Titania and Oberon get into a big fight over the little changeling boy. Oberon is insanely jealous of the child, resenting the amount of attention that Titania lavishes upon him. For good measure, Oberon insists that the boy is actually a little prince, stolen from an Indian king, no less. That being so, he thinks it only right and proper that he, as King of the Fairies, should raise the child to be one of his attendants.

But Titania's having none of this. Her understanding of the boy's origins is somewhat different. She claims that the boy is the son of one of her attendants who died in childbirth. This attendant was very loyal to Titania, and out of gratitude for that loyalty, the Queen of the Fairies intends to raise the boy as her own.

Titania wins this epic battle of wills, but Oberon's not done yet. He gets the mischievous sprite Puck to cast a magic spell upon his queen so that when she awakes from her slumbers, she instantly falls head-over-heels with the donkey-headed Bottom.