A Midsummer Night's Dream

Act 1

Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Nor hath Love's mind of any judgement taste.
Wings, and no eyes, figure unheedy haste.
And therefore is Love said to be a child
Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.
As waggish boys in game themselves forswear,
So the boy Love is perjured everywhere.
-Helena

Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.
-Oberon

Act 3

Lord, what fools these mortals be!
-Puck

When they next wake, all this derision
Shall seem a dream and fruitless vision.
-Oberon

Act 5

O night, which ever art when day is not!
-Bottom as Pyramus

No epilogue, I pray you, for your play needs no excuse.
-Theseus

If we shadows have offended,
Think but this and all is mended:
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
-Puck

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