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Speeches (Lines) for Hippolyta
in "Midsummer Night's Dream"

Total: 14

# Act, Scene, Line
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Speech text

1

I,1,8

Four days will quickly steep themselves in night;
Four nights will quickly dream away the time;
And then the moon, like to a silver bow
New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night
Of our solemnities.

2

IV,1,1667

I was with Hercules and Cadmus once,
When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear
With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear
Such gallant chiding: for, besides the groves,
The skies, the fountains, every region near
Seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard
So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.

3

V,1,1830

'Tis strange my Theseus, that these
lovers speak of.

4

V,1,1853

But all the story of the night told over,
And all their minds transfigured so together,
More witnesseth than fancy's images
And grows to something of great constancy;
But, howsoever, strange and admirable.

5

V,1,1925

I love not to see wretchedness o'er charged
And duty in his service perishing.

6

V,1,1928

He says they can do nothing in this kind.

7

V,1,1965

Indeed he hath played on his prologue like a child
on a recorder; a sound, but not in government.

8

V,1,2055

This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard.

9

V,1,2058

It must be your imagination then, and not theirs.

10

V,1,2091

I am aweary of this moon: would he would change!

11

V,1,2107

Well shone, Moon. Truly, the moon shines with a
good grace.

12

V,1,2132

Beshrew my heart, but I pity the man.

13

V,1,2157

How chance Moonshine is gone before Thisbe comes
back and finds her lover?

14

V,1,2162

Methinks she should not use a long one for such a
Pyramus: I hope she will be brief.