Enter [OBERON].

OBERON         I wonder if Titania be awaked;

Then what it was that next came in her eye,

Which she must dote on in extremity.

Enter [PUCK].

Here comes my messenger. How now, mad spirit?

What night-rule now about this haunted grove?

PUCK  My mistress with a monster is in love.        (3.2.1-6)

Well. Well. Here’s Oberon; what’s being going on? he thinks, where are things at with my dastardly plan? I wonder if Titania be awaked? And, even more, I wonder then what it was that next came in her eye, which she must done on in extremity? What did she SEE when she woke up? What’s the focus of her erotic obsession? Oh look, here’s Puck, here comes my messenger. (Puck can be looking exhausted, but relieved at having done what he was asked to: Titania, tick, the unkind Athenian lover, tick, and that little business with the donkey all of his own, tick, tick, tick. The boss will be thrilled! How now, mad spirit? What night-rule now about this haunted grove? What’s been going on here then, what tricks, what revels, what disturbance and disorder? I’m ALL ears. And Puck can deliver it proudly, an economical, even diffident statement of mission accomplished: my mistress with a monster is in love. YES! And Oberon can react with pleasure and satisfaction, too, as Puck prepares to tell him how…