The Stratford gallery; . ! Whoever shoots at him, I set him there ; Whoever charges on his forward breast, I am the caitiff that do hold him to it; And, though I kill him not, I am the cause His death was so eifected. Better twere I met the ravin lion when he roard With sharp constraint of huuger ; better twere That all the miseries which nature owes Were mine at once : N~o, come thou home, Rousillon, Whence honor but of danger wins a scar As oft it loses all. I will be gone; My being here it is that holds thee hence : Shall I stay here to do t ? no, no, although The air of Paradise did fan th
The Stratford gallery; . ! Whoever shoots at him, I set him there ; Whoever charges on his forward breast, I am the caitiff that do hold him to it; And, though I kill him not, I am the cause His death was so eifected. Better twere I met the ravin lion when he roard With sharp constraint of huuger ; better twere That all the miseries which nature owes Were mine at once : N~o, come thou home, Rousillon, Whence honor but of danger wins a scar As oft it loses all. I will be gone; My being here it is that holds thee hence : Shall I stay here to do t ? no, no, although The air of Paradise did fan the house, And angels offied all. I will be gone— That pitiful rumor may report my flight, To consolate thine ea We should repose more faith in the disinterestedness of Hel-enas flight from her husbands home, if she did not steer straightfor Florence, where she knows he is quartered, and if she were lessmunificently provided with money and jewels, inappropriate to theestate of pilgrims. But— Alls well that rials TIT AX I A. TiTAjaA, wife of Oberon, was rpieen- of a band of fairies, whoheld nightly revel in the beautiful wood a league from the townof Athens. An ancient law of that city invested a father with the powerof dooming his daughter to death or celibacy, if she refused thehusband of his choosing; accordingly, Egeus, a citizen of Athens,came before Duke Theseus and demanded that this law be en-forced against his daughter Herinia, because she refused to marryDemetrius, whom he had selected for a son-in-law. In defence,Hermia urged that she loved, and was betrothed to, Lysander ;moreover, that Demetrius was beloved by her dearest friend, He-lena, for whom until lately he had professed ardent affection. Notwithstanding the justice of her pleas, Theseus had no rightto put aside the law, and Hermia was allowed four days only—tochoose between death and a life of single blessedness, in prefer-ence to marriage with a man whose fickle, faithless passion shedespised. Lys
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