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Lamenting some enforced chastity.

Tie up my lover’s tongue, bring him silently.

Exeunt.

¶

Enter King of Fairies [Oberon].

Obe.

I wonder if Titania be awak’d;

Then what it was that next came in her eye,

Which she must dote on in extremity.

[Enter Puck.]

Here comes my messenger. How now, mad spirit?

What night-rule now about this haunted grove?

Puck.

My mistress with a monster is in love.

Near to her close and consecrated bower,

While she was in her dull and sleeping hour,

A crew of patches, rude mechanicals,

That work for bread upon Athenian stalls,

Were met together to rehearse a play

Intended for great Theseus’ nuptial day.

The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort,

Who Pyramus presented, in their sport,

Forsook his scene, and ent’red in a brake;

When I did him at this advantage take,

An ass’s nole I fixed on his head.

Anon his Thisby must be answered,

And forth my mimic comes. When they him spy,

As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,

Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort