Hermia vows to meet Lysander and run away with him according to the plan that he's just laid out in these lines from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. There's a bit of humor here: she swears by all the vows that men have ever broken, which she claims outnumber all the vows ever spoken by women in the first place. It’s a little dig at the faithlessness of men. Maybe she’s concerned that Lysander is insincere...
Hermia vows to meet Lysander and run away with him according to the plan that he's just laid out in these lines from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. There's a bit of humor here: she swears by all the vows that men have ever broken, which she claims outnumber all the vows ever spoken by women in the first place. It’s a little dig at the faithlessness of men. Maybe she’s concerned that Lysander is insincere in his claims to love her – after all, Demetrius switched his affections from Helena to Hermia almost instantaneously, and she could be worried that Lysander will one day do the same. Maybe she’s just having a little good-natured joke at his expense and they laugh together. Either is possible, it’s just one of many decisions directors and actors make when rehearsing the play.
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