When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, To-whit, to-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. Arm. The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. You, that way; we, this way. [Exeunt. HIPPOLYTA, Queen of the Amazons, betrothed to THESEUS. HERMIA, in love with LYSANder. HELENA, in love with DEMETRIUS. MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM. ACT I. SCENE I.-ATHENS. A Room in the Palace of THESEUS. Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, and Attendants. Long withering out a young man's revenue. Hip. Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow New bent in heaven, shall behold the night Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments; Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth : Turn melancholy forth to funerals, The pale companion is not for our pomp. [Exit PHILOSTRATE. Hippolyta, I woo'd thee with my sword, And won thy love, doing thee injuries; But I will wed thee in another key, With pomp, with triumph, and with revelling. Enter EGEUS, Hermia, Lysander, and Demetrius. The. Thanks, good Egeus: what's the news with thee? |