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

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Dem.

My Lord, faire Helen told me of their stealth,

Of this their purpose hither, to this wood,

And I in furie hither followed them;

Faire Helena, in fancy followed me.

But my good Lord, I wot not by what power,

(But by some power it is) my loue

To Hermia (melted as the snow)

Seems to me now as the remembrance of an idle gaude,

Which in my childehood I did doat vpon:

And all the faith, the vertue of my heart,

The obiect and the pleasure of mine eye,

Is onely Helena. To her, my Lord,

Was I betroth'd, ere I see Hermia,

But like a sickenesse did I loath this food,

But as in health, come to my naturall taste,

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