A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare - Literary Tales Collection

Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, Act one, Scene one, Athens,
the palace of Theseus. Enter theseus, Hippolyta, Philistrate, and attendants.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Now fair, Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace. Four
happy days bring in another moon. But oh, methinks, how
slow this old moon wanes. She lingers my desires like
to a step dame or a dowager, long withering out
a young man's revenue.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Four days will quickly steep themselves in night. Four nights
will quickly dream away the time, and then the moon,
like to a silver bow new bent in heaven. She'll
behold the night of our solemnities.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Go, Philistrate, stir up the Athenian youth to merriments. Awake
the pert and nimble spirit of mirth. Turn Melancholy forth
to funerals. The pale companion is no not for our pomp.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Exit fillustrate, Hippolyta.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
I wooed thee with my sword, and won thy love
doing thee injuries. But I will wed thee in another key,
with pomp, with triumph, and with reveling.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Enter Igeus, Hermia, Lessander, and Demetrius.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
Happy be theseus, our renowned duke.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Thanks good eegius, what's the news?

Speaker 4 (01:26):
With thee full of vexation, come I with complaint against
my child, my daughter Hermia. Stand forth, Demetrius, my noble lord,
this man hath my consent to marry her. Stand forth, Lysander,
and my gracious Duke. This man hath bewitched the bosom

(01:50):
of my child. Thou thou, Lysander, now asked, given her rhymes,
and interchanged love tokens with my child, Thou hast by
moonlight at her window, sung with feigning voice, verses a
feigning love, and stolen the impression of her fantasy, with
bracelets of thy hair, rings, gods, conceits, gnats, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats,

(02:19):
messengers of strong prevailment in an hardened youth, with cunning hast,
Thou filst my daughter's heart. Turn her obedience, which is
due to me, to stubborn harshness, and my gracious Duke,
be it so she will not hear before your grace
consent to marry with Demetrius. I beg the ancient privilege

(02:44):
of Athens. As she is mine, I may dispose of her,
which shall be either to this gentleman or to her
death according to our law immediately provided.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
In that case, what say you, Hermia, be advised, fair maid,
to you, your father should be as a god, one
that composed your beauties, yea, and one to whom you
are but a form in wax by him, imprinted, and
within his power to leave the figure or disfigure it.
Demetrius is a worthy.

Speaker 5 (03:19):
Gentleman, so is Lysander.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
In himself he is. But in this kind, wanting your
father's voice, the other must be held the worthier.

Speaker 5 (03:29):
I would my father look, but with my eyes.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Rather your eyes must with his judgment.

Speaker 5 (03:35):
Look God, do entreat your grace to pardon me. I
know not by what power I am made bold, nor
how it may concern my modesty in such a presence
here to plead my thoughts. But I beseech your grace
that I may know the worst that may befall me
in this case if I refuse to wed Demetrius.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Either to die the death or to abjure forever the
society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires. Know
of your youth, Examine well your blood, whether if you
yield not to your father's choice, you can endure the
livery of a nun for I to be in shady cloister,

(04:13):
mewed to live a barren sister all your life, chanting
faint hymns to the cold, fruitless moon. Thrice blessed they
that masters sow their blood to undergo such maiden pilgrimage.
But earthlier happy is the rose distilled than that which
withering on the virgin thorn grows, lives and dies in

(04:34):
single blessedness.

Speaker 5 (04:37):
So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord
ere I will yield my virgin patent up unto his lordship,
whose unwished yoke must soul consent not to give sovereignty.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Take time to pause, and by the next new moon,
the ceiling day, betwixt my love and thee for everlasting
bond of fellowship. Upon that day, either prepare to die
for disobedience to your father's will, or else to wed
Demetrius as he would, or on Diana's altar to protest

(05:09):
for I austerity and single life.

Speaker 6 (05:14):
Relent. Sweet Hermia, Lysander, yield thy crazed title to my
certain right.

Speaker 7 (05:20):
You have her father's love, Demetrius, Let me have Hermia's
Do you marry him?

Speaker 4 (05:26):
Scornful Lysander? True he hath my love, and what is
mine my love shall render him, and she is mine,
and all my right of her. I do a state
unto Demetrius.

Speaker 7 (05:39):
I am my lord, as well derived as he, as
well possessed. My love is more than his, My fortunes
every way as fairly ranked, if not with advantage, as Demetrius,
and which is more than all these boasts can be.
I am beloved of Bedeus Hermia. Why should not I
then prosecute my right? Demetrius, all about to his head,

(06:04):
made love to Nider's daughter Helena, and won her soul,
And she, sweet lady, doats devoutly, doats dots and idolatry.
Upon this spotted and inconstant man, I must confess that
I have heard so much, and with Demetrius thought to
have spoke thereof, But being over full of self affairs,

(06:27):
my mind did lose it.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
But Demetrius, come and come, Egius, you shall go with me.
I have some private schooling for you both. For you
fair Hermia. Look, you arm yourself to fit your fancies
to your father's will, or else the law of Athens
yields you up, which by no means we may extenuate
to death or to vow of single life. Come, my Hippolyta,

(06:54):
what cheer my love? Demetrius and Egius, go along, I
must employ you in some business against our nuptial and
confer with you of something nearly that concerns yourselves.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
With duty and desire.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
We follow you, excellant all but Lysander and Hermia.

Speaker 7 (07:14):
How now, my love, why is your cheek so pale?
How chance the roses there do fade so fast.

Speaker 5 (07:21):
The like for want of rain, which I could well
beheem them from the tempest of my eyes.

Speaker 7 (07:26):
I me for aught that I could ever read, could
ever hear by tale or history. The course of true
love never did run smooth, But either it was different
in blood.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
Oh cross too high to be enthralled to low.

Speaker 7 (07:41):
Or else misgraft in respective years.

Speaker 5 (07:44):
Oh spite, too old to be engaged to young.

Speaker 7 (07:48):
Or else It stood upon the choice of friends.

Speaker 5 (07:51):
Oh hell, to choose love by another's eyes.

Speaker 7 (07:54):
Or if there were a sympathy in choice, war, death,
or sickness did lay siege to it, making it momentiny
as a sound, swift, as a shadow, short, as any dream, brief,
as the lightning in the collied night that in a
spleen unfolds both heaven and earth, and ere a man
hath power to say, behold the jaws of darkness do

(08:17):
devour it up so quick bright things come to confusion.

Speaker 5 (08:22):
If then true lovers have been ever crossed, it stands
as an edict in destiny. Then let us teach our
trial patience, because it is a customary cross, as due
to love, as thoughts and dreams and sighs, wishes and tears.
Poor Fancy's followers.

Speaker 7 (08:39):
A good persuasion. Therefore, hear me, Hermia, I have a
widow aunt, a dowager of great revenue, and she hath
no child. From Athid's is her house remote seven leagues,
and she respects me as her only son. There, Gentle Hermia,

(08:59):
may I marry THEE, and to that place the sharp
Athenian law cannot pursue us. If thou lovest me, then
steal forth thy father's house to morrow night, and in
the wood a league without the town where I did
meet THEE once with Helena, to do observance to a
morn of may there will I stay for THEE.

Speaker 5 (09:21):
My good Lysander. I swear to THEE by Cupid's strongest beau,
by his best arrow with the golden head, by the
simplicity of Venus doves, by that which knitteth souls and
prosperus loves, and by that fire which burnt the Carthage Queen,
when the false troy and under sail was seen by
all the vows that ever men have broke in number

(09:42):
more than ever women spoke in that same place, Thou
hast appointed me tomorrow truly will I meet with thee.

Speaker 7 (09:49):
Keep promise love.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Look here comes Helena, Enter Helena.

Speaker 5 (09:55):
God speed, fair Helena.

Speaker 8 (09:56):
Whither away call you me fair? That again, unsay, Demetrius
loves your fair, Oh happy fair. Your eyes are load stars,
and your tongue's sweet air more tuneable than lark to
shepherd's ear when wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear,
sickness is catching. Oh, were favor so yours? Would I
catch fair hermia?

Speaker 7 (10:17):
Ere I go.

Speaker 8 (10:18):
My ear should catch your voice, my eye, your eye,
my tongue should catch your tongue sweet melody? Were the
world mine? Demetrius being baited, the rest I'd give to
you to be translated. Oh teach me how you look
and with what art you sway? The motion of Demetrius's heart.

Speaker 5 (10:34):
I frown upon him, Yet he loves me still.

Speaker 8 (10:37):
Oh that your frowns would teach my smile such skill.

Speaker 5 (10:40):
I give him curses, yet he gives me love.

Speaker 8 (10:43):
Oh that my prayers could such affection move.

Speaker 5 (10:46):
The more I hate, the more he follows me.

Speaker 8 (10:49):
The more I love. The more he hateth me.

Speaker 5 (10:51):
His folly, Helena, is no fault of mine.

Speaker 8 (10:54):
None but your beauty. Would that fault were mine?

Speaker 5 (10:58):
Take comfort? He no more sit see my face, Lysander,
and myself will fly this place. Before the time I did,
Lysander see seemed Athens as a paradise to me. Oh, then,
what graces in my love? Do dwell that he hath
turned a heaven unto a hell?

Speaker 7 (11:14):
Helen to you our minds we will unfold tomorrow night,
when Phoebe doth behold her silver visage in the watery
glass decking with liquid pearl abladed grass, a time that
lover's flights doth still conceal through Athen's gates? Have we
devised to steal.

Speaker 5 (11:35):
And in the wood where often you and I, upon
faint primrose beds, were wont to lie, emptying our bosoms
of their council suite. There my Lysander and myself shall meet,
and thence from Athens turn away our eyes to seek
new friends and stranger companies. Farewell, sweet playfellow, pray thou
for us, and good luck. Grant thee thy Demetrius, keep word, Lysander.

(11:58):
We must starve our sight from lover's fee till morrow
deep midnight.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
I will my Hermia exit, Hermia.

Speaker 7 (12:07):
Helena, adieu, as you on him, Demitrius dote on you exit.

Speaker 8 (12:14):
How happy some or other sum can be through Athens?
I am thought as fair as she?

Speaker 9 (12:20):
But what of that?

Speaker 8 (12:21):
Demetrius thinks not, So he will not know what all,
But he do know. And as he errs doting on
Hermia's eyes, so I admiring of his qualities. Things base
and vile, folding no quantity love can transpose to form
and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with
the mind, And therefore is winged, cupid, painted blind, Nor

(12:44):
hath love's mind of any judgment taste, wings and no
eyes figure unheedy, haste. And therefore is love said to
be a child, because in choice he is so oft
beguiled as waggish boys in games themselves forswear. So the
boy love is perjured everywhere. For ere Demetrius looked on
Hermia's eye. He hailed down oaths that he was only mine.

(13:06):
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt so
he dissolved, and showers of oaths did melt. I will
go tell him a fair Hermia's flight. Then to the wood,
will he tomorrow night pursue her? And for this intelligence,
if I have thanks, it is a dear expense. But
here and mean I to enrich my pain to have

(13:28):
his sight thither and back again.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Exit scene too athens Quince's house, Enter Quince, snug bottom, flute, snout,
and starvelings.

Speaker 9 (13:49):
All our company here you were best to call them
generally man by man according to the scrap.

Speaker 10 (13:55):
Here is the scroll of every man's name, which is
thought fit for Ethens to play in our interlude before
the Duke and the Duchess on his wedding day at night.

Speaker 9 (14:05):
First, could Peter Quinns say what the play treats on,
then read the names of the actors, and so grow
to a point.

Speaker 10 (14:14):
Mary, Our play is the most lamentable comedy and most
cruel death of Pyramus.

Speaker 9 (14:18):
And thisby a very good piece of work, I assure
you anna Mary. Now could Peter Quince call forth your
actors by the scroll masters, spread yourselves.

Speaker 10 (14:30):
Answer as I call you, Nick Bottom the weaver.

Speaker 9 (14:35):
Ready, name what part I am for, and proceed.

Speaker 10 (14:38):
You, Nickbottom, are set down for Pyramus.

Speaker 9 (14:41):
What is peramus? A lover or a tyrant?

Speaker 10 (14:46):
A lover that cures himself most gallant for love?

Speaker 9 (14:49):
Oh, that will ask some tears in the true or
forming of it. If I do it, let the audience
look to their eyes. I will move stop RUMs, I
will condole in some measure to the rest. Yet my
chief humor is for a tyrant. I could play ercles rarely,

(15:13):
or a part to tear a cat in to make
I'll split the raging rocks and shivering shocks, shall break
the locks of prison gates, and Phibis's car shall shine
from far and make and mar the foolish fates. Oh

(15:39):
this was lofty. Now name the rest of the players.
This is Ercley's vein, a tyrant's vein. A lover is
more condoling.

