Mendelssohn A Midsummer night's dream op.61 - d'Avalos

 

Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing by William Blake, c. 1786

HIPPOLYTA

Four days will quickly steep themselves in night;
Four nights will quickly dream away the time;
And then the moon, like to a silver bow
New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night
Of our solemnities.

THESEUS

Go, Philostrate,
Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments;
Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth;
Turn melancholy forth to funerals;
The pale companion is not for our pomp.

Exit PHILOSTRATE

Hippolyta, I woo'd thee with my sword,
And won thy love, doing thee injuries;
But I will wed thee in another key,
With pomp, with triumph and with revelling.

Enter EGEUS, HERMIA, LYSANDER, and DEMETRIUS

https://musopen.org/es/music/317-a-midsummer-nights-dream-op-61/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/midsummer/full.html