You are here

All Site ContentMidsummer Night's DreamAct 1Scene 1
Back to the Play
Lysander and Hermia, Lines 202-225
Context and Language Videos
Act 1,
Scene 1
Lines 202-225

A performance of lines 202-225 by Lysander and Hermia in Act 1, Scene 1 of myShakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

myShakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1 Performance: Lysander and Hermia Lines 202-225

Hermia

Take comfort. He no more shall see my face.
Lysander and myself will fly this place.
Before the time I did Lysander see,
Seemed Athens as a paradise to me.
O, then, what graces in my love do dwell,
That he hath turned a heaven unto a hell?

Lysander

Helen, to you our minds we will unfold.
Tomorrow night, when Phoebe doth behold
Her silver visage in the wat’ry glass
Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass —
A time that lovers' flights doth still conceal —
Through Athens' gates have we devised to steal.

Hermia

And in the wood where often you and I
Upon faint primrose beds were wont to lie,
Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet,
There my Lysander and myself shall meet,
And thence from Athens turn away our eyes
To seek new friends and stranger companies.
Farewell, sweet playfellow. Pray thou for us,
And good luck grant thee thy Demetrius –
Keep word, Lysander. We must starve our sight
From lovers' food till morrow deep midnight.

Lysander

I will, my Hermia.
[Exit Hermia]
                               Helena, adieu.
As you on him, Demetrius dote on you.