We Love to See You Do Your Dance Again Peter Breinholt

⌜With the four lovers still asleep onstage,⌝ enter
⌜Titania,⌝ Queen of Fairies, and ⌜Bottom⌝ and Fairies,
and ⌜Oberon,⌝ the King, backside them ⌜unseen by those
onstage.⌝

TITANIA
Come, sit thee down upon this flow'ry bed,
While I thy affable cheeks practice coy,
And stick muskroses in thy sleek smooth head,
And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy.
BOTTOM 5 Where's Peaseblossom?
PEASEBLOSSOM Set up.
BOTTOM Scratch my head, Peaseblossom. Where's
Monsieur Cobweb?
Fiber Ready.
BOTTOM 10 Monsieur Cobweb, good monsieur, go yous
your weapons in your hand and kill me a red-hipped
humble-bee on the top of a thistle, and, good
monsieur, bring me the honey-bag. Do not fret
yourself too much in the action, monsieur, and,
15 good monsieur, take a care the beloved-bag break
non; I would be loath to have y'all overflown with a
honey-bag, signior. ⌜Fiber exits.⌝ Where's Monsieur
Mustardseed?
MUSTARDSEED Ready.

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Lesser 20 Give me your neaf, Monsieur Mustardseed.
Pray yous, leave your courtesy, good monsieur.
MUSTARDSEED What's your volition?
Lesser Nothing, adept monsieur, but to assistance Cavalery
Cobweb to scratch. I must to the barber'south,
25 monsieur, for methinks I am marvels hairy about
the face. And I am such a tender donkey, if my hair do
but tickle me, I must scratch.
TITANIA
What, wilt thou hear some music, my sugariness honey?
BOTTOM I have a reasonable good ear in music. Allow's
30 have the tongs and the bones.
TITANIA
Or say, sweet love, what thou desirest to eat.
Lesser Truly, a peck of provender. I could munch
your good dry out oats. Methinks I accept a great desire
to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no
35 fellow.
TITANIA
I have a venturous fairy that shall seek
The squirrel's hoard and fetch thee new nuts.
Bottom I had rather have a handful or two of dried
peas. Simply, I pray yous, permit none of your people stir
forty me; I accept an exposition of sleep come upon me.
TITANIA
Slumber thou, and I will wind thee in my arms.—
Fairies, begone, and be all ways away.
⌜Fairies exit.⌝
So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle
Gently entwist; the female ivy and then
45 Enrings the barky fingers of the elm.
O, how I love thee! How I dote on thee!
⌜Bottom and Titania slumber.⌝

Enter Robin Goodfellow.

OBERON
Welcome, adept Robin. Seest thousand this sweet sight?

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Her dotage now I do begin to compassion.
For, meeting her of late behind the wood,
50 Seeking sweet favors for this hateful fool,
I did upbraid her and autumn out with her.
For she his hairy temples then had rounded
With coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers;
And that same dew, which sometime on the buds
55 Was wont to smashing like round and orient pearls,
Stood now inside the pretty flouriets' eyes,
Similar tears that did their own disgrace bewail.
When I had at my pleasure taunted her,
And she in mild terms begged my patience,
60 I and so did enquire of her her changeling child,
Which straight she gave me, and her fairy sent
To carry him to my bower in Fairyland.
And at present I have the boy, I will undo
This hateful imperfection of her eyes.
65 And, gentle Puck, accept this transformèd scalp
From off the caput of this Athenian swain,
That he, awaking when the other do,
May all to Athens back again repair
And think no more of this night's accidents
70 Just as the vehement vexation of a dream.
Simply first I will release the Fairy Queen.
⌜He applies the nectar to her eyes.⌝
Exist as thou wast wont to be.
Run across equally grand wast wont to see.
Dian's bud o'er Cupid's flower
75 Hath such force and blessèd ability.
At present, my Titania, wake you, my sweetness queen.
TITANIA , ⌜waking⌝
My Oberon, what visions have I seen!
Methought I was enamored of an ass.
OBERON
There lies your love.
TITANIA fourscore How came these things to pass?
O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!

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OBERON
Silence awhile.—Robin, take off this caput.—
Titania, music phone call; and strike more dead
Than common sleep of all these ⌜five⌝ the sense.
TITANIA
85 Music, ho, music such as charmeth slumber!
ROBIN , ⌜removing the donkey-head from Lesser⌝
At present, when thou wak'st, with thine own fool's eyes
peep.
OBERON
Audio music. ⌜Music.⌝
Come up, my queen, have hands with me,
90 And rock the ground whereon these sleepers be.
⌜Titania and Oberon dance.⌝
Now thou and I are new in amity,
And will tomorrow midnight solemnly
Trip the light fantastic toe in Duke Theseus' house triumphantly,
And anoint information technology to all fair prosperity.
95 There shall the pairs of true-blue lovers be
Wedded, with Theseus, all in jollity.
ROBIN
Fairy king, attend and mark.
I practice hear the morning time lark.
OBERON
Then, my queen, in silence sorry
100 Trip we after night's shade.
Nosotros the globe can compass soon,
Swifter than the wand'ring moon.
TITANIA
Come up, my lord, and in our flight
Tell me how information technology came this night
105 That I sleeping here was found
With these mortals on the ground.
⌜Oberon, Robin, and Titania⌝ exit.

Wind horn. Enter Theseus and all his railroad train,
⌜Hippolyta, Egeus.⌝

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THESEUS
Go, one of you lot, find out the Forester.
For at present our ascertainment is performed,
And, since we have the vaward of the mean solar day,
110 My love shall hear the music of my hounds.
Uncouple in the western valley; let them go.
Dispatch, I say, and find the Forester.
⌜A Servant exits.⌝
We will, fair queen, upwards to the mountain'due south superlative
And mark the musical confusion
115 Of hounds and echo in conjunction.
HIPPOLYTA
I was with Hercules and Cadmus once,
When in a wood of Crete they bayed the behave
With hounds of Sparta. Never did I hear
Such gallant chiding, for, likewise the groves,
120 The skies, the fountains, every region near
⌜Seemed⌝ all one common cry. I never heard
Then musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
THESEUS
My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind,
And then flewed, so sanded; and their heads are hung
125 With ears that sweep away the morning dew;
Crook-kneed, and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls;
Slow in pursuit, simply matched in mouth like bells,
Each under each. A cry more tunable
Was never holloed to, nor cheered with horn,
130 In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly.
Gauge when you hear.—Only soft! What nymphs are
these?
EGEUS
My lord, this ⌜is⌝ my girl here asleep,
And this Lysander; this Demetrius is,
135 This Helena, old Nedar's Helena.
I wonder of their being here together.

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THESEUS
No dubiety they rose up early to observe
The rite of May, and hearing our intent,
Came here in grace of our solemnity.
140 But speak, Egeus. Is not this the twenty-four hour period
That Hermia should give answer of her choice?
EGEUS Information technology is, my lord.
THESEUS
Become, bid the huntsmen wake them with their horns.
⌜A Servant exits.⌝
Shout within. Wind horns. They all start up.
THESEUS
Good morrow, friends. Saint Valentine is past.
145 Begin these woodbirds only to couple now?
⌜Demetrius, Helena, Hermia, and Lysander kneel.⌝
LYSANDER
Pardon, my lord.
THESEUS I pray you lot all, stand.
⌜They rise.⌝
I know you two are rival enemies.
How comes this gentle agree in the earth,
150 That hatred is and so far from jealousy
To slumber past detest and fear no enmity?
LYSANDER
My lord, I shall reply amazèdly,
Half sleep, half waking. Merely as nonetheless, I swear,
I cannot truly say how I came here.
155 Merely, equally I recall—for truly would I speak,
And now I practice bethink me, so it is:
I came with Hermia here. Our intent
Was to be gone from Athens, where nosotros might,
Without the peril of the Athenian police—
EGEUS
160 Enough, enough!—My lord, you lot have plenty.
I beg the law, the police upon his caput.
They would take stol'north abroad.—They would,
Demetrius,

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ACT 4. SC. 1

Thereby to take defeated you and me:
165 You of your wife and me of my consent,
Of my consent that she should exist your wife.
DEMETRIUS
My lord, fair Helen told me of their stealth,
Of this their purpose hither to this forest,
And I in fury hither followed them,
170 Fair Helena in fancy following me.
But, my good lord, I wot non past what power
(Just by some ability it is) my dearest to Hermia,
Melted every bit the snow, seems to me now
As the remembrance of an idle gaud
175 Which in my childhood I did dote upon,
And all the religion, the virtue of my heart,
The object and the pleasure of mine heart,
Is only Helena. To her, my lord,
Was I betrothed ere I ⌜saw⌝ Hermia.
180 But like a sickness did I loathe this nutrient.
But, equally in wellness, come up to my natural taste,
Now I do wish it, love it, long for information technology,
And volition forevermore be true to it.
THESEUS
Off-white lovers, you are fortunately met.
185 Of this discourse we more will hear anon.—
Egeus, I will overbear your volition,
For in the temple past and by, with u.s.,
These couples shall eternally be knit.—
And, for the morning now is something worn,
190 Our purposed hunting shall be set bated.
Away with us to Athens. Three and three,
We'll hold a feast in great solemnity.
Come, Hippolyta.
⌜Theseus and his train,
including Hippolyta and Egeus, exit.⌝
DEMETRIUS
These things seem minor and undistinguishable,
195 Like far-off mountains turnèd into clouds.

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ACT four. SC. 1

HERMIA
Methinks I encounter these things with parted middle,
When everything seems double.
HELENA And so methinks.
And I take found Demetrius like a jewel,
200 Mine own and not mine own.
DEMETRIUS Are you sure
That we are awake? Information technology seems to me
That yet we sleep, we dream. Practise not you call up
The Duke was here and bid us follow him?
HERMIA
205 Yea, and my male parent.
HELENA And Hippolyta.
LYSANDER
And he did bid us follow to the temple.
DEMETRIUS
Why, and so, we are awake. Let'southward follow him,
And by the fashion allow ⌜united states⌝ recount our dreams.
⌜Lovers exit.⌝
Lesser , ⌜waking up⌝ 210  When my cue comes, telephone call me,
and I will answer. My next is "About fair Pyramus."
Hey-ho! Peter Quince! Flute the bellows-mender!
Snout the tinker! Starveling! God's my life! Stolen
hence and left me asleep! I take had a most rare
215 vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say
what dream information technology was. Man is only an donkey if he go nearly
⌜to⌝ expound this dream. Methought I was—there
is no human being tin tell what. Methought I was and
methought I had—just human being is but ⌜a patched⌝ fool if
220 he will offer to say what methought I had. The heart of
human hath not heard, the ear of human hath non seen,
man's mitt is not able to taste, his tongue to
conceive, nor his middle to report what my dream
was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this
225 dream. It shall be called "Bottom's Dream" because
it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the

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latter end of a play, before the Duke. Perchance,
to get in the more than gracious, I shall sing it at her
death.
⌜He exits.⌝

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