what is the answer to the questions beginning "whither has gone . . . (lines 106 ff)?

⌜With the four lovers still asleep onstage,⌝ enter
⌜Titania,⌝ Queen of Fairies, and ⌜Bottom⌝ and Fairies,
and ⌜Oberon,⌝ the Rex, behind them ⌜unseen by those
onstage.⌝

TITANIA
Come up, sit down thee down upon this flow'ry bed,
While I thy amiable cheeks do coy,
And stick muskroses in thy sleek smoothen head,
And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy.
Bottom v Where'southward Peaseblossom?
PEASEBLOSSOM Ready.
BOTTOM Scratch my head, Peaseblossom. Where's
Monsieur Cobweb?
Fiber Ready.
Bottom 10 Monsieur Fiber, skillful monsieur, get you
your weapons in your hand and kill me a blood-red-hipped
apprehensive-bee on the top of a thistle, and, good
monsieur, bring me the honey-bag. Do not fret
yourself too much in the activity, monsieur, and,
15 good monsieur, take a care the beloved-bag break
non; I would exist loath to have you overflown with a
honey-purse, signior. ⌜Cobweb exits.⌝ Where'south Monsieur
Mustardseed?
MUSTARDSEED Ready.

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BOTTOM 20 Give me your neaf, Monsieur Mustardseed.
Pray you, go out your courtesy, good monsieur.
MUSTARDSEED What's your volition?
Bottom Nada, good monsieur, but to assistance Cavalery
Cobweb to scratch. I must to the barber'due south,
25 monsieur, for methinks I am marvels hairy near
the face. And I am such a tender ass, if my pilus do
only tickle me, I must scratch.
TITANIA
What, wilt g hear some music, my sweet love?
Bottom I have a reasonable skilful ear in music. Let's
30 have the tongs and the bones.
TITANIA
Or say, sweetness love, what thousand desirest to eat.
BOTTOM Truly, a peck of fodder. I could munch
your skillful dry oats. Methinks I accept a neat desire
to a canteen of hay. Expert hay, sweetness hay, hath no
35 young man.
TITANIA
I have a venturous fairy that shall seek
The squirrel'south hoard and fetch thee new nuts.
Bottom I had rather have a scattering or two of dried
peas. Only, I pray you, let none of your people stir
40 me; I have an exposition of sleep come upon me.
TITANIA
Sleep g, and I will wind thee in my arms.—
Fairies, begone, and be all means abroad.
⌜Fairies exit.⌝
So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle
Gently entwist; the female ivy so
45 Enrings the barky fingers of the elm.
O, how I dearest thee! How I dote on thee!
⌜Lesser and Titania sleep.⌝

Enter Robin Goodfellow.

OBERON
Welcome, good Robin. Seest thou this sweet sight?

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Her dotage now I practice begin to pity.
For, meeting her of late behind the woods,
50 Seeking sweet favors for this hateful fool,
I did upbraid her and fall out with her.
For she his hairy temples then had rounded
With coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers;
And that same dew, which former on the buds
55 Was wont to cracking like round and orient pearls,
Stood now within the pretty flouriets' optics,
Like tears that did their own disgrace bewail.
When I had at my pleasance taunted her,
And she in mild terms begged my patience,
60 I then did enquire of her her changeling kid,
Which direct she gave me, and her fairy sent
To behave him to my bower in Fairyland.
And now I take the male child, I will disengage
This hateful imperfection of her eyes.
65 And, gentle Puck, take this transformèd scalp
From off the head of this Athenian beau,
That he, awaking when the other exercise,
May all to Athens back again repair
And think no more than of this dark'south accidents
lxx But as the fierce vexation of a dream.
But first I volition release the Fairy Queen.
⌜He applies the nectar to her optics.⌝
Be as thou wast wont to be.
Come across as one thousand wast wont to see.
Dian's bud o'er Cupid's flower
75 Hath such force and blessèd power.
At present, my Titania, wake yous, my sweet queen.
TITANIA , ⌜waking⌝
My Oberon, what visions have I seen!
Methought I was enamored of an ass.
OBERON
There lies your love.
TITANIA eighty How came these things to pass?
O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!

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ACT iv. SC. 1

OBERON
Silence awhile.—Robin, take off this caput.—
Titania, music telephone call; and strike more expressionless
Than common sleep of all these ⌜v⌝ the sense.
TITANIA
85 Music, ho, music such equally charmeth sleep!
ROBIN , ⌜removing the ass-head from Bottom⌝
Now, when g wak'st, with thine own fool's optics
peep.
OBERON
Sound music. ⌜Music.⌝
Come, my queen, take hands with me,
xc And stone the ground whereon these sleepers be.
⌜Titania and Oberon dance.⌝
Now g and I are new in amity,
And will tomorrow midnight solemnly
Trip the light fantastic toe in Duke Theseus' house triumphantly,
And bless it to all fair prosperity.
95 There shall the pairs of faithful lovers be
Wedded, with Theseus, all in jollity.
ROBIN
Fairy king, attend and marker.
I do hear the morning lark.
OBERON
Then, my queen, in silence lamentable
100 Trip we after dark's shade.
We the world can compass presently,
Swifter than the wand'ring moon.
TITANIA
Come, my lord, and in our flight
Tell me how it came this night
105 That I sleeping here was found
With these mortals on the ground.
⌜Oberon, Robin, and Titania⌝ exit.

