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David Garrick [1755], The fairies. An opera. Taken from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Written by Shakespear. As it is Perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. The Songs from Shakespear, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Lansdown, Hammond &c. The Music composed by Mr. Smith (Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper [etc.], London) [word count] [S31800].

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SCENE I. A FORREST. Enter Oberon and Puck.

OBERON.
How now, mad spright,
What night-rule now about this haunted grove?

PUCK.
My Mistress with a patch'd fool, is in love.
Near to her close and consecrated bower,
This clown with others had rehears'd a play,
Intended for great Theseus' nuptial day.
When, starting from her bank of mossy-down,
Titania wak'd, and straightway lov'd the clown.

OBERON.
This falls out better than I could devise.
But hast thou latched the Athenian's eyes?

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PUCK.
That is finish'd too; I took him sleeping;
And the Athenian woman by his side,
That when he wakes, of force she must be ey'd.
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