How shall we find the concord of this discord? That is hot ice and wondrous strange snow! “Merry” and “tragical”? “Tedious” and “brief”? “A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus 60Īnd his love Thisbe, very tragical mirth.” “The thrice-three Muses mourning for the death When I from Thebes came last a conqueror. Tearing the Thracian singer in their rage.” “The battle with the Centaurs, to be sung He calls on Philostrate, who hands him a list of all the available entertainments for the evening. Theseus wonders what entertainment they can have to wear away the three hours that still stand between him and his wedding night. Make choice of which your Highness will see first. There is a brief how many sports are ripe. The lazy time if not with some delight? 45 What masque, what music? How shall we beguile Say what abridgment have you for this evening, PHILOSTRATE, coming forward Here, mighty Theseus. To ease the anguish of a torturing hour? 40 What revels are in hand? Is there no play To wear away this long age of three hours Lysander returns the sentiment, saying that they all wish Theseus and Hippolyta joy in their daily lives-in their walks, at their meals, and, of course, in their bed.Ĭome now, what masques, what dances shall we When the lovers enter, the Duke greets them by wishing them joy in the days ahead. Wait in your royal walks, your board, your bed! Joy, gentle friends! Joy and fresh days of love 30
#Mighty goose construct full
Here come the lovers full of joy and mirth. Sure, it sounds crazy, but it's hard to argue when they all seem to have had the same experience.Įnter Lovers: Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, and Helena. When people are in such highly emotional states (like artists or lovers), they can easily spin stories and mistake, say, the shape of a bush in the forest for a bear.īut all the story of the night told over,Īnd all their minds transfigured so together, 25Īnd grows to something of great constancy, He points out that lovers, poets, and madmen have something in common-they're all nuts. Hippolyta notes to Theseus that the story the four lovers have told them is strange, and Theseus suggests that's probably because it's fictional. That, if it would but apprehend some joy, 20 Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,ĭoth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to One sees more devils than vast hell can hold: Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, These antique fables nor these fairy toys.
’Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, and Philostrate, Lords, and
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