Wind horn. Enter Theseus and all his train,
⌜Hippolyta, Egeus.⌝

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ACT iv. SC. 1

THESEUS
Go, one of y'all, find out the Forester.
For now our observation is performed,
And, since we have the vaward of the day,
110 My love shall hear the music of my hounds.
Uncouple in the western valley; let them go.
Acceleration, I say, and notice the Forester.
⌜A Servant exits.⌝
Nosotros will, fair queen, up to the mount'southward pinnacle
And mark the musical defoliation
115 Of hounds and repeat in conjunction.
HIPPOLYTA
I was with Hercules and Cadmus once,
When in a woods of Crete they bayed the bear
With hounds of Sparta. Never did I hear
Such gallant chiding, for, likewise the groves,
120 The skies, the fountains, every region virtually
⌜Seemed⌝ all one mutual cry. I never heard
And so musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
THESEUS
My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind,
So flewed, so sanded; and their heads are hung
125 With ears that sweep away the morning dew;
Crook-kneed, and dewlapped similar Thessalian bulls;
Dull in pursuit, but matched in mouth similar bells,
Each nether each. A cry more than tunable
Was never holloed to, nor cheered with horn,
130 In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly.
Judge when you hear.—But soft! What nymphs are
these?
EGEUS
My lord, this ⌜is⌝ my daughter here asleep,
And this Lysander; this Demetrius is,
135 This Helena, old Nedar'south Helena.
I wonder of their being hither together.

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ACT iv. SC. 1

THESEUS
No uncertainty they rose up early to find
The rite of May, and hearing our intent,
Came hither in grace of our solemnity.
140 But speak, Egeus. Is not this the mean solar day
That Hermia should give respond of her choice?
EGEUS It is, my lord.
THESEUS
Go, bid the huntsmen wake them with their horns.
⌜A Retainer exits.⌝
Shout within. Wind horns. They all start up.
THESEUS
Expert morrow, friends. Saint Valentine is by.
145 Begin these woodbirds but to couple now?
⌜Demetrius, Helena, Hermia, and Lysander kneel.⌝
LYSANDER
Pardon, my lord.
THESEUS I pray you all, stand up.
⌜They rise.⌝
I know yous two are rival enemies.
How comes this gentle concord in the globe,
150 That hatred is so far from jealousy
To sleep by hate and fear no enmity?
LYSANDER
My lord, I shall respond amazèdly,
Half sleep, half waking. Just as yet, I swear,
I cannot truly say how I came hither.
155 But, as I remember—for truly would I speak,
And now I do bethink me, so it is:
I came with Hermia here. Our intent
Was to be gone from Athens, where we might,
Without the peril of the Athenian law—
EGEUS
160 Enough, enough!—My lord, you take enough.
I beg the constabulary, the law upon his head.
They would take stol'due north away.—They would,
Demetrius,

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Deed 4. SC. i

Thereby to have defeated you and me:
165 Y'all of your wife and me of my consent,
Of my consent that she should exist your wife.
DEMETRIUS
My lord, fair Helen told me of their stealth,
Of this their purpose hither to this wood,
And I in fury hither followed them,
170 Fair Helena in fancy following me.
Simply, my skillful lord, I wot not by what power
(But past some power it is) my honey to Hermia,
Melted as the snow, seems to me now
As the remembrance of an idle gaud
175 Which in my childhood I did dote upon,
And all the faith, the virtue of my eye,
The object and the pleasure of mine eye,
Is only Helena. To her, my lord,
Was I betrothed ere I ⌜saw⌝ Hermia.
180 But like a sickness did I loathe this food.
Simply, every bit in wellness, come to my natural taste,
At present I do wish it, dear information technology, long for it,
And will forevermore be true to information technology.
THESEUS
Fair lovers, you are fortunately met.
185 Of this discourse we more will hear anon.—
Egeus, I will overbear your will,
For in the temple by and past, with u.s.,
These couples shall eternally be knit.—
And, for the morning now is something worn,
190 Our purposed hunting shall be set aside.
Abroad with u.s. to Athens. Three and three,
Nosotros'll hold a feast in great solemnity.
Come, Hippolyta.
⌜Theseus and his train,
including Hippolyta and Egeus, exit.⌝
DEMETRIUS
These things seem minor and undistinguishable,
195 Similar far-off mountains turnèd into clouds.

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Human activity iv. SC. one

HERMIA
Methinks I run across these things with parted eye,
When everything seems double.
HELENA So methinks.
And I take plant Demetrius similar a precious stone,
200 Mine ain and not mine own.
DEMETRIUS Are you sure
That nosotros are awake? It seems to me
That notwithstanding we slumber, we dream. Do not you think
The Duke was here and bid the states follow him?
HERMIA
205 Yea, and my father.
HELENA And Hippolyta.
LYSANDER
And he did bid united states of america follow to the temple.
DEMETRIUS
Why, then, we are awake. Allow'south follow him,
And by the way allow ⌜us⌝ recount our dreams.
⌜Lovers exit.⌝
Bottom , ⌜waking up⌝ 210  When my cue comes, call me,
and I volition answer. My next is "Well-nigh off-white Pyramus."
Hey-ho! Peter Quince! Flute the bellows-mender!
Snout the tinker! Starveling! God's my life! Stolen
hence and left me comatose! I accept had a most rare
215 vision. I have had a dream past the wit of human being to say
what dream information technology was. Man is only an donkey if he get virtually
⌜to⌝ expound this dream. Methought I was—there
is no man tin can tell what. Methought I was and
methought I had—only man is simply ⌜a patched⌝ fool if
220 he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of
man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen,
man's paw is not able to taste, his natural language to
conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream
was. I will go Peter Quince to write a ballad of this
225 dream. It shall be chosen "Bottom'southward Dream" because
it hath no bottom; and I will sing information technology in the

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latter end of a play, before the Knuckles. Peradventure,
to make it the more gracious, I shall sing it at her
death.
⌜He exits.⌝

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