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Theseus and Hippolyta are getting married
Theseus: Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace. -
Egeus's daughter disobey's his will and he wishes to force her into an ultimatum.
Egeus: Full of vexation come I, with complaint against my child... I beg the ancient privilege of Athens. -
Lysander desides to flee with Hermia to the woods to escape the law.
Lysander: Steal forth thy father's house tomorrow night; and in the wood... there I will stay for thee. -
Helena is upset that Demetrius loves Hermia instaed of her.
Helena: Call you me fair? That fair again unsay. Demetrius loves your fair. O happy fair! -
Hermia shares her plan with Helena
Hermia(to Helena): Lysander and myself will fly this place... and in the wood... there my Lysander and myself shall meet. -
Helena decides to tell Demetrius about Hermia's plan
Helena(regarding Hermia's plan): I will go tell him[Demetrius] of fair Hermia's flight... to have his sight thither and back again. -
Quince announces the play his group will perform
Quince: Our play is, "The most lamentable comedy, and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby." -
Puck discusses Oberon's conflict with Titania over the servant she loves
Puck: Oberon is passing fell and wrath... jealous Oberon would have the child Knight of his train... but she perforce withholds the loved boy. -
Oberon tells Puck to get a flower that induces love between a person and the first person they see upon waking up
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. -
Helena follows Demetrius into the woods to find Hermia and Lysander
Helena(to Demetrius): I'll follow thee, and make a heaven of hell. -
Oberon tells Puck to make Demetrius fall in love with Helena
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. -
Oberon puts the flower juice on Titania
Enter Oberon and squeezes the flower on Titania's eyelids. -
Puck accidentally puts juice on Lysander instead of Demetrius
Puck(to a sleeping Lysander): ...upon thy eyes I throw all the power this charm doth owe. -
Lysander wakes up and falls in love with Helena
Lysander: Where is Demetrius? O, how fit a word is that vile name to perish on my sword!... Not Hermia but Helena I love. -
Titania wakes up and falls in love with Nick Bottom, who is now a donkey
Titania(to Bottom): On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee. -
Oberon tells Puck to draw Helena to a sleeping Demetrius, who he will make fall in love with her
Oberon: By some illusion see thou bring her here. I'll charm his[Demetrius] eyes against she do appear. -
Demetrius wakes and falls in love with Helena
Demetrius: O Helen, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love... -
Puck makes Lysander fall back in love with Hermia
Puck(to Lysander): When thou wak'st, thou tak'st true delight in the sight of thy former lady's eyes... all
shall be well. -
Oberon commands Puck to revert all of the Athenians back to how they were and make them forget it all happening
Oberon: And, gentle Puck... That, he awaking when the other do, may all to Athens be back again repair, and
think no more of this night's accidents. -
Theseus arrives in the forest and tells Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius, and Helena to meet in the temple to be wed
Theseus: For in the temple, by and by, with us these couples shall eternally be knit. -
Nick Bottom gets his crew ready to play at the palace
Bottom: Get your apparel together... meet presently at the palace.