020 Ege. Happy be Theseus, our renowned duke!

The. Thanks, good Egeus: what’s the news with thee?

Ege. Full of vexation come I, with complaint

Against my child, my daughter Hermia.

[024] Stand forth, Demetrius. My noble lord,

025 This man hath my consent to marry her.

Stand forth, Lysander: and, my gracious duke,

[027] This man hath bewitch’d the bosom of my child:

Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes,

And interchanged love-tokens with my child: