A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Dick Powell: Lysander - In Love with Hermia
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Quotes
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Lysander : Hermia, the course of true love never did run smooth.
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Lysander : Helena, I love you, by my life I do!
Demetrius, in Love with Hermia : I say I love you more than he can do!
Lysander : If you say so, withdraw, and prove it too.
Demetrius, in Love with Hermia : Come!
Lysander : Come!
Demetrius, in Love with Hermia : Quick!
Lysander : Quick!
Demetrius, in Love with Hermia : Come quick!
Lysander : Quick, come!
[They draw swords]
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Egeus - Father to Hermia : Stand for, Lysander. With cunning did you steal my daughter's heart. Turned her obedience due to me, to stubborn harshness.
Lysander : I am, my lord, beloved of beauteous Hermia!
Egeus - Father to Hermia : But, she is mine! I may dispose of her, which may be either to Demetrius or to death!
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Demetrius, in Love with Hermia : Lysander, yield your crazed title of my certain right.
Lysander : You have her father's love, Demetrius. Let me have hers. You marry him!
Egeus - Father to Hermia : True and full, Lysander! True! He has my love and what is mine my love shall give to him. And she is mine. And all my right of her I hereby grant unto Demetrius!
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Hermia, in Love with Lysander : Lysander, find you out a bed; for I upon this bank will rest my head.
Lysander : One turf shall serve as pillow for us both. One heart, one bed, two bosoms and one troth.
Hermia, in Love with Lysander : Nay, good Lysander. For my sake, my dear, lie further off yet. Do not lie so near.
Lysander : O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence! Then by your side no bed-room me deny; For lying so, Hermia, I do not lie.
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Lysander : Transparent Helena! Nature shows art, that through thy bosom makes me see thy heart.
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Hermia, in Love with Lysander : [chasing through the woods] Lysander!
Puck : [mockingly] Lysander!
Hermia, in Love with Lysander : Lysander!
Demetrius, in Love with Hermia : Hermia!
Helena - In Love with Demetrius : Demetrius!
Puck : [mockingly] Demetrius!
Lysander : Helena! Helena!
Puck : [mockingly] Helena! Lysander!
Demetrius, in Love with Hermia : Hermia! Hermia!
Puck : [mockingly] Hermia!
Helena - In Love with Demetrius : Demetrius!
Lysander : Helena! Helena!
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Lysander : Helena, I love you by my life, I do!
Demetrius, in Love with Hermia : I say I love you more than he can do!
Lysander : If you say so, withdraw, and prove it too.
Demetrius, in Love with Hermia : Come!
Lysander : Come!
Demetrius, in Love with Hermia : Quick!
Lysander : Quick!
Demetrius, in Love with Hermia : Come! Quick!
Lysander : Quick! Come!
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Lysander : These things seem small and undistinguishable, like far off mountains turned into clouds.
Demetrius, in Love with Hermia : It seems to me that, yet we sleep, we dream!
Hippolyta - Queen of the Amazons - Betrothed to Theseus : 'Tis strange my Theseus, what these lovers speak of.
Theseus - Duke of Athens : Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such wild imaginings, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact.