Reading A Midsommer Nights Dreame [A Midsummer Night's Dream]

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Ob.

I pray thee giue it me.

I know a banke where the wilde time blowes,

Where Oxslips and the nodding Violet growes,

Quite ouer‑cannoped with luscious woodbine,

With sweet muske roses, and with Eglantine;

There sleepes Tytania, sometime of the night,

Lul'd in these flowers, with dances and delight:

And there the snake throwes her enammel'd skinne,

Weed wide enough to rap a Fairy in.

And with the iuyce of this Ile streake her eyes,

And make her full of hatefull fantasies.

Take thou some of it, and seek through this groue;

A sweet Athenian Lady is in loue

With a disdainefull youth: annoint his eyes,

But doe it when the next thing he espies,

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