Act 5, Scene 1 - Video Performance: Snug, Theseus, Demetrius, and Lysander, Lines 217-234

Snug, Theseus, Demetrius, and Lysander, Lines 217-234

Performance Videos

Act 5,

Scene 1

Lines 217-234

A performance of lines 217-234 by Snug, Theseus, Demetrius, and Lysander in Act 5, Scene 1 of myShakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

myShakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream 5.1 Performance: Snug, Theseus, Demetrius Lines 217-234

You, ladies, you whose gentle hearts do fear

The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor,

May now perchance both quake and tremble here

When lion, rough in wildest rage, doth roar.

Then know that I, as Snug the joiner, am

A lion fell, nor else no lion's dam;

For if I should as Lion come in strife

Into this place, 'twere pity on my life.

A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience.

The very best at a beast, my lord, that e'er I

saw.

This lion is a very fox for his valor.

True, and a goose for his discretion.

Not so, my lord, for his valor cannot carry

his discretion, and the fox carries the goose.

His discretion, I am sure, cannot carry his valor,

for the goose carries not the fox; it is well. Leave

it to his discretion, and let us listen to the moon.