_Her._ [_Awaking_] Help me, Lysander, help me! do thy best 145 To pluck this crawling serpent from my breast! Ay me, for pity! what a dream was here! Lysander, look how I do quake with fear: Methought a serpent eat my heart away, And you sat smiling at his cruel prey. 150 Lysander! what, removed? Lysander! lord! What, out of hearing? gone? no sound, no word? Alack, where are you? speak, an if you hear; Speak, of all loves! I swoon almost with fear. No? then I well perceive you are not nigh: 155 Either death or you I’ll find immediately. [_Exit._ ~~~~~ Linenotes: _A Midsummer-Night’s Dream_, II, 2. SCENE II.] Capell. SCENE V. Pope. SCENE III. Steevens. 2: _for_] _’fore_ Theobald. _in_ Heath conj. _a minute_] _the midnight_ Warburton. 7: _spirits_] _sports_ Hanmer (Warburton). 9: Fir. Fairy.] Capell. Fairies sing. Qq Ff. 13, 24: CHORUS.] Capell. om. Qq Ff. 14: _in our_] Qq. _in your_ Ff. _now your_ Collier MS. 20: Fir. Fairy.] 1. Fai. Q1. 1. Fairy. Q2. _2. Fairy_ Ff. 21: _spinners_] Q1 Ff. _spinders_ Q2. 25: Sec. Fairy.] 2. Fai. Qq. 1. Fairy. Ff. 26: [Exeunt Fairies.] Rowe. om. Qq Ff. Titania sleeps.] Shee sleepes. F1. om. Qq. Enter...eyelids.] Capell. Enter Oberon. Qq Ff. 32: _that_] _what_ Pope. 34: [Exit.] Rowe. om. Qq Ff. 35: SCENE VI. Pope. _wood_] Q1. _woods_ Q2 Ff. 38: _comfort_] _comfor_ Q1. 39: _Be it_] Q2 Ff _Bet it_ Q1. _Be ’t_ Pope. 45, 46: _innocence!...conference_] _conference!...innocence_ Warburton. 46: _takes_] _take_ Tyrwhitt conj. _conference_] _confidence_ Collier MS. 47: _is_] _it_ Q1. 48: _we can_] Qq. _can you_ Ff. _can we_ Capell. 49: _interchained_] Qq. _interchanged_ Ff. 57, 119: _human_] F4. _humane_ Qq F1 F2 F3. 65: [They sleep.] Ff. om. Qq. 67: _found_] Q1. _find_ Q2 Ff. 77: _Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy_] _Near to this lack-love, this kill-curtesie_ Pope. _Near to this kill-courtesie_ Theobald. _Near to this lack-love kill-curtesie_ Warburton. _Near this lack-love, kill-courtesy_ Steevens. _Nearer this lack-love, this kill-courtesy_ S. Walker conj. 84: SCENE VII. Pope. _Stay_] Qq F1. _Say_ F2 F3 F4. 87: [Exit.] Exit Demetrius. Ff. om. Qq. 96: _marvel_] _mavaile_ F2. 100: _Lysander!_ Capell. _Lysander_ Qq Ff. 104: _Helena_] _Helen_ Pope. _Nature shows_] _Nature shewes_ Qq. _Nature her shewes_ F1. _Nature here shews_ F2 F3 F4. _Nature shews her_ Singer (Malone conj.). 105: _thy heart_] _my heart_ S. Walker conj. 106: _is_] Qq F1. om. F2 F3 F4. 113: _I love_] Q1. _now I love_ Q2 Ff. 118: _ripe not_] _not ripe_ Rowe (ed. 2). 122: _Love’s stories_] _Love-stories_ S. Walker conj. 127: _Demetrius’_] Rowe (ed. 2). _Demetrius_ Qq Ff. _Demetrius’s_ Rowe (ed. 1). 138: _the stomach_] Qq F1. _a stomach_ F2 F3 F4. 140: _they_] Qq. _that_ Ff. 143: _your_] _their_ Collier MS. 147: _Ay me_] _Ah me_ Capell.