_Hel._ How happy some o’er other some can be! Through Athens I am thought as fair as she. But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so; He will not know what all but he do know: And as he errs, doting on Hermia’s eyes, 230 So I, admiring of his qualities: Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity: Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind: 235 Nor hath Love’s mind of any judgement taste; Wings, and no eyes, figure unheedy haste: And therefore is Love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguiled. As waggish boys in game themselves forswear, 240 So the boy Love is perjured every where: For ere Demetrius look’d on Hermia’s eyne, He hail’d down oaths that he was only mine; And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt, So he dissolved, and showers of oaths did melt. 245 I will go tell him of fair Hermia’s flight: Then to the wood will he to-morrow night Pursue her; and for this intelligence If I have thanks, it is a dear expense: But herein mean I to enrich my pain, 250 To have his sight thither and back again. [_Exit._ ~~~~~ Linenotes: _A Midsummer-Night’s Dream_, I, 1. SC. I. Enter...] Enter Theseus, Hippolita, with others. Qq Ff. 4: _wanes_] _waues_ Q1. 6: _withering out_] _wintering on_ Warburton. _lithering out_ Becket conj. 7: _night_] Q1. _nights_ Q2 Ff. 8: _nights_] Q1 Ff. _daies_ Q2. 10: _New-bent_] Rowe. _Now bent_ Qq Ff. 15: [Exit Ph.] Theobald. 19: _revelling_] _revelry_ Holt White conj. 24, 26: _Stand forth, Demetrius...Stand forth, Lysander_] Printed in Qq Ff as stage directions. Corrected by Rowe. 27: _This man hath bewitch’d_] Qq F1. _This hath bewitch’d_ F2 F3 F4. _bewitch’d_] _witch’d_ Theobald. 38: _harshness_] _hardness_ Collier MS. 51: _leave_] _’leve_ Warburton. _lave_ Becket conj. 69: _if you yield not_] _not yielding_ Pope. 76: _earthlier happy_] _earlier happy_ Pope conj. _earthly happier_ Capell. 81: _whose unwished_] Qq F1. _to whose unwished_ F2 F3. _to whose unwish’d_ F4. 87: _your_] _you_ F2. 94: _Hermia’s_] _Hermia_ Tyrwhitt conj. 98: _unto_] _upon_ Hanmer. 101: _fortunes_] _fortune’s_ Rowe. 102: _Demetrius’_] Pope. _Demetrius_ Qq Ff. 107: _Nedar’s_] _Nestor’s_ S. Walker conj. 125: _nuptial_] Qq F1. _nuptialls_ F2 F3 F4. 127: [Exeunt...] Exeunt. Manet L. and M. Qq Ff. 128: SCENE II. Pope. 130: _which I could_] _yet could I_ Becket conj. 131: _my_] Qq. _mine_ Ff. 132: _Ay me! for aught that I could ever_] _Eigh me; for ought that I could ever_ Qq. _For ought that ever I could_ F1. _Hermia for ought that ever I could_ F2 F3 F4. _Ay me! for aught that ever I could_ Dyce. 136: _low_] Theobald. _love_ Qq Ff. _too...low_] _to be enthrall’d! too high, too low_ Becket conj. 138: _to young_] _too young_ F4.