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Titania enters the wood instructing her fairies to sing her to sleep. Just after they do, and leave, Oberon arrives and anoints her eye with the love juice so that she will love the first creature she sees upon waking. Lysander and Hermia make their entrance and decide to sleep since they are so tired that Lysander has forgotten the way to his aunt’s house. He lays down next to Hermia but she suggests he move away since they are not yet married. He pretends to be insulted at this request, so she apologizes and rephrases it in such a way that he acquiesces. As they...
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