William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream (1600)

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The best in this kind are but shadows, and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.

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And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.

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Jack shall have Jill;
Nought shall go ill;
The man shall have his mare again,
And all shall be well.

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But earthlier happy is the rose distilled,
Than that which withering on the virgin thorn
Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.

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Puck: How now, spirit! whither wander you?
Fairy: Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough fire.

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I could play Ercles rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to make all split.

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My Oberon! what visions have I seen!
Methought I was enamoured of an ass.

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Come, trusty sword,
Come, blade, my breast imbrue!

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The most lamentable comedy, and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby.

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And there the snake throws her enamelled skin,
Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in.

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To show our simple skill,
That is the true beginning of our end.

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Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

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Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming.

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God shield us!—a lion among ladies, is a most dreadful thing; for there is not a more fearful wild-fowl than your lion living.

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