Midsummer Night's Dream" Can you please tell me what Titania is really

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Can you please tell me what Titania is really saying in these lines!?
Change it to make it sound like we talk today!.

-"I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again:
-Mine ear is much enamored of thy note;
-So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape!?
-And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me
-on the first view to say, to swear, I love thee!.
-Out of this wood do not desire to go:
-I do not want to go out of the wood!.
-Thou shalt remain here, whether thou wilt or no!.
-I am a spirit of no common rate;Www@QuestionHome@Com

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

You are approaching the text in the wrong way!. Language morphs and evolves over the years but not only in spelling but in meaning too!. So "translating" this would give it an entirely different meaning than intended and would screw up whatever you are trying to do with it!.

I'm no English teacher, but what I've always been told to do with text like this is to get the jist of what is being said, rather than treating it like foreign language because it isn't!.

So I think the basic jist is that Titania is expressing admiration to whoever this is directed at (I haven't studied this Shakespeare!. Encouraging, I know!. xD)!. So yeah, I think the text is expressing admiration and a wish not to be parted from the other person!. Sorry, that's the best I can do!. Like I said, I'm no English teacher so all I could really provide was the initial advice!. And I don't really understand the context or the relationship of the two characters!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Basically she fancies him and now because she is the fairy queen she has decided not to let him leave, because she wants him to stay!.Www@QuestionHome@Com