ACT 1
Scene 1
Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, and Philostrate, with others.

...young man’s revenue.
Four days will quickly steep themselves in night;
Four nights will quickly dream away the time;
And then the moon, like to a silver bow
-bent in heaven, shall behold the night
Of our solemnities.

...we follow you.
All but Hermia and Lysander exit.

ACT 4
Scene 1

...on the ground.
Wind horn. Enter Theseus and all his train, Hippolyta, Egeus.

...echo in conjunction.
I was with Hercules and Cadmus once,
When in a wood of Crete they bayed the bear
With hounds of Sparta. Never did I hear
Such gallant chiding, for, besides the groves,
The skies, the fountains, every region near
Seemed all one mutual cry. I never heard
So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.

...solemnity. Come, Hippolyta.
Theseus and his train, including Hippolyta and Egeus, exit.

ACT 5
Scene 1

...Away! Go, away!
Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, and Philostrate, Lords, and Attendants.
’Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of.

...supposed a bear!
But all the story of the night told over,
And all their minds transfigured so together,
More witnesseth than fancy’s images
And grows to something of great constancy,
But, howsoever, strange and admirable.

...your places, ladies.
I love not to see wretchedness o’ercharged,
And duty in his service perishing.

...no such thing.
He says they can do nothing in this kind.

...to speak true.
Indeed he hath played on this prologue like
a child on a recorder—a sound, but not in
government.

...hear without warning.
This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard.

...imagination amend them.
It must be your imagination, then, and not
theirs.

...already in snuff.
I am aweary of this moon. Would he would
change.

...Well run, Thisbe.
Well shone, Moon. Truly, the Moon shines
with a good grace.

...man look sad.
Beshrew my heart but I pity the man.

...prove an ass.
How chance Moonshine is gone before
Thisbe comes back and finds her lover?

...ends the play.
Methinks she should not use a long one for
such a Pyramus. I hope she will be brief.

...and new jollity.
They exit.