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        A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM


ACT V



SCENE I Athens. The palace of THESEUS.

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THESEUS ...
        The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
        Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
        And as imagination bodies forth
        The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
        Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
        A local habitation and a name.
        Such tricks hath strong imagination,
        That if it would but apprehend some joy,
        It comprehends some bringer of that joy;
        Or in the night, imagining some fear,
        How easy is a bush supposed a bear!