Homework for Tues.
•continue to work on research project,
new deadline, May 5
•Group performance assignment
•Last participation paragraph
•Play tonight (or this weekend)
Bottom’s Dream
I haue had a most rare vision. I had a dreame, past the wit of man, to
say, what dreame it was. Man is but an Asse,
if he goe about to expound this dreame. Me-thought I
was, there is no man can tell what. Me-thought I was,
and me-thought I had. But man is but a patch'd foole,
if he will offer to say, what me-thought I had. The eye of
man hath not heard, the eare of man hath not seen, mans
hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceiue, nor his
heart to report, what my dreame was. I will get Peter
Quince to write a ballet of this dreame, it shall be called
Bottomes Dreame, because it hath no bottome; and I will
sing it in the latter end of a play, before the Duke. Peraduenture, to make it the more gracious, I shall sing it
at her death.
1 Corinthians 2
[7] But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden
wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
[8] Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it,
they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
[9] But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have
entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for
them that love him.
[10] But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit
searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
[11] For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man
which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the
Spirit of God.
Love Magic
Thou, thou Lysander, thou hast giuen her rimes,
And interchang'd loue-tokens with my childe:
Thou hast by Moone-light at her window sung,
With faining voice, verses of faining loue,
And stolne the impression of her fantasie,
With bracelets of thy haire, rings, gawdes, conceits,
Knackes, trifles, Nose-gaies, sweet meats (messengers
Of strong preuailment in vnhardned youth)
With cunning hast thou filch'd my daughters heart,
Turn'd her obedience (which is due to me)
To stubborne harshnesse. (1.1.36-46)
Love Magic
Lys. Or if there were a simpathie in choise,
Warre, death, or sicknesse, did lay siege to it;
Making it momentarie, as a sound:
Swift as a shadow, short as any dreame,
Briefe as the lightning in the collied night,
That (in a spleene) vnfolds both heauen and earth;
And ere a man hath power to say, behold,
The iawes of darkness do deuoure it vp:
So quicke bright things come to confusion. (1.1.1519)
Stage Magic
Bot. That will aske some teares in the true performing
of it: if I do it, let the audience looke to their eies:
I will mooue stormes; I will condole in some measure.
To the rest yet, my chiefe humour is for a tyrant. I
could play Ercles rarely, or a part to teare a Cat in, to
make all split the raging Rocks; and shiuering shocks
shall break the locks of prison gates, and Phibbus carre
shall shine from farre, and make and marre the foolish
Fates. This was lofty.
(1.2.293-301)
Herb Magic
Ob. That very time I say (but thou couldst It fell vpon a little westerne flower;
not)
Before, milke-white; now purple with loues
Flying betweene the cold Moone and the wound,
earth,
And maidens call it, Loue in idleness
Cupid all arm'd; a certaine aime he tooke Fetch me that flower; the hearb I shew'd
At a faire Vestall, throned by the West,
thee once,
And loos'd his loue-shaft smartly from his The iuyce of it, on sleeping eye-lids laid,
bow,
Will make or man or woman madly dote
As it should pierce a hundred thousand Vpon the next liue creature that it sees.
hearts,
Fetch me this hearbe, and be thou heere
But I might see young Cupids fiery shaft againe,
Quencht in the chaste beames of the watry Ere the Leuiathan can swim a league.
Moone;
And the imperiall Votresse passed on,
In maiden meditation, fancy free.
Yet markt I where the bolt of Cupid fell.
The English Physician, Nicholas
Culpepper
Heart's-Ease (Love in Idleness)
This is that herb which such physicians as are licensed to blaspheme by authority,
without danger of having their tongues burned through with an hot iron, called an
herb of the Trinity. It is also called by those that are more moderate, Three Faces in
a Hood, Love in Idleness, Cull me to you; and in Sussex we call them Pancies.
Place : Besides those which are brought up in gardens, they grow commonly wild in
the fields, especially in such as are very barren: sometimes you may find it on the
tops of the high hills.
Government and virtues : The herb is really saturnine, something cold, viscous, and
slimy. A strong decoction of the herbs and flowers (if you will, you may make it into
syrup) is an excellent cure for the French pox, the herb being a gallant antivenereal:
and that antivenereals are the best cure for that disease, far better and safer than to
torment them with the flux, divers foreign physicians have confessed. The spirit of it
is excellently good for the convulsions in children, as also for the falling sickness,
and a gallant remedy for the inflammation of the lungs and breasts, pleurisy, scabs,
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Herb Magic
Ob I know a banke where the wilde
time blowes,
Where Oxslips and the nodding
Violet growes,
Quite ouer-cannoped with luscious
woodbine,
With sweet muske roses, and with
Eglantine;
There sleepes Tytania, sometime of
the night,
Lul'd in these flowers, with dances
and delight:
And there the snake throwes her
enammel'd skinne,
Weed wide enough to rap a Fairy in.
And with the iuyce of this Ile streake
her eyes,
And make her full of hatefull
fantasies.
Take thou some of it, and seek
through this groue;
A sweet Athenian Lady is in loue
With a disdainefull youth: annoint
his eyes,
But doe it when the next thing he
espies,
May be the Lady.
The English Physician, Nicholas
Culpepper
Thyme
It is in vain to describe an herb so commonly known.
Government and virtues : It is a noble strengthener of the lungs, as notable a one as
grows; neither is there scarce a better remedy growing for that disease in children
which they commonly call the Chin- cough, than it is. It purges the body of phlegm,
and is an excellent remedy for shortness of breath. It kills worms in the belly, and
being a notable herb of Venus, provokes the terms, gives safe and speedy delivery to
women in travail, and brings away the after birth. It is so harmless you need not fear
the use of it. An ointment made of it takes away hot swellings and warts, helps the
sciatica and dullness of sight, and takes away pains and hardness of the spleen. Tis
excellent for those that are troubled with the gout.It eases pains in the loins and
hips. The herb taken any way inwardly, comforts the stomach much, and expels
wind.
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Violet
They are a fine pleasing plant of Venus, of a mild nature, no way harmful. All the
Violets are cold and moist while they are fresh and green, and are used to cool any
heat, or distemperature of the body, either inwardly or outwardly, as inflammations
in the eyes, in the matrix or fundament, in imposthumes also, and hot swellings, to
drink the decoction of the leaves and flowers made with water in wine, or to apply
them poultice-wise to the grieved places: it likewise eases pains in the head, caused
through want of sleep; or any other pains arising of heat, being applied in the same
manner, or with oil of roses…only picked and dried and drank in water, is said to
help the quinsy, and the falling-sickness in children, especially in the beginning of
the disease. The flowers of the white Violets ripen and dissolve swellings.
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Oxslips, Muskroses, Eglantine
Woodbine, or Honey-Suckles
It is an herb of Mercury, and appropriated to the lungs; neither is it Crab claims
dominion over it; neither is it a foe to the Lion; if the lungs be afflicted by Jupiter,
this is your cure. It is fitting a conserve made of the flowers of it were kept in every
gentlewoman's house; I know no better cure for an asthma than this: besides, it
takes away the evil of the spleen, provokes urine, procures speedy delivery of women
in travail, helps cramps, convulsions, and palsies, and whatsoever griefs come of cold
or stopping; if you please to make use of it as an ointment, it will clear your skin of
morphew, freckles, and sun-burnings, or whatsoever else discolours it, and then the
maids will love it.
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