whats ironic about the song the fairies sing to lull Titania to sleep?

A Midsummer Nighttime's Dream Please see the bottom of this folio for detailed explanatory notes and related resource. ACT Two SCENE Two Another function of the wood. Enter TITANIA, with her train TITANIA Come, at present a roundel and a fairy song; And then, for the third part of a minute, hence; Some to impale cankers in the musk-rose buds, Some war with rere-mice for their leathern wings, To make my small elves coats, and some keep back The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders At our quaint spirits. Sing me at present asleep; Then to your offices and let me rest. FAIRIES' SONG 'You spotted snakes with double tongue, Thorny hedgehogs, exist not seen;  10 Newts and blind-worms, exercise no wrong, Come not well-nigh our fairy queen.' 'Philomel, with tune Sing in our sweet lullaby; Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby: Never harm, Nor spell nor charm, Come our lovely lady nearly; So, good night, with lullaby.' II. 'Weaving spiders, come up not here;  twenty Hence, you long-legg'd spinners, hence! Beetles black, approach not near; Worm nor snail, do no offence. Philomel, with melody, &c.' Fairy Hence, away! now all is well: Ane aristocratic stand spotter. Exeunt Fairies. TITANIA sleeps. Enter OBERON and squeezes the flower on TITANIA's eyelids OBERON What one thousand seest when thou dost wake, Do information technology for thy true-beloved accept, Honey and languish for his sake: Exist information technology ounce, or true cat, or carry,  thirty Pard, or boar with bristled hair, In thy centre that shall appear When yard wakest, information technology is thy dear: Wake when some vile thing is near. Get out Enter LYSANDER and HERMIA LYSANDER Off-white dearest, you faint with wandering in the wood; And to speak troth, I have forgot our way: We'll remainder us, Hermia, if you lot think it good, And tarry for the comfort of the day. HERMIA Exist it and so, Lysander: observe yous out a bed; For I upon this bank will balance my head.  forty LYSANDER One turf shall serve as pillow for us both; I heart, 1 bed, two bosoms and i troth. HERMIA Nay, skilful Lysander; for my sake, my dear, Lie further off yet, do not lie so near. LYSANDER O, take the sense, sugariness, of my innocence! Beloved takes the meaning in love'due south briefing. I mean, that my center unto yours is knit So that but 1 heart we tin make of it; Two bosoms interchained with an oath; So then two bosoms and a unmarried troth.  l Then by your side no bed-room me deny; For lying and so, Hermia, I do not lie. HERMIA Lysander riddles very prettily: Now much beshrew my manners and my pride, If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied. But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy Prevarication further off; in human modesty, Such separation equally may well be said Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid, So far exist distant; and, expert night, sweet friend:  lx Thy love ne'er alter till thy sweet life cease! LYSANDER Amen, amen, to that off-white prayer, say I; So end life when I end loyalty! Here is my bed: slumber give thee all his rest! HERMIA With half that wish the wisher's eyes exist press'd! They slumber. Enter PUCK. PUCK Through the forest have I gone. Merely Athenian establish I none, On whose optics I might corroborate This bloom's force in stirring dearest. Nighttime and silence.--Who is hither?  70 Weeds of Athens he doth wearable: This is he, my chief said, Despised the Athenian maid; And hither the maiden, sleeping sound, On the dank and dirty basis. Pretty soul! she durst not prevarication Virtually this lack-love, this kill-courtesy. Churl, upon thy eyes I throw All the power this amuse doth owe. When thou wakest, let honey forbid  lxxx Sleep his seat on thy eyelid: So awake when I am gone; For I must now to Oberon. Exit Enter DEMETRIUS and HELENA, running. HELENA Stay, though yard kill me, sweet Demetrius. DEMETRIUS I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus. HELENA O, wilt one thousand darkling leave me? do non and then. DEMETRIUS Stay, on thy peril: I alone volition go. Exit HELENA O, I am out of breath in this fond chase! The more my prayer, the bottom is my grace. Happy is Hermia, wheresoe'er she lies;  xc For she hath blessed and bonny eyes. How came her optics and then bright? Not with common salt tears: If so, my eyes are oftener wash'd than hers. No, no, I am as ugly as a bear; For beasts that run into me run away for fear: Therefore no marvel though Demetrius Do, as a monster fly my presence thus. What wicked and dissembling glass of mine Fabricated me compare with Hermia'southward sphery eyne? Merely who is here? Lysander! on the ground!  100 Expressionless? or comatose? I see no blood, no wound. Lysander if you live, good sir, awake. LYSANDER Awaking. Transparent Helena! Nature shows art, That through thy bosom makes me see thy centre. Where is Demetrius? O, how fit a word Is that vile name to perish on my sword! HELENA Do non say so, Lysander; say not then What though he honey your Hermia? Lord, what though? Withal Hermia still loves you: so be content.  