A Midsummer Night's Dream

Enter Hermia

Thus to make poor females mad.

HERMIA Never so weary, never so in woe,

Bedabbled with the dew and torn with briers,

I can no further crawl, no further go;

My legs can keep no pace with my desires.

Here will I rest me till the break of day.

Heavens shield Lysander, if they mean a fray!

Lies down and sleeps

ROBIN On the ground

Sleep sound.

I'll apply

To your eye,

Gentle lover, remedy.

Squeezes the juice on Lysander's eyes

When thou wak'st,

Thou tak'st

True delight

In the sight

Of thy former lady's eye,

And the country proverb known,

That every man should take his own,

In your waking shall be shown.

Jack478 shall have Jill, Nought479 shall go ill, The man shall have his mare480 again, and all shall be well.

Exit

They [Lysander, Demetrius, Helena and Hermia] sleep all the act

Act 4 [Scene 1]

running scene 5 continues

Enter Queen of Fairies [Titania] and Clown [Bottom, with ass head, wearing a coronet of flowers] and Fairies [Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed] and the King [Oberon] behind them

TITANIA Come, sit thee down upon this flow'ry bed, While I thy amiable cheeks do coy2, And stick musk-roses in thy sleek smooth head,