HELENA ACT ONE ENDING

... Love can transpose to form and dignity.

"Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind" And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgement taste, Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

... Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

And therefore love is said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguiled. As waggish boys in game themselves forswear, So the boy Love is perjured everywhere.

L: Helena, adieu. As you on him, Demetrius dote on you!

How happy some o'er other some can be! Through Athens I am thought as fair as she. But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so. He will not know what all but he do know.

... So he dissolved and showers of oaths did melt

I will go tell him of fair Hermia's flight. Then to the wood will he tomorrow night. Persue her and for this intelligence. If I have thanks, it is a dear expense

... He will not know what all but he do know.

And as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes, So I, admiring of his qualities. Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity.

... If I have thanks, it is a dear expense

But herein mean I to enrich my pain, To have his sight thither and back again.

... So the boy Love is perjured everywhere.

For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia's eyne, He hailed down oaths that he was only mine. And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt, So he dissolved and showers of oaths did melt