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- 0:00Speaker 1: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, Act one, Scene one, Athens,
- 0:08Speaker 1: the palace of Theseus. Enter theseus, Hippolyta, Philistrate, and attendants.
- 0:17Speaker 2: Now fair, Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace. Four
- 0:22Speaker 2: happy days bring in another moon. But oh, methinks, how
- 0:26Speaker 2: slow this old moon wanes. She lingers my desires like
- 0:30Speaker 2: to a step dame or a dowager, long withering out
- 0:33Speaker 2: a young man's revenue.
- 0:35Speaker 3: Four days will quickly steep themselves in night. Four nights
- 0:39Speaker 3: will quickly dream away the time, and then the moon,
- 0:42Speaker 3: like to a silver bow new bent in heaven. She'll
- 0:45Speaker 3: behold the night of our solemnities.
- 0:49Speaker 2: Go, Philistrate, stir up the Athenian youth to merriments. Awake
- 0:53Speaker 2: the pert and nimble spirit of mirth. Turn Melancholy forth
- 0:57Speaker 2: to funerals. The pale companion is no not for our pomp.
- 1:01Speaker 1: Exit fillustrate, Hippolyta.
- 1:04Speaker 2: I wooed thee with my sword, and won thy love
- 1:07Speaker 2: doing thee injuries. But I will wed thee in another key,
- 1:11Speaker 2: with pomp, with triumph, and with reveling.
- 1:16Speaker 1: Enter Igeus, Hermia, Lessander, and Demetrius.
- 1:21Speaker 4: Happy be theseus, our renowned duke.
- 1:24Speaker 2: Thanks good eegius, what's the news?
- 1:26Speaker 4: With thee full of vexation, come I with complaint against
- 1:31Speaker 4: my child, my daughter Hermia. Stand forth, Demetrius, my noble lord,
- 1:38Speaker 4: this man hath my consent to marry her. Stand forth, Lysander,
- 1:46Speaker 4: and my gracious Duke. This man hath bewitched the bosom
- 1:50Speaker 4: of my child. Thou thou, Lysander, now asked, given her rhymes,
- 1:56Speaker 4: and interchanged love tokens with my child, Thou hast by
- 2:01Speaker 4: moonlight at her window, sung with feigning voice, verses a
- 2:06Speaker 4: feigning love, and stolen the impression of her fantasy, with
- 2:10Speaker 4: bracelets of thy hair, rings, gods, conceits, gnats, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats,
- 2:19Speaker 4: messengers of strong prevailment in an hardened youth, with cunning hast,
- 2:24Speaker 4: Thou filst my daughter's heart. Turn her obedience, which is
- 2:28Speaker 4: due to me, to stubborn harshness, and my gracious Duke,
- 2:35Speaker 4: be it so she will not hear before your grace
- 2:39Speaker 4: consent to marry with Demetrius. I beg the ancient privilege
- 2:44Speaker 4: of Athens. As she is mine, I may dispose of her,
- 2:50Speaker 4: which shall be either to this gentleman or to her
- 2:54Speaker 4: death according to our law immediately provided.
- 2:57Speaker 2: In that case, what say you, Hermia, be advised, fair maid,
- 3:03Speaker 2: to you, your father should be as a god, one
- 3:07Speaker 2: that composed your beauties, yea, and one to whom you
- 3:10Speaker 2: are but a form in wax by him, imprinted, and
- 3:13Speaker 2: within his power to leave the figure or disfigure it.
- 3:17Speaker 2: Demetrius is a worthy.
- 3:19Speaker 5: Gentleman, so is Lysander.
- 3:21Speaker 2: In himself he is. But in this kind, wanting your
- 3:25Speaker 2: father's voice, the other must be held the worthier.
- 3:29Speaker 5: I would my father look, but with my eyes.
- 3:32Speaker 2: Rather your eyes must with his judgment.
- 3:35Speaker 5: Look God, do entreat your grace to pardon me. I
- 3:39Speaker 5: know not by what power I am made bold, nor
- 3:42Speaker 5: how it may concern my modesty in such a presence
- 3:44Speaker 5: here to plead my thoughts. But I beseech your grace
- 3:47Speaker 5: that I may know the worst that may befall me
- 3:49Speaker 5: in this case if I refuse to wed Demetrius.
- 3:53Speaker 2: Either to die the death or to abjure forever the
- 3:56Speaker 2: society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires. Know
- 4:02Speaker 2: of your youth, Examine well your blood, whether if you
- 4:06Speaker 2: yield not to your father's choice, you can endure the
- 4:09Speaker 2: livery of a nun for I to be in shady cloister,
- 4:13Speaker 2: mewed to live a barren sister all your life, chanting
- 4:18Speaker 2: faint hymns to the cold, fruitless moon. Thrice blessed they
- 4:22Speaker 2: that masters sow their blood to undergo such maiden pilgrimage.
- 4:27Speaker 2: But earthlier happy is the rose distilled than that which
- 4:31Speaker 2: withering on the virgin thorn grows, lives and dies in
- 4:34Speaker 2: single blessedness.
- 4:37Speaker 5: So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord
- 4:40Speaker 5: ere I will yield my virgin patent up unto his lordship,
- 4:43Speaker 5: whose unwished yoke must soul consent not to give sovereignty.
- 4:49Speaker 2: Take time to pause, and by the next new moon,
- 4:53Speaker 2: the ceiling day, betwixt my love and thee for everlasting
- 4:57Speaker 2: bond of fellowship. Upon that day, either prepare to die
- 5:01Speaker 2: for disobedience to your father's will, or else to wed
- 5:05Speaker 2: Demetrius as he would, or on Diana's altar to protest
- 5:09Speaker 2: for I austerity and single life.
- 5:14Speaker 6: Relent. Sweet Hermia, Lysander, yield thy crazed title to my
- 5:19Speaker 6: certain right.
- 5:20Speaker 7: You have her father's love, Demetrius, Let me have Hermia's
- 5:24Speaker 7: Do you marry him?
- 5:26Speaker 4: Scornful Lysander? True he hath my love, and what is
- 5:31Speaker 4: mine my love shall render him, and she is mine,
- 5:35Speaker 4: and all my right of her. I do a state
- 5:38Speaker 4: unto Demetrius.
- 5:39Speaker 7: I am my lord, as well derived as he, as
- 5:42Speaker 7: well possessed. My love is more than his, My fortunes
- 5:46Speaker 7: every way as fairly ranked, if not with advantage, as Demetrius,
- 5:52Speaker 7: and which is more than all these boasts can be.
- 5:55Speaker 7: I am beloved of Bedeus Hermia. Why should not I
- 5:59Speaker 7: then prosecute my right? Demetrius, all about to his head,
- 6:04Speaker 7: made love to Nider's daughter Helena, and won her soul,
- 6:08Speaker 7: And she, sweet lady, doats devoutly, doats dots and idolatry.
- 6:14Speaker 7: Upon this spotted and inconstant man, I must confess that
- 6:19Speaker 7: I have heard so much, and with Demetrius thought to
- 6:22Speaker 7: have spoke thereof, But being over full of self affairs,
- 6:27Speaker 7: my mind did lose it.
- 6:29Speaker 2: But Demetrius, come and come, Egius, you shall go with me.
- 6:34Speaker 2: I have some private schooling for you both. For you
- 6:38Speaker 2: fair Hermia. Look, you arm yourself to fit your fancies
- 6:41Speaker 2: to your father's will, or else the law of Athens
- 6:44Speaker 2: yields you up, which by no means we may extenuate
- 6:49Speaker 2: to death or to vow of single life. Come, my Hippolyta,
- 6:54Speaker 2: what cheer my love? Demetrius and Egius, go along, I
- 6:59Speaker 2: must employ you in some business against our nuptial and
- 7:02Speaker 2: confer with you of something nearly that concerns yourselves.
- 7:06Speaker 4: With duty and desire.
- 7:08Speaker 1: We follow you, excellant all but Lysander and Hermia.
- 7:14Speaker 7: How now, my love, why is your cheek so pale?
- 7:17Speaker 7: How chance the roses there do fade so fast.
- 7:21Speaker 5: The like for want of rain, which I could well
- 7:23Speaker 5: beheem them from the tempest of my eyes.
- 7:26Speaker 7: I me for aught that I could ever read, could
- 7:29Speaker 7: ever hear by tale or history. The course of true
- 7:33Speaker 7: love never did run smooth, But either it was different
- 7:37Speaker 7: in blood.
- 7:38Speaker 5: Oh cross too high to be enthralled to low.
- 7:41Speaker 7: Or else misgraft in respective years.
- 7:44Speaker 5: Oh spite, too old to be engaged to young.
- 7:48Speaker 7: Or else It stood upon the choice of friends.
- 7:51Speaker 5: Oh hell, to choose love by another's eyes.
- 7:54Speaker 7: Or if there were a sympathy in choice, war, death,
- 7:57Speaker 7: or sickness did lay siege to it, making it momentiny
- 8:01Speaker 7: as a sound, swift, as a shadow, short, as any dream, brief,
- 8:07Speaker 7: as the lightning in the collied night that in a
- 8:10Speaker 7: spleen unfolds both heaven and earth, and ere a man
- 8:13Speaker 7: hath power to say, behold the jaws of darkness do
- 8:17Speaker 7: devour it up so quick bright things come to confusion.
- 8:22Speaker 5: If then true lovers have been ever crossed, it stands
- 8:25Speaker 5: as an edict in destiny. Then let us teach our
- 8:29Speaker 5: trial patience, because it is a customary cross, as due
- 8:32Speaker 5: to love, as thoughts and dreams and sighs, wishes and tears.
- 8:37Speaker 5: Poor Fancy's followers.
- 8:39Speaker 7: A good persuasion. Therefore, hear me, Hermia, I have a
- 8:44Speaker 7: widow aunt, a dowager of great revenue, and she hath
- 8:48Speaker 7: no child. From Athid's is her house remote seven leagues,
- 8:54Speaker 7: and she respects me as her only son. There, Gentle Hermia,
- 8:59Speaker 7: may I marry THEE, and to that place the sharp
- 9:03Speaker 7: Athenian law cannot pursue us. If thou lovest me, then
- 9:08Speaker 7: steal forth thy father's house to morrow night, and in
- 9:12Speaker 7: the wood a league without the town where I did
- 9:15Speaker 7: meet THEE once with Helena, to do observance to a
- 9:18Speaker 7: morn of may there will I stay for THEE.
- 9:21Speaker 5: My good Lysander. I swear to THEE by Cupid's strongest beau,
- 9:26Speaker 5: by his best arrow with the golden head, by the
- 9:28Speaker 5: simplicity of Venus doves, by that which knitteth souls and
- 9:32Speaker 5: prosperus loves, and by that fire which burnt the Carthage Queen,
- 9:36Speaker 5: when the false troy and under sail was seen by
- 9:39Speaker 5: all the vows that ever men have broke in number
- 9:42Speaker 5: more than ever women spoke in that same place, Thou
- 9:45Speaker 5: hast appointed me tomorrow truly will I meet with thee.
- 9:49Speaker 7: Keep promise love.
- 9:51Speaker 1: Look here comes Helena, Enter Helena.
- 9:55Speaker 5: God speed, fair Helena.
- 9:56Speaker 8: Whither away call you me fair? That again, unsay, Demetrius
- 10:01Speaker 8: loves your fair, Oh happy fair. Your eyes are load stars,
- 10:06Speaker 8: and your tongue's sweet air more tuneable than lark to
- 10:09Speaker 8: shepherd's ear when wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear,
- 10:13Speaker 8: sickness is catching. Oh, were favor so yours? Would I
- 10:16Speaker 8: catch fair hermia?
- 10:17Speaker 7: Ere I go.
- 10:18Speaker 8: My ear should catch your voice, my eye, your eye,
- 10:21Speaker 8: my tongue should catch your tongue sweet melody? Were the
- 10:24Speaker 8: world mine? Demetrius being baited, the rest I'd give to
- 10:27Speaker 8: you to be translated. Oh teach me how you look
- 10:30Speaker 8: and with what art you sway? The motion of Demetrius's heart.
- 10:34Speaker 5: I frown upon him, Yet he loves me still.
- 10:37Speaker 8: Oh that your frowns would teach my smile such skill.
- 10:40Speaker 5: I give him curses, yet he gives me love.
- 10:43Speaker 8: Oh that my prayers could such affection move.
- 10:46Speaker 5: The more I hate, the more he follows me.
- 10:49Speaker 8: The more I love. The more he hateth me.
- 10:51Speaker 5: His folly, Helena, is no fault of mine.
- 10:54Speaker 8: None but your beauty. Would that fault were mine?
- 10:58Speaker 5: Take comfort? He no more sit see my face, Lysander,
- 11:01Speaker 5: and myself will fly this place. Before the time I did,
- 11:05Speaker 5: Lysander see seemed Athens as a paradise to me. Oh, then,
- 11:10Speaker 5: what graces in my love? Do dwell that he hath
- 11:12Speaker 5: turned a heaven unto a hell?
- 11:14Speaker 7: Helen to you our minds we will unfold tomorrow night,
- 11:20Speaker 7: when Phoebe doth behold her silver visage in the watery
- 11:23Speaker 7: glass decking with liquid pearl abladed grass, a time that
- 11:28Speaker 7: lover's flights doth still conceal through Athen's gates? Have we
- 11:33Speaker 7: devised to steal.
- 11:35Speaker 5: And in the wood where often you and I, upon
- 11:37Speaker 5: faint primrose beds, were wont to lie, emptying our bosoms
- 11:41Speaker 5: of their council suite. There my Lysander and myself shall meet,
- 11:45Speaker 5: and thence from Athens turn away our eyes to seek
- 11:48Speaker 5: new friends and stranger companies. Farewell, sweet playfellow, pray thou
- 11:53Speaker 5: for us, and good luck. Grant thee thy Demetrius, keep word, Lysander.
- 11:58Speaker 5: We must starve our sight from lover's fee till morrow
- 12:00Speaker 5: deep midnight.
- 12:02Speaker 1: I will my Hermia exit, Hermia.
- 12:07Speaker 7: Helena, adieu, as you on him, Demitrius dote on you exit.
- 12:14Speaker 8: How happy some or other sum can be through Athens?
- 12:18Speaker 8: I am thought as fair as she?
- 12:20Speaker 9: But what of that?
- 12:21Speaker 8: Demetrius thinks not, So he will not know what all,
- 12:25Speaker 8: But he do know. And as he errs doting on
- 12:28Speaker 8: Hermia's eyes, so I admiring of his qualities. Things base
- 12:33Speaker 8: and vile, folding no quantity love can transpose to form
- 12:36Speaker 8: and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with
- 12:40Speaker 8: the mind, And therefore is winged, cupid, painted blind, Nor
- 12:44Speaker 8: hath love's mind of any judgment taste, wings and no
- 12:47Speaker 8: eyes figure unheedy, haste. And therefore is love said to
- 12:51Speaker 8: be a child, because in choice he is so oft
- 12:53Speaker 8: beguiled as waggish boys in games themselves forswear. So the
- 12:58Speaker 8: boy love is perjured everywhere. For ere Demetrius looked on
- 13:02Speaker 8: Hermia's eye. He hailed down oaths that he was only mine.
- 13:06Speaker 8: And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt so
- 13:09Speaker 8: he dissolved, and showers of oaths did melt. I will
- 13:14Speaker 8: go tell him a fair Hermia's flight. Then to the wood,
- 13:17Speaker 8: will he tomorrow night pursue her? And for this intelligence,
- 13:21Speaker 8: if I have thanks, it is a dear expense. But
- 13:25Speaker 8: here and mean I to enrich my pain to have
- 13:28Speaker 8: his sight thither and back again.
- 13:31Speaker 1: Exit scene too athens Quince's house, Enter Quince, snug bottom, flute, snout,
- 13:46Speaker 1: and starvelings.
- 13:49Speaker 9: All our company here you were best to call them
- 13:52Speaker 9: generally man by man according to the scrap.
- 13:55Speaker 10: Here is the scroll of every man's name, which is
- 13:58Speaker 10: thought fit for Ethens to play in our interlude before
- 14:01Speaker 10: the Duke and the Duchess on his wedding day at night.
- 14:05Speaker 9: First, could Peter Quinns say what the play treats on,
- 14:09Speaker 9: then read the names of the actors, and so grow
- 14:12Speaker 9: to a point.
- 14:14Speaker 10: Mary, Our play is the most lamentable comedy and most
- 14:17Speaker 10: cruel death of Pyramus.
- 14:18Speaker 9: And thisby a very good piece of work, I assure
- 14:21Speaker 9: you anna Mary. Now could Peter Quince call forth your
- 14:25Speaker 9: actors by the scroll masters, spread yourselves.
- 14:30Speaker 10: Answer as I call you, Nick Bottom the weaver.
- 14:35Speaker 9: Ready, name what part I am for, and proceed.
- 14:38Speaker 10: You, Nickbottom, are set down for Pyramus.
- 14:41Speaker 9: What is peramus? A lover or a tyrant?
- 14:46Speaker 10: A lover that cures himself most gallant for love?
