AMND Act 2 Quotes Flashcards
Scene 1: what do the elves do when Oberon and Titania fight?
Puck: “But they do square; that all the elves for fear / Creep into acorn-cups, and hide them there”
Scene 1: some mischiefs that Puck does
Fairy: “Call’d Robin Goodfellow. Are not you he / That frights the maidens of the villagery (…) Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm?”
Scene 1: first words between Oberon and Titania
Obe: “Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania. /
T: “What, jealous Oberon? Fairies, skip hence; / I have forsworn his bed and company.”
Obe: “Tarry, rash wanton; am I not thy lord?” /
T: “Then I must be thy lady”
Scene 1: parts of Titania’s monologue
“These are the forgeries of jealousy (…) Contagious fogs (…) the green corn / Hath rotted ere his youth attain’d a beard: / The fold stands empty in the drowned field, / And the crows are fatted with murrion flock (…) And this same progeny of evils comes / From our debate, from our dissension; / We are their parents and original.”
Scene 1: Oberon plans his revenge
“Till I torment thee for this injury (…) Cupid all arm’d: a certain aim he took / At a fair vestal, thrones by the west (…) And the imperial votress passed on, / In maiden meditation, fancy-free (reference to Queen Elizabeth) (…) I’ll watch Titania when she is asleep, / And drop the liquor of it in her eyes (…) “I am invisible.”
Scene 1: Demetrius to Helena about her pursuing him and how he cannot love her.
“I love thee not, therefore pursue me not.” […]
“Or do I not in plainest truth / Tell you that I do not, nor I cannot love you?”
Scene 1: Helena as a dog quote
Helena: “I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius, / The more you eat me, I will fawn on you. / Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me, / Neglect me, lose me.”
Scene 1: Demetrius threatens Helena, describing the dangers of being in the wood alone at night.
Dem: “Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit; / For I am sick when I do look on thee.”
Hel: “And I am sick when I look not on you.”
Dem: “You do impeach your modesty too much / To leave the city and commit yourself / Into the hands of one that loves you not, / To trust the opportunity of night / And the ill counsel of a desert place / With the rich worth of your virginity.”
Scene 1: Helena talks about how the story will be changed
“Run when you will; the story shall be chang’d: / Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase”
Scene 1: Helena women quote
“Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex. / We cannot fight for love, as men may do; / We should be woo’d, and were not made to woo. / I’ll follow thee, and make a heaven of hell, / To die upon the hand I love so well.
Scene 2: Lysander tries to seduce Hermia into sleeping with him.
Lys: “One turf shall serve as pillow for us both; / One heart, one bed, two bosoms, and one troth.” /
Her: “Nay, good Lysander; for my sake, my dear, / Lie further off yet; do not lie so near. […] For love and courtesy, / Lie further off, in human modesty.”
Scene 2: Lysander changes his love from Hermia to Helena and Helena’s reaction to this.
Lys: “Content with Hermia? No. I do repent / The tedious minutes I with her have spent.” […]
Hel: “Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? / When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?”
Scene 2: Hermia’s wakes from a nightmare and discovers Lysander gone.
“Methought a serpent ate my heart away, / And you sat smiling at his cruel prey. / Lysander! What, remov’d?”
