Because I cannot meet my Hermia *. Hence! get thee gone, and follow me no more. Is true as steel: leave you your power to draw, Dem. Do I entice you? Do I speak you fair? Tell you I do not, nor I cannot love you? Hel. And even for that do I love you the more. The more you beat me, I will fawn on you: What worser place can I beg in your love, Dem. Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit, For I am sick when I do look on thee. Hel. And I am sick when I look not on you. To leave the city, and commit yourself Into the hands of one that loves you not; Hel. Your virtue is my privilege for that. 4 Because I cannot meet My Hermia.] Malone reads with for "my." > Than to be used as you use your dog ?] So the 4to. editions. The folio substitutes do for "use." Malone's reading, " Than to be used as you do use your dog," is warranted by no authority. Dem. I'll run from thee, and hide me in the brakes, And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts. Hel. The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Dem. I will not stay thy questions: let me go; But I shall do thee mischief in the wood. Hel. Ay, in the temple, in the town, the field3, Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex: We should be woo'd, and were not made to woo. To die upon the hand I love so well. [Exeunt DEM. and HEL. Obe. Fare thee well, nymph: ere he do leave this grove, Thou shalt fly him, and he shall seek thy love.— Re-enter PUCK. Hast thou the flower there? Welcome, wanderer. Obe. 5 Ay, in the temple, in the town, THE field,] Thus Fisher's 4to; and no doubt rightly. The folio follows Roberts's 4to, and reads " and field.” I'LL follow thee] The folio has "I follow thee:" the two quartos as in the text. Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in: And with the juice of this I'll streak her eyes, Take thou some of it, and seek through this grove : With a disdainful youth: anoint his eyes; And look thou meet me ere the first cock crow. [Exeunt. SCENE II. Another part of the Wood. Enter TITANIA, with her train. Tita. Come, now a roundel, and a fairy song; Then, for the third part of a minute, hence: Some, to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds; Some war with rear-mice' for their leathern wings, To make my small elves coats; and some keep back The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots, and wonders At our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep; Then to your offices, and let me rest. FAIRIES' SONG. 1 Fai. You spotted snakes, with double tongue, CHORUS. Philomel, with melody, Sing in our sweet lullaby 3 ; Lulla, lulla, lullaby; lulla, lulla, lullaby : Nor spell nor charm, Come our lovely lady nigh; II. 2 Fai. Weaving spiders, come not here ; CHORUS. Philomel, with melody, &c. 2 Fai. Hence, away! now all is well. One, aloof, stand sentinel. [Exeunt Fairies. TITANIA sleeps. Enter OBERON. Obe. What thou seest, when thou dost wake, [Squeezes the flower on TITANIA's eye-lids. Do it for thy true love take; Love, and languish for his sake: Be it ounce, or cat, or bear, [Erit. Sing in OUR Sweet lullaby ;] The folio has your for “our.” Enter LYSANDER and HERMIA. Lys. Fair love, you faint with wandering in the wood; And to speak troth, I have forgot our way: And tarry for the comfort of the day. Lys. One turf shall serve as pillow for us both: Lys. O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence; Her. Lysander riddles very prettily. Now much beshrew my manners and my pride, 9 Her. With half that wish the wisher's eyes be press'd! [They sleep. WE CAN make of it.] So both the quartos: the folio, "can you make of it." 1 Two bosoms INTERCHAINED with an oath ;] This reading of the quarto editions is surely far preferable to interchanged of the folio. |