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Excerpt from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Vol. 3 of 20: With a Life of the Poet, Explanatory Foot-Notes, Critical Notes, and a Glossarial Index
Ere I will yield my virgin patent up Unto his lordship, whose unwished yoke My soul consents not to give sovereignty.ll T/ze. Take time to pause and, by the next new Moon, The sealing-day betwixt my love and me, For everlasting bond of fellowship, Upon that day either prepare to die For disobedience to your father's will, Or else to wed Demetrius, as he would Or on Diana's altar to protest For aye austerity and 'single life. Dem. Relent, sweet Hermia and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. Lys. You have her father's love, Demetrius Lot me have Hermia's: do you many him. Ege. Scornful Lysander! True, he hath my love, And what is mine my love shall render him And she is mine, and all my right of her I do estate unto Demetrius. Lys. I am, my lord, as well derived as he, As well possess'd my love is more than his My fortunes every way as fairly rank'd If not with vantage as Demetrius' And, which is more than all these boasts can be, I am beloved of beauteous Hermia Why should not I, then, prosecute my right? Demetrius, I'll avouch it to his head, Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena, And won her soul and she, sweet lady, dotes, Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry, Upon this spotted 19 and inconstant man.
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