A Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare (1763) by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
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I have forsworn his bed and Company.
Ob. Tarry, rash wanton! Am not I thy Lord? Queen. Then I must be thy Lady: Why art thou here? Come from the farthest steep of India? But that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon, Your buskin'd mistress, and your warrior love, To Theseus must be wedded; and you come To give their bed joy and prosperity. Ob. How canst thou thus, for shame, Titania, Glance at my credit with Hippolita, Knowing I know thy love to Theseus? Didst thou not lead him through the glimmering night From Perigune, whom he ravished, And make him, with fair Egle, break his faith With Ariadne and Antiopa? Queen. These are the forgeries of jealousy: And never since that middle summer's spring Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport. The spring, the summer, The chiding autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the amazed world By their increase now knows not which is which; And this same progeny of evil comes From our debate, from our dissention, |
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