Speaker 10 (15:53):
Francis flute, the bello's menda.

Speaker 11 (15:56):
Here Peter Quin's flute.

Speaker 10 (15:58):
You must take thisby on you.

Speaker 11 (16:00):
What is Disbee a wandering knight?

Speaker 10 (16:03):
It is the lady that Pyramus must love.

Speaker 11 (16:06):
On nay face, Let me not play a woman.

Speaker 10 (16:09):
I have a beard, come in, that's all one. You
shall play it in a mask, and you may speak
as small as you will, and I.

Speaker 9 (16:16):
May eye my face. Let me play thisbee too. I'll
speak in a monstrous little voice. Disney, Disney, Ah, Pirimus, lover,
dear thy thisbee, dear and lady dear.

Speaker 10 (16:31):
No, no, you must pay Pyramis and flute.

Speaker 9 (16:34):
You thisby well proceeded.

Speaker 10 (16:39):
Robin Starveling the tailor here, Peter Quince, Robin Starveling, You
must play thisby's mother. Tom snouted the tinker here, Peter Quince,
You Pyramis's father, and myself thisbee's father, snug the joiner.
You the lion's part, and I hope here is the
play fitted.

Speaker 12 (16:59):
Have you the lion's part written? Pray you, if it be,
give it me, for I am slow of study.

Speaker 10 (17:07):
You may do it extemple, for it is nothing but roaring.

Speaker 9 (17:11):
Let me play the lion too. I will oh, I
will do any man's heart good to wear me.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
I will oh.

Speaker 9 (17:21):
They will make the duke say, let him roar again,
Let him roar again.

Speaker 10 (17:26):
And you should do it too terribly, you would fright
the duchess and the ladies that they would shriek. And
that were enough to hang us all.

Speaker 12 (17:34):
That would hang us every mother's son.

Speaker 11 (17:36):
That would hang us every mother's son.

Speaker 9 (17:39):
Grant your friends. If you should frighten the ladies out
of their ways, they would have no more discretion but
to angers. But I will aggravate my voice so that
I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove.
I will aw you, and twere any nightingale.

Speaker 10 (17:57):
Ow you can play no part but Pyramis. For Pyramis
is a sweet faced man, a proper man, as one
shall see in a summer's day, a most lovely, gentlemanlike man.
Therefore you must needs play Pyramius.

Speaker 9 (18:15):
Well, I will undertake it. What beard were I best
to play it?

Speaker 1 (18:20):
Inn?

Speaker 10 (18:22):
Why?

Speaker 9 (18:23):
What you will m I will discharge it in either
your straw color beard, your orange tawny beard, your purple
ingrain beard, or your French crown color beard, your perfect yellow.

Speaker 10 (18:41):
Some of your French's crowns have no hair at all.
And then you will play bear faced. But masters, here
are your parts, and I am to entreat you, request
you and desire you to con them by to morrow
night and meet me in the palace wood Amma, without
the town by moonlight. There we will rehearse. For if

(19:02):
we meet in the city, we shall be docked with company,
and a device is known. In the meantime I will
draw a bit of properties, such as our play wants.
I pray you fail me not.

Speaker 9 (19:14):
We will meet, and there we may rehearse most obscenely
and courageously take pains. Be peract had Yo.

Speaker 10 (19:26):
At the Duke's oak we meet.

Speaker 9 (19:29):
Enough old a cup bowl strings.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Ex you want. End of Act one, Act two, Scene one,
a wood near Athens. Enter from opposite sides a faery
and park.

Speaker 13 (19:49):
How now, spirit will a wonder you over hill, over dale,
through bush, through brier, over park, over pale, through flood
through fire. I do wander everywhere swifter than the moon sphere.
And I serve the fairy queen to dew her orbs
upon the grain the cowslips tall. Her pensions be in
their gold coats spots you see, those be rubies fairy favors.

(20:12):
In those freckles live their savors. I must go seek
some dewdrops here and hang a pearl in every cowslips here,
farewell their lob of spirits. All be gone, our queen,
and all our elves come here.

Speaker 14 (20:24):
Anon the king doth keep his rebels here to night.
Take heed the queen. Come not within his sight, For
Oberon is passing fell and wroth, because she, as her attendant,
hath a lovely boy stolen from an Indian king. She
never had so sweet a changeling, and jealous Oberon would
have the child night of his train to trace the
forest's wild. But she perforce withholds the loved boy, crowns

(20:47):
him with flowers, and makes him all her joy. And
now they never meet in grove or green by a
fountain clear or spangled starlight sheen, but they do square
that all their elves for fear creep into acorn cups
and hide them there.

Speaker 13 (21:01):
Either I mistake your shape and making quite, or else
you are that shrewd and knavish sprite cold Robin goodfellow,
are you not he that frightens the maids of the villagery.
Skim milk can sometimes labor in the kern and bootless,
make the breathless housewife churn, and sometimes make the drink
to bear nobalm mislead night wanderers, laughing at their harm.

(21:23):
Those that hobgoblin call you, and sweet puck, you do
their work and they shall have good luck? Are not you?

Speaker 14 (21:30):
He thou speak'st all right? I am that merry wanderer
of the night. I jest to Oberon and make him
smile when I a fat and beam fed horse, beguile
neighing in likeness of a filly fool, and sometimes lurkye
in a gossip's bowl, in very likeness of a roasted crab.
And when she drinks against her lip side bob and

(21:51):
on her with a dew lap pour the ale, the
wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale sometime for three foot
stool mistaketh me then slip by from her bum down topple.
She and Taylor cries and falls into a cough. And
then the whole choir hold their hips and love and
waxen in their mirth and knees and swear and merry.

(22:13):
A our was never wasted there, but rumfery, here comes.

Speaker 13 (22:17):
Oberon, and here my mistress would that he were gone.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
Enter from one side, Oberon with his train from the other,
Titania with hers.

Speaker 15 (22:30):
Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.

Speaker 16 (22:34):
What jealous oberon fairies skip? Hence I have forsworn his
bed and company.

Speaker 15 (22:41):
Terry rash wanton. Am not I thy lord?

Speaker 16 (22:45):
Then I must be thy lady. But I know when
thou hast stolen away from fairyland and in the shape
of corn, sat all day playing on pipes of corn
and versing love to amorous Philida. Art thou here come
from the farthest step of India, But that forsooth the
bouncing Amazon, your buskined mistress, and your warrior love to

(23:10):
theseus must be wedded, and you come to give their bed,
joy and prosperity.

Speaker 15 (23:17):
How canst thou thus for shame Titania glance at my
credit with Hippolyta, knowing I know thy love to theseus?
Didst thou not lead him through the glimmering night from
Peruginia whom he ravished, and make him with fair egle
break his faith with Ariadne and Antiopa.

Speaker 16 (23:36):
These are the forgeries of jealousy, And never since the
middle summer spring met we on hill in dale forest,
or mead by Pavid fountain, or by Rushy Brook, or
in the beeched margin of the sea to dance our
ringlets to the whistling wind. But with thy brawls thou
hast disturbed our sport. Therefore the winds piping to us

(24:02):
in vain as in revenge, have sucked up from the sea.
Contageous fogs, which falling in the land, have every pelting
river made so proud that they have overborne their continents.
The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain. The
plowman lost his sweat, and the green corn hath rotted,

(24:22):
ere his youth attained a beard. The fold stands empty
in the drowned field. The crows are fatted with the
murray and flock. The nine men's morris is filled up
with mud, and the quaint mazes in the wanton green,
for lack of tread, are undistinguishable. The human mortals want
their winter here. No night is now with him or

(24:45):
Carol blessed. Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, pale
in her anger, washes all the air that rheumatic diseases
do abound. And thorough this distemperature we see the season's alter.
Hoary headed frosts far in the fresh lap of the
crimson rose, and on old Higham's thin and icy crown,

(25:09):
an odorous chaplet to sweet summer buds. Is as in mockery,
set the spring the summer, the child in autumn angry winter,
change their wonted liveries, and the mazed world by their increase,
now knows not which is which. And this same progeny
of evils comes from our debate, from our dissension. We

(25:33):
are their parents and original.

Speaker 15 (25:36):
Do you amend it, then it lies in you. Why
should Titania cross her Oberon, I do but beg a
little changeling boy to be my henchman.

Speaker 16 (25:45):
Set your heart at rest. The fairyland buys not the
child of me. His mother was a voterus of my order,
and in the spiced Indian air by night full often
hath she gossiped by my and sat with me on
Neptune's yellow sands, marking the embarked traders on the flood.

(26:06):
When we have laughed to see the sails conceive and
grow big bellied with the wanton wind, which she with
pretty and with swimming gait following her womb. Then rich
with my young squire, would imitate and sail upon the
land to fetch me trifles and return again as from
a voyage rich with merchandise. But she, being mortal of

(26:30):
that boy, did die. And for her sake do I
rear up her boy? And for her sake I will
not part with him?

Speaker 15 (26:39):
How long within this wood? Intend you stay.

Speaker 16 (26:43):
Perchance till after theseus's wedding day. If you will patiently
dance in our round and see our moonlight revels, go
with us. If not, shun me, and I will spare
your haunts.

Speaker 15 (26:58):
Give me that boy, and I will go with thee.

Speaker 16 (27:00):
Not for thy fairy kingdom fair is away. We shall
chide downright. If I longest stay.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Exit Titania with her train.

Speaker 15 (27:11):
Well go thy way. Thou shalt not from this grove
till I torment THEE for this injury, my gentle puck.
Come hither thou rememberest. Since once I sat upon a
promontory and heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back, uttering
such dulcet and harmonious breath, that the rude sea grew
civil at her song, and certain stars shot madly from

(27:35):
their spheres to hear the sea maid's music. I remember
that very time I saw, but thou couldst not flying
between the cold moon and the earth. Cupid all armed
a certain aim. He took at a fair vestal throned
by the west, and loosed his love shaft smartly from
his bow, as it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts.

(27:58):
But I might see young Cuband's fiery shaft quenched in
the chaste beams of the watery moon, and the imperial
voterests pass on in maiden meditation, fancy free yet marked
I where the bolt of Cupid fell. It fell upon
a little western flower before milk white, now purple with

(28:18):
love's wound, and maidens call it love in idleness. Fetch
me that flower the herb I showed thee once the
juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid will make or
man or woman madly dote upon the next live creature
that it sees. Fetch me this herb, and be thou
here again. Ere the Leviathan can swim a league.

Speaker 14 (28:41):
I'll put a girdle round the earth in forty.

Speaker 15 (28:43):
Minutes exit having once this juice, I'll watch Titania when
she is asleep and drop the liquor of it in
her eyes the next thing. Then she waking looks upon,
be it on lion, bear, or wolf or bull, on
meddling monkey, or on busy ape. She shall pursue it

(29:03):
with the soul of love. And ere I take this
charm from off her sight, as I can take it
with another herb. I'll make her render up her page
to me. But who comes here? I am invisible, and
I will overhear their conference.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Enter Demetrius, Helena following him.

Speaker 6 (29:24):
I love thee not, therefore pursue me not. Where is
Lysander and fair Hermia? The one i'll slay and the
other slayeth me? Thou toldest me they were stolen unto
this wood, And here am I and Mowe within this wood.
Because I cannot meet my Hermia. Hence get thee gone
and follow me no more.

Speaker 8 (29:46):
You draw me, you hard hearted adamant. But yet you
draw not iron, for my heart as true as steel.

Speaker 7 (29:52):
Leave you your.

Speaker 8 (29:53):
Power to draw, and I shall have no power to
follow you.

Speaker 6 (29:56):
Do I entice you? Do I speak you fair? Or rather,
do I not? In plainest truth, tell you I do not,
nor I cannot love you.

Speaker 8 (30:06):
And even for that do I love you? The more
I am your spaniel, and Demetrius, the more you beat me.
I will fawn on you. Use me, but as your
spaniel spurn me, strike me, neglect me, lose me, only
give me leave unworthy as I am to follow you.
What worser place can I beg in your love? And
yet a place of high respect with me than to

(30:26):
be used as you use your dog.

Speaker 6 (30:29):
Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit, For
I am sick when I do look on thee.

Speaker 8 (30:34):
And I am sick when I look not on you.

Speaker 6 (30:36):
You do impeach your modesty too much to leave the
city and commit yourself into the hands of one that
loves you, Not to trust the opportunity of night and
the ill counsel of a desert place with the rich
worth of your virginity.

Speaker 8 (30:54):
Your virtue is my privilege. For that it is not
night when I do see your face. Therefore I think
I am not in the night, Nor doth this wood
lack worlds of company? For you, in my respect, are
all the world. Then how can it be said I
am alone when all the world is here to look
on me.

Speaker 6 (31:11):
I'll run from thee and hide me in the brakes,
and leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts.

Speaker 8 (31:17):
The wildest hath not such a heart as you run.
When you will, the story shall be changed. Apollo flies
and Daphne holds the chase. The dove pursues the griffin.
The mild hind makes speed to catch the tiger bootless speed,
when Cowardice pursues and Valor flies.

Speaker 6 (31:35):
I will not say thy questions, let me go, or
if thou follow me, do not believe, but I shall
do thee mischief in the wood.

Speaker 8 (31:43):
Aye, in the temple, in the town, the field. You
do me mischief, Fi, Demetrius, your wrongs do set a
scandal on my sex. We cannot fight for love as
men may do. We should be wooed, and we're not
made to woo.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Exit, Demetrius.

Speaker 8 (31:59):
I'll follow THEE and make a heaven of hell to
die upon the hand I love so well.

Speaker 15 (32:04):
Exit, fare thee well, nymph ere he do leave this grove.
Thou shalt fly him, and he shall seek thy love.
Re enter, puck, hast thou the flower there, welcome wanderer,
Ay there it is, I pray THEE give it me.
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, where

(32:27):
ox lips and the nodding violet grows quite over canopied
with luscious woodbine, with sweet musk roses, and with elegantine
There sleeps Titania some time of the night, lulled in
these flowers with dances and delight. And there the snake
throws her enamel'd skin weed wide enough to wrap a
fairy in. And with the juice of this I'll streak

(32:49):
her eyes and make her full of hateful fantasies. Take
thou thumb of it, and seek through this grove a
sweet Athenian lady is in love with a disdainful youth.
Annoint his eyes, But do it when the next thing
he aspires may be the lady. Thou shalt know the
man by the Athenian garments he hath on affect it
with some care, that he may prove more fond of

(33:12):
her than she upon her love. And look, thou meet
me ere the first cock crow.

Speaker 14 (33:17):
Fear not, my lord, your servant shall do so.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
Egsiant scene too, another part of the wood. Enter Titania
with her train.

Speaker 16 (33:33):
Come now a roundlen a fairy song. Then for the
third part of a minute, hence some to kill cankers
in the musk rosebuds. Some war with rare mice for
their leathern wings to make my small elves coats, and
some keep back the clamorousal that knightly hoots and wonders

(33:53):
at our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep, then to
your offices and let.

Speaker 17 (34:00):
Me rest new spotty sakes, swift.

Speaker 18 (34:12):
Double tongs, forty birch bars be not seen goods and
god bostrong connot be a very green cat on now.

Speaker 8 (34:29):
With nallody sing bar sleep.

Speaker 19 (34:34):
Lallaby, double.

Speaker 9 (34:39):
Bye, b.

Speaker 19 (34:43):
Bye never home b sago child hab lobly ladyby so
good night with mollaby green inside songbody as you love,

(35:04):
lets see us.

Speaker 20 (35:07):
Beat to say love chocky w sid.

Speaker 8 (35:14):
Fans below man.

Speaker 20 (35:17):
With melody, sing se lollaby, lolla.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
By never.

Speaker 20 (35:36):
So much um come lovely lady by sogod night with
lob songo, night with loob.

Speaker 13 (35:54):
Hence away. Now all is well won aloof stands sentinel.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
Egg yemp fairies. Titania sleeps enter oberon and squeezes the
flower on Titania's eyelids.

Speaker 15 (36:10):
What thou seest when thou dost wake, do it for
thy true love, take love and languish for his sake?
Be it ounce or cat or bear part or boar
with bristled hair in thy eye. That shall appear when
thou wakest. It is thy dear wake, when some vile
thing is near.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
Exit, enter Lysander and Hermia.

Speaker 7 (36:35):
Fair love you faint with wandering in the wood, and
to speak Troth, I have forgot our way, will rest us, Hermia,
if you think it good and tarry for the comfort
of the day.

Speaker 5 (36:48):
Be it so, Lysander, find you out of bed, for
I upon this bank will rest my head.

Speaker 7 (36:54):
One turf shall serve as pillow for us both one heart,
one bed, two bosoms and one troth.

Speaker 5 (37:03):
Nay good, Lysander, for my sake, my dear life further off. Yet,
do not lie so near.

Speaker 7 (37:09):
Oh, take the sense sweet of my innocence. Love takes
the meaning in love's conference. I mean that my heart
unto yours, is knit, so that but one heart we
can make of it, two bosoms interchained with an oath.
So then two bosoms and a single troth. Then by

(37:31):
your side, no bedroom, me deny for lying, So, Hermia,
I do not lie.

Speaker 5 (37:36):
Lysander riddles very prettily. Now much beshrew my manners and
my pride. If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied, but
gentle friend, for love and courtesy lie further off in
human modesty. Such separation, as may well be said, becomes
a virtuous bachelor and a maid. So far be distant,
and good night's sweet friend, thy love ne'er altar till

(37:59):
by sweet life.

Speaker 7 (38:00):
And amen amen to that fair prayer, say I, and
then end life when I end loyalty. Here is my
bed sleep, Give thee all his rest.

Speaker 5 (38:14):
With half that wish. The wisher's eyes be pressed.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
They sleep, and her puck.

Speaker 21 (38:23):
Through the forest.

Speaker 14 (38:24):
Have I gone, but Athenian found I none on whose
eyes I might approve this flower's force in stirring love,
night and silence. Who is here? Weeds of Athens he
doth wear? This is he, my master said, despised the
Athenian maid. And here the maiden, sleeping sound on the
dank and dirty ground, Pretty soul, she durst not lie

(38:47):
near this lack love, this kill courtesy churl upon thy eyes.
I throw all the power this charm doth oh. When
thou wakest, let love forbid sleep his seat on thy eyelid,
so awake when I am gone, for I must now
to oberon.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Exit, enter Demetrius and Helena running.

Speaker 8 (39:09):
Stay though thou kill me, Sweet Demetrius.

Speaker 6 (39:12):
I charge thee hence and do not haunt me.

Speaker 8 (39:15):
Thus, Oh wilt thou darkling leave me?

Speaker 6 (39:17):
Do not so stay on thy peril?

Speaker 1 (39:20):
I alone will go exit.

Speaker 8 (39:24):
Oh, I am out of breath in this fond chase.
The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace. Happy
is Hermia? Wheresoe'er she lies? For she hath blessed and
attractive eyes. How came her eyes so bright? Not with
salt tears? If so, my eyes are oftener washed than hers? No,
Now I am as ugly as a bear. For beasts

(39:45):
that meet me run away for fear. Therefore no marvel
though Demetrius do as a monster fly my presents. Thus
what wicked and dissembling glass of mine made me compare
with Hermia's spheryine? But who is here, Lysander? On the ground,
dead or asleep? I see no blood, no wound, Lysander?

(40:07):
If you live, good, sir, awake.

Speaker 7 (40:09):
And run through fire? I will, for thy sweet sake,
transparent Helena, nature shows art that through thy bosom makes
me see thy heart? Where is Demetrius? Oh? How fit
a word is that vile name to perish on my sword.

Speaker 8 (40:29):
Do not say so, Lysander, say not so what though
he love your Hermia? Lord, what though yet Hermia still
loves you? Then be content?

Speaker 7 (40:38):
Content with Hermia. No I do repent the tedious minutes
I with her have spent. Not Hermia, but Helena I love,
who will not change a raven for a dove. The
will of man is by his reason swayed, and reason
says you are the worthier maid. Things growing are not

(41:02):
ripe until there season. So I, being young till now ripe,
not to reason and touching now the point of human skill.
Reason becomes the marshal to my will, and leads me
to your eyes, where I o'er look Love's stories written
in Love's richest book.

Speaker 8 (41:22):
Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? When at
your hands did I.

Speaker 7 (41:26):
Deserve this scorn? Is not enough?

Speaker 8 (41:28):
Is not enough, young man, that I did never know,
nor never can deserve a sweet look from Demetrius's eye.
But you must flout my insufficiency. Good troth you do
me wrong, Good sooth you do in such disdainful manner,
met woo, But fare you well? Perforce I must confess
I thought you, Lord of more true gentleness, Oh that
a lady of one man refused should of another therefore

(41:51):
be abused.

Speaker 7 (41:52):
Exit she sees not hermia, hermia. Sleep thou there, and
never may thou come, Lysander near, For as a surfeit
of the sweetest things, the deepest loathing to the stomach brings,
or as Thai heresies that men do leave are hated
most of those they did deceive. So thou my surfeit

(42:15):
and my heresy of all be hated. But the most
of me and all my powers, address your love and
might to honor Helen and to be her knight.

Speaker 5 (42:28):
Exit Help me, Lysander, help me? Did thy best to
plut this crawling serpent from my breast? I me for pity?
What a dream was here, Lysander? Look how I did
quake with fear methought a serpent eat my heart away?
And you sat smiling at his cruel prey. Lysander, what removed? Lysander?

Speaker 13 (42:55):
Lord?

Speaker 5 (42:57):
What out of hearing gode no sound, no word, a lack?
Where are you speak? And if you hear speak of
all loves I swoon almost with fear. No, then I
well perceive you are not nigh either death or you
I'll find immediately.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
Exit. End of Act two, Act three, Scene one, the
wood Titania lying asleep, Enter Quince, snug bottom, flute, snout
and starveling.

Speaker 10 (43:37):
Are we all Matt, pet Pet, And here's a marvelous
convenient place for a rehearsel. This green plot shall be
a stage this hawthorn break at tiring house, and we
will do it in action, as we will do it
before the Duke Peter Quinns. What sayest thou, bully Bottom.

Speaker 9 (43:56):
There are things in this comedy of Permis and thisbey
that will never please. First Peramus must draw a sword
to kill himself, wish the ladies cannot abide.

Speaker 22 (44:06):
I want to see that by your Lincoln a powerlous fear.

Speaker 21 (44:12):
I believe we must leave the killing out when all
is done.

Speaker 9 (44:15):
Not a whit. I have a device to make all
well right, me a prolog. And let the prolog seem
to say we will do no arm with our swords,
and that Pyramis is not killed. Indeed, and for the
more better assurance, tell them that I Pyramus am not Pyramus,

(44:35):
but Bottom the weaver. This will put them out of fear.

Speaker 10 (44:40):
Well. We will have such a prologue and it shall
be written in eight and six.

Speaker 9 (44:45):
No, make it two more. May it be written in
a and a.

Speaker 22 (44:50):
Will not the ladies be a feared of the lion?

Speaker 21 (44:53):
I fear it, I promise you.

Speaker 9 (44:56):
Masters, you ought to consider with yourselves to bring in
God shield us a lion among ladies. It's a most
dreadful thing. For there is not a more fearful wild
fowl than your lion living, and we ought to look
to it.

Speaker 22 (45:11):
Therefore, another prolog must tell he is not a lion.

Speaker 9 (45:16):
Nay, you must name his name, and half his face
must be seen through the lion's neck, and he himself
must speak through saying thus, or the same defect, ladies,
or fair ladies, I would wish you, or I would
request you, or I would entreat you not to fear,

(45:40):
not to tremble my life for yours. If you think
I come hither as a lion, it were pity of
my life. No, I am no such thing. I am
a man as other men are. And there indeed, let
him name his name and tell them plainly he is
snug the joiner.

Speaker 10 (45:59):
Well it's so. But there is two hard things. That
is to bring the moonlight into a chamber for you
know pyramids, and thisby meet by moonlight the moonshine.

Speaker 22 (46:12):
That night we play our play.

Speaker 9 (46:14):
A calendar, a calendar, look in the almanac, find out moonshine.
Find out moonshine.

Speaker 10 (46:19):
Yes, it does shine that night.

Speaker 9 (46:22):
Why then, may you leave a casement of the Great
Chamber window where we play open, and the moon may
shine in at the casement.

Speaker 10 (46:30):
I or else one must come in with a bush
of thorns and a lanthorn, and say he comes to
disfigure or to present the person of moonshine. Then there
is another thing. We must have a war in the
Great Chamber for Pyramis. And thisby says the story to
talk through the chink of a wall.

Speaker 22 (46:50):
You can never bring in a war, what say you
bottom hmm?

Speaker 9 (46:56):
Some man or other must present war. And let him
have some plaster or some loam, or some rough cast
about him to signify wall. Let him hold his fingers
thus and through that cranny shall Pyramus. And thisby whisper.

Speaker 10 (47:16):
If that may be, then all is well. Come sit down,
every mother's son, and rehearse your parts. Pyramus. You begin,
when you have spoken your speech, enter into that break
and sow everyone according to his cue.

Speaker 6 (47:32):
Enter puck behind what hempen homespuns?

Speaker 14 (47:36):
Have we swaggering here so near the cradle of the
fairy queen? What a plate toward I'll be an auditor,
an actor too, perhaps if I see cause.

Speaker 10 (47:47):
Speak Pyramis thisby stand forth, this.

Speaker 9 (47:51):
Be the flowers of odious savers, sweet odors, odors, odors savers,
so have by breath, my dearest, there's be there but
hark a voice. Stay thou but here a while, and
by and bye, I will do thee appear.

Speaker 14 (48:12):
Exit a strange a paramus and air played.

Speaker 11 (48:16):
Here exit must I speak now?

Speaker 10 (48:21):
I marry Massieu, for you must understand. He goes but
to see a noise that he heard and is to
come again.

Speaker 11 (48:29):
Most radiant pyramids, most lily white of Hugh. I've culor
like the red rosen frame for Brya, most frisky juvenile
and e most lovely jew as true as Dru's horse,
and never yet will tire. I'll meet thee pyramids at
Ninnie's tomb.

Speaker 10 (48:39):
Ninna's too. Men, why you must not speak that yet?
Let your answers to Pyramus. You speak all your parts
at once, cues and all Pyramis enter your cue is past.
It is never tire Oh.

Speaker 11 (48:56):
As true as Drew's horse that yet would never tire.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
Re enter, puck and bottom with an ass's head.

Speaker 9 (49:05):
If I were fair, this be I were only thine.

Speaker 10 (49:10):
Oh monstrous, O strange. We are haunted pray masters, fly master's.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
Help, eggciant, quince, snug, flute, snout and starveling.

Speaker 14 (49:23):
I'll follow you. I'll lead you about a round through bog,
through bush, through break through brier. Sometime a horse, I'll
be sometime a hound, a hog, a headless bear, some
time a fire and neigh and bark and grunt and
roar and burn like horse, hound, hog, bear, fire at
every turn?

Speaker 9 (49:43):
Exit Will they run away? This is a knavery of them,
to make me a feared re enter.

Speaker 22 (49:50):
Snout, oh bottom, thou art changed.

Speaker 1 (49:54):
What do I see on thee?

Speaker 9 (49:56):
What do you see? You see an ass head of
your own?

Speaker 1 (49:58):
Do you exit? Snout, re enter, quince.

Speaker 10 (50:04):
Bless thee, bottom, bless thee thou art translated.

Speaker 1 (50:08):
Exit.

Speaker 9 (50:09):
I see their knavery. This is to make an ass
of me, to fright me, if they could, but I
will not stir from this place. Do what they can.
I will walk up and down here, and I will
sing that they shall hear. I am not afraid the
housel cocks ole black of you, with orange tarny bell,

(50:33):
the throstle, with his note so true there and with
little coal.

Speaker 16 (50:40):
Well, what angel wakes me from my flowery bed?

Speaker 9 (50:47):
A finch, the sparrow, and the lark, the plain s
uncle cuckoo gray, whose note for many a man doth
mark And there's not answer ny for indeed, who would
set his wit to so foolish a bird? Who would
give a bird the lie? Though he cry, go goo,
never show I.

Speaker 16 (51:08):
Pray thee gentle mortal sing again. Mine ear is much
enamored of thy note, So is mine eye, and thrall
it to thy shape, and thy fair virtue's force perforce
doth move me on the first view to say to
swear I love.

Speaker 9 (51:28):
Thee methinks, mistress, you shall have little reason for that hat,
And yet to say the truth, Reason and love keep
little company together. Nowadays more of the petty that some
man's neighbors will not make them friends. Nay, I can
go leak upon occasion.

Speaker 16 (51:45):
Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.

Speaker 9 (51:49):
Not so neither, But if I had wit enough to
get out of this wood. I have enough to serve
mine own.

Speaker 16 (51:54):
Turn out of this wood, do not desire to go.
Thou shalt remain here, whether thou.

Speaker 13 (52:01):
Wilt or no.

Speaker 16 (52:03):
I am a spirit of no common rate. The summer
still doth tend upon my state, and I do love thee.
Therefore go with me. I'll give thee fairies to attend
on thee, and they shall fetch thee jewels from the
deep and sing while thou, unpressed flowers dost sleep. And

(52:25):
I will purge thy mortal grossness, so that thou shalt,
like an airy spirit. Go pease blossom, cobweb moth and
mustard seed.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
Enter pease blossom, cobweb moth and mustard seed.

Speaker 11 (52:42):
Ready, and I and I and I, where shall we go?

Speaker 16 (52:48):
Be kind and courteous to this gentleman, hop in his
walks and gambol in his eyes. Feed him with apricocks
and dewberries, with purple grapes, green figs and mulbery's. The
honey bags steal from the humble bees, and for night
tapers crop their waxen thighs and light them at the

(53:09):
fiery glow worm's eyes. To have my love to bed
and to arise and pluck the wings from painted butterflies,
to fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes. Nod to him, elves,
and do him courtesies. Hail mortal, Hail, Hail hail.

Speaker 9 (53:30):
I cry your Worship's mercy. Heartily, I beseech your worship's name, Cobweb,
I shall desire you of more acquaintance, Good Master Cobweb.
If I cut my finger, I shall make bold with
you your name, honest gentlemen, peace Blossom, I pray you
commend me to Mistress Squash, your mother, and a master

(53:50):
piece God your father, Good Master peace Blossom, I shall
desire you of more acquaintance too, your name, I beseech you, sir,
mustard Seed, Good Master mustard Seed, I know your patients well.
That same cowardly giant like ox Beef, hath devoured many
a gentleman of your house. I promise you Your kindred

(54:12):
had made my eyes water air. Now I desire your
more acquaintance, Good Master mustard Seed.

Speaker 16 (54:18):
Come wait upon him, Lead him to my bower. The moon, methinks,
looks with a watery eye, and when she weeps, weeps
every little flower lamenting some enforced chastity, tie up my
love's tongue, bring him silently.

Speaker 1 (54:38):
Excillant scene too, another part of the wood. Enter Oberon.

Speaker 15 (54:51):
I wonder if Titania be awaked, then what it was
that next came in her eye, which she must dote
on in extremity. Enter Puck, Here comes my messenger, How now,
mad spirit?

Speaker 6 (55:05):
What night?

Speaker 15 (55:06):
Rule? Now about this haunted grove?

Speaker 14 (55:08):
My mistress with monsters in love near to her close
and consecrated bower. While she was in her dull and
sleeping hour, a crew of patches rude mechanicals that work
for bread upon Athenian stalls were met together to rehearse
a play intended for Great Theseus's nuptial day. The shallowest
thick skin of that barren sort who Pyramus presented in

(55:29):
their sport, forsook his scene and entered in a break.
When I did him at this advantage, take an asses
null lie fixed on his head, Anon his this be
must be answered, and forth my mimic comes. When they
hymn spy as wild geese that the creeping fowler eye
or Russid painted truffs, many in sort, rising and cawing

(55:50):
at the gun's report, severed themselves in madly sweep the sky.
So at his sight away his fellows fly, and at
our stamp here 'er in and o'er one falls. He
murder cries, and help from Athen's calls. Their sense thus weak, lost,
with their fears thus strong made senseless things begin to

(56:10):
do them wrong. For briars and thorns of their apparel
snatch some sleeves, some hats from yield, as all things catch.
I let them on in this distracted fear, and left
sweet Pyramus translated there when in that moment, so it
came to pass, Titania waked and straightway loved an ass.

Speaker 15 (56:30):
This falls out better than I could devise. But hast
thou yet latched the Athenian's eyes with the love juice,
as I did bid thee do.

Speaker 14 (56:38):
I took him sleeping. That is finished too, And the
Athenian woman by his side, that when he waked of force,
she must be eyed.

Speaker 1 (56:46):
Enter Hermia and Demetrius stand close.

Speaker 15 (56:51):
This is the same Athenian.

Speaker 14 (56:53):
This is the woman, but not this the man.

Speaker 6 (56:57):
Oh, why rebuke you him? That love you sow laid
breath so bitter on your bitter foe.

Speaker 5 (57:04):
Now I but chiede. But I should use thee worse
for thou I fear hast given me cause to curse.
If thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep, being o'er
shoes and blood, plunge in the deep and kill me too,
the sun was not so true unto the day as
he to me. Would he have stolen away from sleeping
Hermia all believe as soon this whole earth may be bored,

(57:26):
and that the moon may through the center creep, and
so displease her brother's noontide with antipodes. It cannot be.
But thou hast murdered him. So should a murderer look
so dead, so grim?

Speaker 6 (57:39):
So should the murdered look, and so should I pierce
through the heart with your stern cruelty. Yet you, the murderer,
look as bright as clear as yonder Venus in her
glimmering sphere.

Speaker 5 (57:52):
What's this to my Lysander? Where is he?

Speaker 1 (57:55):
Ah?

Speaker 5 (57:55):
Good, Demetrius, wilt thou give him me?

Speaker 6 (57:58):
I had rather give his carcass to my hounds.

Speaker 5 (58:01):
Out dog out cur out, drivest me past the bounds
of maiden's patience. Hast thou slain him, then henceforth be
never numbered among men? Oh once tell true, Tell true,
even for my sake, darst thou have looked upon him
being awake, and hast thou killed him sleeping? Oh, brave touch,
could not a worm an adder do so much? An

(58:24):
adder did it for with a doubler tongue than thine, thou, serpent,
never adder stung.

Speaker 6 (58:30):
You spend your passion on a misprized mood. I am
not guilty of Lysander's blood, nor is he dead. For
aught that I could tell.

Speaker 5 (58:39):
I pray thee tell me then that he is well?

Speaker 6 (58:42):
And if I could, what should I get?

Speaker 9 (58:44):
There?

Speaker 5 (58:44):
For a privilege never to see me more? And from
thy hated presence part I sow see me no more,
whether he be dead or no exitt There.

Speaker 6 (58:55):
Is no following her in this fierce vain here there
for for a while I will remain.

Speaker 23 (59:03):
So Sorrow's heaviness doth heavier grow for debt that bankrupt
sleep doth sorrow, oh, which now in some slight measure
it will pay, if for his tender here I make
some stay.

Speaker 1 (59:18):
Lies down and sleeps.

Speaker 15 (59:20):
What hast thou done? Thou hast mistaken quite and laid
the love juice on some true love sight, a thy
misprison must perforce ensue some true love turned, and not
a false turn true.

Speaker 14 (59:33):
Then fate or rules that one man holding troph a
million fail confounding oath on oath.

Speaker 15 (59:40):
About the wood, go swifter than the wind, and Helena
of Athens, look thou find all fancy. Sick she is
and pale of cheer, with sighs of love that cost
the fresh blood deer by some illusions. See thou bring
her here. I'll charm his eyes against she do appear?

Speaker 14 (59:56):
I go, I go, Look how I go swifter than
arrow from the tatas exit.

Speaker 15 (01:00:02):
Flower of this purple dye, hit with Cupid's archery, sink
in apple of his eye. When his love he doth
a spy. Let her shine as gloriously as the venus
of the sky. When thou wakest, if she be by
beg of her for remedy, re enter Puck.

Speaker 14 (01:00:22):
Captain of our fairy band. Helena is here at hand,
and the youth mistook by me pleading for a lover's fee.
Shall we there, fond pageantcy Lord, what fools these mortals be?

Speaker 15 (01:00:33):
Stand aside? The noise they make will cause Demetrius to awake.

Speaker 14 (01:00:38):
Then will two at once woo one that must needs
be sport alone, and those things do best please me
that befall preposterously.

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
Enter Lysander and Helena.

Speaker 7 (01:00:50):
Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?
Scorn and derision never come in tears. Look when I vow,
I weep, and vows so born in their nativity, all
truth appears. How can these things in me seem scorn
to you? Bearing the badge of faith to prove them true?

