A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Уильям Шекспир

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СКАЧАТЬ [Re-enter PUCK, and BOTTOM with an ass’s head.]

       PYRAMUS

       ‘If I were fair, Thisby, I were only thine:—’

       QUINCE

       O monstrous! O strange! we are haunted. Pray, masters! fly, masters! Help!

       [Exeunt Clowns.]

       PUCK

       I’ll follow you; I’ll lead you about a round,

       Through bog, through bush, through brake, through brier;

       Sometime a horse I’ll be, sometime a hound,

       A hog, a headless bear, sometime a fire;

       And neigh, and bark, and grunt, and roar, and burn,

       Like horse, hound, hog, bear, fire, at every turn.

       [Exit.]

       BOTTOM

       Why do they run away? This is a knavery of them to make me afeard.

       [Re-enter SNOUT.]

       SNOUT

       O Bottom, thou art changed! What do I see on thee?

       BOTTOM

       What do you see? you see an ass-head of your own, do you?

       [Re-enter QUINCE.]

       QUINCE

       Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated.

       [Exit.]

       BOTTOM

       I see their knavery: this is to make an ass of me; to fright me, if they could. But I will not stir from this place, do what they can: I will walk up and down here, and I will sing, that they shall hear I am not afraid.

       [Sings.]

       The ousel cock, so black of hue,

       With orange-tawny bill,

       The throstle with his note so true,

       The wren with little quill.

       TITANIA

       [Waking.]

       What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?

       BOTTOM

       [Sings.]

       The finch, the sparrow, and the lark,

       The plainsong cuckoo gray,

       Whose note full many a man doth mark,

       And dares not answer nay;—

       for, indeed, who would set his wit to so foolish a bird? Who would give a bird the lie, though he cry ‘cuckoo’ never so?

       TITANIA

       I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again;

       Mine ear is much enamour’d of thy note.

       So is mine eye enthrallèd to thy shape;

       And thy fair virtue’s force perforce doth move me,

       On the first view, to say, to swear, I love thee.

       BOTTOM

       Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that: and yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days: the more the pity that some honest neighbours will not make them friends. Nay, I can gleek upon occasion.

       TITANIA

       Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.

       BOTTOM

       Not so, neither: but if I had wit enough to get out of this wood, I have enough to serve mine own turn.

       TITANIA

       Out of this wood do not desire to go;

       Thou shalt remain here whether thou wilt or no.

       I am a spirit of no common rate,—

       The summer still doth tend upon my state;

       And I do love thee: therefore, go with me,

       I’ll give thee fairies to attend on thee;

       And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep,

       And sing, while thou on pressèd flowers dost sleep:

       And I will purge thy mortal grossness so

       That thou shalt like an airy spirit go.—

       Peasblossom! Cobweb! Moth! and Mustardseed!

       [Enter Four Fairies.]

       FIRST FAIRY

       Ready.

       SECOND FAIRY

       And I.

       THIRD FAIRY

       And I.

       FOURTH FAIRY

       Where shall we go?

       TITANIA

       Be kind and courteous to this gentleman;

       Hop in his walks and gambol in his eyes;

       Feed him with apricocks 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 glowworm’s 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.

       FIRST FAIRY

       Hail, mortal!

       SECOND FAIRY

       Hail!

       THIRD FAIRY

       Hail!

       FOURTH FAIRY

       Hail!

       BOTTOM

       I cry your worships mercy, heartily.—I beseech your worship’s СКАЧАТЬ