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[donkey braying]

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[crowd yelling]

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[Swords clashing]

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[grunting]

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[laughing]

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[Yelling, swords clashing]

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Ahhh!

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[yelling, swords clashing]

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Ahhh!

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[Theseus] Now, fair Hippolyta,

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our nuptial hour draws on apace.

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Four happy days bring in another moon;

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but, O, methinks, how slow this old moon wanes!

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She lingers my desires,

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like to a stepdame or a dowager,

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Long withering out a young man's revenue.

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[Hippolyta] Four days will quickly steep themselves in night,

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Four nights will quickly dream away the time;

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And then the moon, like to a silver bow New-bent in heaven,

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shall behold the night of our solemnities.

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Go, Philostrate,

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Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments,

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Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth,

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Turn melancholy forth to funerals;

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The pale companion is not for our pomp.

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Hippolyta,

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I wooed thee with my sword,

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And won thy love, doing thee injuries;

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But I will wed thee in another key,

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With pomp, with triumph, and with reveling.

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[arguing offstage]

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[Egeus] Happy be Theseus, our renowned Duke!

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[Theseus] Thanks, good Egeus.

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What's the news with thee?

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[Egeus] Full of vexation come I, with complaint

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Against my child, my daughter Hermia.

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Stand forth, Demetrius.

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My noble lord, this man hath my consent to marry her.

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Stand forth, Lysander.

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[Egeus] And, my most gracious Duke,

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This hath bewitched the bosom of my child.

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Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes,

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And interchanged love tokens with my child.

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Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung,

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With feigning voice, verses of feigning love,

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And stol'n the impression of her fantasy

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With bracelets of thy hair,

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rings, conceits, gauds,

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Knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats,

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messengers of strong prevailment in unhardened youth.

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With cunning hast thou filched my daughter's heart,

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Turned her obedience, which is due to me,

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To stubborn harshness.

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And, be it so that she will not before your Grace,

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consent to marry with Demetrius,

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I beg the ancient privilege of Athens:

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As she is mine, I may dispose of her,

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be it either to this gentleman,

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Or to her death, according to our law.

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Immediately, provided in that case.

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[Theseus] What say you, Hermia?

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Be advised, fair maid.

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To you your father should be as a god,

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One who composed your beauties;

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yea, and the one to whom your are but as a form in wax

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By him imprinted and within his power

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either to leave the figure or to disfigure it.

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Demetrius is a worthy gentleman.

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[Hermia] So is Lysander!

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[Theseus] In himself he is;

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But in this kind, wanting your father's voice,

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The other must be held the worthier.

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[Hermia] I would rather my father looked but with my eyes.

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[Theseus] Rather your eyes must with his judgment look.

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[Hermia] I do entreat your grace to pardon me.

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I know not by what power I am made bold.

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But I do beseech your grace that I may know

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The worst that may befall me in this case

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If I refuse to wed Demetrius.

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[Theseus] Either to die the death,

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or to abjure forever the society of men.

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Therefore, question your desires;

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Know of your youth, examine well your blood,

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Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice,

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You can endure the livery of a nun.

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But earthlier happy is the rose distilled,

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Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn,

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Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.

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[Hermia] So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord,

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Ere I will yield my virgin patent up unto his lordship,

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whose unwished yoke my soul consents not to give sovereignty.

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[Theseus] Take time to pause;

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by the next new moon --

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the sealing day betwixt my love and me,

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for everlasting bond of fellowship --

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On that day, either be prepared to die

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For disobedience to your father's will,

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Or else to wed Demetrius, as he would,

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Or on Diana's alter to protest

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For aye austerity and single life.

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Relent, sweet Hermia:

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and, Lysander, yield thy crazed title to my certain right.

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[Lysander] You have her father's love, Demetrius;

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Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.

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[Egeus] Scornful Lysander! True, he hath my love,

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And what is mine my love shall render him.

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And she is mine, and all my right of her

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I do estate unto Demetrius.

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I am, my lord, as well derived as he, As well possessed;

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my love is more than his;

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My fortunes every way as fairly ranked,

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if not with vantage, as Demetrius;

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And, what is more than all these boasts can be,

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I am beloved of beauteous Hermia.

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Why should I not then prosecute my right?

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Demetrius, I'll avouch it to his head,

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Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena,

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And won her soul;

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and she, sweet lady, dotes,

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devoutly dotes,

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dotes in idolatry upon this spotted and inconstant man.

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[Theseus] I must confess that I have heard so much,

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And with Demetrius had thought to speak thereof;

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But, being overfull of self-affairs, My mind did lose it.

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But, Demetrius, come;

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And come, Egeus.

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You shall go with me;

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I have some private schooling for you both.

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For you, fair Hermia, look you arm yourself

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to fit your fancies to your father's will;

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Or else the law of Athens yields you up to death,

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Or to a vow of single life.

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Come, my Hippolyta.

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[Theseus] What cheer, my love?

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Demetrius and Egeus, go along.

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I must employ you in some business against our nuptial,

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and confer with you of something nearly that concerns yourselves.

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With duty and desire we follow you.

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How now, my love!

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Why is your cheek so pale?

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How chance the roses there do fade so fast?

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[Hermia] Belike for want of rain, which I could well beteem them

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from the the tempest of my eyes.

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Oh, ay me!

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For aught that I could ever read,

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Could ever hear by tale are history,

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The course of true love never did run smooth.

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But, if it were different in blood --

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[Hermia] O cross! Too high to be enthralled to low!

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[Lysander] Or else misgraffed in respect of years --

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[Hermia] O spite! Too old be be engaged to young!

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[Lysander] Or it stood upon the choice of friends --

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[Hermia] O hell! To choose love by another's eyes!

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[Lysander] Or, if there were no sympathy in choice,

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War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,

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making it momentary as a sound,

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swift as a shadow,

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short as any dream.

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So quick bright things come to confusion.

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[Hermia] If then true lovers have ever been crossed,

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It stands as an edict in destiny:

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Then let us teach our trial patience,

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Because it is a customary cross.

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[Lysander] A good persuasion.

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Therefore, hear me Hermia.

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I have a widow aunt, a dowager of great revenue,

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And she hath no child.

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From Athens is her house remote seven leagues.

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And she respects me as her only son.

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There, gentle Hermia, will I marry thee.

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And that place, the sharp Athenian law cannot pursue us.

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If thou lovest me,

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then, steal forth thy father's house tomorrow night;

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And in the wood, a league without the town,

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Where I did meet thee once with Helena,

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to do observance to a morn of May,

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There will I stay for thee.

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My good Lysander!

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I swear to thee by Cupid's strongest bow,

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By his best arrow with the golden head,

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By the simplicity of Venus' doves,

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By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves,

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By all the vows men ever broke,

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In number more than women ever spoke,

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In that same place thou hast appointed me,

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Tomorrow truly will I meet with thee.

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[Lysander] Keep promise, love.

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Oh, Helena.

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[Hermia] God speed, fair Helena! Whither away?

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[Helena] Call you me fair?

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That fair again unsay.

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Demetrius loves your fair.

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O happy fair!

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Your eyes are lodestars,

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and your tongue's sweet air more tunable

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than lark to a shepherd's ear.

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When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear.

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Sickness is catching.

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O, were favor so, yours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go;

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My ear would catch your voice,

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my eye your eye,

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My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody,

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Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated,

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The rest I'd give to be to you translated.

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O, teach me how you look,

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and with what art you sway the motion of Demetrius' heart!

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[Hermia] I frown upon him, yet he loves me still.

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[Helena] O that your frowns could teach my smiles such skill.

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[Hermia] I give him curses, yet he gives me love.

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[Helena] O that my prayers could such affection move!

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[Hermia] The more I hate him, the more he follows me.

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[Helena] The more I love, the more he hateth me.

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[Hermia] His folly, Helena, is no fault of mine.

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[Helena] None, but your beauty: would that fault were mine!

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[Hermia] Take comfort. He no more shall see my face;

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[Lysander] Ah!

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[Hermia] Lysander and myself will fly this place.

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[Lysander] Helen, to you our minds we will unfold.

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Tomorrow night, when Phoebe doth behold

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her silver visage on the wat'ry glass,

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decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass,

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A time that lovers' flights doth still conceal,

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Through Athens' gates have we devised to steal.

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[Hermia] And in the wood, where often you and I

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upon faint primrose beds were wont to lie,

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emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet,

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There, my Lysander and myself shall meet.

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And thence from Athens turn away our eyes,

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To seek new friends and stranger companies.

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Farewell, sweet playfellow.

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Pray thou for us and good luck grant thee thy Demetrius!

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[Helena] Ohhh.

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[Hermia] Keep word, Lysander.

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We must starve our sight from lovers' food

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till tomorrow deep midnight.

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[Lysander] I will, my Hermia.

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Helena, adieu.

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[Helena] Ohhh.

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[Lysander] As you on him, Demetrius dote on you!

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[Helena] How happy some o'er other some can be.

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Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.

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But what of that?

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Demetrius thinks not so;

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He will not know what all but he do know.

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Love looks with the mind, not with the eyes.

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And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

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For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia's eyne,

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he hailed down oaths that he was only mine;

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And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,

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So he dissolved, and showers of oaths did melt.

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I will go tell him of fair Hermia's flight.

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Then to the wood will he tomorrow night

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Pursue her; and for this intelligence, if I have thanks,

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it is a dear expense.

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But herein mean I to enrich my pain,

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To have his sight thither and back again.

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[vocalizing strangely]

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[Quince] Is all our company here?

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[Bottom] You were best to call them generally,

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man by man, according to the scrip.

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[Quince] Here is the scroll of every man's name,

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who is thought fit through all of Athens,

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to play in our interlude before the Duke and Duchess

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on his wedding day at night.

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[Bottom] First, Peter Quince, say what the play treats on,

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then read the names of the actors;

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and so grow to a point.

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[Quince] Marry, our play is,

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"The most lamentable comedy,

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and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe."

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[all] Ohhhh!

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[Bottom] A very good piece of work and a merry, I assure you.

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Now, good Peter Quince, call forth your actors by the scroll.

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Masters, spread yourselves.

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[Quince] Nick Bottom, the weaver.

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[Bottom] Ready! Name what part I am for, and proceed.

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[Quince] You, Nick Bottom, are set down for Pyramus.

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[Bottom] Aha. Yes.

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What is Pyramus?

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Is he a lover or is he a tyrant?

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[Quince] A lover that kills himself, most gallant, for love.

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[Bottom] Ohhh. That will ask some tears in the true performing of it:

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if I do it,

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(I'll do it)

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let them look to their eyes.

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I will move storms,

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I will condole in some measure.

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Well, to the rest:

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yet my chief humor is for a tyrant.

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I could play Ercles rarely,

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or a part to tear a cat in, to make all split.

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The raging rocks

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And shivering shocks

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Shall break the locks 
Of prison gates;

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And Phibbus' car 
shall shine from faaaaaaaaaaar,

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And make and mar 
The foolish Fates.

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[applause]

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[Bottom] This was lofty!

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Now name the rest of your players.

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[Quince] Francis Flute---

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[Bottom] This is Ercles' vein, a tyrant's vein.

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[Quince] Francis ---

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[Bottom] A lover is more condoling.

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[Quince] Francis Flute, the bellows mender.

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[Flute] Here, Peter Quince. Here Peter Quince.

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[Quince] Ah, Flute. You must take Thisbe on you.

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[Flute] What is Thisbe? A wandering knight?

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[Quince] It is the lady that Pyramus must love.

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[Flute] Nay, faith, let me not play a woman.

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I have a beard...

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... coming.

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[Quince] That's all one.

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You shall play it in a mask,

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and you may speak as small as you will.

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[Bottom] And I may hide my face,

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let me play Thisbe too.

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I'll speak in a monstrous little voice,

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[low voice] "Thisne, Thisne!"

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[high voice] "Ah Pyramus, my lover dear!

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"Thy Thisbe dear, and lady dear!"

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[Quince] No, no!

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No. You must play Pyramus; and Flute, you Thisbe.

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[Bottom] Well, proceed.

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[Quince] Robin Starveling, the tailor.

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[Starveling] Here, Peter Quince.

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[Quince] Robin Starveling, you must play Thisbe's mother.

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And, Tom Snout, the tinker.

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[Snout] Here, Peter Quince.

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[Quince] Ah, you Pyramus' father:

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myself, Thisbe's father:

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and Snug the joiner;

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[Snug] Ooh ooh!

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[Quince] Ah, you the lion's part.

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And I hope here is a play fitted.

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[laughing]

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[Snug] Have you the lion's part written?

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Pray you, if it be, give it me, for I am s-s-s---

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s-s-s-s---

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s-s-s-slow of study.

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[Quince] You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring.

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[roaring]

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[Bottom] Let me play the lion too.

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I will roar that I will make any man's heart good to hear me.

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Rooooaaar!

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I will roar that I will make the Duke say,

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"Let him roar again, let him roar again."

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[Quince] And you would do it too, terribly,

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You would fright the Duchess and the ladies,

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that you would cause them to shriek,

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and that would be enough to hang us all.

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[All] That would hang us, every mother's son!

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[Bottom] I grant you, friends,

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that if we should fright the ladies out of their wits,

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they would have no more discretion but to hang us:

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but I will aggravate my voice

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so that I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove;

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I will roar you an 'twere any nightingale.

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Ooooooohhh!

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[Quince] You will play no part but Pyramus!

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[all] Oooohh.

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[all exclaiming]

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[Quince, off] A proper man that one would see on a summer's day,

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a lovely, gentleman-like man.

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therefore you must needs play Pyramus.

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[all, off-stage] Yes! You must!

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[Bottom] Well, I will undertake it.

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[all cheering]

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[Quince] Masters...

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[Quince] Masters, here are your parts.

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I must entreat, request you, and desire you

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to con them by tomorrow night.

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Roarrrr!

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[Snug] Oh yeah. Ha ha ha.

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[Quince] And meet me in the palace wood,

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a mile without the town, by moonlight.

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There we will rehearse.

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For if we were to meet in the city, we'd be dogged with company,

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and our devices known.

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In the meantime,

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I shall draw a bill of properties, such as our play wants.

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I pray you, fail me not.

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[Bottom] We will meet. And there we may rehearse most obscenely

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and courageously.

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Take pains, be perfit. Adieu.

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[Quince] At the Duke's Oak we meet.

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[Bottom] Enough!