These are the forgeries of jealousy;
And never, since the middle summer’s spring,
Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead,
By paved fountain, or by rushy brook,
Or in the beached margent of the sea,
To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind,
But with thy brawls thou hast disturb’d our sport.
– William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 2, Scene 1. Titania uses a metaphor when she says that Oberon’s accusation that she is seeing other men is the "forgeries of jealousy." She dismisses his charge as a lie resulting from his jealousy over her keeping the Indian changeling child. Oberon’s behavior hasn’t allowed her and her fairies to carry out their special ring dances since the beginning of midsummer, she says.