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No sir, she shall not, though you take her part.
HELENA
O, when she is angry, she is keen and shrewd;
She was a vixen when she went to school,
And though she be but little, she is fierce. [325]
HERMIA
‘Little’ again? Nothing but ‘low’ and ‘little’?
Why will you suffer her to flout me thus?
Let me come to her!
LY SANDER
Get you gone, you dwarf;
You minimus, of hindering knot-grass made;
You bead, you acorn.
DEMET RIUS
You are too officious [330]
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.
LY SANDER
Now she holds me not. [335]
Now follow, if thou dar’st, to try whose right,
Of thine or mine, is most in Helena.
DEMET RIUS
Follow? Nay, I’ll go with thee, cheek by jowl.
Exeunt Lysander and Demetrius.
HERMIA
You, mistress, all this coil is long of you.
Nay, go not back.
HELENA
I will not trust you, I, [340]
