A Midsummer Night's Dream - Man on the Internet Edition
vampireluver23 for Hippolyta
The legendary queen of the Amazons, engaged to marry Theseus. Although Hippolyta is marrying Theseus because he defeated her in combat, she does not act at all like an unwilling bride. Theseus is very courtly in his manner toward Hippolyta, and she is unfailingly deferential toward him.
I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, when in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear with hounds of Sparta: never did I hear such gallant chiding: for, besides the groves, the skies, the fountains, every region near seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard so musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
But all the story of the night told over, and all their minds transfigured so together, more witnesseth than fancy's images and grows to something of great constancy; But, howsoever, strange and admirable.
