Fair lovers, you are fortunately met.
Of this discourse we more will hear anon. –
Egeus, I will overbear your will,
For in the temple, by and by, with us,
These couples shall eternally be knit.
– William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 4, Scene 1. Theseus overrules Egeus’ commmand that his daughter Hermia must marry Demetrius. He decrees that later in the temple the marriages of Lysander and Hermia and Demetrius and Helena will take place along with his own. The two sets of young Athenian lovers achieve their happy ending – with the help of the Duke’s intervention and the magic love juice which Demetrius is still under the spell of.