No Fear Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 3, Scene 2, Page 19
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ROBIN
Yet but three? Come one more.
Two of both kinds make up four.
Here she comes, cursed and sad.
Cupid is a knavish lad
Thus to make poor females mad.
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ROBIN
Only three so far? We’re still waiting for one more.
Two of both kinds makes four. Ah, here she comes, angry and sad.
Cupid is a bad boy for making poor women go crazy like this.
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Enter HERMIA
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HERMIA enters. |
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HERMIA
Never so weary, never so in woe,
Bedabbled with the dew and torn with briers,
I can no further crawl, no further go.
My legs can keep no pace with my desires.
Here will I rest me till the break of day.
Heavens shield Lysander if they mean a fray!
(lies down and sleeps)
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HERMIA
I’ve never been more exhausted or upset. I’m
all wet from the dew and scratched up by thorns, and I
can’t crawl any farther. I just can’t go on.
My legs can’t hold themselves up. I’ll sleep
here until morning. If they do fight, I hope Lysander is safe!
(HERMIA
lies down and sleeps)
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ROBIN
On the ground
Sleep sound.
I’ll apply
To your eye.
Gentle lover, remedy.
(squeezes flower juice into
LYSANDER ’s eyes)
When thou wakest,
Thou takest
True delight
In the sight
Of thy former lady’s eye.
And the country proverb known—
That every man should take his own—
In your waking shall be shown.
Jack shall have Jill.
Nought shall go ill.
The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well.
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ROBIN
Sleep well there on the ground. I’ll cure you, gentle
lover, by putting this medicine on your eyes.
(ROBIN
puts the nectar of the
flower on
LYSANDER’s
eyelids)
When you wake you will be truly delighted to see the woman you once
loved. And when you wake up, you’ll be a walking
illustration of the well-known country proverb. “Jack
will have Jill and everything will be all right.”
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Exit ROBIN
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ROBIN exits. |
