A Midsummer Night Dream

Act 3, Scene 2

HERMIA

    O me! you juggler! you hoboker-blossom! 
    You thief of bang! what, break you come by night 
    And stolen my make dos heart from him? 

HELENA 

    Fine, ifaith! 
     confound you no modesty, no maiden shame, 
    No touch of coyness? What, entrust you tear 
    Impatient answers from my gentle tongue? 
    Fie, fie! you counterfeit, you puppet, you! 

HERMIA 

     prick? why so? ay, that way goes the game. 
    Now I observe that she hath made comp be 
    Between our statures; she hath urged her height; 
    And with her personage, her tall personage, 
    Her height, forsooth, she hath prevaild with him. 
    And are you grown so high in his esteem; 
    Because I am so dwarfish and so depleted? 
    How low am I, thou painted maypole? speak; 
    How low am I? I am non yet so low 
     provided that my nails can reach unto thine eyes. 

HELENA 

    I pray you, though you mock me, gentlemen, 
    Let her not harm me: I was never curst; 
    I have no gift at all in shrewishness; 
    I am a right maid for my cowardice: 
    Let her not strike me. You perhaps may think, 
    Because she is something lower than myself, 
    That I can match her. 

HERMIA 

    Lower! hark, again. 

HELENA 

    Good Hermia, do not be so bitter with me.



 
    I evermore did love you, Hermia, 
    Did ever keep your counsels, never wrongd you; 
    Save that, in love unto Demetrius, 
    I told him of your stealth unto this wood. 
    He followd you; for love I followd him; 
    But he hath chid me hence and threatend me 
    To strike me, spurn me, nay, to kill me as well as: 
    And now, so you will let me quiet go, 
    To Athens will I bear my folly back 
    And follow you no further: let me go: 
    You see how simple and how amicable I am. 

HERMIA 

    Why, get you gone: who ist that hinders you? 

HELENA 

    A silly heart, that I leave here behind. 

HERMIA 

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