All 7 Uses of
mock
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- …That rheumatic diseases do abound: And thorough this distemperature we see The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose; And on old Hyem's thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set: the spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the maz'd world, By their increase, now knows not which is which: And this same progeny of evils comes From our debate, from our…†
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- HELENA Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?†
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- Can you not hate me, as I know you do, But you must join in souls to mock me too?†
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- You both are rivals, and love Hermia; And now both rivals, to mock Helena: A trim exploit, a manly enterprise, To conjure tears up in a poor maid's eyes With your derision!†
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- HELENA Never did mockers waste more idle breath.†
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- you mock me, gentlemen,
Scene 3.2 *mock = make fun of
- DEMETRIUS Nay, then, thou mock'st me.†
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