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For success and return; omit not anything
In the pretended celebration. Queens, [210]
Follow your soldier. [To Artesius] As before, hence you,
And at the banks of Aulis meet us with

The forces you can raise, where we shall find
The moiety of a number for a business
More bigger-looked. [To Hippolyta] Since that our theme is haste, [215]
I stamp this kiss upon thy current lip;

[he kisses her]
Sweet, keep it as my token. − Set you forward,
For I will see you gone.
The marriage procession moves towards the temple.

Farewell, my beauteous sister. Pirithous,
Keep the feast full, bate not an hour on’t.

PIRITHOUS
Sir, [220]
I’ll follow you at heels; the feast’s solemnity

Shall want till your return.

THESEUS

Cousin, I charge you,
Budge not from Athens. We shall be returning
Ere you can end this feast, of which I pray you
Make no abatement. Once more, farewell all. [225]

The procession goes out.

FIRST QUEEN
Thus dost thou still make good the tongue o’th’world.

SECOND QUEEN
And earn’st a deity equal with Mars.

THIRD QUEEN
If not above him, for
Thou being but mortal makest affections bend

To godlike honours; they themselves, some say, [230]