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"Titania refuses to leave the stage during the opening night of A Midsummers Night's Dream. As a result, armed police tie her up in quarantine tape and carry her off the stage. As she leaves the theatre, wrapped in tape, she whispers under her breath her famous soliloquy from Act 2..."That rheumatic diseases do abound.And thorough this distemperature we seeThe seasons alter: hoary-headed frostsFall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,And on old Hiems' thin and icy crownAn odorous chaplet of sweet summer budsIs, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer,The childing autumn, angry winter changeTheir wonted liveries, and the mazèd world,By their increase, now knows not which is which.And this same progeny of evils comesFrom our debate, from our dissension.We are their parents and original."

 

Digital painting, Anna Louise Simpson

Words (in quotes), William Shakespeare