The Course of True Love

from A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Rewired Musical by Lydia Arachne & Fuse Theatre of CT

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lyrics

LYSANDER
How now, my love! why is your cheek so pale?
How chance the roses there do fade so fast?

HERMIA
Belike for want of rain, which I could well
Beteem them from the tempest of my eyes.

LYSANDER
Ay me! for aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,

LYSANDER and HERMIA
The course of true love never did run smooth.

LYSANDER
But, either it was different in blood-

HERMIA
O cross! too high to be enthralled to low.

LYSANDER
Or else misgraffed in respect of years-

HERMIA
O spite! too old to be engaged to young.

LYSANDER
Or else it stood upon the choice of friends-

HERMIA
O hell, to choose love by another's eyes!

LYSANDER
Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,

LYSANDER and HERMIA
War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,

LYSANDER
Making it momentary as a sound,
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,
Brief as the lightning in the collide night;
And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'
The jaws of darkness do devour it up.
So quick bright things come to confusion.

HERMIA
If then true lovers have been ever crossed,
It stands as an edict in destiny.

LYSANDER and HERMIA
Then let us teach our trial patience,

HERMIA
Because it is a customary cross,

LYSANDER and HERMIA
As due to love as thoughts and dreams and sighs,
Wishes and tears, poor fancy's followers.

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from A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Rewired Musical, released September 18, 2022

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