If you will patiently dance in our round142
And see our moonlight revels, go with us;
If not, shun me, and I will spare144 your haunts.
OBERON Give me that boy, and I will go with thee.
TITANIA Not for thy fairy kingdom. Fairies, away.
We shall chide downright147, if I longer stay.
Exeunt [Titania and her train]
OBERON Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from148 this grove
Till I torment thee for this injury.
My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememb'rest
Since once I sat upon a promontory151,
And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath153
That the rude154 sea grew civil at her song,
And certain155 stars shot madly from their spheres
To hear the sea-maid's music.
ROBIN I remember.
OBERON That very time I saw, but thou couldst not,
Flying between the cold moon and the earth,
Cupid all armed; a certain160 aim he took
At a fair vestal161 throned by the west,
And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow,
As163 it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts.
But I might164 see young Cupid's fiery shaft
Quenched in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon;
And the imperial votress passed on,
In maiden meditation, fancy-free167.
Yet marked I where the bolt168 of Cupid fell.
It fell upon a little western flower,
Before milk-white, now purple170 with love's wound,