SCENE II. Another part of the wood.
Enter TITANIA, with her train
TITANIA
Come, now a roundel and a fairy song;
TITANIA
Then, for the third part of a minute, hence;
TITANIA
Some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds,
TITANIA
Some war with rere-mice for their leathern wings,
TITANIA
To make my small elves coats, and some keep back
TITANIA
The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders
TITANIA
At our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep;
TITANIA
Then to your offices and let me rest.
TITANIA
You spotted snakes with double tongue,
TITANIA
Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen;
TITANIA
Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong,
TITANIA
Come not near our fairy queen.
TITANIA
Philomel, with melody
TITANIA
Sing in our sweet lullaby;
TITANIA
Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby:
TITANIA
Nor spell nor charm,
TITANIA
Come our lovely lady nigh;
TITANIA
So, good night, with lullaby.
TITANIA
Weaving spiders, come not here;
TITANIA
Hence, you long-legg'd spinners, hence!
TITANIA
Beetles black, approach not near;
TITANIA
Worm nor snail, do no offence.
TITANIA
Philomel, with melody, & c.
Fairy
Hence, away! now all is well:
Fairy
One aloof stand sentinel.
Exeunt Fairies. TITANIA sleeps
Enter OBERON and squeezes the flower on TITANIA's eyelids
OBERON
What thou seest when thou dost wake,
OBERON
Do it for thy true-love take,
OBERON
Love and languish for his sake:
OBERON
Be it ounce, or cat, or bear,
OBERON
Pard, or boar with bristled hair,
OBERON
In thy eye that shall appear
OBERON
When thou wakest, it is thy dear:
OBERON
Wake when some vile thing is near.
Enter LYSANDER and HERMIA
LYSANDER
Fair love, you faint with wandering in the wood;
LYSANDER
And to speak troth, I have forgot our way:
LYSANDER
We'll rest us, Hermia, if you think it good,
LYSANDER
And tarry for the comfort of the day.
HERMIA
Be it so, [Person 6]: find you out a bed;
LYSANDER
[PERSON 4]: Be it so, find you out a bed;
HERMIA
For I upon this bank will rest my head.
LYSANDER
One turf shall serve as pillow for us both;
LYSANDER
One heart, one bed, two bosoms and one troth.
HERMIA
Nay, good Lysander; for my sake, my dear,
HERMIA
Lie further off yet, do not lie so near.
LYSANDER
O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence!
LYSANDER
Love takes the meaning in love's conference.
LYSANDER
I mean, that my heart unto yours is knit
LYSANDER
So that but one heart we can make of it;
LYSANDER
Two bosoms interchained with an oath;
LYSANDER
So then two bosoms and a single troth.
LYSANDER
Then by your side no bed-room me deny;
LYSANDER
For lying so, Hermia, I do not lie.
HERMIA
Lysander riddles very prettily:
HERMIA
Now much beshrew my manners and my pride,
HERMIA
If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied.
HERMIA
But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy
HERMIA
Lie further off; in human modesty,
HERMIA
Such separation as may well be said
HERMIA
Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid,
HERMIA
So far be distant; and, good night, sweet friend:
HERMIA
Thy love ne'er alter till thy sweet life end!
LYSANDER
Amen, amen, to that fair prayer, say I;
LYSANDER
And then end life when I end loyalty!
LYSANDER
Here is my bed: sleep give thee all his rest!
HERMIA
With half that wish the wisher's eyes be press'd!
PUCK
Through the forest have I gone.
PUCK
But Athenian found I none,
PUCK
On whose eyes I might approve
PUCK
This flower's force in stirring love.
PUCK
Night and silence.--Who is here?
PUCK
Weeds of Athens he doth wear:
PUCK
This is he, my master said,
PUCK
Despised the Athenian maid;
PUCK
And here the maiden, sleeping sound,
PUCK
On the dank and dirty ground.
PUCK
Pretty soul! she durst not lie
PUCK
Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.
PUCK
Churl, upon thy eyes I throw
PUCK
All the power this charm doth owe.
PUCK
When thou wakest, let love forbid
PUCK
Sleep his seat on thy eyelid:
PUCK
So awake when I am gone;
PUCK
For I must now to Oberon.
