some of it, and seek through this grove;
A sweet Athenian lady is in love
With a disdainful youth; anoint his eyes;
But do it, when the next thing he espies
May be the lady."_

Titania enters with her fairy train and orders them to sing her to sleep,
and be gone.

Oberon finds his queen sleeping and squeezes some of the love juice on her
eyelids, saying:

_"What thou see'st when thou dost awake
Do it for thy true love take;
Love and languish for his sake;
When thou makest, it is thy dear,
Wake when some vile thing is near."_

Lysander and Hermia wander in the woods, lost and tired, and sink down to
rest. He says:

_"One turf shall serve as pillow for us both,
One heart, one bed, two bosoms and one troth!"_

Puck finds the lovers asleep, and says to Lysander:

_"Churl, upon thy eyes I throw,
All the power that this charm doth owe,
When thou wakest, let love forbid
Sleep his seat on thy eyelid."_

Puck finds Bottom in the woods, rehearsing the play for the marriage of
Theseus, and translates the weaver into an ass, with a desire for love. He
wanders near the flowery bed where Queen Titania sleeps.

She hears him sing, and opening her eyes, says:

_"What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?
Thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me,
On the first view, to say, to swear, I love thee!"_

Bottom says:

_"Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that;
Reason and love keep little company now-a-days!"_

Oberon relents and releases his Fairy Queen from her dream of infatuation
with Bottom disguised as an ass, and says:

_"But first, I will release the fairy queen,
Be as thou wast wont to be;_
(Touching her eyes with the herb.)
_See as thou wast wont to see;
Dian's bud o'er Cupid's flower,
Hath such force and blessed power,
Now, my Titania; wake you, my sweet queen."_

Titania awakes and exclaims:

_"My Oberon, what visions have I seen!
Methought I was enamored of an ass!"_

Titania is not the only woman who is enamored by an Ass; in fact the
mismatched, cross-purposed, twisted, infatuated affections of the sordid,
deceitful earth are as thick as blackberries in July, while pretense and
pampered power greatly prevail around the globe.

Theseus and his train wander through the woods in preparation for the grand
hunt and find Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia and Helena stil