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1

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 1]

Lysander

162

A good persuasion: therefore, hear me, Hermia.
I have a widow aunt, a dowager
Of great revenue, and she hath no child:
From Athens is her house remote seven leagues;
And she respects me as her only son.
There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee;
And to that place the sharp Athenian law
Cannot pursue us. If thou lovest me then,
Steal forth thy father's house to-morrow night;
And in the wood, a league without the town,
Where I did meet thee once with Helena,
To do observance to a morn of May,
There will I stay for thee.

2

Midsummer Night's Dream
[II, 1]

Oberon

508

How long within this wood intend you stay?

3

Midsummer Night's Dream
[II, 1]

Titania

514

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

4

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.

5

Midsummer Night's Dream
[II, 2]

Helena

742

Stay, though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius.

6

Midsummer Night's Dream
[II, 2]

Demetrius

745

Stay, on thy peril: I alone will go.

7

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1]

Bottom

896

—odours savours sweet:
So hath thy breath, my dearest Thisby dear.
But hark, a voice! stay thou but here awhile,
And by and by I will to thee appear.

8

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2]

Demetrius

1116

There is no following her in this fierce vein:
Here therefore for a while I will remain.
So sorrow's heaviness doth heavier grow
For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe:
Which now in some slight measure it will pay,
If for his tender here I make some stay.

9

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2]

Lysander

1224

Why should he stay, whom love doth press to go?

10

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2]

Lysander

1285

Stay, gentle Helena; hear my excuse:
My love, my life my soul, fair Helena!

11

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2]

Helena

1395

I will not trust you, I,
Nor longer stay in your curst company.
Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray,
My legs are longer though, to run away.

12

Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1]

Theseus

2092

It appears, by his small light of discretion, that
he is in the wane; but yet, in courtesy, in all
reason, we must stay the time.

13

Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1]

Bottom

2114

Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams;
I thank thee, Moon, for shining now so bright;
For, by thy gracious, golden, glittering gleams,
I trust to take of truest Thisby sight.
But stay, O spite!
But mark, poor knight,
What dreadful dole is here!
Eyes, do you see?
How can it be?
O dainty duck! O dear!
Thy mantle good,
What, stain'd with blood!
Approach, ye Furies fell!
O Fates, come, come,
Cut thread and thrum;
Quail, crush, conclude, and quell!

14

Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1]

Oberon

2252

Now, until the break of day,
Through this house each fairy stray.
To the best bride-bed will we,
Which by us shall blessed be;
And the issue there create
Ever shall be fortunate.
So shall all the couples three
Ever true in loving be;
And the blots of Nature's hand
Shall not in their issue stand;
Never mole, hare lip, nor scar,
Nor mark prodigious, such as are
Despised in nativity,
Shall upon their children be.
With this field-dew consecrate,
Every fairy take his gait;
And each several chamber bless,
Through this palace, with sweet peace;
And the owner of it blest
Ever shall in safety rest.
Trip away; make no stay;
Meet me all by break of day.