Music, ho, music such as charmeth sleep! 85 Oberon tells Titania to relax Robin will change Bottom's head back, and he instructs Titania to call up music that will make the five Athenians sleep more soundly than normal. Than common sleep of all these five the sense. Silence awhile.-Robin, take off this head. She asks how on earth this happened, especially being that she hates the sight of Bottom now. Oberon points her in the direction of Bottom. Titania wakes up immediately and tells him she has had an insane dream that she was in love with a donkey. O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now! TITANIA How came these things to pass? 80 Oberon releases Titania from the spell by touching her eyes with a thing he calls "Dian's bud," which he says is more potent than even Cupid's power. He tells Robin to remove the ass head from Bottom and make it so that when Bottom wakes up, he'll think the whole experience has been nothing but a dream. Since Oberon's now got what he wanted all along, he decides to release Titania from her spell. Titania, who was busy decorating Bottom's head with flowers, agreed to give him up. Oberon says that earlier, when he found lovesick Titania snuggling with Bottom, he took the opportunity to ask her for the "changeling child. Robin shows up to join Oberon, who's been hanging out, invisible style. Now, my Titania, wake you, my sweet queen. 70īut first I will release the Fairy Queen. Which straight she gave me, and her fairy sentĪnd, gentle Puck, take this transformèd scalp 65įrom off the head of this Athenian swain,Īnd think no more of this night’s accidentsīut as the fierce vexation of a dream. I then did ask of her her changeling child, 60 Like tears that did their own disgrace bewail.Īnd she in mild terms begged my patience, Stood now within the pretty flouriets’ eyes, Was wont to swell like round and orient pearls, 55 With coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers Īnd that same dew, which sometime on the buds Seeking sweet favors for this hateful fool, 50įor she his hairy temples then had rounded Seest thou this sweet sight?įor, meeting her of late behind the wood, (She doesn't say it, but we can assume she's the pretty and delicate half of that metaphor.) Titania sends all of the fairies away and compares her strange pairing with Bottom to the relationship between the gentle ivy that twists around the ugly, barky elm. Titania tells him to go to sleep and she'll snuggle with him. So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms. None of it matters, though, because Bottom is feeling very sleepy. She offers to have a fairy steal some nuts from a squirrel, but Bottom says he'd rather have a couple handfuls of dried peas. Titania asks Bottom if he'd like something to eat, and he asks for oats and hay. Me I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. But, I pray you, let none of your people stir
The squirrel’s hoard and fetch thee new nuts.īOTTOM I had rather have a handful or two of dried Or say, sweet love, what thou desirest to eat.īOTTOM Truly, a peck of provender. Bottom says he has a good ear for music, and calls for "tongs and bones." (These are old rural musical instruments-the tongs were struck like a triangle, and the bones rattled in the hands, like clappers.)
Titania distracts Bottom from these worldly concerns, and asks him if he'd like to hear some music. What, wilt thou hear some music, my sweet love?īOTTOM I have a reasonable good ear in music. Then Bottom announces he needs to go to the barber because he's feeling kind of hairy, and when he's hairy, he feels itchy all over. He calls for Peaseblossom to scratch his head and for Cobweb to go kill him a bee and bring back its honey. And I am such a tender ass, if my hair doīottom still doesn't know his head has been transformed into that of an ass.
Monsieur, for methinks I am marvels hairy about 25 Pray you, leave your courtesy, good monsieur.īOTTOM Nothing, good monsieur, but to help CavaleryĬobweb to scratch. Where’s MonsieurīOTTOM Give me your neaf, Monsieur Mustardseed. Not I would be loath to have you overflown with a
Good monsieur, have a care the honey-bag break 15 Yourself too much in the action, monsieur, and, Humble-bee on the top of a thistle, and, good Your weapons in your hand and kill me a red-hipped Where’sīOTTOM Monsieur Cobweb, good monsieur, get you 10 Titania lavishes Bottom with her affection, twiddling his cheeks and kissing his large donkey ears.īOTTOM Scratch my head, Peaseblossom. Now we're back to Titania and Bottom, who are lounging around on a bed of flowers while Titania's fairies wait on them. Titania, Queen of Fairies, and Bottom and Fairies,Īnd Oberon, the King, behind them unseen by thoseĬome, sit thee down upon this flow’ry bed,Īnd stick muskroses in thy sleek smooth head,Īnd kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy. With the four lovers still asleep onstage, enter
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