A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968) H. Mirren, J. Dench, M. Jayston, D. Rigg, D. Warner

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00:02:30Now fair Hippolyta our nuptial hour draws on a pace four happy days bring in another moon

00:02:40But only thinks how slow this old moon wanes

00:02:43She lingers my desires like to a stepdame or a dowager long withering out a young man's revenue four days

00:02:50Will quickly steep themselves at night

00:02:53Four nights will quickly dream away the time

00:02:57And then the moon like to a silver bow new bent in heaven shall behold the night of our solemnities

00:03:05Go Philostrate stir up the Athenian youth to merriments awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth

00:03:10Turn melancholy forth to funerals the pale companion is not for our pomp

00:03:17Hippolyta I would thee with my sword and one by love doing the injuries

00:03:22But I will wed thee in another key with pomp with triumph and with reveling

00:03:27Happy Bethesda, you're sorry now near Duke. Thanks. Good ideas. What's the news with thee?

00:03:33Full of vexation come I would complaint against my child my daughter Hermia

00:03:38Stand forth Demetrius my never Lord this man hath my consent to marry her

00:03:43Stand forth Lysander

00:03:45This man hath which the bosom of my child

00:03:50My gracious Duke be it so she will not hear before your grace consent to marry with Demetrius

00:03:55I beg the ancient privilege of Athens as she is mine

00:03:59I may dispose of her which shall be either to this gentleman or to her death

00:04:05according to our law

00:04:07immediately provided in that case

00:04:10What say you Hermia be advised fair maid to you your father should be as a god

00:04:20I know not by what power I am made bold

00:04:22But I beseech your grace that I may know the worst that may befall me in this case if I refuse to wed Demetrius

00:04:30either to die the death

00:04:32Or to abjure forever the society of men

00:04:37Therefore

00:04:39Question your desires know of your youth examine well your blood

00:04:45Whether if you yield not to your father's choice you can endure the livery of a nun

00:04:51For I to be in shady cloister mude to live a baron's sister all your life

00:04:57chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon

00:05:03Thrice blessed they that master so their blood to undergo such maiden pilgrimage

00:05:08But earthly a happy is the rose distilled

00:05:12And that which withering on the virgin thorn grows lives and dies in single blessedness

00:05:20So will I grow so live so die my lord

00:05:24Yeah, I will yield my virgin patent up unto his lordship whose unwished yoke my soul consents not to give

00:05:32sovereignty

00:05:34Relent sweet Hermia and Lysander yield thy crazy title to my certain right you have her father's love Demetrius

00:05:40Let me have Hermia's. Do you marry him scornful Lysander true? He has my love

00:05:46I am my lord as well derived as he as well possessed. My love is more than his

00:05:51And which is more than all these boasts can be I am beloved of beauty as Hermia

00:05:57Why should not I then prosecute my right?

00:06:01Demetrius a la vache to his head made love to need us daughter Helena and won her soul and she sweet lady dotes

00:06:08the fuckly dotes

00:06:10dotes in idolatry

00:06:13Upon this spotted and inconstant man. I

00:06:16Must confess that I have heard so much

00:06:19And with Demetrius thought to have spoke thereof but being over full of self affairs. My mind did lose it

00:06:26But Demetrius come

00:06:29And come Egeus you shall go with me. I have some private schooling for you both

00:06:34For you fair Hermia. Look you arm yourself to fit your fancies to your father's will

00:06:39Or else the law of Athens yield you up which by no means we may extenuate to death or to a vow of single life

00:06:48Come my Hippolyta

00:06:53What cheer my love

00:06:55Demetrius and Egeus go along

00:06:56I must employ you in some business against our nuptial and confer with you of something nearly that concerns yourselves

00:07:09How now my love why is your cheek so pale

00:07:12How chance the roses there to fade so fast be like the want of rain which I could well

00:07:18be team them from the tempest of mine eyes I

00:07:24Me thought that I could ever read

00:07:27Could ever hear by tale or history

00:07:30The course of true love never did run smooth

00:07:34But either it was different in blood Oh cross too high to be enthralled to low or as Miss Graffard in respect of years

00:07:41Oh spike too old to be engaged to young or else it stood upon the choice of friends

00:07:46Oh hell to choose love by another's eyes, or if there were a sympathy in choice

00:07:52War death or sickness did lay siege to it

00:07:56Making it moment to me as a sound

00:07:58Swift as a shadow short as any dream

00:08:01Brief as the lightning in the collared night that in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth

00:08:07And there a man hath power to say behold

00:08:10The jaws of darkness to devour it up

00:08:14So quick bright things come to confusion

00:08:21If then true lovers have been ever crossed

00:08:24It stands as an addicting destiny

00:08:27Then let us teach our trial

00:08:29Patience because it is a customary cross as due to love as thoughts and dreams and sighs

00:08:36Wishes and tears poor fancies follow us a good persuasion

00:08:40Therefore hear me Hermia. I

00:08:42Have a widow aunt a dowager of great revenue and she has no child

00:08:47From Athens is her house remote seven leagues and she respects me as her only son

00:08:54their

00:08:55Gentle Hermia

00:08:57may I marry thee and

00:08:59To that place the sharp Athenian law cannot pursue us if they'll ask me then

00:09:04Steal forth thy father's house tomorrow night

00:09:07And in the wood a league without the town where I did meet thee once with Helena to do observance to a morn of May

00:09:14There will I stay for thee my good Lysander. I

00:09:19Swear to thee by Cupid's strongest bow by his best arrow with the golden head

00:09:25By the simplicity of Venus doves by that which knitted souls and prospers loves

00:09:30By all the vows that ever men have broke in number more than ever women spoke in that same place

00:09:38Thou hast appointed me

00:09:40Tomorrow truly will I meet with thee keep promise love

00:09:45Look here comes Helena Godspeed fair Helena with her away

00:09:50Call you me fair

00:09:52that fair again unsay

00:09:55Demetrius loves your fair. Oh

00:09:59Happy fair

00:10:00Your eyes are load stars and your tongue sweet air more tunable than lark to shepherd's ear when wheat is green when hawthorn buds appear

00:10:10Sickness is catching. Oh a favor. So yours would I catch for her nearer I go

00:10:16My ear should catch your voice my eye your eye

00:10:20My tongue should catch your tongue sweet melody where the world mine

00:10:26Demetrius being baited the rest I'd give to be to you translated Oh

00:10:32Teach me how you look and with what art you sway the motion of Demetrius heart take comfort

00:10:40He no more shall see my face

00:10:44Lysander and myself will fly this place Helen

00:10:48To you our minds we will unfold

00:10:51tomorrow night

00:10:52When Phoebe doth behold her silver visage in the watery glass

00:10:56Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass a time that lovers flights doth still conceal

00:11:03Through Athens gates have we devised to steal and in the wood where often you and I upon faint primrose beds were wont to lie

00:11:11emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet

00:11:14There my Lysander and myself shall meet

00:11:19Farewell sweet playfellow pray thou for us and good luck grant thee thy Demetrius

00:11:27Keep word Lysander

00:11:29We must starve our sight from lovers food till morrow deep midnight. I will my home here

00:11:37Helena

00:11:39Had you as you on him Demetrius don't on you

00:11:52How happy some or others some can be

00:11:56Through Athens I am thought as fair as she

00:12:00But what of that Demetrius thinks not so

00:12:03He will not know what all but he do know and as he errs doting on Hermia's eyes. So I admiring of his qualities

00:12:12Things base and vile holding no quantity love can transpose to form and dignity

00:12:19Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind

00:12:23And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind as waggish boys in game themselves

00:12:29Forswear so the boy love is perjured everywhere

00:12:35For air Demetrius looked on Hermia's I'm he hailed down oaths that he was only mine

00:12:42And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt

00:12:47So he dissolved and showers of oaths didn't melt

00:12:52I will go tell him a fair Hermia's flight

00:12:55Then to the wood will he tomorrow night pursue her

00:13:00And for this intelligence if I have thanks it is a dear expense

00:13:06But herein mean I to enrich my pain to have his sight thither and back again

00:13:11It is a dear expense

00:13:14But herein mean I to enrich my pain to have his sight thither and back again

00:13:25Is all our company here

00:13:33You were best to call them generally man by man according to the script

00:13:38Here is the scroll of every man's name which is thought fit through all Athens

00:13:44To play in our interlude before the Duke and the Duchess on his wedding day

00:13:49At night

00:13:51First good Peter Quinn say what the play treats on

00:13:55Then read the names of the actors and so grow to a point

00:13:59Marry a play it's the most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe

00:14:07A very good piece of work I assure you I'll marry

00:14:10Now good Peter Quinn call forth the actors by the scroll

00:14:15Masters spread yourselves

00:14:19Answer as I call you

00:14:21Nick Bottom the weaver ready

00:14:24Name what part I am for and proceed

00:14:27You Nick Bottom are set down for Pyramus

00:14:30What is Pyramus a lover or a tyrant

00:14:32A lover that kills himself most gallant for love

00:14:35That will ask some tears in the true performance of it

00:14:39If I do it let the audience look to their eyes

00:14:43I will move storms

00:14:46I will condole in some measure to the rest

00:14:49Yet my chief humor is for a tyrant

00:14:52I could play Hercules rarely or a part to tear a caddy to make all split

00:14:57The rage in rocks and shivering shocks so bright the locks of prison gates

00:15:04And Phoebus Carr shall shine from far

00:15:08And make and more the foolish fight

00:15:13This was lofty

00:15:15Now name the rest of the players

00:15:18This is Hercules bane a tyrant's bane

00:15:20A lover is more condoling

00:15:24Francis float the bellows mender

00:15:27Here Peter Quinn's

00:15:29Float you must take Thisbe on you

00:15:31What is Thisbe a wandering knight

00:15:33It is the lady that Pyramus must love

00:15:38Nay Faith let me not play a woman I have a beard coming

00:15:44That's all one you shall play it in a mask

00:15:47And you may speak as small as you will

00:15:49And I may hide my face let me play Thisbe too

00:15:54I'll speak in a monstrous little voice Thisbe Thisbe

00:15:58Oh Pyramus my lover dear

00:16:01Thy Thisbe dear and lady dear

00:16:04No no you must play Pyramus and float you Thisbe

00:16:07Well proceed

00:16:10Robin Starlin the tailor

00:16:12Here Peter Quinn's

00:16:14Robin Starlin you must play Thisbe's mother

00:16:19Tom Snout the tinker

00:16:22Here Peter Quinn's

00:16:24You Pyramus father

00:16:25Myself Thisbe's father

00:16:27Snout the joiner you the lion's part

00:16:30And I hope here is a play fitted

00:16:38Have you the lion's part written

00:16:42Pray if it be give it me

00:16:45For I am slow of study

00:16:48You may do it extemporary for it's nothing but roaring

00:16:51Let me play the lion too

00:16:52I will roar so that I will do any man's heart good to hear me

00:16:55I'll roar that I'll make the duke say let him roar again

00:16:58Let him roar again

00:17:02If you should do it too terribly

00:17:04You would fright the duchess and the ladies

00:17:06That they would shriek and that would enough to hang us all

00:17:09Ah that would hang us

00:17:11That would hang us every mother's son

00:17:13That would hang us

00:17:15I grant you friends

00:17:17If we should fright the ladies out of their wits

00:17:19They would have no more discretion but to hang us

00:17:20But I would aggravate my voice

00:17:22So that I would roar you as gently

00:17:24As any sucking dove

00:17:26I would roar you

00:17:28As any nightingale

00:17:33You can play now part my Pyramus

00:17:40For Pyramus is a sweet faced man

00:17:43A proper man

00:17:45As one shall say in the summer's day

00:17:47A most lovely man

00:17:48A most lovely, gentleman-like man, therefore you must needs play Pyramus.

00:17:56Well, I will undertake it.

00:18:00What beard were I best to play it in?

00:18:02Why, what you will.

00:18:05I will discharge it in either your straw-coloured beard, your orange, tawny beard,

00:18:10your purple-ingrained beard, or your French-crown-coloured beard, your perfect yellow.

00:18:14Some of your French-crowns have no hair at all, and then you'll play bare-faced.

00:18:23Masters, here are your parts.

00:18:26And I am to entreat you, request you, and desire you to condom by tomorrow night

00:18:31and meet me in the Palliswood a mile without the town.

00:18:35By moonlight, there will be rehearse.

00:18:38For if we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with company and our devices known.

00:18:42In the meantime, I will draw a bill of properties, such as our play wants, I pray you.

00:18:47Fear me not.

00:18:48We will meet, and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously.

00:18:52Take pains, be perfect.

00:18:54Adieu!

00:18:56At the Duke's Oak we meet.

00:18:59Enough! Older cut bow-strings!

00:19:13Oh, now, spirit, whither wander you?

00:19:16Over hill, over dale, th're a bush, th're a briar, over park, over pale, th're a flood, th're a fire.

00:19:21I do wander everywhere, swifter than the moony sphere.

00:19:25And I serve the Fairy Queen to do her orbs upon the green.

00:19:31The cow-slip's tall, her pensioner's bold.

00:19:34And I serve the Fairy Queen to do her orbs upon the green.

00:19:39The cow-slip's tall, her pensioner's be.

00:19:42In her gold-coat spots, you see.

00:19:44Those be rubies, fairy favours.

00:19:47In those freckles live their savours.

00:19:50I must go seek some dew-drops here and hang a pearl in every cow-slip's ear.

00:19:54Farewell, thou lob of spirits. I'll be gone.

00:19:56Our Queen and all her elves come here anon.

00:19:59The King doth keep his revels here to-night.

00:20:01Take heed, the Queen come not within his sight.

00:20:03For Oberon his passing fell unwroth.

00:20:05Because that she as her attendant hath a lovely boy stolen from an Indian king.

00:20:09She never had so sweet a changeling.

00:20:11And jealous Oberon would have the child, night of his train, to trace the forest wild.

00:20:15But she perforce withholds the lovèd boy.

00:20:18Crowns him with flowers and makes him all her joy.

00:20:21And now they never meet in grove or green.

00:20:24By fountain clear or spangled starlight sheen.

00:20:26But they do square that all their elves for fear.

00:20:30Creep into acorn-cups and hide them there.

00:20:33Either I mistake your shape in making quite.

00:20:36Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite called Robin Goodfellow.

00:20:40Are not you he that frights the maidens of the village-tree?

00:20:44Those that Hob-goblin call you and sweet Park.

00:20:47You do their work and they shall have good luck.

00:20:50Are not you he?

00:20:51Thou speaks to right.

00:20:53I am that merry wanderer of the night.

00:20:56I jest to Oberon and make him smile.

00:20:58When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile.

00:21:01Neighing in likeness of a filly-foal.

00:21:03And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl.

00:21:05In very likeness of a roasted crab.

00:21:07And when she drinks against her lips I bob.

00:21:09And on her withered dew-lap pour the ale.

00:21:12The wisest aunt telling the saddest tale.

00:21:16Sometime for three foot stool mistaken me.

00:21:18Then slip I from her bum.

00:21:20Down topples she and Taylor cries.

00:21:22And falls into a cough.

00:21:24And then the whole choir hold their hips and laugh.

00:21:26And waxen in their mirth.

00:21:28And knees and swear.

00:21:30A merrier hour was never wasted there.

00:21:33But room fairy.

00:21:35Here comes Oberon.

00:21:36And here my mistress.

00:21:37Would that he were gone.

00:21:40Ah!

00:21:50Ill met by moonlight.

00:21:52Proud, Titania.

00:21:54What, jealous Oberon?

00:21:56Fairy skip hence.

00:21:57I have forsworn his bed and company.

00:21:59Carry, rash wanton.

00:22:01Am not I thy lord?

00:22:03Then I must be thy lady.

00:22:05But I know when thou hast stolen away from fairy land.

00:22:08And in the shape of Corinth sat all day.

00:22:10Playing on pipes of corn.

00:22:12And versing love to amorous Phyllida.

00:22:14Why art thou here?

00:22:16Come from the farthest steep of India.

00:22:18But that forsooth the bouncing Amazon.

00:22:20Your buskined mistress and your warrior love.

00:22:23To Theseus must be wedded.

00:22:25And you come to give their bed joy and prosperity.

00:22:28How canst thou thus forshame Titania?

00:22:31Glance at my credit with Hippolyta.

00:22:33Knowing I know thy love to Theseus.

00:22:35Didst thou not lead him through the glimmering night.

00:22:37From periginomy ravished.

00:22:39And make him with fair Aeglies break his faith.

00:22:41With Ariadne and Antiopa.

00:22:43These are the forgeries of jealousy.

00:22:46And never since the middle summer spring.

00:22:49Met we on hill and dale, forest or mead.

00:22:51By paved fountain or by rushy brook.

00:22:53Or in the beached margin of the sea.

00:22:55To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind.

00:22:58But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.

00:23:04Therefore the winds piping to us in vain.

00:23:06As in revenge have sucked up from the sea contagious fogs.

00:23:10Which falling in the land have every pelting river made so proud.

00:23:14That they have overborne their continents.

00:23:17The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain.

00:23:21The ploughman lost his sweat.

00:23:23And the green corn hath rotted ere his youth attained a beard.

00:23:27The fold stands empty in the drowned field.

00:23:31And crows are fatted with the murrian flock.

00:23:35The nine men's Morris is filled up with mud.

00:23:38And the quaint mazes in the wanton green for lack of tread are indistinguishable.

00:23:45The human mortals want their winter cheer.

00:23:49No night is now with him or Carol blessed.

00:23:53Therefore the moon, the governess of floods.

00:23:58Pale in her anger washes all the air.

00:24:01That rheumatic diseases do abound.

00:24:04And thorough this distemperature we see the seasons alter.

00:24:10Hoary headed frosts fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

00:24:15And on old Hyams thin and icy crown.

00:24:19An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds.

00:24:23Is as in mockery said.

00:24:26The spring, the summer, the childing autumn.

00:24:30Angry winter change their wanted liveries.

00:24:34And the mazed world by their increase now knows not which is which.

00:24:43And this same progeny of evils comes from our debate.

00:24:46From our dissension we are their parents and original.

00:24:49Do you amend it then? It lies in you.

00:24:52Why should Titania cross her Oberon?

00:24:55I do but beg a little changeling boy to be my henchman.

00:24:58Set your heart at rest.

00:25:00The fairy land buys not the child of me.

00:25:05His mother was a votarist of my order.

00:25:08And in the spicy Indian air by night.

00:25:11Full often has she gossiped by my side.

00:25:14And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands.

00:25:17Marking the embarked traders on the flood.

00:25:20When we have laughed to see the sails conceive.

00:25:24And grow big bellied with the wanton wind.

00:25:27Which she with pretty and with swimming gates following.

00:25:31Her womb then rich with my young squire.

00:25:34Would imitate and sail upon the land.

00:25:37To fetch me trifles and return again.

00:25:40As from a voyage rich with merchandise.

00:25:45But she being mortal of that boy did die.

00:25:49And for her sake do I rear up her boy.

00:25:52And for her sake I will not part with him.

00:25:55How long within this wood intend you stay?

00:25:58Perchance till after Theseus' wedding day.

00:26:02If you will patiently dance in our round.

00:26:05And see our moonlight revels go with us.

00:26:07If not shun me and I will spare your haunts.

00:26:12Give me that boy and I will go with thee.

00:26:15Not for thy fairy kingdom.

00:26:17Fairies away.

00:26:18We shall try downright if I longer stay.

00:26:30Well go thy way.

00:26:31Thou shalt not from this grove.

00:26:33Till I torment thee for this injury.

00:26:36My gentle Puck come hither.

00:26:39Thou remember'st since once I sat upon a promontory.

00:26:42And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back.

00:26:44Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath.

00:26:47That the rude sea grew civil at her song.

00:26:50And certain stars shot madly from their spheres.

00:26:53To hear the sea maid's music.

00:26:55I remember.

00:26:56That very time I saw but thou couldst not.

00:26:59Flying between the cold moon and the earth.

00:27:02Cupid all armed.

00:27:05At certain in he took at a fair vessel.

00:27:08Thrown it by the west.

00:27:09And loosed his love shaft smartly from his bow.

00:27:12As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts.

00:27:15But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft.

00:27:19Quenched in the chased beams of the watery moon.

00:27:22And the imperial votaress passed on.

00:27:25In maiden meditation fancy free.

00:27:28Yet marked I where the boat of Cupid fell.

00:27:32It fell upon a little western flower.

00:27:35Before milk white now purple with love's wound.

00:27:38And maidens call it love in idleness.

00:27:42Fetch me that flower.

00:27:43The herb I showed thee once.

00:27:44The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid.

00:27:46Will make a man or woman madly dote.

00:27:49Upon the next live creature that it sees.

00:27:51Fetch me this herb.

00:27:52And be thou here again.

00:27:53There the leviathan can swim a league.

00:27:54I'll put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes.

00:27:58Having once this juice.

00:27:59I'll watch Titania when she is asleep.

00:28:01And drop the liquor of it in her eyes.

00:28:03The next thing then she waking looks upon.

00:28:05Be it on lion, bear or wolf or bull.

00:28:08On meddling monkey or on busy ape.

00:28:10She shall pursue it with the soul of love.

00:28:13And ere I take this charm from off her sight.

00:28:16As I can take it with another herb.

00:28:18I'll make her render up her page to me.

00:28:22But who comes here?

00:28:23I am invisible.

00:28:25And I will overhear their conference.

00:28:27I love thee not.

00:28:28Therefore pursue me not.

00:28:29Where is Lysander and fair Hermia?

00:28:31One I'll slay.

00:28:32The other slayeth me.

00:28:34I'll tolst me that was stolen under this wood.

00:28:36And here am I.

00:28:37And wood within this wood.

00:28:39Because I cannot meet my Hermia.

00:28:41Hence get thee gone and follow me no more.

00:28:44I am your spaniel.

00:28:46And Demetrius the more you beat me.

00:28:48I will fawn on you.

00:28:49Use me but as your spaniel.

00:28:51Spurn me.

00:28:52Strike me.

00:28:53Neglect me.

00:28:54Lose me.

00:28:55Only give me leave.

00:28:56Unworthy as I am to follow you.

00:28:58What worse a place can I beg in your love.

00:29:01And yet a place of high respect with me.

00:29:03Than to be used as you use your dog.

00:29:06Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit.

00:29:08For I am sick when I do look on thee.

00:29:11And I am sick when I look not on you.

00:29:16You do impeach your modesty too much.

00:29:19To leave the city and commit yourself.

00:29:22Into the hands of one that loves you not.

00:29:25To trust the opportunity of night.

00:29:27And the ill counsel of a desert place.

00:29:29With a rich worth of your virginity.

00:29:36Your virtue is my privilege for that.

00:29:40It is not night when I do see your face.

00:29:43Therefore I think I am not in the night.

00:29:46Nor do this wood lack worlds of company.

00:29:48For you in my respect are all the world.

00:29:51Then how can it be said I am alone.

00:29:54When all the world is here to look on me.

00:29:58I'll run from thee and hide me in the breaks.

00:30:00And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts.

00:30:02The wildest have not such a heart as you.

00:30:10Oh I will not stay thy questions.

00:30:12Let me go.

00:30:14Or if thou follow me do not believe.

00:30:16But I shall do thee mischief in the wood.

00:30:18I in the temple, in the town, the field.

00:30:20You do me mischief.

00:30:24Fie Demetrius.

00:30:26Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex.

00:30:30We cannot fight for love as men may do.

00:30:34We should be wooed.

00:30:36And we're not made to woo.

00:30:44I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell.

00:30:48To die upon the hand I love so well.

00:30:52Fare thee well.

00:30:54Nymph.

00:30:56Ere he do leave this grove.

00:30:58Thou shall fly him.

00:30:59And he shall seek thy love.

00:31:02Welcome wanderer.

00:31:03Hast thou the flower there?

00:31:04Ay.

00:31:05There it is.

00:31:07I pretty give it me.

00:31:12I know a bank where the wild time blows.

00:31:15Where ox lips and the nodding violet grows.

00:31:18Quite over canopied with luscious woodbine.

00:31:22With sweet musk roses and with egglant thine.

00:31:27There sleeps Titania sometime of the night.

00:31:31Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight.

00:31:34And there the snake throws her enameled skin.

00:31:38Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in.

00:31:41And with the juice of this I'll streak her eyes.

00:31:45And make her full of hateful fantasies.

00:31:49Take thou some of it.

00:31:50And seek through this grove.

00:31:51A sweet Athenian lady is in love with a disdainful youth.

00:31:55Anoint his eyes.

00:31:56But do it when the next thing he espies may be the lady.

00:31:59Thou shalt know the man by the Athenian garments he hath on.

00:32:02Effect it with some care that he may prove more fond on her than she upon her love.

00:32:07And look thou meet me.

00:32:08Thou the first cock crow.

00:32:10Fear not my lord.

00:32:11Your servant shall do so.

00:32:18Come now a roundel and a fairy song.

00:32:21Then for the third part of a minute hence.

00:32:23Some to kill cankers in the musk rose buds.

00:32:26Some war with rear mice for their leaven wings to make my small elves coats.

00:32:31And some keep back the clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wanders.

00:32:35At our quaint spirits.

00:32:38Sing me now asleep.

00:32:41Then to your offices and let me rest.

00:33:06Sing me now a sweet lullaby.

00:33:10La la la la lullaby.

00:33:14La la la la lullaby.

00:33:18Never harm nor spell nor charm.

00:33:23Come now ye lady night.

00:33:30So good night good night.

00:33:32Good night good night.

00:33:35With lullaby.

00:33:38La la la la lullaby.

00:33:46Weed is quite as common here.

00:33:49Hence you young men spinners hence.

00:33:51Weed is black and bruised and new.

00:33:53Word must still do no offence.

00:33:57Fill our world with melody.

00:34:02Sing me now a sweet lullaby.

00:34:07La la la la lullaby.

00:34:11La la la la lullaby.

00:34:15Never harm nor spell nor charm.

00:34:20Come now ye lady night.

00:34:27So good night good night.

00:34:30Good night with lullaby.

00:34:35La la la la lullaby.

00:34:45Hence away now all is well.

00:34:48One aloof stands sentinel.

00:35:00What thou seest when thou dost wake.

00:35:03Do it for thy true love take.

00:35:06Love and languish for his sake.

00:35:09Be it ounce or cat or bear.

00:35:12Pard or boar with bristled hair.

00:35:15In thy eye that shall appear.

00:35:18When thou wakest it is thy dear.

00:35:21Wake when sun is gone.

00:35:24Wake when sun is gone.

00:35:27Wake when sun is gone.

00:35:30Some vile thing is near.

00:35:41Fair love you faint with wandering in the wood.

00:35:44And to speak truth I forgot our way.

00:35:47We'll rest us Hermia if you think it good.

00:35:49And tarry for the comfort of the day.

00:35:51Be it so Lysander.

00:35:53Find you out a bed.

00:35:55For I upon this bank will rest my head.

00:36:01One turf shall serve as pillow for us both.

00:36:04One heart. One bed.

00:36:06Two bosoms and one troth.

00:36:08Nay good Lysander.

00:36:10For my sake my dear lie further off yet.

00:36:12Do not lie so near.

00:36:14Oh take the sense sweet of my innocence.

00:36:16Love takes the meaning in love's confidence.

00:36:19I mean that my heart unto yours is knit.

00:36:21So that but one heart we can make of it.

00:36:23Two bosoms interchained with an oath.

00:36:25So then two bosoms and a single troth.

00:36:27Then by your side no bedroom me deny.

00:36:30Lying so Hermia.

00:36:32I do not lie.

00:36:34Lysander riddles very prettily.

00:36:36Now much be shrew my manners and my pride.

00:36:38If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied.

00:36:41But gentle friend for love and courtesy lie further off.

00:36:45In human modesty.

00:36:47Such separation as may well be said

00:36:49becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid.

00:36:52So far be distant and good night sweet friend.

00:36:56Thy love ne'er alter till thy sweet life end.

00:37:02Amen.

00:37:04Amen to that fair prayer say I.

00:37:07And so in life when I in loyalty.

00:37:12Here is my bed.

00:37:18Sleep give thee all his rest.

00:37:21With half that wish the wishers eyes be pressed.

00:37:24Through the forest have I gone.

00:37:26But Athenian found I none.

00:37:28On whose eyes I might approve

00:37:30this flower's force in stirring love.

00:37:36Night and silence.

00:37:38Who is here?

00:37:40Weeds of Athens he doth wear.

00:37:44This is he my master said

00:37:46despised the Athenian maid.

00:37:48And here the maiden's sleeping sound

00:37:51on the dank and dirty ground.

00:37:53Come, come to my house.

00:37:55Here I lay my bed.

00:37:57Sleep, sleep, sleep.

00:37:59Sleep, sleep, sleep.

00:38:01Sleep, sleep, sleep.

00:38:03Sleep, sleep, sleep.

00:38:04sleeping sound, on the dank and dirty ground.

00:38:09Pretty soul, she does not lie near this lack love, this kill courtesy.

00:38:16Churl upon thy eyes, I throw, all the power this charm doth owe.

00:38:22When thou wakest, let love forbid sleep his seat on thy eyelid.

00:38:26So awake when I am gone, for I must now to Oberon.

00:38:35Stay, that thou kill me, sweet Demetrius.

00:38:38I charge thee hence, and do not haunt me thus.

00:38:41Oh, without darkling leave me, do not so.

00:38:43Stay on thy peril, I alone will go.

00:38:48Oh, I am out of breath in this fond chase.

00:38:51The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace.

00:38:55Happy is Hermia, whereso'er she lies.

00:38:58For she hath blessed and attractive eyes.

00:39:01How came her eyes so bright?

00:39:06Not with salt tears, if so, my eyes are often awash than hers.

00:39:10No, no, I am as ugly as a bear.

00:39:15For beasts that meet me run away for fear.

00:39:17Therefore no marvel, though Demetrius do,

00:39:19as a monster fly my presence thus.

00:39:23But who is here? Lysander.

00:39:27Who is here? Lysander.

00:39:33On the ground, dead or asleep, I see no blood, no wound.

00:39:38Lysander, if you live, good sir, awake.

00:39:42And run through fire, I will, for thy sweet sake.

00:39:47Transparent, Helena, nature shows art

00:39:50that through thy bosom makes me see thy heart.

00:39:53Where is Demetrius?

00:39:55O, how fit a word is that vile name to perish on my sword.

00:39:58Do not say so, Lysander, say not so.

00:40:01What though he love your Hermia, lord, what though?

00:40:04Yet Hermia still loves you. Then be content.

00:40:07Content with Hermia?

00:40:08No, I do repent the tedious minutes I with her have spent.

00:40:12Not Hermia, but Helena I love.

00:40:15Who will not change a raven for a dove?

00:40:19Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?

00:40:23When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?

00:40:26Good troth, you do me wrong, good sooth, you do,

00:40:29in such disdainful manner, me to who?

00:40:32But fare you well.

00:40:34Perforce I must confess, I thought you, lord, of more true gentleness.

00:40:39O, that a lady of one man refused,

00:40:42should of another therefore be abused.

00:40:46She sees not Hermia.

00:40:48Hermia, sleep thou there, never mayest thou come Lysander near.

00:40:52For as a surfeit of the sweetest things,

00:40:54the deepest loathing to the stomach brings,

00:40:56or as the heresies that men do leave,

00:40:58I hated most of those they did deceive,

00:41:00so thou, my surfeit and my heresy,

00:41:03of all be hated, but the most of me.

00:41:08And all my powers address your love.

00:41:11To honour Helen, and to be her knight.

00:41:20Help me, Lysander, help me.

00:41:22Do thy best to pluck this crawling serpent from my breast.

00:41:30Ay me, for pity, what a dream was here.

00:41:33Lysander, look how I do cry.

00:41:36Ay me, for pity, what a dream was here.

00:41:39Lysander, look how I do quake with fear.

00:41:45Methought a serpent ate my heart away,

00:41:48and you sat smiling at his cruel prey.

00:41:51Lysander.

00:41:57What removed?

00:42:00Lysander, lord.

00:42:03What art of hearing?

00:42:05God, no sound, no word.

00:42:08Alack, where are you?

00:42:11Speak, and if you hear.

00:42:15Speak of all loves I swoon almost with fear.

00:42:21No.

00:42:24Then I well perceive you are not nigh.

00:42:28Either death or you I'll find immediately.

00:42:36Are we all met?

00:42:38Pat, Pat, and here's a marvellous convenient place for a rehearsal.

00:42:43This green plot shall be our stage.

00:42:46This hawthorn break out to our in-house.

00:42:49And we will do it in action as we will do it before the duke.

00:42:52Peter Quince.

00:42:54What sighst thou, bully-bottom?

00:42:56There are things in this comedy of Pyramus and Thisbe that will never please.

00:43:01First Pyramus must draw a sword to kill himself, which the ladies cannot abide.

00:43:06How answer you that?

00:43:09Boy, you're like him at parlours for you.

00:43:16I believe we must leave the killing out when all is done.

00:43:19Not a whit.

00:43:21I have a device to make all well.

00:43:24Write me a prudence.

00:43:26I have a device to make all well.

00:43:29Write me a prudence.

00:43:31And let the prudence seem to say we will do no harm with our swords and that Pyramus is not killed indeed.

00:43:37And for the more better assurance, tell him that I, Pyramus, am not Pyramus but Bottom the Weaver.

00:43:43This will put him out of fear.

00:43:45Well, we will have such a prudence and it shall be written in eight and six.

00:43:49No, make it two more. Let it be written in eight and eight.

00:43:52Will not the ladies be afeard of the lion?

00:44:02I fear it, I promise you.

00:44:05Masters, you ought to consider with yourselves.

00:44:07To bring in, God shield us, a lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.

00:44:13For there is not a more fearful wild fowl than your lion living.

00:44:18And we ought to look to it.

00:44:21Therefore, another prologue must tell he is not a lion.

00:44:30Ay, you must name his name.

00:44:34And half his face must be seen through the lion's neck.

00:44:38And he himself must speak through, saying thus of the same defect.

00:44:42Ladies or fair ladies, I would wish you or I would request you or I would entreat you.

00:44:48Not to fear, not to tremble, my life for yours.

00:44:51If you think I come hither as a lion, it were pity of my life.

00:44:56No, I am no such thing.

00:44:58I am a man as other men are and there indeed let him name his name and tell him plainly snug the joiner.

00:45:02Well, it shall be so.

00:45:04But there is two hard things.

00:45:08That is to bring the moonlight into a chamber for you know Pyramus and Thisbe meet by moonlight.

00:45:18Doth the moon shine that night we play our play?

00:45:23A calendar, a calendar, look in the almanac, find it moonshine, find it moonshine.

00:45:27Yes, it doth shine that night.

00:45:29Why then may you leave a casement of the great chamber window where we play open and the moon may shine in at the casement?

00:45:36Ay, or else one must come in with a bush of thorns and a lantern and say he comes to disfigure or present the person of moonshine.

00:45:49Then there is another thing.

00:45:51We must have a wall in the great chamber for Pyramus and Thisbe says the story did talk through the chink of a wall.

00:46:03You can never bring in a wall.

00:46:08What say you, Bottom?

00:46:11Some man or other must present wall.

00:46:14And let him have some plaster or some loom or some rough cast about him to signify wall.

00:46:23And let him hold his fingers thus and through that cranny shall Pyramus and Thisbe whisper.

00:46:29If that may be then all is well.

00:46:32Come, sit down every mother's son and rehearse your part.

00:46:37Pyramus, you begin when you've spoken your speech enter into that break and so everyone according to his cue.

00:46:47What hempen homespuns have we swaggering here so near the cradle of our fairy queen?

00:46:53What, a play to ward?

00:46:56I'll be an auditor, an actor too perhaps if I see cause.

00:47:00Speak, Pyramus.

00:47:02Thisbe, stand forth.

00:47:05Thisbe, the flowers of Odius savour sweet.

00:47:11Odius.

00:47:18Odius savour sweet.

00:47:24So hath thy breath, my dearest Thisbe dear.

00:47:29But hark, a voice. Stay thou but here a while and by and by I will to thee appear.

00:47:37A stranger Pyramus than e'er played here.

00:47:49Must I speak now?

00:47:51Ay, merry must you for you must understand he goes but to see a noise that he heard and is to come again.

00:47:59Most radiant Pyramus, most lily white of hue.

00:48:02Of colour like the red rose on triumphant briar.

00:48:05Most brisky Jew, vanilla neat, most lovely Jew.

00:48:08As true as to his horse that yet would never tire.

00:48:11I'll meet thee Pyramus at Ninny's tomb.

00:48:13Nine us two men.

00:48:16Why you must not speak that yet.

00:48:19That you answer to Pyramus.

00:48:21You speak all your part at once, cues and all.

00:48:24Pyramus enter, your cue is fast, it is never tired.

00:48:31As true as to his horse that yet would never tire.

00:48:39If I were fair, Thisbe, I were only thine.

00:48:43O monstrous, O strange, we are haunted.

00:48:50Pray masters, fly masters.

00:48:58I'll follow you, I'll lead you about, around.

00:49:01Through bog, through bush, through break, through briar.

00:49:03Sometime a horse I'll be, sometime a hound, a hog, a headless bear.

00:49:06Sometime a fire and neigh and bark and grunt and roar and burn like horse, hound, hog, bear, fire at every turn.

00:49:11Why do they run away?

00:49:13This is a knavery of them to make me afeard.

00:49:20O Bottom, thou art changed.

00:49:24What do I see on thee?

00:49:26What do you see?

00:49:28You see an asset of your own, do you?

00:49:35Bless thee, Bottom, bless thee.

00:49:38Thou art translated.

00:49:43I see their knavery.

00:49:46I see their knavery.

00:49:48This is to make an ass of me, to fright me if they could.

00:49:52But I will not stir from this place.

00:49:54Do what they can.

00:49:56I will walk up and down here and I will sing that they shall hear I'm not afeard.

00:50:02The woes o' cock, so black of hue, with orange stony bill.

00:50:17The frost o' whip is not so true.

00:50:27The rain with little bell.

00:50:36What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?

00:50:40The prince, the sparrow and the lark.

00:50:47The plain sung cuckoo grey, whose note for many a man doth mark.

00:51:00And dares not answer nay.

00:51:07I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again.

00:51:10Mine ear is much enamoured of thy note.

00:51:14So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape.

00:51:18And thy fair virtue's force beforest doth move me.

00:51:22On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.

00:51:28Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that.

00:51:32And yet to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

00:51:38The more the pity that some honest neighbours will not make them friends.

00:51:43Nay, I can clink upon occasion.

00:51:47Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.

00:51:51Not so neither.

00:51:53But if I had wit enough to get out of this wood, I have enough to serve my own turn.

00:52:03Out of this wood do not desire to go.

00:52:06Thou shalt remain here whether thou wilt or no.

00:52:09I am a spirit of no common rate.

00:52:12The summer still doth tend upon my state.

00:52:15And I do love thee.

00:52:18Therefore go with me.

00:52:20I'll give thee fairies to attend on thee.

00:52:22And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep.

00:52:24And sing whilst thou on pressed flowers dost sleep.

00:52:28And I will purge thy mortal grossness so.

00:52:31And I will purge thy mortal grossness so.

00:52:34That thou shalt like an airy spirit go.

00:52:37Peasblossom, cobweb, moth and mustard seed.

00:52:39Ready. And I. And I. And I.

00:52:41Where shall we go?

00:52:43Be kind and courteous to this gentleman.

00:52:47Hop in his walks and gamble in his eyes.

00:52:50Feed him with apricots and dewberries.

00:52:52With purple grapes, green figs and mulberries.

00:52:55The honey bags steal from the humble bees.

00:52:59And for night tapers crop their waxen thighs.

00:53:02And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes.

00:53:05To have my love to bed and to arise.

00:53:10And pluck the wings from painted butterflies.

00:53:13To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.

00:53:17Nod to him, elves, and do him courtesies.

00:53:20Hail, mortal. Hail. Hail. Hail.

00:53:23I cry your worship's mercy heartily.

00:53:28I beseech your worship's name.

00:53:30Cobweb.

00:53:32I shall desire you of more acquaintance, good master Cobweb.

00:53:36If I cut my finger, I shall make bold with you.

00:53:41Your name, honest gentleman?

00:53:43Peasblossom.

00:53:45Ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:53:47I pray you commend me to mistress squash your mother.

00:53:51And a masterpiece cut your father.

00:53:54Ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:53:56Good masterpiece, Blossom.

00:53:58I shall desire you of more acquaintance too.

00:54:03Your name, I beseech you, sir.

00:54:05Mustardseed.

00:54:07Good master Mustardseed.

00:54:09I know your patience well.

00:54:11That same cowardly giant like Oxbeef

00:54:15hath devoured many a gentleman of your house.

00:54:19I promise you your kindred have made my eyes water ere now.

00:54:25I desire your more acquaintance, good master Mustardseed.

00:54:30Ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:54:35Come, wait upon him. Lead him to my bower.

00:54:39The moon, methinks, looks with a watery eye.

00:54:42And when she weeps, weeps every little flower

00:54:46lamenting some enforced chastity.

00:54:51Ah! Ah! Ah!

00:54:57Tie up my love's tongue. Bring him silently.

00:55:02Ah! Ah!

00:55:21Ah! Ah!

00:55:40I wonder if Titania be awaked.

00:55:43Then what it was that next came in her eye

00:55:46that she must dote on in extremity.

00:55:49Here comes my messenger. How now, mad spirit?

00:55:52What night rule now about this haunted grove?

00:55:55My mistress with a monster is in love.

00:55:58Near to her close and consecrated bower

00:56:00while she was in her dull and sleeping hour

00:56:02a crew of patches, rude mechanicals

00:56:04that work for bread upon Athenian stalls

00:56:06were met together to rehearse a play

00:56:08intended for great Theseus' nuptial day.

00:56:10The shallowest thick skin of that barren sort

00:56:12who Pyrimus presented in their sport

00:56:14forsook his scene and entered in a break

00:56:16when I did him at this advantage take.

00:56:18An ass is knoll. I fix it on his head

00:56:21and on his thisby must be answered.

00:56:23When in that moment so it came to pass

00:56:26Titania waked and straightway loved an ass. Ha!

00:56:34This falls out better than I could devise.

00:56:37But hast thou yet latched the Athenian's eyes

00:56:39with the love-juice as I did bid thee do?

00:56:41I took him sleeping. That is finished too.

00:56:43And the Athenian woman by his side

00:56:44that when he waked afore she must be eyed.

00:56:46Stand close. This is the same Athenian.

00:56:49This is the woman. But not this the man.

00:56:56O, why rebuke you him that loves you so?

00:56:58Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.

00:57:00Now I but chide, but I should use thee worse

00:57:03for thou, I fear, hast given me cause to curse.

00:57:06If thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep

00:57:10being all shoes in blood, plunge in the deep

00:57:12and kill me too.

00:57:17If the sun was not so true unto the day as he to me

00:57:22would he have stolen away from sleeping Hermia?

00:57:26It cannot be, but thou hast murdered him.

00:57:29So should a murderer look so dead, so grim.

00:57:32So should the murdered look, and so should I

00:57:35pierce through the heart with your stern cruelty.

00:57:37Yet you, the murderer, look as bright, as clear

00:57:40as yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere.

00:57:42What's this to my Lysander? Where is he?

00:57:45O, good Demetrius, wilt thou give him me?

00:57:48I'd rather give his carcass to my hounds.

00:57:50O, dark outcur!

00:57:54Thou drives me past the bounds of maiden's patience.

00:57:57Hast thou slain him then?

00:57:59Henceforth be never numbered among men.

00:58:01You spend your passion on a misprized mood.

00:58:03I am not guilty of Lysander's blood.

00:58:05Nor is he dead, for aught that I can tell.

00:58:07I pray thee, tell me then that he is well.

00:58:09And if I could, what should I get therefore?

00:58:11A privilege never to see me more.

00:58:13And from thy hated presence part I so,

00:58:15see me no more, whether he be dead or no.

00:58:24There is no following her in this fierce vein.

00:58:28Here therefore for a while I will remain.

00:58:39What hast thou done?

00:58:41Thou hast mistaken quite,

00:58:43and laid the love-juice on some true love's sight.

00:58:46About the wood go, swifter than the wind,

00:58:49and Helena of Athens look thou find.

00:58:52All fancy sick she is, and pale of cheer,

00:58:55with sighs of love that costs the fresh blood dear.

00:58:59By some illusion see thou bring her here.

00:59:03I'll charm his eyes against she do appear.

00:59:06I go, I go. Look how I go.

00:59:08I go, look how I go.

00:59:10Swifter than arrow from the tartar's bow.

00:59:13Flower of this purple dye,

00:59:16hit with Cupid's archery,

00:59:18sink in apple of his eye.

00:59:21When his love he doth espy,

00:59:23let her shine as gloriously as the Venus of the sky.

00:59:29When thou wakest, if she be by,

00:59:31beg of her for remedy.

00:59:35Captain of our fairy band, Helena, is here at hand,

00:59:37and the youth mistook by me,

00:59:39pleading for a lover's fee.

00:59:41Shall we therefore pageant see?

00:59:43Lord, what fools these mortals be!

00:59:47Stand aside.

00:59:48The noise they make will cause Demetrius to awake.

00:59:50Then will two at once woo one.

00:59:52That must needs be sport alone.

00:59:53And those things do best please me

00:59:55that befall preposterously.

00:59:58Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?

01:00:01Scorn and derision never come in tears.

01:00:04Look, when I vow, I weep.

01:00:06And vows so born in their nativity,

01:00:08all truth appears.

01:00:10How can these things in me seem scorn to you,

01:00:12bearing the badge of faith to prove them true?

01:00:15You do advance your cunning more and more

01:00:19when truth kills truth.

01:00:22You do advance your cunning more and more

01:00:26when truth kills truth.

01:00:28O devilish holy fray!

01:00:31These vows are Hermia's.

01:00:33Will you give them o'er?

01:00:34Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh.

01:00:37Your vows to her and me put in two scales

01:00:39will even weigh, and both as light as tales.

01:00:41I had no judgment when to her I swore.

01:00:43Nor none in my mind. Now you give her o'er.

01:00:45Demetrius loves her, and he loves not you.

01:00:48O Helen, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine,

01:00:53to what my love shall I compare thine?

01:01:00Crystal is muddy.

01:01:02O, how ripe in show thy lips

01:01:04those kissing cherries tempting grow.

01:01:07When thou holst up thy hand,

01:01:09O, let me kiss this princess of pure white,

01:01:13this seal of bliss.

01:01:19O, spite, O, hell!

01:01:23I see you all are bent to set against me

01:01:26for your merriment.

01:01:28If you were men, as men you are in show,

01:01:31you would not use a gentle lady so

01:01:34to vow and swear and superpraise my parts

01:01:38when I am sure you hate me with your hearts.

01:01:41You both are rivals and love Hermia,

01:01:44and now both write to her,

01:01:47and now both rivals to mock Helena,

01:01:49a trim exploit, a manly enterprise,

01:01:52to conjure tears up in a poor maid's eyes

01:01:54with your derision.

01:01:56None of noble sort would so offend a virgin

01:01:59and extort a poor soul's patience

01:02:01all to make you sport.

01:02:03You are unkind, Demetrius. Be not so.

01:02:05For you love Hermia. This you know I know.

01:02:08And here, with all goodwill, with all my heart,

01:02:10in Hermia's love I yield you up my part,

01:02:12and yours of Helena to me bequeath,

01:02:14whom I do love and will do to my death.

01:02:16Never did mockers waste more idle breath.

01:02:18Lysander, keep thy Hermia. I will none.

01:02:20If ere I loved her, all that love is gone,

01:02:22my heart to her, but as guestwise sojourned.

01:02:26And now to Helena is it home returned,

01:02:28there to remain.

01:02:30Helena, it is not so.

01:02:31Disparage not the faith thou dost not know,

01:02:33lest to thy peril thou abide it dear.

01:02:36Look where thy love comes. Yonder is thy dear.

01:02:41Doubt not that from the eye his function takes,

01:02:44the ear more quick of apprehension makes.

01:02:46Thou art not by mine eye, Lysander, found.

01:02:48Mine ear, I thank it, brought me to thy sound.

01:02:51But why unkindly didst thou leave me so?

01:02:55Why should he stay whom love doth press to go?

01:02:58What love could press Lysander from my side?

01:03:01Lysander's love, that would not let him bide.

01:03:04Fair Helena, who more enguilds the night

01:03:07than all yon fiery oes and eyes of light,

01:03:10why seek'st thou me? Could not this make thee know

01:03:12the hate I bear thee made me leave thee so?

01:03:14You speak not as you think. It cannot be.

01:03:17No, she is one of this confederacy.

01:03:21Now I perceive they have conjoined all three

01:03:25to fashion this false sport in spite of me.

01:03:28Incurious Hermia, most ungrateful maid,

01:03:33have you conspired, have you with these

01:03:36contrived to bait me with this foul derision?

01:03:40Is all the counsel that we two have shared,

01:03:43the sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent

01:03:45when we have chid the hasty-footed time for parting us,

01:03:48oh, is't all forgot?

01:03:52All school days' friendship, childhood innocence.

01:03:57We, Hermia, like two artificial gods,

01:04:00have with our needles created both one flower,

01:04:04both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion,

01:04:06both warbling of one song, both in one key,

01:04:11as if our hands, our sides, voices and minds

01:04:14had been incorporated.

01:04:16So we grew together,

01:04:18like two double cherries seeming parted,

01:04:20but yet in union, in partition,

01:04:22two lovely berries moulded on one stem,

01:04:26so with two seeming bodies but one heart,

01:04:29two of the first, like coats in heraldry,

01:04:32due but to one and crowned with one crest.

01:04:37And will you rent our ancient love asunder

01:04:40to join with men in scorning your poor friend?

01:04:44Tis not friendly, tis not maidenly.

01:04:46Our sex, as well as I, may chide you for it,

01:04:49though I alone do feel the injury.

01:04:51I am amazed at your passionate words.

01:04:54I scorn you not. It seems that you scorn me.

01:04:58Have you not said Lysander, as in scorn,

01:05:01to follow me and praise my eyes and face

01:05:03and made your other love Demetrius,

01:05:05who even but now did spurn me with his foot,

01:05:07to call me goddess, nymph, divine and rare,

01:05:10precious, celestial?

01:05:15What though I be not so in grace as you,

01:05:18so hung upon with love, so fortunate,

01:05:22but miserable most to love unloved?

01:05:25This you should pity rather than despise.

01:05:28I understand not what you mean by this.

01:05:30I do, persever.

01:05:33Counterfeit sad looks make mouths upon me

01:05:36when I turn my back, wink at each other,

01:05:38hold a sweet jest up.

01:05:40This sport well carried shall be chronicled.

01:05:44If you have any pity, grace or manners,

01:05:46you would not make me such an argument.

01:05:49But fare you well.

01:05:51It is partly mine own fault,

01:05:54which death or absence soon shall remedy.

01:05:59Stay gentle, Helen, and hear my excuse.

01:06:01My love, my life, my soul, fair Helen must...

01:06:03No, excellent.

01:06:04Sweet, do not scorn her so.

01:06:06Helen, I love thee by my life I do.

01:06:09I swear by that which I will lose for thee

01:06:11to prove him false that says I love thee not.

01:06:13I say I love thee more than he can do.

01:06:15If thou say so, withdraw and prove it too.

01:06:17Quick, come.

01:06:18Lysander!

01:06:19Quick, come.

01:06:20Lysander, where to tends all this?

01:06:22Away, you Ethiop.

01:06:25No, no, sir, seem to break loose.

01:06:27Take on as you would follow, but yet come not.

01:06:29You are a tame man, go.

01:06:31Hang off, thou cat, thou burr, vile thing.

01:06:33Let loose, or I will shake thee from me like a serpent.

01:06:36Why, you groan so rude.

01:06:38What change is this sweet love?

01:06:42Thy love,

01:06:44out, horny tart, out,

01:06:46out, loathed meds, no hated potion, hence.

01:06:50Do you not jest?

01:06:51Yes, sooth, and so do you.

01:06:53Demetrius, I will keep my word with thee.

01:06:55Why, would I add your bond,

01:06:56for I perceive a weak bond holds you.

01:06:58I'll not trust your word.

01:06:59What?

01:07:00Should I hurt her, strike her, kill her dead?

01:07:03Although I hate her, I'll not harm her so.

01:07:06What can you do me greater harm than hate?

01:07:10Hate me?

01:07:11Wherefore?

01:07:14O me, what news, my lover?

01:07:16I'm not I, Hermia, are not you Lysander?

01:07:20I am as fair now as I was ere while.

01:07:24Since night you loved me.

01:07:28But since night you left me.

01:07:30Why, then you left me,

01:07:31O the gods forbid, in earnest, shall I say?

01:07:34Ay, by my life,

01:07:36and never did desire to see thee more.

01:07:39Therefore be out of hope, of question, or doubt.

01:07:42Tis certain nothing true.

01:07:43It is no jest that I do hate thee and love Helena.

01:07:52O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom,

01:07:56you thief of love.

01:07:58What, have you come by night

01:07:59and stolen my love's heart from him?

01:08:01Fine, if faith.

01:08:03Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,

01:08:06no touch of bashfulness?

01:08:08What, will you tear impatient answers from my gentle tongue?

01:08:12Fie, fie, you counterfeit, you puppet, you.

01:08:16Puppet?

01:08:18Why, so I, that way goes the game.

01:08:21Now I perceive that she hath made compare

01:08:23between our statures.

01:08:25She hath urged her height,

01:08:27and with her personage, her tall personage,

01:08:30her height, forsooth, she hath prevailed with him.

01:08:33And are you grown so high in his esteem

01:08:35because I am so dwarfish and so low?

01:08:38How low am I?

01:08:39Thou painted meeple, speak.

01:08:42How low am I?

01:08:44I am not yet so low,

01:08:45but that my nails can reach unto thine eyes.

01:08:48Ah!

01:08:49I pray you, though you mock me, gentlemen,

01:08:51let her not hurt me.

01:08:52I was never cursed.

01:08:53I have no gift at all in shrewishness.

01:08:55I'm a right maid for my cowardice.

01:08:57Let her not strike me.

01:08:59You perhaps may think

01:09:00because she's something lower than myself

01:09:02that I can match her.

01:09:03Lower?

01:09:04Hark, again!

01:09:05Ah!

01:09:06Good Hermia,

01:09:09do not be so bitter with me.

01:09:12I evermore did love you, Hermia,

01:09:14did ever keep your counsels,

01:09:15never wronged you,

01:09:17save that in love unto Demetrius

01:09:19I told him of your stealth unto this wood.

01:09:22He followed you, for love I followed you,

01:09:25but he hath chidden me hence

01:09:26and threatened me to spurn me,

01:09:28strike me, nay, to kill me too.

01:09:31And now, so you will let me quiet go,

01:09:34to Athens will I bear my folly back

01:09:36and follow you no further.

01:09:39Let me go.

01:09:41You see how simple and how fond I am.

01:09:45Why get you gone?

01:09:47Who is't that hinders you?

01:09:51Why get you gone?

01:09:52Who is't that hinders you?

01:09:55A foolish heart that I leave here behind.

01:09:57What, with Lysander?

01:09:59With Demetrius.

01:10:02Be not afraid, she shall not harm thee, Helena.

01:10:04No, sir, she shall not, though you take her part.

01:10:06Oh, when she's angry she's keen and shrewd.

01:10:09She was a vixen when she went to school,

01:10:11and though she be but little,

01:10:13she's fierce.

01:10:14Little again!

01:10:15Nothing but low and little.

01:10:17Why will you suffer her to flout me thus?

01:10:20Let me come to her.

01:10:22Get you gone, you dwarf.

01:10:25You minimus of hindering, not grass made,

01:10:28you bead, you acorn.

01:10:33You are too officious in her behalf

01:10:34that scorns your services.

01:10:35Let her alone.

01:10:36Speak not of Helena.

01:10:37Take not her part.

01:10:39For if thou dost intend never so little show of love to her,

01:10:41thou shalt abide.

01:10:43Now she holds me not.

01:10:44Now follow if thou darest

01:10:46to try whose right of thine or mine is most in Helena.

01:10:49Follow? Nay, I'll go with thee, cheek by jowl.

01:11:09You mistress, all this coil is long of you.

01:11:14Nay, go not back.

01:11:16I will not trust you, I.

01:11:18No longer stay in your cursed company.

01:11:20Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray.

01:11:23My legs are longer, though, to run away.

01:11:30I am amazed and know not what to say.

01:11:38This is thy negligence.

01:11:39Still thou mistakest,

01:11:40or else commits thy knaveries willfully.

01:11:42Believe me, king of shadows, I mistook.

01:11:44Did not you tell me I should know the man

01:11:45by the Athenian garments he had on?

01:11:47And so far blameless proves my enterprise

01:11:48that I have anointed an Athenian's eyes.

01:11:50And so far am I glad it so did sort.

01:11:52Is this there jangling? I esteem a sport.

01:11:56Thou seest these lovers seek a place to fight.

01:11:58Hie therefore, Robin, overcast the night.

01:12:00The starry well can cover thou anon

01:12:02with drooping fog as black as Acheron.

01:12:04And lead these testy rivals so astray

01:12:06as one come not within the other's way.

01:12:08Like to Lysander, sometime frame thy tongue.

01:12:10Then stir Demetrius up with bitter wrong.

01:12:12And sometime reel thou like Demetrius,

01:12:14and from each other look thou lead them thus,

01:12:16till all their brows, death counterfeiting sleep,

01:12:19with leaden legs and batty wings doth creep.

01:12:22Then crush this herb into Lysander's eye,

01:12:26whose liquor hath this virtuous property

01:12:28to take from thence all error with his might

01:12:30and make his eyeballs roll with wonted sight.

01:12:33When they next wake,

01:12:35all this derision shall seem a dream and fruitless vision.

01:12:39And back to Athens shall the lovers wend

01:12:41with league whose date till death shall never end.

01:12:45Whilst I in this affair to thee employ,

01:12:48I'll to my queen and beg her Indian boy.

01:12:53And then I will her charmed eye release from monster's view.

01:12:58And all things shall be peace.

01:13:06My fairy lord, this must be done with haste,

01:13:09for night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,

01:13:13and yonder shines Aurora's harbinger,

01:13:15at whose approach ghosts, wandering here and there,

01:13:18troop home to churchyards.

01:13:21Damned it spirits all that in crossways and floods have burial,

01:13:24or ready to their wormy beds are gone,

01:13:26for fearless day should look their shames upon.

01:13:29They will flee themselves exile from light,

01:13:33and must for I consort with black-browed night.

01:13:38But we are spirits of another sort.

01:13:41I with the morning's love have oft made sport,

01:13:44and like a forester the groves may tread,

01:13:46even till the eastern gate, all fiery red,

01:13:49opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams,

01:13:53turns into yellow gold his sought green streams.

01:13:59But notwithstanding, haste, make no delay.

01:14:02We may affect this business here to our day.

01:14:06Up and down, up and down, I will lead them up and down.

01:14:09I am feared in field and town.

01:14:11Goblin, lead them up and down.

01:14:13Here comes one.

01:14:21Where art thou, proud Demetrius? Speak thou now.

01:14:24Here, villain drawn and ready, where art thou?

01:14:27I will be with thee straight.

01:14:28Follow me, then, to plainer ground.

01:14:30Lysander, speak again, thou runaway, thou coward.

01:14:33Art thou fled? Speak, in some bush.

01:14:36Where dost thou hide thy head?

01:14:38Thou coward, art thou bragging to the stars,

01:14:40telling the bushes that thou look'st for wars and will not come?

01:14:43Come, recreant, come thou child.

01:14:45I'll whip thee with a rod.

01:14:47He is defiled that draws a sword on thee.

01:14:49Yea, art thou there.

01:14:50Follow my voice. We'll try no manhood here.

01:14:57He goes before me and still dares me on.

01:15:01When I come where he calls, then he is gone.

01:15:04The villain is much lighter heel than I.

01:15:06I followed fast, but faster he did fly.

01:15:10But fallen am I in dark, uneven way.

01:15:14And here will rest me.

01:15:16Come, thou gentle day,

01:15:18for if but once thou show me thy grey light,

01:15:21I'll find Demetrius and revenge this spite.

01:15:28Ho, ho, ho, coward, why comes thou not?

01:15:31Abide me, if thou darest, for well I what.

01:15:33Thou run'st before me, shifting every place,

01:15:35and darest not stand nor look me in the face.

01:15:38Where art thou now?

01:15:40Come hither, I am here.

01:15:42Nay, then thou mock'st me.

01:15:44Thou shalt buy this deer, if ever I thy face by daylight see.

01:15:48Now go thy way.

01:15:52Faintness constraineth me to measure out my length on thee.

01:15:55Faintness constraineth me to measure out my length on this cold bed.

01:16:00By day's approach, look to be visited.

01:16:08O weary night!

01:16:10O long and tedious night!

01:16:13Abate thy hours.

01:16:15Shine, comforts from the east,

01:16:17that I may back to Athens by daylight

01:16:20from these that my poor company detest.

01:16:26And sleep,

01:16:28that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eyes,

01:16:31steal me a while from mine own company.

01:16:42Yet but three, come one more.

01:16:44Two of both kinds makes up four.

01:16:50Here she comes, cursed and sad.

01:16:52Here she comes, cursed and sad.

01:16:54Cupid is a knavish lad, thus to make poor females mad.

01:16:59Never so weary, never so in woe.

01:17:02Bedabbled with the dew and torn with friars.

01:17:06I can no further crawl, no further go.

01:17:08My legs will keep no pace with my desires.

01:17:15Here will I rest me till the break of day.

01:17:19Heavens, shield Lysander if they mean a fray.

01:17:33On the ground, sleep sound.

01:17:37I'll apply to your eye, gentle lover, remedy.

01:17:42When thou wakes, thou takes true delight

01:17:45in the sight of thy former lady's eye.

01:17:48And the country proverb known,

01:17:49that every man should take his own,

01:17:51in your waking shall be shown.

01:17:54Jack shall have Jill, naught shall go ill.

01:17:57The man shall have his mare again,

01:18:00and all shall be well.

01:18:12Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed.

01:18:18While I thy amiable cheeks do coy.

01:18:22And stick musk roses in thy sleek, smooth head.

01:18:27And kiss thy fair, large ears.

01:18:32My gentle joy.

01:18:36Where's these blossoms?

01:18:38Beddy!

01:18:39Scratch my head, these blossom.

01:18:44Where's Mounseur Cobweb?

01:18:46Beddy.

01:18:47Mounseur Cobweb, good Mounseur,

01:18:49get you your weapons in your hand

01:18:51and kill me a red-hipped humble bee

01:18:53on the top of a thistle.

01:18:55And good Mounseur, bring me the honey bag.

01:18:59Do not fret yourself too much of the action, Mounseur.

01:19:02And good Mounseur, have a care the honey bag break not.

01:19:07I would be loath to have you overflown

01:19:09with a honey bag, senior.

01:19:15Where's Mounseur Mustardseed?

01:19:17Beddy.

01:19:18Give me your knife, Mounseur Mustardseed.

01:19:20Oh, pray you, leave your curtsy, good Mounseur.

01:19:23What's your will?

01:19:24Nothing, Mounseur, but to help Cavalier Cobweb to scratch.

01:19:29I must to the barber's, Mounseur,

01:19:31for me thinks I am marvellous hairy about the face.

01:19:35And I am such a tender ass

01:19:37that if my hair do but tickle me, I must scratch.

01:19:47What will thou hear some music, my sweet love?

01:19:50I have a reasonable good ear in music.

01:19:52Let's have the tongs and the bones.

01:19:55Oh, say, sweet love, what thou desires to eat?

01:19:58Truly a peck of provender.

01:20:00I could munch your good dry oats.

01:20:03Me thinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay.

01:20:07Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fallow.

01:20:11I have a venturesome fanny

01:20:12that shall seek to squiggle's hoard and fetch thee new nuts.

01:20:15I had rather have a handful or two of dry peas.

01:20:19But I pray you, let none of your people stir me.

01:20:23I have an exposition of sleep come upon me.

01:20:34Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms.

01:20:40So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle gently entwist.

01:20:46The female ivy so enrings the barky fingers of the elm.

01:20:53Oh, how I love thee!

01:20:57How I dote on thee!

01:21:01How I dote on thee!

01:21:09Welcome, good robin.

01:21:11Seest thou this sweet sight?

01:21:15Her dotage now I do begin to pity.

01:21:18For meeting her of late behind the wood,

01:21:20seeking sweet favours for this hateful fool,

01:21:24I did upbraid her and fall out with her.

01:21:26For she his hairy temples then had rounded

01:21:29with coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers.

01:21:33And that same dew, which sometime on the buds

01:21:35was wont to swell like round and orient pearls,

01:21:39stood now within the pretty flower its eyes

01:21:42like tears that did their own disgrace bewail.

01:21:47When I had at my pleasure taunted her,

01:21:49and she in mild terms begged my patience,

01:21:52I then did ask of her, her changeling child,

01:21:56which straight she gave me,

01:21:58and her fairy scent to bear him to my bower in fairy land.

01:22:06And now I have the boy, I will undo

01:22:08this hateful imperfection of her eyes.

01:22:10And, gentle Puck, take this transformed scalp

01:22:12from off the head of this Athenian swain,

01:22:15that he, awaking when the other do,

01:22:17may all to Athens back again repair,

01:22:19and think no more of this night's accidents,

01:22:22but as the fierce vexation of a dream.

01:22:26But first I will release the fairy queen.

01:22:32Be as thou wast wont to be.

01:22:34See as thou wast wont to see.

01:22:37Diane's bud or Cupid's flower

01:22:39had such force and blessed power.

01:22:41Now, my Titania, wake you, my sweet queen.

01:22:47My Oberon, what visions have I seen?

01:22:55Methought I was enamoured of an ass.

01:23:00There lies your love.

01:23:02How came these things to pass?

01:23:04O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now.

01:23:07Silence a while.

01:23:08Robin, take off this head.

01:23:13Titania.

01:23:15Titania, music call,

01:23:18and strike more dead than common sleep

01:23:21of all these five the sense.

01:23:27Music, O, music, such as charmeth sleep.

01:23:31Now, when thou wakest, with thine own fool's eyes peep.

01:23:37Sound music.

01:23:40Come, my queen, take hands with me

01:23:44and rock the ground whereon these sleepers be.

01:24:09Sound music.

01:24:39Sound music.

01:24:56Now thou and I are new in Amity,

01:24:59and will tomorrow midnight solemnly

01:25:02dance in Jucticia's house triumphantly

01:25:06and bless it to all fair posterity.

01:25:10There shall the pairs of faithful lovers be

01:25:13wedded with Theseus all in jollity.

01:25:16Fairy king, attendant mark, I do hear the morning lark.

01:25:19Then, my queen, in silent sad,

01:25:21strip we out of the night's shade.

01:25:22We, the globe, can compass soon,

01:25:23swifter than the wandering moon.

01:25:25Come, my lord, and in our flight

01:25:26tell me how it came this night

01:25:27that I sleeping here was found

01:25:28with these mortals on the ground.

01:25:37Go, one of you, find out the forester,

01:25:39when our observation is performed.

01:25:41And since we have the veyward of the day,

01:25:44my love shall hear the music of my hounds.

01:25:47Uncouple in the western valley, let them go.

01:25:50Dispatch, I say, and find the forester.

01:25:52We will fare queen up to the mountain's top

01:25:55and mark the musical confusion

01:25:56of hounds and echo in conjunction.

01:25:59I was with Hercules and Cadmus once

01:26:02when in a wood of Crete

01:26:03we bade the bear with hounds of Sparta.

01:26:06Never did I hear such gallant chiding,

01:26:09for besides the groves, the skies, the fountains,

01:26:12every region near seemed all one mutual cry.

01:26:16I never heard so musical a discord,

01:26:19such sweet thunder.

01:26:21My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind,

01:26:24so flued, so sanded,

01:26:26and their heads are hung with ears

01:26:28that sweep away the morning dew.

01:26:30Crook-kneed and dew-lap

01:26:32like Thessalian bulls, slow in pursuit,

01:26:36but matched in mouth like bells, each under each.

