_"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 still asleep under the magic influence of Puck. Theseus wonders how the lovers came to the wood, and says to the father of Hermia: _"But speak, Egeus; is not this the day That Helena should give answer of her choice?"_ Egeus: _"It is, my lord."_ Theseus: _"Go bid the huntsmen wake them with their horns._ (Expresses surprise at their situation.) _How comes this gentle concord in the world, That hatred is so far from jealousy, To sleep by hate, and fear no enmity."_ The lovers are reconciled to their natural choice, and Theseus decides against the father: _"Egeus, I will overbear your will, For in the temple by and by, with us These couples shall eternally be knit."_ Bottom wakes and tells his theatrical partners: