Queen. What, wilt thou hear fome mufic, my fweet love? Bot. I have a reasonable good ear in mufic; let us have the tongs and bones. Rural Mufic, Tongs, &c. Queen. Or fay, fweet love, what thou defir'ft to eat. Bot. Truly, a peck of provender; I could munch your good dry oats. Methinks, I have a great defire to a bottle of hay: good hay, sweet hay hath no fellow. Queen. I have a venturous Fairy that fhall feek The fquirrel's hoard, and fetch thee thence new nuts. Bot. I had rather have a handful or two of dried peafe. But, I pray you, let none of your people ftir me; I have an expofition of fleep come upon me. Queen. Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my Fairies, be gone, and be all ways away: farms; So doth the woodbine, the sweet honey-fuckle, Gently entwift the Maple; Ivy fo Enrings the barky fingers of the Elm. O, how I love thee! how I doat on thee! Enter Puck. Ob. Welcome, good Robin; Seeft thou this sweet fight? Her dotage now I do begin to pity; For, meeting her of late behind the wood, I then did afk of her her changeling child, Hath fuch force and bleffed power. Now, my Titania, wake you, my fweet Queen. Ob. There lies your love. Queen. How came these things to pass? Oh, how mine eyes do loath this visage now! Ob. Silence, a while; Robin, take off his head Titania, mufic call; and strike more dead Than common fleep of all these five the fenfe. Queen. Mufic, ho! mufic; fuch as charmeth fleep. Still Mufic. Puck. When thou awak'ft, with thine own fool's eyes peep. Ob. Sound, Mufic; come, my Queen, take hand with me, And rock the ground whereon these sleepers be. And will to-morrow midnight folemnly There fhall these pairs of faithful lovers be G 4 Wedded, Wedded, with Thefeus, all in jollity. Ob. Then, my Queen, in filence fad; Queen. Come, my lord, and in our flight With thefe mortals on the ground. [Sleepers lie ftill. [Exeunt. [Wind horns within. Enter Thefeus, Egeus, Hippolita, and all his Train. O one of find out the forester, The.Gr For now our obfervation is perform'd, And fince we have the vaward of the day, We will, fair Queen, up to the mountain's top, Of hounds and echo in conjunction. Hip. I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, Thef. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, fo fanded, and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew; The skies, the Fountains,]----Tis believed the true Reading is Mountains. Crook Crook-knee'd, and dew-lap'd, like Theffalian bulls ; Was never hallo'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, Judge, when you hear. But foft, what nymphs are these? Ege. My lord, this is my daughter here afleep, I wonder at their being here together. Thef. No doubt, they rose up early to observe That Hermia fhould give answer of her choice? Thef. Go bid the huntsmen wake them with their Horns, and fhout within; Demetrius, Lyfander, Hermia, and Helena, wake and start up. Thef. Good morrow, friends; Saint Valentine is pafl: Begin thefe wood-birds but to couple now? Lyf. Pardon, my lord. Thef. I pray you all, ftand up: I know, you two are rival enemies. To fleep by hate, and fear no enmity? Was to be gone from Athens, where we might be Ege. Ege. Enough, enough; my lord, you have enough; I beg the law, the law upon his head: They would have ftoll'n away, they would, Demetrius, You, of your wife; and me, of my confent; Fair Helena in fancy following me, But, my good lord, I wot not by what power, Thef. Fair lovers, you are fortunately met: Come, Hippolita. [Exeunt Duke, Hippolita and Train. Like far-off mountains turned into clouds. Her. Methinks, I fee these things with parted Eye; When every thing feems double. Hel. So methinks; And |