The "Common Side" Logic in Midsummer Night's Dream

In addition to creating human psyche, Shakespeare taught the humanity logic, which can be best understood by comparing it to the Talmud. Here is an example.

LYSANDER

Ay me! for aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth;
But, either it was different in blood,--

Lysander wants to prove that impediment to love do not foretell doom, rather, they portend success.

Proof: sometimes lovers came from different social stratas, and there are multiple cases where it worked out well – so too will our love!

HERMIA

O cross! too high to be enthrall'd to low.

Rebuttal: this only worked for women going higher in state, but I am already high.

LYSANDER

Or else misgraffed in respect of years,--

Proof: impediment to love may come from difference of ages, but observe multiple cases where it worked out well – so too will our love!

HERMIA

O spite! too old to be engaged to young.

Rebuttal: the common cases here are young women marrying older men, but you are so young that you can not marry anyone younger then yourself

LYSANDER

Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,--

Proof: Yet love overcame bad friendships. So too will ours!

HERMIA

O hell! to choose love by another's eyes.

Rebuttal: we do not have friends, even bad ones, but enemies who try to rule over us.

LYSANDER

Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
Making it momentany as a sound,
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream;
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'
The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
So quick bright things come to confusion.

Winning proof using the "common side" All of the cases above have a stringency not found in another. What is common between them? In all the cases there was love based on sympathy, and there were impediments to it. Regardless of all impediments, salvation came fast and unexpected. This then is the common rule.

HERMIA

If then true lovers have been ever cross'd,
It stands as an edict in destiny:
Then let us teach our trial patience,
Because it is a customary cross,
As due to love as thoughts and dreams and sighs,
Wishes and tears, poor fancy's followers.

Proof accepted. Once we have come to here, let us accept suffering as a human condition (but that is already Tao Te Chin)