A Midsummer Night's Dream

Question 1

…Or else to wed Demetrius, as he would

Answer 1

Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield

Thy crazed title to my certain right.

Question 2

And I will overhear their conference.

Answer 2

I love thee not, therefore pursue me not.
Where is Lysander and fair Hermia?
Thou told’st me they were stolen unto this wood;
Hence, get thee gone, and follow me no more.
Do I entice you? Do I speak you fair?
Or, rather, do I not in plainest truth.
Tell you, I do not, nor I cannot love you?

Question 3

Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me.

Answer 3

Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit;

For I am sick when I do look on thee.

Question 4

And I am sick when I look not on you.

Answer 4

I will run from thee and hide me in the brakes,

And leave thee to the mercy of the wild beasts.

Question 5

Stay, though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius.

Answer 5

I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.

Question 6

O, wilt thou darkling leave me? Do not so.

Answer 6

Stay, on thy peril: I alone will go.

Question 7

This is the woman, but not this the man.

Answer 7

O, why rebuke you him that loves you so?

Question 8

And from thy hated presence part I so.

Answer 8

There is no following her in this fierce vein:

Here therefore for a while I will remain.

Question 9

Demetrius loves her, and he loves not you.

Answer 9

O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine!

To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne?

Question 10

For you love Hermia; this you know I know.

Answer 10

Lysander, keep thy Hermia, I will none:

If e’er I loved her, all that love is gone.

Question 11

To prove him false that says I love thee not.

Answer 11

I say I love thee more than he can do.

Question 12

Be not afraid, she shall not harm thee, Helena.

Answer 12

No, sir, she shall not, though you take her part.

Question 13

Of thine or mine, is most in Helena.

Answer 13

Follow! Nay, I’ll go with thee, cheek by jowl.

Question 14

I’ll find Demetrius and revenge this spite.

Sleeps

Answer 14

Where art thou now?
Now, go thy way. Faintness constraineth me
To measure out my length on this cold bed.

Question 15

I beg the law, the law, upon his head.

Answer 15

But, my good lord, I wot not by what power,-
But by some power it is,–my love to Hermia,
Melted as the snow, seems to me now
And all the faith, the virtue of my heart,
The object and pleasure of mine eye,
Is only Helena.

Question 16

Exeunt Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus, and train

Answer 16

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?

Question 17

And he did bid us follow to the temple.

Answer 17

Why, then, we are awake: let’s follow him

And by the way let us recount our dreams.

Question 18

Did whisper often very secretly.

Answer 18

It is the wittiest partition that ever I heard, my lord.

Question 19

thorn-brush, my thorn-brush and this dog, my dog.

Answer 19

But, silence! Here comes Thisbe.

Question 20

[Roaring] Oh–

thisbe runs off

Answer 20

Well roared, Lion.