Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing by William ...

Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing by William Blake, c. 1786

Exeunt OBERON, TITANIA, and train

PUCK

      If we shadows have offended,

      Think but this, and all is mended,

      That you have but slumber’d 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 an honest Puck,

      If we have unearned luck

      Now to ‘scape 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.

– William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream