Identifier: comediesofwillia02shak Title: The comedies of William Shakespeare Year: 1896 (1890s) Authors: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Abbey, Edwin Austin, 1852-1911 Subjects: Publisher: New York : Harper and brothers Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: h him. Obcr. How long within this wood intend you stay? Queen. Perchance till after Theseus wedding-day.If you will patiently dance in our round.And see our moonlight revels, go with us;If not, shun me, and I will spare your haunts. Obey. Give me that boy, and I will go with thee. Queen. Not for thy fairy kingdom.—Fairies, away :We shall chide downright, if I longer stay. S^Exeunt. Ober. Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from thisgroveTill I torment thee for this injury.—My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememberstSince once I sat upon a promontoryAnd heard a mermaid, on a dolphins back,Utterinor such dulcet and harmonious breathThat the rude sea grew civil at her song.And certain stars shot madly from their spheresTo hear the sea-maids music. Puck. I remember. Obcr. That very time I saw (but thou couldst not)Flying between the cold moon and the earthCupid all armd: a certain aim he tookAt a fair vestal, throned by the west, Plate 3TITANIA Midsummer-Nights Dream, act ii., scene ii. Text Appearing After Image: v,.^. •£0^ A MIDSUMMER-NIGHTS DREAM 17 And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts. But I might see young Cupids fiery shaft Ouenchd in the chaste beams of the watry moon ; And the imperial votress passed on In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet markd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower— Before milk-white, now purple with loves wound— And maidens call it love-in-idleness. Fetch me that flower: the herb I showd thee once : The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid Will make or man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees. Fetch me this herb: and be thou here again Ere the leviathan can swim a league. Puck. Ill put a girdle round about the earthIn forty minutes. Ober. Having once this juice, Ill watch Titania when she is asleep,And drop the liquor of it in her eyes:The next thing when she waking looks upon(Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull,On meddling monkey, or on busy ape), Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.