Puck brags that his boss, Oberon, loves his pranks and tricks. Then slip I from her bum, down topples she 55ДЄnd вЂњTailor!вЂќ cries and falls into a cough,ДЄnd then the whole choir hold their hips and loffeДЄnd waxen in their mirth and neeze and swear

Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale, 45ДЄnd, when she drinks, against her lips I bob After all, he's pretty famous for his pranks: frightening village girls, ruining batches of homemade butter, leading people astray as they travel at night. You do their work, and they shall have good luck. Those that вЂњHobgoblinвЂќ call you and вЂњsweet Puck,вЂќ Mislead night wanderers, laughing at their harm? 40 Skim milk, and sometimes labor in the quernДЄnd bootless make the breathless huswife churn,ДЄnd sometime make the drink to bear no barm, That frights the maidens of the villagery, Or else you are that shrewd and knavish spriteД¬alled Robin Goodfellow. Because of this feud, Titania and Oberon-who are supposed to be a couple-never hangout anymore.Д®ither I mistake your shape and making quite, She spends all her time crowning him with flowers and doting on him. Oberon wants the kid to be his personal page (errand boy), but Titania wants him for herself. (We're sensing some tension here, kids.) He gives us some backstory, explaining that Titania and Oberon have been fighting over a stolen child (a.k.a., a changeling). Robin snaps back that the Fairy King (Oberon) is having party in these woods tonight, so the Fairy Queen better watch her back and stay out of Oberon's way. 25Д«ut she perforce withholds the lovГЁd boy,Д¬rowns him with flowers and makes him all herДЄnd now they never meet in grove or green,Д«y fountain clear or spangled starlight sheen, 30Д«ut they do square, that all their elves for fearД¬reep into acorn cups and hide them there. Knight of his train, to trace the forests wild. Take heed the Queen come not within his sight, The King doth keep his revels here tonight. She says 'so long' to Robin by calling him the Goofus of the spirit world and telling him that Titania is headed to this spot in the woods.

The fairy says she's flying around the woods running errands for the Titania the Fairy Queen-errands like painting flowers and hanging the morning dew on them. Our queen and all her elves come here anon. (In some editions of the play, he's referred to simply as 'Puck.' The Folger edition uses 'Robin.' We use both.) Puck meets a fairy and says, 'What's up? Where are you going?'ДЄnd hang a pearl in every cowslipвЂ™s ear. In an enchanted wood, we meet a 'puck' (mischievous sprite) named Robin Goodfellow. It took several people dreaming this at the same time-and we had help dreaming from our Jewish friends down the street, whose synagogue community had already begun to cultivate gardens around the city.Enter a Fairy at one door and Robin Goodfellow at That triggered a dream, and today we have a garden that helps supply fresh produce to shelters and pantries in our neighborhood. What about communal dreams? Do you belong to a community that likes to dream and then work on the dream? I remember when my church was grappling with the problem of hunger in our city. When do you know that a dream needs attention-that maybe itвЂ™s meant to develop into reality? What are the signs that, this time, you need to work on this dream and help it materialize?

I refer to dreams-visions, imaginings-you have for yourself, for those you love, for your larger community.Дreams do make a difference, but how exactly? When has a dream sent your life in a different direction? When has a dream given you the ability and the nerve to do something new? When I speak of dreams here, I donвЂ™t mean the mindвЂ™s journeys while youвЂ™re sleeping.

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