Scene One of Act Two has Puck (Robin Goodfellow) and another fairy talking about Oberon and Titania (the king and queen of the fairies). Then Oberon and Titania walk in and begin to fight over a young prince and claim that they are cheating on one another. When Titania leaves, Oberon tells Puck to go and retrieve him a magical flower, that if squeezed on a sleeping person's eye, would make them fall in love with the first person they saw when they woke up. Then, Demetrius and Helena enter, and (while Oberon is watching), Demetrius continuously insults Helena. When Puck returns, Oberon gives him a part of the flower to put on a "young boy in Athenian clothes", while he puts it on Titania's eyes.
In Scene Two of Act Two, the followers of Titania sing her to sleep and then stand guard so no creepy-crawlers can get her. Then, Oberon comes and squeezes the juice of the flower onto Titania's eyes, and tells her to wake up when something nasty is nearby. When Oberon leaves, Lysander and Hermia enter, and fall asleep away from each other (against Lysander's wishes), then, thinking this is the boy he is supposed to squeeze juice on, Puck comes over, and puts juice on Lysander's eyes, and Lysander falls in love with Helena, who he then runs away with, to leave Hermia all alone. =(
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