Saturday, August 21, 2004

Helena:
How happy some o'er other some can be!

Through Athens i am thought as fair as she.

But what of that? Dmetrius thinks not so;

He will not know what all but he do know;

And as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes,

So i, admiring of his qualities:

Things base and vile, holding no quantity,

Love can transpose to form and dignity:

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;

And therefore is wing'd cupid painted blind:

Nor hath Love of any judgement taste;

Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste:

And therefore is Love said to be a child,

Because in choice he is oft beguiled.

As waggish boys in game themselves forswear.

So the boy Love is perjured every where:

For ere Demetrius look'd o Hermia's eyen,

He hail'd down oaths that he was only mine;

And when this hail some heat from hermia felt,

So he dissolved, and showers of oaths did melt.

I will go tell him of fair hermia's flight:

Then to the woods will him to-morrow night

Pursue her; and for this intelligence

If i have thanks, it is a dear expense:

But herein mean I to enrich my pain

To have his sight thither and back again


William Shakespeare
A Midsummer-night's Dream


Can Anyone help me with this? need to memorise it and say it as a speech next term... can somewat understand it, but need opinions on how i should really express it out... cause my acting skills are very bad and really need help.... Thanx
Why do i think that i should not be doing this ? Coz i think i relate more to Hermia.


moonlight shone on Desiree at
Saturday, August 21, 2004
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