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Theseus: Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace.
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Egeus: Full of vexation come I, with complaint against my child... I beg the ancient privilege of Athens.
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Lysander: Steal forth thy father's house tomorrow night; and in the wood... there I will stay for thee.
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Helena: Call you me fair? That fair again unsay. Demetrius loves your fair. O happy fair!
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Hermia(to Helena): Lysander and myself will fly this place... and in the wood... there my Lysander and myself shall meet.
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Helena(regarding Hermia's plan): I will go tell him[Demetrius] of fair Hermia's flight... to have his sight thither and back again.
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Quince: Our play is, "The most lamentable comedy, and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby."
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Puck: Oberon is passing fell and wrath... jealous Oberon would have the child Knight of his train... but she perforce withholds the loved boy.
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Oberon: Fetch me that flow'r... the juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid will make or man or woman madly dote upon the next live creature that it sees.
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Helena(to Demetrius): I'll follow thee, and make a heaven of hell.
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Oberon(to Puck): A sweet Athenian lady is love with a disdainful youth. Anoint his eyes; but do it when the next thing he espies may be the lady.
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Enter Oberon and squeezes the flower on Titania's eyelids.
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Puck(to a sleeping Lysander): ...upon thy eyes I throw all the power this charm doth owe.
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Lysander: Where is Demetrius? O, how fit a word is that vile name to perish on my sword!... Not Hermia but Helena I love.
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Titania(to Bottom): On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.
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Oberon: By some illusion see thou bring her here. I'll charm his[Demetrius] eyes against she do appear.
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Demetrius: O Helen, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love...
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Puck(to Lysander): When thou wak'st, thou tak'st true delight in the sight of thy former lady's eyes... all
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Oberon: And, gentle Puck... That, he awaking when the other do, may all to Athens be back again repair, and
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Theseus: For in the temple, by and by, with us these couples shall eternally be knit.
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Bottom: Get your apparel together... meet presently at the palace.