Demetrius lines :3

Question 1

Titania:
…Upon that day either prepare to die
For disobedience to your father’s will,
Or else to wed Demetrius, as he would,
Or on Diana’s altar to protest
For aye austerity and single life.

Answer 1

Demetrius:
Relent, sweet Hermia—And Lysander, yield
Thy crazed title to my certain right.

Question 2

Oberon:
…As I can take it with another herd–
I’ll make her render up her page to me.
But who comes here? I am invisible.
And I will overhear their conference.

Answer 2

Enter Demetrius, Helena following him
Demetrius:
I love thee not, therefore pursue me not.
Hence, get thee gone, and follow me no more.

Question 3

Helena:
You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant.
But yet you draw not iron, for my heart
Is true as steel. Leave you your power to draw
And I shall have no power to follow you .

Answer 3

Demetrius:
Do I entice you? Do I speak you fair?
Or rather, do I not in plainest truth
Tell you I do not, nor I cannot, love you?

Question 4

Helena:
And even for that do I love you the more.
Neglect me, lose me. Only give me leave,
Unworthy as I am, to follow you.

Answer 4

Demetrius:
Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit.
For I am sick when I do look on thee.

Question 5

Helena:
And I am sick when I look not on you.

Answer 5

Demetrius:
You do impeach your modesty too much,
To leave the city and commit yourself
Into the hands of one that loves you not.

Question 6

Helena:
…Therefore I think I am not in the night.
Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company,
For you in my respect are all the world.
Then how can it be said I am alone
When all the world is here to look on me?

Answer 6

Demetrius:
I’ll run from thee and hide me in the brakes,
And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts.

Question 7

Helena:
…Apollo flies and Daphne holds the chase.
The dove pursues the griffin. The mild hind
Makes speed to catch the tiger—bootless speed,
When cowardice pursues and valor flies.

Answer 7

Demetrius:
I will not stay thy questions. Let me go.
Or if thou follow me, do not believe
But I shall do thee mischief in the wood.

Question 8

Enter Demetrius and Helena, running
Helena:
Stay, though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius.

Answer 8

Demetrius:
I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.

Question 9

Helena:
O, wilt thou darkling leave me? Do not so.

Answer 9

Demetrius:
Stay, on thy peril. I alone will go.
*Exit Demetrius

Question 10

Enter Demetrius and Hermia
Oberon:
Stand close. This is the same Athenian.
Robin:
This is the woman, but not this the man.

Answer 10

Demetrius:
Oh, why rebuke you him that loves you so?
Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.

Question 11

Hermia:
…The sun was not so true unto the day
As he to me. Would he have stolen away
From sleeping Hermia?
It cannot be but thou hast murdered him.
So should a murderer look, so dead, so grim.

Answer 11

Demetrius:
So should the murdered look, and so should I,
Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty.

Question 12

Hermia:
What’s this to my Lysander? Where is he?
Ah, good Demetrius, wilt thou give him me?

Answer 12

Demetrius:
I would rather give his carcass to my hounds.

Question 13

Hermia:
Out, dog! Out, cur! Thou hast drivest me past the bounds
Of maiden’s patience. Hast thou slain him then?

Answer 13

Demetrius:
You spend your passion on a misprised mood.
I am not guilty of Lysander’s blood.
Nor is he dead, for aught that I can tell.

Question 14

Hermia:
I pray thee, tell me then that he is well.

Answer 14

Demetrius:
An if I could, what should I get therefore?

Question 15

Hermia:
A privilege never to see me more.
And from thy hatred presence part I so.
See me no more, whether he be dead or no.
Exit Hermia

Answer 15

Demetrius:
There is no following her in this fierce vein.
Here therefore for a while I will remain.
lies down and sleeps

Question 16

Lysander:
I had no judgement when to her I swore.
Helena:
Nor none, in my mind, now you give her o’er
Lysander:
Demetrius loves her, and he loves not you.

Answer 16

Demetrius:
(waking) O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine!
To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne?
Crystal is muddy.
Oh, let me kiss
This princess of pure white, this seal of bliss!

Question 17

Lysander:
…And yours of Helena to me bequeath,
Whom I do love and will do till my death.
Helena:
Never did mockers waste more idle breath.

Answer 17

Demetrius:
Lysander, keep thy Hermia. I will none.
If I e’er loved her, all that love is gone.
My heart to her but as guest-wise sojourned,
And now to Helen is it home returned.
Look, where thy love comes. Yonder is thy dear.

Question 18

Lysander:
Stay, gentle Helena. Hear my excuse.
My love, my life, my soul, fair Helena!
Helena:
Oh, excellent!
Hermia:
Sweet, do not scorn her so.

Answer 18

Demetrius:
If she cannot entreat, I can compel.

Question 19

Lysander:
Thou canst compel no more than she entreat.
Thy treats have no more strength than her weak prayers.
Helen, I love thee. By my life, I do.

Answer 19

Demetrius:
I say I love thee more than he can do.

Question 20

Lysander:
If thou say so, withdraw and prove it too.

Answer 20

Demetrius:
Quick, come.

Question 21

Hermia:
Lysander, whereto tends all this?

Answer 21

Demetrius:
But yet come not. You are a tame man, go!

Question 22

Hermia:
Do you not jest?
Helena:
Yes, sooth, and so do you.
Lysander:
Demetrius, I will keep my word with thee.

