Both Uses of
prosperity
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Why art thou here, Come from the farthest steep of India, But that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon, Your buskin'd mistress and your warrior love, To Theseus must be wedded; and you come To give their bed joy and prosperity.†
Scene 2.1 *
- Now thou and I are new in amity, And will to-morrow midnight solemnly Dance in Duke Theseus' house triumphantly, And bless it to all fair prosperity: There shall the pairs of faithful lovers be Wedded, with Theseus, all in jollity.†
Scene 4.1
Definition:
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(prosperity) a state of doing well -- especially economically