# Result number

Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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The numbering is not keyed to any copyrighted numbering system found in a volume of collected works (Arden, Oxford, etc.) The numbering starts at the beginning of the work, and does not restart for each scene.

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1

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 1]

Egeus

132

With duty and desire we follow you.

2

Midsummer Night's Dream
[II, 1]

Demetrius

563

I love thee not, therefore pursue me not.
Where is Lysander and fair Hermia?
The one I'll slay, the other slayeth me.
Thou told'st me they were stolen unto this wood;
And here am I, and wode within this wood,
Because I cannot meet my Hermia.
Hence, get thee gone, and follow me no more.

3

Midsummer Night's Dream
[II, 1]

Helena

570

You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant;
But yet you draw not iron, for my heart
Is true as steel: leave you your power to draw,
And I shall have no power to follow you.

4

Midsummer Night's Dream
[II, 1]

Helena

577

And even for that do I love you the more.
I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius,
The more you beat me, I will fawn on you:
Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me,
Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave,
Unworthy as I am, to follow you.
What worser place can I beg in your love,—
And yet a place of high respect with me,—
Than to be used as you use your dog?

5

Midsummer Night's Dream
[II, 1]

Demetrius

610

I will not stay thy questions; let me go:
Or, if thou follow me, do not believe
But I shall do thee mischief in the wood.

6

Midsummer Night's Dream
[II, 1]

Helena

613

Ay, in the temple, in the town, the field,
You do me mischief. Fie, Demetrius!
Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex:
We cannot fight for love, as men may do;
We should be wood and were not made to woo.
[Exit DEMETRIUS]
I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
To die upon the hand I love so well.

7

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1]

Puck

922

I'll 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 hog, 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.

8

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2]

Helena

1262

Have you not set Lysander, as in scorn,
To follow me and praise my eyes and face?
And made your other love, Demetrius,
Who even but now did spurn me with his foot,
To call me goddess, nymph, divine and rare,
Precious, celestial? Wherefore speaks he this
To her he hates? and wherefore doth Lysander
Deny your love, so rich within his soul,
And tender me, forsooth, affection,
But by your setting on, by your consent?
What thought I be not so in grace as you,
So hung upon with love, so fortunate,
But miserable most, to love unloved?
This you should pity rather than despise.

9

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2]

Demetrius

1300

No, no; he'll
Seem to break loose; take on as you would follow,
But yet come not: you are a tame man, go!

10

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2]

Helena

1355

Good Hermia, do not be so bitter with me.
I evermore did love you, Hermia,
Did ever keep your counsels, never wrong'd you;
Save that, in love unto Demetrius,
I told him of your stealth unto this wood.
He follow'd you; for love I follow'd him;
But he hath chid me hence and threaten'd me
To strike me, spurn me, nay, to kill me too:
And now, so you will let me quiet go,
To Athens will I bear my folly back
And follow you no further: let me go:
You see how simple and how fond I am.

11

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2]

Lysander

1388

Now she holds me not;
Now follow, if thou darest, to try whose right,
Of thine or mine, is most in Helena.

12

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2]

Demetrius

1391

Follow! nay, I'll go with thee, cheek by jole.

13

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2]

Puck

1463

Follow me, then,
To plainer ground.

14

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2]

Puck

1476

Follow my voice: we'll try no manhood here.

15

Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 1]

Demetrius

1752

Are you sure
That we are awake? It seems to me
That yet we sleep, we dream. Do not you think
The duke was here, and bid us follow him?

16

Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 1]

Lysander

1758

And he did bid us follow to the temple.

17

Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 1]

Demetrius

1759

Why, then, we are awake: let's follow him
And by the way let us recount our dreams.