Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 

Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

The villain is much lighter-heel’d than I:

I follow’d fast, but faster he did fly;

That fall’n am I in dark uneven way,

And here will rest me. [Lies down] Come, thou

gentle day!

 

Lysander

A Midsummer Night’s Dream  Act III, Scene ii, Line 418

The villain noted in the first line above is Puck, and he’s leading Lysander on a chase through the woods. Well, he was leading him, but now Lysander’s done chasing and he’s going to lie down to sleep.

I forget exactly what’s going on here, as far as who’s doing what to who. But I think it’s enough to know that this is the main part of the play where everyone’s in the forest at night doing something. Lysander’s something right now is sleeping, and considering that dream is in the title of the play, one might expect that there’ll be a bit of sleeping.

And there you have it.

Playing the part of Lysander (and perfectly cast, I might add)...