in Thisbe's garter, it would have been a and so it is, truly; and very potahly But come, your Bergomask: let your ep [Here a danc The iron tongue of midnight hath told i Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. I fear we shall out-sleep the coming moi As much as we this night have overwato This palpable gross play hath well beguí The heavy gait* of night. _Sweet friend A fortnight hold we this solemnity, la nightly revels, and new jollity. SCENE II. Enter Puck, Puck. Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon; All with weary task fordonet. Whilst the scritch-owl, scritching In remembrance of a shroud, That the graves, all gaping wide, In the church-way paths to glide By the triple Hecat's team, Following darkness like a dream, 157 Oberon and Titania, with their Train. arough this house give glimmering light, e dead and drowsy fire: If, and fairy sprite, is light as bird from brier; s ditty, after me, d dance it trippingly. First rehearse this song by rote: word a warbling note, i hand, with fairy grace, sing, and bless this place. DREAM. Think but this (and all is mended), SONG AND DANCE. 3. Now, until the break of day, ugh this house each fairy stray. e best bride-bed will we, h by us shall blessed be; the issue, there create, shall be fortunate, all all the couples three true in loving be: the blots of nature's hand not in their issue stand; r mole, hare lip, nor scar, nark prodigious*, such as are ised in nativity, upon their children be.this field-dew consecrate, i fairy take his gaitt; each several chamber bless, ugh this palace with sweet peace: shall it in safety rest, :he owner of it blest. Trip away; Make no stay; me all by break of day. [Exeunt Oberon, Titania, and Train. Wild and fantastical as this play is, all the parts in their various modes are well written, and give the kind of pleasure which the author designed. Fairies in his time were much in fasbion; common tradition had made them familiar, and Spencer's poem had made them great. JOHNSON Puck. If we shadows have offend Think but this (and all is That you have but slumber While these disions did api And this weak and idle th No more yielding but a dr Gentles, do not reprehend If you pardon, we will mes And, as I'm an honest Put If we hade unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's We will make amends, ere i Else the Puck a liar call. So, good night unto you al. Give me your hands, if we And Robin shall restore ar Wild and fantastical as this play in their various modes are well writt kind of pleasure which the author de in his time were much in fashion; cc had made them familiar, and Spen made them great. |
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