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1

Midsummer Night's Dream
[II, 2]

Lysander

695

One turf shall serve as pillow for us both;
One heart, one bed, two bosoms and one troth.

2

Midsummer Night's Dream
[II, 2]

Lysander

699

O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence!
Love takes the meaning in love's conference.
I mean, that my heart unto yours is knit
So that but one heart we can make of it;
Two bosoms interchained with an oath;
So then two bosoms and a single troth.
Then by your side no bed-room me deny;
For lying so, Hermia, I do not lie.

3

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1]

Bottom

842

No, make it two more; let it be written in eight and eight.

4

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1]

Quince

861

Well it shall be so. But there is two hard things;
that is, to bring the moonlight into a chamber; for,
you know, Pyramus and Thisby meet by moonlight.

5

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2]

Puck

1155

Then will two at once woo one;
That must needs be sport alone;
And those things do best please me
That befal preposterously.

6

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2]

Helena

1166

You do advance your cunning more and more.
When truth kills truth, O devilish-holy fray!
These vows are Hermia's: will you give her o'er?
Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh:
Your vows to her and me, put in two scales,
Will even weigh, and both as light as tales.

7

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2]

Helena

1232

Lo, she is one of this confederacy!
Now I perceive they have conjoin'd all three
To fashion this false sport, in spite of me.
Injurious Hermia! most ungrateful maid!
Have you conspired, have you with these contrived
To bait me with this foul derision?
Is all the counsel that we two have shared,
The sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent,
When we have chid the hasty-footed time
For parting us,—O, is it all forgot?
All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence?
We, Hermia, like two artificial gods,
Have with our needles created both one flower,
Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion,
Both warbling of one song, both in one key,
As if our hands, our sides, voices and minds,
Had been incorporate. So we grow together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition;
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart;
Two of the first, like coats in heraldry,
Due but to one and crowned with one crest.
And will you rent our ancient love asunder,
To join with men in scorning your poor friend?
It is not friendly, 'tis not maidenly:
Our sex, as well as I, may chide you for it,
Though I alone do feel the injury.

8

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2]

Puck

1511

Yet but three? Come one more;
Two of both kinds make up four.
Here she comes, curst and sad:
Cupid is a knavish lad,
Thus to make poor females mad.

9

Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 1]

Bottom

1581

I had rather have a handful or two of dried peas.
But, I pray you, let none of your people stir me: I
have an exposition of sleep come upon me.

10

Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 1]

Theseus

1699

I pray you all, stand up.
I know you two are rival enemies:
How comes this gentle concord in the world,
That hatred is so far from jealousy,
To sleep by hate, and fear no enmity?

11

Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 2]

Snug

1798

Masters, the duke is coming from the temple, and
there is two or three lords and ladies more married:
if our sport had gone forward, we had all been made
men.

12

Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1]

Theseus

2052

Now is the mural down between the two neighbours.

13

Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1]

Theseus

2059

If we imagine no worse of them than they of
themselves, they may pass for excellent men. Here
come two noble beasts in, a man and a lion.

14

Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1]

Bottom

2197

[Starting up] No assure you; the wall is down that
parted their fathers. Will it please you to see the
epilogue, or to hear a Bergomask dance between two
of our company?