Typical tales of fancy, romance, and history from Shakespeare's plays; in narrative form, largely in Shakespeare's words, with dialogue passages in the original dramatic text . Lysanders eye ; {Giving him another flower. Whose liquor hath this virtuous property, To take from thence all error with its might, And make his eyeballs roll with wonted sight. 1 United in one. 2 Happen. 50 SHAKESPEARE FOR THE YOUNG FOLK. When they next wake, all this derision Shall seem a dream, and fruitless vision : And back to Athens shall the lovers wend, With league, whose date till death shall never end. Whilst
Typical tales of fancy, romance, and history from Shakespeare's plays; in narrative form, largely in Shakespeare's words, with dialogue passages in the original dramatic text . Lysanders eye ; {Giving him another flower. Whose liquor hath this virtuous property, To take from thence all error with its might, And make his eyeballs roll with wonted sight. 1 United in one. 2 Happen. 50 SHAKESPEARE FOR THE YOUNG FOLK. When they next wake, all this derision Shall seem a dream, and fruitless vision : And back to Athens shall the lovers wend, With league, whose date till death shall never end. Whilst I in this affair do thee employ, I 11 to my queen, and beg her Indian boy ; And then I will her charmed eye release From monsters view, and all things shall be peace. Puck. My fairy lord, this must be done with haste,For nights swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,And yonder shines Auroras harbinger. Oberon. Make no delay: We may effect this business yet ere day. Then Oberon goes off to Titania. Puck, in great glee, laughs and sings, — Up and down, up and down ;I will lead them up and down :I am feared in field and town;Goblin, lead them up and comes And at this moment Lysander enters. Puck calls out to him in the voice ofDemetrius, daring him to follow to more open ground that they may fight, and offrushes Lysander after the voice. Then Puck turns about and in the same wayfools Demetrius, who is not far behind; and he keeps up this merry farce until hehas tired them both out, and leaves them at last fast asleep on the turf where theyhave thrown themselves, one after the other, and each unconscious that the otheris so near. Soon after this Helena came wearily along. In the dusky shadow of thewood, seeing no one, she too lay down and slept. And shortly Hermia, sore-footed and weeping, bedabbled with the dew and torn with briers, crawled tothe self-same spot, and, equally under the spell of the place, lay down, and soonwas soundly slumbering like the rest. Puc
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