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_ Then mischievous little Puck flies to the front , makes his final bow and speech , concluding the play of `` Midsummer Night 's Dream '' : _ `` If we shadows have offended , Think but this , and all is mended -- That you have but slumbered here , While these visions did appear ; And this weak and idle theme No more yielding but a dream ; Gentles , do not reprehend ; If you pardon we will mend . And , as I am honest Puck , If we have unearned luck , How to escape the serpent 's tongue , We will make amends ere long ; Else the Puck a liar call , So good night unto you all , Give me your hands if we be friends , And Robin shall restore amends ! '' _ Unanimous cheers rang through Windsor forest at the conclusion of this mystic play , and Queen Elizabeth called up Theseus -LRB- William -RRB- , Hippolyta , Oberon , Titania and Puck , presenting to each a five-carat solitaire diamond -- a slight token of Her Majesty 's appreciation of dramatic genius . It was after two o'clock in the morning when a thousand sky rockets filled the heavens with variegated colors , indicating for fifty miles around , that `` Midsummer Night 's Dream '' had been successfully launched on the ocean of dramatic imagination ! _ `` O , it is excellent To have a giant 's strength , but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant . '' _ _ `` Had I power , I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell , Uproar the universal peace , confound All Unity on earth . '' _ In my peregrinations and bohemian investigations I have met on several occasions , and in strange lands , Mr. Ahasuerus , the Jerusalem shoemaker , who is reported to have jeered and scoffed at Christ as he passed his shop , bearing the heavy cross up the rugged heights of Calvary .