01:26:40A cry more tunable was never hollered to

01:26:42nor cheered with horn in Crete, in Sparta,

01:26:45nor in Thessaly.

01:26:47Judge when you hear.

01:26:51But soft!

01:26:53What lymphs are these?

01:26:57My lord, this is my daughter here asleep.

01:27:01And this Lysander, this Demetrius is,

01:27:05this Helena, Oedonidas Helena.

01:27:09I wonder of their being here together.

01:27:13No doubt they rose up early to observe the rite of May,

01:27:17and hearing our intent,

01:27:18came here in grace of our solemnity.

01:27:21But speak, Aegeus, is not this the day

01:27:23that Hermia should give answer of her choice?

01:27:25It is, my lord.

01:27:27Go, bid the huntsman wake them with their horns.

01:27:51Good morrow, friends.

01:27:53St. Valentine is past.

01:27:56Begin these woodbirds but to couple now.

01:27:59Pardon, my lord.

01:28:00I pray you all stand up.

01:28:02I know you two are rival enemies.

01:28:05How comes this gentle concord in the world

01:28:08that hatred is so far from jealousy

01:28:10to sleep by hate and fear no enmity?

01:28:14My lord, I shall reply amazedly.

01:28:17Half sleep, half waking,

01:28:19but as yet I swear I cannot truly sleep.

01:28:22Half sleep, half waking,

01:28:23but as yet I swear I cannot truly say how I came here.

01:28:27But as I think, for truly would I speak,

01:28:31and now I do bethink me so it is,

01:28:33I came with Hermia hither.

01:28:35Our intent was to be gone from Athens

01:28:37where we might without the peril of the Athenian law.

01:28:40Enough, enough, my lord, you have enough.

01:28:42I beg the law, the law upon his head.

01:28:45They would have stolen away, they would, Demetrius,

01:28:47thereby to have defeated you and me.

01:28:49But my good lord, I what not by what power,

01:28:51but by some power it is.

01:28:53My love to Hermia, melted as the snow,

01:28:56seems to me now as the remembrance of an idle gourd,

01:29:00which in my childhood I did dote upon.

01:29:03And all the faith, the virtue of my heart,

01:29:06the object and the pleasure of mine eye

01:29:08is only Helena.

01:29:10To her, my lord, was I betrothed ere I saw Hermia.

01:29:14But like a sickness did I loathe this food,

01:29:17but as in health come to my natural taste,

01:29:20now I do wish it, love it,

01:29:24long for it,

01:29:27and will forevermore be true to it.

01:29:30Fair lovers, you are fortunately met.

01:29:32Of this discourse we more will hear anon.

01:29:35Egeus, I will overbear your will,

01:29:38for in the temple by and by with us

01:29:40these couples shall eternally be knit.

01:29:46And for the morning now is something worn,

01:29:48our purposed hunting shall be set aside.

01:29:51Away with us to Athens, three and three,

01:29:54that hold a feast in great solemnity.

01:29:57Down, Hippolyta.

01:30:05These things seem small and undistinguishable,

01:30:07like far-off mountains turned into clouds.

01:30:09Methinks I see these things with parted eye,

01:30:12where everything seems double.

01:30:14So methinks.

01:30:17And I have found Demetrius like a jewel,

01:30:20mine own and not mine own.

01:30:23Are you sure that we are awake?

01:30:25It seems that yet we sleep, we dream.

01:30:27Do not you think the Duke was here and bid us follow him?

01:30:29Yea, and my father.

01:30:30And Hippolyta.

01:30:31And he did bid us follow to the temple.

01:30:33Why, then, we are awake.

01:30:35Let's follow him.

01:30:37And by the way, let us recount our dreams.

01:30:41When my cue comes, call me and I will answer.

01:30:47My next is most fair Pyramus.

01:31:03Ayo?

01:31:06Peter Quince?

01:31:09Peter Quince?

01:31:13Flirt the ballast man, Dyer!

01:31:17Start the tanker!

01:31:23Storm the land!

01:31:29What's my life?

01:31:31Stolen hence and left me asleep.

01:31:35I have had a most rare vision.

01:31:39I have had a dream.

01:31:41Passed the wit of man to say what dream it was.

01:31:45Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.

01:31:51Methought I was...

01:31:55There is no man can tell what.

01:31:59Methought I was...

01:32:02I was...

01:32:05And methought I had...

01:32:13But man is but a patch fool if he love to say what methought I had.

01:32:17The eye of man hath not heard.

01:32:19The ear of man hath not seen.

01:32:21Man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive,

01:32:24nor his heart to report what my dream was.

01:32:28I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream.

01:32:31It shall be called Bottom's Dream because it hath no bottom.

01:32:35And I will sing it in the latter end of a play before the Duke.

01:32:39Peradventure to make it the more gracious.

01:32:42I will sing it at her death.

01:32:55Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of.

01:32:59More strange than true.

01:33:02I never may believe these antique fables, nor these fairy toys.

01:33:07Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies,

01:33:12that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.

01:33:17The lunatic, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact.

01:33:24One sees more devils than vast hell can hold.

01:33:27That is the madman.

01:33:29The lover, all as frantic, sees Helen's beauty in a bra of Egypt.

01:33:35The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy of rolling,

01:33:39doth glance from earth to heaven.

01:33:43And as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown,

01:33:48the poet's pen turns into shapes

01:33:51and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name.

01:33:58Such tricks hath strong imagination,

01:34:01that if it would but apprehend some joy,

01:34:03it comprehends some bringer of that joy.

01:34:07Or in the night, imagining some fear,

01:34:10how easy is a bush supposed to bear.

01:34:14But all the story of the night told over,

01:34:17and all their minds transfigured so together,

01:34:20more witnesseth than fancies images,

01:34:23and grows to something of great constancy.

01:34:27But howsoever strange and admirable.

01:34:39Have you sent to Bottom's house? Is he come home yet?

01:34:42He cannot be heard of.

01:34:45Out of doubt he is transported.

01:34:50If he come not, then the play is marred.

01:34:53It goes not forward, does it?

01:34:55It is not possible.

01:34:57You have not a man in all Athens able to discharge Pyramus, but he?

01:35:02No, he hath simply the best wit of any handicraft man in Athens.

01:35:05Yea, and the best person too.

01:35:08And he's a very paramour for a sweet voice.

01:35:11You must say paragon.

01:35:13A paramour is, God bless us, a thing of naught.

01:35:21Masters, the Duke is coming from the temple.

01:35:24And there is two or three lords and ladies more married.

01:35:28If our sport had gone forward, we had all been made men.

01:35:37Oh, sweet bully Bottom.

01:35:42Thus hath he lost sixpence a day during his life.

01:35:47He could not escape sixpence a day.

01:35:51And the Duke had not given him sixpence a day for playing Pyramus, I'll be hanged.

01:35:58He would have deserved it, sixpence a day in Pyramus or nothing.

01:36:05Where are these lads? Where are these hordes?

01:36:09Bottom, Bottom, Bottom.

01:36:15O most courageous day, o most happy hour.

01:36:18Masters, haunted is, of course, wonders.

01:36:21But ask me not what, for if I tell you, I'm no true Athenian.

01:36:25I'll tell you everything, right as it fell out.

01:36:27Let us hear, sweet Bottom.

01:36:33Not a word of me.

01:36:34All I will tell you is that the Duke hath dined.

01:36:37Get your apparel together, good strings to your beards, new ribbons to your pumps.

01:36:40Meet presently at the palace, every man look for his part.

01:36:43For the short and the long is, our play is preferred.

01:36:46In any case, let Thesby have clean linen.

01:36:49And let not him that plays the lion pair his nails, for they shall hang out for the lion's claws.

01:36:54And most dear actors.

01:36:56Eat no onions nor garlic, for we do utter sweet breath.

01:37:00And I do not doubt but hear him say it is a sweet comedy.

01:37:03No more words, away, go away.

01:37:09Come now, what masks, what dances shall we have to wear away this long age of three hours

01:37:14between our after supper and bedtime?

01:37:17Where is our usual manager of mirth?

01:37:19What revels are in hand?

01:37:21Is there no play to ease the anguish of a torturing hour?

01:37:25Call Philostrate.

01:37:27Here, my Theseus.

01:37:29Say, what abridgment have you for this evening?

01:37:31There is a brief how many sports are ripe.

01:37:34Make choice of which your Highness will see first.

01:37:37The battle with the centaurs, to be sung by an Athenian eunuch to the harp.

01:37:42Well, none of that.

01:37:43That have I told, my love, in glory of my kinsman, Hercules.

01:37:48A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus and his love, Thisbe.

01:37:52Very tragical mirth.

01:37:53Merry and tragical, tedious and brief.

01:37:55That is, hot ice and wondrous strange snow.

01:37:58How shall we find the concord of this discord?

01:38:01A play there is, my lord, some ten words long, which is as brief as I have known a play.

01:38:06But by ten words, my lord, it is too long, which makes it tedious.

01:38:10For in all the play there is not one word apt, one player fitted.

01:38:14What are they that do play it?

01:38:16Hard-handed men that work in Athens here, which never laboured in their minds till now,

01:38:21and now have toiled their unbreathed memories with this same play against your nuptial.

01:38:27And we will hear it?

01:38:28No, my noble lord.

01:38:30I love not to see wretchedness or charged and duty in his service perishing.

01:38:34Why, gentle sweet, you shall see no such thing.

01:38:37Whenever anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

01:38:41Go bring them in, and take your places, ladies.

01:38:50So please your grace, the prologue is addressed.

01:38:53Let him approach.

01:39:07Shoo!

01:39:12Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show.

01:39:16But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

01:39:20This man is pitimous, if you would know.

01:39:23This beauteous lady, Thisby, is certain.

01:39:29This man, with lime and roughcast, doth present war.

01:39:36That foiled war which did these lovers squander,

01:39:40and through war's chink, poor souls, they are content to whisper,

01:39:46at the which let no man wonder.

01:39:51This man, with lantern, dog, and bush of thorns, presenteth moonshine.

01:39:58For if you will know, by moonshine did these lovers think no scorn

01:40:03to meet at Niner's tomb, there, there to woo.

01:40:09This grisly beast, which lion-hide by name,

01:40:14that trusty Thisby coming first by night, did scare away, or rather did affright.

01:40:19And as she fled, her mantle she did fall,

01:40:22which lion-foil with bloody mouth did stain.

01:40:28And on comes Pitimous, sweet youth and tall,

01:40:32and finds his trusty Thisby's mantle slain.

01:40:36Whereat with blade, with bloody blameful blade,

01:40:41he bravely broached his boiling bloody breast.

01:40:46And Thisby, tarrying in mulberry's shade,

01:40:51is dagger'd through and died.

01:40:56For all the rest, let lion, moonshine, wall, and lovers twain,

01:41:00at lodge discourse, while here they do remain.

01:41:16I wonder if the lion bid us speak.

01:41:19No wonder, my lord, one lion may, when many asses do.

01:41:36In this same interlude, it does appear

01:41:41In this same interlude, it doth befall

01:41:46that I, one snout by name, present a wall.

01:42:02And such a wall as I would have you think

01:42:07that had in it a crannied hole or chink

01:42:14through which the lovers Pyramus and Thisby

01:42:20did whisper often, very secretly.

01:42:29This loam, this rough cast, and this stone doth show

01:42:36that I am that same wall, the truth is so.

01:42:45And this the cranny is,

01:42:50right and sinister,

01:42:58through which the fearful lovers are to whisper.

01:43:03Would you desire lime and hair to speak better?

01:43:05It is the wittiest partition that ever I heard discourse, my lord.

01:43:08Pyramus draws near the wall. Silence.

01:43:11O grimlock night! O night with hue so black!

01:43:16O night which ever art when day is not!

01:43:20O night! O night!

01:43:23Alack! Alack! Alack!

01:43:27I fear my Thisby's promise is forgot.

01:43:31And though, O wall, O sweet, O lovely wall

01:43:37that stands between her father's groan and mine,

01:43:42though wall, O wall, O sweet and lovely wall

01:43:49show me thy chink to blink through with mine eye.

01:44:02Thanks, courteous wall.

01:44:05Jove shield thee well for this.

01:44:09But what see I? No Thisby do I see.

01:44:14O wicked wall, through whom I see no bliss,

01:44:19cursed be thy stones for thus deceiving me.

01:44:23The wall, methinks, being sensible, should curse again.

01:44:26No, in truth, sir, he should not.

01:44:28Deceiving me is Thisby's cue.

01:44:31She's to enter now, and I'm to spire through the wall.

01:44:34You shall see it will all fall flat as I told you.

01:44:38Yonder she comes.

01:44:41O wall, how often hast thou heard my moans for parting my fair Pyramus and me.

01:44:48My cherry lips have often kissed thy stones,

01:44:51thy stones with hair and line knit up in thee.

01:44:54I see a voice.

01:44:57O, will I to the chink, to spire, and I can hear my Thisby's face.

01:45:02Thisby!

01:45:04My love! Thou art my love, I think.

01:45:07Think what thou wilt. I am thy lover's grace,

01:45:10and like thy mander am I trusty still.

01:45:13And I like Helen till the fates me kill.

01:45:15Not Shuffler's to Procrus was so true.

01:45:18As Shuffler's to Procrus, I to you.

01:45:20O, kiss me through the whole of this vile wall.

01:45:28I kiss the wall's hole, not your lips at all.

01:45:38Wilt thou at Ninny's tomb meet me straightway?

01:45:41Thy life, thy death, I come without delay.

01:45:45Thus have I, wall, my part discharged so,

01:45:50and being done, thus wall away doth go.

01:46:00Now is the mural down between the two of you?

01:46:03No, it is not.

01:46:05It is not.

01:46:07It is not.

01:46:09It is not.

01:46:12Now is the mural down between the two neighbours?

01:46:14No remedy, my lord, when walls are so willful to hear without warning.

01:46:18This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard.

01:46:22The best in this kind are but shadows,

01:46:25and the worst are no worse if imagination amend them.

01:46:28It must be your imagination, then, and not theirs.

01:46:32If we imagine no worse of them than they of themselves,

01:46:36they may pass for excellent men.

01:46:39Here come two noble beasts in, a man and a lion.

01:46:46You ladies, you,

01:46:49whose gentle hearts do fear

01:46:53the smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor,

01:46:57may now perchance both quake and tremble here

01:47:02when lion rough in wildest rage doth roar.

01:47:10Then know that I as snug the joiner am,

01:47:14a lion fell, nor else no lion's dam.

01:47:17For if I should as lion come in strife into this place,

01:47:20to a pity on my life.

01:47:22A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience.

01:47:25The very best of the beasts, my lord, that e'er I saw.

01:47:28Let us hearken to the moon.

01:47:32This lamp wound up the horned moon presents.

01:47:35He should have worn the horns on his head.

01:47:40This lamp wound up the horned moon presents.

01:47:43Myself, the man in the moon, do seem to be.

01:47:45This is the greatest error of all the rest.

01:47:47The man should be put into the lantern.

01:47:49How is it else the man in the moon?

01:47:50He dares not come there for the candle,

01:47:52for you see it is already in snuff.

01:47:57I'm a weary of this moon. Would he would change.

01:48:00It appears by his small light of discretion that he is in the wane.

01:48:04But yet in courtesy, in all reason, he must stay the time.

01:48:07Proceed, moon.

01:48:09Well, all that I have to say is to tell you that the lantern is the moon,

01:48:13I, the man in the moon, this thornbush my thornbush,

01:48:16and this dog my dog.

01:48:19But silence. Here comes Thisbe.

01:48:22This is old Ninny's tomb.

01:48:27Where is my love?

01:48:37Oh!

01:48:38Oh!

01:48:39Oh!

01:48:40Oh!

01:48:41Oh!

01:48:42Oh!

01:48:43Oh!

01:48:49Well roared lion.

01:48:50Well run, Thisbe.

01:48:52Well shone moon.

01:48:53Truly the moon shines with a good grace.

01:48:55Well moused lion.

01:48:57And then came Pyramus.

01:49:00So the lion vanished.

01:49:02Sweet moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams.

01:49:07I thank thee, moon, for shining now so bright.

01:49:17For by thy gracious, golden, glittering gleams.

01:49:26I trust to take of truest Thisbe's sight.

01:49:30But stay.

01:49:32Oh, spite.

01:49:34But mark.

01:49:36Poor knight.

01:49:37What dreadful duel is here?

01:49:40Eyes, do you see?

01:49:42How can it be?

01:49:44Oh, dainty duck.

01:49:46Oh, dear.

01:49:48Her mantle good.

01:49:50What?

01:49:51Stained with blood.

01:49:53Approach, chief.

01:49:55Furies fell.

01:49:56All fates come, come.

01:49:58Cut, thread, and frum.

01:50:00Quell, crush, conclude, and growl.

01:50:07This passion and the death of a dear friend will go near to make a man look sad.

01:50:11Beshrew my heart, but I pity the man.

01:50:15Oh, wherefore nature didst thou lion's frame?

01:50:22Since lion vile hath here.

01:50:25Deflowered, my dear.

01:50:27Deflowered.

01:50:28Which is, no, no.

01:50:31Which was the fairest dame that lived, that loved, that liked, that looked with cheer.

01:50:39Come, tears, come, pound, out, sword.

01:50:45And wound the pap of Pyramus.

01:50:48Ay, that left pap, where heart doth hop.

01:50:52Thus die I. Thus, thus, thus.

01:51:02No, am I dead.

01:51:06No, am I fled.

01:51:08My soul is in the sky.

01:51:11Tongue, lose thy light.

01:51:14Moon, take thy flight.

01:51:19Soul, die.

01:51:23Die.

01:51:26Die.

01:51:31Die.

01:51:35Die.

01:51:50With the help of a surgeon, you might yet recover and prove a nurse.

01:51:56How chance Moonshine is gone before Thisbe comes back and finds her lover.

01:52:00She will find him by starlight.

01:52:02Here she comes, and her passion ends the play.

01:52:05I hope she will be brief.

01:52:07She hath spied him already with those sweet eyes.

01:52:12Asleep, my love?

01:52:15What, dead, my dove?

01:52:17O, Plymouth has arrived.

01:52:19Speak, speak.

01:52:21Quite dumb.

01:52:22Dead, dead.

01:52:23A tomb must cover thy sweet eyes.

01:52:27These lily lips, this cherry nose,

01:52:32These yellow cowsling cheeks,

01:52:36Are gone, are gone.

01:52:38Lovers, make moan.

01:52:41His eyes were green as leeks.

01:52:45O, sisters, grieve, come, come to me.

01:52:47With hands as pale as milk, lay them in gore,

01:52:50Since you have shore with Jersey's thread of silk.

01:52:54Tongue, not a word.

01:52:56Come, trusty sword.

01:52:58Come, blade, my breast imbrew.

01:53:08And farewell, friends, thus this be ends.

01:53:10Adieu, adieu, adieu.

01:53:19Moonshine and Lion are left to bed at the deck.

01:53:21Aye, and Wall, too.

01:53:23No, I assure you,

01:53:24the Wall is down that parted their fathers.

01:53:26Will it please you to see the epilogue

01:53:28or to hear a Bergamasque dance between two of our company?

01:53:31No epilogue, I pray you,

01:53:33for your play needs no excuse.

01:53:35Never excuse.

01:53:37For when the players are all dead,

01:53:39there needs none to be blamed.

01:53:40Mary, if he that writteth had played Pyramus

01:53:43and hanged himself in Thisby's garter,

01:53:44it would have been a fine tragedy.

01:53:47And so it is.

01:53:49Truly, and very notably discharged.

01:53:55But come, your Bergamasque.

01:53:57Let your epilogue alone.

01:54:19The end.

01:54:42The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.

01:54:47Lovers to bed.

01:54:48It is almost fairy time.

01:54:52I fear we shall out-sleep the coming morn as much as we this night have overwatched.

01:54:57This palpable gross play hath well beguiled the heavy gait of night.

01:55:02Sweet friends to bed.

01:55:05A fortnight hold we this solemnity in nightly revels and new jollity.

01:55:18Sweet friends to bed.

01:55:49Now the hungry lion roars, and the wolf behowls the moon,

01:55:54whilst the heavy ploughman snores, all with weary task for done.

01:55:59Now the wasted brands do glow, whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud,

01:56:04puts the wretch that lies in woe in remembrance of a shroud.

01:56:08Now the hungry lion roars, and the wolf behowls the moon,

01:56:13whilst the heavy ploughman snores, all with weary task for done.

01:56:19Now it is the time of night that the graves, all gaping wide,

01:56:23every one lets forth his sprite in the church-way paths to glide.

01:56:28And we fairies that do run by the triple-heckat's team

01:56:31from the presence of the sun following darkness like a dream,

01:56:34now are frolic.

01:56:37Not a mouse shall disturb this hallowed house.

01:56:43I am sent with broom before to sweep the dust behind the door.

01:56:49Up, up, up.

01:56:56Through the house give glimmering light by the dead and drowsy fire.

01:57:00Every elf and fairy sprite hop as light as bird from briar,

01:57:03and as ditty after me sing and dance it trippingly.

01:57:06First rehearse your song by rote, to each word a warbling note.

01:57:09Hand in hand, with fairy grace, will we sing and bless this place.

01:57:14Little man with melody, sing in a sweet lullaby.

01:57:28So goodnight, goodnight, goodnight with lullaby.

01:57:36Lullaby, lullaby, lullaby.

01:57:43Lullaby, lullaby, lullaby.

01:57:49Now until the break of day, through this house each fairy stray,

01:57:53to the best bride-bed will we, which by us shall blessed be.

01:57:57And the issue there create ever shall be fortunate.

01:58:00So shall all the couples three ever true in loving be.

01:58:03And the blots of nature's hand shall not in their issue stand.

01:58:07Never mole, hair-lip, nor scar, nor mark prodigious such as are despised in nativity,

01:58:11shall upon their children be.

01:58:14With this field you consecrate, every fairy take his gate,

01:58:21and each several chamber bless through this palace with sweet peace.

01:58:26And the owner of it blessed ever shall in safety rest.

01:58:31Trip away, make no stay, meet me all by break of day.

01:58:42If we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended.

01:58:46That you have but slumbered here whilst these visions did appear.

01:58:49And this weak and idle theme no more yielding but a dream.

01:58:52Gentles, do not reprehend. If you pardon, we will mend.

01:58:55And as I am an honest puck, if we have unearned luck now to scape the serpent's tongue,

01:58:59we will make amends ere long, else the puck a liar call.

01:59:02So goodnight, and to you all, give me your hands, if we have offended.

01:59:05And as I am an honest puck, if we have unearned luck now to scape the serpent's tongue,

01:59:08we will make amends ere long, else the puck a liar call.

01:59:11So goodnight, and to you all, give me your hands, if we be friends.

01:59:14And Robin shall restore amends.

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