| Oberon | Do you amend it, then. It lies in you.Why should Titania cross her Oberon?I do but beg a little changeling boyTo be my henchman.(Act 2, Scene 1, Lines 118-121) |
| Puck | When thou wak’st, let love forbidSleep his seat on they eyelid.So, awake when I am gone,For I must now to Oberon.(Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 86-89) |
| Titania | What angel wakes me from my flow’ry bed?(Act 3, Scene 1, Line 109) |
| Lysander | Get gone, you dwarf,You minimus of hind’ring knotgrass made,You bead, you acorn!(Act 3, Scene 2, Lines 328-330) |
| Demetrius | Do I entice you? Do I speak you fair?Or rather do I not in plainest truthTell you I do not, nor I cannot love you?(Act 2, Scene 1, Lines 199-201) |
| Helena | And even for that do I love you the more.I am your spaniel…(Act 2, Scene 1, Lines 202-203) |
| Puck | What hempen homespuns have we swagg’ring hereSo near the cradle of the Fairy Queen?What, a play toward? I’ll be an auditor—An actor too perhaps, if I see cause.(Act 3, Scene 1, Lines 63-66) |
| Puck | Shall we their fond pageant see?Lord, what fools these mortals be!(Act 3, Scene 2, Lines 114-115) |
| Lysander | Content with Hermia? No, I do repentThe tedious minutes I with her have spent.Not Hermia, but Helena I loveWho will not change a raven for a dove?(Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 117-120) |
| Bottom | There are things in this comedy of Pyramus and Thisbethat will never please. First, Pyramus must draw a sword tokill himself, which the ladies cannot abide. How answeryou that?(Act 3, Scene 1, Lines 8-11) |
| Titania | Methought I was enamored of an ass.(Act 4, Scene 1, Line 75) |
| Pyramus | O grim-looked night! O night with hue so black!O night, which ever art when day is not!O night! O night! Alack, alack, alack!I fear my Thisbe’s promise is forgot!(Act 5, Scene 1, Lines 167-170) |
| Puck | Not a mouseShall disturb this hallowed house.I am sent with broom beforeTo sweep the dust behind the door.(Act 5, Scene 1, Lines 367-370) |
| Titania | Come, sit thee down upon this flow’ry bed,While I thy amiable cheeks to coy,And stick muskroses in thy sleek smooth head,And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy.(Act 4, Scene 1, Lines 1-4) |
| Puck | If we shadows have offended,Think but this and all is mended:That you have but slumbered hereWhile these visions did appear.(Act 5, Scene 1, Lines 403-406) |
| Pyramus | My soul is in the sky.Tongue, lose thy light!Moon, take thy flight!Now die, die, die, die, die.(Act 5, Scene 1, Lines 289-292) |
| Pyramus | Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams.(Act 5, Scene 1, Line 258) |
| Bottom | Scratch my head, Peaseblossom. Where’s MonsieurCobweb?(Act 4, Scene 1, Lines 7-8) |
| Thisbe | Asleep, my love?What, dead, my dove?O Pyramus, arise!(Act 5, Scene 1, Lines 308-310) |
| Oberon | Now, until the break of day,Through this house each fairy stray.To the best bride-bed will we,Which by us shall blessèd be,And the issue there createEver shall be fortunate.(Act 5, Scene 1, Lines 381-386) |
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Quotes
July 24, 2019