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Zingers & Humdingers: Key Lines in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Orde Act.Scene. Character Lines Line # 1 1.1.27-8, 36 Egeus This man hath bewitched the bosom of my child.—Thou, thou, . Lysander… with cunning hast thou filched my daughter’s heart,

2 1.1.46-47 Theseus Be advised, fair maid. To you, your father should be as a god, .

3 1.1.56 Hermia I would my father looked but with my eyes .

4 1.1. 93-94 Lysander You have her father’s love, Demetrius. Let me have Hermia’s. Do you . marry him.

5 1.1. 134 Lysander The course of true love never did run smooth. .

6 1.1.150-151 Hermia If then true lovers have been ever crossed, It stands as an edict in destiny .

7 1.1. 175-176, Hermia By all the vows that ever men have broke (in number more then ever . 178 women spoke) Tomorrow truly will meet thee

8 1.1. 194 Hermia I frown upon him, yet he loves me still .

9 1.1.232-233 Helena Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and . dignity.

1 1.1. 234-235 Helena Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind; And therefore is winged 0 Cupid painted blind .

1 2.2. 1 Robin/Puck How now, spirit? Whither wander you? 1 .

1 2.1. 60 Oberon Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania 2 .

1 2.1.61-62 Titania What, jealous Oberon? Fairies, skip hence. I have forsworn his bed and 3 company .

1 2.1.115-116 Titania And this same progeny of evils comes From our debate, from our dissension 1 2.1.144 Titania Not for thy Fairy kingdom. Fairies, away. 5 .

1 2.1.188, 194 Demetrius I love thee not; Therefore pursue me not. Hence, get thee gone, and follow 6 me no more. .

1 2.1. 203-204 Helena I am your spaniel, and, Demetrius, the more you beat me I will fawn on 7 you. .

1 2.1.212 Demetrius For I am sick when I look on thee. 8 .

1 2.1. 213 Helena And I am sick when I look not on you 9 .

2 2.1.261-162 Oberon A sweet Athenian lady is in love With a disdainful youth. Anoint his eyes, 0 .

2 2.1.264-265 Oberon Though shalt know the man By the Athenian garments he hath on. 1 .

2 2.2. 33-34 Oberon What thou seest when thou dost wake, Do it for thy true love 2 .

2 2.2. 39-40 Oberon When thou wak’st, it is thy dear. Wake when some vile thing is near. 3 .

2 2.2. 66-67 Hermia good night, sweet friend. Thy love ne’er alter till thy sweet life end 4 .

2 2.2. 76-77 Robin/Puck Night and silence! who is here? Weeds of Athens he doth wear. 5 .

2 2.2. 100-101 Helena No, no, I am as ugly as a bear, For beasts that meet me run away 6 .

2 2.2.117-118 Lysander No, I do repent The tedious minutes I with her have spent 7 .

2 2.2. 121-122 Lysander The will of man is by reason swayed, And reason says you are the worthier maid. 2 2.2.130 Helena When at your hands did I deserve this scorn? 9 .

3 2.2. 139-140 Helena O, that lady of one man refused should of another therefore be abused? 0 .

3 2.2.143-144 Lysander For, as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach 1 brings .

3 22.2. 153, Hermia What a dream was here! Methought a serpent ate my heart away 2 155 .

3 3.1.101 Quince O monstrous! O strange! We are haunted. 3 .

3 3.1.113-114 Bottom I see their Knavery. This is to make an ass of me, to fright me, if they 4 could. .

3 3.1. 136-137 Bottom And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together 5 nowadays .

3 3.2.6 Robin/Puck My mistress with a monster in love. 6 .

3 3.2. 33-34 Robin/Puck When at that moment, so it cam to pass, Titania waked and straightway 7 loved an ass .

3 3.2. 43 Demetrius O, why rebuke you him that loves you so? 8 .

3 3.2.65 Hermia Out, dog! Out, cur! 9 .

4 3.2.88-89 Oberon Thou hast mistaken quite And laud the love juice on some true-love’s sight 0 .

4 3.2.115 Robin Lord, what fools these mortals be! 1 .

4 3.2.134 Lysander I had no judgment when to her I swore 4 3.2.145 Helena O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent To set against me for your merriment 3 .

4 3.2.191 Hermia You speak not as you think. It cannot be 4 .

4 3.2.198-199, Helena Is all the counsel that we two have shared, The sisters’ vows, the hours that 5 201 we have spent- O is all forgot? .

4 3.2.255 Demetrius I say I love thee more than he can do 6 .

4 3.2.260-261 Lysander Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! vile thing, let loose, 7 .

4 3.2.272 Hermia What, can you do me greater harm than hate? 8 .

4 3.2.274,276 Hermia Am I not Hermia? Are not you Lysander? Since night you loved me; yet 9 since night you left me .

5 3.2.282 Lysander Nothing truer, ‘tis no jest That I do hate thee and love Helena 0 .

5 3.2. 284-285 Hermia You thief of love! What, have you come by night and stol’n my love’s 1 heart from him .

5 3.2.349 Hermia I am not yet so low But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes 2 .

5 3.2.349 Robin/Puck Believe me, king of shadows, I mistook 3 .

5 3.2.354-355 Robin/Puck And so far am I glad it so did sort, And this their jangling I esteem a sport. 4 .

5 3.2.360-361 Oberon And lead these testy rivals so astray As one come not within another’s way 5 .

5 3.2.372-373 Oberon When they next wake, all this derision shall seem a dream and fruitless vision- 5 3.2.465-466 Robin/Puck Jack shall have Jill; Naught shall go ill 7 .

5 4.1.22 Bottom I must to the barber’s, monsieur for methinks I am marvelous hairy about 8 the face .

5 4.1.59-60 Oberon And now I have the boy, I will undo This hateful imperfection of her eyes. 9 .

6 4.1.65-66 Oberon And think no more of this night’s accidents But as the fierce vexation of a 0 dream .

6 4.1.154-155 Egeus I beg the law, the law, upon his head. They would have stol’n away 1 .

6 4.1.187-8 Hermia Methinks I see these things with parted eye, When everything seems 2 double. .

6 4.1.203-204 Bottom I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to 3 say what dream it was. .

6 4.1.204-206 Bottom Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. 4 .

6 5.1.4 Theseus Lovers and madmen have such seething brains 5 .

6 5.1.59-60 Theseus That is hot ice and wondrous strange snow! How shall we find the 6 concord of this discord? .

6 5.1.61, 63 Philostrate A play there is, my lord, some ten words long, But by ten words, my lord, 7 it is too long. .

6 5.1.124 Theseus His speech was like a tangled chain—nothing impaired but all disordered. 8 .

6 5.1.400-402 Robin/Puck If we shadows have offended, Think but his and all is mended: 9 .

7 5.1.403-404 Robin/Puck That you have but slumbered here while these visions did appear.