... and I'm celebrating the Bard with one of my favourite speeches from one of my best-loved characters from a play I have appeared in twice, A Midsummer Night's Dream ...
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd hereWhile these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
If you pardon, we will mend:
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Puck
Illustration by Owensart, Pixabay
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