me cause to curse: If If thou haft flain Lyfander in his sleep, The fun was not fo true unto the day, It cannot be, but thou haft murther'd him; Her. What's this to my Lyfander? where is he? Ah, good Demetrius, wilt thou give him me? Dem. I'ad rather give his carcafs to my hounds. Her. Out, dog! out, cur! thou driv❜st me past the bounds Of maiden's patience. Haft thou flain him then? Nor is he dead, for aught that I can tell. Her. I pray thee, tell me then that he is well. 2 Her brother's noon tide WITH th' Antipodes.] She fays, fhe would as foon believe, that the moon, then fhining, could creep through the centre, and meet the fun's light on the other fide the Globe. It is plain therefore we should read I'TH' Antipodes, i. e. in the Antipodes where the fun was then fhining. K 3 Dem. Dem. And if I could, what should I get therefore? Her. A privilege never to fee me more; And from thy hated prefence part I so: See me no more, whether he's dead or no. [Exit. Dem. There is no following her in this fierce vein, Here, therefore, for a while I will remain: So forrow's heavinefs doth heavier grow, For debt, that bankrupt fleep doth forrow owe; Which now in fome flight measure it will pay, If for his Tender here I make fome ftay. [Lies down. Ob. What haft thou done? thou haft mistaken quite, And laid thy love-juice on fome true love's fight: Of thy misprision must perforce enfue Some true love turn'd, and not a falfe turn'd true. Puck. Then fate o'er-rules, that, one man holding troth, A million fail, confounding oath on oath. Ob. About the wood go fwifter than the wind, 'And Helena of Athens, fee, thou find. All fancy-fick fhe is, and pale of cheer; With fighs of love, that coft the fresh blood dear; Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow. Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye! Enter Puck. Puck. Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, [Exit. And And the youth, miftook by me, Shall we their fond pageant fee? Ob. Stand afide: the noife, they make, Puck. Then will two at once woo one; That befal prepoft'rously. SCENE VI. Enter Lyfander and Helena. Lyf. Why fhould you think, that I fhould woo in fcorn; Scorn and derifion never come in tears. Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows fo born, How can these things in me feem fcorn to you, To what, my love, fhall I compare thine eyne? |