...low thickets of 69 Mab the fairy queen, in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, is a busy midwife : ". . . Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the Fairies' midwife; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman. Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses...

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...That dreamers often lie. ROMEO. In bed asleep, while they do dream things true. MERCUTIO. O, then, . He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose...ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Cxs agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of Unte atomies Athwart men's noses...

...then, I see, Queen Mab hath been with yon. She . . . conies in shape no biyger than an agatestone. Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep: Her waggon spokes made of long spinners' legs; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; Her traces, of...

...bed asleep, while they do dream things true." Mercutio continues with the famous Queen Mab speech. She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape...of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies alomy—a tiny being Over men's noses as they lie asleep; Her wagon spokes made of long spinners' legs,...

...MERCUTIO That dreamers often lie. ROMEO In bed asleep, while they do dream things true. MERCUTIO O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies'...of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Over men's noses as they lie asleep. Her charior is an empty hazelnut, Made by the joiner squirrel...

...see Queen Mab hath been with you. (Students 2 & 4 applaud and gather around to listen to the story.) She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape...forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Over men's noses as they lie asleep. Her chariot is an empty hazelnut Made by the joiner squirrel...

...picture of her daughters and performs the following speech as if she were addressing young children.) I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses...

...invention, Qi/een Mah is the fairy responsible for the strange behavior of those in love. O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies'...of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Over men's noses as they lie asleep. Her chariot is an empty hazelnut Made by the joiner squirrel or...

...dreamers often lie. ROMEO In bed asleep while they do dream things true. MERCUTIO O then I see Queen Mab39 hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Over men's noses as...