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281 A Midsummer Night's Dream SD 2.2.8 Fairies ^sing^ ‘You spotted snakes with double tongue’ SD Fairies Sing. | You spotted Snakes with double tongue, 659 2.2.8 2.2.8 …Fairies sing and dance… 2.2.8
282 A Midsummer Night's Dream Chorus [^dancing^] 2.2.13 ^Philomel with melody, | Sing in our sweet lullaby^; | Lulla, lulla, lullaby. Philomele with melodie, | Sing in your sweet Lullaby· | Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby, 664 2.2.13 2.2.13 2.2.13
283 A Midsummer Night's Dream Chorus [^dancing^] 2.2.24 ^Philomel with melody, | Sing in our sweet lullaby^ . . . 2. Fairy. Philomele with melody, &c. 674 2.2.23 2.2.24 2.2.24
284 A Midsummer Night's Dream Quince 3.1.21 Well, we will have such a prologue; and it shall be written | in ^eight and six^. Quin. Well, we will haue such a Prologue, and it shall | be written in eight and sixe. 834 3.1.22 3.1.21 3.1.20 i.e. a common ballad measure
285 A Midsummer Night's Dream Bottom 3.1.108 I will walk up and down here, and I will ^sing^, | that they shall hear I am not afraid. Bot. I will walke vp and downe | here, and I will sing that they shall heare I am not afraid. 939 3.1.117 3.1.116 3.1.101 …and will sing…
286 A Midsummer Night's Dream Bottom 3.1.110 ^[sings]^ The ousel cock so black of hue, | With orange-tawny bill; | The throstle with his ^note so true^, | The wren with little quill. . . The finch, the sparrow, and the lark, | The ^plainsong^ cuckoo grey, | Whose ^note^ full many a man doth mark, | And dares not answer ‘Nay’ Bot. The Woosell cocke, so blacke of hew, | With Orenge-tawny bill. | The Throstle, with his note so true, | The Wren and little quill…. | The Finch, the Sparrow, and the Larke, | The plainsong Cuckow gray; | Whose note full many a man doth marke, | And dares not answere, nay. 942 3.1.120. …[The singing awakens Titania]… 3.1.117 (Sings)… 3.1.103
287 A Midsummer Night's Dream Titania 3.1.121 I pray thee, gentle mortal, ^sing^ again, | Mine ear is much enamoured of thy ^note^ Tyta. I pray thee gentle mortall, sing againe, | Mine eare is much enamored of thy note; 954 3.1.132 3.1.130 3.1.115
288 A Midsummer Night's Dream Helena 3.2.207 Both ^warbling^ of one ^song^, both in one ^key^ Hel. Both warbling of one song, both in one key; 1233 3.2.206 3.2.206 3.2.206
289 A Midsummer Night's Dream Titania 4.1.25 What, wilt thou ^hear some music^, my sweet love? | Tita. What, wilt thou heare some musicke, my sweet | loue. 1537 4.1.27 4.1.27 4.1.25
290 A Midsummer Night's Dream Bottom 4.1.26 I have a reasonable ^good ear in music^. Let's have the ^tongs and the bones^. Clow. I haue a reasonable good eare in musicke. Let | vs haue the tongs and the bones. 1539 4.1.28 4.1.28 4.1.26 ... tongues ... [in F2]; ...tonges... [in F3]