BOTTOM We will meet, and there we may rehearse more
obscenely and courageously. Take pains, be perfect94. Adieu.
QUINCE At the duke's oak we meet.
BOTTOM Enough. Hold or cut bow-strings.96
Exeunt
Act 2 [Scene 1]
running scene 3
Enter a Fairy at one door and Robin Goodfellow [Puck] at another
ROBIN How now, spirit, whither wander you?
FAIRY Over hill, over dale,
Through bush, through brier,
Over park, over pale4,
Thorough5 flood, thorough fire,
I do wander everywhere,
Swifter than the moon's sphere7;
And I serve the fairy queen,
To dew her orbs9 upon the green.
The cowslips tall her pensioners10 be,
In their gold coats spots you see,
Those be rubies, fairy favours12,
In those freckles live their savours13.
I must go seek some dewdrops here,
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Farewell, thou lob16 of spirits, I'll be gone:
Our queen and all her elves come here anon17.
ROBIN The king doth keep his revels here tonight:
Take heed the queen come not within his sight,
For Oberon is passing fell and wrath20,
Because that she as her attendant hath
A lovely boy, stol'n from an Indian king.