...especially fine music-passages. The first is Oberon's: My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememberest Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. (ui 148) This is a typical Shakespearian speech. 'Promontory' we meet again in fine and important passages...

...fcr this injury. — My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememSince once I sat upon a promontory, *nd ND. I have given over, I will speak no more: Do what...but my going, notliing can redeem it. LADY PERCY. O PUCK. I remember. OBERON. That very time I saw — but thou couldst not — Flying between the cold...

...melancholic, her father had been a fine star watcher. She had once seen him quote Shakespeare up to them: "And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music." If she remembers it right, her mother had been disdainful. "Fine lessons you're teaching our daughter,"...

...1-57409-164-6 For Lesa, for understanding why I had to write and for Joe, who will never sail the boat he built Once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer Night's Dream "Have you ever seen her?" he asked. "Often and often."...

...of A Midsummer Night 's Dream, my class was introduced to Oberon's speech in Act 2, Scene 1: Since once I sat upon a promontory. And heard a mermaid...at her song And certain stars shot madly from their spheres.1 The children's assignment was to rewrite this speech in their own words, with the proviso...

...this grove Till I torment thee for this injury. My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememberest Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...harmonious breath That the rude sea grew civil at her songAijd certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. PUCK. I remember....

...sweet breath; and I do not doubt but to bear them say, it is a sweet comedy. Oberon described hearing a mermaid on a dolphin's back "[u]ttering such dulcet and harmonious breath" that the rough sea grew civil and stars shot madly from their spheres (2.1.151). Bottom literalizes and materializes...

...'bound', or 'dance'. 190.27-28 shoot madly from his sphere see A Midsummer Night's Dream, 2.1.1 53-54: 'And certain stars shot madly from their spheres/ To hear the sea-maid's music'. 191.4-5 protempore Lat1n for the time. 191.19 keep down a bass keep their end up against bass instruments...

...refer with safety to Mary and those who with her connivance plunged to treason.'51 the memory of how 'certain stars shot madly from their spheres / To hear the sea-maid's music' [I53-4] does seem to echo the lament for the Catholic traitor as 'a bright star' shot from the sky...

...dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath That the rude sea grew civil at her songAod certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. PUCK. I remember. OBERON. That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, Flying between the cold moon...