{"id":2563,"date":"2013-07-09T23:39:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T03:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=2563"},"modified":"2013-07-16T12:03:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T16:03:40","slug":"a-midsummer-nights-dream-act-i-scene-i","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=2563","title":{"rendered":"A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I, Scene i"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Midsummer Night’s Dream.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 1, Scene 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Helena<\/strong><\/p>\n

(This text is featured in our\u00a0interview with Willow Geer, Melora Marshall and Ellen Geer<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to open a scanned version.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to open up Willow Geer’s version<\/p>\n

1. How happy some o’er other some can be!
\n2 \u00a0Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.
\n3 \u00a0But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so;
\n4 \u00a0He will not know what all but he do know:
\n5 \u00a0And as he errs, doting on Hermia’s eyes,
\n6 \u00a0So I, admiring of his qualities:
\n7 \u00a0Things base and vile, folding no quantity,
\n8 \u00a0Love can transpose to form and dignity:
\n9 \u00a0Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
\n10 \u00a0And therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind:
\n11 \u00a0Nor hath Love’s mind of any judgement taste;
\n12 \u00a0Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste:
\n13 \u00a0And therefore is Love said to be a child,
\n14 \u00a0Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.
\n15 \u00a0As waggish boys in game themselves forswear,
\n16 \u00a0So the boy Love is perjured every where:
\n17 \u00a0For ere Demetrius look’d on Hermia’s eyne,
\n18 \u00a0He hail’d down oaths that he was only mine;
\n19 \u00a0And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
\n20 \u00a0So he dissolved, and showers of oaths did melt.
\n21 \u00a0I will go tell him of fair Hermia’s flight:
\n22 \u00a0Then to the wood will he to-morrow night
\n23 \u00a0Pursue her; and for this intelligence
\n24 \u00a0If I have thanks, it is a dear expense:
\n25 \u00a0But herein mean I to enrich my pain,
\n26 \u00a0To have his sight thither and back again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Midsummer Night’s Dream.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 1, Scene 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Helena (This text is featured in our\u00a0interview with Willow Geer, Melora Marshall and Ellen Geer) Click here to open a scanned version. Click here to open up Willow Geer’s version 1. How happy some o’er other some can be! 2 \u00a0Through Athens I am thought as fair as<\/p>\n [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2563","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-Fl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8420,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2563\/revisions\/8420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}