Midsummer Night’s Dream Lines Hippolyta

Beginning line Tis strange my Theseus that these lovers speak of
Or in the Night, imagining some fear, how easy is a bush a bear But all the story of the night told over, and all their minds transfigured so together, more witnesseth than fancy’s immages, and grows to something of great constancy; but howsoever, strange and admirable
Bring them in, and ladies go take your places I love not to see wretchedness overcharged and duty in its service perishing
Why, gentle sweet, you shall see no such thing. He says they can do nothing in this kind
a good moral my lord: it is good not to speak but to speak true Indeed, he hath played on this prologue like a child on a recorder- a sound but not in government
No remedy my lord, when walls are so willful to hear without warning This is the silliest stuff that i ever heard
The best in this kind are but shadows and that worse are no worse, my imagination amend them. Then it must be your imagination then, and not theirs.
He dares not come there for the candle; for you see is already in snuff. I am aweary of this moon. Would he change!
Well run Thisbe! Well shone moon! truly the moon shines with good grace.
This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad. Bestrew my heart, but i pity the man.
With the help of a surgeon he might yet recover, and yet prove an ass. How chance moonshine is gone before Thisby comes and finds her lover?
Here she comes and her passion ends the play. Methinks she should not use a long one for such a Pyramus: I hope she will be brief.
August 1, 2019