Beschrijving
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Act One. Scene I. ? Athens. A Room in the Palace of Theseus. Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, Philostrate, and Attendants. CT’HESEUS. Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour Draws on apace: four happy days bring in Another moon; but, oh, methinks, how slow This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires, Like to a step-dame, or a dowager, Long withering out a young man’s revenue. Hippolyta. Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow New bent in heaven, shall behold the night 10 Of our solemnities. The. Go, Philostrate, Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments; Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth: 2 four. . . days. The action of by the almanac, for there was to the play involves but three. (r) be bright moonlight for the play 10 Newbent. Folios and quartos that evening. III. i. 56, and for have Now bent. It is plain that the rehearsal the night before, Hippolyta speaks of the moon as I. ii. 101.
