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Enter, from opposite sides, Fairy, and PUCK

PUCK – How now, spirit! whither wander you?… thru -

Fairy – Ssh! And here comes the QUEEN, now I do believe, we should hide, and not be seen.

Both hide stage right (the forest)

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Enter, stage left, the QUEEN (Richard II, Act 3, Scene iii.)

This time Puck decides not to hide and runs to cheer up the queen who still looks sad.

QUEEN – What sport shall we devise here in this garden, To drive away the heavy thought of care?

Puck (Startles Queen) Madam, we’ll play at bowls – thru -

QUEEN What tomorrow will bring, we shall see.

Exit Queen

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Enter stage right, Fairy

PUCK My mistress with a monster is under his power -

FAIRY – No, she’s not been hit by Cupid’s bow, – thru -

PUCK – When in this moment, it may come to pass, She shall walk away than love an ass.

Exit Puck (Fairy hides stage right to overhear Isabella and Angelo)

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(Measure for Measure, from SCENE IV.)

Enter Isabella and Angelo

ISABELLA As much for my poor brother as myself:…

ANGELO Then must your brother die…. – thru  Say what you can, my false o’erweighs your true

Exit Angelo

ISABELLA – To whom should I complain? Did I tell this, Who would believe me? O perilous mouths,

FAIRY (Offstage/from forest – Isabella does not hear) I do hear thee fair Lady, I believe all thine eyes have seen and ears of heard. – thru -

ISABELLA – And fit his mind to death, for his soul’s rest.

Isabella crosses over near the forest as if she senses someone there.

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(Sonnet CXXIX)

Enter Fairy, but to enough for the Queen (Isabella to see her)

FAIRY – The expense of spirit in a waste of shame – thru – Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream.

Queen knows the Fairy is there, but does not see her for she is in hiding.

(Romeo and Juliet – Act 2, Scene 2 with the exception of the first line and lines from Midsummer Night’s Dream)

QUEEN - The glittering light the Fairy appears through the woods like the trails of so many fireflies on their way to where we do not know.

QUEEN (Romeo’s lines) But, soft! what light through yonder woods doth break?

FAIRY (Juliet lines) – Ay me! – Thru – Which is the god of my idolatry, And I’ll believe thee.

Fairy peaks to herself as she knows now the Queen is going back to the mortal world)

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; – thru – To have his sight thither and back again.

(Sonnet 86) Queen approaches to the place in the forrest where the fairy is and delivers very warmly.

QUEEN – Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?  – thru – So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

As the scene builds between the two, suddenly they are frightened away by the arrival of Angelo

Exit Queen/Fairy stage right

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(Measure for Measure)

Enter stage left, Angelo

ANGELO – This deed unshapes me quite, makes me unpregnant – thru  – They will no longer trespass me, or by my stay.

Exit stage left

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PUCK – Now the hungry lion roars, – thru – Give me your hands, if we be friends, And all shall restore amends.

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