Ob. There lies your love. Queen. How came these things to pass? Ob. Silence, a while; Robin, take off his head, Still Mufick. Puck. When thou awak'ft, with thine own fool's eyes peep. Ob. Sound, mufick; come, my Queen, take hand with me, And rock the ground whereon these fleepers be. And will to-morrow midnight folemnly 3 Dance in Duke Thefeus' houfe triumphantly, There shall these pairs of faithful lovers be Puck. Fairy King, attend and mark; I do hear the morning lark. 4 Ob. Then, my Queen, in filence fad; Dance in Duke Thefeus' boufe triumphantly, i.. to the remoteft pofterity. 4 Then, my Queen, in filence fad; Trip we after the night's fhade.] Mr. Theobald fays, why fad? Fairies are pleafed to follow night. He will have it fade; and, fo, to mend the rhime, fpoils both the fenfe and grammar. But he mistakes the meaning of fad; it fignifies only grave, sober; and is oppofed to their dances and revels, which were now ended at the finging of the morning lark. So Winter's Tale, A&t 4 My father and the gentleman are in SAD talk. For grave or Jerious. [(a) five, Dr. Thirlby, We the globe can compass soon, Queen. Come, my lord, and in our flight With thefe mortals on the ground. [Sleepers lie ftill. [Exeunt. [Wind borns within. Enter Thefeus, Egeus, Hippolita, and all his Train. The. Go one of you, find out the forester, We will, fair Queen, up to the mountain's top, Hip. I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, Thef. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, 5 The skies, the FOUNTAINS,-] I believe the true reading is mountains. Judge, when you hear. But foft, what nymphs are these? Ege. My lord, this is my daughter here asleep, I wonder at their being here together. Thef. No doubt, they rofe up early to obferve That Hermia fhould give anfwer of her choice? Thef. Go bid the huntfmen wake them with their Horns, and Sbout within; Demetrius, Lyfander, Hermia, and Helena, wake and start up. Thef. Good morrow, friends; Saint Valentine is paft: Begin thefe wood-birds but to couple now? Lyf. Pardon, my lord. Thef. I pray you all, stand up: I know, you two are rival enemies. Half fleep, half waking. But as yet, I swear, I came with Hermia hither. Our intent 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, Thereby to have defeated you and me; You, You, of your wife; and me, of my confent; Of my confent, that the fhould be your wife. 6 But, my good lord, I wot not by what power, But like a fickness did I loath this food; Thef. Fair lovers, you are fortunately met: Come, Hippolita. [Exeunt Duke, Hippol. and Train. Her. Methinks, I fee these things with parted Eye; When every thing feems double. Hel. So, methinks; 6 Gaude or bawble. Mr. Pope. 7 And I have found Demetrius like a Gemell, Dem. It feems to me, That yet we fleep, we dream. Do not you think, Her. Yea, and my father. Hel. And Hippolita. Lyf. And he did bid us follow to the temple. Bot. When my cue comes, call me, and I will anfwer. My next is, Moft fair Pyramus hey, ho,Peter Quince, Flute the bellows-mender! Snout the tinker! Starveling! god's my life! ftoll'n hence, and left me afleep? I have had a moft rare vifion. I had a dream, paft the wit of man to fay what dream it was: 7 And I have found Demetrius like a JEWEL, Mine own, and not mine on ] Hermia had obferved that things appeared double to her. Helena replies, fo methinks; and then fubjoins, that Demetrius was like a jewel, her own and not her own. He is here, then, compared to fome thing which had the property of appearing to be one thing when it was another, Not the property fure of a Jewel: or, if you will, of none but a falle one. We should read, And I have found Demetrius like a GEMELL, Mine own, and not my own. →→→→ -From Gemellus a Twin. For Demetrius had that night acted two fuch different parts, that the could hardly think them both plaved by one and the fame Demetrius; but that there were twin Demetrius's like the two Socia's in the Farce. - From Gemellus comes the French, Gemeau or Jumeau, and in the feminine, Gemelle or Jumelle: So in Maçon's tranflation of the Decameron of Bocace Il avoit trois filles plus aage' es que les males, des quelles les deux qui eftoient JUMELLES avoient quinze ans. Quatrieme jour. Nov. 3. man |