Whether, if you accept your father's choice, you can endure the life of a nun, for aye to be in shady convent, to live to be a nun all your life
So I will grow,live, die,my lord, before I will yield my virginity up unto his lordship, whose unwished yoke my soul consents not to give power
Upon that day either prepare to dieFor disobedience to your father's will,Or else to marry Demetrius as he would
Hermia and Lysander stand in front of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and his fiancee, Hippolyta, wanting to be wed, but Hermia's father, Egeus objects. He demands Hermia marry Demetrius.Theseus explains to Hermia that if she chooses not to marry Demetrius she will have to live the rest of her life as a nun.
Hermia, marry me, and Lysander, yieldYour crazy claim to my certain right
Hermia tries to explain to Theseus that she loves Lysander, and she wishes not to marry Demetrius, or become a nun. She wants to marry Lysander.
You have her father's love, Demetrius,Let me have Hermia's.
Theseus explains that upon the day she is to make her decision, she should either prepare to die or marry Demetrius for disobeying her father's will.
Scornful Lysander, true, he hath my love,And what is mine my love shall give to him;And she is mine, and all my right of herI do bestow unto Demetrius.
Demetrius tells Hermia to marry him, and he tells Lysander to stop asking to marry Hermia, since he has the right to, not him.
Lysander begs Demetrius to let him have Hermia's love, since Demetrius already has her father's love.
Egeus tells Lysander that while Demetrius does have his love, it is his right to give his daughter to whomever he chooses, which in this case, is Demetrius.