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4x Theatre Bottom

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I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me.

Monsieur Cobweb

the eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen

If I do it, let the audience look to their eyes. I will move storms.

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3x Magic and Dreams Puck

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If we shadows have offended
Think but this, and all is mended
Think you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear

I am sent with broom before
To sweep the dust behind the door

No more yielding but a dream

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2x Gender Helena

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We should be wooed and were not made to woo

Use me as your spaniel: spurn me, strike me

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1x Marriage Hippolyta

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Four days will quickly steep themselves in night

Four nights will quickly dream away the time

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4x Love Demetrius

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I love thee not, therefore pursue me not

But like in sickness did I loathe this food

I say I love thee more than he can do

All the fair, the virtues of my heart
The object and the pleasure of mine eye
Is only Helena

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1x Magic and Dreams Demetrius

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And by the way let us recount our dream

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2x Theatre Theseus

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The best in this kind are but shadows

Merry and tragical? Tedious and brief?
That is hot ice and wondrous strange snow
How can we find the concord of this discord

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1x Gender Egeus

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As she is mine I may dispose of her
Which shall be either to this gentleman
Or to her death

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1x Marriage Theseus

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I wooed thee with my sword
And won thy love doing thee injuries
But I wed thee in another key

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3x Love Lysander

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Content with Hermia? No I do repent
The tedious minutes I with her have spent.
Not Hermia but Helena I do love
Who will not change a raven for a dove?

And then ends life when I end loyalty

Although I hate her, I’ll not harm her so

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1x Theatre Puck

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And those things do best please me

That befall prepost’rously

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1x Gender Theseus

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By him imprinted and within his power

To have the figure, or disfigure it

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1x Marriage Hermia

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Whose unwanted yoke

My soul consents not to give sovereignty

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2x Love Titania

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Come sit thee down upon this feathery bed
While I thy amiable cheeks do coy

And for her sake do I rear up her boy
And for her sake I will not part with him

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1x Gender Lysander

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You have her father’s love, Demetrius

Let me have Hermia’s. Do you marry him

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1x Love Helena

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind

And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind

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1x Love Bottom

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Methinks mistress, you should have little reason for that. And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

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1x Gender Oberon

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Tarry, rash wanton. Am I not thy lord?

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1x Opposites Hermia

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Hermia: The more I hate, the more he follows me
Helena: The more I love, the more he hateth me

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1x Opposites Helena

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So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry: seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition

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1x Opposites Lysander

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I am, my lord, as well derived as he,

As well possessed. My love is more than his

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1x Love Theseus

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Lovers and madmen have such seething brains
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact