The comedies of William Shakespeare (1896) (14761788754)

Identifier: comediesofwillia02shak (find matches)
Title: The comedies of William Shakespeare
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Abbey, Edwin Austin, 1852-1911
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Publisher: New York : Harper and brothers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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h him. Obcr. How long within this wood intend you stay? Queen. Perchance till after Theseus wedding-day.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. Obey. Give me that boy, and I will go with thee. Queen. Not for thy fairy kingdom.—Fairies, away :We shall chide downright, if I longer stay. S^Exeunt. Ober. Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from thisgroveTill I torment thee for this injury.—My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememberstSince once I sat upon a promontoryAnd heard a mermaid, on a dolphins back,Utterinor such dulcet and harmonious breathThat the rude sea grew civil at her song.And certain stars shot madly from their spheresTo hear the sea-maids music. Puck. I remember. Obcr. That very time I saw (but thou couldst not)Flying between the cold moon and the earthCupid all armd: a certain aim he tookAt a fair vestal, throned by the west, Plate 3TITANIA Midsummer-Nights Dream, act ii., scene ii.
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v,.^. •£0^ A MIDSUMMER-NIGHTS DREAM 17 And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts. But I might see young Cupids fiery shaft Ouenchd in the chaste beams of the watry moon ; And the imperial votress passed on In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet markd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower— Before milk-white, now purple with loves wound— And maidens call it love-in-idleness. Fetch me that flower: the herb I showd thee once : 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. Ill put a girdle round about the earthIn forty minutes. Ober. Having once this juice, Ill watch Titania when she is asleep,And drop the liquor of it in her eyes:The next thing when she waking looks upon(Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull,On meddling monkey, or on busy ape),