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Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 1]

Theseus

50

What say you, Hermia? be advised fair maid:
To you your father should be as a god;
One that composed your beauties, yea, and one
To whom you are but as a form in wax
By him imprinted and within his power
To leave the figure or disfigure it.
Demetrius is a worthy gentleman.

2

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 1]

Theseus

70

Either to die the death or to abjure
For ever the society of men.
Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires;
Know of your youth, examine well your blood,
Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice,
You can endure the livery of a nun,
For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd,
To live a barren sister all your life,
Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.
Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood,
To undergo such maiden pilgrimage;
But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd,
Than that which withering on the virgin thorn
Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.

3

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 1]

Lysander

98

You have her father's love, Demetrius;
Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.

4

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 1]

Theseus

116

I must confess that I have heard so much,
And with Demetrius thought to have spoke thereof;
But, being over-full of self-affairs,
My mind did lose it. But, Demetrius, come;
And come, Egeus; you shall go with me,
I have some private schooling for you both.
For you, fair Hermia, look you arm yourself
To fit your fancies to your father's will;
Or else the law of Athens yields you up—
Which by no means we may extenuate—
To death, or to a vow of single life.
Come, my Hippolyta: what cheer, my love?
Demetrius and Egeus, go along:
I must employ you in some business
Against our nuptial and confer with you
Of something nearly that concerns yourselves.

5

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 1]

Egeus

132

With duty and desire we follow you.

6

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 1]

Helena

189

Call you me fair? that fair again unsay.
Demetrius loves your fair: O happy fair!
Your eyes are lode-stars; and your tongue's sweet air
More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear,
When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear.
Sickness is catching: O, were favour so,
Yours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go;
My ear should catch your voice, my eye your eye,
My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody.
Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated,
The rest I'd give to be to you translated.
O, teach me how you look, and with what art
You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart.

7

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 1]

Lysander

216

Helen, to you our minds we will unfold:
To-morrow night, when Phoebe doth behold
Her silver visage in the watery glass,
Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass,
A time that lovers' flights doth still conceal,
Through Athens' gates have we devised to steal.

8

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 1]

Hermia

222

And in the wood, where often you and I
Upon faint primrose-beds were wont to lie,
Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet,
There my Lysander and myself shall meet;
And thence from Athens turn away our eyes,
To seek new friends and stranger companies.
Farewell, sweet playfellow: pray thou for us;
And good luck grant thee thy Demetrius!
Keep word, Lysander: we must starve our sight
From lovers' food till morrow deep midnight.

9

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 1]

Lysander

232

I will, my Hermia.
[Exit HERMIA]
Helena, adieu:
As you on him, Demetrius dote on you!

10

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2]

Bottom

266

You were best to call them generally, man by man,
according to the scrip.

11

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2]

Bottom

277

A very good piece of work, I assure you, and a
merry. Now, good Peter Quince, call forth your
actors by the scroll. Masters, spread yourselves.

12

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2]

Quince

280

Answer as I call you. Nick Bottom, the weaver.

13

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2]

Quince

282

You, Nick Bottom, are set down for Pyramus.

14

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2]

Quince

304

Flute, you must take Thisby on you.

15

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2]

Quince

308

That's all one: you shall play it in a mask, and
you may speak as small as you will.

16

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2]

Quince

314

No, no; you must play Pyramus: and, Flute, you Thisby.

17

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2]

Quince

318

Robin Starveling, you must play Thisby's mother.
Tom Snout, the tinker.

18

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2]

Quince

321

You, Pyramus' father: myself, Thisby's father:
Snug, the joiner; you, the lion's part: and, I
hope, here is a play fitted.

19

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2]

Snug

324

Have you the lion's part written? pray you, if it
be, give it me, for I am slow of study.

20

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2]

Quince

326

You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring.