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Tita.

Not for thy fairy kingdom. Fairies, away!

We shall chide downright, if I longer stay.

Exeunt [Titania and her Train].

Obe.

Well; go thy way. Thou shalt not from this grove

Till I torment thee for this injury.

My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememb’rest

Since once I sat upon a promontory,

And heard a mermaid on a dolphin’s back

Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath

That the rude sea grew civil at her song,

And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,

To hear the sea-maid’s music?

Puck.

I remember.

Obe.

That very time I saw (but thou couldst not),

Flying between the cold moon and the earth,

Cupid all arm’d. A certain aim he took

At a fair vestal throned by [the] west,

And loos’d his love-shaft smartly from his bow,

As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts;

But I might see young Cupid’s fiery shaft

Quench’d in the chaste beams of the wat’ry moon,

And the imperial vot’ress passed on,

In maiden meditation, fancy-free.

Yet mark’d I where the bolt of Cupid fell.