A Midsummer Night's Dream - Man on the Internet Edition
BaD for Puck
AKA Robin Goodfellow, a mischievous fairy who delights in playing pranks on mortals. Puck is Oberon’s jester, and his antics are responsible for many of the complications that propel the play. At Oberon’s bidding, Puck sprinkles “love juice” in the eyes of various characters to change who they love, but he makes mistakes in his application that create conflicts Oberon never intended. Though Puck claims to make these mistakes honestly, he enjoys the conflict and mayhem that his mistakes cause.
Thou speak'st aright; I am that merry wanderer of the night. I jest to Oberon and make him smile when I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile, neighing in likeness of a filly foal: And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl, in very likeness of a roasted crab, and when she drinks, against her lips I bob and on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale. The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale, sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me; Then slip I from her bum, down topples she, and 'tailor' cries, and falls into a cough; And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh, and waxen in their mirth and neeze and swear a merrier hour was never wasted there. But, room, fairy! here comes Oberon.
