Sonho de Uma Noite de Verão, Shakespeare! (II)

No seguimento do post do Filipe e do 1º Festval de Artes na Quinta das Lágrimas lembrei-me de colocar um excerto de A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Sir Joseph Noel Paton, Study for The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania c. 1849

Act II

Scene I - A Wood near Athens

Enter a Fairy at one door, anda Puck at another

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"Puck: How now, spirit! whither wander you?

Fai: Over hill, over dale,

Through bush, through brier,

Over park, over pale,

Through flood, through fire,

I do wander everywhere,

Swifter than the moon's sphere;

And i serve the fairy queen,

To dew her orbs upon the green.

The cowslips tall her pensioners be:

In their gold coats spots you see;

Those be rubies, fairy favours,

In those freckles live their savours:

I must go seek some dew-drops here,

And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.

Farewell, thou lob of spirits; Il be gone:

Our queen and all our elves come here anon. "
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The Complete Works of Shakespeare, With a preface by Sir Donald Wolfi, London: The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited, Spring Books, 1981 (20 th impression), p. 142