Speaker 8 (01:01:10):
You do advance your cunning more and more when truth
kills truth, Oh devilish, holy fray. These vows are hermias.
Will you give her? Are weigh oath with oath, and
you will nothing weigh Your vows to her and me
put in two scales will even weigh, and both as
light as tails.

Speaker 7 (01:01:28):
I had no judgment when to her I swore.

Speaker 8 (01:01:31):
Nor none in my mind. Now you give her all.

Speaker 7 (01:01:34):
Demitrius loves her, and he loves not you.

Speaker 6 (01:01:38):
Oh Helena, goddess Nymph, perfect divine to what my love?
Shall I compare? Thine eye crystal is muddy? Oh how
ripe and show thy lips those kissing cherries tempting grow
that pure congealed white high tarus snow fanned with the

(01:01:58):
eastern wind, turns to a crow when thou hold'st up
thy hand. Oh let me kiss this princess of pure white,
this seal of bliss.

Speaker 8 (01:02:09):
Oh spite, Oh hell, I see you all are bent
to set against me for your merriment. If you were
civil in new courtesy, you would not do me this
much injury. Can you not hate me as I know
you do? But you must join in souls to mock
me too? If you were men, as men you are
in show, you would not use a gentle lady so
to vowl and swear and super praise my parts. When

(01:02:32):
I am sure you hate me with your hearts. You
both are rivals and love Hermia, and now both rivals
to mock Helena a trim, exploit a manly enterprise, to
conjure tears up in a poor maid's eyes with your derision.
None of noble sort would so offend a virgin and
extort a poor soul's patience, all to make you sport.

Speaker 7 (01:02:52):
You are unkind to Demetrius, be not so, For you
love Hermia. This you know, I though, and with all
good will, with all my heart, in Hermia's love, I
yield you up my part and yours of Helena to
me bequeath whom I do love and will do till
my death.

Speaker 8 (01:03:11):
Never did makers waste more idle breath.

Speaker 6 (01:03:15):
Lysander, keep thy Hermia. I will none if e'er I
loved her all that love is gone my heart to her.
But as guest wise, sojourn and now to Helen? Is
it home? Returned there to remain Helen?

Speaker 24 (01:03:29):
It is not so.

Speaker 6 (01:03:31):
Despair is not the faith thou dost not know? Bless
to thy herald, Thou abide it, dear, look where thy
love comes yonder is thy dear.

Speaker 5 (01:03:41):
Re enter Hermia, dark knight, that from the eye his
function takes the ear more quick of apprehension makes wherein
it doth impair the seeing sense it pays the hearing
double recompense. Thou art not by mine eye? Lysander found
mine ear. I thank it brought me to thy sound.
But why unkindly didst thou leave me?

Speaker 10 (01:04:03):
So?

Speaker 7 (01:04:04):
Why should he stay whom love doth pressed to go?

Speaker 5 (01:04:07):
What love could press Lysander from my side?

Speaker 7 (01:04:11):
Lysander's love that would not let him bide fair Helena,
who more in guilds the night than all you fiery
ohs and eyes of light? Why seeks thou me? Could
not this make THEE know the hate I bear? THEE
made me leave THEE?

Speaker 5 (01:04:26):
So you speak not as you think it cannot be
lo she.

Speaker 8 (01:04:32):
Is one of this confederacy. Now I perceive they have
conjoined all three to fashion this false sport in spite
of me injurious Hermia, most ungrateful maid? Have you conspired?
Have you with these contrived to baite me with this
foul derision? Is all the counsel that we two have shared,
the sisters vows, the hours that we have spent when

(01:04:53):
we have chid, the hasty footed time for parting us?

Speaker 23 (01:04:56):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:04:57):
Is it all forgot? All school days, friendship, childhood, innocence?
We Hermia, like two artificial gods, have, with our needles,
created both one flower, both on one sampler, sitting on
one cushion, both warbling of one song, both in one key,
as if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds had
been in corporate. So we grow together, like to a

(01:05:19):
double cherry, seeming parted, but yet a union in partition,
two lovely berries molded on one stem, so with two
seeming bodies, but one heart, two of the first, like
coats in heraldry, do but to one and crowned with
one crest? And will you rent our ancient love asunder
to join with men in scorning your poor friend? It

(01:05:40):
is not friendly. It does not maidenly our sex, as
well as I may chide you for it, though I
alone do feel the injury.

Speaker 5 (01:05:47):
I am amazed at your passionate words. I scorn you
not it seems that you scorn me?

Speaker 8 (01:05:52):
Have you not set Lysander as in scorn, to follow
me and praise my eyes and face? And made your
other love Demetrius, who even but now did spurn me
with his foot to call me goddess Nymph, divine and rare,
precious celestial. Wherefore speaks Ee this to her he hates?
And wherefore doth Lysander deny your love so rich within

(01:06:13):
his soul, and tender me forsooth affection? But by your
setting on, but by your consent? What though I be
not so ingrace as you, so hung upon with love
so fortunate, but miserable most to love unloved, this you
should pity rather than despise.

Speaker 5 (01:06:29):
I understand not what you mean by this?

Speaker 8 (01:06:32):
Ay, do persevere counterfeit, sad looks, make mouths upon me
when I turn my back, wink at each other. Hold
the sweet jest up. This sport well carried shall be chronicled.
If you have any pity, grace, or manners, you would
not make me such an argument. But fare you well
tis partly my own fault, which death or absence soon

(01:06:52):
shall remedy.

Speaker 7 (01:06:54):
Stay gentle, helemnah, hear my excuse, my love, my life,
my soul.

Speaker 5 (01:07:00):
Fair Helena, oh excellent sweet, do not scorn her.

Speaker 6 (01:07:04):
So if she cannot entreat, I can compel.

Speaker 7 (01:07:08):
Thou canst compel no more than she entreat. Thy threats
have no more strength than her weak prayers, Helen. I
love THEE by my life. I do. I swear by
that which I will lose for THEE to prove him false.
That says I love THEE.

Speaker 6 (01:07:25):
Not I say I love THEE more than he can do.

Speaker 7 (01:07:29):
If thou say so, withdraw and prove it too quick?

Speaker 5 (01:07:33):
Come, Lysander, where too tens all this away?

Speaker 7 (01:07:37):
You ethyope?

Speaker 6 (01:07:38):
No, no, he'll seem to break loose, Take on as
you would follow. But yet come not you are a
tain man.

Speaker 7 (01:07:46):
Go hang off thou cat thou burr vile thing. Let
loose or I will shake THEE from me like a serpent.

Speaker 5 (01:07:54):
Why are you grown so rude? What change is this?
Sweet love?

Speaker 7 (01:07:58):
Thy love? Oh tawny totter out out, loathed medicine, hated potion.

Speaker 5 (01:08:05):
Hence do you not jest?

Speaker 22 (01:08:07):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (01:08:08):
Sooth, and so do you, Demetrius. I will keep my
word with THEE.

Speaker 6 (01:08:12):
Why would I had your bond? For I perceive a
weak bond holds you. I'll not trust your word.

Speaker 7 (01:08:19):
What should I hurt her? Strike her, kill her dead?
Although I hate her, I'll not harm her.

Speaker 5 (01:08:25):
So what can you do me greater harm than hate?
Hate me? We'refore? Oh me, what news? My love? Am
I not Hermia? Are not you? Lysander? I am as
fair now as I was Erewhile since knight you loved me,
Yet since night you left me? Why then you left me?

Speaker 25 (01:08:47):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:08:47):
The gods forbid in earnest? Shall I say?

Speaker 7 (01:08:51):
I buy my life, and never did desire to see
THEE more? Therefore be out of hope, of question of doubt,
be certain nothing truer tis no jest that I do
hate THEE and love Helena.

Speaker 5 (01:09:07):
Oh me, you juggler, you canker blossom, you thief of love?
What have you come by night and stolen my love's
heart from him?

Speaker 8 (01:09:16):
Fine a faith? Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,
no touch of bashfulness?

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
What will you tear?

Speaker 8 (01:09:22):
Impatient answers from my gentle tongue. Fie, fie, you counterfeit,
you puppet, you puppet?

Speaker 5 (01:09:29):
Why so ay? That way goes the game?

Speaker 1 (01:09:34):
Now?

Speaker 5 (01:09:34):
I perceived that she hath made compare between our statures.
She hath urged her height and with her personage, her
tall personage, her height. Forsooth she hath prevailed with him?
Are you grown so high in his esteem? Because I
am so dwarfish and so low? Hell lo am I
thou painted mapole? Speak? Hollow? Am I? I am not

(01:09:58):
yet so low, but that my nails reach unto thine eyes.

Speaker 8 (01:10:02):
I pray you, though you mock me, gentlemen, let her
not hurt me. I was never cursed. I have no
gift at all in shrewishness. I am a right maid
for my cowardice. Let her not strike me. You perhaps
may think, because she is something lower than myself, that
I can match her lower.

Speaker 5 (01:10:16):
Hark again, good.

Speaker 8 (01:10:17):
Hermia, do not be so bitter with me. I evermore
did love you, Hermia? Did ever keep your counsels? Never
wronged you save that in love? Unto Demetrius, I told
him of your stealth, unto this wood, he followed you
for love. I followed him, But he hath chidded me
hence and threatened me to strike me, spurn me, nay,
to kill me too. And now so you will let
me quiet go to Athens? Will I bear my folly

(01:10:38):
back and follow you no further? Let me go? You
see how simple and how fond I am?

Speaker 5 (01:10:43):
Why get you gone? Who is it that hinders you?

Speaker 8 (01:10:46):
A foolish heart that I leave here behind?

Speaker 5 (01:10:49):
What with Lysander?

Speaker 8 (01:10:51):
With Demetrius?

Speaker 7 (01:10:53):
Be not afraid? She shall not harm thee Helena.

Speaker 6 (01:10:57):
No, sir, she shall not, though you take her part.

Speaker 8 (01:11:00):
Oh, when she's angry. She is keen and shrewd. She
was a vixen when she went to school. And though
she be but little, she is fierce.

Speaker 5 (01:11:07):
Little again, nothing but low and little? Why will you
suffer her to flout me?

Speaker 24 (01:11:12):
Thus?

Speaker 5 (01:11:12):
Let me come to her?

Speaker 7 (01:11:14):
Get you gone, you dwarf, You minimis of hindering. Not
grass made you bead you acorn.

Speaker 6 (01:11:23):
You are too officious in her behalf that scorns your services.
Let her alone, speak not of Helena. Take not her part.
For if thou dost intend never so little show of
love to her, thou shalt aby it.

Speaker 7 (01:11:36):
Now she holds me. Not now follow, if thou darest
to try, whose right of thine or mine is most
in Helena?

Speaker 4 (01:11:45):
Follow?

Speaker 6 (01:11:46):
Nay, I'll go with thee cheek by.

Speaker 1 (01:11:48):
Joel, ancient Lysander and Demetrius.

Speaker 5 (01:11:53):
You, mistress, all this coil is long of you. Nay,
go not back.

Speaker 8 (01:11:58):
I will not trust you, I nor longer stay in
your cursed company. Your hands than mine are quicker for
a fray, My legs are longer though to run away.

Speaker 1 (01:12:07):
Exit.

Speaker 5 (01:12:08):
I am amazed and know not what to say.

Speaker 1 (01:12:12):
Exit.

Speaker 15 (01:12:14):
This is thine negligence. Still thou mistakest, or else committest
thy knaveries wilfully.

Speaker 14 (01:12:20):
Believe me, King of Shadows, I mistook? Did not you
tell me I should know the man by the Athenian
garment he had on? And so far blameless proves my
enterprise that I have anointed in Athenian's eyes. And so
far am I glad it? So did sort as this
their jangling I esteem a sport.

Speaker 15 (01:12:36):
Thou seest these lovers seek a place to fight. Hie
thee Therefore robin o'er cast the knight the starry welcn
cover thou anon with drooping fog, as black as acheron,
and lead these testy rivals so astray as one come
not within another's way, like to thy Sander some time
frame thy tongue then stir Demetrius up with bitter wrong,

(01:12:57):
and some time rail Thou like Demetrius, and from each
other look Thou lead them thus till o'er their brow's death.
Counterfeiting sleep with leaden legs and batty wings doth creep.
Then crush this herb into Lysander's eye, whose liquor hath
this virtuous property to take from thence all error with
his might, and make his eyeballs roll with wonted sight.

(01:13:20):
When they next wake, all this derision shall seem a
dream and fruitless vision. And back to Athens shall the
lover's wend with league, whose date till death shall never end.
Whilst I in this affair to thee employ, I'll to
my queen and beg her indian boy, And then I
will her charmid eye release from monster's view, and all

(01:13:44):
things shall be peace.

