... tries to rouse Lysander, and - presto! - he opens his eyes and falls madly in love with her, as indicated by his sudden desire to rhyme with her lines, love-poetry style: Helena: Lysander, if you live, good sir, awake. Lysander: And run through fire I will for thy sweet sake! Helena, whose heart has already been broken by Demetrius's love for Hermia ... , concludes that Helena, Lysander and Demetrius have joined forces to mock her. In other words, each woman believes that the other one is playing a huge, insensitive practical joke on her with the help of the two men. The two women, who r...

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