- 14:49Speaker 9: Oh, that will ask some tears in the true or
- 14:53Speaker 9: forming of it. If I do it, let the audience
- 14:56Speaker 9: look to their eyes. I will move stop RUMs, I
- 15:01Speaker 9: will condole in some measure to the rest. Yet my
- 15:06Speaker 9: chief humor is for a tyrant. I could play ercles rarely,
- 15:13Speaker 9: or a part to tear a cat in to make
- 15:16Speaker 9: I'll split the raging rocks and shivering shocks, shall break
- 15:25Speaker 9: the locks of prison gates, and Phibis's car shall shine
- 15:32Speaker 9: from far and make and mar the foolish fates. Oh
- 15:39Speaker 9: this was lofty. Now name the rest of the players.
- 15:45Speaker 9: This is Ercley's vein, a tyrant's vein. A lover is
- 15:51Speaker 9: more condoling.
- 15:53Speaker 10: Francis flute, the bello's menda.
- 15:56Speaker 11: Here Peter Quin's flute.
- 15:58Speaker 10: You must take thisby on you.
- 16:00Speaker 11: What is Disbee a wandering knight?
- 16:03Speaker 10: It is the lady that Pyramus must love.
- 16:06Speaker 11: On nay face, Let me not play a woman.
- 16:09Speaker 10: I have a beard, come in, that's all one. You
- 16:12Speaker 10: shall play it in a mask, and you may speak
- 16:14Speaker 10: as small as you will, and I.
- 16:16Speaker 9: May eye my face. Let me play thisbee too. I'll
- 16:19Speaker 9: speak in a monstrous little voice. Disney, Disney, Ah, Pirimus, lover,
- 16:27Speaker 9: dear thy thisbee, dear and lady dear.
- 16:31Speaker 10: No, no, you must pay Pyramis and flute.
- 16:34Speaker 9: You thisby well proceeded.
- 16:39Speaker 10: Robin Starveling the tailor here, Peter Quince, Robin Starveling, You
- 16:44Speaker 10: must play thisby's mother. Tom snouted the tinker here, Peter Quince,
- 16:49Speaker 10: You Pyramis's father, and myself thisbee's father, snug the joiner.
- 16:55Speaker 10: You the lion's part, and I hope here is the
- 16:57Speaker 10: play fitted.
- 16:59Speaker 12: Have you the lion's part written? Pray you, if it be,
- 17:03Speaker 12: give it me, for I am slow of study.
- 17:07Speaker 10: You may do it extemple, for it is nothing but roaring.
- 17:11Speaker 9: Let me play the lion too. I will oh, I
- 17:16Speaker 9: will do any man's heart good to wear me.
- 17:18Speaker 1: I will oh.
- 17:21Speaker 9: They will make the duke say, let him roar again,
- 17:24Speaker 9: Let him roar again.
- 17:26Speaker 10: And you should do it too terribly, you would fright
- 17:28Speaker 10: the duchess and the ladies that they would shriek. And
- 17:32Speaker 10: that were enough to hang us all.
- 17:34Speaker 12: That would hang us every mother's son.
- 17:36Speaker 11: That would hang us every mother's son.
- 17:39Speaker 9: Grant your friends. If you should frighten the ladies out
- 17:42Speaker 9: of their ways, they would have no more discretion but
- 17:44Speaker 9: to angers. But I will aggravate my voice so that
- 17:48Speaker 9: I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove.
- 17:52Speaker 9: I will aw you, and twere any nightingale.
- 17:57Speaker 10: Ow you can play no part but Pyramis. For Pyramis
- 18:03Speaker 10: is a sweet faced man, a proper man, as one
- 18:06Speaker 10: shall see in a summer's day, a most lovely, gentlemanlike man.
- 18:10Speaker 10: Therefore you must needs play Pyramius.
- 18:15Speaker 9: Well, I will undertake it. What beard were I best
- 18:20Speaker 9: to play it?
- 18:20Speaker 1: Inn?
- 18:22Speaker 10: Why?
- 18:23Speaker 9: What you will m I will discharge it in either
- 18:28Speaker 9: your straw color beard, your orange tawny beard, your purple
- 18:34Speaker 9: ingrain beard, or your French crown color beard, your perfect yellow.
- 18:41Speaker 10: Some of your French's crowns have no hair at all.
- 18:44Speaker 10: And then you will play bear faced. But masters, here
- 18:48Speaker 10: are your parts, and I am to entreat you, request
- 18:52Speaker 10: you and desire you to con them by to morrow
- 18:54Speaker 10: night and meet me in the palace wood Amma, without
- 18:57Speaker 10: the town by moonlight. There we will rehearse. For if
- 19:02Speaker 10: we meet in the city, we shall be docked with company,
- 19:05Speaker 10: and a device is known. In the meantime I will
- 19:08Speaker 10: draw a bit of properties, such as our play wants.
- 19:12Speaker 10: I pray you fail me not.
- 19:14Speaker 9: We will meet, and there we may rehearse most obscenely
- 19:18Speaker 9: and courageously take pains. Be peract had Yo.
- 19:26Speaker 10: At the Duke's oak we meet.
- 19:29Speaker 9: Enough old a cup bowl strings.
- 19:33Speaker 1: Ex you want. End of Act one, Act two, Scene one,
- 19:40Speaker 1: a wood near Athens. Enter from opposite sides a faery
- 19:46Speaker 1: and park.
- 19:49Speaker 13: How now, spirit will a wonder you over hill, over dale,
- 19:53Speaker 13: through bush, through brier, over park, over pale, through flood
- 19:56Speaker 13: through fire. I do wander everywhere swifter than the moon sphere.
- 20:01Speaker 13: And I serve the fairy queen to dew her orbs
- 20:04Speaker 13: upon the grain the cowslips tall. Her pensions be in
- 20:08Speaker 13: their gold coats spots you see, those be rubies fairy favors.
- 20:12Speaker 13: In those freckles live their savors. I must go seek
- 20:16Speaker 13: some dewdrops here and hang a pearl in every cowslips here,
- 20:20Speaker 13: farewell their lob of spirits. All be gone, our queen,
- 20:23Speaker 13: and all our elves come here.
- 20:24Speaker 14: Anon the king doth keep his rebels here to night.
- 20:28Speaker 14: Take heed the queen. Come not within his sight, For
- 20:31Speaker 14: Oberon is passing fell and wroth, because she, as her attendant,
- 20:34Speaker 14: hath a lovely boy stolen from an Indian king. She
- 20:37Speaker 14: never had so sweet a changeling, and jealous Oberon would
- 20:40Speaker 14: have the child night of his train to trace the
- 20:43Speaker 14: forest's wild. But she perforce withholds the loved boy, crowns
- 20:47Speaker 14: him with flowers, and makes him all her joy. And
- 20:49Speaker 14: now they never meet in grove or green by a
- 20:52Speaker 14: fountain clear or spangled starlight sheen, but they do square
- 20:56Speaker 14: that all their elves for fear creep into acorn cups
- 20:59Speaker 14: and hide them there.
- 21:01Speaker 13: Either I mistake your shape and making quite, or else
- 21:04Speaker 13: you are that shrewd and knavish sprite cold Robin goodfellow,
- 21:08Speaker 13: are you not he that frightens the maids of the villagery.
- 21:11Speaker 13: Skim milk can sometimes labor in the kern and bootless,
- 21:15Speaker 13: make the breathless housewife churn, and sometimes make the drink
- 21:19Speaker 13: to bear nobalm mislead night wanderers, laughing at their harm.
- 21:23Speaker 13: Those that hobgoblin call you, and sweet puck, you do
- 21:27Speaker 13: their work and they shall have good luck? Are not you?
- 21:30Speaker 14: He thou speak'st all right? I am that merry wanderer
- 21:34Speaker 14: of the night. I jest to Oberon and make him
- 21:37Speaker 14: smile when I a fat and beam fed horse, beguile
- 21:40Speaker 14: neighing in likeness of a filly fool, and sometimes lurkye
- 21:44Speaker 14: in a gossip's bowl, in very likeness of a roasted crab.
- 21:48Speaker 14: And when she drinks against her lip side bob and
- 21:51Speaker 14: on her with a dew lap pour the ale, the
- 21:54Speaker 14: wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale sometime for three foot
- 21:58Speaker 14: stool mistaketh me then slip by from her bum down topple.
- 22:03Speaker 14: She and Taylor cries and falls into a cough. And
- 22:06Speaker 14: then the whole choir hold their hips and love and
- 22:10Speaker 14: waxen in their mirth and knees and swear and merry.
- 22:13Speaker 14: A our was never wasted there, but rumfery, here comes.
- 22:17Speaker 13: Oberon, and here my mistress would that he were gone.
- 22:22Speaker 1: Enter from one side, Oberon with his train from the other,
- 22:28Speaker 1: Titania with hers.
- 22:30Speaker 15: Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.
- 22:34Speaker 16: What jealous oberon fairies skip? Hence I have forsworn his
- 22:39Speaker 16: bed and company.
- 22:41Speaker 15: Terry rash wanton. Am not I thy lord?
- 22:45Speaker 16: Then I must be thy lady. But I know when
- 22:49Speaker 16: thou hast stolen away from fairyland and in the shape
- 22:52Speaker 16: of corn, sat all day playing on pipes of corn
- 22:56Speaker 16: and versing love to amorous Philida. Art thou here come
- 23:01Speaker 16: from the farthest step of India, But that forsooth the
- 23:05Speaker 16: bouncing Amazon, your buskined mistress, and your warrior love to
- 23:10Speaker 16: theseus must be wedded, and you come to give their bed,
- 23:14Speaker 16: joy and prosperity.
- 23:17Speaker 15: How canst thou thus for shame Titania glance at my
- 23:20Speaker 15: credit with Hippolyta, knowing I know thy love to theseus?
- 23:25Speaker 15: Didst thou not lead him through the glimmering night from
- 23:28Speaker 15: Peruginia whom he ravished, and make him with fair egle
- 23:32Speaker 15: break his faith with Ariadne and Antiopa.
- 23:36Speaker 16: These are the forgeries of jealousy, And never since the
- 23:41Speaker 16: middle summer spring met we on hill in dale forest,
- 23:45Speaker 16: or mead by Pavid fountain, or by Rushy Brook, or
- 23:50Speaker 16: in the beeched margin of the sea to dance our
- 23:53Speaker 16: ringlets to the whistling wind. But with thy brawls thou
- 23:56Speaker 16: hast disturbed our sport. Therefore the winds piping to us
- 24:02Speaker 16: in vain as in revenge, have sucked up from the sea.
- 24:06Speaker 16: Contageous fogs, which falling in the land, have every pelting
- 24:10Speaker 16: river made so proud that they have overborne their continents.
- 24:15Speaker 16: The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain. The
- 24:18Speaker 16: plowman lost his sweat, and the green corn hath rotted,
- 24:22Speaker 16: ere his youth attained a beard. The fold stands empty
- 24:27Speaker 16: in the drowned field. The crows are fatted with the
- 24:30Speaker 16: murray and flock. The nine men's morris is filled up
- 24:33Speaker 16: with mud, and the quaint mazes in the wanton green,
- 24:37Speaker 16: for lack of tread, are undistinguishable. The human mortals want
- 24:42Speaker 16: their winter here. No night is now with him or
- 24:45Speaker 16: Carol blessed. Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, pale
- 24:51Speaker 16: in her anger, washes all the air that rheumatic diseases
- 24:56Speaker 16: do abound. And thorough this distemperature we see the season's alter.
- 25:01Speaker 16: Hoary headed frosts far in the fresh lap of the
- 25:04Speaker 16: crimson rose, and on old Higham's thin and icy crown,
- 25:09Speaker 16: an odorous chaplet to sweet summer buds. Is as in mockery,
- 25:13Speaker 16: set the spring the summer, the child in autumn angry winter,
- 25:19Speaker 16: change their wonted liveries, and the mazed world by their increase,
- 25:24Speaker 16: now knows not which is which. And this same progeny
- 25:28Speaker 16: of evils comes from our debate, from our dissension. We
- 25:33Speaker 16: are their parents and original.
- 25:36Speaker 15: Do you amend it, then it lies in you. Why
- 25:39Speaker 15: should Titania cross her Oberon, I do but beg a
- 25:42Speaker 15: little changeling boy to be my henchman.
- 25:45Speaker 16: Set your heart at rest. The fairyland buys not the
- 25:49Speaker 16: child of me. His mother was a voterus of my order,
- 25:54Speaker 16: and in the spiced Indian air by night full often
- 25:58Speaker 16: hath she gossiped by my and sat with me on
- 26:01Speaker 16: Neptune's yellow sands, marking the embarked traders on the flood.
- 26:06Speaker 16: When we have laughed to see the sails conceive and
- 26:09Speaker 16: grow big bellied with the wanton wind, which she with
- 26:13Speaker 16: pretty and with swimming gait following her womb. Then rich
- 26:17Speaker 16: with my young squire, would imitate and sail upon the
- 26:20Speaker 16: land to fetch me trifles and return again as from
- 26:24Speaker 16: a voyage rich with merchandise. But she, being mortal of
- 26:30Speaker 16: that boy, did die. And for her sake do I
- 26:34Speaker 16: rear up her boy? And for her sake I will
- 26:37Speaker 16: not part with him?
- 26:39Speaker 15: How long within this wood? Intend you stay.
- 26:43Speaker 16: Perchance till after theseus's wedding day. If you will patiently
- 26:48Speaker 16: dance in our round and see our moonlight revels, go
- 26:52Speaker 16: with us. If not, shun me, and I will spare
- 26:56Speaker 16: your haunts.
- 26:58Speaker 15: Give me that boy, and I will go with thee.
- 27:00Speaker 16: Not for thy fairy kingdom fair is away. We shall
- 27:05Speaker 16: chide downright. If I longest stay.
- 27:08Speaker 1: Exit Titania with her train.
- 27:11Speaker 15: Well go thy way. Thou shalt not from this grove
- 27:15Speaker 15: till I torment THEE for this injury, my gentle puck.
- 27:19Speaker 15: Come hither thou rememberest. Since once I sat upon a
- 27:23Speaker 15: promontory and heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back, uttering
- 27:27Speaker 15: such dulcet and harmonious breath, that the rude sea grew
- 27:31Speaker 15: civil at her song, and certain stars shot madly from
- 27:35Speaker 15: their spheres to hear the sea maid's music. I remember
- 27:39Speaker 15: that very time I saw, but thou couldst not flying
- 27:43Speaker 15: between the cold moon and the earth. Cupid all armed
- 27:47Speaker 15: a certain aim. He took at a fair vestal throned
- 27:50Speaker 15: by the west, and loosed his love shaft smartly from
- 27:54Speaker 15: his bow, as it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts.
- 27:58Speaker 15: But I might see young Cuband's fiery shaft quenched in
- 28:02Speaker 15: the chaste beams of the watery moon, and the imperial
- 28:05Speaker 15: voterests pass on in maiden meditation, fancy free yet marked
- 28:11Speaker 15: I where the bolt of Cupid fell. It fell upon
- 28:14Speaker 15: a little western flower before milk white, now purple with
- 28:18Speaker 15: love's wound, and maidens call it love in idleness. Fetch
- 28:23Speaker 15: me that flower the herb I showed thee once the
- 28:26Speaker 15: juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid will make or
- 28:30Speaker 15: man or woman madly dote upon the next live creature
- 28:33Speaker 15: that it sees. Fetch me this herb, and be thou
- 28:37Speaker 15: here again. Ere the Leviathan can swim a league.
- 28:41Speaker 14: I'll put a girdle round the earth in forty.
- 28:43Speaker 15: Minutes exit having once this juice, I'll watch Titania when
- 28:49Speaker 15: she is asleep and drop the liquor of it in
- 28:52Speaker 15: her eyes the next thing. Then she waking looks upon,
- 28:57Speaker 15: be it on lion, bear, or wolf or bull, on
- 29:00Speaker 15: meddling monkey, or on busy ape. She shall pursue it
- 29:03Speaker 15: with the soul of love. And ere I take this
- 29:07Speaker 15: charm from off her sight, as I can take it
- 29:10Speaker 15: with another herb. I'll make her render up her page
- 29:14Speaker 15: to me. But who comes here? I am invisible, and
- 29:18Speaker 15: I will overhear their conference.
- 29:20Speaker 1: Enter Demetrius, Helena following him.
- 29:24Speaker 6: I love thee not, therefore pursue me not. Where is
- 29:29Speaker 6: Lysander and fair Hermia? The one i'll slay and the
- 29:32Speaker 6: other slayeth me? Thou toldest me they were stolen unto
- 29:36Speaker 6: this wood, And here am I and Mowe within this wood.
- 29:40Speaker 6: Because I cannot meet my Hermia. Hence get thee gone
- 29:44Speaker 6: and follow me no more.
- 29:46Speaker 8: You draw me, you hard hearted adamant. But yet you
- 29:49Speaker 8: draw not iron, for my heart as true as steel.
- 29:52Speaker 7: Leave you your.
- 29:53Speaker 8: Power to draw, and I shall have no power to
- 29:55Speaker 8: follow you.
- 29:56Speaker 6: Do I entice you? Do I speak you fair? Or rather,
- 30:00Speaker 6: do I not? In plainest truth, tell you I do not,
- 30:04Speaker 6: nor I cannot love you.
- 30:06Speaker 8: And even for that do I love you? The more
- 30:09Speaker 8: I am your spaniel, and Demetrius, the more you beat me.
- 30:12Speaker 8: I will fawn on you. Use me, but as your
- 30:14Speaker 8: spaniel spurn me, strike me, neglect me, lose me, only
- 30:18Speaker 8: give me leave unworthy as I am to follow you.
