OBERON. Through this house give glimmering light, Hop as light as bird from brier; Sing, and dance it trippingly. TITANIA. First, rehearse this song by rote: OBERON. Now, until the break of day, So shall all the couples three. And the blots of nature's hand Shall upon their children be. With this field-dew consecrate, And each several chamber bless, And the owner of it blest. Trip away; Make no stay; Meet me all by break of day. FROM MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. FIE on sinful fantasy! Fie on lust and luxury! Lust is but a bloody fire, Kindled with unchaste desire, Fed in heart; whose flames aspire, As thoughts do blow them, higher and higher. Pinch him for his villany; Pinch him, and burn him, and turn him about, Till candles, and star-light, and moonshine be out FROM TWELFTH NIGHT. COME away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; T I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, My part of death no one so true Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strown; Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown: A thousand thousand sighs to save, Lay me, O, where Sad true lover never find my grave, FROM MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. SIGH no more, ladies, sigh no more, One foot in sea, and one on shore; To one thing constant never: But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny; Sing no more ditties, sing no mo The fraud of men was ever so, PARDON, Goddess of the night, Graves, yawn, and yield your dead, Till death be uttered, Heavily, heavily. FROM LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST. I. WHEN daisies pied, and violets blue, Do paint the meadows with delight, Cuckoo, cuckoo,-O word of fear, II. When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo, cuckoo,-O word of fear, III. When icicles hang by the wall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, Tu-whit, To-who, a merry note, IV. When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, |