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A Midsummer Night's Dream

By William Shakespeare

QUOTATION: I’ll put a girdle round about the earth
In forty minutes.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Robin Goodfellow (Puck), in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, act 2, sc. 1, l. 175-76 (1600).

QUOTATION: A surfeit of the sweetest things
The deepest loathing to the stomach brings.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Lysander, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, act 2, sc. 2, l. 137-8.

QUOTATION: This same progeny of evils comes
From our debate, from our dissension.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Titania, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, act 2, sc. 1, l. 115-6.

QUOTATION: Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow’s eye,
Steal me awhile from mine own company.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Helena, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, act 3, sc. 2, l. 435-6.

QUOTATION: The sun was not so true unto the day
As he to me.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Hermia, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, act 3, sc. 2, l. 50-1.

QUOTATION: Good morrow, friends. Saint Valentine is past;
Begin these woodbirds but to couple now?
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Theseus, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, act 4, sc. 1, l. 139-40.

QUOTATION: O grim-looked night, O night with hue so black,
O night which ever art when day is not!
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Bottom, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, act 5, sc. 1, l. 170-1 .

QUOTATION: To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Bottom, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, act 3, sc. 1, l. 143-4.

QUOTATION: Shall we their fond pageant see?
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Puck, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, act 3, sc. 2, l. 115.

QUOTATION: And I have found Demetrius, like a jewel,
Mine own, and not mine own.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Helena, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, act 4, sc. 1, l. 191-2.

QUOTATION: Therefore is love said to be a child
Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Helena, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, act 1, sc. 1, l. 238-9.

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