- 30:21Speaker 8: What worser place can I beg in your love? And
- 30:24Speaker 8: yet a place of high respect with me than to
- 30:26Speaker 8: be used as you use your dog.
- 30:29Speaker 6: Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit, For
- 30:32Speaker 6: I am sick when I do look on thee.
- 30:34Speaker 8: And I am sick when I look not on you.
- 30:36Speaker 6: You do impeach your modesty too much to leave the
- 30:41Speaker 6: city and commit yourself into the hands of one that
- 30:44Speaker 6: loves you, Not to trust the opportunity of night and
- 30:49Speaker 6: the ill counsel of a desert place with the rich
- 30:52Speaker 6: worth of your virginity.
- 30:54Speaker 8: Your virtue is my privilege. For that it is not
- 30:57Speaker 8: night when I do see your face. Therefore I think
- 31:00Speaker 8: I am not in the night, Nor doth this wood
- 31:03Speaker 8: lack worlds of company? For you, in my respect, are
- 31:05Speaker 8: all the world. Then how can it be said I
- 31:08Speaker 8: am alone when all the world is here to look
- 31:10Speaker 8: on me.
- 31:11Speaker 6: I'll run from thee and hide me in the brakes,
- 31:14Speaker 6: and leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts.
- 31:17Speaker 8: The wildest hath not such a heart as you run.
- 31:20Speaker 8: When you will, the story shall be changed. Apollo flies
- 31:24Speaker 8: and Daphne holds the chase. The dove pursues the griffin.
- 31:27Speaker 8: The mild hind makes speed to catch the tiger bootless speed,
- 31:32Speaker 8: when Cowardice pursues and Valor flies.
- 31:35Speaker 6: I will not say thy questions, let me go, or
- 31:39Speaker 6: if thou follow me, do not believe, but I shall
- 31:41Speaker 6: do thee mischief in the wood.
- 31:43Speaker 8: Aye, in the temple, in the town, the field. You
- 31:46Speaker 8: do me mischief, Fi, Demetrius, your wrongs do set a
- 31:49Speaker 8: scandal on my sex. We cannot fight for love as
- 31:52Speaker 8: men may do. We should be wooed, and we're not
- 31:55Speaker 8: made to woo.
- 31:56Speaker 1: Exit, Demetrius.
- 31:59Speaker 8: I'll follow THEE and make a heaven of hell to
- 32:02Speaker 8: die upon the hand I love so well.
- 32:04Speaker 15: Exit, fare thee well, nymph ere he do leave this grove.
- 32:10Speaker 15: Thou shalt fly him, and he shall seek thy love.
- 32:15Speaker 15: Re enter, puck, hast thou the flower there, welcome wanderer,
- 32:20Speaker 15: Ay there it is, I pray THEE give it me.
- 32:23Speaker 15: I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, where
- 32:27Speaker 15: ox lips and the nodding violet grows quite over canopied
- 32:30Speaker 15: with luscious woodbine, with sweet musk roses, and with elegantine
- 32:35Speaker 15: There sleeps Titania some time of the night, lulled in
- 32:39Speaker 15: these flowers with dances and delight. And there the snake
- 32:42Speaker 15: throws her enamel'd skin weed wide enough to wrap a
- 32:46Speaker 15: fairy in. And with the juice of this I'll streak
- 32:49Speaker 15: her eyes and make her full of hateful fantasies. Take
- 32:54Speaker 15: thou thumb of it, and seek through this grove a
- 32:56Speaker 15: sweet Athenian lady is in love with a disdainful youth.
- 33:00Speaker 15: Annoint his eyes, But do it when the next thing
- 33:02Speaker 15: he aspires may be the lady. Thou shalt know the
- 33:06Speaker 15: man by the Athenian garments he hath on affect it
- 33:09Speaker 15: with some care, that he may prove more fond of
- 33:12Speaker 15: her than she upon her love. And look, thou meet
- 33:15Speaker 15: me ere the first cock crow.
- 33:17Speaker 14: Fear not, my lord, your servant shall do so.
- 33:21Speaker 1: Egsiant scene too, another part of the wood. Enter Titania
- 33:31Speaker 1: with her train.
- 33:33Speaker 16: Come now a roundlen a fairy song. Then for the
- 33:37Speaker 16: third part of a minute, hence some to kill cankers
- 33:41Speaker 16: in the musk rosebuds. Some war with rare mice for
- 33:45Speaker 16: their leathern wings to make my small elves coats, and
- 33:49Speaker 16: some keep back the clamorousal that knightly hoots and wonders
- 33:53Speaker 16: at our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep, then to
- 33:58Speaker 16: your offices and let.
- 34:00Speaker 17: Me rest new spotty sakes, swift.
- 34:12Speaker 18: Double tongs, forty birch bars be not seen goods and
- 34:19Speaker 18: god bostrong connot be a very green cat on now.
- 34:29Speaker 8: With nallody sing bar sleep.
- 34:34Speaker 19: Lallaby, double.
- 34:39Speaker 9: Bye, b.
- 34:43Speaker 19: Bye never home b sago child hab lobly ladyby so
- 34:54Speaker 19: good night with mollaby green inside songbody as you love,
- 35:04Speaker 19: lets see us.
- 35:07Speaker 20: Beat to say love chocky w sid.
- 35:14Speaker 8: Fans below man.
- 35:17Speaker 20: With melody, sing se lollaby, lolla.
- 35:27Speaker 1: By never.
- 35:36Speaker 20: So much um come lovely lady by sogod night with
- 35:45Speaker 20: lob songo, night with loob.
- 35:54Speaker 13: Hence away. Now all is well won aloof stands sentinel.
- 35:59Speaker 1: Egg yemp fairies. Titania sleeps enter oberon and squeezes the
- 36:06Speaker 1: flower on Titania's eyelids.
- 36:10Speaker 15: What thou seest when thou dost wake, do it for
- 36:13Speaker 15: thy true love, take love and languish for his sake?
- 36:17Speaker 15: Be it ounce or cat or bear part or boar
- 36:20Speaker 15: with bristled hair in thy eye. That shall appear when
- 36:24Speaker 15: thou wakest. It is thy dear wake, when some vile
- 36:28Speaker 15: thing is near.
- 36:30Speaker 1: Exit, enter Lysander and Hermia.
- 36:35Speaker 7: Fair love you faint with wandering in the wood, and
- 36:39Speaker 7: to speak Troth, I have forgot our way, will rest us, Hermia,
- 36:44Speaker 7: if you think it good and tarry for the comfort
- 36:46Speaker 7: of the day.
- 36:48Speaker 5: Be it so, Lysander, find you out of bed, for
- 36:51Speaker 5: I upon this bank will rest my head.
- 36:54Speaker 7: One turf shall serve as pillow for us both one heart,
- 36:58Speaker 7: one bed, two bosoms and one troth.
- 37:03Speaker 5: Nay good, Lysander, for my sake, my dear life further off. Yet,
- 37:07Speaker 5: do not lie so near.
- 37:09Speaker 7: Oh, take the sense sweet of my innocence. Love takes
- 37:13Speaker 7: the meaning in love's conference. I mean that my heart
- 37:18Speaker 7: unto yours, is knit, so that but one heart we
- 37:21Speaker 7: can make of it, two bosoms interchained with an oath.
- 37:26Speaker 7: So then two bosoms and a single troth. Then by
- 37:31Speaker 7: your side, no bedroom, me deny for lying, So, Hermia,
- 37:34Speaker 7: I do not lie.
- 37:36Speaker 5: Lysander riddles very prettily. Now much beshrew my manners and
- 37:40Speaker 5: my pride. If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied, but
- 37:45Speaker 5: gentle friend, for love and courtesy lie further off in
- 37:48Speaker 5: human modesty. Such separation, as may well be said, becomes
- 37:52Speaker 5: a virtuous bachelor and a maid. So far be distant,
- 37:56Speaker 5: and good night's sweet friend, thy love ne'er altar till
- 37:59Speaker 5: by sweet life.
- 38:00Speaker 7: And amen amen to that fair prayer, say I, and
- 38:05Speaker 7: then end life when I end loyalty. Here is my
- 38:10Speaker 7: bed sleep, Give thee all his rest.
- 38:14Speaker 5: With half that wish. The wisher's eyes be pressed.
- 38:18Speaker 1: They sleep, and her puck.
- 38:23Speaker 21: Through the forest.
- 38:24Speaker 14: Have I gone, but Athenian found I none on whose
- 38:26Speaker 14: eyes I might approve this flower's force in stirring love,
- 38:30Speaker 14: night and silence. Who is here? Weeds of Athens he
- 38:35Speaker 14: doth wear? This is he, my master said, despised the
- 38:40Speaker 14: Athenian maid. And here the maiden, sleeping sound on the
- 38:43Speaker 14: dank and dirty ground, Pretty soul, she durst not lie
- 38:47Speaker 14: near this lack love, this kill courtesy churl upon thy eyes.
- 38:51Speaker 14: I throw all the power this charm doth oh. When
- 38:54Speaker 14: thou wakest, let love forbid sleep his seat on thy eyelid,
- 38:58Speaker 14: so awake when I am gone, for I must now
- 39:01Speaker 14: to oberon.
- 39:02Speaker 1: Exit, enter Demetrius and Helena running.
- 39:09Speaker 8: Stay though thou kill me, Sweet Demetrius.
- 39:12Speaker 6: I charge thee hence and do not haunt me.
- 39:15Speaker 8: Thus, Oh wilt thou darkling leave me?
- 39:17Speaker 6: Do not so stay on thy peril?
- 39:20Speaker 1: I alone will go exit.
- 39:24Speaker 8: Oh, I am out of breath in this fond chase.
- 39:27Speaker 8: The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace. Happy
- 39:31Speaker 8: is Hermia? Wheresoe'er she lies? For she hath blessed and
- 39:34Speaker 8: attractive eyes. How came her eyes so bright? Not with
- 39:38Speaker 8: salt tears? If so, my eyes are oftener washed than hers? No,
- 39:43Speaker 8: Now I am as ugly as a bear. For beasts
- 39:45Speaker 8: that meet me run away for fear. Therefore no marvel
- 39:49Speaker 8: though Demetrius do as a monster fly my presents. Thus
- 39:53Speaker 8: what wicked and dissembling glass of mine made me compare
- 39:56Speaker 8: with Hermia's spheryine? But who is here, Lysander? On the ground,
- 40:02Speaker 8: dead or asleep? I see no blood, no wound, Lysander?
- 40:07Speaker 8: If you live, good, sir, awake.
- 40:09Speaker 7: And run through fire? I will, for thy sweet sake,
- 40:14Speaker 7: transparent Helena, nature shows art that through thy bosom makes
- 40:20Speaker 7: me see thy heart? Where is Demetrius? Oh? How fit
- 40:25Speaker 7: a word is that vile name to perish on my sword.
- 40:29Speaker 8: Do not say so, Lysander, say not so what though
- 40:32Speaker 8: he love your Hermia? Lord, what though yet Hermia still
- 40:36Speaker 8: loves you? Then be content?
- 40:38Speaker 7: Content with Hermia. No I do repent the tedious minutes
- 40:43Speaker 7: I with her have spent. Not Hermia, but Helena I love,
- 40:49Speaker 7: who will not change a raven for a dove. The
- 40:52Speaker 7: will of man is by his reason swayed, and reason
- 40:56Speaker 7: says you are the worthier maid. Things growing are not
- 41:02Speaker 7: ripe until there season. So I, being young till now ripe,
- 41:07Speaker 7: not to reason and touching now the point of human skill.
- 41:11Speaker 7: Reason becomes the marshal to my will, and leads me
- 41:14Speaker 7: to your eyes, where I o'er look Love's stories written
- 41:19Speaker 7: in Love's richest book.
- 41:22Speaker 8: Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? When at
- 41:25Speaker 8: your hands did I.
- 41:26Speaker 7: Deserve this scorn? Is not enough?
- 41:28Speaker 8: Is not enough, young man, that I did never know,
- 41:30Speaker 8: nor never can deserve a sweet look from Demetrius's eye.
- 41:34Speaker 8: But you must flout my insufficiency. Good troth you do
- 41:38Speaker 8: me wrong, Good sooth you do in such disdainful manner,
- 41:41Speaker 8: met woo, But fare you well? Perforce I must confess
- 41:44Speaker 8: I thought you, Lord of more true gentleness, Oh that
- 41:48Speaker 8: a lady of one man refused should of another therefore
- 41:51Speaker 8: be abused.
- 41:52Speaker 7: Exit she sees not hermia, hermia. Sleep thou there, and
- 41:59Speaker 7: never may thou come, Lysander near, For as a surfeit
- 42:03Speaker 7: of the sweetest things, the deepest loathing to the stomach brings,
- 42:08Speaker 7: or as Thai heresies that men do leave are hated
- 42:11Speaker 7: most of those they did deceive. So thou my surfeit
- 42:15Speaker 7: and my heresy of all be hated. But the most
- 42:18Speaker 7: of me and all my powers, address your love and
- 42:23Speaker 7: might to honor Helen and to be her knight.
- 42:28Speaker 5: Exit Help me, Lysander, help me? Did thy best to
- 42:33Speaker 5: plut this crawling serpent from my breast? I me for pity?
- 42:38Speaker 5: What a dream was here, Lysander? Look how I did
- 42:42Speaker 5: quake with fear methought a serpent eat my heart away?
- 42:47Speaker 5: And you sat smiling at his cruel prey. Lysander, what removed? Lysander?
- 42:55Speaker 13: Lord?
- 42:57Speaker 5: What out of hearing gode no sound, no word, a lack?
- 43:03Speaker 5: Where are you speak? And if you hear speak of
- 43:07Speaker 5: all loves I swoon almost with fear. No, then I
- 43:13Speaker 5: well perceive you are not nigh either death or you
- 43:16Speaker 5: I'll find immediately.
- 43:19Speaker 1: Exit. End of Act two, Act three, Scene one, the
- 43:25Speaker 1: wood Titania lying asleep, Enter Quince, snug bottom, flute, snout
- 43:35Speaker 1: and starveling.
- 43:37Speaker 10: Are we all Matt, pet Pet, And here's a marvelous
- 43:41Speaker 10: convenient place for a rehearsel. This green plot shall be
- 43:45Speaker 10: a stage this hawthorn break at tiring house, and we
- 43:49Speaker 10: will do it in action, as we will do it
- 43:51Speaker 10: before the Duke Peter Quinns. What sayest thou, bully Bottom.
- 43:56Speaker 9: There are things in this comedy of Permis and thisbey
- 43:59Speaker 9: that will never please. First Peramus must draw a sword
- 44:03Speaker 9: to kill himself, wish the ladies cannot abide.
- 44:06Speaker 22: I want to see that by your Lincoln a powerlous fear.
- 44:12Speaker 21: I believe we must leave the killing out when all
- 44:14Speaker 21: is done.
- 44:15Speaker 9: Not a whit. I have a device to make all
- 44:18Speaker 9: well right, me a prolog. And let the prolog seem
- 44:23Speaker 9: to say we will do no arm with our swords,
- 44:26Speaker 9: and that Pyramis is not killed. Indeed, and for the
- 44:29Speaker 9: more better assurance, tell them that I Pyramus am not Pyramus,
- 44:35Speaker 9: but Bottom the weaver. This will put them out of fear.
- 44:40Speaker 10: Well. We will have such a prologue and it shall
- 44:42Speaker 10: be written in eight and six.
- 44:45Speaker 9: No, make it two more. May it be written in
- 44:48Speaker 9: a and a.
- 44:50Speaker 22: Will not the ladies be a feared of the lion?
- 44:53Speaker 21: I fear it, I promise you.
- 44:56Speaker 9: Masters, you ought to consider with yourselves to bring in
- 44:59Speaker 9: God shield us a lion among ladies. It's a most
- 45:04Speaker 9: dreadful thing. For there is not a more fearful wild
- 45:07Speaker 9: fowl than your lion living, and we ought to look
- 45:10Speaker 9: to it.
- 45:11Speaker 22: Therefore, another prolog must tell he is not a lion.
- 45:16Speaker 9: Nay, you must name his name, and half his face
- 45:20Speaker 9: must be seen through the lion's neck, and he himself
- 45:23Speaker 9: must speak through saying thus, or the same defect, ladies,
- 45:28Speaker 9: or fair ladies, I would wish you, or I would
- 45:33Speaker 9: request you, or I would entreat you not to fear,
- 45:40Speaker 9: not to tremble my life for yours. If you think
- 45:44Speaker 9: I come hither as a lion, it were pity of
- 45:46Speaker 9: my life. No, I am no such thing. I am
- 45:51Speaker 9: a man as other men are. And there indeed, let
- 45:54Speaker 9: him name his name and tell them plainly he is
- 45:57Speaker 9: snug the joiner.
- 45:59Speaker 10: Well it's so. But there is two hard things. That
- 46:03Speaker 10: is to bring the moonlight into a chamber for you
- 46:07Speaker 10: know pyramids, and thisby meet by moonlight the moonshine.
- 46:12Speaker 22: That night we play our play.
- 46:14Speaker 9: A calendar, a calendar, look in the almanac, find out moonshine.
- 46:18Speaker 9: Find out moonshine.
- 46:19Speaker 10: Yes, it does shine that night.
