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A Midsummer Night’s Dream Character Quotes Hermia ‘fair Hermia look you arm yourself To fit your fancies to your fathers will’ – pg128 ‘so is Lysander’ – pg124 ‘I know not what power I am made bold’ – pg125. ‘with cunning hast thou filched my daughters' heart’ – pg123 ‘I am belov’d of beauteous Hermia (A1S1, L. 104). ‘I may know the worst befall me in this case, If I refuse to wed Demetrius’ (A1S1 L.63)  ‘You have her father's love, Demetrius, let me have Hermia’s’ (A1S1 L. 93-94).  ‘he no more shall see my face Lysander and myself will fly this place’ (A1, S1, L202/203) - trusts Helena with her secrets  ‘I scorn you not; it seems that you scorn me’ (A3, S2, L221)  ‘sweet, do not scorn her so.’ (A3, S2, L248)  ‘she hath urged her height and with her personage, her tall personage, her height, forsooth, she hath prevailed with him’ (A3, S2, L291-293)  ‘how low am I, thou painted maypole’ (A3, S2, L296)  You, mistress, all this coil is long of you’ (A2, S2, L338)  “Full of vexation come I, with complaint against my child, my daughter Hermia. Stand forth Demetrius! - My noble lord, this man hath my consent to marry her.” (Act 1, Scene 1: L.22)  “And stolen the impression of her fantasy, with bracelets of thy hair, rings, gauds, conceits knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweemeats.” (Act 1, Scene 1: L.32)  “As she is mine, I may dispose of her; which shall be either to this gentleman or to her death, according our law.” (Act 1, Scene 1: L.43)  “What say you, Hermia? Be advis’d, fair maid. To you your father should be as a god.” (Act 1, Scene 1: L.46)  “I know not by what power I am made bold, nor how it may concern my modesty” (Act 1, Scene 1: L.58)  “If you not to your father’s choice, you can endure the livery of a nun.” (Act 1, Scene 1: L.69)  “Scornful Lysander, true, he hath my love, and what is my love, and what is mine my love shall render him; and she is mine, and all my right of her I do estate unto Demetrius” (Act 1, Scene 1: L.95)  Act 1 scene 1- pg91- ‘relent sweet Hermia’  Act 2 scene 1- ‘where is Lysander and fair Hermia?’  Act 3 scene 2- ‘I had rather give his carcass to my hounds’  Act 3 scene 2- ‘hast thou slain him’  Act 3 scene 2- ‘I am not guilty of Lysander’s blood’  Act 3 scene 2- ‘see me no more, whether he be dead or no’  Act 3 scene 2- ‘if e’er I loved her, all that love is gone’  ‘Heavens shield Lysander, if they mean a fray’ – pg224  ‘Methinks I see these things with parted eye, when everything seems double’ – pg240      

Helena   

‘Call me fair? […] Demetrius loves your fair?’ – pg133 ‘Your eyes are lodestars’ – pg134 ‘My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody.’ – pg134

‘None but your beauty. Would that fault were mine!’ – pg135 ‘How happy some over other some can be!’ – pg136. ‘And therefore is love said to be a child, because in choice he is so oft beguiled.’ – pg137  ‘Then to the wood will he tomorrow night pursue her; and for this intelligence if I have thanks, it is a dear expense.’– pg138  ‘tell you I do not, nor I cannot love you’ – pg162  ‘you draw me, you hard-hearted adamant; But yet you draw not iron, for my heart is true. as steel’ – pg162  ‘And even for that do I love you the more. I am your spaniel, and Demetrius, The more you beat me, I will fawn on you’ – pg162/3  ‘what worser place can I beg in your love (And yet a place of high respect with me) Than to be used as you use your dog?’ – pg163  ‘For I am sick when I do look on thee’ – pg163  ‘we cannot fight for love as men may do’ – pg165  ‘A sweet Athenian lady is in love with a disdainful youth. Anoint his eyes’ – pg167  ‘stay, though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius’ – pg174  ‘How came her eyes so bright?’ – pg175  ‘I am as ugly as a bear’ – pg175  ‘Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? When at your hands did I deserve this scorn’ – pg177.  ‘you must flout my insufficiency?’ – pg177.  ‘O that a lady of one man refused should be of another therefore abused!’ – pg177.  ‘When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray.’ – pg202  ‘O spite! O hell! I see you are all bent to set against me for your merriment.’ – pg204  ‘can you not hate me, as I know you do, but you must join in souls to mock me too.’  ‘never did mockers waste more idle breath’.  ‘you counterfeit, you puppet, you!’ – pg213  ‘I evermore did love you, Hermia, did ever keep your counsels, never wronged you’ – pg214  ‘She was a vixen when she went to school; and though she be but little, she is fierce’ – pg215  ‘your hands than mine are quicker for fray; my legs are longer, though, to run away’ – pg217  ‘I will not trust you’ – pg216  ‘That I may back to Athens by daylight’ – pg224   

