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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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