AMND Act 4 Quotes Flashcards
Scene 1: Titania’s suggestive last verse of text before she sleeps with Bottom
“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!”
Scene 1: Oberon begins to pity Titania
“Her dotage now I do begin to pity (…) When I had at my pleasure taunted her (…) And now I have the boy, I will undo / This hateful imperfection of her eyes.”
Scene 1: Oberon changes Titania to love him
“Be as thou wast wont to be; / See as thou wast wont to see” (…)
Titania: “My Oberon! What visions have I seen! / Methought I was enamour’d of an ass (…) O how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!”
Scene 1: Hippolyta quote about the hounds of Sparta
“With the hounds of Sparta; never did I hear / Such gallant chiding; for, besides the groves, / The skies, the fountains, every region near / Seem’d all one mutual cry; I never heard / So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.”
Scene 1: Demetrius on his new love for Helena
“But by some power it is-my love to Hermia, / Melted as the snow (…) But like a sickness did I loathe this food: / But as in health, come to my natural taste”
Scene 1: Dem doubts their consciousness
“Are you sure / That we are awake? It seems to me / That yet we sleep, we dream.”
Scene 1: Bottom wakes up
“I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream (…) They eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man’s hand is not able to taste, his tongue cannot conceive, nor his heart it report, what my dream was (…) it shall be called ‘Bottom’s Dream’, because it hath no bottom”
Scene 2: quince on the importance of bottom
“It is not possible. You have not a man in all Athens able to discharge Pyramus but he.”
