A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Hermia’s Monologue

o m O me!
y j You juggler!
y c b You canker-blossom!
y t o l You thief of love!
w h y c b n a s m l h f m What have you come by night and stol’n my loves heart from him?
p Puppet?
w s Why so?
a t w g t g Ay, that way goes the game.
n i p t s h m c b o s Now I perceive that she hath made compare between our statures.
s h u h h a w h p h t p h h f s h p h She hath urged her height, and with her personage, her tall personage, her height forsooth, she hath prevailed him.
a a y g s h i h e b i a s d a s l And are you grown so high in his esteem because I am so dwarfish and so low?
h l a i t p m How low am I, thou painted maypole?
s Speak.
h l a i How low am I?
i a n y s l b t m n c r u t e I am not yet so low but that my nails can reach unto thine eyes.
July 10, 2019