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  • I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.

    Summer   Dream  
    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 249
  • Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.

    Flower  
    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 161
  • Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

    Night  
    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7
  • So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.

    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 208
  • I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.

    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 149
  • A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.

    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 1, l. [32]
  • The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name; such tricks hath strong imagination.

    Eye  
    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7
  • The course of true love never did run smooth.

    Love   Life   Summer  
    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 132
  • One sees more devils than vast hell can hold

    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7
  • Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity

    Love   Cupid  
    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 226
  • Lord, what fools these mortals be!

    Summer   Dream  
    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 115
  • The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7
  • So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends.

    William Shakespeare (2013). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.187, Callisto Media Inc
  • All is well that ends well

    Wise   Drama  
    Emily Rodda (2008). “The Key to Rondo”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.
  • If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up; So quick bright things come to confusion.

    Dream   Night  
    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 141
  • The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.

    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. [218]
  • If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.

    Dream  
    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 54
  • Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 82
  • But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.

    Life   Flower  
    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 67
  • The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, From earth to heaven.

    Eye  
    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7
  • To you your father should be as a god.

    1595 Theseus to Hermia. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act1, sc.1, l.47.
  • Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down

    William Shakespeare (2013). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.121, Callisto Media Inc
  • O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce.

    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 323
  • And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

    Love  
    William Shakespeare, Phill Evans (2009). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format”, p.27, Shakespeare Comic Books
  • Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

    Love  
    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 132
  • Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.

    1595 Theseus. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 5, sc.1, l.4-6.
  • Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania

    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 60
  • Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream

    William Shakespeare, Terri Bourus, Peter Holland (2006). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.177, Sourcebooks, Inc.
  • O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena

  • I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.

    Dream  
    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. [211]
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