| Egeus say this quote because he is complaining to Theseus about how Hermia won’t marry Demetrius and how he wants Theseus’s support. | Full of vexation come I, with complaint/ Against my child, my daughter Hermia. |
| Lysander says this quote because he wants Hermia to run away with him from the Athenian law which says that if Hermia didn’t marry Demetrius she would have to become a nun or die. | If thou lovest me, then/ Steal forth from thy father’s house tonight. |
| Helena says this quote because she is going to tell Demetrius about Hermia’s plan to run away in order to get Demetrius’s love and gratitude. | I will go tell him of fair Hermia’s flight. |
| Bottom says this quote because he is very enthusiastic and wants to play all the parts in the play that is being performed at Theseus and Hippolyta’s wedding. If the play is liked Bottom and his friends will win a prize. | Let me play the lion too. |
| This is said by Robin. A fairy asks him if he is Robin Goodfellow and Robin agrees but also says that he is Oberon’s servant who entertains Oberon. | Thou speakest aright/ I am the merry wanderer of the night/ I jest to Oberon and make him smile. |
| Titania says this to tell Oberon that the environment is off-balance because of their fight. | And this same progeny of evil comes./ From our debate, from our dissention:/ We are their parents and original. |
| Robin says this line to Oberon to describe how quickly he will retrieve the flower. Oberon wants to put the potion from the flower on Titania and keep her distracted so he can get the Indian boy. | I’ll put a girdle round about that earth/ In forty minutes |
| Oberon says this to Puck, telling him that he should put the potion on Demetrius so that he will love Helena back. He wants to do this for Helena because he pities her. | A sweet Athenian lady is in love/ with a disdainful youth…/ And look you meet me ere the first cock crow. |
| Helena says this to Demetrius, saying that she will love even if he treats her like a dog. | I am your spaniel, |
| Lysander is expressing his love to Helena under the influence of the potion. He is saying that Helena is a dove and that no-one would give up a dove for a raven, who is Hermia. | Not Hermia but Helena I love/ who would not change a raven for a dove? |
| Quince and his friens are rehearsing the play that is to be performed at Theseus and Hippolyta’s wedding in the woods and when Bottom gets an ass-head, his friends thinks that Bottom is monster and Quince says this quote in horror | O monstrous! O strange! We are haunted. Pray masters, fly masters! Help! |
| Titania says this quote to Bottom, telling him that she loves Bottom who is now a donkey and that she is a special spirit, but she says this under the influence of Oberon’s potion | I am a spirit of no common rate…/ And I do love thee. |
| Helena says this to Hermia in anger, asking her if Hermia made Demetrius and Lysander love her if Hermia in order to make fun of Helena, because Helena knows that both Lysander and Demetrius love Hermia. | most ungrateful maid,/ Have you conspired, have you with these contrived,/ To bait me with this foul derision? |
| Titania says this to Oberon after the potion has been lifted. She is saying that she can’t believe that she could love an ass and that she hates Bottom’s face now. | How came these thing to pass? O! How mine eyes do loathe his visage now! |
| Helena, Demetrius, Hermia and Lysander has just woken up from their crazy dream and Theseus has just told them that the four of them will get married. Demetrius is telling friends that they should follow Theseus and along the way tell each other their dreams. | Let’s follow him./ And by the way let us recount our dreams |
| The wedding of the three couples has just occurred and now they are watching the peasant’s play, and Hippolyta is commenting that the play is silly and funny. | This is the silliest stuff that I ever heard. |
| Robin says this, telling the audience to applaud if they liked the play and if the play was bad, that they will fix it | Give me your hands if we be friends, And [I] shall restore amends. |
English quiz on quotes from Midsummer Night’s Dream
August 4, 2019