Moon Quotes in A Midsummer Nights Dream

Act one- Scene one

Theseus: 'Four happy days bring in another moon'
Theseus: 'how slow this old moon wanes
Hippolyta: 'And then the moon, like to a silver bow'
Egeus: 'Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung, with feigning voices, verses of feigning love'
Theseus: 'Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon'
Theseus: 'Take time to pause, and, by the next new moon'
Lysander: 'when Phoebe doth behold her silver visage in the watery glass'

Act one- Scene two

Quince: 'By moonlight; there we will rehearse'

Act two- Scene one

Fairy: 'I do wander every where, swifter than the moon's sphere'
Oberon: 'Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania'
Titania: 'Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, pale in her anger, washes all the air' 
Titania: 'see our moonlight revels'
Oberon: 'Flying between the cold moon and the earth'
Oberon: 'Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon'

Act three- Scene one

Quince: 'But there is two hard things; that is to bring moonlight into a chamber; for you know, Pyramus and Thisby meet by moonlight'
Snout: 'Doth the moon shine that night we play our play?'
Bottom: 'look in the almanac; find out moonshine'
Bottom: 'the moon may shine in at the casement'
Quince: 'to present, the person of moonshine'
Titania: 'fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes'
Titania: 'the moon methinks looks with a watery eye'

Act three- Scene two

Hermia: 'that the moon may through the centre creep'

Act five- Scene one

Prologue: 'This man, with lanthorn, dog, and bush of thorn, presenteth Moonshine. For if you will know by moonshine these lovers think no scorn'
Moonshine: This lanthorn doth the horned moon present, myself the man i' th' moon do seem to be'
Theseus: 'the man should be put into the lanthorn. How is it else the man i' th' moon?'
Hippolyta: 'I am aweary of this moon'
Lysander: 'proceed moon'
Demetrius: 'all these should be in the lanthorn; for all these are in the moon'
Hippolyta: 'Well shone, Moon. Truly the moon shines with a good grace'
Pyramus: 'Sweet moon, I thank thee for they sunny beams. I thank thee, moon, for shining now so bright. For by thy gracious , golden, glittering gleams, I trust to take the truest Thisby sight'
Pyramus: 'Moon take thy flight'
Hippolyta: 'How chance Moonshine is gone before Thisby comes back and finds her lover?'
Theseus: 'Moonshine and Lion are left to bury the dead'
Puck: 'And the wolf behowls the moon'


Reference
Walter, J.H. and Shakespeare, W. (1994) A midsummer night’s dream (the players' Shakespeare). London: Heinemann Educational Publishers.