4x Theatre Bottom
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.
3x Magic and Dreams Puck
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
2x Gender Helena
We should be wooed and were not made to woo
Use me as your spaniel: spurn me, strike me
1x Marriage Hippolyta
Four days will quickly steep themselves in night
Four nights will quickly dream away the time
4x Love Demetrius
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
1x Magic and Dreams Demetrius
And by the way let us recount our dream
2x Theatre Theseus
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
1x Gender Egeus
As she is mine I may dispose of her
Which shall be either to this gentleman
Or to her death
1x Marriage Theseus
I wooed thee with my sword
And won thy love doing thee injuries
But I wed thee in another key
3x Love Lysander
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
1x Theatre Puck
And those things do best please me
That befall prepost’rously
1x Gender Theseus
By him imprinted and within his power
To have the figure, or disfigure it
1x Marriage Hermia
Whose unwanted yoke
My soul consents not to give sovereignty
2x Love Titania
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
1x Gender Lysander
You have her father’s love, Demetrius
Let me have Hermia’s. Do you marry him
1x Love Helena
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind
1x Love Bottom
Methinks mistress, you should have little reason for that. And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.
1x Gender Oberon
Tarry, rash wanton. Am I not thy lord?
1x Opposites Hermia
Hermia: The more I hate, the more he follows me
Helena: The more I love, the more he hateth me
1x Opposites Helena
So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry: seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition
1x Opposites Lysander
I am, my lord, as well derived as he,
As well possessed. My love is more than his
1x Love Theseus
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