Act 1, Scene 1
THESEUSHippolyta, I woo'd thee with my swordAnd won thy love doing thee injuries,But I will wed thee in another key,With pomp, with triumph, and with reveling. (1.1.17-20)
Act 1, Scene 2
QUINCEHere is the scroll of every man's name whichis thought fit, through all Athens, to play in ourinterlude before the Duke and the Duchess on hiswedding-day at night. (1.2.4-7)
Act 2, Scene 1
OBERSONFetch me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once.The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laidWill make or man or woman madly doteUpon the next live creature that it sees. (2.1.175-178)
Act 3, Scene 1
QUINCE Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou arttranslated.ExitBOTTOM I see their knavery: this is to make an ass of me, (3.1.120-123)
Act 3, Scene 2
LYSANDER Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! Vile thing, let loose,Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent.HERMIA Why are you grown so rude? What change is this,Sweet love?LYSANDER Thy love? Out, ta...
Act 4, Scene 1
TITANIA My Oberon, what visions have I seen!Methought I was enamoured of an ass.OBERON There lies your love.TITANIA How came these things to pass?O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now! (4.1.77-81)
Act 4, Scene 2
SNUG Masters, the Duke is coming from the temple,and there is two or three lords and ladies more married. If our sport had gone forward, we had allbeen made men.FLUTE O, sweet b...
Act 5, Scene 1
THESEUSLovers and madmen have such seething brains,[...]The lunatic, the lover, and the poetAre of imagination all compact: (5.1.4; 7-8)
Epilogue
PUCK If we shadows have offended,Think but this, and all is mended:That you have but slumbered hereWhile these visions did appear.And this weak and idle theme,No more yielding but a dream, (5.1.440...