A Fairy Queen - Episode 2 - Night The Second

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On the second evening of their revels, Puck narrates the feud between Fairy King Oberon and his Queen Titania, who soon square. Cursing Titania and her fairy band, Oberon consorts with Puck to pick an herb which will make her, when placed on her eyelids while asleep, love the first creature she sees upon waking. Finding her asleep he administers the drops of the flower, and when she wakes she spies Bottom, with an ass's head upon his shoulders. In love she seduces him, coddles him, tickles him, and makes love to him. Oberon is broken by this and wakes his queen and they begin to heal as the sun rises around them.