"When I had at my pleasure taunted her, And she in mild terms begged my patience, I then did ask of her the changeling child."

"What visions I have seen! Methought I was enamored of an ass."

(removing the ass-head) "Now, when thou wak'st, with thine own fool's eyes peep."

"Come my lord, and in our flight/Tell me how it came this night/That I was sleeping here was found/With these mortals on the ground."

"My lord, this is my daughter here asleep, And this is Lysander. . .I wonder of their being here together."

"I came with Hermia hither. Our intent was to be gone from Athens."

"Enough!-My lord, you have enough. I beg the law, the law upon his head!"

"My love to Hermia, Melted as the snow."

"Egeus, I will overbear your will, For in the temple by and by, with us these couples shall be eternally knit."

"I shall get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream."

"Not a word of me. All that I will tell you is the Duke hath dined. Get your apparel together . . . Meet presently at the palace."