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Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 1] |
Egeus |
26 |
Full of vexation come I, with complaint
Against my child, my daughter Hermia.
Stand forth, Demetrius. My noble lord,
This man hath my consent to marry her.
Stand forth, Lysander: and my gracious duke,
This man hath bewitch'd the bosom of my child;
Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes,
And interchanged love-tokens with my child:
Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung,
With feigning voice verses of feigning love,
And stolen the impression of her fantasy
With bracelets of thy hair, rings, gawds, conceits,
Knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats, messengers
Of strong prevailment in unharden'd youth:
With cunning hast thou filch'd my daughter's heart,
Turn'd her obedience, which is due to me,
To stubborn harshness: and, my gracious duke,
Be it so she; will not here before your grace
Consent to marry with Demetrius,
I beg the ancient privilege of Athens,
As she is mine, I may dispose of her:
Which shall be either to this gentleman
Or to her death, according to our law
Immediately provided in that case.
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2 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 1] |
Theseus |
58 |
In himself he is;
But in this kind, wanting your father's voice,
The other must be held the worthier.
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3 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 1] |
Helena |
189 |
Call you me fair? that fair again unsay.
Demetrius loves your fair: O happy fair!
Your eyes are lode-stars; and your tongue's sweet air
More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear,
When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear.
Sickness is catching: O, were favour so,
Yours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go;
My ear should catch your voice, my eye your eye,
My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody.
Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated,
The rest I'd give to be to you translated.
O, teach me how you look, and with what art
You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart.
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4 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Bottom |
310 |
An I may hide my face, let me play Thisby too, I'll
speak in a monstrous little voice. 'Thisne,
Thisne;' 'Ah, Pyramus, lover dear! thy Thisby dear,
and lady dear!'
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5 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Bottom |
335 |
I grant you, friends, if that you should fright the
ladies out of their wits, they would have no more
discretion but to hang us: but I will aggravate my
voice so that I will roar you as gently as any
sucking dove; I will roar you an 'twere any
nightingale.
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6 |
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.
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7 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2] |
(stage directions) |
1465 |
[Exit LYSANDER, as following the voice]
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8 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2] |
Puck |
1476 |
Follow my voice: we'll try no manhood here.
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9 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 2] |
Quince |
1793 |
Yea and the best person too; and he is a very
paramour for a sweet voice.
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10 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1] |
Bottom |
2036 |
I see a voice: now will I to the chink,
To spy an I can hear my Thisby's face. Thisby!
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