With the love juice, as I did bid thee do? This falls out better than I could devise.īut hast thou yet latched the Athenian’s eyes Titania woke up and fell in love with the donkey-Bottom hybrid. Puck found Bottom to be the most dim-witted, so he transformed his head into that of a donkey. He tells Oberon that a crew of craftsmen entered the grove where Titania was sleeping to practice their play for Theseus's wedding. Titania waked and straightway loved an ass. When in that moment, so it came to pass, 35 Some sleeves, some hats, from yielders all things Made senseless things begin to do them wrong įor briers and thorns at their apparel snatch, 30 Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears thus He “Murder” cries and help from Athens calls. Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky,Īnd, at our stamp, here o’er and o’er one falls. When they him spy,Īs wild geese that the creeping fowler eye, 20 The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort,įorsook his scene and entered in a brake. That work for bread upon Athenian stalls, 10 While she was in her dull and sleeping hour, He's hoping that she laid her eyes on a vile beast.
In another part of the wood, Oberon wonders if Titania has awoken from her slumber.
What night-rule now about this haunted grove? 5 Then what it was that next came in her eye,
