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Title: Shakespeare's comedy of A midsummer-night's dream
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Robinson, W. Heath (William Heath), 1872-1944, ill
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Publisher: New York : H. Holt
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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to Athens back again repair,And think no more of this nights accidents,But as the fierce vexation of a dream.But first I will release the fairy queen.Be as thou wast wont to be ; (Touching her eyes with, an herb.See as thou wast wont to see :Dians bud oer Cupids flowerHath such force and blessed power.Now, my Titania ; wake you, my sweet queen.Titania. My Oberon ! what visions have I seen ! Methought I was enamourd of an ass.Oberon. There lies your love.Titania. How came these things to pass ? O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now !Oberon. Silence a while. Robin, take off this head.Titania, music call ; and strike more deadThan common sleep of all these five the sense.Titania. Music, ho ! music, such as charmeth sleep !Puck. Now, when thou wakest, with thine own fools eyes peep.Oberon. Sound, music ! (Still music.) Come, my queen, take hands with me, And rock the ground whereon these sleepers be.Now thou and I are new in amity,And will to-morrow midnight solemnlyACT IV. 130 Sc. L.
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Puck. Through brake, through briar. A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM Dance in Duke Theseus house triumphantly,And bless it to all fair prosperity :There shall the pairs of faithful lovers beWedded, with Theseus, all in jollity.Puck. Fairy king, attend, and mark : I do hear the morning lark.Oberon. Then, my queen, in silence sad,Trip we after the nights shade :We the globe can compass soon,Swifter than the wandering moon.Titania. Come, my lord ; and in our flight,Tell me how it came this night,That I sleeping here was foundWith these mortals on the ground. (Exeunt.\H.or?is winded within. Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, EGEUS, and train.Theseus. Go, one of you, find out the forester ; For now our observation is performd ; And since we have the vaward of the day, My love shall hear the music of my hounds. Uncouple in the western valley ; let them go : Dispatch, I say, and find the forester. (Exit an Attendant. We will, fair queen, up to the mountains top, And mark the musical confusion Of hounds and e

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