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There shall the pairs of faithful lovers be
Wedded, with Theseus, all in jollity.

PUCK

Fairy king, attend and mark:
I do hear the morning lark.

OBERON

Then my queen, in silence sad, [95]
Trip we after night’s shade:
We the globe can compass soon,
Swifter than the wandering moon.

T IT ANIA

Come my lord, and in our flight
Tell me how it came this night [100]
That I sleeping here was found
With these mortals on the ground.

Exeunt. The four lovers and Bottom still lie asleep.

To the winding of horns (within), enter Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus, and
Train.

T HESEUS (Exit an Attendant.)

Go one of you, find out the forester;
For now our observation is perform’d,
And since we have the vaward of the day, [105]
My love shall hear the music of my hounds.
Uncouple in the western valley; let them go;
Dispatch I say, and find the forester.

We will, fair queen, up to the mountain’s top,
And mark the musical confusion [110]
Of hounds and echo in conjunction.

HIPPOLY T A

I was with Hercules and Cadmus once,
When in a wood of Crete they bay’d the bear
With hounds of Sparta; never did I hear
Such gallant chiding; for, besides the groves, [115]