- 46:22Speaker 9: Why then, may you leave a casement of the Great
- 46:25Speaker 9: Chamber window where we play open, and the moon may
- 46:29Speaker 9: shine in at the casement.
- 46:30Speaker 10: I or else one must come in with a bush
- 46:33Speaker 10: of thorns and a lanthorn, and say he comes to
- 46:37Speaker 10: disfigure or to present the person of moonshine. Then there
- 46:41Speaker 10: is another thing. We must have a war in the
- 46:44Speaker 10: Great Chamber for Pyramis. And thisby says the story to
- 46:48Speaker 10: talk through the chink of a wall.
- 46:50Speaker 22: You can never bring in a war, what say you
- 46:53Speaker 22: bottom hmm?
- 46:56Speaker 9: Some man or other must present war. And let him
- 47:01Speaker 9: have some plaster or some loam, or some rough cast
- 47:05Speaker 9: about him to signify wall. Let him hold his fingers
- 47:09Speaker 9: thus and through that cranny shall Pyramus. And thisby whisper.
- 47:16Speaker 10: If that may be, then all is well. Come sit down,
- 47:20Speaker 10: every mother's son, and rehearse your parts. Pyramus. You begin,
- 47:25Speaker 10: when you have spoken your speech, enter into that break
- 47:28Speaker 10: and sow everyone according to his cue.
- 47:32Speaker 6: Enter puck behind what hempen homespuns?
- 47:36Speaker 14: Have we swaggering here so near the cradle of the
- 47:39Speaker 14: fairy queen? What a plate toward I'll be an auditor,
- 47:44Speaker 14: an actor too, perhaps if I see cause.
- 47:47Speaker 10: Speak Pyramis thisby stand forth, this.
- 47:51Speaker 9: Be the flowers of odious savers, sweet odors, odors, odors savers,
- 48:01Speaker 9: so have by breath, my dearest, there's be there but
- 48:05Speaker 9: hark a voice. Stay thou but here a while, and
- 48:09Speaker 9: by and bye, I will do thee appear.
- 48:12Speaker 14: Exit a strange a paramus and air played.
- 48:16Speaker 11: Here exit must I speak now?
- 48:21Speaker 10: I marry Massieu, for you must understand. He goes but
- 48:25Speaker 10: to see a noise that he heard and is to
- 48:28Speaker 10: come again.
- 48:29Speaker 11: Most radiant pyramids, most lily white of Hugh. I've culor
- 48:31Speaker 11: like the red rosen frame for Brya, most frisky juvenile
- 48:34Speaker 11: and e most lovely jew as true as Dru's horse,
- 48:36Speaker 11: and never yet will tire. I'll meet thee pyramids at
- 48:38Speaker 11: Ninnie's tomb.
- 48:39Speaker 10: Ninna's too. Men, why you must not speak that yet?
- 48:44Speaker 10: Let your answers to Pyramus. You speak all your parts
- 48:47Speaker 10: at once, cues and all Pyramis enter your cue is past.
- 48:52Speaker 10: It is never tire Oh.
- 48:56Speaker 11: As true as Drew's horse that yet would never tire.
- 49:00Speaker 1: Re enter, puck and bottom with an ass's head.
- 49:05Speaker 9: If I were fair, this be I were only thine.
- 49:10Speaker 10: Oh monstrous, O strange. We are haunted pray masters, fly master's.
- 49:15Speaker 1: Help, eggciant, quince, snug, flute, snout and starveling.
- 49:23Speaker 14: I'll follow you. I'll lead you about a round through bog,
- 49:27Speaker 14: through bush, through break through brier. Sometime a horse, I'll
- 49:30Speaker 14: be sometime a hound, a hog, a headless bear, some
- 49:34Speaker 14: time a fire and neigh and bark and grunt and
- 49:37Speaker 14: roar and burn like horse, hound, hog, bear, fire at
- 49:41Speaker 14: every turn?
- 49:43Speaker 9: Exit Will they run away? This is a knavery of them,
- 49:47Speaker 9: to make me a feared re enter.
- 49:50Speaker 22: Snout, oh bottom, thou art changed.
- 49:54Speaker 1: What do I see on thee?
- 49:56Speaker 9: What do you see? You see an ass head of
- 49:58Speaker 9: your own?
- 49:58Speaker 1: Do you exit? Snout, re enter, quince.
- 50:04Speaker 10: Bless thee, bottom, bless thee thou art translated.
- 50:08Speaker 1: Exit.
- 50:09Speaker 9: I see their knavery. This is to make an ass
- 50:13Speaker 9: of me, to fright me, if they could, but I
- 50:17Speaker 9: will not stir from this place. Do what they can.
- 50:20Speaker 9: I will walk up and down here, and I will
- 50:21Speaker 9: sing that they shall hear. I am not afraid the
- 50:28Speaker 9: housel cocks ole black of you, with orange tarny bell,
- 50:33Speaker 9: the throstle, with his note so true there and with
- 50:39Speaker 9: little coal.
- 50:40Speaker 16: Well, what angel wakes me from my flowery bed?
- 50:47Speaker 9: A finch, the sparrow, and the lark, the plain s
- 50:50Speaker 9: uncle cuckoo gray, whose note for many a man doth
- 50:55Speaker 9: mark And there's not answer ny for indeed, who would
- 51:00Speaker 9: set his wit to so foolish a bird? Who would
- 51:03Speaker 9: give a bird the lie? Though he cry, go goo,
- 51:06Speaker 9: never show I.
- 51:08Speaker 16: Pray thee gentle mortal sing again. Mine ear is much
- 51:13Speaker 16: enamored of thy note, So is mine eye, and thrall
- 51:17Speaker 16: it to thy shape, and thy fair virtue's force perforce
- 51:21Speaker 16: doth move me on the first view to say to
- 51:25Speaker 16: swear I love.
- 51:28Speaker 9: Thee methinks, mistress, you shall have little reason for that hat,
- 51:33Speaker 9: And yet to say the truth, Reason and love keep
- 51:36Speaker 9: little company together. Nowadays more of the petty that some
- 51:39Speaker 9: man's neighbors will not make them friends. Nay, I can
- 51:43Speaker 9: go leak upon occasion.
- 51:45Speaker 16: Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.
- 51:49Speaker 9: Not so neither, But if I had wit enough to
- 51:52Speaker 9: get out of this wood. I have enough to serve
- 51:54Speaker 9: mine own.
- 51:54Speaker 16: Turn out of this wood, do not desire to go.
- 51:58Speaker 16: Thou shalt remain here, whether thou.
- 52:01Speaker 13: Wilt or no.
- 52:03Speaker 16: I am a spirit of no common rate. The summer
- 52:07Speaker 16: still doth tend upon my state, and I do love thee.
- 52:12Speaker 16: Therefore go with me. I'll give thee fairies to attend
- 52:16Speaker 16: on thee, and they shall fetch thee jewels from the
- 52:19Speaker 16: deep and sing while thou, unpressed flowers dost sleep. And
- 52:25Speaker 16: I will purge thy mortal grossness, so that thou shalt,
- 52:29Speaker 16: like an airy spirit. Go pease blossom, cobweb moth and
- 52:34Speaker 16: mustard seed.
- 52:36Speaker 1: Enter pease blossom, cobweb moth and mustard seed.
- 52:42Speaker 11: Ready, and I and I and I, where shall we go?
- 52:48Speaker 16: Be kind and courteous to this gentleman, hop in his
- 52:52Speaker 16: walks and gambol in his eyes. Feed him with apricocks
- 52:56Speaker 16: and dewberries, with purple grapes, green figs and mulbery's. The
- 53:01Speaker 16: honey bags steal from the humble bees, and for night
- 53:05Speaker 16: tapers crop their waxen thighs and light them at the
- 53:09Speaker 16: fiery glow worm's eyes. To have my love to bed
- 53:13Speaker 16: and to arise and pluck the wings from painted butterflies,
- 53:18Speaker 16: to fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes. Nod to him, elves,
- 53:23Speaker 16: and do him courtesies. Hail mortal, Hail, Hail hail.
- 53:30Speaker 9: I cry your Worship's mercy. Heartily, I beseech your worship's name, Cobweb,
- 53:36Speaker 9: I shall desire you of more acquaintance, Good Master Cobweb.
- 53:39Speaker 9: If I cut my finger, I shall make bold with
- 53:41Speaker 9: you your name, honest gentlemen, peace Blossom, I pray you
- 53:47Speaker 9: commend me to Mistress Squash, your mother, and a master
- 53:50Speaker 9: piece God your father, Good Master peace Blossom, I shall
- 53:54Speaker 9: desire you of more acquaintance too, your name, I beseech you, sir,
- 54:00Speaker 9: mustard Seed, Good Master mustard Seed, I know your patients well.
- 54:05Speaker 9: That same cowardly giant like ox Beef, hath devoured many
- 54:08Speaker 9: a gentleman of your house. I promise you Your kindred
- 54:12Speaker 9: had made my eyes water air. Now I desire your
- 54:15Speaker 9: more acquaintance, Good Master mustard Seed.
- 54:18Speaker 16: Come wait upon him, Lead him to my bower. The moon, methinks,
- 54:24Speaker 16: looks with a watery eye, and when she weeps, weeps
- 54:28Speaker 16: every little flower lamenting some enforced chastity, tie up my
- 54:34Speaker 16: love's tongue, bring him silently.
- 54:38Speaker 1: Excillant scene too, another part of the wood. Enter Oberon.
- 54:51Speaker 15: I wonder if Titania be awaked, then what it was
- 54:55Speaker 15: that next came in her eye, which she must dote
- 54:58Speaker 15: on in extremity. Enter Puck, Here comes my messenger, How now,
- 55:04Speaker 15: mad spirit?
- 55:05Speaker 6: What night?
- 55:06Speaker 15: Rule? Now about this haunted grove?
- 55:08Speaker 14: My mistress with monsters in love near to her close
- 55:11Speaker 14: and consecrated bower. While she was in her dull and
- 55:14Speaker 14: sleeping hour, a crew of patches rude mechanicals that work
- 55:19Speaker 14: for bread upon Athenian stalls were met together to rehearse
- 55:22Speaker 14: a play intended for Great Theseus's nuptial day. The shallowest
- 55:26Speaker 14: thick skin of that barren sort who Pyramus presented in
- 55:29Speaker 14: their sport, forsook his scene and entered in a break.
- 55:32Speaker 14: When I did him at this advantage, take an asses
- 55:35Speaker 14: null lie fixed on his head, Anon his this be
- 55:38Speaker 14: must be answered, and forth my mimic comes. When they
- 55:42Speaker 14: hymn spy as wild geese that the creeping fowler eye
- 55:46Speaker 14: or Russid painted truffs, many in sort, rising and cawing
- 55:50Speaker 14: at the gun's report, severed themselves in madly sweep the sky.
- 55:55Speaker 14: So at his sight away his fellows fly, and at
- 55:58Speaker 14: our stamp here 'er in and o'er one falls. He
- 56:02Speaker 14: murder cries, and help from Athen's calls. Their sense thus weak, lost,
- 56:06Speaker 14: with their fears thus strong made senseless things begin to
- 56:10Speaker 14: do them wrong. For briars and thorns of their apparel
- 56:13Speaker 14: snatch some sleeves, some hats from yield, as all things catch.
- 56:18Speaker 14: I let them on in this distracted fear, and left
- 56:20Speaker 14: sweet Pyramus translated there when in that moment, so it
- 56:24Speaker 14: came to pass, Titania waked and straightway loved an ass.
- 56:30Speaker 15: This falls out better than I could devise. But hast
- 56:33Speaker 15: thou yet latched the Athenian's eyes with the love juice,
- 56:36Speaker 15: as I did bid thee do.
- 56:38Speaker 14: I took him sleeping. That is finished too, And the
- 56:41Speaker 14: Athenian woman by his side, that when he waked of force,
- 56:44Speaker 14: she must be eyed.
- 56:46Speaker 1: Enter Hermia and Demetrius stand close.
- 56:51Speaker 15: This is the same Athenian.
- 56:53Speaker 14: This is the woman, but not this the man.
- 56:57Speaker 6: Oh, why rebuke you him? That love you sow laid
- 57:01Speaker 6: breath so bitter on your bitter foe.
- 57:04Speaker 5: Now I but chiede. But I should use thee worse
- 57:07Speaker 5: for thou I fear hast given me cause to curse.
- 57:10Speaker 5: If thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep, being o'er
- 57:13Speaker 5: shoes and blood, plunge in the deep and kill me too,
- 57:18Speaker 5: the sun was not so true unto the day as
- 57:20Speaker 5: he to me. Would he have stolen away from sleeping
- 57:23Speaker 5: Hermia all believe as soon this whole earth may be bored,
- 57:26Speaker 5: and that the moon may through the center creep, and
- 57:29Speaker 5: so displease her brother's noontide with antipodes. It cannot be.
- 57:34Speaker 5: But thou hast murdered him. So should a murderer look
- 57:37Speaker 5: so dead, so grim?
- 57:39Speaker 6: So should the murdered look, and so should I pierce
- 57:43Speaker 6: through the heart with your stern cruelty. Yet you, the murderer,
- 57:47Speaker 6: look as bright as clear as yonder Venus in her
- 57:50Speaker 6: glimmering sphere.
- 57:52Speaker 5: What's this to my Lysander? Where is he?
- 57:55Speaker 1: Ah?
- 57:55Speaker 5: Good, Demetrius, wilt thou give him me?
- 57:58Speaker 6: I had rather give his carcass to my hounds.
- 58:01Speaker 5: Out dog out cur out, drivest me past the bounds
- 58:04Speaker 5: of maiden's patience. Hast thou slain him, then henceforth be
- 58:09Speaker 5: never numbered among men? Oh once tell true, Tell true,
- 58:13Speaker 5: even for my sake, darst thou have looked upon him
- 58:16Speaker 5: being awake, and hast thou killed him sleeping? Oh, brave touch,
- 58:21Speaker 5: could not a worm an adder do so much? An
- 58:24Speaker 5: adder did it for with a doubler tongue than thine, thou, serpent,
- 58:28Speaker 5: never adder stung.
- 58:30Speaker 6: You spend your passion on a misprized mood. I am
- 58:34Speaker 6: not guilty of Lysander's blood, nor is he dead. For
- 58:38Speaker 6: aught that I could tell.
- 58:39Speaker 5: I pray thee tell me then that he is well?
- 58:42Speaker 6: And if I could, what should I get?
- 58:44Speaker 9: There?
- 58:44Speaker 5: For a privilege never to see me more? And from
- 58:47Speaker 5: thy hated presence part I sow see me no more,
- 58:51Speaker 5: whether he be dead or no exitt There.
- 58:55Speaker 6: Is no following her in this fierce vain here there
- 59:00Speaker 6: for for a while I will remain.
- 59:03Speaker 23: So Sorrow's heaviness doth heavier grow for debt that bankrupt
- 59:08Speaker 23: sleep doth sorrow, oh, which now in some slight measure
- 59:12Speaker 23: it will pay, if for his tender here I make
- 59:16Speaker 23: some stay.
- 59:18Speaker 1: Lies down and sleeps.
- 59:20Speaker 15: What hast thou done? Thou hast mistaken quite and laid
- 59:24Speaker 15: the love juice on some true love sight, a thy
- 59:27Speaker 15: misprison must perforce ensue some true love turned, and not
- 59:31Speaker 15: a false turn true.
- 59:33Speaker 14: Then fate or rules that one man holding troph a
- 59:36Speaker 14: million fail confounding oath on oath.
- 59:40Speaker 15: About the wood, go swifter than the wind, and Helena
- 59:43Speaker 15: of Athens, look thou find all fancy. Sick she is
- 59:47Speaker 15: and pale of cheer, with sighs of love that cost
- 59:50Speaker 15: the fresh blood deer by some illusions. See thou bring
- 59:53Speaker 15: her here. I'll charm his eyes against she do appear?
- 59:56Speaker 14: I go, I go, Look how I go swifter than
- 59:59Speaker 14: arrow from the tatas exit.
- 1:00:02Speaker 15: Flower of this purple dye, hit with Cupid's archery, sink
- 1:00:06Speaker 15: in apple of his eye. When his love he doth
- 1:00:10Speaker 15: a spy. Let her shine as gloriously as the venus
- 1:00:13Speaker 15: of the sky. When thou wakest, if she be by
- 1:00:17Speaker 15: beg of her for remedy, re enter Puck.
- 1:00:22Speaker 14: Captain of our fairy band. Helena is here at hand,
- 1:00:25Speaker 14: and the youth mistook by me pleading for a lover's fee.
- 1:00:28Speaker 14: Shall we there, fond pageantcy Lord, what fools these mortals be?
- 1:00:33Speaker 15: Stand aside? The noise they make will cause Demetrius to awake.
- 1:00:38Speaker 14: Then will two at once woo one that must needs
- 1:00:41Speaker 14: be sport alone, and those things do best please me
- 1:00:44Speaker 14: that befall preposterously.
- 1:00:47Speaker 1: Enter Lysander and Helena.
- 1:00:50Speaker 7: Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?
- 1:00:54Speaker 7: Scorn and derision never come in tears. Look when I vow,
- 1:00:58Speaker 7: I weep, and vows so born in their nativity, all
- 1:01:03Speaker 7: truth appears. How can these things in me seem scorn
- 1:01:06Speaker 7: to you? Bearing the badge of faith to prove them true?
