[Exeunt fairies]
So doth the woodbine39 the sweet honeysuckle Gently entwist; the female ivy so
Enrings41 the barky fingers of the elm.
O, how I love thee! How I dote on thee!
They sleep
Enter Robin Goodfellow and Oberon [who comes forward]
OBERON Welcome, good Robin.
See'st thou this sweet sight?
Her dotage45 now I do begin to pity.
For, meeting her of late behind the wood,
Seeking sweet favours47 for this hateful fool, I did upbraid her and fall out with her.
For she his hairy temples then had rounded
With coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers.
And that same dew, which sometime51 on the buds Was wont to swell like round and orient52 pearls, Stood now within the pretty flowerets'53 eyes Like tears that did their own disgrace bewail.
When I had at my pleasure taunted her,
And she in mild terms begged my patience,
I then did ask of her her changeling child,
Which straight she gave me, and her fairy sent
To bear him to my bower in fairy land.
And now I have the boy, I will undo
This hateful imperfection of her eyes.
And, gentle Puck, take this transformed scalp
From off the head of this Athenian swain63; That, he awaking when the other64 do, May all to Athens back again repair65, And think no more of this night's accidents66
But as the fierce vexation of a dream.
But first I will release the fairy queen.
Be thou as thou wast wont to be;
Squeezes the herb on her eyes
See as thou wast wont to see.
Dian's bud71 o'er Cupid's flower Hath such force and blessed power.
Now, my Titania, wake you, my sweet queen.