[272] Hate me! wherefore? O me! what news, my love!

Am not I Hermia? are not you Lysander?

I am as fair now as I was erewhile.

275 Since night you loved me; yet since night you left me:

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

In earnest, shall I say?

Lys.

Ay, by my life;

And never did desire to see thee more.

[279] Therefore be out of hope, of question, of doubt;