WALPURGIS-NIGHT'S DREAM:

OR,

OBERON AND TITANIA'S GOLDEN WEDDING;

FEAST.

INTERMEZZO.

WALPURGIS-NIGHT'S DREAM.

INTERMEZZO.

Theatre-Manager. To-day then we for once may rest, Brave sons of Mieding we;

The lofty hill-the dew-damp vale,

Are all our scenery.

Herald. Before the bridal golden be

Must fifty years departing flee ;
If the quarrel now has ceased,
The golden bridal likes me best.

Oberon. Sprites! if ye are with me here,

Now be it testified,

To-day the fairy king and queen

Their band anew have tied.

Puck. When Puck appears, and spins him round,

And glides amid the dance,

Behind him, with him to rejoice,

Hundreds of sprites advance.

Ariel. Ariel wakes the fairy song,

Heavenly clear it floats along;

It lureth triflers it is true,

But it lureth beauty too.

Oberon. Wedded-ones, who would agree, Learn ye from my queen and me;

To make a couple love and smile,

We need but part them for awhile.

Titania. If the husband knits his brow,

If the wife her airs should show,
Seize them both and let them be
Off convey'd immediately;

To the southward bear her forth,
And him to the extremest north.

Orchestra, tutti (fortissimo). Nose of gnat and snout of fly,

With all their consanguinity

Frogs the scatter'd leaves beneath,

Crickets in the grass and heath,

These must the musicians be
To utter forth our minstrelsy.

Solo. See, the bagpipe coming on,

A soapen bubble thinly blown ;

Schnick-schnack, schnick-schnack, how it goes

Through its short and stumpy nose !

The Spirit that is fashioning itself. Spider's leg and

spider's foot,

Toad-like belly fitted to't;

For the little, little thing

Buddeth forth the little wing;

It makes no creature-but it will

Bring forth a little poem still.

Pair of Lovers. Little step and lofty bound,

Through honey-dew, and mist around,

You trip it to me well and fair,

But you mount not in the air.

Curious Traveller. Is 't not a masking mockery,

Or is my eye-sight clear!

That the so-beauteous Oberon

To-night, too, should be here !