1 By day's approach look to be visited.
2 We may effect this business yet ere day.
3 Here will I rest me till the break of day.
4 Make no stay; Meet me all by break of day.
5 The sun was not so true unto the day As he to me.
6 He would have deserved it: sixpence a day in Pyramus, or nothing.
7 Now, until the break of day, Through this house each fairy stray.
8 An the Duke had not given him sixpence a day for playing Pyramus, I'll be hanged.
9 We'll rest us, Hermia, if you think it good, And tarry for the comfort of the day.
10 You can play no part but Pyramus, for Pyramus is a sweet-faced man; a proper man as one shall see in a summer's day; a most lovely gentleman-like man.
11 Go, one of you, find out the forester; For now our observation is perform'd; And since we have the vaward of the day, My love shall hear the music of my hounds.
12 Then I must be thy lady; but I know When thou hast stol'n away from fairyland, And in the shape of Corin sat all day Playing on pipes of corn, and versing love To amorous Phillida.
13 Four days will quickly steep themselves in night; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow New bent in heaven, shall behold the night Of our solemnities.
14 Near to her close and consecrated bower, While she was in her dull and sleeping hour, A crew of patches, rude mechanicals, That work for bread upon Athenian stalls, Were met together to rehearse a play Intended for great Theseus' nuptial day.
15 Take time to pause; and by the next new moon The sealing-day betwixt my love and me For everlasting bond of fellowship, Upon that day either prepare to die For disobedience to your father's will, Or else to wed Demetrius, as he would, Or on Diana's altar to protest For aye austerity and single life.