< Return to Video

A Midsummer Night's Dream - IPFW Department of Theatre

  • 21:29 - 21:31
    [Fairy grunting]
  • 21:32 - 21:37
    [Fairy] Over hill, over dale, thorough bush, thorough brier,
  • 21:38 - 21:43
    Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire,
  • 21:44 - 21:47
    [Puck] How now, spirit! Wither wander you?
  • 21:47 - 21:49
    [Fairy] I do wander everywhere.
  • 21:50 - 21:53
    Swifter than the moon's sphere;
  • 21:53 - 21:55
    And I serve the Fairy Queen,
  • 21:56 - 21:58
    To dew her orbs upon the green.
  • 22:00 - 22:03
    I must go seek some dewdrops here,
  • 22:03 - 22:05
    And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
  • 22:06 - 22:08
    Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone.
  • 22:08 - 22:10
    Our Queen and all her elves come here anon.
  • 22:11 - 22:14
    [Puck] The King doth keep his revels here tonight.
  • 22:14 - 22:17
    Take heed the Queen come not within his sight.
  • 22:18 - 22:20
    For Oberon is passing fell and wrath,
  • 22:20 - 22:22
    Because that she as her attendant hath a lovely boy,
  • 22:22 - 22:24
    stolen from an Indian king;
  • 22:26 - 22:29
    She never had so sweet a changeling.
  • 22:29 - 22:33
    And a jealous Oberon would have the child knight of his train,
  • 22:34 - 22:35
    to trace the forests wild.
  • 22:36 - 22:38
    But she perforce withholds the loved boy,
  • 22:38 - 22:41
    Crowns him with flowers, and makes him all her joy.
  • 22:42 - 22:45
    And now they never meet in grove or green, but they do square,
  • 22:46 - 22:50
    that all their elves for fear creep into acorn cups and hide them there.
  • 22:51 - 22:54
    [Fairy] Either I mistake your shape and making quite,
  • 22:54 - 22:58
    Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite called Robin Goodfellow.
  • 22:59 - 23:01
    Are not you he that frights the maidens of the villagery,
  • 23:02 - 23:04
    or sometime make the drink to bear no barm,
  • 23:04 - 23:07
    mislead night wanderers, laughing at their harm?
  • 23:07 - 23:12
    Those that Hobgoblin call you, and sweet Puck,
  • 23:12 - 23:15
    You do their work and they shall have good luck.
  • 23:16 - 23:17
    Are not you he?
  • 23:20 - 23:22
    [Puck] Thou speakest aright;
  • 23:22 - 23:25
    I am that merry wanderer of the night.
  • 23:26 - 23:27
    I jest to Oberon, and make him smile,
  • 23:28 - 23:30
    When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,
  • 23:31 - 23:34
    Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:
  • 23:34 - 23:35
    Neigh!!
  • 23:37 - 23:40
    [Puck] And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl,
  • 23:40 - 23:42
    In very likeness of a roasted crab;
  • 23:42 - 23:44
    And when she drinks, against her lips I bob
  • 23:45 - 23:46
    And on her withered dewlap pour the ale.
  • 23:49 - 23:51
    The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale,
  • 23:51 - 23:54
    Sometime for a three-foot stool mistaketh me;
  • 23:57 - 23:58
    Then slip I from her bum, down topples she,
  • 23:59 - 24:02
    And "tailor" cries, and falls into a cough;
  • 24:02 - 24:04
    And the whole quire hold their hips and laugh,
  • 24:04 - 24:07
    And waxen in their mirth, and neeze and swear
  • 24:07 - 24:09
    A merrier hour was never wasted there.
  • 24:10 - 24:11
    [thunder]
  • 24:11 - 24:13
    [Puck] But, room, fairies! Here comes Oberon.
  • 24:14 - 24:15
    [thunder]
  • 24:15 - 24:17
    [Fairy] And here my mistress! Would that he were gone!
  • 24:19 - 24:22
    [Oberon] Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.
  • 24:22 - 24:24
    [Titania.] What, jealous Oberon!
  • 24:24 - 24:26
    Fairy, skip hence.
  • 24:27 - 24:29
    I have forsworn his bed and company.
  • 24:29 - 24:32
    [Oberon] Tarry, rash wanton; am I not thy lord?
  • 24:33 - 24:35
    [Titania] Then I must be thy lady:
  • 24:35 - 24:39
    But I know when thou hast stolen away from fairy land
  • 24:39 - 24:42
    And in the shape of Corin sat all day,
  • 24:42 - 24:47
    Playing on pipes of corn, and versing love to amorous Phillida.
  • 24:48 - 24:51
    Why art thou here, come from the furthest step of India?
  • 24:51 - 24:54
    But that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon,
  • 24:55 - 24:57
    Your buskined mistress and your warrior love,
  • 24:58 - 25:00
    To Theseus must be wedded,
  • 25:00 - 25:04
    And you come to give their bed joy and prosperity.
  • 25:04 - 25:06
    [Oberon] How canst thou thus for shame, Titania,
  • 25:07 - 25:09
    Glance at my credit with Hippolyta,
  • 25:09 - 25:11
    Knowing I know thy love to Theseus?
  • 25:11 - 25:15
    Didst thou not lead him through the glimmering night from Perigenia,
  • 25:15 - 25:17
    Whom he ravished?
  • 25:17 - 25:22
    And make him with fair Aegles break his faith, with Ariadne and Antiopa?
  • 25:25 - 25:27
    [Titania] These are the forgeries of jealousy:
  • 25:29 - 25:31
    And never, since the middle summer's spring,
  • 25:32 - 25:35
    Met we on hill, in dale, forest or mead,
  • 25:35 - 25:37
    By paved fountain or by rushy brook,
  • 25:38 - 25:39
    Or in the beached margent of the sea,
  • 25:40 - 25:42
    To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind,
  • 25:42 - 25:46
    But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.
  • 25:46 - 25:49
    Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain,
  • 25:49 - 25:53
    As in revenge, have sucked up from the sea contagious fogs;
  • 25:54 - 25:55
    which, falling in the land,
  • 25:55 - 25:58
    Hath every pelting river made so proud,
  • 25:58 - 26:00
    That they have overborne their continents.
  • 26:01 - 26:02
    [Oberon] Eh.
  • 26:03 - 26:06
    [Titania] The fold stands empty in the drowned field,
  • 26:07 - 26:09
    And the crows are fatted with the murrion flock,
  • 26:09 - 26:12
    The nine men's morris is filled up with mud;
  • 26:12 - 26:14
    And the quaint mazes in the wanton green,
  • 26:14 - 26:17
    For lack of tread, are undistinguishable.
  • 26:22 - 26:25
    The human mortals want their winter here;
  • 26:25 - 26:27
    No night is now with hymn or carol blest.
  • 26:28 - 26:30
    Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,
  • 26:31 - 26:33
    Pale in her anger, washes all the air,
  • 26:33 - 26:35
    That rheumatic diseases do abound.
  • 26:36 - 26:38
    And thorough this distemperature we see the seasons alter:
  • 26:39 - 26:43
    Hoary-headed frosts fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,
  • 26:43 - 26:46
    And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown
  • 26:46 - 26:49
    An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds is,
  • 26:50 - 26:53
    as in mockery, set.
  • 26:54 - 26:57
    The spring, the summer, the childing autumn,
  • 26:57 - 26:59
    angry winter, change their wonted liveries;
  • 27:00 - 27:01
    and the mazed world by their increase,
  • 27:02 - 27:03
    now knows not which is which.
  • 27:04 - 27:06
    And this same progeny of evils comes from our debate,
  • 27:07 - 27:10
    From our dissension; We are their parents and original.
  • 27:10 - 27:12
    [Oberon] Do you amend it, then; it lies in you:
  • 27:13 - 27:15
    Why should Titania cross her Oberon?
  • 27:16 - 27:18
    I do but beg a little changeling boy, to be my henchman.
  • 27:18 - 27:20
    [Titania] Set your heart at rest.
  • 27:20 - 27:23
    Thy fairy land buys not the child of me.
  • 27:23 - 27:24
    [Oberon] Ugh!
  • 27:25 - 27:27
    [Titania] His mother was a vot'ress of my order,
  • 27:28 - 27:30
    And, in the spiced Indian air, by night,
  • 27:30 - 27:32
    Full often hath she gossiped by my side.
  • 27:33 - 27:36
    But she, being mortal, of that boy did die;
  • 27:36 - 27:38
    And for her sake do I rear up her boy,
  • 27:38 - 27:40
    And for her sake I will not part with him.
  • 27:40 - 27:43
    [Oberon] How long within this wood intend you stay?
  • 27:43 - 27:45
    [Titania] Perchance till after Theseus' wedding day.
  • 27:49 - 27:53
    If you will patiently dance in our round,
  • 27:53 - 27:56
    And see our moonlight revels,
  • 27:56 - 27:57
    come with us.
  • 27:57 - 28:01
    If not, shun me, and I will spare your haunts.
  • 28:01 - 28:03
    [Oberon] Give me that boy and I will go with thee.
  • 28:04 - 28:05
    [Titania] Not for thy fairy kingdom.
  • 28:06 - 28:07
    Fairies, away!
  • 28:07 - 28:10
    We shall chide downright, should I longer stay.
  • 28:10 - 28:11
    [Oberon] Ugh!
  • 28:13 - 28:14
    Well, go thy way!
  • 28:15 - 28:19
    Thou shalt not from this grove till I torment thee for this injury.
  • 28:19 - 28:21
    Aaaahhh!
  • 28:24 - 28:27
    My gentle Puck, come hither.
  • 28:27 - 28:30
    Thou rememb'rest since once I sat upon a promontory,
  • 28:31 - 28:33
    And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back,
  • 28:33 - 28:35
    Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
  • 28:36 - 28:37
    That the rude sea grew civil at her song,
  • 28:38 - 28:40
    And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,
  • 28:40 - 28:42
    To hear the sea maid's music.
  • 28:43 - 28:43
    [Puck] I remember.
  • 28:44 - 28:46
    [Oberon] That very time I saw, but thou couldst not,
  • 28:47 - 28:49
    Flying between the cold moon and the earth,
  • 28:49 - 28:51
    Cupid all armed.
  • 28:51 - 28:55
    A certain aim he took at a fair vestal throned by the west,
  • 28:55 - 28:58
    And loosed his love shaft smartly from his bow,
  • 28:58 - 29:00
    As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts.
  • 29:01 - 29:03
    But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft
  • 29:04 - 29:06
    Quenched in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon,
  • 29:06 - 29:08
    And the imperial vot'ress passed on,
  • 29:09 - 29:11
    In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
  • 29:11 - 29:13
    Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell.
  • 29:14 - 29:15
    It fell upon a little western flower,
  • 29:15 - 29:18
    Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,
  • 29:18 - 29:21
    And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
  • 29:22 - 29:23
    Oooh.
  • 29:24 - 29:26
    Fetch me that flower;
  • 29:26 - 29:28
    the herb I showed thee once:
  • 29:28 - 29:29
    The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid
  • 29:30 - 29:31
    Will make or man or woman madly dote
  • 29:32 - 29:33
    Upon the next live creature that it sees.
  • 29:35 - 29:37
    Fetch me that herb,
  • 29:37 - 29:40
    and be thou here again ere the leviathan can swim a league.
  • 29:40 - 29:42
    [Puck] I'll put a girdle round the earth in forty minutes.
  • 29:44 - 29:46
    [Oberon] Having once this juice,
  • 29:46 - 29:48
    I'll watch Titania when she is asleep,
  • 29:48 - 29:50
    And drop the liquor of it in her eyes.
  • 29:51 - 29:52
    The next thing then she waking looks upon,
  • 29:53 - 29:56
    Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull,
  • 29:56 - 29:58
    On meddling monkey, or on busy ape,
  • 29:58 - 30:00
    She shall pursue it with the soul of love.
  • 30:01 - 30:03
    And ere I take this charm from off her sight,
  • 30:04 - 30:06
    As I can do it with another herb,
  • 30:06 - 30:08
    I'll make her render up her page to me.
  • 30:08 - 30:09
    Ha ha ha.
  • 30:09 - 30:10
    [Demetrius, off-stage] Get away from me!
  • 30:11 - 30:12
    [Oberon] But who comes here?
  • 30:12 - 30:16
    I am invisible. And I will overhear their conference.
  • 30:22 - 30:24
    [Demetrius] I love thee not, therefore pursue me not.
  • 30:26 - 30:28
    Where is Lysander and fair Hermia?
  • 30:29 - 30:33
    The one I'll slay, the other slayeth me.
  • 30:34 - 30:37
    Thou told'st me they were stolen unto this wood;
  • 30:37 - 30:40
    And here am I, and wood within this wood,
  • 30:40 - 30:42
    Because I cannot meet my Hermia.
  • 30:43 - 30:47
    [Helena] You draw me, you hardhearted adamant,
  • 30:47 - 30:48
    [Demetrius] Ugh!
  • 30:49 - 30:50
    [Helena] Leave you your power to draw,
  • 30:50 - 30:52
    And I shall have no power to follow you.
  • 30:53 - 30:55
    [Demetrius] Do I entice you?
  • 30:55 - 30:57
    Do I speak you fair?
  • 30:57 - 30:59
    Or, rather, do I not in plainest truth
  • 31:00 - 31:02
    Tell you, that I do not nor I cannot love you.
  • 31:02 - 31:04
    [Helena] And even for that do I love you the more.
  • 31:05 - 31:08
    I am your spaniel; and Demetrius,
  • 31:08 - 31:11
    The more you beat me, I will fawn on you.
  • 31:11 - 31:12
    [Demetrius] Ugh!
  • 31:12 - 31:15
    Use me but as your spaniel, strike me, spurn me,
  • 31:16 - 31:19
    Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave,
  • 31:19 - 31:22
    Unworthy as I am, to follow you.
  • 31:22 - 31:24
    What worser place can I beg in your love
  • 31:24 - 31:26
    Than to be used as you use your dog?
  • 31:27 - 31:29
    [Demetrius] Tempt not too much the hatred of my sprit,
  • 31:29 - 31:31
    For I am sick when I do look on thee.
  • 31:32 - 31:34
    [Helena] And I am sick when I look not on you.
  • 31:34 - 31:36
    [Demetrius] You do impeach your modesty too much,
  • 31:36 - 31:39
    To leave the city, and commit yourself
  • 31:39 - 31:41
    Into the hands of one that loves you not,
  • 31:41 - 31:42
    To trust the opportunity of night
  • 31:42 - 31:44
    And the ill counsel of a desert place
  • 31:45 - 31:47
    With the rich worth of your virginity.
  • 31:47 - 31:50
    [Helena] Your virtue is my privilege.
  • 31:50 - 31:53
    For that it is not night when I do see your face,
  • 31:53 - 31:56
    Therefore, I think I am not in the night;
  • 31:56 - 31:59
    Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company,
  • 32:00 - 32:03
    For you in my respect are all the world,
  • 32:03 - 32:05
    Then how can it be said I am alone,
  • 32:05 - 32:06
    When all the world is here to look on me?
  • 32:07 - 32:09
    [Demetrius] I'll run from thee and hide me in the brakes,
  • 32:09 - 32:11
    And leave thee to the mercy of the wild beasts.
  • 32:11 - 32:13
    [Helena] The wildest hath not such a heart as you.
  • 32:14 - 32:15
    Run when you will,
  • 32:15 - 32:17
    the story shall be changed:
  • 32:18 - 32:20
    Apollo files, and Daphne holds the chase;
  • 32:20 - 32:24
    Bootless speed, when cowardice pursues and valor flies.
  • 32:24 - 32:26
    [Demetrius] I will not stay thy questions.
  • 32:27 - 32:28
    Let me go!
  • 32:30 - 32:32
    Or, if thou follow me, do not believe
  • 32:33 - 32:35
    But I shall do thee mischief in the wood.
  • 32:35 - 32:39
    [Helena] Ay, in the temple, in the town, the field,
  • 32:39 - 32:41
    You do me mischief.
  • 32:41 - 32:45
    Fie, Demetrius! Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex.
  • 32:45 - 32:47
    We cannot fight for love, like men may do;
  • 32:48 - 32:50
    We should be wooed, and were not meant to woo.
  • 32:52 - 32:56
    I'll follow thee, and make a heaven of hell,
  • 32:56 - 33:00
    To die upon the hand I love so well.
  • 33:00 - 33:02
    Demetrius!!
  • 33:02 - 33:04
    [Oberon] Oh, fair thee well, nymph;
  • 33:04 - 33:07
    ere he do leave this grove, thou shalt fly him,
  • 33:07 - 33:08
    and he shall seek thy love.
  • 33:09 - 33:11
    Hast thou the flower here?
  • 33:12 - 33:13
    Welcome, wanderer.
  • 33:13 - 33:15
    [Puck] Ay, there it is.
  • 33:16 - 33:18
    [Oberon] I pray thee, give it me.
  • 33:21 - 33:24
    [Oberon] I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
  • 33:24 - 33:26
    Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
  • 33:27 - 33:29
    There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
  • 33:29 - 33:32
    Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight;
  • 33:33 - 33:35
    And with the juice of this I'll streak her eyes,
  • 33:35 - 33:37
    And make her full of hateful fantasies.
  • 33:38 - 33:40
    Take thou some of it, and seek through this grove.
  • 33:41 - 33:45
    A young Athenian lady is in love with a disdainful youth.
  • 33:45 - 33:47
    Anoint his eyes;
  • 33:47 - 33:50
    But do it when the next thing he espies may be the lady.
  • 33:51 - 33:55
    Thou shalt know him by the Athenian garments he hath on.
  • 33:55 - 33:58
    Effect it with some care that he may prove
  • 33:58 - 34:01
    More fond on her than she upon her love.
  • 34:04 - 34:07
    And look thou meet me ere the first cock crow.
  • 34:07 - 34:10
    [Puck] Fear not, my lord, your servant shall do so.
  • 34:19 - 34:23
    [music]
  • 34:34 - 34:37
    [Titania] Come, now a roundel and a fairy song;
  • 34:39 - 34:41
    Then, for the third part of a minute, hence;
  • 34:42 - 34:44
    Some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds,
  • 34:44 - 34:47
    Some war with reremice for their leathern wings
  • 34:48 - 34:49
    To make my small elves coats,
  • 34:49 - 34:52
    and some keep back the clamorous owl.
  • 34:52 - 34:53
    Sing me now asleep.
  • 34:54 - 34:56
    Then to your office, and let me rest.
  • 34:59 - 35:02
    [Fairies, singing] You spotted snakes with double tongue,
  • 35:03 - 35:05
    Thorny hedgehogs be not seen;
  • 35:06 - 35:08
    Newts and blindworms do no wrong,
  • 35:08 - 35:11
    Come not near our fairy Queen.
  • 35:11 - 35:14
    Nightingale with melody
  • 35:14 - 35:17
    Sing in our sweet lullaby;
  • 35:17 - 35:20
    Lulla, Lulla, lullaby;
  • 35:20 - 35:23
    Lulla, Lulla, lullaby:
  • 35:23 - 35:25
    Never harm nor spell nor charm,
  • 35:26 - 35:28
    Come our lovely lady nigh;
  • 35:29 - 35:32
    So, good night, with lullaby.
  • 35:32 - 35:34
    Lulla, Lulla, lullaby:
  • 35:35 - 35:38
    Weaving spiders, come not here;
  • 35:38 - 35:41
    Hence, you long-legged spinners, hence!
  • 35:41 - 35:44
    Beetles black, approach not near;
  • 35:44 - 35:46
    Worm nor snail, do no offense.
  • 35:47 - 35:49
    Nightingale with melody
  • 35:49 - 35:52
    Sing in our sweet lullaby.
  • 35:52 - 35:55
    Lulla, Lulla, lullaby:
  • 35:56 - 35:58
    Lulla, Lulla, lullaby:
  • 35:58 - 36:01
    Never harm nor spell nor charm,
  • 36:01 - 36:04
    Come our lovely lady nigh;
  • 36:04 - 36:07
    So, good night, with lullaby.
  • 36:08 - 36:10
    Lulla, Lulla, lullaby:
  • 36:10 - 36:12
    Nightingale with melody,
  • 36:13 - 36:15
    Sing in our sweet lullaby;
  • 36:16 - 36:18
    Lulla, Lulla, lullaby:
  • 36:19 - 36:22
    Lulla, Lulla, lullaby.
  • 36:30 - 36:35
    [2nd Fairy] Hence, away! Now all is well.
  • 36:35 - 36:38
    One aloof stands sentinel.
  • 36:40 - 36:44
    [Oberon singing] Never harm nor spell nor charm,
  • 36:44 - 36:47
    Come our lovely lady nigh;
  • 36:48 - 36:52
    So good night with lullaby;
  • 36:52 - 36:56
    Lulla, Lulla, lullaby.
  • 36:59 - 37:02
    What thou seest when thou dost wake,
  • 37:03 - 37:06
    Do it for thy truelove's take;
  • 37:06 - 37:10
    Love and languish for his sake.
  • 37:11 - 37:14
    Be it ounce, or cat or bear,
  • 37:14 - 37:17
    Pard or boar with bristled hair,
  • 37:18 - 37:21
    In thy eye that shall appear
  • 37:21 - 37:24
    When thou wak'st, it is thy dear.
  • 37:25 - 37:29
    Wake when some vile thing is near.
  • 37:29 - 37:30
    [whooshing]
  • 37:47 - 37:50
    [Lysander] Fair love, you faint with wandering in the wood;
  • 37:50 - 37:52
    And to speak truth, I have forgot our way.
  • 37:52 - 37:54
    We'll rest us Hermia, if you think it good,
  • 37:55 - 37:56
    And tarry for the comfort of the day.
  • 37:57 - 37:59
    [Hermia] Be it so, Lysander. Find you a bed;
  • 37:59 - 38:02
    For I upon this bed will rest my head.
  • 38:02 - 38:04
    [Lysander] One turf shall serve as pillow for us both,
  • 38:05 - 38:09
    One heart, one bed, two bosoms and one troth.
  • 38:09 - 38:10
    [Hermia] Nay, good Lysander!
  • 38:11 - 38:13
    For my sake, my dear, lie further off
  • 38:13 - 38:14
    and do not lie so near.
  • 38:14 - 38:17
    [Lysander] O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence!
  • 38:18 - 38:19
    Love takes the meaning in love's conference.
  • 38:20 - 38:22
    I mean, that my heart unto yours is knit,
  • 38:23 - 38:25
    So that but one heart we can make of it;
  • 38:25 - 38:27
    Two bosoms interchanged with an oath;
  • 38:27 - 38:30
    So then two bosoms and a single troth.
  • 38:30 - 38:33
    And then, by your side, no bedroom me deny,
  • 38:34 - 38:37
    For lying so Hermia, I do not lie.
  • 38:39 - 38:42
    [Hermia] Lysander riddles very prettily.
  • 38:43 - 38:44
    Now much beshrew my manners and my pride,
  • 38:45 - 38:46
    If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied.
  • 38:47 - 38:51
    But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy,
  • 38:52 - 38:55
    Lie further off, in human modesty.
  • 39:02 - 39:02
    No.
  • 39:05 - 39:07
    Such separation as may well be said
  • 39:07 - 39:10
    Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid,
  • 39:11 - 39:13
    So far be distant;
  • 39:18 - 39:20
    And good night, sweet friend.
  • 39:21 - 39:24
    Thy love never alter till thy sweet life end!
  • 39:24 - 39:27
    [Lysander] Amen, amen, to that fair prayer, say I,
  • 39:27 - 39:30
    And then end life when I end loyalty!
  • 39:30 - 39:32
    Here is my bed.
  • 39:32 - 39:34
    Sleep give thee all his rest!
  • 39:34 - 39:37
    [Hermia] With half that wish the wisher's eyes be pressed.
  • 39:56 - 39:57
    [Puck.] Through the forest have I gone,
  • 39:57 - 39:58
    But Athenian found I none,
  • 39:59 - 40:00
    On whose eyes I might approve
  • 40:00 - 40:03
    This flower's force in stirring love.
  • 40:04 - 40:05
    [bell dings]
  • 40:07 - 40:11
    Night and silence -- who is here?
  • 40:14 - 40:17
    Weeds of Athens he doth wear:
  • 40:17 - 40:19
    That is he, my master said,
  • 40:19 - 40:21
    Despised the Athenian maid;
  • 40:21 - 40:22
    Oh!
  • 40:24 - 40:29
    And here the maiden, sleeping sound.
  • 40:31 - 40:33
    On the dank and dirty ground.
  • 40:35 - 40:36
    Pretty soul!
  • 40:39 - 40:41
    She durst not lie near this lack-love,
  • 40:41 - 40:43
    this kill-courtesy.
  • 40:45 - 40:46
    Churl!
  • 40:49 - 40:53
    Upon thy eyes I throw all the power this charm doth owe.
  • 40:58 - 41:02
    When thou wak'st, let love forbid
  • 41:02 - 41:04
    Sleep his seat on thy eyelid.
  • 41:05 - 41:08
    So awake when I am gone,
  • 41:09 - 41:12
    For I must now to Oberon.
  • 41:17 - 41:20
    [Helena] Stay, though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius.
  • 41:20 - 41:23
    [Demetrius] I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.
  • 41:23 - 41:25
    [Helena] O, wilt thou darkling leave me?
  • 41:25 - 41:26
    Do not so.
  • 41:26 - 41:30
    [Demetrius] Stay, on thy peril! I alone will go.
  • 41:32 - 41:35
    [Helena] O, I am out of breath in this fond chase!
  • 41:35 - 41:38
    The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace.
  • 41:38 - 41:41
    Happy is Hermia, wheresoe'er she lies,
  • 41:41 - 41:43
    For she hath blessed and attractive eyes.
  • 41:44 - 41:46
    How came her eyes so bright?
  • 41:46 - 41:47
    Not with salt tears.
  • 41:48 - 41:50
    If so, my eyes are oft'ner washed than hers.
  • 41:51 - 41:53
    No, no, I am ugly as a bear,
  • 41:53 - 41:56
    For beasts that meet me run away for fear.
  • 41:57 - 41:59
    But who is here?
  • 42:00 - 42:02
    Lysander on the ground!
  • 42:02 - 42:03
    Dead? Or asleep?
  • 42:03 - 42:05
    I see no blood, no wound.
  • 42:05 - 42:08
    Lysander, if you live, good sir, awake.
  • 42:10 - 42:10
    [music]
  • 42:13 - 42:16
    [Lysander] And run through fire I will for thy sweet sake.
  • 42:16 - 42:17
    Transparent Helena!
  • 42:18 - 42:19
    Nature shows art,
  • 42:19 - 42:21
    That through thy bosom makes me see thy heart.
  • 42:22 - 42:23
    Where is Demetrius?
  • 42:24 - 42:27
    O, how fit a word is that vile name to perish on my sword!
  • 42:28 - 42:31
    [Helena] Do not say so, Lysander, say not so.
  • 42:31 - 42:33
    What though he love your Hermia? Lord, what though?
  • 42:34 - 42:37
    Yet Hermia still loves you.
  • 42:37 - 42:38
    Then be content.
  • 42:39 - 42:42
    [Lysander] Content with H-h-h-h-ermia!
  • 42:43 - 42:47
    No! I do repent the tedious minutes I with her have spent.
  • 42:47 - 42:49
    Not Hermia
  • 42:50 - 42:52
    but Helena I love:
  • 42:52 - 42:54
    Who will not change a raven for a dove?
  • 42:54 - 42:57
    The will of man is by his reason swayed
  • 42:58 - 43:00
    And reason says you are the worthier maid.
  • 43:00 - 43:03
    Things growing are not ripe until their season:
  • 43:04 - 43:08
    So I, being young, till now ripe not to reason.
  • 43:08 - 43:10
    And touching now the point of human skill,
  • 43:10 - 43:13
    Reason becomes the marshal to my will,
  • 43:13 - 43:15
    And leads me to your eyes,
  • 43:15 - 43:17
    where I o'erlook love's stories,
  • 43:17 - 43:19
    written in love's richest book.
  • 43:19 - 43:23
    [Helena] Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?
  • 43:24 - 43:26
    When at your hands did I deserve such scorn?
  • 43:27 - 43:29
    It's not enough, it's not enough, young man,
  • 43:29 - 43:30
    That I did never, no, nor never can,
  • 43:31 - 43:33
    Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye,
  • 43:33 - 43:36
    But you flout my insufficiency?
  • 43:36 - 43:40
    Good troth, you do me wrong, good sooth, you do,
  • 43:40 - 43:42
    In such disdainful manner to woo.
  • 43:43 - 43:45
    Fare thee well.
  • 43:45 - 43:46
    Perforce I must confess
  • 43:46 - 43:48
    I thought you more a true gentleness.
  • 43:49 - 43:51
    O, that a lady of one man refused,
  • 43:53 - 43:55
    Should of another therefore be abused!
  • 44:01 - 44:02
    [Lysander] She sees not Hermia.
  • 44:03 - 44:06
    Hermia, Hermia, sleep thou there,
  • 44:07 - 44:08
    And never mayst thou come Lysander near!
  • 44:09 - 44:11
    For as a surfeit of the sweetest things
  • 44:11 - 44:13
    The deepest loathing to the stomach brings,
  • 44:13 - 44:16
    Or as thy heresies that men do leave
  • 44:17 - 44:19
    Are hated most of those they did deceive,
  • 44:20 - 44:22
    So thou, my surfeit and my heresy,
  • 44:23 - 44:24
    Of all be hated!
  • 44:24 - 44:26
    But the most of me!
  • 44:28 - 44:32
    And, all my powers, address your love and might
  • 44:32 - 44:35
    To honor Helen and to be her knight.
  • 44:38 - 44:39
    [Hermia] Ahhhh!!!
  • 44:40 - 44:41
    Help me, Lysander, help me!
  • 44:41 - 44:44
    Do thy best to pluck this crawling serpent from my breast!
  • 44:47 - 44:48
    Ay me!
  • 44:49 - 44:50
    What a dream was here!
  • 44:51 - 44:53
    Lysander, look how I do quake with fear.
  • 44:54 - 44:55
    Methought a serpent eat my heart away,
  • 44:55 - 44:58
    And you sat smiling at his cruel prey.
  • 45:01 - 45:02
    Lysander!
  • 45:05 - 45:06
    What, removed?
  • 45:07 - 45:08
    Lysander!
  • 45:09 - 45:10
    Lord!
  • 45:11 - 45:14
    What, out of hearing? Gone? No sound? No word?
  • 45:15 - 45:16
    Alack, where are you?
  • 45:17 - 45:19
    Speak, and if you hear, speak of all loves!
  • 45:19 - 45:21
    I swoon almost with fear.
  • 45:24 - 45:25
    No?
  • 45:26 - 45:27
    Then I well perceive you are not nigh.
  • 45:28 - 45:31
    Either death or you I'll find immediately.
Title:
A Midsummer Night's Dream - IPFW Department of Theatre
Description:

more » « less
Video Language:
English
Duration:
02:07:06

Xhosa subtitles

Revisions