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Now I do wish it, love it, long for it, [175]
And will for evermore be true to it.

T HESEUS

Fair lovers, you are fortunately met;
Of this discourse we more will hear anon.
Egeus, I will overbear your will;
For in the temple, by and by, with us, [180]
These couples shall eternally be knit.
And, for the morning now is something worn,
Our purpos’d hunting shall be set aside.
Away, with us, to Athens; three and three,
We’ll hold a feast in great solemnity. [185]
Come, Hippolyta.

Exeunt Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus, and Train.

DEMET RIUS

These things seem small and undistinguishable,
Like far-off mountains turned into clouds.

HERMIA

Methinks I see these things with parted eye,
When everything seems double.

HELENA

So methinks; [190]
And I have found Demetrius like a jewel,
Mine own, and not mine own.

DEMET RIUS

Are you sure
That we are awake? It seems to me
That yet we sleep, we dream. Do not you think
The Duke was here, and bid us follow him? [195]

HERMIA

Yea, and my father.

HELENA

And Hippolyta.