HERMIA:
304: “Puppet”? Why so?—Ay, that way goes the game.
“Puppet?” Really? Oh, I see where this is heading.
305: Now I perceive that she hath made compare
She's comparing
306: Between our statures. She hath urged her height
our difference in height. She used her height as an advantage against me
307: And with her personage, her tall personage,
To show off how tall she really is.
308: Her height, forsooth, she hath prevailed with him.
She won his love with her height.
309: And are you grown so high in his esteem
Does he love you more
310: Because I am so dwarfish and so low?
because I am smaller?
311: How low am I, thou painted maypole? Speak!
So how short am really, as short as a tiny pole. Talk to me!
312: How low am I? I am not yet so low
How short am I. I am not so short that
313: But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes.
I am not too short to scratch your eyes out with my sharp fingernails.
HELENA: (to LYSANDER and DEMETRIUS)
314: I pray you, though you mock me, [gentlemen,]
Please don't let her hurt me, gentlemen, I will let you tease me.
315: Let her not hurt me. I was never curst;
Keep her away, and I will let you tease me as much as you want.
316: I have no gift at all in shrewishness.
I was never good at insulting people.
317: I am a right maid for my cowardice.
I'm not mean and cruel like her.
318: Let her not strike me. You perhaps may think,
Please don't let her hit me. You probably think that
319: Because she is something lower than myself,
because she is shorter than me,
320: That I can match her.
I can take her.
HERMIA:
321: “Lower”? Hark, again!
“Shorter!” See, she is annoying me again!
HELENA:
322: Good Hermia, do not be so bitter with me.
Good Hermia, please don't act so angry with me.
323: I evermore did love you, Hermia,
I always loved you as a friend, Hermia,
324: Did ever keep your counsels, never wronged you—
and followed your advice. I never meant to do anything to hurt you
325: Save that, in love unto Demetrius,
I only did it because I love Demetrius so much.
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