not hurt me: I was never curst; I have no gift at all in shrewishness; I am a right maid for my cowardice: Let her not strike me. You perhaps may think, Because she is something lower than myself, That I can match her. Lower! hark, again. Good Hermia, do not be so bitter with me. I evermore did love you, Hermia, Did ever keep your counsels, never wrong'd you; Save that, in love unto Demetrius, I told him of your stealth unto this wood. He follow'd you; for love I follow'd him; But he hath chid me hence and threaten'd me To strike me, spurn me, nay, to kill me too: And now, so you will let me quiet go, To Athens will I bear my folly back And follow you no further: let me go: You see how simple and how fond I am. Why, get you gone: who is't that hinders you? A foolish heart, that I leave here behind. What, with Lysander? With Demetrius. Be not afraid; she shall not harm thee, Helena. No, sir, she shall not, though you take her part. O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce. 'Little' again! nothing but 'low' and 'little'! Why will you suffer her to flout me thus? Let me come to her. Get you gone, you dwarf; You minimus, of hindering knot-grass made; You bead, you acorn. You are too officious In her behalf that scorns your services. Let her alone: speak not of Helena; Take not her part; for, if thou dost intend Never so little show of love to her, Thou shalt aby it. Now she holds me not; Now follow, if thou darest, to try whose right, Of thine or mine, is most in Helena. Follow! nay, I'll go with thee, cheek by jole. You, mistress, all this coil is 'long of you: Nay, go not back. I will not trust you, I, Nor longer stay in your curst company. Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray, My legs are longer though, to run away. I am amazed, and know not what to say. This is thy negligence: still thou mistakest, Or else committ'st thy knaveries wilfully. Believe me, king of shadows, I mistook. Did not you tell me I should know the man By the Athenian garment be had on? And so far blameless proves my enterprise, That