Authors: John McCann,Monica Sweeney,Becky Thomas
PUCK
On the ground
Sleep sound:
I’ll apply
To your eye,
Gentle lover, remedy.
PUCK (cont.)
When thou wakest,
Thou takest
True delight
In the sight
Of thy former lady’s eye:
PUCK (cont.)
And the country proverb known,
That every man should take his own,
In your waking shall be shown:
Jack shall have Jill;
Nought shall go ill;
The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well.
ACT IV. Scene I (75–101).
O
beron finds Titania sleeping in her bower with the monstrous Bottom. He squeezes another flower into her eyes, and she wakes, free from the spell.
TITANIA
My Oberon! what visions have I seen!
Methought I was enamour’d of an ass.
OBERON
There lies your love.
TITANIA
How came these things to pass?
O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!
OBERON
Silence awhile. Robin, take off this head.
Titania, music call; and strike more dead
Than common sleep of all these five the sense.
TITANIA
Music, ho! music, such as charmeth sleep!
PUCK
Now, when thou wakest, with thine own fool’s eyes peep.
OBERON
Sound, music! Come, my queen, take hands with me,
And rock the ground whereon these sleepers be.
Now thou and I are new in amity,
And will to-morrow midnight solemnly
Dance in Duke Theseus’ house triumphantly,
And bless it to all fair prosperity:
There shall the pairs of faithful lovers be
Wedded, with Theseus, all in jollity.
PUCK
Fairy king, attend, and mark:
I do hear the morning lark.
OBERON
Then, my queen, in silence sad,
Trip we after the night’s shade:
We the globe can compass soon,
Swifter than the wandering moon.
TITANIA
Come, my lord, and in our flight
Tell me how it came this night
That I sleeping here was found
With these mortals on the ground.
ACT IV. Scene I (137–198).
A
s Oberon and Titania depart, Theseus, Hippolyta, and Egeus arrive near the edge of the forest, intending to enjoy a hunt before Hippolyta and Theseus’s wedding later that day. Instead, they find the young lovers sleeping together in a clearing.