| Theseus to Hermia | But earthlier happy is the rose distill’d, that that which withering on the virgin thorn grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness. |
| Hermia to Lysander | O’hell! To choose love with another’s eye. |
| Lysander to Hermia | The course of true love never did run smooth |
| Helena | Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is wing’d cupid painted blind |
| Oberon to puck | Since once I sat upon a promontory, and heard a mermaid on a dolphin’s back uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, that the rude sea grew civil at her song, and certain stars shot madly from their spheres, to hear the sea-maid’s music |
| Oberon to puck | I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, with sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine: there sleeps Titania some time of the night, lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight; and there the snake throws her enamell’d skin, weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in |
| Puck | Lord, what fools these mortals be! |
| Peter quince to bottom | Bless thee bottom, bless thee! Thou art translated |
| Bottom | I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was |
| Puck | Not a mouse shall disturb this hallow’d house: I am sent with broom before, to sweep the dust behind the door |
| Puck | If we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended, that you have but slumbered here while these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, no more yielding but a dream, gentles, do not reprehend. If you pardon, we will mend. And, as I am an honest Puck, if we have unearnèd luck now to scape the serpent’s tongue, we will make amends ere long; else the Puck a liar call. So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends |
Quotes for midsummer nights dream
August 17, 2019