All 7 Uses of
yield
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires,
Know of your youth, examine well your blood,
Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice,
You can endure the livery of a nun;
Scene 1.1 (definition 1)yield = give in (accept)
- So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord,
Ere I will yield my virgin patent up
Unto his lordship, whose unwished yoke
My soul consents not to give sovereignty.
Scene 1.1 (definition 1)yield = give up
- ...—and, Lysander, yield
Thy crazed title to my certain right.
Scene 1.1 (definition 1) *
- For you, fair Hermia, look you arm yourself
To fit your fancies to your father's will,
Or else the law of Athens yields you up,
Scene 1.1 (definition 2)yields = gives
- Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears, thus strong, Made senseless things begin to do them wrong; For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch; Some sleeves, some hats: from yielders all things catch.†
Scene 3.2 (definition 1)
- You are unkind, Demetrius; be not so;
For you love Hermia: this you know I know:
And here, with all good will, with all my heart,
In Hermia's love I yield you up my part;
And yours of Helena to me bequeath,
Whom I do love and will do till my death.
Scene 3.2 (definition 1)yield = give up
- And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Scene 5.2 (definition 2) *yielding = giving
Definitions:
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(1) (yield as in: yield to pressure) to give in, give way, or give up
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(2) (yield as in: will yield valuable data) to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced