A Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare (1763) by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
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We are their parents and original.
Ob. Do you amend it then, it lies in you. Why should Titania cross her Oberon? I do but beg a little changling boy To be my henchman. Queen. Set your heart at rest, The Fairy-land buys not the child of me. His mother was a votress of my order, And in the spiced Indian air by night Full often she hath gossipt by my side; And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands. Marking th' embarked traders of the flood, When we have laught to see the sails conceive, And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind; Which she, with pretty and with swimming gait, Would imitate, and sail upon the land, To fetch me trifles, and return again As from a voyage rich with merchandize; But she being mortal of that boy did die, And for her sake I do rear up her boy, And for her sake I will not part with him. Ob. How long within this wood intend you stay? Queen. Perchance till after Theseus' wedding-day. If you will patiently dance in our round, And see our moon-light revels, go with us; If not, shun me, and I will spare your haunts. |
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