Egeus, I’m overriding your wishes. These couples will be married along with me and Hippolyta in the temple later today
that is my daughter!! and her friend Helena what are the four of these people doing here?! wake them up immediately!!!
What exactly just happened? The events of last night seem small and hard to see clearly, like far-off mountains that look like clouds in the distance. like a dream.
They were going to run away, Demetrius, they were running away to defeat us, robbing you of your wife and me of my fatherly right to decide who my son-in-law will be. I insist that the law punish him
may i inturrupt? Something has made my love for Hermia melt away like snow. My past love for Hermia now seems like a memory of some cheap toy I used to love as a child. Now the only person I love, and believe in, and want to look at, is Helena.
Are you sure we’re awake? It seems to me like we’re still sleeping, still dreaming.
I had the strangest dream last night! You can’t even describe such a weird dream. You’d be an ass if you even tried to explain it! I’ll get Peter Quince to write this dream down as a ballad. I’ll call it “Bottom’s Dream” because it’s so deep that it has no bottom. And I’ll sing it for the duke in the intermission of a play. Or maybe, to make it even more lovely, I’ll sing it when the heroine dies.