Quotes
When thou wak'st, it is thy dear. /Wake when some vile thing is near!
Oberon to Titania (who is sleeping)
Do I entice you? Do I speak you fair? /Or rather do I not in plainest truth /Tell you I do not, nor cannot love thee.
Demetrius to Helena
What a dream was here! /...Look how I do quake with fear-/ Methought a serpent ate my heart away/ and you sat smiling at his cruel prey.
Hermia to Lysander (who isn't there)
O Spite! O Hell! /I see you all are bent to set against me for your merriment.
Helena to Lysander and Demetrius
Reason and love keep little company together nowadays
Bottom to Titania
So far be distant, and good night, sweet friend; / Thy love ne'er alter till thy sweet life end!
Hermia to Lysander
What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?.../ I pray thee gentle mortal, sing again!
Titania to Bottom
No, no, I am as ugly as a bear,/ For beasts that meet me run away for fear.
Helena to herself
I would my father look'd but with my eyes.
Hermia to Egeus
I woo'd thee with my sword,/ and won thy love doing thee injuries.
Theseus to Hippolyta
The course of love never did run smooth
Lysander to Hermia
You have your father's love...Do you marry him
Lysander to Demetrius?
If we shadows have offended,/ Think but this, and all be mended.
How low am I, thou painted maypole? Speak! ...I am not yet so low /But that my nails can reach unto thy eyes.
Hermia to Helena
What hast thou done? Thou has mistaken quite,/ And laid the love juice on some true love's sight.
Oberon to Puck
Shall we their fond pageant see? /Lord, what fools these mortals be!
Puck to Oberon