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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