At the end of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer's Night's Dream", the character Puck, or Robin Goodfellow, comes out to address the audience. He apologizes if the audience has been disturbed by the play and offers to make right with them:
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
If you pardon, we will mend:
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.
Good night, Robin (Goodfellow) Williams
1951-2014
