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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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