No Fear Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 3, Scene 1, Page 8
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Enter four fairies: PEASEBLOSSOM,
COBWEB, MOTH, and
MUSTARDSEED
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Four fairies—PEASEBLOSSOM,
COBWEB, MOTH, and
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PEASEBLOSSOM
Ready.
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PEASEBLOSSOM
Ready.
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COBWEB
And I.
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COBWEB
Me too.
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MOTH
And I.
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MOTH
Me too.
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MUSTARDSEED
And I.
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MUSTARDSEED
And me too.
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ALL
Where shall we go?
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ALL
Where should we go?
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TITANIA
Be kind and courteous to this gentleman.
Hop in his walks and gambol in his eyes.
Feed him with apricoks and dewberries,
With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries.
The honey bags steal from the humble-bees,
And for night tapers crop their waxen thighs
And light them at the fiery glowworms' eyes
To have my love to bed and to arise.
And pluck the wings from painted butterflies
To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.
Nod to him, elves, and do him courtesies.
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TITANIA
Be kind and polite to this gentleman. Follow him around. Leap and
dance for him. Feed him apricots and blackberries, with purple
grapes, green figs, and mulberries. Steal honey from the bumblebees,
and make candles out of the bees' wax. Light them with
the light of glowworms, so my love will have light when he goes to
bed and wakes up. Pluck off colorful butterfly wings, and use them
to fan moonbeams away from his eyes as he sleeps. Bow to him,
fairies, and curtsy to him.
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PEASEBLOSSOM
Hail, mortal.
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PEASEBLOSSOM
Hello, mortal!
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COBWEB
Hail.
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COBWEB
Hello!
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MOTH
Hail.
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MOTH
Hello!
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MUSTARDSEED
Hail.
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MUSTARDSEED
Hello!
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BOTTOM
I cry your worships' mercy, heartily.—I
beseech your worship’s name.
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BOTTOM
I beg your pardon, sirs.—Please tell me your name,
sir?
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