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               165  PUCK: Finally! Here is the moment to        171  (Lysander opens his eyes to see Hermia,
                   right these hilarious wrongs. Now. This          and feels a rush of love for her.)
                   is Lysander, right? (He double checks,       172  LYSANDER: Hermia? (Then, groggy
                   leaning in close, squinting.) Yes! Great.        and confused, he sees Theseus and Egeus.)
                   (He plucks a flower from the garland on          My lord, I . . . I’m not sure what to say.
                   his head and dabs it on Lysander’s eyes.)        I don’t quite know how we all ended
                   And just to be safe . . . (He rolls              up here. But, in all honesty, I know

                   Lysander onto his side, so he is facing          that Hermia and I were planning to
                   Hermia.) There! When you wake, you               run away—
                   will see your love, and all will be right    173  EGEUS: (outraged) And for that you
                   with your world once again.                      must be punished. Did you hear that,
               166  (Puck skips off, tossing his garland into the   Demetrius? He wanted to take away
                   air, quite pleased with himself.)                your wife!

                                                                174  DEMETRIUS: (to Lysander) Are we . . .
                                                                    awake? Is this actually happening?

                                                                175  LYSANDER: I believe it is but I feel
                                                                    so . . . odd.
                                                                176  DEMETRIUS: (to Egeus) I’m sorry,
                                                                    sir, but I don’t want to marry your
                                                                    daughter after all. I mean, I did love her
                   Scene 6                                          at one point, but that was a strange

                                                                    moment in time when I was not myself.
                                                                    I am back to my old self now, and I
               167  (Finally, morning has come. The fog has         love Helena. As I did. Before. A while
                   disappeared. Theseus, who is duke of             ago, I mean.
                   Athens, and Hermia’s father, Egeus, come
                                                                177  HELENA: (wary) You do love me?
                   into the clearing.)
                                                                178  DEMETRIUS: I do!
               168  THESEUS: Who are these people
                                                                179  EGEUS: But—
                   sleeping here?
                                                                180  THESEUS: Egeus, today is for
               169  EGEUS: Why, that’s . . . my daughter?           celebrating! Let’s allow these couples to
                   And Lysander? And Demetrius and                  love who they love, and let them marry!
                   Helena? I don’t understand!                      Let us all go to the temple!
               170  THESEUS: I nearly forgot. Isn’t today           (Lysander stands, extending his hand
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                   the day Hermia must make her                     to help up his former rival, then turns
                   decision? Let’s wake them up! (Theseus           to Hermia.)
                   blows his hunting horn, startling the young
                   people awake.) Explain yourselves!
                                                                      outraged  If you are outraged about something,
                                                                      you’re angry and shocked.

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