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Queen Mab
Shakespeare's Queen Mab Monologue from Romeo and Juliet
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04/25/2011

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O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
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She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes
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In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
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On the fore-finger of an alderman,
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Drawn with a team of little atomies
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Over men's noses as they lie asleep
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Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners’ legs,
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The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,
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Her traces of the smallest spider's web
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Her collars of the moonshine's wat'ry beams,
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Her whip of cricket's bone; the lash of film;
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Her waggoner a small grey-coated gnat,
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Not half so big as a round little worm
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Pricked from the lazy finger of a maid:
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Her chariot is an empty hazelnut
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Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub
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Time out o’ mind the fairies’ coachmakers.
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And in this state she gallops night by night
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Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love;
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On courtiers' knees, that dream on curtsies straight;
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O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees;
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O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream,
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Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues,
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Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are.
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