- 1:01:10Speaker 8: You do advance your cunning more and more when truth
- 1:01:13Speaker 8: kills truth, Oh devilish, holy fray. These vows are hermias.
- 1:01:18Speaker 8: Will you give her? Are weigh oath with oath, and
- 1:01:21Speaker 8: you will nothing weigh Your vows to her and me
- 1:01:24Speaker 8: put in two scales will even weigh, and both as
- 1:01:26Speaker 8: light as tails.
- 1:01:28Speaker 7: I had no judgment when to her I swore.
- 1:01:31Speaker 8: Nor none in my mind. Now you give her all.
- 1:01:34Speaker 7: Demitrius loves her, and he loves not you.
- 1:01:38Speaker 6: Oh Helena, goddess Nymph, perfect divine to what my love?
- 1:01:45Speaker 6: Shall I compare? Thine eye crystal is muddy? Oh how
- 1:01:50Speaker 6: ripe and show thy lips those kissing cherries tempting grow
- 1:01:54Speaker 6: that pure congealed white high tarus snow fanned with the
- 1:01:58Speaker 6: eastern wind, turns to a crow when thou hold'st up
- 1:02:01Speaker 6: thy hand. Oh let me kiss this princess of pure white,
- 1:02:06Speaker 6: this seal of bliss.
- 1:02:09Speaker 8: Oh spite, Oh hell, I see you all are bent
- 1:02:12Speaker 8: to set against me for your merriment. If you were
- 1:02:15Speaker 8: civil in new courtesy, you would not do me this
- 1:02:17Speaker 8: much injury. Can you not hate me as I know
- 1:02:20Speaker 8: you do? But you must join in souls to mock
- 1:02:22Speaker 8: me too? If you were men, as men you are
- 1:02:25Speaker 8: in show, you would not use a gentle lady so
- 1:02:28Speaker 8: to vowl and swear and super praise my parts. When
- 1:02:32Speaker 8: I am sure you hate me with your hearts. You
- 1:02:34Speaker 8: both are rivals and love Hermia, and now both rivals
- 1:02:37Speaker 8: to mock Helena a trim, exploit a manly enterprise, to
- 1:02:41Speaker 8: conjure tears up in a poor maid's eyes with your derision.
- 1:02:45Speaker 8: None of noble sort would so offend a virgin and
- 1:02:48Speaker 8: extort a poor soul's patience, all to make you sport.
- 1:02:52Speaker 7: You are unkind to Demetrius, be not so, For you
- 1:02:55Speaker 7: love Hermia. This you know, I though, and with all
- 1:03:00Speaker 7: good will, with all my heart, in Hermia's love, I
- 1:03:04Speaker 7: yield you up my part and yours of Helena to
- 1:03:07Speaker 7: me bequeath whom I do love and will do till
- 1:03:10Speaker 7: my death.
- 1:03:11Speaker 8: Never did makers waste more idle breath.
- 1:03:15Speaker 6: Lysander, keep thy Hermia. I will none if e'er I
- 1:03:18Speaker 6: loved her all that love is gone my heart to her.
- 1:03:22Speaker 6: But as guest wise, sojourn and now to Helen? Is
- 1:03:25Speaker 6: it home? Returned there to remain Helen?
- 1:03:29Speaker 24: It is not so.
- 1:03:31Speaker 6: Despair is not the faith thou dost not know? Bless
- 1:03:34Speaker 6: to thy herald, Thou abide it, dear, look where thy
- 1:03:38Speaker 6: love comes yonder is thy dear.
- 1:03:41Speaker 5: Re enter Hermia, dark knight, that from the eye his
- 1:03:46Speaker 5: function takes the ear more quick of apprehension makes wherein
- 1:03:50Speaker 5: it doth impair the seeing sense it pays the hearing
- 1:03:53Speaker 5: double recompense. Thou art not by mine eye? Lysander found
- 1:03:58Speaker 5: mine ear. I thank it brought me to thy sound.
- 1:04:01Speaker 5: But why unkindly didst thou leave me?
- 1:04:03Speaker 10: So?
- 1:04:04Speaker 7: Why should he stay whom love doth pressed to go?
- 1:04:07Speaker 5: What love could press Lysander from my side?
- 1:04:11Speaker 7: Lysander's love that would not let him bide fair Helena,
- 1:04:15Speaker 7: who more in guilds the night than all you fiery
- 1:04:18Speaker 7: ohs and eyes of light? Why seeks thou me? Could
- 1:04:22Speaker 7: not this make THEE know the hate I bear? THEE
- 1:04:25Speaker 7: made me leave THEE?
- 1:04:26Speaker 5: So you speak not as you think it cannot be
- 1:04:31Speaker 5: lo she.
- 1:04:32Speaker 8: Is one of this confederacy. Now I perceive they have
- 1:04:35Speaker 8: conjoined all three to fashion this false sport in spite
- 1:04:38Speaker 8: of me injurious Hermia, most ungrateful maid? Have you conspired?
- 1:04:44Speaker 8: Have you with these contrived to baite me with this
- 1:04:47Speaker 8: foul derision? Is all the counsel that we two have shared,
- 1:04:50Speaker 8: the sisters vows, the hours that we have spent when
- 1:04:53Speaker 8: we have chid, the hasty footed time for parting us?
- 1:04:56Speaker 23: Oh?
- 1:04:57Speaker 8: Is it all forgot? All school days, friendship, childhood, innocence?
- 1:05:02Speaker 8: We Hermia, like two artificial gods, have, with our needles,
- 1:05:05Speaker 8: created both one flower, both on one sampler, sitting on
- 1:05:09Speaker 8: one cushion, both warbling of one song, both in one key,
- 1:05:12Speaker 8: as if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds had
- 1:05:16Speaker 8: been in corporate. So we grow together, like to a
- 1:05:19Speaker 8: double cherry, seeming parted, but yet a union in partition,
- 1:05:23Speaker 8: two lovely berries molded on one stem, so with two
- 1:05:27Speaker 8: seeming bodies, but one heart, two of the first, like
- 1:05:30Speaker 8: coats in heraldry, do but to one and crowned with
- 1:05:33Speaker 8: one crest? And will you rent our ancient love asunder
- 1:05:36Speaker 8: to join with men in scorning your poor friend? It
- 1:05:40Speaker 8: is not friendly. It does not maidenly our sex, as
- 1:05:43Speaker 8: well as I may chide you for it, though I
- 1:05:45Speaker 8: alone do feel the injury.
- 1:05:47Speaker 5: I am amazed at your passionate words. I scorn you
- 1:05:50Speaker 5: not it seems that you scorn me?
- 1:05:52Speaker 8: Have you not set Lysander as in scorn, to follow
- 1:05:55Speaker 8: me and praise my eyes and face? And made your
- 1:05:58Speaker 8: other love Demetrius, who even but now did spurn me
- 1:06:01Speaker 8: with his foot to call me goddess Nymph, divine and rare,
- 1:06:05Speaker 8: precious celestial. Wherefore speaks Ee this to her he hates?
- 1:06:09Speaker 8: And wherefore doth Lysander deny your love so rich within
- 1:06:13Speaker 8: his soul, and tender me forsooth affection? But by your
- 1:06:17Speaker 8: setting on, but by your consent? What though I be
- 1:06:20Speaker 8: not so ingrace as you, so hung upon with love
- 1:06:23Speaker 8: so fortunate, but miserable most to love unloved, this you
- 1:06:27Speaker 8: should pity rather than despise.
- 1:06:29Speaker 5: I understand not what you mean by this?
- 1:06:32Speaker 8: Ay, do persevere counterfeit, sad looks, make mouths upon me
- 1:06:36Speaker 8: when I turn my back, wink at each other. Hold
- 1:06:38Speaker 8: the sweet jest up. This sport well carried shall be chronicled.
- 1:06:42Speaker 8: If you have any pity, grace, or manners, you would
- 1:06:45Speaker 8: not make me such an argument. But fare you well
- 1:06:49Speaker 8: tis partly my own fault, which death or absence soon
- 1:06:52Speaker 8: shall remedy.
- 1:06:54Speaker 7: Stay gentle, helemnah, hear my excuse, my love, my life,
- 1:06:58Speaker 7: my soul.
- 1:07:00Speaker 5: Fair Helena, oh excellent sweet, do not scorn her.
- 1:07:04Speaker 6: So if she cannot entreat, I can compel.
- 1:07:08Speaker 7: Thou canst compel no more than she entreat. Thy threats
- 1:07:13Speaker 7: have no more strength than her weak prayers, Helen. I
- 1:07:18Speaker 7: love THEE by my life. I do. I swear by
- 1:07:21Speaker 7: that which I will lose for THEE to prove him false.
- 1:07:24Speaker 7: That says I love THEE.
- 1:07:25Speaker 6: Not I say I love THEE more than he can do.
- 1:07:29Speaker 7: If thou say so, withdraw and prove it too quick?
- 1:07:33Speaker 5: Come, Lysander, where too tens all this away?
- 1:07:37Speaker 7: You ethyope?
- 1:07:38Speaker 6: No, no, he'll seem to break loose, Take on as
- 1:07:42Speaker 6: you would follow. But yet come not you are a
- 1:07:45Speaker 6: tain man.
- 1:07:46Speaker 7: Go hang off thou cat thou burr vile thing. Let
- 1:07:51Speaker 7: loose or I will shake THEE from me like a serpent.
- 1:07:54Speaker 5: Why are you grown so rude? What change is this?
- 1:07:57Speaker 5: Sweet love?
- 1:07:58Speaker 7: Thy love? Oh tawny totter out out, loathed medicine, hated potion.
- 1:08:05Speaker 5: Hence do you not jest?
- 1:08:07Speaker 22: Yes?
- 1:08:08Speaker 7: Sooth, and so do you, Demetrius. I will keep my
- 1:08:11Speaker 7: word with THEE.
- 1:08:12Speaker 6: Why would I had your bond? For I perceive a
- 1:08:15Speaker 6: weak bond holds you. I'll not trust your word.
- 1:08:19Speaker 7: What should I hurt her? Strike her, kill her dead?
- 1:08:23Speaker 7: Although I hate her, I'll not harm her.
- 1:08:25Speaker 5: So what can you do me greater harm than hate?
- 1:08:29Speaker 5: Hate me? We'refore? Oh me, what news? My love? Am
- 1:08:35Speaker 5: I not Hermia? Are not you? Lysander? I am as
- 1:08:39Speaker 5: fair now as I was Erewhile since knight you loved me,
- 1:08:43Speaker 5: Yet since night you left me? Why then you left me?
- 1:08:47Speaker 25: Oh?
- 1:08:47Speaker 5: The gods forbid in earnest? Shall I say?
- 1:08:51Speaker 7: I buy my life, and never did desire to see
- 1:08:55Speaker 7: THEE more? Therefore be out of hope, of question of doubt,
- 1:09:00Speaker 7: be certain nothing truer tis no jest that I do
- 1:09:04Speaker 7: hate THEE and love Helena.
- 1:09:07Speaker 5: Oh me, you juggler, you canker blossom, you thief of love?
- 1:09:12Speaker 5: What have you come by night and stolen my love's
- 1:09:15Speaker 5: heart from him?
- 1:09:16Speaker 8: Fine a faith? Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,
- 1:09:19Speaker 8: no touch of bashfulness?
- 1:09:21Speaker 1: What will you tear?
- 1:09:22Speaker 8: Impatient answers from my gentle tongue. Fie, fie, you counterfeit,
- 1:09:27Speaker 8: you puppet, you puppet?
- 1:09:29Speaker 5: Why so ay? That way goes the game?
- 1:09:34Speaker 1: Now?
- 1:09:34Speaker 5: I perceived that she hath made compare between our statures.
- 1:09:38Speaker 5: She hath urged her height and with her personage, her
- 1:09:42Speaker 5: tall personage, her height. Forsooth she hath prevailed with him?
- 1:09:46Speaker 5: Are you grown so high in his esteem? Because I
- 1:09:49Speaker 5: am so dwarfish and so low? Hell lo am I
- 1:09:53Speaker 5: thou painted mapole? Speak? Hollow? Am I? I am not
- 1:09:58Speaker 5: yet so low, but that my nails reach unto thine eyes.
- 1:10:02Speaker 8: I pray you, though you mock me, gentlemen, let her
- 1:10:04Speaker 8: not hurt me. I was never cursed. I have no
- 1:10:06Speaker 8: gift at all in shrewishness. I am a right maid
- 1:10:08Speaker 8: for my cowardice. Let her not strike me. You perhaps
- 1:10:11Speaker 8: may think, because she is something lower than myself, that
- 1:10:13Speaker 8: I can match her lower.
- 1:10:16Speaker 5: Hark again, good.
- 1:10:17Speaker 8: Hermia, do not be so bitter with me. I evermore
- 1:10:20Speaker 8: did love you, Hermia? Did ever keep your counsels? Never
- 1:10:23Speaker 8: wronged you save that in love? Unto Demetrius, I told
- 1:10:25Speaker 8: him of your stealth, unto this wood, he followed you
- 1:10:28Speaker 8: for love. I followed him, But he hath chidded me
- 1:10:31Speaker 8: hence and threatened me to strike me, spurn me, nay,
- 1:10:33Speaker 8: to kill me too. And now so you will let
- 1:10:36Speaker 8: me quiet go to Athens? Will I bear my folly
- 1:10:38Speaker 8: back and follow you no further? Let me go? You
- 1:10:41Speaker 8: see how simple and how fond I am?
- 1:10:43Speaker 5: Why get you gone? Who is it that hinders you?
- 1:10:46Speaker 8: A foolish heart that I leave here behind?
- 1:10:49Speaker 5: What with Lysander?
- 1:10:51Speaker 8: With Demetrius?
- 1:10:53Speaker 7: Be not afraid? She shall not harm thee Helena.
- 1:10:57Speaker 6: No, sir, she shall not, though you take her part.
- 1:11:00Speaker 8: Oh, when she's angry. She is keen and shrewd. She
- 1:11:03Speaker 8: was a vixen when she went to school. And though
- 1:11:05Speaker 8: she be but little, she is fierce.
- 1:11:07Speaker 5: Little again, nothing but low and little? Why will you
- 1:11:11Speaker 5: suffer her to flout me?
- 1:11:12Speaker 24: Thus?
- 1:11:12Speaker 5: Let me come to her?
- 1:11:14Speaker 7: Get you gone, you dwarf, You minimis of hindering. Not
- 1:11:18Speaker 7: grass made you bead you acorn.
- 1:11:23Speaker 6: You are too officious in her behalf that scorns your services.
- 1:11:27Speaker 6: Let her alone, speak not of Helena. Take not her part.
- 1:11:31Speaker 6: For if thou dost intend never so little show of
- 1:11:34Speaker 6: love to her, thou shalt aby it.
- 1:11:36Speaker 7: Now she holds me. Not now follow, if thou darest
- 1:11:40Speaker 7: to try, whose right of thine or mine is most
- 1:11:43Speaker 7: in Helena?
- 1:11:45Speaker 4: Follow?
- 1:11:46Speaker 6: Nay, I'll go with thee cheek by.
- 1:11:48Speaker 1: Joel, ancient Lysander and Demetrius.
- 1:11:53Speaker 5: You, mistress, all this coil is long of you. Nay,
- 1:11:57Speaker 5: go not back.
- 1:11:58Speaker 8: I will not trust you, I nor longer stay in
- 1:12:01Speaker 8: your cursed company. Your hands than mine are quicker for
- 1:12:03Speaker 8: a fray, My legs are longer though to run away.
- 1:12:07Speaker 1: Exit.
- 1:12:08Speaker 5: I am amazed and know not what to say.
- 1:12:12Speaker 1: Exit.
- 1:12:14Speaker 15: This is thine negligence. Still thou mistakest, or else committest
- 1:12:18Speaker 15: thy knaveries wilfully.
- 1:12:20Speaker 14: Believe me, King of Shadows, I mistook? Did not you
- 1:12:23Speaker 14: tell me I should know the man by the Athenian
- 1:12:25Speaker 14: garment he had on? And so far blameless proves my
- 1:12:28Speaker 14: enterprise that I have anointed in Athenian's eyes. And so
- 1:12:31Speaker 14: far am I glad it? So did sort as this
- 1:12:34Speaker 14: their jangling I esteem a sport.
- 1:12:36Speaker 15: Thou seest these lovers seek a place to fight. Hie
- 1:12:39Speaker 15: thee Therefore robin o'er cast the knight the starry welcn
- 1:12:43Speaker 15: cover thou anon with drooping fog, as black as acheron,
- 1:12:46Speaker 15: and lead these testy rivals so astray as one come
- 1:12:50Speaker 15: not within another's way, like to thy Sander some time
- 1:12:53Speaker 15: frame thy tongue then stir Demetrius up with bitter wrong,
- 1:12:57Speaker 15: and some time rail Thou like Demetrius, and from each
- 1:13:00Speaker 15: other look Thou lead them thus till o'er their brow's death.
- 1:13:04Speaker 15: Counterfeiting sleep with leaden legs and batty wings doth creep.
- 1:13:08Speaker 15: Then crush this herb into Lysander's eye, whose liquor hath
- 1:13:12Speaker 15: this virtuous property to take from thence all error with
- 1:13:16Speaker 15: his might, and make his eyeballs roll with wonted sight.
