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SCENE I.
A FORREST.Enter Oberon and Puck.
OBERON.
How now, mad spright,
What night-rule now about this haunted grove?
PUCK.
My Mistress with a patch'd fool, is in love.
Near to her close and consecrated bower,
This clown with others had rehears'd a play,
Intended for great Theseus' nuptial day.
When, starting from her bank of mossy-down,
Titania wak'd, and straightway lov'd the clown.
OBERON.
This falls out better than I could devise.
But hast thou latched the Athenian's eyes?
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That is finish'd too; I took him sleeping;
And the Athenian woman by his side,
That when he wakes, of force she must be ey'd.
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