Quotes from work

A Midsummer Night's Dream

“Up and down, up and down
I will lead them up and down
I am feared in field in town
Goblin, lead them up and down”

“Ay me! for aught that ever I could read,
could ever hear by tale or history,
the course of true love never did run smooth.”

“O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!”

“If we shadows have offended,
Know but this and all is mended.
That you have but slumbered here,
While these visions did appear,
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding, but a dream.”

“Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.”

“And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.”

“I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.”

“Thus I die. Thus, thus, thus.
Now I am dead,
Now I am fled,
My soul is in the sky.
Tongue, lose thy light.
Moon take thy flight.
Now die, die, die, die.”

“So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition,
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.”

“Love's stories written in love's richest books.
To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.”

“O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce.”

“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”