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Helena, Lines 222-235
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Act 3,
Scene 2
Lines 222-235

A performance of lines 222-235 by Helena in Act 3, Scene 2 of myShakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

myShakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream 3.2 Performance: Helena Lines 222-235

Helena

Have you not set Lysander, as in scorn,
To follow me, and praise my eyes and face?
And made your other love, Demetrius —
Who even but now did spurn me with his foot —
To call me goddess, nymph, divine, and rare,
Precious, celestial? Wherefore speaks he this
To her he hates? And wherefore doth Lysander
Deny your love, so rich within his soul,
And tender me, forsooth, affection,
But by your setting on, by your consent?
What though I be not so in grace as you,
So hung upon with love, so fortunate,
But miserable most, to love unloved?
This you should pity rather than despise.