Puck.
How now, spirit, whither wander you?

Fai.
Over hill, over dale,^{3 note}



Through bush6Q0009, through briar,

Over park, over pale,
Through flood, through fire,
I do wander every where,
Swifter than the moon's sphere;
And I serve the Fairy Queen,
To dew her orbs^{4 note}


upon the green;
The cowslips tall her pensioners be,^{5 note}






In their gold coats spots you see,
Those be rubies, Fairy-favours:
In those freckles live their savours:
I must go seek some dew-drops here,
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Farewel, thou^{6 note} lob of spirits, I'll be gone,
Our Queen and all her elves come here anon.

Puck.
The King doth keep his revels here to night,
Take heed, the Queen come not within his sight.
For Oberon is passing fell and wrath,
Because that she, as her attendant, hath
A lovely boy, stoll'n from an Indian King:
She never had so sweet a changeling;^{7 note}
And jealous Oberon would have the child
Knight of his train, to trace the forests wild;
But she per-force with-holds the loved boy,
Crowns him with flow'rs, and makes him all her joy.

And now they never meet in grove, or green,
By fountain clear, or spangled star-light sheen,^{8 note}
But they do square, that all their elves for fear^{9 note}

Fai.
* ^noteOr I mistake your shape and making quite,
Or else you are that shrewd, and knavish sprite,
Call'd Robin-goodfellow. Are you not he,
That fright the maidens of the villageree,
Skim milk, and sometimes labour in the quern,^{1 note}