- 1:13:20Speaker 15: When they next wake, all this derision shall seem a
- 1:13:24Speaker 15: dream and fruitless vision. And back to Athens shall the
- 1:13:28Speaker 15: lover's wend with league, whose date till death shall never end.
- 1:13:32Speaker 15: Whilst I in this affair to thee employ, I'll to
- 1:13:36Speaker 15: my queen and beg her indian boy, And then I
- 1:13:39Speaker 15: will her charmid eye release from monster's view, and all
- 1:13:44Speaker 15: things shall be peace.
- 1:13:46Speaker 14: My fairy lord, this must be done with haste, for
- 1:13:48Speaker 14: night swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, and yonder
- 1:13:52Speaker 14: shines Aurora as harbinger, at whose approach, Ghosts wandering here
- 1:13:56Speaker 14: and their troop home to churchyards damn'd spirits all that
- 1:14:00Speaker 14: and crossways and floods have burial already to their wormy
- 1:14:03Speaker 14: beds are gone, for fear lest they should look their
- 1:14:06Speaker 14: shames upon, they wilfully themselves exile from light and must.
- 1:14:10Speaker 14: For I consort with black browed night.
- 1:14:13Speaker 15: But we are spirits of another sort. I, with the
- 1:14:16Speaker 15: morning's love, have off made sport, And like a forester,
- 1:14:20Speaker 15: the groves may tread even till the eastern gate, all
- 1:14:23Speaker 15: fiery red opening on Neptune, with fair blessed beams, turns
- 1:14:28Speaker 15: into yellow gold his salt green streams. But notwithstanding haste,
- 1:14:32Speaker 15: make no delay. We may effect this business. Yet ere
- 1:14:35Speaker 15: day exert.
- 1:14:38Speaker 14: Up and down, up and down. I will lead them
- 1:14:41Speaker 14: up and down. I am feared in field and town goblin,
- 1:14:45Speaker 14: lead them up and down.
- 1:14:47Speaker 6: Here comes one re.
- 1:14:49Speaker 7: Enter, Lysander, Where art thou proud Demetrius, speak thou now.
- 1:14:56Speaker 14: Here villain drawn and ready.
- 1:14:57Speaker 8: Where art thou I will be with be straight, follow
- 1:15:01Speaker 8: me then to.
- 1:15:02Speaker 1: Plain a ground exit, Lysander, as following the voice, re
- 1:15:09Speaker 1: enter Demetrius.
- 1:15:11Speaker 6: Lysander. Speak again, Thou run away, thou coward art thou
- 1:15:16Speaker 6: fled Speak in some bush where dost thou hide thy head?
- 1:15:23Speaker 14: Thou coward art thou bragging to the stars, telling the
- 1:15:26Speaker 14: bushes that thou look'st for wars and wilt not come.
- 1:15:30Speaker 14: Come recreant, Come thou child, I'll whip thee with a rod.
- 1:15:34Speaker 14: He is defiled, that draws a sword on thee.
- 1:15:36Speaker 6: Yay art thou there.
- 1:15:39Speaker 14: Follow my voice. We'll try no manhood here.
- 1:15:43Speaker 1: Exitant, re enter Lysander.
- 1:15:48Speaker 7: He goes before me and still dares me on. When
- 1:15:51Speaker 7: I come where he calls, then he is gone. The
- 1:15:55Speaker 7: villain is much lighter heeled than I. I followed fast,
- 1:15:58Speaker 7: but faster did he fly? That fallen? Am I in
- 1:16:02Speaker 7: dark uneven way? And here will rest me lies down?
- 1:16:10Speaker 7: Come thou gentle day for if but once thou show
- 1:16:13Speaker 7: me thy gray light, I'll find Demetrius and revenge this
- 1:16:18Speaker 7: spite sleeps.
- 1:16:22Speaker 1: Re enter Puck and Demetrius.
- 1:16:26Speaker 8: Ha coward.
- 1:16:27Speaker 6: Why comest thou not oh bide me? If thou darest
- 1:16:31Speaker 6: for well, I WoT thou runnest before me? Shifting every
- 1:16:34Speaker 6: place and darest, not stand nor look me in the face.
- 1:16:39Speaker 22: Wear art thou.
- 1:16:40Speaker 14: Now come hither I am here?
- 1:16:43Speaker 6: Nay, then thou markest me. Thou shalt buy this, dear.
- 1:16:47Speaker 6: If ever I thy face by daylight, see now go
- 1:16:50Speaker 6: thy way. Faintness constraineth me to measure out my length
- 1:16:54Speaker 6: on this cold bed. My day's approach look to be visited.
- 1:16:59Speaker 1: Lies da and sleeps re enter Helena.
- 1:17:04Speaker 8: Oh weary night, Oh long and tedious night, abate thy
- 1:17:08Speaker 8: hour shine, comforts from the east, that I may back
- 1:17:11Speaker 8: to Athens by daylight, from these that my poor company detest,
- 1:17:16Speaker 8: and sleep that sometimes shuts up, sorrow's eye steal me
- 1:17:20Speaker 8: away from mine own company.
- 1:17:22Speaker 1: Lies down and sleeps.
- 1:17:25Speaker 14: Yet, but three come one more. Two of both kinds
- 1:17:29Speaker 14: make up four. Here she comes cursed and sad. Cupid
- 1:17:34Speaker 14: is a knavish lad. Thus to make poor females.
- 1:17:37Speaker 1: Mad re enter hermia.
- 1:17:40Speaker 5: Never so weary, never so in woe, but babbled with
- 1:17:44Speaker 5: the dew and torn with briars. I can no further crawl,
- 1:17:49Speaker 5: no further go. My legs can keep no pace with
- 1:17:52Speaker 5: my desires. Here will I rest me till the break
- 1:17:55Speaker 5: of day? Heaven shield Lysander if they mean a fray.
- 1:18:00Speaker 1: Lies down and sleeps.
- 1:18:04Speaker 14: On the ground. Sleep sound. I'll apply to your eye,
- 1:18:08Speaker 14: gentle lover, remedy.
- 1:18:11Speaker 1: Squeezing the juice on Lysander's eyes.
- 1:18:15Speaker 14: When thou wakest, thou takest true delight in the sight
- 1:18:18Speaker 14: of thy former lady's eye. And the country proverb known
- 1:18:22Speaker 14: that every man should take his own in your waking
- 1:18:25Speaker 14: shall be shown. Jack shall have jill, naught shall go ill,
- 1:18:29Speaker 14: the man shall have his mare again, and all shall
- 1:18:32Speaker 14: be well.
- 1:18:34Speaker 1: Exit end of Act three, Act four, Scene one, the
- 1:18:42Speaker 1: same Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, and Hermia lying asleep, enter Titania
- 1:18:51Speaker 1: and bottom pease blossom, cobweb, moth, mustard seed, and other
- 1:18:58Speaker 1: fairies attending Oberon behind unseen.
- 1:19:04Speaker 16: Come sit thee down upon this flowery bed, while I
- 1:19:09Speaker 16: thy amiable cheeks, do coy and stick musk roses in
- 1:19:13Speaker 16: thy sleek smooth head, and kiss thy fair large ears.
- 1:19:18Speaker 9: My gentle joy, where's peas blossom?
- 1:19:23Speaker 7: Ready?
- 1:19:25Speaker 9: Scratch my head? Pease blossom? Where's moonsur carbweb?
- 1:19:32Speaker 21: Ready?
- 1:19:33Speaker 9: Moon sur carbweb? Good monsieur, get you your weapons in
- 1:19:38Speaker 9: your hand and kill me. A red lipped umbel bee
- 1:19:42Speaker 9: on the top of a thistle, and good monsieur, bring
- 1:19:46Speaker 9: me the honey bag. Do not freight yourself too much
- 1:19:49Speaker 9: in the action. Monsieur, and good monsieur, have a care
- 1:19:52Speaker 9: of the only bag right now. I would be low
- 1:19:55Speaker 9: to have you overflown with honeybag. Signore, where's monsieur mustard seed?
- 1:20:02Speaker 21: Ready?
- 1:20:03Speaker 9: Give me your nief, Monsieur mustard seed. Pray you leave
- 1:20:08Speaker 9: your courtesy, Good monsieur, what's your will? Nothing good, monsieur,
- 1:20:14Speaker 9: but well, cavalieri cobweb to scurtch. I must the barbers,
- 1:20:21Speaker 9: monsieur for me, thinks I am Marvel's airy about the face,
- 1:20:26Speaker 9: and I'm such a tender ass. If my hair do
- 1:20:28Speaker 9: but tickle me, I must scratch.
- 1:20:32Speaker 16: What wilt thou hear?
- 1:20:33Speaker 13: Some music?
- 1:20:34Speaker 16: My sweet love?
- 1:20:36Speaker 9: I have a reasonable good air in music. Let's have
- 1:20:40Speaker 9: the tongues and the bones, or.
- 1:20:43Speaker 16: Say, sweet love, what thou desirest to eat?
- 1:20:47Speaker 9: Truly a peck of provender? We could, monsieur good dry oats. Methinks,
- 1:20:54Speaker 9: I have a great desire to a bottle of hay,
- 1:20:58Speaker 9: good hay, sweet hay. Hath no fellow.
- 1:21:04Speaker 16: I have a venturous fairy that shall seek the squirrel's
- 1:21:08Speaker 16: horde and fetch thee new nuts.
- 1:21:11Speaker 9: I'd rather have a handful of two of dried peas.
- 1:21:15Speaker 9: But I pray you let none of your people stir me. Oh,
- 1:21:20Speaker 9: you an exposition of sleep. Come upon me.
- 1:21:25Speaker 16: Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms.
- 1:21:29Speaker 16: Fairies be gone and be always.
- 1:21:32Speaker 1: Away, eggyant fairies.
- 1:21:36Speaker 16: So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle gently, and twist
- 1:21:41Speaker 16: the female ivy sow and rings the barky fingers of
- 1:21:44Speaker 16: the elm Oh, how I love thee, How I dote
- 1:21:49Speaker 16: on thee?
- 1:21:51Speaker 15: They sleep, Enter, puck, Welcome, good robin, advancing seest thou
- 1:21:59Speaker 15: this sweet sight her dotage. Now I do begin to
- 1:22:02Speaker 15: pity for meeting her of late behind the wood, seeking
- 1:22:07Speaker 15: sweet favors from this hateful fool. I did upbraid her
- 1:22:10Speaker 15: and fall out with her, for she his hairy temples
- 1:22:14Speaker 15: then had rounded with a coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers.
- 1:22:19Speaker 15: And that same dew, which some time on the buds
- 1:22:22Speaker 15: was wont to swell like round and orient pearls stood
- 1:22:26Speaker 15: now within the pretty Floweret's eyes, like tears that did
- 1:22:30Speaker 15: their own disgrace bewail. When I had at my pleasure
- 1:22:34Speaker 15: taunted her, and she, in mild terms, begged my patience.
- 1:22:38Speaker 15: I then did ask of her her changeling child, which
- 1:22:42Speaker 15: straight she gave me, and her fairy sent to bear
- 1:22:45Speaker 15: him to my bower in fairyland. And now I have
- 1:22:49Speaker 15: the boy. I will undo this hateful imperfection of her eyes.
- 1:22:54Speaker 15: And gentle Puck, take this transformed scalp from off the
- 1:22:58Speaker 15: head of this Athenian swain that he awaking. When the
- 1:23:01Speaker 15: other do may all to Athen's back again, repair and
- 1:23:05Speaker 15: think no more of this night's accidents, but as the
- 1:23:09Speaker 15: fierce vexation of a dream. But first I will release
- 1:23:13Speaker 15: the fairy Queen, be as thou wast wont to be, see,
- 1:23:18Speaker 15: as thou wast wont to see Dian's bud or Cupid's flower.
- 1:23:23Speaker 15: Hath such force and blessed power? Now, my Titania, wake you,
- 1:23:28Speaker 15: my sweet queen.
- 1:23:30Speaker 16: My oberon, What visions have I seen? Methought? I was
- 1:23:35Speaker 16: enamored of an.
- 1:23:37Speaker 15: Ass there lies your love?
- 1:23:41Speaker 16: How came these things to pass?
- 1:23:43Speaker 7: Oh?
- 1:23:44Speaker 16: How mine eyes do loathe his visage?
- 1:23:46Speaker 15: Now silence, awhile Robin take off this head. Titania, music,
- 1:23:52Speaker 15: call and strike more dead than common sleep of all
- 1:23:56Speaker 15: these five the scents.
- 1:23:58Speaker 16: Music ho music such as Charmeth sleep music.
- 1:24:04Speaker 14: Still, Now when thou wakest with thine own fool's eyes.
- 1:24:09Speaker 15: Peep sound music. Come, my queen, take hands with me
- 1:24:15Speaker 15: and rock the ground whereon thee sleepers be. Now thou
- 1:24:18Speaker 15: and I are new in amity, and will to morrow
- 1:24:21Speaker 15: midnight solemnly dance in duke. Theseus house triumphantly, and bless
- 1:24:27Speaker 15: it to all fair prosperity. There shall the pairs of
- 1:24:30Speaker 15: faithful lovers be wedded with theseus, all in jollity.
- 1:24:36Speaker 14: Fairy king attendant mock, I do you hear the morning luck?
- 1:24:40Speaker 15: Then, my Queen, in silence, sad trip we after the
- 1:24:44Speaker 15: night shade. We the globe can compass soon swifter than
- 1:24:47Speaker 15: the wandering moon.
- 1:24:49Speaker 16: Come, my lord, and in our flight, tell me how
- 1:24:53Speaker 16: it came this night that I, sleeping here was found
- 1:24:57Speaker 16: with these mortals on the ground.
- 1:25:01Speaker 1: Exiant horns winded within. Enter theseus, Hippolyta, eegius, and.
- 1:25:10Speaker 2: Train go one of you find out the forester. For
- 1:25:15Speaker 2: now our observation is performed. And since we have the
- 1:25:19Speaker 2: varward of the day, my love shall hear the music
- 1:25:22Speaker 2: of my hounds and couple in the western valley let
- 1:25:26Speaker 2: them go despatch, I say, and find.
- 1:25:28Speaker 1: The forester, exit and attendant.
- 1:25:33Speaker 2: We will fare Queen up to the mountain's top and
- 1:25:36Speaker 2: mark the musical confusion of hounds and echo in conjunction.
- 1:25:41Speaker 3: I was with Hercules and Catmus once, when in a
- 1:25:44Speaker 3: wood of crete they bathe the bear with hounds of Sparta.
- 1:25:48Speaker 3: Never did I hear such gallant chiding. For besides the groves,
- 1:25:52Speaker 3: the skies, the fountains, every region near seemed all one
- 1:25:56Speaker 3: mutual cry, I never heard so musical a discord, such
- 1:26:00Speaker 3: sweet thunder.
- 1:26:02Speaker 2: My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, so fluid,
- 1:26:06Speaker 2: so sanded, and their heads are hung with ears that
- 1:26:09Speaker 2: sweep away the morning dew, crooked kneed and dew lapp'd
- 1:26:13Speaker 2: like Thessalian bulls, slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth
- 1:26:17Speaker 2: like bells, each under each A crime more tuneable was
- 1:26:21Speaker 2: never holed to, nor cheered with horn in crete in Sparta,
- 1:26:26Speaker 2: nor in Thessaly. Judge what you hear, but soft? What
- 1:26:30Speaker 2: nymphs are these?
- 1:26:33Speaker 4: My lord? This is my daughter here asleep, and this Lysander,
- 1:26:39Speaker 4: this Demetrius, is this Helena, old Nidar's Helena. I wonder
- 1:26:45Speaker 4: of their being here together.
- 1:26:48Speaker 2: No doubt, they rose up early to observe the right
- 1:26:51Speaker 2: of may, and hearing our intent, came hearing grace, our solemnity.
- 1:26:56Speaker 2: But speak, egeus. Is not this the day that Hermia
- 1:26:59Speaker 2: should answer of her choice? It is, my lord, go
- 1:27:05Speaker 2: bid the huntsmen, wake them with their horns.
- 1:27:08Speaker 1: Horns and shout within. Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, and Hermia wake
- 1:27:15Speaker 1: and start up.
- 1:27:17Speaker 2: Good morrow, friends, Saint Valentine is past, Begin these wood birds.
- 1:27:22Speaker 2: But to couple now?
- 1:27:24Speaker 7: Pardon, my lord, I pray.
- 1:27:27Speaker 2: You all stand up. I know you too are rival enemies.
- 1:27:32Speaker 2: How comes this gentle concord in the world? That hatred
- 1:27:35Speaker 2: is so far from jealousy? To sleep by hate and
- 1:27:39Speaker 2: fear no enmity.
- 1:27:41Speaker 7: My Lord, I shall reply amazedly, half sleep, half waking.
- 1:27:46Speaker 7: But as yet I swear I cannot truly say how
- 1:27:49Speaker 7: I came here, But as I think, for truly would
- 1:27:55Speaker 7: I speak? And now do I bethink me? So it
- 1:27:57Speaker 7: is I came with Hermia. Hither our intent was to
- 1:28:03Speaker 7: be gone from Athens, where we might without the peril
- 1:28:06Speaker 7: of the Athenian law.
