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Lysander, Lines 117-128
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Act 2,
Scene 2
Lines 117-128

A performance of lines 117-128 by Lysander in Act 2, Scene 2 of myShakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

myShakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream 2.2 Performance: Lysander Lines 117-128

Lysander

Content with Hermia? No, I do repent
The tedious minutes I with her have spent.
Not Hermia but Helena I love.
Who will not change a raven for a dove?
The will of man is by his reason swayed,
And reason says you are the worthier maid.
Things growing are not ripe until their season;
So I, being young, till now not ripe to reason.
And touching now the point of human skill,
Reason becomes the marshal to my will,
And leads me to your eyes, where I o'erlook
Love's stories written in love's richest book.