110 LYSANDER Content with Hermia! No; I exercise repent The wearisome minutes I with her have spent. Non Hermia simply Helena I dearest: Who volition not modify a raven for a pigeon? The will of human is by his reason sway'd; And reason says yous are the worthier maid. Things growing are not ripe until their season So I, being young, till at present ripe not to reason; And touching now the bespeak of human skill, Reason becomes the align to my will  120 And leads me to your eyes, where I o'erlook Dearest'south stories written in love'due south richest book. HELENA Wherefore was I to this swell mockery built-in? When at your hands did I deserve this scorn? Is't non enough, is't not enough, young man, That I did never, no, nor never can, Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye, Simply y'all must flout my insufficiency? Proficient troth, you practice me wrong, skilful sooth, you do, In such disdainful mode me to woo.  130 But fare y'all well: perforce I must confess I idea you lord of more than true gentleness. O, that a lady, of ane human refused. Should of some other therefore exist abused! Exit LYSANDER She sees not Hermia. Hermia, sleep thou there: And never mayst grand come Lysander near! For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that men do go out Are hated most of those they did deceive,  140 So thou, my surfeit and my heresy, Of all be hated, just the most of me! And, all my powers, address your love and might To honour Helen and to be her knight! Exit HERMIA Awaking. To pluck this itch snake from my chest! Ay me, for compassion! what a dream was here! Lysander, await how I do quake with fear: Methought a serpent eat my eye away, And you sat smiling at his cruel casualty. Lysander! what, removed? Lysander! lord!  151 What, out of hearing? gone? no sound, no word? Alack, where are y'all speak, an if you hear; Speak, of all loves! I swoon most with fear. No? then I well perceive you all not nigh Either death or y'all I'll detect immediately. Get out Next: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Deed 3, Scene ane _________ Explanatory Notes for Act two, Scene two From A Midsummer Night'due south Dream. Ed. Thousand. Deighton. London: Macmillan & Co. ane. a roundel, a round dance; simply used also for a song outset and catastrophe with the same words. 2. hence, get hence; the verb of move omitted, every bit frequently. 3. cankers, small worms that prey upon blossoms; cp. Haml. i. iii. 89, "The herpes galls the infants of the spring." 4. rere-mice, bats; the discussion is yet used in the westward of England; A.South. hrere-mus: for, in order to obtain. vii. At our quaint spirits, at our delicately-formed spirits; Titania speaks as a queen; quaint, from "O. F. coint, 'quaint, neat, fine,'... Cotgrave ... Certainly derived from Lat. cognitus known, ... though confused ... with Lat. comptus, neat, adorned." (Skeat, Ety. Dict.). eight. your offices, the different duties assigned to each. 9. double, forked; cp. Temp. two. 2. 13, "All wound with adders who with cloven tongues Practice hiss me into madness"; and iii. two. 72, beneath. 10. Thorny, with spines which they erect at will; cp. Haml. i. 5. xx, "Like quills upon the fretful porpentine." xi. Newts, a kind of cadger; properly an ewt, the initial n beingness borrowed from the indefinite article. Similarly formed words are nick-name for an eke-proper noun, nugget formerly niggot = ningot for an ingot. Conversely an adder is properly a noedder, an auger, a nauger, an orange, a norange: blind-worms, then chosen from the smallness of their eyes, known as well as 'slow-worms'; both once more mentioned in Macb. iv. one. xiv, sixteen. 13. Philomel, the nightingale; in ancient mythology the daughter of King Pandion of Attica, who was metamorphosed into a nightingale. xiv. Sing in ... lullaby, take part in singing our lullaby; lullaby, a vocal sung to soothe to rest, from the verb 'lull,' to sing to rest. 16-8. Never ... Come, may it never come; let information technology never come. 19. And then ... lullaby, so may you sleep sweetly, accompanied by your lullaby. 21. spinners, i.due east. of the spider's web; cp. R. J. i. iv. 59, "Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs," said of the chariot of Queen Mab, the fairies' midwife. 26. 1 ... sentry, let 1 of our number stand apart as sentinel; aristocratic, "possibly immediately from Du. loef, in te loef, to windward ... From the thought of keeping a ship's head to the air current, and thus clear of the lee-shore or quarter to which she might migrate, came the general sense of 'steering clear of,' or 'giving a broad berth to' annihilation with which one might otherwise come up into contact with" (Murray, Engl. Dict.). 29. languish, pine, grow weak. 30. ounce, a kind of lynx: cat, wild cat. 31. Pard, panther. 33. information technology is thy dear, it is the object with which you shall fall in love. 34. Wake, may you wake. 35. you faint, you lot have become faint; for with, used to express the juxtaposition of cause and consequence, see Abb. § 193. 36. troth, a doublet of 'truth'; forgot, for the curtailed form of past participles, run into Abb. § 343. 38. tarry ... day, expect for the comfort which daylight will bring with it. 39. a bed, sc. for yourself. 42. One heart ... troth, since there is just i middle between the states (i.due east. equally we are one in heart), ane bed will serve for u.s. to lie upon; though there are 2 bosoms, in that location is but ane religion between the states (i.e. that which we have pledged to each other). 45. O, have ... innocence! "Understand the pregnant of my innocence, or my innocent meaning. Let no suspicion of ill enter thy mind" (Johnson); take, apprehend; cp. v. i. 90, beneath. 46. Honey ... conference, in talk between those who love, beloved catches the meaning intended by beloved; where two mutually honey, each readily understands the thoughts of the other without the need of gloss or commentary on the words used. 47. knit, for the omission of -ed in the participle of verbs ending in -te, -t and -d, run across Abb. § 342. 48. So that ... it, then that, equally I said (i. 43), we tin can make but 1 heart out of the two; information technology, used indefinitely, the circumstance, the fact. 49. interchained, linked each to the other. 52. For lying ... lie, for in lying past your side, I am guilty of no treachery; with a pun on the 2 senses of prevarication. 54, five. Now much ... lied, a mischief upon my bad manners and my pride if in the words I used I meant to imply that Lysander was false; i.e. I am not so ill-mannered and big-headed equally to mean past what I said that Lysander was faux; beshrew, literally 'expletive,' used as a gentle, sometimes very gentle, imprecation; east.g. 1000. V. 3. 2. 14, "Beshrew your eyes, They have o'erlook'd and divided me"; said by Portia in loving reproach to Bassanio. 56. for, for the sake of; out of. 57-sixty. in human ... distant, for the sake of that modesty which men and women should observe, remain at such a altitude from me every bit may justly be said to be suitable to a virtuous bachelor and a maid. There seems to be a confusion of constructions between 'allow there be such a altitude betwixt us every bit may exist justly said is becoming betwixt a virtuous,' etc., and 'exist so far distant from me as it may be justly said is becoming between,' etc. Delius takes in human modesty with as may well be said. 62. Amen, so be it; commonly placed at the finish of a prayer. 63. end life, may life stop. 64. all his residuum, all the peace he has in his gift. 65. With one-half ... press'd! Nay, answers Hermia, may one-half of his peace be yours! 68. corroborate, brand trial of; evidence; as often in Shakespeare. 69. stirring, exciting. 71. Weeds, encounter note on 2. 1. 256. 73. Despised, who despised; for the omission of the relative, run into Abb. § 244. 74. audio, soundly. 75. dank, damp; Skeat (Ety. Dict.) remarks, "It is ordinarily assumed that dank is another form of damp, but, being of Scandinavian origin, it is rather to be associated with Swed. dagg, dew ... and indeed it seems to be zippo else than a nasalized course of the prov. Eng. dag, dew." 76. durst, preterite of dare which, in the sense of challenge, forms another preterite dared. 77. this lack-beloved, this churlish fellow so wanting in love towards her who loves him; accent on the first syllable: this kill-courtesy, this boor who murders courtesy, is utterly Without good manners. To mend the metre, Walker would read 'nearer' For Nearly, making the line one of ten syllables; Theobald gives "Near to this kill-courtesy." 78. Churl, literally 'a countryman,' and hence one with rustic, rough, manners. 79. owe, possess; the concluding -n of owen existence dropped. 80, ane. allow love ... eyelid, may love banish slumber from your eyes; cp. Macb, i. 3. 19, xx, "Sleep shall neither night nor day Hang upon his pent-house lid." 82. Then wake ...gone, I exit you to wake after I accept gone with this result (i.e. of your non existence able to find sleep again). 86. darkling, in the dark; cp. Lear, i. 4. 237, "So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling." "There were some adverbs in O. E., originally dative feminine singular, ending in -inga, -unga, linga, -lunga. A feww of these, without the dative suffix, exist under the course -ling or -long as headlong (O. E. heed-linge), sideling, sidelong, darkling (darklong), flating, and flatlong" (Morris, Hist. Outl. p. 194). 87. on thy peril, at thy peril, as nosotros should now say; i.due east. at the risk, if you follow me, of existence ill-used by me: I alone will become, I am determined to go unaccompanied by you. 88. addicted, foolish; the radical sense of the word. 89. the bottom ... grace, the less is the favour, kindness, I meet with at your hands; the, the ablative of the demonstrative. 91. blessed and bonny, happy in being able to attract to her those she wishes to concenter. 92. How came ... brilliant? What is it that has fabricated her eyes, etc. 93. If then ... hers, for, in that case, mine would exist brighter than hers, seeing that they are oftener washed with such tears. 96. no curiosity, it is no wonder. 97. Do, subjunctive: as a monster, as that of a monster. 98, 9. What wicked ... eyne? how could any mirror be and then wickedly treacherous as to make me think my eyes rivalled the star-similar orbs of Hermia? compare with, brand comparison between her eyes and mine, and assume an equality in brightness; for this intransitive utilize, cp. Haml. v. 2. 146, "I dare not confess that, lest I should compare with him in excellence"; for eyne, run across annotation on i. i. 242. 103. And run, I do and then and will run. 104. Transparent, though indicating also the brilliancy of her dazzler, refers especially to the transparency of her nature which enables him to see her center through her bosom; Nature and Fine art are usually contrasted, but here Nature employs Art. With Dyce, Delius, etc., I accept followed the later on folios in reading Nature hither shows, the quartos giving 'Nature shewes.' 106, 7. O, how ... sword! i.e. how well does the bearer of that vile name deserve to perish at my hands! Cp. in a higher place, ii. ane. 190. 109. What though, fifty-fifty though he loves your Hermia, that does not thing; that is not sufficient reason for you lot to wish to kill him. 110. exist content, be at-home, do not be in such a passion; a frequent use of the expression in Shakespeare. 111. Content with Hermia! Lysander takes Helena's content in the sense of 'satisfied with.' 112. boring minutes, minutes which in one case seemed to fly so swiftly because delightful, but which now seem a mere tedious waste of time. 118. So I ... reason, and so I, beingness but young when I loved Hermia, only now ripen to reason, just now have caused mature reason; for ripe, as a verb, cp. A. Y. L. ii. 7. 26, "And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe". 119, 20. And touching ... volition, and reason having at present attained its highest bespeak of sagacity, having reached its fullest maturity, guides my will in the way it should get; for skill, = sagacity, mental power, cp. One thousand. M. iv. two. 164, "if I read it not truly, my ancient skill beguiles me"; for marshal, cp. Haml, three. 4. 205, "they must sweep my way And align me to knavery." 121. o'erlook, read over, peruse; cp. Lear, v. 1. 50, "I volition o'erlook thy paper." 122. love's richest book, sc, her eyes; cp. R. J. i. four. 85, half-dozen, "And what obscured in this fair volume lies Observe written in the margent of his eyes." 123. Wherefore ... built-in? Why should I have been born to endure such biting irony? i.e. I have washed nil myself to deserve information technology. 124. at your hands, from you. 127. Deserve, win by any attractions of mine; be thought really worthy of. 128. Only yous ... insufficiency, but that you should think it necessary, without your thinking it necessary, to jeer at my want of power to win such a favour. 129. Skillful troth ... adept sooth, in very truth. 130. In such ... woo, to make a mock of seeking my dear in these ironical terms of praise. 131. perforce, of necessity. 132. lord of, main of, possessed of; gentleness, gentlemanly feeling, manly kindness. 134. therefore be driveling, on that account be insulted. 139. do leave, abjure. 140. of those, by those: deceive, lead astray. 141. my surfeit ... heresy, of whose love I accept tasted to backlog; and conventionalities in whose excellence I at present cast away. 142. be, subjunctive used optatively; the nigh of me, by me more than than any one. 143. And, all ... might, and permit all the faculties I possess bend their most loving and mightiest efforts: address, brand ready; ultimately from Lat. directus, direct. 144. exist her knight, swear yourself to her service and honour; as knights swore themselves to the service and honour of their lady-loves. 147. Ay me, alas for me! for pity, how piteous is my case! 149. Methought, for the affluence of impersonal verbs in Early and Elizabethan English language, run into Abb. § 297: away, completely; used as an intensive. 150. his cruel casualty, the fell prey he was making of me; his cruelty in preying upon me; casualty, the act, not the object; cp. H. V. i. two. 169, "For once the eagle England being in casualty." 151. removed? have you moved away? 152. out of hearing? accept you gone so far from me that you cannot hear my cries? 153. Alack, probably, co-ordinate to Skeat, a corruption of M. E. Ah! lak!, i.e. ah, a loss! an if, for this reduplication, meet Abb. § 103. 154. of all loves, in the proper name of everything that has to do with honey: for this adjuration, cp. M. W. ii. two. 119, "Mistress Page would desire you to send her your little page, of all loves." 156. Either, metrically a monosyllable. ___________ How to cite the explanatory notes: Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Nighttime's Dream. Ed. Thou. Deighton. London: Macmillan, 1891. 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