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Midsummer Night ’s Dream by William Shakespeare
LYSANDER: Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! vile thing, let loose, Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent!
HERMIA: Why are you grown so rude? what change is this? Sweet love,—
LYSANDER: Thy love! out, tawny Tartar, out! Out, loathed medicine! hated potion, hence!
HERMIA: Do you not jest?
HELENA: Yes, sooth; and so do you.
LYSANDER: Demetrius, I will keep my word with thee.
DEMETRIUS: I would I had your bond, for I perceive A weak bond holds you: I’ll not trust your word.
LYSANDER: What, should I hurt her, strike her, kill her dead? Although I hate her, I’ll not harm her so.
HERMIA: What, can you do me greater harm than hate? Hate me! wherefore? O me! what news, my love!
Am not I Hermia? are not you Lysander?
I am as fair now as I was erewhile.
Since night you loved me; yet since night you left me: Why, then you left me—O, the gods forbid!—
In earnest, shall I say?
LYSANDER: Ay, by my life;
And never did desire to see thee more. Therefore be out of hope, of question, of doubt; Be certain, nothing truer; ‘tis no jest
That I do hate thee and love Helena.
HERMIA: O me! you juggler! you canker-blossom! You thief of love! what, have you come by night And stolen my love’s heart from him?
HELENA: Fine, i’faith!
Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,
No touch of bashfulness? What, will you tear Impatient answers from my gentle tongue? Fie, fie! you counterfeit, you puppet, you!
HERMIA: Puppet? why so? ay, that way goes the game. Now I perceive that she hath made compare
Between our statures; she hath urged her height;
And with her personage, her tall personage,
Her height, forsooth, she hath prevail’d with him. And are you grown so high in his esteem; Because I am so dwarfish and so low?
How low am I, thou painted maypole? speak;
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Writing Workshop 9 • Script Writing 3
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