Speaker 14 (01:13:46):
My fairy lord, this must be done with haste, for
night swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, and yonder
shines Aurora as harbinger, at whose approach, Ghosts wandering here
and their troop home to churchyards damn'd spirits all that
and crossways and floods have burial already to their wormy
beds are gone, for fear lest they should look their
shames upon, they wilfully themselves exile from light and must.

(01:14:10):
For I consort with black browed night.

Speaker 15 (01:14:13):
But we are spirits of another sort. I, with the
morning's love, have off made sport, And like a forester,
the groves may tread even till the eastern gate, all
fiery red opening on Neptune, with fair blessed beams, turns
into yellow gold his salt green streams. But notwithstanding haste,
make no delay. We may effect this business. Yet ere

(01:14:35):
day exert.

Speaker 14 (01:14:38):
Up and down, up and down. I will lead them
up and down. I am feared in field and town goblin,
lead them up and down.

Speaker 6 (01:14:47):
Here comes one re.

Speaker 7 (01:14:49):
Enter, Lysander, Where art thou proud Demetrius, speak thou now.

Speaker 14 (01:14:56):
Here villain drawn and ready.

Speaker 8 (01:14:57):
Where art thou I will be with be straight, follow
me then to.

Speaker 1 (01:15:02):
Plain a ground exit, Lysander, as following the voice, re
enter Demetrius.

Speaker 6 (01:15:11):
Lysander. Speak again, Thou run away, thou coward art thou
fled Speak in some bush where dost thou hide thy head?

Speaker 14 (01:15:23):
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.

Speaker 6 (01:15:36):
Yay art thou there.

Speaker 14 (01:15:39):
Follow my voice. We'll try no manhood here.

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
Exitant, re enter Lysander.

Speaker 7 (01:15:48):
He goes before me and still dares me on. When
I come where he calls, then he is gone. The
villain is much lighter heeled than I. I followed fast,
but faster did he fly? That fallen? Am I in
dark uneven way? And here will rest me lies down?

(01:16:10):
Come thou gentle day for if but once thou show
me thy gray light, I'll find Demetrius and revenge this
spite sleeps.

Speaker 1 (01:16:22):
Re enter Puck and Demetrius.

Speaker 8 (01:16:26):
Ha coward.

Speaker 6 (01:16:27):
Why comest thou not oh bide me? If thou darest
for well, I WoT thou runnest before me? Shifting every
place and darest, not stand nor look me in the face.

Speaker 22 (01:16:39):
Wear art thou.

Speaker 14 (01:16:40):
Now come hither I am here?

Speaker 6 (01:16:43):
Nay, then thou markest me. Thou shalt buy this, dear.
If ever I thy face by daylight, see now go
thy way. Faintness constraineth me to measure out my length
on this cold bed. My day's approach look to be visited.

Speaker 1 (01:16:59):
Lies da and sleeps re enter Helena.

Speaker 8 (01:17:04):
Oh weary night, Oh long and tedious night, abate thy
hour shine, comforts from the east, that I may back
to Athens by daylight, from these that my poor company detest,
and sleep that sometimes shuts up, sorrow's eye steal me
away from mine own company.

Speaker 1 (01:17:22):

Speaker 14 (01:17:25):
Yet, but three come one more. Two of both kinds
make up four. Here she comes cursed and sad. Cupid
is a knavish lad. Thus to make poor females.

Speaker 1 (01:17:37):
Mad re enter hermia.

Speaker 5 (01:17:40):
Never so weary, never so in woe, but babbled with
the dew and torn with briars. I can no further crawl,
no further go. My legs can keep no pace with
my desires. Here will I rest me till the break
of day? Heaven shield Lysander if they mean a fray.

Speaker 1 (01:18:00):

Speaker 14 (01:18:04):
On the ground. Sleep sound. I'll apply to your eye,
gentle lover, remedy.

Speaker 1 (01:18:11):
Squeezing the juice on Lysander's eyes.

Speaker 14 (01:18:15):
When thou wakest, thou takest true delight in the sight
of thy former lady's eye. And the country proverb known
that every man should take his own in your waking
shall be shown. Jack shall have jill, naught shall go ill,
the man shall have his mare again, and all shall
be well.

Speaker 1 (01:18:34):
Exit end of Act three, Act four, Scene one, the
same Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, and Hermia lying asleep, enter Titania
and bottom pease blossom, cobweb, moth, mustard seed, and other

(01:18:58):
fairies attending Oberon behind unseen.

Speaker 16 (01:19:04):
Come sit thee down upon this flowery bed, while I
thy amiable cheeks, do coy and stick musk roses in
thy sleek smooth head, and kiss thy fair large ears.

Speaker 9 (01:19:18):
My gentle joy, where's peas blossom?

Speaker 7 (01:19:23):
Ready?

Speaker 9 (01:19:25):
Scratch my head? Pease blossom? Where's moonsur carbweb?

Speaker 21 (01:19:32):
Ready?

Speaker 9 (01:19:33):
Moon sur carbweb? Good monsieur, get you your weapons in
your hand and kill me. A red lipped umbel bee
on the top of a thistle, and good monsieur, bring
me the honey bag. Do not freight yourself too much
in the action. Monsieur, and good monsieur, have a care
of the only bag right now. I would be low

(01:19:55):
to have you overflown with honeybag. Signore, where's monsieur mustard seed?

Speaker 21 (01:20:02):
Ready?

Speaker 9 (01:20:03):
Give me your nief, Monsieur mustard seed. Pray you leave
your courtesy, Good monsieur, what's your will? Nothing good, monsieur,
but well, cavalieri cobweb to scurtch. I must the barbers,
monsieur for me, thinks I am Marvel's airy about the face,

(01:20:26):
and I'm such a tender ass. If my hair do
but tickle me, I must scratch.

Speaker 16 (01:20:32):
What wilt thou hear?

Speaker 13 (01:20:33):
Some music?

Speaker 16 (01:20:34):
My sweet love?

Speaker 9 (01:20:36):
I have a reasonable good air in music. Let's have
the tongues and the bones, or.

Speaker 16 (01:20:43):
Say, sweet love, what thou desirest to eat?

Speaker 9 (01:20:47):
Truly a peck of provender? We could, monsieur good dry oats. Methinks,
I have a great desire to a bottle of hay,
good hay, sweet hay. Hath no fellow.

Speaker 16 (01:21:04):
I have a venturous fairy that shall seek the squirrel's
horde and fetch thee new nuts.

Speaker 9 (01:21:11):
I'd rather have a handful of two of dried peas.
But I pray you let none of your people stir me. Oh,
you an exposition of sleep. Come upon me.

Speaker 16 (01:21:25):
Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms.
Fairies be gone and be always.

Speaker 1 (01:21:32):
Away, eggyant fairies.

Speaker 16 (01:21:36):
So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle gently, and twist
the female ivy sow and rings the barky fingers of
the elm Oh, how I love thee, How I dote
on thee?

Speaker 15 (01:21:51):
They sleep, Enter, puck, Welcome, good robin, advancing seest thou
this sweet sight her dotage. Now I do begin to
pity for meeting her of late behind the wood, seeking
sweet favors from this hateful fool. I did upbraid her
and fall out with her, for she his hairy temples

(01:22:14):
then had rounded with a coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers.
And that same dew, which some time on the buds
was wont to swell like round and orient pearls stood
now within the pretty Floweret's eyes, like tears that did
their own disgrace bewail. When I had at my pleasure
taunted her, and she, in mild terms, begged my patience.

(01:22:38):
I then did ask of her her changeling child, which
straight she gave me, and her fairy sent to bear
him to my bower in fairyland. And now I have
the boy. I will undo this hateful imperfection of her eyes.
And gentle Puck, take this transformed scalp from off the

(01:22:58):
head of this Athenian swain that he awaking. When the
other do may all to Athen's back again, repair and
think no more of this night's accidents, but as the
fierce vexation of a dream. But first I will release
the fairy Queen, be as thou wast wont to be, see,

(01:23:18):
as thou wast wont to see Dian's bud or Cupid's flower.
Hath such force and blessed power? Now, my Titania, wake you,
my sweet queen.

Speaker 16 (01:23:30):
My oberon, What visions have I seen? Methought? I was
enamored of an.

Speaker 15 (01:23:37):
Ass there lies your love?

Speaker 16 (01:23:41):
How came these things to pass?

Speaker 7 (01:23:43):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (01:23:44):
How mine eyes do loathe his visage?

Speaker 15 (01:23:46):
Now silence, awhile Robin take off this head. Titania, music,
call and strike more dead than common sleep of all
these five the scents.

Speaker 16 (01:23:58):
Music ho music such as Charmeth sleep music.

Speaker 14 (01:24:04):
Still, Now when thou wakest with thine own fool's eyes.

Speaker 15 (01:24:09):
Peep sound music. Come, my queen, take hands with me
and rock the ground whereon thee sleepers be. Now thou
and I are new in amity, and will to morrow
midnight solemnly dance in duke. Theseus house triumphantly, and bless
it to all fair prosperity. There shall the pairs of

(01:24:30):
faithful lovers be wedded with theseus, all in jollity.

Speaker 14 (01:24:36):
Fairy king attendant mock, I do you hear the morning luck?

Speaker 15 (01:24:40):
Then, my Queen, in silence, sad trip we after the
night shade. We the globe can compass soon swifter than
the wandering moon.

Speaker 16 (01:24:49):
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.

Speaker 1 (01:25:01):
Exiant horns winded within. Enter theseus, Hippolyta, eegius, and.

Speaker 2 (01:25:10):
Train go one of you find out the forester. For
now our observation is performed. And since we have the
varward of the day, my love shall hear the music
of my hounds and couple in the western valley let
them go despatch, I say, and find.

Speaker 1 (01:25:28):
The forester, exit and attendant.

Speaker 2 (01:25:33):
We will fare Queen up to the mountain's top and
mark the musical confusion of hounds and echo in conjunction.

Speaker 3 (01:25:41):
I was with Hercules and Catmus once, when in a
wood of crete they bathe the bear with hounds of Sparta.
Never did I hear such gallant chiding. For besides the groves,
the skies, the fountains, every region near seemed all one
mutual cry, I never heard so musical a discord, such
sweet thunder.

Speaker 2 (01:26:02):
My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, so fluid,
so sanded, and their heads are hung with ears that
sweep away the morning dew, crooked kneed and dew lapp'd
like Thessalian bulls, slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth
like bells, each under each A crime more tuneable was
never holed to, nor cheered with horn in crete in Sparta,

(01:26:26):
nor in Thessaly. Judge what you hear, but soft? What
nymphs are these?

Speaker 4 (01:26:33):
My lord? This is my daughter here asleep, and this Lysander,
this Demetrius, is this Helena, old Nidar's Helena. I wonder
of their being here together.

Speaker 2 (01:26:48):
No doubt, they rose up early to observe the right
of may, and hearing our intent, came hearing grace, our solemnity.
But speak, egeus. Is not this the day that Hermia
should answer of her choice? It is, my lord, go
bid the huntsmen, wake them with their horns.

Speaker 1 (01:27:08):
Horns and shout within. Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, and Hermia wake
and start up.

Speaker 2 (01:27:17):
Good morrow, friends, Saint Valentine is past, Begin these wood birds.
But to couple now?

Speaker 7 (01:27:24):
Pardon, my lord, I pray.

Speaker 2 (01:27:27):
You all stand up. I know you too are rival enemies.
How comes this gentle concord in the world? That hatred
is so far from jealousy? To sleep by hate and
fear no enmity.

Speaker 7 (01:27:41):
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? And now do I bethink me? So it
is I came with Hermia. Hither our intent was to

(01:28:03):
be gone from Athens, where we might without the peril
of the Athenian law.

Speaker 4 (01:28:08):
Enough enough, my lord, you have enough. I beg the law,
the law upon his head they would have stolen away,
They would Demetrius thereby to have defeated you and me,
You of your wife, and me of my consent, of
my consent that she should be your wife.

