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A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Essential Passage by Theme: Love
LYSANDER:
How now, my love! Why is your cheek so pale?
How chance the roses there do fade so fast?HERMIA:
Belike for want of rain, which I could well
Beteem them from the tempest of my eyes.LYSANDER:
Ay me! for aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth;
But, either it was different in blood—HERMIA:
O cross! too high to be enthrall'd to low.
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