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Nascent Drama

DEMETRIUS
If she cannot entreat, I can compel.
 
LYSANDER
Thou canst compel no more than she entreat:
Thy threats have no more strength than her weak prayers.
Helen, I love thee; by my life, I do:
I swear by that which I will lose for thee,
To prove him false that says I love thee not.
 
DEMETRIUS
I say I love thee more than he can do.
 
LYSANDER
If thou say so, withdraw, and prove it too.
 
DEMETRIUS
Quick, come!
 
HERMIA
Lysander, whereto tends all this?
 
LYSANDER
Away, you Ethiope!
 
DEMETRIUS
No, no; he'll . . .
Seem to break loose; take on as you would follow,
But yet come not: you are a tame man, go!
 
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?
 
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