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Take thou some of it, and seek through this grove:

A sweet Athenian lady is in love

With a disdainful youth; anoint his eyes,

But do it when the next thing he espies

May be the lady. Thou shalt know the man

By the Athenian garments he hath on.

Effect it with some care, that he may prove

More fond on her than she upon her love;

And look thou meet me ere the first cock crow.

Puck.

Fear not, my lord! your servant shall do so.

Exeunt.

¶

Enter Titania, Queen of Fairies, with her Train.

Tita.

Come, now a roundel and a fairy song;

Then, for the third part of a minute, hence,

Some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds,

Some war with rere-mice for their leathren wings

To make my small elves coats, and some keep back

The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders

At our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep;

Then to your offices, and let me rest.

Fairies sing.

[1. Fairy.]

You spotted snakes with double tongue,

Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen,

Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong,