A Midsummer Night's Dream

"Snout: You can never bring in a wall. What say you, Bottom? Bottom: Some man or other must present wall: and let him have some plaster, or some loam, or some rough-cast about him, to signify wall."

"Where are these lads? where are these hearts?"

"The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose; And on old Hiems’ thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set: the spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries."

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

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

"Four days will quickly steep themselves in night; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night Of our solemnities."

"For aye to be in shady cloister mew’d, To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon."

"For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth."

"O, hell! to choose love by another’s eyes."

"Earthlier happy is the rose distilld, Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness."

"A proper man, as one shall see in a summer’s day."

"What thou seest when thou dost wake, Do it for thy true-love take; Love and languish for his sake: Be it ounce, or cat, or bear, Pard, or boar with bristled hair, In thy eye that shall appear When thou wakest, it is thy dear: Wake when some vile thing is near."