- 1:28:08Speaker 4: Enough enough, my lord, you have enough. I beg the law,
- 1:28:12Speaker 4: the law upon his head they would have stolen away,
- 1:28:16Speaker 4: They would Demetrius thereby to have defeated you and me,
- 1:28:20Speaker 4: You of your wife, and me of my consent, of
- 1:28:24Speaker 4: my consent that she should be your wife.
- 1:28:27Speaker 6: My lord, Fair Helen told me of their stealth, of
- 1:28:30Speaker 6: this their purpose hitherto this wood, and I, in fury
- 1:28:34Speaker 6: hither followed them, Fair Helena in fancy following me. But
- 1:28:39Speaker 6: my good Lord, I WoT not by what power, but
- 1:28:43Speaker 6: by some power. It is my love to Hermia, melted
- 1:28:47Speaker 6: as the snow seems to me now as the remembrance
- 1:28:50Speaker 6: of an idle god, which in my childhood I diddote upon,
- 1:28:54Speaker 6: and all the faith the virtue of my heart, the
- 1:28:57Speaker 6: object and the pleasure of mine eye. Only Helena to her,
- 1:29:02Speaker 6: my Lord, was I betrothed. Ere I saw Hermia, But
- 1:29:06Speaker 6: like in sickness did I loathe this food, But as
- 1:29:10Speaker 6: in health, come to my natural taste. Now I do
- 1:29:14Speaker 6: wish it, love it, long for it, and will for
- 1:29:19Speaker 6: evermore be true to it.
- 1:29:22Speaker 2: Fair lovers, you are fortunately met of this discourse, we
- 1:29:26Speaker 2: more will hear. Anon Egius, I will overbear your will,
- 1:29:31Speaker 2: for in the temple, by and by with us these
- 1:29:33Speaker 2: couples shall eternally be knit and for the morning. Now
- 1:29:37Speaker 2: is something worn? Our purpose hunting shall be set aside.
- 1:29:42Speaker 2: Away with us to Athens three and three will hold
- 1:29:45Speaker 2: a feast in great solemnity.
- 1:29:47Speaker 1: Come Hippolyta exeant theseus, Hippolyta Egius, and.
- 1:29:54Speaker 6: Train These things seem small and undistinguishable.
- 1:30:00Speaker 5: Methinks I see these things with parted eye, when everything
- 1:30:03Speaker 5: seems double.
- 1:30:05Speaker 8: So Ma thinks. And I have found Demetrius like a
- 1:30:08Speaker 8: jewel mine own and not mine own?
- 1:30:11Speaker 6: Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to
- 1:30:14Speaker 6: me that yet we sleep we dream. Do not you
- 1:30:18Speaker 6: think the duke was here and bid us follow him?
- 1:30:21Speaker 10: Yay?
- 1:30:22Speaker 7: And my father and Topolita, and he did bid us
- 1:30:26Speaker 7: follow to the temple.
- 1:30:29Speaker 6: Why then we are awake. Let's follow him? And by
- 1:30:33Speaker 6: the way, let us recount our dreams.
- 1:30:35Speaker 1: Exeunt awaking?
- 1:30:41Speaker 9: How am my cue comes? Call me and I will
- 1:30:44Speaker 9: answer My next is most fair? Paramus?
- 1:30:51Speaker 1: Hey ho.
- 1:30:54Speaker 9: Pay ir quench float the bellows mender? Is that the
- 1:31:01Speaker 9: tinker start letting course my life stolen hands and left
- 1:31:08Speaker 9: me asleep? I have had her most rare vision. I've
- 1:31:19Speaker 9: had a dream past the wit of man to say
- 1:31:22Speaker 9: what dream it was? Man is but an ass. If
- 1:31:26Speaker 9: you go about to expound this dream me thought I would.
- 1:31:32Speaker 9: There is no man can tell what me thought I was,
- 1:31:38Speaker 9: and me thought I had. The man is but a
- 1:31:42Speaker 9: patch of fool. If he will have to say what
- 1:31:44Speaker 9: me thought I had. The eye of man hath not heard,
- 1:31:48Speaker 9: the ear of man, hath not seen man's hand is
- 1:31:51Speaker 9: not able to taste his tongue to conceive. No is
- 1:31:53Speaker 9: that to report what my dream was. I will get
- 1:31:58Speaker 9: Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream. It
- 1:32:02Speaker 9: shall be called Bottoms Dream, because it hath no bomb,
- 1:32:12Speaker 9: and I will sing it in the latter end of
- 1:32:14Speaker 9: a play before the duke peradventure. To make it the
- 1:32:20Speaker 9: more gracious, I shall sing you out our death.
- 1:32:26Speaker 26: Humh Exit scene too Athens Quince's house, Enter Quince, flute,
- 1:32:37Speaker 26: snout and starveling.
- 1:32:41Speaker 10: Have you sent to Bottom's house? Is he come home? Yet?
- 1:32:45Speaker 21: He cannot be heard of out of doubt he is transported.
- 1:32:49Speaker 11: If he come not, then the play is marred. It
- 1:32:53Speaker 11: goes not forward, does it?
- 1:32:55Speaker 10: It is not possible. You have not a man in
- 1:32:58Speaker 10: all Athens able to discharged to pyramids.
- 1:33:01Speaker 11: But he no, he hath simply the best wheat of
- 1:33:04Speaker 11: any handicraft mad in Athens.
- 1:33:07Speaker 10: Yea, and the best person too, And he is a
- 1:33:10Speaker 10: very paramour for a sweet voice.
- 1:33:13Speaker 11: You must say, paragon A paramour is God bless us
- 1:33:19Speaker 11: a thing of naught.
- 1:33:21Speaker 1: And her snug masters.
- 1:33:24Speaker 12: The Duke is coming from the temple, and there is
- 1:33:26Speaker 12: two or three lords and ladies more married. If our
- 1:33:29Speaker 12: sport had gone forward, we had all been made men.
- 1:33:33Speaker 11: Oh Swede bully bottom. Thus had he lost sixpence a
- 1:33:38Speaker 11: day during his life? He can not have escape sixpence
- 1:33:41Speaker 11: a day. And the Duke had not give it him
- 1:33:43Speaker 11: sixpence a day to plain pitamus, I'll be hanged. He
- 1:33:47Speaker 11: would have deserved it sixpence a day in pitnamus or nothing.
- 1:33:52Speaker 1: And her bottom?
- 1:33:54Speaker 9: Where are these lads? Where are these hearts bottom?
- 1:34:00Speaker 10: Oh, most courageous day, Oh, most happier masters.
- 1:34:05Speaker 9: I am to discourse wonders. But ask me not, for
- 1:34:10Speaker 9: if I tell you, I am no true Athenian. Oh,
- 1:34:14Speaker 9: I will tell you everything right?
- 1:34:15Speaker 26: Is it fell out?
- 1:34:16Speaker 10: Let us hear, sweet bottom.
- 1:34:19Speaker 9: Not a word of me. All that I will tell
- 1:34:23Speaker 9: you is that the Duke hath dyed. Get your apparel together,
- 1:34:27Speaker 9: good strings to your birds, new ribbons to your pumps,
- 1:34:30Speaker 9: meet presently at the palace. Every man look over his part,
- 1:34:33Speaker 9: for the shore and the lung is our play is preferred.
- 1:34:39Speaker 9: In any case. Let this we have clean linen, and
- 1:34:42Speaker 9: let not in that plays the lion pare his nails,
- 1:34:44Speaker 9: for they shall hang out for the lion's claws. And
- 1:34:48Speaker 9: most dear actors eat no onions, no garlic, for we
- 1:34:52Speaker 9: are to utter sweet breath. And I do not doubt
- 1:34:56Speaker 9: what the way of them say. It is a sweet comedy.
- 1:35:00Speaker 9: No more words, away, go.
- 1:35:03Speaker 1: Away, exeant end of Act four, Act five, Scene one, Athens,
- 1:35:15Speaker 1: the palace of theseus, enter theseus, Hippolyta, Philistrate, lords and attendants.
- 1:35:25Speaker 3: Tis strange my theseus, that these lovers.
- 1:35:27Speaker 2: Speak of, more strange than true. I never may believe
- 1:35:31Speaker 2: these antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen
- 1:35:36Speaker 2: have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more
- 1:35:41Speaker 2: than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and
- 1:35:46Speaker 2: the poet are of imagination. All compact one sees more
- 1:35:50Speaker 2: devils than vast hell can hold. That is, the madman,
- 1:35:55Speaker 2: the lover, all as frantic sees Helen's beauty in a
- 1:35:58Speaker 2: brow of Egypt. The poet's eye and fine frenzy rolling
- 1:36:02Speaker 2: doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.
- 1:36:06Speaker 2: And as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown,
- 1:36:11Speaker 2: the poet's pen turns them to shapes, and gives to
- 1:36:14Speaker 2: airy nothing a local habitation and a name. Such tricks
- 1:36:18Speaker 2: hath strong imagination, that, if it would but apprehend some joy,
- 1:36:23Speaker 2: it comprehends some bringer of that joy, Or in the
- 1:36:26Speaker 2: night imagining some fear. How easy is a bush supposed
- 1:36:31Speaker 2: a bear?
- 1:36:32Speaker 3: But all the story of the night told over, and
- 1:36:35Speaker 3: all their minds transfigured, so together more witnesseth than fancy's images,
- 1:36:40Speaker 3: and grows to something of great constancy. But howsoever strange
- 1:36:45Speaker 3: and admirable.
- 1:36:47Speaker 2: Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.
- 1:36:50Speaker 1: Enter Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, and Helena.
- 1:36:55Speaker 2: Joy, gentle friends, Joy and fresh days of love accompany
- 1:36:59Speaker 2: your he hearts.
- 1:37:01Speaker 7: More than to us. Wait in your royal walks, your board,
- 1:37:04Speaker 7: your bed.
- 1:37:06Speaker 2: Come now, what masks? What dances? Shall we have to
- 1:37:09Speaker 2: wear away? This long age of three hours between our
- 1:37:13Speaker 2: after supper and bedtime? Where is our usual manager of mirth?
- 1:37:17Speaker 2: What revels are in hand? Is there no play? To
- 1:37:21Speaker 2: ease the anguish of a torturing hour. Kfill a strait.
- 1:37:25Speaker 24: Here, Mighty, theseus.
- 1:37:27Speaker 2: Say, what a bridgement have you for this evening?
- 1:37:30Speaker 7: What mask?
- 1:37:31Speaker 14: What music?
- 1:37:32Speaker 2: How shall we beguile the lazy time? If not with
- 1:37:35Speaker 2: some delight.
- 1:37:36Speaker 24: There is a brief? How many sports are ripe? Make
- 1:37:39Speaker 24: choice of which your Highness will see first?
- 1:37:42Speaker 2: Giving a paper reads the battle with the Centaurs, to
- 1:37:47Speaker 2: be sung by an Athenian eunuch to the harp. Will
- 1:37:52Speaker 2: none of that that have I told? My love and
- 1:37:55Speaker 2: glory of my kinsman Hercules. The riot of the tipsy
- 1:38:00Speaker 2: bacchanals tearing the Thracian singer in their rage. That is
- 1:38:05Speaker 2: an old device, and it was played when I from
- 1:38:08Speaker 2: Thebes came last to conqueror the thrice three muses burning
- 1:38:13Speaker 2: for the death of learning, late, deceased and beggary. That
- 1:38:18Speaker 2: is some satire, keen and critical, not sorting with a
- 1:38:22Speaker 2: nuptial ceremony. A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus and
- 1:38:27Speaker 2: his love. Thisby very tragical mirth, merry and tragical, tedious
- 1:38:33Speaker 2: and brief, that is hot, ice and wondrous, strange snow.
- 1:38:38Speaker 2: How shall we find the concord of this discord.
- 1:38:42Speaker 24: A play there is, my lord, some ten words long,
- 1:38:46Speaker 24: which is as brief as I have known a play.
- 1:38:48Speaker 24: But by ten words, my lord, it is too long,
- 1:38:52Speaker 24: which makes it tedious. For in all the play there
- 1:38:56Speaker 24: is not one word apt, one player fitted and tragical.
- 1:39:01Speaker 24: My Lord, it is for Pyramus therein doth kill himself,
- 1:39:04Speaker 24: which when I saw rehearsed, I must confess, made mine
- 1:39:08Speaker 24: eyes water, but more merry tears, the passion of loud
- 1:39:12Speaker 24: laughter never shed.
- 1:39:15Speaker 2: What are they that do play it?
- 1:39:17Speaker 24: Hard handed? Men that work in Athens here, which never
- 1:39:21Speaker 24: labored in their minds till now, and now have toiled
- 1:39:24Speaker 24: their unbreathed memories with this same play against your.
- 1:39:29Speaker 2: Nuptial and we will hear it.
- 1:39:32Speaker 24: No, my noble lord, it is not for you. I
- 1:39:35Speaker 24: have heard it over and it is nothing nothing in
- 1:39:38Speaker 24: the world unless you can find sport in their intents,
- 1:39:41Speaker 24: extremely stretched and conned with cruel pain to do you service.
- 1:39:46Speaker 2: I will hear that play, for never anything can be
- 1:39:49Speaker 2: amiss when simpleness and duty tender it. Go bring them
- 1:39:53Speaker 2: in and take your places.
- 1:39:55Speaker 1: Ladies, exit fillustrait.
- 1:39:59Speaker 3: I love not to see wretchedness o'er charged and duty
- 1:40:02Speaker 3: in his service perishing.
- 1:40:04Speaker 2: Why, gentle sweet, you shall see no such.
- 1:40:07Speaker 3: Thing, he says, they can do nothing in this kind.
- 1:40:11Speaker 2: The kinder we to give them thanks for nothing. Our
- 1:40:14Speaker 2: sports shall be to take what they mistake, and what
- 1:40:18Speaker 2: poor duty cannot do. Noble respect takes it in might
- 1:40:22Speaker 2: not merit. Where I have come, great clerks have purposed
- 1:40:26Speaker 2: to greet me with premeditated welcomes. Where I have seen
- 1:40:29Speaker 2: them shiver and look pale, make periods in the midst
- 1:40:33Speaker 2: of sentences, throttle their practiced accent in their fears, and
- 1:40:37Speaker 2: in conclusion dumbly have broke off not paying me a welcome.
- 1:40:42Speaker 2: Trust me, sweet, out of this silence. Yet I picked
- 1:40:45Speaker 2: a welcome, and in the modesty of fearful duty, I
- 1:40:48Speaker 2: read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy
- 1:40:51Speaker 2: and audacious eloquence. Love therefore and tongue tied simplicity in
- 1:40:58Speaker 2: least speak most to my capacity city.
- 1:41:01Speaker 1: Re enter fillustrate.
- 1:41:04Speaker 24: So please your grace the prologue is addressed.
- 1:41:07Speaker 1: Let him approach flourish of trumpets. Enter quints for the prologue.
- 1:41:15Speaker 10: If we offend, it is with our good will that
- 1:41:19Speaker 10: you should think we come not to offend, but with
- 1:41:23Speaker 10: good will to show our simple skill. That is the
- 1:41:27Speaker 10: true beginning of our end. Consider, then we came, but
- 1:41:31Speaker 10: in despite we do not come as minding too content
- 1:41:36Speaker 10: you our true intent is or for your delight. We
- 1:41:40Speaker 10: are not here that you should here repent you. The
- 1:41:45Speaker 10: actors are at hand, and by their show you shall
- 1:41:48Speaker 10: know all that you are like to know.
- 1:41:51Speaker 2: This fellow doth not stand upon points.
- 1:41:55Speaker 7: He hath Riddy's prologue like a rough could he knows
- 1:41:58Speaker 7: not the stop a good moral. My lord. It is
- 1:42:03Speaker 7: not enough to speak, but to speak true.
- 1:42:06Speaker 3: Indeed, he hath played on his prolog like a child
- 1:42:09Speaker 3: on a recorder, a sound, but not in government.
- 1:42:13Speaker 2: His speech was like a tangled chain, nothing impaired, but
- 1:42:17Speaker 2: all disordered. Who is next?
- 1:42:20Speaker 1: Enter Pyramus, and thisby wall, moonshine and lion gentles.
- 1:42:27Speaker 10: Perchance you wonder at this show, but wander on till
- 1:42:31Speaker 10: truth makes all things plain. This man is Pyramus. If
- 1:42:35Speaker 10: you would know this, beauteous lady, thisby is certain. This man,
- 1:42:40Speaker 10: with lime and rough cast, doth present wall that bar
- 1:42:45Speaker 10: wall which did these lovers sunder, And through war's chink,
- 1:42:49Speaker 10: poor souls, they are content to whisper at the witch.
- 1:42:53Speaker 10: Let no man wonder this man with land, torn dog
- 1:42:56Speaker 10: and bush of thorn present at moonshine. For if you
- 1:43:00Speaker 10: will know, by moonshine, did these lovers think no scorn
- 1:43:04Speaker 10: to meet at Ninna's tomb? There there to woo this
- 1:43:09Speaker 10: grisly beast, which lion hight by name the trusted. Thisbee,
- 1:43:13Speaker 10: coming first by night, did scare away, or rather did affright?
- 1:43:18Speaker 10: And as she fled her mantle, she did fall, which
- 1:43:22Speaker 10: lion vile, with bloody mouth did stain. Anon comes pyramous, sweet,
- 1:43:27Speaker 10: youth and tall, and finds his trusty thisbee's mantle, slain
- 1:43:32Speaker 10: whereat with blade, with bloody, blameful blade, he bravely broke
- 1:43:37Speaker 10: his boiling, bloody breast, and this be tearing in a
- 1:43:41Speaker 10: mulberry shade, his dagger drew and died. For all the rest,
- 1:43:45Speaker 10: let lion, moonshine, wall, and lovers twain at large discourse.
- 1:43:50Speaker 10: Why they here do remain.
- 1:43:53Speaker 1: Eggiant prolog thisbee, lion and moonshine.
- 1:43:58Speaker 2: I wonder if the lion be to speak.
- 1:44:01Speaker 6: No wonder, my lord, one lion may when many asses do.
- 1:44:06Speaker 22: In this same interlude, it doth befall that I one
- 1:44:10Speaker 22: snout by name present a wall, and such a wall,
- 1:44:14Speaker 22: as I would have you think, that had in it
- 1:44:17Speaker 22: a crannied hole or chink through which the lovers Pyramus
- 1:44:21Speaker 22: and thisby did whisper often very secretly. This loam, this
- 1:44:27Speaker 22: rough cast, and this stone doth show that I am
- 1:44:31Speaker 22: that same wall. The truth is so, and this the
- 1:44:35Speaker 22: cranny is right and sinister, through which the fearful lovers
- 1:44:39Speaker 22: are to whisper.
- 1:44:41Speaker 2: Would you desire lyme and hair to speak better?
- 1:44:44Speaker 6: It is the wittiest partition that ever I heard discourse.
- 1:44:47Speaker 1: My lord enter Piramus.
- 1:44:51Speaker 2: Pyramis draws near the wall silence.
- 1:44:55Speaker 9: Oh grim look knight, oh night with you so black night,
- 1:45:00Speaker 9: whichever art one day is not? Oh night, oh night
- 1:45:06Speaker 9: a lack a lack a lack. I fear my Thissby's
- 1:45:12Speaker 9: promises for God, And thou o wall o, sweet o
- 1:45:17Speaker 9: lovely wall that stands between her father's ground and mine.
- 1:45:22Speaker 9: Thou wall o wall, oh, sweet and lovely wall, show
- 1:45:29Speaker 9: me thy chink to blink through with mine eye.
- 1:45:34Speaker 1: Wall holds up his fingers.
- 1:45:37Speaker 9: Thanks courteous wall, Jove shield thee well for this. But
- 1:45:43Speaker 9: what see I no this bee? Do I see o
- 1:45:48Speaker 9: wicked wall, through whom I see no bliss. Curse It'd
- 1:45:53Speaker 9: be thy stones for thus deceiving me.
- 1:45:56Speaker 2: The wall methinks, being sensible should curse again.
- 1:46:00Speaker 9: Truth sir, he should not deceive in me. Is thisbe's cue.
- 1:46:04Speaker 9: She is to enter now, and I'm to spire through
- 1:46:06Speaker 9: the wall. You shall see it will fall past as
- 1:46:10Speaker 9: I told you yonder she comes enter thisbe.
- 1:46:15Speaker 11: Oh wall full Often as thou heard my moans for
- 1:46:19Speaker 11: parting my fair pitramus in me, my cherry lips have
- 1:46:23Speaker 11: often kissed thy stones, thy stones with lyme, and here
- 1:46:27Speaker 11: knit hop in thee.
- 1:46:28Speaker 9: I see a voice now, will I to the chink
- 1:46:33Speaker 9: to spy, and I can hear my thisbe's face, thesbe.
- 1:46:39Speaker 1: My love.
- 1:46:41Speaker 11: Thou art my love.
- 1:46:42Speaker 9: I think, think what thou wilt. I am thy lover's grace,
- 1:46:47Speaker 9: and like Lemander and my trusty stealth.
- 1:46:51Speaker 11: And I like Helen till the fights me kill.
- 1:46:54Speaker 9: Not Schaffle as to procress was so.
- 1:46:57Speaker 11: True as schaffle as to procress.
- 1:46:59Speaker 9: I oh kiss me through the hole of this vile wall.
- 1:47:05Speaker 11: I kiss the wall's hole. Not your lips at all.
- 1:47:10Speaker 9: Wilt thou Minni's tomb meet me straight away.
- 1:47:13Speaker 11: Tide, life, tide death. I come without.
- 1:47:17Speaker 1: Denay, Egiant Piramus, And thisby.
- 1:47:22Speaker 22: Thus have I wall my part discharged so and being
- 1:47:26Speaker 22: done thus wall away doth go exit.
- 1:47:31Speaker 2: Now is the mural down between the two neighbors.
- 1:47:34Speaker 6: No remedy, my lord, when walls are so wilful to
- 1:47:37Speaker 6: hear without warning.
- 1:47:39Speaker 3: This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard.
- 1:47:42Speaker 2: The best in this kind are but shadows, and the
- 1:47:45Speaker 2: worst are no worse. If imagination amend them.
- 1:47:49Speaker 3: It must be your imagination then, and not theirs.
- 1:47:52Speaker 2: If we imagine no worse of them than they of themselves,
- 1:47:56Speaker 2: they may pass for excellent men. Here comes to noble
- 1:48:00Speaker 2: be sin a man and a lion.
- 1:48:03Speaker 1: Enter, lion and Moonshine.
- 1:48:07Speaker 27: You ladies, youse gentle arts, do fear the smallest monstrous
- 1:48:13Speaker 27: mouse that creeps on floor may now perchance both quake
- 1:48:18Speaker 27: and tremble ear, when lion.
- 1:48:21Speaker 12: Rough and wildest rage doth roar. Then no that I
- 1:48:31Speaker 12: one snug the joiner an a lion fell, nor else
- 1:48:34Speaker 12: now lions down. For if I should, as lion come
- 1:48:38Speaker 12: and strife into this place, tow're pity on my life.
- 1:48:42Speaker 2: A very gentle beast of a good conscience, the.
- 1:48:46Speaker 6: Very best at a beast, my lord, that ere I saw.
- 1:48:49Speaker 7: This lion is a very fox for his.
- 1:48:51Speaker 2: Valor true, and a goose for his discretion.
- 1:48:55Speaker 6: Not so, my lord, for his valor cannot carry his discretion.
- 1:48:58Speaker 6: And the fox carries the goose.
- 1:49:01Speaker 2: His discretion, I am sure cannot carry his valor. For
- 1:49:04Speaker 2: the goose carries not the fox. It is well leave
- 1:49:08Speaker 2: it to his discretion, and let us listen to the moon.
- 1:49:11Speaker 21: This lanthor doth the horned moon present?
- 1:49:14Speaker 6: He should have worn the horns on his head.
- 1:49:17Speaker 2: He is no crescent, and his horns are invisible within
- 1:49:20Speaker 2: the circumference.
- 1:49:23Speaker 21: This lanthorn doth the horned moon present? Myself the man
- 1:49:28Speaker 21: in the moon do seem to be.
- 1:49:30Speaker 2: This is the greatest error of all the rest. The
- 1:49:33Speaker 2: man should be put into the lanthorn. How is it else?
- 1:49:36Speaker 6: The man in the moon, he dares not come there
- 1:49:39Speaker 6: for the candle, For you see it is already and snuff.
- 1:49:43Speaker 3: I am awary of this moon. Would he would change?
- 1:49:47Speaker 2: It appears by his small light of discretion that he
- 1:49:50Speaker 2: is in the wane. But yet, in courtesy, in all reason,
- 1:49:55Speaker 2: we must stay the time proceed moon.
- 1:49:59Speaker 21: All that I have to say is to tell you
- 1:50:01Speaker 21: that the lanthan is the moon. I the man in
- 1:50:04Speaker 21: the moon. This thorn bush, my thorn bush, and this dog,
- 1:50:07Speaker 21: my dog.
- 1:50:09Speaker 6: Why all these should be in the lanthorn, For all
- 1:50:11Speaker 6: these are in the moon. But silence, here comes thisbe.
- 1:50:16Speaker 1: Enter thisbee, This is old nitties too?
- 1:50:22Speaker 11: Where is my love?
- 1:50:31Speaker 1: Fisbee runs off?
- 1:50:34Speaker 2: Well roared lion, Well run thisbee, well shone moon.
- 1:50:39Speaker 3: Truly the moon shines with a good grace.
- 1:50:42Speaker 1: The lion shakes thissbee's mantle and exit.
- 1:50:46Speaker 2: Well moused lion.
- 1:50:48Speaker 7: And so the lion vanished, and then came Pyramus.
- 1:50:53Speaker 1: Enter Piramus, sweet Moon.
- 1:50:56Speaker 9: I thank THEE for thy sunny beams. I thank THEE
- 1:50:59Speaker 9: Moon for shining now so bright, for by thy gracious, golden,
- 1:51:04Speaker 9: glittering gleams. I trust to take of truest this beside.
- 1:51:09Speaker 9: But stay, oh spite, but mark, poor knight, What dreadful
- 1:51:15Speaker 9: doll is here?
- 1:51:16Speaker 10: Ice?
- 1:51:17Speaker 9: Do you see? How can it be? Oh dainty duck,
- 1:51:24Speaker 9: oh dear thy mantle? Good? What stained with blood?
- 1:51:31Speaker 1: Approachy?
- 1:51:32Speaker 9: Furies fell? Oh fates come, come, cut thread and from
- 1:51:38Speaker 9: quail crush, conclude and cor.
- 1:51:45Speaker 2: This passion and the death of a dear friend would
- 1:51:48Speaker 2: go near to make a man look sad.
- 1:51:50Speaker 3: Beshrew my heart. But I pity the man.
- 1:51:55Speaker 9: Oh, wherefore nature didst thou lion's frame, Since lion voile
- 1:51:59Speaker 9: hath heard flowered my dear, which is no no, which
- 1:52:07Speaker 9: was the fairest dame that lived, that love, that light,
- 1:52:12Speaker 9: that looked with cheer, come tears, confound out sword and
- 1:52:21Speaker 9: wound the pap of Pyramus high, that left pap where
- 1:52:29Speaker 9: art doth.
- 1:52:29Speaker 1: Hop stabs himself.
- 1:52:33Speaker 9: Thus die I thus thus thus now am I dead?
- 1:52:44Speaker 9: Now am I fled? My soul is in the sky tongue,
- 1:52:52Speaker 9: lose thy light, moon, take thy.
- 1:52:57Speaker 1: Flight, exit moon shine.
- 1:53:02Speaker 25: Now die die, die, die dies.
- 1:53:22Speaker 6: No die but an ace for him, for he is
- 1:53:25Speaker 6: but one.
- 1:53:27Speaker 7: Less than an ace man. For he is dead, he
- 1:53:29Speaker 7: is nothing.
- 1:53:30Speaker 2: With the help of a surgeon, he might yet recover
- 1:53:33Speaker 2: and prove an ass.
- 1:53:35Speaker 3: How chance, Moonshine is gone before Thisby comes back and
- 1:53:38Speaker 3: finds her lover.
- 1:53:39Speaker 2: She will find him by starlight. Here she comes, and
- 1:53:43Speaker 2: her passion ends the play.
- 1:53:45Speaker 3: Re enter Thisby methinks she should not use a long
- 1:53:49Speaker 3: one for such a pyramids. I hope she will be brief.
- 1:53:52Speaker 6: A mote will turn the balance which pyramids, which thisby
- 1:53:55Speaker 6: is the better. He for a man, God warrant us,
- 1:53:59Speaker 6: she a woman God bless us.
- 1:54:02Speaker 7: She has spied him already with those threeet eyes.
- 1:54:05Speaker 6: And thus she means the delicit.
- 1:54:08Speaker 11: Asleep, my love, what dead, my dove, Oh pyramus, arise
- 1:54:16Speaker 11: speak speak quite dumb dead dead. A tomb must cover
- 1:54:23Speaker 11: thy sweet eyes, These lily lips, this cherry nose, these
- 1:54:30Speaker 11: yellow cowslip cheeks hot gone, hok gone lovers make moan.
- 1:54:38Speaker 11: His eyes were green as leaks. Oh sisters three, come
- 1:54:45Speaker 11: come to me with hands as pale as milk. Lay
- 1:54:49Speaker 11: them in goree since you have sure with shears his
- 1:54:52Speaker 11: thread of silk tongue, not a word, Come, trusty, sword,
- 1:54:59Speaker 11: Come blade my breast in blue. She stabs herself and
- 1:55:06Speaker 11: farewell friends. Thus Thissbee ends Adieu, Adieu, Adieu.
- 1:55:17Speaker 6: She dies.
- 1:55:20Speaker 2: Moonshine and Lion are left to bury the dead II
- 1:55:24Speaker 2: and the wall too.
- 1:55:25Speaker 9: No, I assure you the wall is down the part
- 1:55:28Speaker 9: of their fathers. Will it please you to see the
- 1:55:31Speaker 9: epilog or to hear a burgamask dance between two of
- 1:55:35Speaker 9: our company?
- 1:55:37Speaker 2: No epilogue. I pray you, for your play needs no
- 1:55:40Speaker 2: excuse never excuse, for when the players are all dead,
- 1:55:45Speaker 2: there needs none to be blamed.
- 1:55:47Speaker 7: Mary.
- 1:55:47Speaker 2: If he that rid it had played Pyramus and hanged
- 1:55:50Speaker 2: himself in thisby's garter, it would have been a fine tragedy.
- 1:55:54Speaker 2: And so it is truly and very notably discharged. But
- 1:55:59Speaker 2: come your birds, let your epilog alone, Hey dance the
- 1:56:05Speaker 2: iron tongue of midnight. Hath told twelve lobbs to bed,
- 1:56:10Speaker 2: tis almost fairy time. I fear we shall outsleep the
- 1:56:13Speaker 2: coming morn. As much as we this night have overwatched
- 1:56:17Speaker 2: this palpable gross play, hath well beguiled the heavy gait
- 1:56:21Speaker 2: of night, sweet friends to bed a fortnight. Hold we
- 1:56:25Speaker 2: this solemnity in nightly revels and new jollity, exeillant, enter puck.
- 1:56:34Speaker 14: Now the hungry lion roars, and the wolf behowls the moon,
- 1:56:38Speaker 14: whilst the heavy plowman snores, all with weary task foredone.
- 1:56:43Speaker 14: Now the wasted brands do glow, whilst a screech owl,
- 1:56:46Speaker 14: screeching aloud, puts the wretch that lies in woe in
- 1:56:50Speaker 14: remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of
- 1:56:53Speaker 14: night that the graves, all gaping wide. Every one lets
- 1:56:57Speaker 14: forth his sprite in the church paths to glide, and
- 1:57:01Speaker 14: we fairies that do run by the triple hegate's team
- 1:57:05Speaker 14: from the presence of the sun, following darkness like a dream.
- 1:57:09Speaker 14: Now our frolic, not a mouse shall disturb this hallowed house.
- 1:57:13Speaker 14: I am sent with broom before to sweep the dust
- 1:57:16Speaker 14: behind the door.
- 1:57:19Speaker 1: Enter Oberon and Titania with their train.
- 1:57:24Speaker 15: Through the house, give gathering light by the dread and
- 1:57:27Speaker 15: drowsy fire. Every elf and fairy sprite hop as light
- 1:57:31Speaker 15: as bird from brier, and this ditty after me, sing
- 1:57:35Speaker 15: and dance it trippingly.
- 1:57:37Speaker 16: First, rehearse your song by rote, to each word a
- 1:57:42Speaker 16: warbling note, hand in hand with fairy grace. Will we
- 1:57:47Speaker 16: sing and bless this place?
- 1:57:50Speaker 1: Song and dance.
- 1:57:53Speaker 15: Now until the break of day, through this house, each
- 1:57:56Speaker 15: fairy stray to the best bride bed. Will we which
- 1:58:00Speaker 15: by us shall blessed be and the issue there create
- 1:58:04Speaker 15: ever shall be fortunate. So shall all the couple's three
- 1:58:08Speaker 15: ever true in loving be, And the blots of nature's
- 1:58:12Speaker 15: hands shall not in their issue stand never mole, hare lip,
- 1:58:16Speaker 15: nor scar nor mark. Prodigious such as are despised in
- 1:58:19Speaker 15: nativity shall upon their children be with this field dow
- 1:58:24Speaker 15: consecrate every fairy take his gait, and each several chamber
- 1:58:29Speaker 15: bless through this place with sweet peace, and the owner
- 1:58:33Speaker 15: of it blessed, shall ever in safety rest trip away,
- 1:58:37Speaker 15: make no stay, meet me all by break.
- 1:58:40Speaker 1: Of day, exeant Oberon Titania and a train.
- 1:58:46Speaker 14: If we shadows have offended, think but this and all
- 1:58:49Speaker 14: is mended, that you have but slumbered here, while these
- 1:58:52Speaker 14: visions did appear, and this weak and idle theme no
- 1:58:56Speaker 14: more yielding but a dream. Gentles, do not reprehend. If
- 1:59:00Speaker 14: you pardon, we will mend. And as I am an
- 1:59:03Speaker 14: honest puck, if we have unearned luck now to escape
- 1:59:07Speaker 14: the serpent's tongue, we will make amends ere long else
- 1:59:10Speaker 14: the puck a liar call, So good night unto you
- 1:59:13Speaker 14: all give me your hands if we be friends, and
- 1:59:16Speaker 14: Robin shall restore amends.
- 1:59:20Speaker 1: End of Act five