Speaker 6 (01:28:27):
My lord, Fair Helen told me of their stealth, of
this their purpose hitherto this wood, and I, in fury
hither followed them, Fair Helena in fancy following me. But
my good Lord, I WoT not by what power, but
by some power. It is my love to Hermia, melted
as the snow seems to me now as the remembrance

(01:28:50):
of an idle god, which in my childhood I diddote upon,
and all the faith the virtue of my heart, the
object and the pleasure of mine eye. Only Helena to her,
my Lord, was I betrothed. Ere I saw Hermia, But
like in sickness did I loathe this food, But as
in health, come to my natural taste. Now I do

(01:29:14):
wish it, love it, long for it, and will for
evermore be true to it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:22):
Fair lovers, you are fortunately met of this discourse, we
more will hear. Anon Egius, I will overbear your will,
for in the temple, by and by with us these
couples shall eternally be knit and for the morning. Now
is something worn? Our purpose hunting shall be set aside.
Away with us to Athens three and three will hold

(01:29:45):
a feast in great solemnity.

Speaker 1 (01:29:47):
Come Hippolyta exeant theseus, Hippolyta Egius, and.

Speaker 6 (01:29:54):
Train These things seem small and undistinguishable.

Speaker 5 (01:30:00):
Methinks I see these things with parted eye, when everything
seems double.

Speaker 8 (01:30:05):
So Ma thinks. And I have found Demetrius like a
jewel mine own and not mine own?

Speaker 6 (01:30:11):
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?

Speaker 10 (01:30:21):
Yay?

Speaker 7 (01:30:22):
And my father and Topolita, and he did bid us
follow to the temple.

Speaker 6 (01:30:29):
Why then we are awake. Let's follow him? And by
the way, let us recount our dreams.

Speaker 1 (01:30:35):
Exeunt awaking?

Speaker 9 (01:30:41):
How am my cue comes? Call me and I will
answer My next is most fair? Paramus?

Speaker 1 (01:30:51):
Hey ho.

Speaker 9 (01:30:54):
Pay ir quench float the bellows mender? Is that the
tinker start letting course my life stolen hands and left
me asleep? I have had her most rare vision. I've

(01:31:19):
had a dream past the wit of man to say
what dream it was? Man is but an ass. If
you go about to expound this dream me thought I would.
There is no man can tell what me thought I was,
and me thought I had. The man is but a

(01:31:42):
patch of fool. If he will have to say what
me thought 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. No is
that to report what my dream was. I will get
Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream. It

(01:32:02):
shall be called Bottoms Dream, because it hath no bomb,
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 you out our death.

Speaker 26 (01:32:26):
Humh Exit scene too Athens Quince's house, Enter Quince, flute,
snout and starveling.

Speaker 10 (01:32:41):
Have you sent to Bottom's house? Is he come home? Yet?

Speaker 21 (01:32:45):
He cannot be heard of out of doubt he is transported.

Speaker 11 (01:32:49):
If he come not, then the play is marred. It
goes not forward, does it?

Speaker 10 (01:32:55):
It is not possible. You have not a man in
all Athens able to discharged to pyramids.

Speaker 11 (01:33:01):
But he no, he hath simply the best wheat of
any handicraft mad in Athens.

Speaker 10 (01:33:07):
Yea, and the best person too, And he is a
very paramour for a sweet voice.

Speaker 11 (01:33:13):
You must say, paragon A paramour is God bless us
a thing of naught.

Speaker 1 (01:33:21):
And her snug masters.

Speaker 12 (01:33:24):
The Duke is coming from the temple, and there is
two or three lords and ladies more married. If our
sport had gone forward, we had all been made men.

Speaker 11 (01:33:33):
Oh Swede bully bottom. Thus had he lost sixpence a
day during his life? He can not have escape sixpence
a day. And the Duke had not give it him
sixpence a day to plain pitamus, I'll be hanged. He
would have deserved it sixpence a day in pitnamus or nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:33:52):
And her bottom?

Speaker 9 (01:33:54):
Where are these lads? Where are these hearts bottom?

Speaker 10 (01:34:00):
Oh, most courageous day, Oh, most happier masters.

Speaker 9 (01:34:05):
I am to discourse wonders. But ask me not, for
if I tell you, I am no true Athenian. Oh,
I will tell you everything right?

Speaker 26 (01:34:15):
Is it fell out?

Speaker 10 (01:34:16):
Let us hear, sweet bottom.

Speaker 9 (01:34:19):
Not a word of me. All that I will tell
you is that the Duke hath dyed. Get your apparel together,
good strings to your birds, new ribbons to your pumps,
meet presently at the palace. Every man look over his part,
for the shore and the lung is our play is preferred.
In any case. Let this we have clean linen, and

(01:34:42):
let not in that plays the lion pare his nails,
for they shall hang out for the lion's claws. And
most dear actors eat no onions, no garlic, for we
are to utter sweet breath. And I do not doubt
what the way of them say. It is a sweet comedy.
No more words, away, go.

Speaker 1 (01:35:03):
Away, exeant end of Act four, Act five, Scene one, Athens,
the palace of theseus, enter theseus, Hippolyta, Philistrate, lords and attendants.

Speaker 3 (01:35:25):
Tis strange my theseus, that these lovers.

Speaker 2 (01:35:27):
Speak of, more strange than true. I never may believe
these antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen
have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more
than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and
the poet are of imagination. All compact one sees more

(01:35:50):
devils than vast hell can hold. That is, the madman,
the lover, all as frantic sees Helen's beauty in a
brow of Egypt. The poet's eye and fine frenzy rolling
doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.
And as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown,

(01:36:11):
the poet's pen turns them to shapes, and gives to
airy nothing a local habitation and a name. Such tricks
hath strong imagination, that, if it would but apprehend some joy,
it comprehends some bringer of that joy, Or in the
night imagining some fear. How easy is a bush supposed

(01:36:31):
a bear?

Speaker 3 (01:36:32):
But all the story of the night told over, and
all their minds transfigured, so together more witnesseth than fancy's images,
and grows to something of great constancy. But howsoever strange
and admirable.

Speaker 2 (01:36:47):
Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.

Speaker 1 (01:36:50):
Enter Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, and Helena.

Speaker 2 (01:36:55):
Joy, gentle friends, Joy and fresh days of love accompany
your he hearts.

Speaker 7 (01:37:01):
More than to us. Wait in your royal walks, your board,
your bed.

Speaker 2 (01:37:06):
Come now, what masks? What dances? Shall we have to
wear away? This long age of three hours between our
after supper and bedtime? Where is our usual manager of mirth?
What revels are in hand? Is there no play? To
ease the anguish of a torturing hour. Kfill a strait.

Speaker 24 (01:37:25):
Here, Mighty, theseus.

Speaker 2 (01:37:27):
Say, what a bridgement have you for this evening?

Speaker 7 (01:37:30):
What mask?

Speaker 14 (01:37:31):
What music?

Speaker 2 (01:37:32):
How shall we beguile the lazy time? If not with
some delight.

Speaker 24 (01:37:36):
There is a brief? How many sports are ripe? Make
choice of which your Highness will see first?

Speaker 2 (01:37:42):
Giving a paper reads the battle with the Centaurs, to
be sung by an Athenian eunuch to the harp. Will
none of that that have I told? My love and
glory of my kinsman Hercules. The riot of the tipsy
bacchanals tearing the Thracian singer in their rage. That is

(01:38:05):
an old device, and it was played when I from
Thebes came last to conqueror the thrice three muses burning
for the death of learning, late, deceased and beggary. That
is some satire, keen and critical, not sorting with a
nuptial ceremony. A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus and

(01:38:27):
his love. Thisby very tragical mirth, merry and tragical, tedious
and brief, that is hot, ice and wondrous, strange snow.
How shall we find the concord of this discord.

Speaker 24 (01:38:42):
A play there is, my lord, some ten words long,
which is as brief as I have known a play.
But by ten words, my lord, it is too long,
which makes it tedious. For in all the play there
is not one word apt, one player fitted and tragical.
My Lord, it is for Pyramus therein doth kill himself,

(01:39:04):
which when I saw rehearsed, I must confess, made mine
eyes water, but more merry tears, the passion of loud
laughter never shed.

Speaker 2 (01:39:15):
What are they that do play it?

Speaker 24 (01:39:17):
Hard handed? Men that work in Athens here, which never
labored in their minds till now, and now have toiled
their unbreathed memories with this same play against your.

Speaker 2 (01:39:29):
Nuptial and we will hear it.

Speaker 24 (01:39:32):
No, my noble lord, it is not for you. I
have heard it over and it is nothing nothing in
the world unless you can find sport in their intents,
extremely stretched and conned with cruel pain to do you service.

Speaker 2 (01:39:46):
I will hear that play, for never anything can be
amiss when simpleness and duty tender it. Go bring them
in and take your places.

Speaker 1 (01:39:55):
Ladies, exit fillustrait.

Speaker 3 (01:39:59):
I love not to see wretchedness o'er charged and duty
in his service perishing.

Speaker 2 (01:40:04):
Why, gentle sweet, you shall see no such.

Speaker 3 (01:40:07):
Thing, he says, they can do nothing in this kind.

Speaker 2 (01:40:11):
The kinder we to give them thanks for nothing. Our
sports shall be to take what they mistake, and what
poor duty cannot do. Noble respect takes it in might
not merit. Where I have come, great clerks have purposed
to greet me with premeditated welcomes. Where I have seen
them shiver and look pale, make periods in the midst

(01:40:33):
of sentences, throttle their practiced accent in their fears, and
in conclusion dumbly have broke off not paying me a welcome.
Trust me, sweet, out of this silence. Yet I picked
a welcome, and in the modesty of fearful duty, I
read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy
and audacious eloquence. Love therefore and tongue tied simplicity in

(01:40:58):
least speak most to my capacity city.

Speaker 1 (01:41:01):
Re enter fillustrate.

Speaker 24 (01:41:04):
So please your grace the prologue is addressed.

Speaker 1 (01:41:07):
Let him approach flourish of trumpets. Enter quints for the prologue.

Speaker 10 (01:41:15):
If we offend, it is with our good will that
you should think we come not to offend, but with
good will to show our simple skill. That is the
true beginning of our end. Consider, then we came, but
in despite we do not come as minding too content

(01:41:36):
you our true intent is or for your delight. We
are not here that you should here repent you. The
actors are at hand, and by their show you shall
know all that you are like to know.

Speaker 2 (01:41:51):
This fellow doth not stand upon points.

Speaker 7 (01:41:55):
He hath Riddy's prologue like a rough could he knows
not the stop a good moral. My lord. It is
not enough to speak, but to speak true.

Speaker 3 (01:42:06):
Indeed, he hath played on his prolog like a child
on a recorder, a sound, but not in government.

Speaker 2 (01:42:13):
His speech was like a tangled chain, nothing impaired, but
all disordered. Who is next?

Speaker 1 (01:42:20):
Enter Pyramus, and thisby wall, moonshine and lion gentles.

Speaker 10 (01:42:27):
Perchance you wonder at this show, but wander on till
truth makes all things plain. This man is Pyramus. If
you would know this, beauteous lady, thisby is certain. This man,
with lime and rough cast, doth present wall that bar
wall which did these lovers sunder, And through war's chink,

(01:42:49):
poor souls, they are content to whisper at the witch.
Let no man wonder this man with land, torn dog
and bush of thorn present at moonshine. For if you
will know, by moonshine, did these lovers think no scorn
to meet at Ninna's tomb? There there to woo this
grisly beast, which lion hight by name the trusted. Thisbee,

(01:43:13):
coming first by night, did scare away, or rather did affright?
And as she fled her mantle, she did fall, which
lion vile, with bloody mouth did stain. Anon comes pyramous, sweet,
youth and tall, and finds his trusty thisbee's mantle, slain
whereat with blade, with bloody, blameful blade, he bravely broke

(01:43:37):
his boiling, bloody breast, and this be tearing in a
mulberry shade, his dagger drew and died. For all the rest,
let lion, moonshine, wall, and lovers twain at large discourse.
Why they here do remain.

Speaker 1 (01:43:53):
Eggiant prolog thisbee, lion and moonshine.

Speaker 2 (01:43:58):
I wonder if the lion be to speak.

Speaker 6 (01:44:01):
No wonder, my lord, one lion may when many asses do.

Speaker 22 (01:44:06):
In this same interlude, it doth befall that I one
snout by name present a wall, and such a wall,
as I would have you think, that had in it
a crannied hole or chink through which the lovers Pyramus
and thisby did whisper often very secretly. This loam, this

(01:44:27):
rough cast, and this stone doth show that I am
that same wall. The truth is so, and this the
cranny is right and sinister, through which the fearful lovers
are to whisper.

Speaker 2 (01:44:41):
Would you desire lyme and hair to speak better?

Speaker 6 (01:44:44):
It is the wittiest partition that ever I heard discourse.

