TITANIA My Oberon! What visions have I seen!
Methought I was enamoured of an ass.
OBERON There lies your love.
TITANIA How came these things to pass?
O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!
OBERON Silence awhile.-- Robin, take off this head.--
Titania, music call, and strike more dead
Than common sleep of all these five81 the sense.
Music, still
TITANIA Music, ho! Music, such as charmeth82 sleep!
ROBIN Now, when thou wak'st, with thine own fool's eyes peep.
OBERON Sound, music! Come, my queen, take hands with me, Oberon and Titania may dance
And rock the ground whereon these sleepers be.
Now thou and I are new in amity,
And will tomorrow midnight solemnly87
Dance in Duke Theseus' house triumphantly88, And bless it to all fair prosperity.
There shall the pairs of faithful lovers be
Wedded, with Theseus, all in jollity.
ROBIN Fairy king, attend92, and mark: I do hear the morning lark.
OBERON Then, my queen, in silence sad94, Trip95 we after the night's shade; We the globe can compass soon,
Swifter than the wand'ring moon.
TITANIA Come, my lord, and in our flight
Tell me how it came this night
That I sleeping here was found
With these mortals on the ground.
Exeunt. Sleepers lie still
Wind horns. Enter Theseus, Egeus, Hippolyta, and all his train
THESEUS Go, one of you, find out the forester,
For now our observation103 is performed; And since we have the vaward104 of the day, My love shall hear the music of my hounds.
Uncouple106 in the western valley, let them go;