SEENE V. Enter PUCK. Риск. Through the forest have I gone. On whose eyes I might approve, For I must now to Oberon. SCENE VI. [Exit Puck. Enter DEMETRIUS, and HELENA following. HELENA Stay, tho' thou kill me, sweet Demetrius! Deme. I charge thee hence, and do not haunt me thus. Deme. Stay, on thy peril, I alone will go [Exit Demetrius. Helen. Happy is Hermia. wheresoe'er she lies; For she hath blessed and attractive eyes. How came her eyes so bright? not with salt tears, If so, my eyes are oftener wash'd than hers. But who is here? Lysunder, on the ground; Dead or asleep, I see no blood no wound: Lysander if you live, good Sir, awake. Say AIR. LYSANDER. Say, lovely dream, where could'st thou find Come not from any mortal place; And see my joy with closed eyes. Transparent Helen, nature here shews art, Hel. Do not say so, Lysander, say not so? Hel. Wherefore was I to this keen mock'ry born {Exit HELENA. Lys. She sees not Hermia, Hermia sleep thou there, Helen is now Lysander's only Care. SCENE VI. HERMIA. [Exit LYSANDER Help me, Lysander, help me, do thy best, Where Where are you, speak? alas! he is not near. Hail, and welcome, gracious king, And all the Fairies that you bring; But wherefore do you thus delay ? She owes to our protracted rites. Obe. My fairy sprights, brief be your sports to night, The queen in slumber wrapt near yonder brake, That she must doat on in extremity : Her new-born flame will all her thoughts employ, This done, I will her charmed release eye From vision gross, and all things shall be peace. AIR. But you must not long delay, But But with you it still should fare, By the stars glimmering light Where we to-night have been. AIR. Now until the break of day, Through this wood each Fairy stray, And your night-sports celebrate: Every Fairy take bis gait, Dance. Trip away, make no stay, Meet me all by break of day. Excunt HOW now, mad spright, OBERON. What night-rule now about this haunted grove? Puck. My Mistress with a patch'd fool, is in love. Near to her close and consecrated bower, This clown with others had rehears'd a play Puck. Puck. That is finish'd too; I took him sleeping; And the Aibenian woman by his side, That when he wakes, of force she must be ey'd. SCENE II. Enter DEMETRIUS and HERMIA, OBERON. Stand close this is the same Athenian. Puck This is the woman, but not this the man. Then kill me too The sun was not so true unto the day, As he to me. Would he have stolen away From sleeping Hermia? It cannot be but thou hast murder'd him, So should a murderer look, so dread, so grim Deme. So should the murder'd look, and so should I Pierc'd thro' the heart, with your stern cruelty: Yet you, the murderer, Look as bright and clear, As yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere. AIR. HERMIA. How calm's the sky, how undisturb'd the deep, my breast [Exit HERMIA. Deme. There is no following her in this fierce vein, Here, brooding o'er my thoughts, I will remain, SCENE III. OBERON. [Lies down What hast thou done? thou hast mistaken quite, And laid thy love-juice on some true love's sigh*, About |