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    1. Sometime a horse I’ll be, sometime a hound, 0914   A hog, a headless bear, sometime a fire,

      he turns bottoms head into a donkey, leaving bottom confused on why everyone is running away from him.

    1. Help me, Lysander, help me! Do thy best 0793  To pluck this crawling serpent from my breast.

      "This moment occurs after Hermia and Lysander have wandered into the fairy-ruled woods. Earlier, Oberon, the king of fairies, has used a magical flower juice (pansy) on Titania’s eyelids to make her see things as she pleases. In Hermia’s dream, she imagines a serpent devouring her heart, with Lysander watching and laughing at the “cruel prey"

    2. O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence! 0692  Love takes the meaning in love’s conference

      "Lysander is telling Hermia that, in the context of love and marriage, the act of “lying” together is not a betrayal — it is the fulfillment of a vow. He explains that his heart is “knit” to hers, that they share one heart and one oath, and that by lying together, he is not “lying” in the sense of deception, but rather keeping his promise to marry her"

    1. To amorous Phillida

      "is part of a humorous and satirical exchange between the fairy Puck and the fairy Peaseblossom" But to me this looks like these people are talking in a more romantic way then theseus and his soon to be wife were.