A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Уильям Шекспир

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СКАЧАТЬ I have a venturous fairy that shall seek

       The squirrel’s hoard, and fetch thee new nuts.

       BOTTOM

       I had rather have a handful or two of dried peas. But, I pray you, let none of your people stir me; I have an exposition of sleep come upon me.

       TITANIA

       Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms.

       Fairies, be gone, and be all ways away.

       So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle

       Gently entwist,—the female ivy so

       Enrings the barky fingers of the elm.

       O, how I love thee! how I dote on thee!

       [They sleep.]

       [OBERON advances. Enter PUCK.]

       OBERON

       Welcome, good Robin. Seest thou this sweet sight?

       Her dotage now I do begin to pity.

       For, meeting her of late behind the wood,

       Seeking sweet favours for this hateful fool,

       I did upbraid her and fall out with her:

       For she his hairy temples then had rounded

       With coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers;

       And that same dew, which sometime on the buds

       Was wont to swell like round and orient pearls,

       Stood now within the pretty flow’rets’ eyes,

       Like tears that did their own disgrace bewail.

       When I had, at my pleasure, taunted her,

       And she, in mild terms, begg’d my patience,

       I then did ask of her her changeling child;

       Which straight she gave me, and her fairy sent

       To bear him to my bower in fairyland.

       And now I have the boy, I will undo

       This hateful imperfection of her eyes.

       And, gentle Puck, take this transformèd scalp

       From off the head of this Athenian swain,

       That he awaking when the other do,

       May all to Athens back again repair,

       And think no more of this night’s accidents

       But as the fierce vexation of a dream.

       But first I will release the fairy queen.

       Be as thou wast wont to be;

       [Touching her eyes with an herb.]

       See as thou was wont to see.

       Dian’s bud o’er Cupid’s flower

       Hath such force and blessed power.

       Now, my Titania; wake you, my sweet queen.

       TITANIA

       My Oberon! what visions have I seen!

       Methought I was enamour’d of an ass.

       OBERON

       There lies your love.

       TITANIA

       How came these things to pass?

       O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!

       OBERON

       Silence awhile.—Robin, take off this head.

       Titania, music call; and strike more dead

       Than common sleep, of all these five, the sense.

       TITANIA

       Music, ho! music; such as charmeth sleep.

       PUCK

       Now when thou wak’st, with thine own fool’s eyes peep.

       OBERON

       Sound, music.

       [Still music.]

       Come, my queen, take hands with me,

       And rock the ground whereon these sleepers be.

       Now thou and I are new in amity,

       And will tomorrow midnight solemnly

       Dance in Duke Theseus’ house triumphantly,

       And bless it to all fair prosperity:

       There shall the pairs of faithful lovers be

       Wedded, with Theseus, all in jollity.

       PUCK

       Fairy king, attend and mark;

       I do hear the morning lark.

       OBERON

       Then, my queen, in silence sad,

       Trip we after night’s shade.

       We the globe can compass soon,

       Swifter than the wand’ring moon.

       TITANIA

       Come, my lord; and in our flight,

       Tell me how it came this night

       That I sleeping here was found

       With these mortals on the ground.

       [Exeunt. Horns sound within.]

       [Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, EGEUS, and Train.]

       THESEUS

       Go, one of you, find out the forester;—

       For now our observation is perform’d;

       And since we have the vaward of the day,

       My love shall hear the music of my hounds,—

       Uncouple in the western valley; go:—

       Despatch, I say, and find the forester.—

       [Exit an ATTENDANT.]

       We will, fair queen, up to the mountain’s top,

       And mark the musical СКАЧАТЬ