MND QUOTES ACT 4

What, wilt thou hear some music, These things seem small and undistinguishable,
my sweet love? Like far-off mountains turned into clouds
TITANIA DEMETRIUS

Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms. Good morrow, friends. Saint Valentine is past:
Fairies, begone, and be all ways away. Begin these wood-birds but to couple now?
TITANIA THESEUS

My Oberon! what visions have I seen! When my cue comes, call me, and I will
Methought I was enamour'd of an ass. answer: my next is, 'Most fair Pyramus.' Heigh-ho!
TITANIA BOTTOM

Scratch my head Peaseblossom. Yea; and my father.

BOTTOM HERMIA

Pray you, Now I do wish it, love it, long for it,
leave your courtesy And will for evermore be true to it.
BOTTOM DEMETRIUS

Welcome, good Robin. I beg the law, the law, upon his head.
See'st thou this sweet sight? EGEUS
OBERON
Half sleep, half waking: but as yet, I swear,
Sound, music! Come, my queen, take hands with me, I cannot truly say how I came here;
OBERON LYSANDER

What's your Will? We will, fair queen, up to the mountain's top,

MUSTARDSEED And mark the musical confusion
THESEUS
Fairy king, attend, and mark:
I do hear the morning lark. ________________________________________________
PUCK
Masters, the duke is coming from the temple, and
I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, there is two or three lords and ladies more married:
When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear if our sport had gone forward, we had all been made
HIPPOLYTA men.
SNUG
Silence awhile. Robin, take off this head.
OBERON Let us hear, sweet Bottom.
QUINCE
Her dotage now I do begin to pity:
OBERON He cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he is
transported.
And I have found Demetrius like a jewel, STARVELING
Mine own, and not mine own.
HELENA Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy hour!
QUINCE
No doubt they rose up early to observe
The rite of May, Where are these lads? where are these hearts?
THESEUS BOTTOM

Come, my lord, and in our flight No, he hath simply the best wit of any handicraft
Tell me how it came this night man in Athens.
TITANIA FLUTE

And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy. Have you sent to Bottom's house ? is he come home yet?
TITANIA QUINCE
You must say 'paragon:' a paramour is, God bless us, Pyramus (BOTTOM)
a thing of naught.
FLUTE He hath rid his prologue like a rough colt; he knows
not the stop. A good moral, my lord: it is not
Masters, I am to discourse wonders: but ask me not enough to speak, but to speak true.
what; for if I tell you, I am no true Athenian. LYSANDER
BOTTOM
I love not to see wretchedness o'er charged
It is not possible: you have not a man in all And duty in his service perishing.
Athens able to discharge Pyramus but he. HIPPOLYTA
QUINCE
A very gentle beast, of a good conscience.
Get your apparel together, THESEUS
good strings to your beards, new ribbons to your
pumps; meet presently at the palace; But mark, poor knight,
BOTTOM What dreadful dole is here!
Pyramus (BOTTOM)
MND QUOTES ACT 5
This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would
More strange than true: I never may believe go near to make a man look sad.
These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. THESEUS
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
THESEUS Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.
Come now; what masques, what dances shall we have, PUCK
THESEUS
No epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no
Let him approach. excuse.
THESEUS THESEUS

Will it please you to see the Hand in hand, with fairy grace,
epilogue, or to hear a Bergomask dance between two Will we sing, and bless this place.
of our company? TITANIA
BOTTOM
I am aweary of this moon: would he would change!
Now the hungry lion roars, HIPPOLYTA
PUCK
This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard.
No wonder, my lord: one lion may, when many asses do. HIPPOLYTA
DEMETRIUS
Eyes, do you see?
No, my noble lord; How can it be?
It is not for you: I have heard it over, Pyramus (BOTTOM)
And it is nothing, nothing in the world;
PHILOSTRATE With the help of a surgeon he might yet recover, and
prove an ass.
If we offend, it is with our good will. THESEUS
That you should think, we come not to offend,
Prologue (QUINCE) His speech, was like a tangled chain; nothing
impaired, but all disordered. Who is next?
He says they can do nothing in this kind. THESEUS
HIPPOLYTA
O Pyramus, arise!
The wall, methinks, being sensible, should curse again. Speak, speak. Quite dumb?
THESEUS Thisbe (FLUTE)

Well run, Thisbe. It is the wittiest partition that ever I heard

THESEUS discourse, my lord.
DEMETRIUS
O kiss me through the hole of this vile wall!
Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
PUCK