Speaker 1 (01:44:47):
My lord enter Piramus.

Speaker 2 (01:44:51):
Pyramis draws near the wall silence.

Speaker 9 (01:44:55):
Oh grim look knight, oh night with you so black night,
whichever art one day is not? Oh night, oh night
a lack a lack a lack. I fear my Thissby's
promises for God, And thou o wall o, sweet o

(01:45:17):
lovely wall that stands between her father's ground and mine.
Thou wall o wall, oh, sweet and lovely wall, show
me thy chink to blink through with mine eye.

Speaker 1 (01:45:34):
Wall holds up his fingers.

Speaker 9 (01:45:37):
Thanks courteous wall, Jove shield thee well for this. But
what see I no this bee? Do I see o
wicked wall, through whom I see no bliss. Curse It'd
be thy stones for thus deceiving me.

Speaker 2 (01:45:56):
The wall methinks, being sensible should curse again.

Speaker 9 (01:46:00):
Truth sir, he should not deceive in me. Is thisbe's cue.
She is to enter now, and I'm to spire through
the wall. You shall see it will fall past as
I told you yonder she comes enter thisbe.

Speaker 11 (01:46:15):
Oh wall full Often as thou heard my moans for
parting my fair pitramus in me, my cherry lips have
often kissed thy stones, thy stones with lyme, and here
knit hop in thee.

Speaker 9 (01:46:28):
I see a voice now, will I to the chink
to spy, and I can hear my thisbe's face, thesbe.

Speaker 1 (01:46:39):
My love.

Speaker 11 (01:46:41):
Thou art my love.

Speaker 9 (01:46:42):
I think, think what thou wilt. I am thy lover's grace,
and like Lemander and my trusty stealth.

Speaker 11 (01:46:51):
And I like Helen till the fights me kill.

Speaker 9 (01:46:54):
Not Schaffle as to procress was so.

Speaker 11 (01:46:57):
True as schaffle as to procress.

Speaker 9 (01:46:59):
I oh kiss me through the hole of this vile wall.

Speaker 11 (01:47:05):
I kiss the wall's hole. Not your lips at all.

Speaker 9 (01:47:10):
Wilt thou Minni's tomb meet me straight away.

Speaker 11 (01:47:13):
Tide, life, tide death. I come without.

Speaker 1 (01:47:17):
Denay, Egiant Piramus, And thisby.

Speaker 22 (01:47:22):
Thus have I wall my part discharged so and being
done thus wall away doth go exit.

Speaker 2 (01:47:31):
Now is the mural down between the two neighbors.

Speaker 6 (01:47:34):
No remedy, my lord, when walls are so wilful to
hear without warning.

Speaker 3 (01:47:39):
This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard.

Speaker 2 (01:47:42):
The best in this kind are but shadows, and the
worst are no worse. If imagination amend them.

Speaker 3 (01:47:49):
It must be your imagination then, and not theirs.

Speaker 2 (01:47:52):
If we imagine no worse of them than they of themselves,
they may pass for excellent men. Here comes to noble
be sin a man and a lion.

Speaker 1 (01:48:03):
Enter, lion and Moonshine.

Speaker 27 (01:48:07):
You ladies, youse gentle arts, do fear the smallest monstrous
mouse that creeps on floor may now perchance both quake
and tremble ear, when lion.

Speaker 12 (01:48:21):
Rough and wildest rage doth roar. Then no that I
one snug the joiner an a lion fell, nor else
now lions down. For if I should, as lion come
and strife into this place, tow're pity on my life.

Speaker 2 (01:48:42):
A very gentle beast of a good conscience, the.

Speaker 6 (01:48:46):
Very best at a beast, my lord, that ere I saw.

Speaker 7 (01:48:49):
This lion is a very fox for his.

Speaker 2 (01:48:51):
Valor true, and a goose for his discretion.

Speaker 6 (01:48:55):
Not so, my lord, for his valor cannot carry his discretion.
And the fox carries the goose.

Speaker 2 (01:49:01):
His discretion, I am sure cannot carry his valor. For
the goose carries not the fox. It is well leave
it to his discretion, and let us listen to the moon.

Speaker 21 (01:49:11):
This lanthor doth the horned moon present?

Speaker 6 (01:49:14):
He should have worn the horns on his head.

Speaker 2 (01:49:17):
He is no crescent, and his horns are invisible within
the circumference.

Speaker 21 (01:49:23):
This lanthorn doth the horned moon present? Myself the man
in the moon do seem to be.

Speaker 2 (01:49:30):
This is the greatest error of all the rest. The
man should be put into the lanthorn. How is it else?

Speaker 6 (01:49:36):
The man in the moon, he dares not come there
for the candle, For you see it is already and snuff.

Speaker 3 (01:49:43):
I am awary of this moon. Would he would change?

Speaker 2 (01:49:47):
It appears by his small light of discretion that he
is in the wane. But yet, in courtesy, in all reason,
we must stay the time proceed moon.

Speaker 21 (01:49:59):
All that I have to say is to tell you
that the lanthan is the moon. I the man in
the moon. This thorn bush, my thorn bush, and this dog,
my dog.

Speaker 6 (01:50:09):
Why all these should be in the lanthorn, For all
these are in the moon. But silence, here comes thisbe.

Speaker 1 (01:50:16):
Enter thisbee, This is old nitties too?

Speaker 11 (01:50:22):
Where is my love?

Speaker 1 (01:50:31):
Fisbee runs off?

Speaker 2 (01:50:34):
Well roared lion, Well run thisbee, well shone moon.

Speaker 3 (01:50:39):
Truly the moon shines with a good grace.

Speaker 1 (01:50:42):
The lion shakes thissbee's mantle and exit.

Speaker 2 (01:50:46):
Well moused lion.

Speaker 7 (01:50:48):
And so the lion vanished, and then came Pyramus.

Speaker 1 (01:50:53):
Enter Piramus, sweet Moon.

Speaker 9 (01:50:56):
I thank THEE for thy sunny beams. I thank THEE
Moon for shining now so bright, for by thy gracious, golden,
glittering gleams. I trust to take of truest this beside.
But stay, oh spite, but mark, poor knight, What dreadful
doll is here?

Speaker 10 (01:51:16):
Ice?

Speaker 9 (01:51:17):
Do you see? How can it be? Oh dainty duck,
oh dear thy mantle? Good? What stained with blood?

Speaker 1 (01:51:31):
Approachy?

Speaker 9 (01:51:32):
Furies fell? Oh fates come, come, cut thread and from
quail crush, conclude and cor.

Speaker 2 (01:51:45):
This passion and the death of a dear friend would
go near to make a man look sad.

Speaker 3 (01:51:50):
Beshrew my heart. But I pity the man.

Speaker 9 (01:51:55):
Oh, wherefore nature didst thou lion's frame, Since lion voile
hath heard flowered my dear, which is no no, which
was the fairest dame that lived, that love, that light,
that looked with cheer, come tears, confound out sword and

(01:52:21):
wound the pap of Pyramus high, that left pap where
art doth.

Speaker 1 (01:52:29):
Hop stabs himself.

Speaker 9 (01:52:33):
Thus die I thus thus thus now am I dead?
Now am I fled? My soul is in the sky tongue,
lose thy light, moon, take thy.

Speaker 1 (01:52:57):
Flight, exit moon shine.

Speaker 25 (01:53:02):
Now die die, die, die dies.

Speaker 6 (01:53:22):
No die but an ace for him, for he is
but one.

Speaker 7 (01:53:27):
Less than an ace man. For he is dead, he
is nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:53:30):
With the help of a surgeon, he might yet recover
and prove an ass.

Speaker 3 (01:53:35):
How chance, Moonshine is gone before Thisby comes back and
finds her lover.

Speaker 2 (01:53:39):
She will find him by starlight. Here she comes, and
her passion ends the play.

Speaker 3 (01:53:45):
Re enter Thisby methinks she should not use a long
one for such a pyramids. I hope she will be brief.

Speaker 6 (01:53:52):
A mote will turn the balance which pyramids, which thisby
is the better. He for a man, God warrant us,
she a woman God bless us.

Speaker 7 (01:54:02):
She has spied him already with those threeet eyes.

Speaker 6 (01:54:05):
And thus she means the delicit.

Speaker 11 (01:54:08):
Asleep, my love, what dead, my dove, Oh pyramus, arise
speak speak quite dumb dead dead. A tomb must cover
thy sweet eyes, These lily lips, this cherry nose, these

(01:54:30):
yellow cowslip cheeks hot gone, hok gone lovers make moan.
His eyes were green as leaks. Oh sisters three, come
come to me with hands as pale as milk. Lay
them in goree since you have sure with shears his

(01:54:52):
thread of silk tongue, not a word, Come, trusty, sword,
Come blade my breast in blue. She stabs herself and
farewell friends. Thus Thissbee ends Adieu, Adieu, Adieu.

Speaker 6 (01:55:17):
She dies.

Speaker 2 (01:55:20):
Moonshine and Lion are left to bury the dead II
and the wall too.

Speaker 9 (01:55:25):
No, I assure you the wall is down the part
of their fathers. Will it please you to see the
epilog or to hear a burgamask dance between two of
our company?

Speaker 2 (01:55:37):
No epilogue. I pray you, for your play needs no
excuse never excuse, for when the players are all dead,
there needs none to be blamed.

Speaker 7 (01:55:47):
Mary.

Speaker 2 (01:55:47):
If he that rid it had played Pyramus and hanged
himself in thisby's garter, it would have been a fine tragedy.
And so it is truly and very notably discharged. But
come your birds, let your epilog alone, Hey dance the
iron tongue of midnight. Hath told twelve lobbs to bed,

(01:56:10):
tis almost fairy time. I fear we shall outsleep the
coming morn. As much as we this night have overwatched
this palpable gross play, hath well beguiled the heavy gait
of night, sweet friends to bed a fortnight. Hold we
this solemnity in nightly revels and new jollity, exeillant, enter puck.

Speaker 14 (01:56:34):
Now the hungry lion roars, and the wolf behowls the moon,
whilst the heavy plowman snores, all with weary task foredone.
Now the wasted brands do glow, whilst a screech owl,
screeching aloud, puts the wretch that lies in woe in
remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of
night that the graves, all gaping wide. Every one lets

(01:56:57):
forth his sprite in the church paths to glide, and
we fairies that do run by the triple hegate's team
from the presence of the sun, following darkness like a dream.
Now our frolic, not a mouse shall disturb this hallowed house.
I am sent with broom before to sweep the dust
behind the door.

Speaker 1 (01:57:19):
Enter Oberon and Titania with their train.

Speaker 15 (01:57:24):
Through the house, give gathering light by the dread and
drowsy fire. Every elf and fairy sprite hop as light
as bird from brier, and this ditty after me, sing
and dance it trippingly.

Speaker 16 (01:57:37):
First, rehearse your song by rote, to each word a
warbling note, hand in hand with fairy grace. Will we
sing and bless this place?

Speaker 1 (01:57:50):
Song and dance.

Speaker 15 (01:57:53):
Now until the break of day, through this house, each
fairy stray to the best bride bed. Will we which
by us shall blessed be and the issue there create
ever shall be fortunate. So shall all the couple's three
ever true in loving be, And the blots of nature's
hands shall not in their issue stand never mole, hare lip,

(01:58:16):
nor scar nor mark. Prodigious such as are despised in
nativity shall upon their children be with this field dow
consecrate every fairy take his gait, and each several chamber
bless through this place with sweet peace, and the owner
of it blessed, shall ever in safety rest trip away,

(01:58:37):
make no stay, meet me all by break.

Speaker 1 (01:58:40):
Of day, exeant Oberon Titania and a train.

Speaker 14 (01:58:46):
If we shadows have offended, think but this and all
is mended, that you have but slumbered here, while these
visions did appear, and this weak and idle theme no
more yielding but a dream. Gentles, do not reprehend. If
you pardon, we will mend. And as I am an
honest puck, if we have unearned luck now to escape

(01:59:07):
the serpent's tongue, we will make amends ere long else
the puck a liar call, So good night unto you
all give me your hands if we be friends, and
Robin shall restore amends.

Speaker 1 (01:59:20):
End of Act five

All Episodes

A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare

Episode Transcript

Popular Podcasts

New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce

Dateline NBC

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

.css-15opob5{left:0;position:absolute;top:0.8rem;} All Episodes

.css-14f5ked{margin:0;word-break:break-word;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;box-orient:vertical;-webkit-line-clamp:2;overflow:hidden;}A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare