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Citania

and

OiKron

from

SDakespearc's

niabis Dream."

Jlrratidea by J. J\. Dixon.

CDe Episode of m Quarrel

between

titania and Oberon^

froM

$bake$peare'$

i B midsummer Digbfs Dream.

specially arrm^td for ReDrmnMiion wiib tu

mtnaelsMbn music.

By T. Jl. Dixon.

i, CiittrM actortina to Hct of flic PartiaiMiit of eaiuda, la the ytar wot.

tyTr«4<rick n. Dtxoa, at m DtpaiiMMt of HgHcUMK.

Note,— This arrangement carries out in perfect
and regular sequence the incident of Titania's quarrel
with Oberon, including, as an essential preliminary,
the scene in which the Athenian artizans prepare for
their moonlight rehearsal. The words of Shakespeare
remain, with one or two verbal modifications, intact,
only those portions being omitted which do not relate

to the episode. t^ » ta

F. A. D.

OTTAWA:

PUBLISHED BY J. DURIE AND SONS,

. 1898.

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Sitawia m\A ®htvon.

THE OVERTURE.

ACT I.

Scene II. — A Room in Quince's House. Daytime.

Enter Quince, Snug, Bottom, Flute, Snout

and StXTveling l.

Quin, Ts all our company here ?

Bot. You were best to call them generally, man
by man, according to the scrip.

Quin, Here is the scroll of every man's name,
which is thought fit, through all Athens, to
play in our interlude before the duke and
duchess, on bis wedding-day at night.

Bot* First, good Peter Quince, say what the pla
treats on ; then read the names of the actors
and so grow to a point.

Oiiin, Marry, our play is, The most lamentable
comedy, and most cruel death of Pyramus
and Thisby.

Bol, A very good piece of work, I assure you,
and a merry. Now, good Peter Quince, call
forth your actors by the scroll. Masters,
spread yourselves.

^uin. Answer as I call you. Nick Bottom, the
weaver.

Bot. Ready. Name what part I am for, and
proceed.

<Jlui7i. You, Nick Bottom, are set down for

Pyramus.
Bot. What is Pyramus i a lover, or a tyrant 1

Qaifi. A. lover, that kills himself most gallant for
love.

Bot. That will ask some tears in the true perform-
ing of it : if I do it, let the audience look to
their eyes ; I will move storms, I will condole
in some measure. To the rest : yet my chief
humour is for a tyrant : I could play Ercles
rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to make all
split.

The ragiug rocks

And shivering shocks

Shall break the locks
Of prison-gates ;

And Phibbus* car
Shall shine from far,
And make and mar
The foolish Fates.

This was lofty ! Now name the rest of the
players. This is Ercles' vein, a tyrant's vein;
a lover is more condoling.

Qai7i. Francis Flute, the bellows -mender.

Flu. Here, Peter Quince.

Quin. Flute, you must take Thisby on you.

Flu. What is Thisby ? a wandering knight ?

Quin. It is the lady that Pyramus must love.

Flu, Nay, faith, let not me play a woman ; I havo
a beard coming.

Quin. That's all one : you shall play it in a mask,
and you may speak as small as you will.

Bot. An I may hide my face, let me play Thisby
too, I'll speak in a monstrous little voice,
*Thisne,Thisne ;' 'Ah Pyramus, my lover
dear ! thy Thisby dear, and lady dear !'

Quin. No, no; you must play Pyramus: and, Flute,
you Thisby.

Bot, Well, proceed.

Quin, Robin Starveling, the tailor.

Star. Here, Peter Quince.

Quin, Robin Starveling, you must play Thisby's
mother. Tom Snout, the tinker.

Snout. Here, Peter Quince.

Quin. You, Pyramus' father : myself, Thisby*s
father ; Snug, the joiner ; you, the lion's part ;
and, I hope, here is a play fitted.

Snuff. Have you the lion's part written ? pray you,
if it be, give it me, for I am slow of study.

Qitw, You may do it extempore, for it is nothing
but roaring.

Bot. Let me play the lion too : I will roar, that I
wiU do any man's heart good to hear me ; I
will roar, that I will make the duke say, * Let
him roar again, let him roar again.'

Qain, An you should do it too terribly, you would
fright the duchess and the ladies, that they
would shriek ; and that were enough to hang
us all.

All. That wouJd hang us, every mother's son.

Bot. I grant you, friends, if you should fright the
ladies out of their wits, they would have no
more discretion but to hang us : but 1 will
aggravate my voice so, that I will roar you as
gently as any sucking dove ; I will roar you an
'twere any nightingale.

i^uin. You can play no part but Py ramus ; for
Pyramus is a sweet-faced man ; a proper man,
as one shall see in a summer's day ; a most
lovely, gentleman-like man : therefore you
must needs play Pyramus.

Bot Well, 1 will undertake it. What beard were
I best to play it in ]

Quia. Why, what you will.

Hot. I will discharge it in cither your straw colour
beard, your orange-tawny beard, your purple-
in grain beard, o) your Fnach crown colour
beard, your perfect yellow.

Quin. Some (;f your French crowns have no hair at
all, and then you will play barefaced. But,
masters, here are your parts ; and I am to
entreat you, request you, and desire you, to con
them by to-morrow night ; and meet me in the
palace wood, a mile without the town, by
moonlight ; there will we rehearse, for if we
meet in the city, we shall be dogged with
company, and our devices known. In the
mean time I will draw a bill of properties,
such as our play wants. I pray you, fail me
not.

Bot, We will meet; and there we may re-
hearse most obscenely and courageously. Take
pains ; be perfect ; adieu.

Quirt, At the duke's oak we meet.

Bot. Enough ; hold or cut bow-strings. [Exeu7it l.

Aot II.

Scene I. — A Wood near Athens. Night.
Enter i from opposite sides, a Fairy UjUnd FucktL

Fuck, How now, sprit ! whither wander you ?

Ftii. Over hill, over dale,

Through bush, through brier,
Over park, over pale.

Through flood, through fire,

T do wander every where.

Swifter than the moon's sphere ;

And I serve the fairy queen,

To dew her orbs upon the green.

The cowslips tall her pensioners be :

In their gold coats spots you see ;

Those be rubies, fairy favours,

In those freckles live their savours :
I must go seek some dewdrops here.
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Farewell, thou lob (a) of spirits ; 1*11 be gone :
Our queen and all her elves come here anon.
Fuck. The king doth keep his revels here to-night.

Take heed the queen come not within his sight ;

For Oberon is passing fell and wrath.

Because that she as her attendant hath

(a)— buffoon.

A lovely boy, stolen from an Indian king ;
She never had so sweet a changeling :
And jealous Oberon would have the child
Knight of his train, to trace the forests wild ;
But she perforce withholds the loved boy,
Crowns him with flowers, and makes him all

her joy.
And now they never meet in grove or green,
By fountain clear, or spangled starlight sheen,
But they do square, that all their elves

for fear
Creep into acorn cups and hide them there.

Fai, Either I mistake your shape and making
J quite.

Or else you are that shrewd and knavish

sprite
Caird Robin Good fellow : are not you he
Tbat fright the maidens of the villagery ;
Skim milk, and sometimes labour in the

quern,
And bootless make the breathless housewife

churn ;
And sometimes make the drink to bear no

barm ;
Mislead night- wanderers, laughing at their

harm ?
Those that ** Hobgoblin" call you, and "sweet

Puck,"

You do their work, and they shall have good

luck :
Are not you he ]

Puck, Thou speak'st aright >

I am that merry wanderer of the night.
I jest to Oberon, and make him smile,
When I a fat and beanfed horse beguile,
Neighing in likeness of a filly foal :
And sometime lurk I ia a gossip's bowl,
In very likeness of a roasted crab ;
And when she drinks, against her lips I bob
And on her withered dewlap pour the ale .
The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale.
Sometime for three-foot stool mi stake th me ;
Then slip I from her form ; down topples she,
And * tailor' cries, and falls into a cough ;
And then the wtole quire hold their hips

and laugh ;
And w^axen in their mirth, and neeze,' and

swear
A merrier hour was never wasted there;
But, room, fairy ! here comes Oberon.

Fai, And here my mistress. Would that he
were gone !

Eite"-, to musk (the first 18j)ars of the "Fairy

March," without repeats,) Oberov, with

his train L. ; Titania, with hers, R.

Obe, III met by moonlight, proud Titan ia.

Tita. What, jealous Oberon ! Fairies, skip hence •
I have forsworn his bed and company.

Obe. Tarry, rash wanton ! am not I thy lord ?

Why should Titania cross her Oberon ?
I do but beg a little changeling boy,
To be my henchman.

Tita. Set your heart at rest :

The fairy land buys not the child of me.
His mother was a votaress of my order :
And, in the spiced Indian air, by night,
I Full often hath she goasip'd by my side ;

And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands ;

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And for her sake do I rear up her boy :
And for her sake I will not part with him.
If you will patiently dance in our round.
And see our moonlight revels, go with us.
If not, shun me, and I will spare your haunts.

Obe. Give me that boy, and I will go with thee.

Tita. Not for thy fairy kingdom. Fairies, away !
We shall chide downright, if I longer stay.

[Exit Titania with her train R.

\ Obe. Well, go thy way : thou shalt not from this

grove

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Till I torment thee for this injury.
My gentle Puck, come hither

■"Wv"^ • •

Fetch me that flower ; the herb I shew'd thee

once:
The maidens call it Love-in-idleness.
The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid
Will make or man or woman madly dote
Upon the next live creature that it sees.
Fetch me this herb ; and be thou here again
Ere the leviathan can swim a league.

Puck. I'll put a girdle round about the earth

In forty minutes. \Exit i>.

Ohe, Having once this juice,

I'll watch Titania when she is asleep,
And drop the liquor of it in her eyes.
The next thing then she waking looks upon,
Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull,
On meddling monkey, or on busy ape.
She shall pursue it with the soul of love :
And ere I take this charm from off her sight,
As I can take it with another herb,
I'll make her render up her page to me.

Be-enter Pack l.

Hast thou the flower there ? Welcome,
wanderer.

-gTt-

Puck. Ay, there it is.

Obe, I pray thee, give it me.

I know a bank whei eon the wild thyme blows ;
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows ;
Quite over-canopied with lush woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine :
There sleeps Titania some time of the night,
Luird in these flowers with dances and delight ;
Andthere the snake throws her enamell'd skin.
Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in :
And with the juice of this I'll streak her eyes,
And make her full of hateful fantasies.

[Exeunt l

CURTAIN.

THE SCHERZO.

Scene II.— A Sylvan Glade. Night.

Fairies enter r. and l. to the music of the "Fairy
March." (played through,) At its cose^ enter
Titania with her train, at back.

Tit a. Come, now a roundel and a fairy song ;
Then, for the third part of a minute, hence ;
Some to till cankers in the musk-rose buds ;
Some war with rere-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. {^Exeunt some fairies
R. and L.) Sing me now asleep ;

Then to your offices, and let me rest.

Song.

First Fairy. You spotted snakes with double

tongue,
Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen ;
Newts and blind- worms, do no wrong ;
Come not near our fairy queen.

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Chorus.

Philomel, with melody
Sing in our sweet lullaby ;
Lnlla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, luUa,
lullaby :
Never harm,
Nor spell, nor charm,
Come our lovely lady nigh ;
So, good nigh^, with lullaby.

First Fairy. Weaving spiders, corae not here ;

Hence, you long-legged spmners,

hence !
Beetles black, approach not near ;
Worm nor snail, do not offence.

Chorus.
Philomel, with melody, »fec.

Sec, Fairy, Hence, away ! now all is well :

One aloof stand sentinel.
[Exeunt Fairies R. andh. Titania sleeps at hack R. c.

Enter Oheron at hack r.; he sqiceezes the flower on

Titania's eyelids.

Ole. What thou seest when thou dost wake,
Do it for thy true-love take :

W^HH

Love and languish for his sake :
Be it ounce, or cat, or bear,
Pard, or boar with bristled hair,
In thy eye that shall appear,
When thou wakest, it is thy dear.
Wake when some vile thing is near.

[Exit back R.

CURTAIN,

THE «< INTERMEZZO.

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Aot 111.

Scene i. — The same. Titania lying asleep at
back R. c. Fairies enter, group and pose to the
music of the "NOTTURNO "

\^At the close of the march, exeunt fairies l and r.

Enter Quince, Snug, Bottom, Flate^ Snout,
and Starveling l.

I Bot. Are we all met ?

j Qidn. Pat, pat ; and here's a marvellous conven-

ient place for our rehearsal. This green plot
shall be our stage, this hawthorn-brake our
tiring house ; and we will do it in action as we
will do it before the duke.

Bot Peter Quince, —

* Quin^ What sayest thou, Bully Bottom ?

BoL There are things in this comedy of Pyramus
and Thisby that will never please. First,
Pyramus must draw a sword to kill himself ;
which the ladies cannot abide. How answer
j you that ?

Snout. By'r lakin, a parlous fear.

Star. I believe we must leave the killing out, when
all is done.

Bot. Not a whit ; I have a device to make all
well. Write me a prorogue ; and let the pro-
logue K^eem to say, we will do no harm with
our swordw, and that Pyrarnus is not killed
indeed ; and, for the more better assurance,
tell them that 1 Py ramus am not Fy ramus,
but Bottom the weaver ; this* will put them
out of fear.

Quin. Well, we will have such a prologue ; and it
shall be written in eight and six.

Bot. No, make it two more ; let it be written in
eight and eight.

Snout, Will not the ladies bs afeard of the lion ?

Star. I fear it, I promise you.

Bot. Masters, you ought to considc^r with your-
selves; to bring in,— God shield us !— a lion
among ladies, is a most dreadful thing ; foi'
there is not a more fearful wild-fowl than your
lion living : and we ought to look to*t.

Snout. Therefore another prologue must tell he is
not a lion.

Bot. Nay, you must name his name, and half his
face must be seen through the lion's neck ; and
he himself must speak through, saying thus, or

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to the same defect, — 'Ladies/ — or, *Fair
ladies, — I would wish you/ — or, 'I would re-
quest you,' — or, * I would entreat yon, — not
to fear, not to tremble : my life fo» yours. If
you think I come hither as a lion, it were pity
of my life : no, I am no such thing ; I am a
man as other men are : ' and there indeed let
him name his name^ and tell them plainly, he
is Snug, the joiner.

Quin, Well, it shall be so. But there is two hard
things ; that is, to bring the moonlight into a
chamber ; for, you know, Py ramus and Thisby
meet by moonlis[ht.

Snug, Doth the mojn shine thit night we play
'^^ our play i

Bot, A calendar, a calendar ! look in the almanac ;
find out moonshine, find out moonshine.

Quin, Yes, it doth shine that night.

Bot. Why, then may you leave a casement of the
great chamber-window, where we play, open :
and the moon may shine in at the casement.

Qum. Ay ; or else one must come in with a bush of
thorns and a lantern, and say he comes to dis-
figure, or to present, the person of Moonshine.
Then, there ia another thing ; we must have a
wall in the great chamber ; for Pyramua and
Thisby, says the story, did talk through the
chink of a wall.

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Snug, You can never bring in a wall. What say
you, Bottom ?

Bot Some man or other must present Wall : and
let him have some plaster, or some loam, or
some rcugh-cast about him, to signify wall ;
and let him hold his fingers thup, and through
that cranny shall Pyramus and Thisby whisper.

Qitin. If that may be, then all is well. Come, sit
down, every mother's son, and rehearse your
parts, Pyramus, you begin : when you have
spoken your speech, enter into that brake ;
and so every one according to his cue.

Enter Puck behind, [r. c]

Puck What hempen homespuns have we swag-
gering here.
So near the cradle of the fairy queen 7
What, a play toward ! I'll be ar auditor ;
An actor, too, perhaps, if I see cause.

Quin. Speak, Pyramus. Thisby, stand forth.

Bot. Thisby, the flowers of odious savours sweet, —

Quin. Odours, odours.

Bot. odours savours sweet :

So hath thy breath, my dearest Thisby,
dear.

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But hark, a voice ! stay thou but here awhile,
And by and by I will to thee appear.

[Exit, L. 2 K.

Puck. A stranger Pyramua than e*er play'd here.

[Kxit. L. 2 E.

FliL Must I speak now ?

Quin, Ay, marry, must you ; for you must under-
stand he goes but to see a noise that he
heard, and is to come again.

Flu. Most radiant Pyramus, most lily white of hue,
Of colour like the red rose on triumphant
brier,
Most bri sky Juvenal, and eke most lovely Jew,
As true as truest horse, that yet would
never tire,
I'll meet thee, Pyramus, at Ninny's tomb.

Quin. *Ninus' tomb,' man : why, you must not
speak that yet ; that you answer to Pyramus :
you speak all your part at once, cues and all.
Pyramus enter : your cue is past ; it is *never
tire,*

Flu* O,— As true as truest horse, that yet would
never tire.

Reenter Puck, and Bottom with an ass^s head on.

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Bot. If I were fair, Thisby, I were only thine.

Quin, O monstrous ! strange ! we are haunted.
Fray, masters ! fly, masters ! Help !

IQuince, Snug, Flute^ Snout and Starveling tun off
— Quince and Snout b , the rest l.

Pack, Vi\ follow you, I'll lead you about a round,
Through bog, through bush, through brake,
through brier :
Sometime a horse I'll be, sometime a hound,
A bog, a headless bear, sometime a fire ;
And neigh, and bark, and grunt, and roar, and

burn.
Like horse, hound, hog, bear, fire> at every turn.

[Exit R.
Bot. Why do they run away ? this is knavery of
them to make me afeard.

Reenter Snout r.

Snout, O Bottom, thou are changed ! what do I
see on thee 1

Bot. What do you see ? you see an ass head of your
own, do you 1

[^Exit Snout L

Re enter Quince, r.

Quin, Bless thee, Bottom I bless thee ! thou art
translated. [Exit l.

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, ^ Bot. I see their knavery : this is to make an ass of

me ; to fright me, if they could. But I will
not stir from this place, do what they can : I
will walk up and down here, and I will sing,
that they shall hear I am not afraid.

The ousel cock so black of hue,
With orange-tawny bill,

The throstle with his note so true,
The wren with little quill ;

Tita. [Awaking] What angel wakes me from my
flowery bed ?

Bot, [Sings]

The finch, the sparrow, and the lark,
The plain-song cuckoo gray.

Whose note full many a man doth mark,
And dares not answer nay ; —

for, indeed, who would s'^t his wit to so foolish
a bird ] who would give a bird the lie, though
he cry *cuckoo' never so 1

Tita, I pray thee, gentle mortal, sirg again :
Mine ear is much enamour 'd of thy note ;
So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape ;
And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move

me,
On the first view, to say, to swear, I love ihee

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Bot, Methinks mistress, you should have little
repson for that: and yet, to say the truth,
, reason and love keep little company together
now-adays. The more the pity that some
honest neighbours wiJl not make them fi lends.
Nay , I can gleek (a) upon occasion.

Tita» Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.

Bot, Not so, neither ; but if I had wit enough to
get out of this wood, I have enough to serve
mine own turn.

Tiat Out of this wood do not desire to go :

Thou shalt remain here, whether thou wilt

or no.
I am a spirit of no common rate :
The summer still doth tend upon my state ;
And I do love thee : therefore, go with me.
I'll give thee fairies to attend on thee ;
And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep,
And sing, while thou on pressed flowers dost

sleep :
And I will purge thy mortal grosaness so.
That thou shalt like an airy spirit go.
Peaseblossom 1 Cobweb ! Moth ! and Mustard-
seed !

Unter Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, and Mustard-

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(a) joke.

seed, L. 2 e.

First Fai. Ready.

Sec, Fai. And I.

Third Fai. And I.

Fourth Fai. And I.

All. W here shall we go 1

Tita. Be kind and courteous to this gentleman ;
Hop in his walks, and gambol in his eyes ;
Feed him with apricocks and dowbeiries,
With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries.
The honey- bags steal from the humble-bees,
And for night tapers crop their waxen thigha.
And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes,
To have ray love to bed, and to arise ;
And pluck the wings from painted butterflies^
To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes :
Nod to him, elves, and do him courtesies.

First Fai. Hail, mortal !

Sec. Fai. Hail ! »

IhirdFai. Hail!

Fourth Fai. Hail !

Bot. I cry your worships mercy, heartily : I be-
seech your worship's name.

Coh. Cobweb.

Bot. I shall desire you of more acquaintance, good
Master Cobweb : if I cut my finger, I shall
make bold with you. Your name, honest
gentleman 1

Peas. Peaseblo330m.

Bot. I pray you, commend me to Mrs. Squash,
your mother, and to Master Peascod, your
father. Good Master Peaseblossom, T shall
desire you of more acquaintance too. Your
name, 1 beseech you, sir ?

Mu8. Mustardseed.

Bot, Good Master Mustardseed, I know your pati
ence well : that same cowardly, giant-like ox-
beef hath devoured many a gentleman of your
house : I promise you your kindred hath
made my eyes water ere now. I desire your
more acquaintance, good Master Mustardseed.

Tita, Come, wait upon him; lead him to my
bower.
The moon me thinks looks with a watery
eye;
And when she weeps, weeps every little
flower,
Lamenting some enforced chastity.
Tie up my love's tongue, bring him silently.

[Exeunt l. 2 e.
FAIRY BALLETS

CURTAIN,

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Repeat latt 14 bars ofihe *'Nottuiino"
/\ot I\/.

Scene I.— The same. Morning.

Enter Titania and Bottom, R. 2 e, Peasehlossom^
Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed^ and other Fairies
attending, R. & l.; Oberon behind, unseen,

Tita, Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed
While I thy amiable cheeks do coy,
And stick musk-roses in thy sleek, smooth
head,
And kiss thy fair large ears, ray gentle joy.

BoL Where's Peaseblossom ?

Peas. Ready.

Bot, Scratch my head, PeaseblosEom. Where's
Mounsienr Cobweb ?

Cob. Ready.

Bat. Mounsieur Cobweb, good mounsieur, get you
your weapons in yonr hand, and kill me a
red-hipped humble-bee on the top of a
thistle ; and, good mounsieur, bring me the
houay-bag. Do not fret yourself too much
in the action, mounsieur ; and, good moun-
sieur, have a care the honey-bag break not ; 1

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would he loth to have you overflown with a
honey-bag, signior. Where's Mounsieur
Mustardseed ?

Mus, Ready.

Bot Give me your neif, (b) Mounsieur Mustard-
seed. Pray you, have your courtesy, good
mounsieur.

Mus, What's your will ?

Bot. Nothing, good mounsieur, but to help
Cavalery Cobweb to scratch. I must to the
barber's, mounsieur; for methinks I am
marvellous hairy about the face ; and I am
such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle
me, I must scratch.

Ti(a. What, will thou hear some music, my sweet
love?

Bot, I have a reasonable good ear in music. Let's
have the tongs and the bones.

Tita. Or say, sweet love, what thou desirest to
eat.

Bot. Truly, a peck of provender: I could munch
your good dry oats. Methinks I have a great
desire to a bottle of hay : good hay, sweet
hay, hath no fellow.

Tita. I have a venturous fairy that shall seek
""he squirrel's hoard, and fetch thee new nuts.

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BoU I bad rather have a handful or two of dried
peas. But, I pray you, let none of yourpeople
^^ stir me: I have an exposition of sleep come

upon me.

Tita, Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms.
Fairies, begone, and be all ways away.

[Exeunt Fairies R. &l l-

So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle
Gently entwist ; the female ivy so
Enrings the barky fingers of the elm.
O, how I love thee ! how I dote on thee !

[They sleep*
Enter Fuck,

Obe, [Advancing] Welcome, good Robin. See'st
thou this sweet sight ?
Her dotage now I do begin to pity ;
For, meeting her of late behind the wood,
Seeking sweet savours for this hateful fool,
^-^ I did upbraid her, and fall out with her ;

For she his hairy temples then had rounded
With coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers ;
And that same dew, which sometime on the

buds
Was wont to swell like round and orient pearls
Stood now within the pretty flowerots' eyes.
Like tears, that did their own disgrace bewail.
When I had at my pleasure taunt-ed her.

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And she in mild terms begg'd my patience,
I then did ask of her her changeling child : *
Which straight she gave me, and her fairy sent
To bear him to my bower in fairy land;
And now T have the boy, T will undo
This hateful imperfection of her eyes :
And gentle Puck, take this transformed scalp
From off the head of this Athenian swain ;
That, he, awaking, back to Athens go
And think no more of this night's accidents,
But as the fierce vexation of a dream.
But first I will release the fairy queen.

(touches her eyes with herh.)

Be as thou wast wont to be ;
See as th u wast wont to see :
Dian's bud o'er Cupid's flower
Hath such force and blessed power.
Now, my Titania; wake you, my sweet queen t

Tita, {Awaking) My Oberon ! what visions have I
seen !

Methought I was enamoured of an ass.
Ohe. There lies your love.
Tita, How came these things to pass ?

0, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now !
Obe, Silence awhile. Robin, take off this head.

( Puck takes of ass's head gently, )
Titania, music call ;

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Tito, Music, ho ! music, such as charmeth sleep ;

[Afnsic,

Pttck Now, when thou wak'st, with thine own

fool's eyes peep.
Obe. Sound, music ! Come, my queen, take hands
with me.
And rock the ground whereon this sleeper be.
Now, thou and I are new in amity.

Picck, Fairy king, attend, and mark :
I do hear the morning lark.

Obe. Then, my queen in silence sad,

Trip we after the night's shade :
We the globe can compass soon.
Swifter than the wandering moon.

Tita. Come, my lord ; and in our fl'ght,
Tell me how it came this night,
That I sleeping here was found
With this mortal on the ground.

[Thei/ go up stage and stand c. while the fairies
move past them in procession^ to the music of the
"Wedding March." [Tableau,

CURTAIN.

THE END.

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