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LY SANDER

Where art thou, proud Demetrius? Speak thou now.

PUCK

Here, villain, drawn and ready. Where art thou?

LY SANDER

I will be with thee straight.

PUCK

Follow me then
To plainer ground.

(Exit Lysander, as following the voice.)

Enter Demetrius.

DEMET RIUS

Lysander, speak again.
Thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled? [405]
Speak! In some bush? Where dost thou hide thy head?

PUCK

Thou coward, art thou bragging to the stars,
Telling the bushes that thou look’st for wars,
And wilt not come? Come, recreant, come thou child!
I’ll whip thee with a rod; he is defil’d [410]
That draws a sword on thee.

DEMET RIUS

Yea, art thou there?

PUCK Exeunt.

Follow my voice; we’ll try no manhood here.

(Enter Lysander.)

LY SANDER

He goes before me, and still dares me on;
When I come where he calls, then he is gone.