A Midsummer Night’s Dream. William Shakespeare

for her sake I will not part with him.

      OBERON

      How long within this wood intend you stay?

      TITANIA

      Perchance till after Theseus' wedding-day.

      If you will patiently dance in our round,

      And see our moonlight revels, go with us;

      If not, shun me, and I will spare your haunts.

      OBERON

      Give me that boy and I will go with thee.

      TITANIA

      Not for thy fairy kingdom. Fairies, away:

      We shall chide downright if I longer stay.

      [Exit TITANIA with her Train.]

      OBERON

      Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove

      Till I torment thee for this injury.—

      My gentle Puck, come hither: thou remember'st

      Since once I sat upon a promontory,

      And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back,

      Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,

      That the rude sea grew civil at her song,