PLATE XX V.

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Dream.

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                 A WOOD NEAR ATHENS.


    PUCK and OBER ON, (the latter not represented in the engraving).


     Oberon.-Hast thou the flower there?  Welcome, wanderer.
     Puck.-Ay, there it is.
     Oberon.-           I pray thee, give it me.
   I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
   Where the oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
   Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
   \Vith sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
   There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
   Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight;
   And there the snake thr6ws her enamell'd skin,
   Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in.


           Pain ted by Sir 7OSHUA REYNOLDS, R. A.

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