Answer 22

Demetrius:
I would I had your bond, for I perceive
A weak bond holds you. I’ll not trust your word.

Question 23

Hermia:
What, with Lysander?
Helena:
With Demetrius.
Lysander:
Be not afraid. She shall not harm thee, Helena.

Answer 23

Demetrius:
No, sir, she shall not, though you take her part.

Question 24

Lysander:
Get you gone, you dwarf,
You minimus of hindering knotgrass made,
You bead, you acorn!

Answer 24

Demetrius:
You are too officious
In her behalf that scorns your services.
Let her alone. Speak not of Helena.
Take not her part. For if thou dost intend
Never so little show of love to her,
Thou shalt aby it.

Question 25

Lysander:
Now, she holds me not.
Now follow, if thou darest, to try whose right,
Of thine or mine, is most in Helena.

Answer 25

Demetrius:
“Follow”? Nay, I’ll go with thee, cheek by jowl.
Exeunt Lysander and Demetrius

Question 26

Robin:
(as Demetrius) Here, villain. Drawn and ready. Where art thou?
Lysander:
I will be with thee straight.
Robin:
Follow me then
To plainer ground.

Answer 26

Enter Demetrius
Demetrius:
Lysander, speak again!
Thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled?
Speak! In some bush? Where dost thou hide thy head?

Question 27

Robin:
(as Lysander) Thou coward, art thou bragging to the stars,
Telling the bushes that thou look’st for wars,
And wilt not come? Come, recreant. Come, thou child!
I’ll whip thee with a rod. He is defiled
That draws a sword on thee.

Answer 27

Demetrius:
Yea, art thou there?

Question 28

Robin:
(as Lysander) Ho, ho, ho! Coward, why comest thou not?

Answer 28

Demetrius:
Abide me, if thou darest! For well I wot
Thou runn’st before me, shifting every place,
And darest not stand nor look me in the face.
Where art thou now?

Question 29

Robin:
(as Lysander) Come hither. I am here.

Answer 29

Demetrius:
Nay, then, thou mock’st me. Thou shalt buy this dear
If ever I thy face by daylight see.
Now go thy way. Faintness constraineth me
To measure out my length on this cold bed.
By day’s approach look to be visited.
(lies down and sleeps)

Question 30

Egeus:
Enough, enough, my lord. You have enough!
I beg the law, the law, upon his head.—
They would have stol’n away, they would, Demetrius,
Thereby to have defeated you and me,
You of your wife and me of my consent,
Of my consent that she should be your wife.

Answer 30

Demetrius:
My lord, fair Helen told me of their stealth,
Of this their purpose hither to this wood.

Question 31

Theseus:
Fair lovers, you are fortunately met.
Of this discourse we more will hear anon.–
Egeus, I will overbear your will.
For in the temple by and by with us
These couples shall eternally be knit.–
Exeunt Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus, and train

Answer 31

Demetrius:
These things seem small and undistinguishable,
Like far-off mountains turned into clouds.

Question 32

Helena:
So methinks. And I have found Demetrius like a jewel,
Mine own, and not mine own.

Answer 32

Demetrius:
Are you sure
That we are awake? It seems to me
That yet we sleep, we dream. Do not you think
The duke was here, and bid us follow him?

Question 33

Helen:
And Hippolyta.
Lysander:
And he did bid us follow to the temple.

Answer 33

Demetrius:
Why then, we are awake. Let’s follow him
And by the way let us recount our dreams.
Exeunt Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, and Hermia

Question 34

(Prologue, delivered by Quince)
Theseus:
I wonder if the lion be to speak.

Answer 34

Demetrius:
No wonder, my lord. One lion may when many asses do.

Question 35

(Wall monologue)
Theseus:
Would you desire lime and hair to speak better?

Answer 35

Demetrius:
It is the wittiest partition that ever I heard discourse, my lord.

Question 36

Wall:
I, Wall, have done my part. Now that I’m done, Wall can go away.
Wall exits.
Theseus:
Now is the mural down between the two neighbors.

Answer 36

Demetrius:
No remedy, my lord, when walls are so willful to hear without warning.

Question 37

(Lion Monologue)
Theseus:
A very gentle beast, of good conscience.

Answer 37

Demetrius:
The very best at a beast, my lord, that e’er I saw.

Question 38

Moonshine:
This lanthorn doth the horned moon present–

Answer 38

Demetrius:
He should have worn the horns on his head.

Question 39

Moonshine:
All that I have to say is to tell you that the lanthorn is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this thornbush, my thornbush; and this dog, my dog.

Answer 39

Demetrius: Here comes Thisbe.

Question 40

Thisbe:
This is old Ninny’s tomb. Where is my love?
Lion:
(roaring) Oh!
Thisbe runs off, dropping her mantle

Answer 40

Demetrius:
Well roared, Lion!

Question 41

Theseus:
Well moused, Lion!
Enter Pyramus

Answer 41

Demetrius:
And then came Pyramus.

Question 42

Pyramus:
Now, die die die die die.
(dies)

Answer 42

Demetrius:
No die, but an ace for him, for he is but one.

Question 43

(Thisbe monologue)
Theseus:
Moonshine and Lion are left to bury the dead.

Answer 43

Demetrius:
Ay, and Wall too.