501512Fiue times in that, ere once in our fine wits.

502513Ro. And we meane well in going to this Mask,

503514But tis no wit to go.

504515Mer. Why, may one aske?

505516Rom. I dreampt a dreame to night.

506517Mer. And so did I.

507518Ro. Well what was yours?

508519Mer. That dreamers often lie.

509520Ro. In bed asleep 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 forefinger of an Alderman, drawne with

513524a teeme of little ottamie, ouer mens noses as they lie asleep: her

514525waggōspokes made of lōg spinners legs: the couer, of the wings

515526of Grashoppers, her traces of the smallest spider web, her collors

516527of the moonshines watry beams, her whip of Crickets bone, the

518528lash 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 Hasel 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 Cursies strait ore Lawyers fingers who strait dreame on fees,

526535ore Ladies lips who strait one kisses dream, which oft the angrie

527536Mab with blisters plagues, because their breath with sweete

528537meates tainted are. Sometime she gallops ore a Courtiers nose,

529538and then dreames he of smelling out a sute: and sometime comes

530539she with a tithpigs tale, tickling a Persons nose as a lies asleepe,

531540then he dreams of an other Benefice. Sometime she driueth ore

532541a souldiers neck, and then dreames he of cutting forrain throates,

533542of breaches, ambuscados, spanish 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 horses in the

538546night: and bakes the Elklocks in foule sluttish haires, which

539547once vntangled, much misfortune bodes.

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