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Demétrio, manterei minha palavra.

DEMÉTRIO

Eu prefiro um contrato escrito,

Pois não confiarei só na sua palavra.

LISANDRO

Quer que a machuque ou que a mate?

Mesmo que a odeie, não lhe faria mal.

HÉRMIA

O quê? Mais mal que o seu ódio já fez?

Odiar-me? Por quê? O que fiz, meu amor?

Eu não sou Hérmia? Você não é Lisandro?

Sou ainda tão bela quanto era antes.

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Since night you loved me; yet since night you left me.

Why then, you left me – O, the gods forbid! –

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In earnest, shall I say?

LYSANDER

Ay, by my life;

And never did desire to see thee more.

Therefor be out of hope, of question, of doubt; Be certain, nothing truer – ’tis no jest That I do hate thee and love Helena.

HERMIA ( to Helena)

O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, You thief of love! What, have you come by night And stol’n my love’s heart from him?

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HELENA

Fine, i’faith!

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Have you no modesty, no maiden shame, e v

No touch of bashfulness? What, will you tear Impatient answers from my gentle tongue?

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Fie, fie, you counterfeit, you puppet, you!

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‘Puppet’? Why so? – Ay, that way goes the game.

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Now I perceive that she hath made compare Between our statures; she hath urged her height, And with her personage, her tall personage, Her height, forsooth, she hath prevailed with him.

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Because I am so dwarfish and so low?

How low am I, thou painted maypole? Speak!

How long am I? I am not yet so low

But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes.

HELENA

I pray you, though you mock me, gentlemen, Let her not hurt me. I was never curst;

Ontem me amava e depois me deixou.