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"salt green streams"
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Act 3,
Scene 2
Lines 390-396

An explanation of the sun and sea imagery in Act 3, Scene 2 of myShakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Oberon

I with the morning's love have oft made sport, 
And, like a forester, the groves may tread,
Even till the eastern gate, all fiery red
Opening on Neptune with fair blessèd beams
Turns into yellow gold his salt green streams.
But notwithstanding, haste, make no delay;
We may effect this business yet ere day.

Oberon enjoys to walk in the early morning, until the fiery red sun appears to rise out of the undersea realm of Neptune, the sea god, and turn the green water a golden yellow.