Demetrius          

‘sweet Hermia; and Lysander, yield thy crazed title to my certain right’ – pg127 ‘do I entice you? Do I speak you fair? Or rather do I not in the plainest truth tell you I do not, nor I cannot love you?’ – pg162, to Helena ‘for I am sick when I do look on thee’ – pg163. ‘and the ill counsel of a desert place with the rich worth of your virginity’ – pg163 ‘do not haunt me thus’ – pg174 ‘so should the murdered look, and so should I, pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty’ – pg197 ‘I had rather give his carcass to my hounds’ – pg197, Lysander. ‘O Helen, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine’ – pg203 ‘O let me kiss this impress of pure white, this seal of bliss!’ – pg203 ‘I say, I love thee more than he can do’ – pg210

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‘a weak bond holds you. I’ll not trust your word’ – pg212 ‘thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled?’ – pg221, speaking to Lysander. ‘thou run’st before me, shifting every place’ – pg222, Lysander. ‘my love to Hermia, melted as the snow’ – pg238. ‘are you sure that we are awake?’ – pg240.

Lysander             

‘The course of true love never did run smooth’ – pg129 ‘There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee, and to that place sharp Athenian law cannot pursue us’ – pg132. ‘and in the wood a league without the town’ – pg132. ‘fair love’ – pg171, to Hermia. ‘one heart, one bed, two bosoms, and one troth’ – pg171. ‘I mean that my heart unto yours is knit’ – pg172. ‘No I do repent the tedious minutes I with her have spent’ – pg176 ‘and all my powers, address your love and might to honour Helen and to be her knight’ – pg177 ‘Helen, I love thee, by my life I do. I swear by that which I will lose for thee to prove him false that says I love thee not’ – pg210. ‘Hang off, thou cat, thou burr, vile thing let loose, or I will shake thee from me like a serpent’ – pg211. ‘That I do hate thee and love Helena’ – pg213 ‘Get you gone, you dwarf’ – pg216. ‘I’ll find Demetrius, and revenge this spite’ – pg222

Puck            

‘my mistress with a monster is in love’ – pg193. ‘the shallowest thick skin of that barren sort’ – pg194. ‘lord, what fools these mortals be!’ – pg201. ‘as this their jangling I esteem a sport’ – pg217. ‘and yonder shines Aurora’s harbinger’ – pg219. ‘I am feared in field and town’ – pg220. ‘follow me then to a plainer ground’ – pg221, being playful with Demetrius. ‘thou coward, art thou bragging to the stars’ – pg221. ‘follow my voice. We’ll try no manhood here’ – pg221. ‘Cupid is a knavish lad’ – pg223. ‘true delight in the sight of thy former lady’s eye’ – pg224, Hermia. ‘the man shall have his mare again and all shall be well’ – pg225.

Oberon        

‘Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania’ – pg150 ‘knowing I know thy love to Theseus?’ – pg151, to Titania. ‘Give me that boy and I will go with thee’ – pg157. ‘western flower, before milk-white, now purple with love’s wound’ – pg160. ‘and with this juice, I’ll streak her eyes, and make her full of hateful fantasies’ – pg166. ‘wake when some vile thing is near’ – pg170. ‘some true love turned, and not a false turned true’ – pg199. ‘when they next wake, all this derision shall seem a dream and a fruitless vision’ – pg218, undo wrong on Lysander.

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‘and all things shall be peace’ – pg129. ‘hateful fool’ – pg229, at Bottom. ‘I then did ask of her her changeling child, which straight she gave me’ – pg230. ‘from off the head of this Athenian swain’ – pg230. ‘and think no more of this night’s accidents but as the fierce vexation of a dream’ – pg230. ‘Cupid’s flower hath such force and blessed power’ – pg230. ‘now, my Titania, wake you, my sweet Queen’ – pg230. ‘there shall the pairs of faithful lovers be wedded’ – pg232, link to Theseus and Hippolyta.

Titania                  

‘jealous Oberon’ – pg150 ‘your buskined mistress and your warrior love’ – pg151, referencing Hippolyta. ‘and never, since the middle summer’s spring, met we on a hill, in dale, forest or mead…but with brawls’ – pg152. ‘therefore, the moon, the governess of all floods, pale in her anger’ – pg154. ‘from our debate, from our dissension: we are the parents, the original’ – pg155. ‘but she, being mortal, of that boy did die, and for her sake I do rear up the boy’ – pg157. ‘if not, shun me, and I will spare your haunts’ – pg157. ‘so is mine eye enthralled to thy shape’ – pg188. ‘on the first view to say, to swear, I love thee’ – pg188. ‘thou art as wise as thou art beautiful’ – pg188. ‘thou shalt remain here’ – pg188. ‘tie up my lover’s tongue, bring him silently’ – pg192. ‘my sweet love’ – pg227. ‘fetch thee new nuts’ – pg228. ‘so doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle gently entwist: the female ivy so enrings the barky finger of the elm.’ – pg228. ‘oh, how I love thee! Oh, how I dote on thee!’ – pg228. ‘methought I was enamoured of an ass’ – pg231. ‘O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!’ – pg231.

Bottom         

‘let me play the Lion too. I will roar that I will do any man’s heart good to hear me. I will roar that I will make the duke say, ‘Let him roar again, let him roar again’. – pg142 ‘we will meet, and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously’ – pg144 ‘write me a prologue, and let the prologue seem to say we will do no harm with our swords, and that Pyramus is not killed indeed’ – pg179 ‘let him name his name, and tell them plainly he is Snug the joiner’ – pg180 ‘methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that’ – pg188, when she compliments him. ‘Monsieur Cobweb, good Monsieur, get your weapons in your hand’ – pg226 ‘Let’s have the tongs and the bones’ – pg227 ‘I could munch your good dry oats. Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay’ – pg227. ‘I have had a most rare vision’ – pg241.

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‘I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream. It shall be called ‘Bottom’s Dream’ because it hath no bottom’. – pg242.

Theseus          

‘fair Hippolyta’ – pg121 ‘four happy days bring in another moon; but O, methinks how slow this old moon wanes!’ – pg121 ‘I wooed thee with my sword’ – pg121 ‘What say you, Hermia?’ – pg122 ‘To you your father should be as a God…to whom you are but as a form in wax by him imprinted’ – pg122 ‘The other must be held the worthier’ – pg123 ‘you can endure the livery of a nun…to live a barren sister all your life’ – pg126 ‘These couples shall be eternally knit’ – pg239 ‘The lunatic, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact’ – pg247 ‘very tragical mirth’ – pg251, reference to Pyramus and Thisbe.

Hippolyta  

‘four days will quickly steep themselves in night, four nights will quickly dream away the time’ – pg121 ‘Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of’ – pg246.

Mechanicals      

‘the most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe’ – pg139, Quince. ‘let not me play the woman. I have a beard coming’ – pg141, Flute. ‘meet me in the palace wood a mile without the town by moonlight’ – pg144, Quince. ‘O Bottom, thou art changed’ – pg186, Snout. ‘truth make all things plain’ – pg256, Quince. ‘That I, one Snout by name, present a Wall’ – pg258, Snout....