of Romeo and Iuliet.
501512Fiue times in that, ere once in our
fine wits.
502513Ro. And we meane well in going to this Mask,
505516Rom. I dreampt a dreame to night.
507518Ro. Well what was yours?
508519Mer. That dreamers often lie.
509520Ro. In bed a
sleep while they do dream things true.
510521Mer. O then I
see Queene Mab hath bin with you:
511522She is the Fairies midwife, and
she comes in
shape no bigger
thē 512523an Agot
stone, on the fore
finger of an Alderman, drawne with
513524a teeme of little ottamie, ouer mens no
ses as they lie a
sleep: her
514525waggōspokes made of
lōg spinners legs: the couer, of the wings
515526of Gra
shoppers, her traces of the
smalle
st spider web, her collors
516527of the moon
shines watry beams, her whip of Crickets bone, the
518528la
sh of Philome, her waggoner, a
small grey coated Gnat, not
519529half
so big as a round litle worme, prickt from the lazie
finger of
520530a man. Her Charriot is an emptie Ha
sel nut, Made by the Ioyner
521531squirrel or old Grub, time out amind, the Fairie Coatchmakers:
522532and in this
state
she gallops night by night, throgh louers brains,
524533and then they dreame of loue. On Courtiers knees, that dreame
525534on Cur
sies
strait ore Lawyers
fingers who
strait dreame on fees,
526535ore Ladies lips who
strait one ki
sses dream, which oft the angrie
527536Mab with bli
sters plagues, becau
se their breath with
sweete
528537meates tainted are. Sometime
she gallops ore a Courtiers no
se,
529538and then dreames he of
smelling out a
sute: and
sometime comes
530539she with a tithpigs tale, tickling a Per
sons no
se as a lies a
sleepe,
531540then he dreams of an other Bene
fice. Sometime
she driueth ore
532541a
souldiers neck, and then dreames he of cutting forrain throates,
533542of breaches, ambu
scados,
spani
sh blades: Of healths
fiue fadome
535543deepe, and then anon drums in his eare, at which he
starts and
536544wakes, and being thus frighted,
sweares a praier or two, &
sleeps
537545againe: this is that very Mab that plats the manes of hor
ses in the
538546night: and bakes the Elklocks in foule
slutti
sh haires, which
539547once vntangled, much misfortune bodes.
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