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

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Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,
Pale in her anger washes all the air,
That rheumatic diseases do abound;
And through this distemperature we see
The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

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The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.

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Follow? Nay, I'll go with thee, cheek by jowl.

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You spotted snakes with double tongue,
Thorny hedge-hogs, be not seen;
Newts, and blind-worms, do no wrong;
Come not near our fairy queen.

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The lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.

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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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