: 2 Fairy. Weaving Spiders come not bere; Hence, you long-leg'd spinners, bence i Beetles black, approach not near, Worm, nor fnail, do no offence, Philomel with melody, &c. 1 Fairy Hence, away; now all is well..I [Exeunt Fairies. The Queen fleeps, Enter Oberon, Ob. What thou feeft, when thou doft wake, Pard, or boar with briftled hair, In thy eye that shall appear, N Wake, when fome vile thing is near. SCENE [Exit Oberon VI. Enter Lyfander and Hermia. Lyf. Fair love, you faint with wandring in the wood; And, to speak troth, I have forgot our way: We'll reft us, Hermia, if thou think it good, And tarry for the comfort of the day. Her. Be't fo, Lyfander; find you out a bed, For I upon this bank will reft my.head. Lyf. One turf fhall ferve as pillow for us both, One heart, one bed, two bofoms, and one troth. Her. Nay, good Lyfander; for my fake, my dear, Lye further off yet, do not lye fo near. Lyf Lys. 9 O take the sense, sweet, of my conference; Love takes the meaning, in love's innocence; I mean, that my heart unto yours is knit ; Her. Lyfander riddles very prettily; Her. With half that wifh the wifher's eyes be preft! 90 take the fenfe, fweet, of my innocence; Love takes the meaning in love's conference.] Here, by fome mifchance or other, Innocence and Conference have been jumbled into one another's places, and thereby deprived a very fenfible reply of all kind of meaning. Reflore each to its right place and the fenfe will be this ; when he had interpreted his words to an evil meaning, he replies, O take the fenfe, fweet, of my conference; i. e. judge of my meaning by the drift of my whole fpeech. and Night and filence! who is here?. And here the maiden fleeping found [Exit. Hel. Stay, tho' thou kill me, fweet Demetrius ! Dem. I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus. Hel. O, wilt thou darkling leave me? do not fo. Dem. Stay, on thy peril; 1 alone will go. [Exit Demetrius. Hel. O, I am out of breath in this fond chace; The more my prayer, the leffer is my grace. Happy is Hermia, wherefoe'er fhe lies; For the hath bleffed, and attractive, eyes. How came her eyes fo bright? not with falt tears; If fo, my eyes are oftner wafh'd than hers: and do not pervert the fenfe of an ambiguous word to a meaning quite foreign to the difcourfe. Befides, fays he, Love takes the meaning in love's innocence. i, e. The innocence of your love may teach you to discover the innocence of mine. These are the fentiments, which were quite loft in this aukward tranfpofition. No, No, no, I am as ugly as a bear; For beafts, that meet me, run away for fear. Lyf. And run thro' fire I will, for thy fweet fake. [Waking. Tranfparent Helen, nature here fhews art, Hel. Do not fay fo, Lyfander, fay not fo; Who will not change a raven for a dove? } Hel. Wherefore was I to this keen mock'ry born? When at your hands did I deferve this fcorn? Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man, That I did never, no, nor never can, Deferve a fweet look from Demetrius' eye, But you muft flout my infufficiency? Good Good troth, you do me wrong; good footh, you do; . But fare you well. Perforce I must confefs, [Exit. Lyf. She fees not Hermia; Hermia, fleep thou there; And never may'ft thou come Lyfander near; The deepest loathing to the ftomach brings; [Exit. [Exit ACT |