This old moon wanes she lingers my desires-theseus I am you spaniel- Helena My heart is as true as steel O Helena god

nymph goddess perfect divine It shall be called bottoms dream beause it hath no bottom
base and vile into form and dignity.- Helena Through Athens I am thought as fair as she. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Lord, what fools these mortals be! comically mixed-up association of body parts and senses: he suggests that eyes can hear, ears see, hands taste, tongues think, and hearts speak. If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended: That you have but slumbered here, While these visions did appear; Puck speaks these lines in an address to the audience near the end of A Midsummer Nights Dream, extending the theme of dreams beyond the world of the play and putting the reality of the audiences experience into question (V.epilogue.18). As many of the characters (Bottom and Theseus among them) believe that the magical events of the plays action were merely a dream, Puck tells the crowd that if the play has offended them, they too should remember it simply as a dreamThat you have but slumbered here, / While these visions did appear. The speech offers a commentary on the dreamlike atmosphere of A Midsummer Nights Dream and casts the play as a magical dream in which the audience shares

To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.

I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove

O, hell! to choose love by anothers eye

I'll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes.