Then I must be thy lady. But I know
When thou hast stol’n away from fairyland,
And in the shape of Corin sat all day
Playing on pipes of corn and versing love
To amorous Phillida. Why art thou here,
Come from the farthest step of India,
But that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon,
Your buskin’d mistress and your warrior love,
To Theseus must be wedded, and you come
To give their bed joy and prosperity?
– William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 2, Scene 1. When Oberon asks why Titania won’t be in his bed right now, she confronts him over his cheating. She accuses him of stealing away from fairyland and magically transforming himself into a shepherd to play music and recite love poems to an amorous shepherdess. The jealous Fairy Queen also accuses him of having an affair with Amazon Queen Hippolyta. The only reason he is back in fairyland is because Hippolyta is marrying Oberon, she claims.