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85 DEMETRIUS: I’d better let her cool Now to find Helena, to make sure I
off before I go after her. This whole get it right this time. (Puck is about to
thing is a depressing disaster—it makes leave when he hears arguing.) I can’t
me so tired . . . trust my eyes but I can trust my ears!
86 (Demetrius throws himself in a heap on That sounds like Lysander and
the ground and closes his eyes. Puck comes Helena, making enough racket to
out from behind the tree.) wake the dead!
87 PUCK: Well, I’m not going to lie—this 88 LYSANDER: For the last time, my love,
was a bad mistake. (He giggles.) It’s a my beauty, I am not making fun of you!
funny one, though! Instead of turning I love you! These tears that stream
false love into true love, I turned a good down my cheeks should tell you that
love bad! That’s the way the cookie I’m not lying!
crumbles—some vows stick, some 89 HELENA: How can you be telling me
don’t, whether a love potion is involved the truth? You’ve already made these
or not. Regardless, this mess is fixed vows—to Hermia! So the vows you
easily enough. (He takes out the potion made to me are a lie.
and puts some on Demetrius’s eyes.) 90 LYSANDER: I wasn’t in my right mind
when I made my vows to her.
91 HELENA: And you’re not in your right
mind now, you jerk.
92 LYSANDER: Look at it this way.
Demetrius loves her, not you, and—
93 (At the sound of his name, Demetrius
wakes. His eyes land on Helena and he is
instantly in love with her.)
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