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**A monologue from the play by ** **[|William Shakespeare] ** MERCUTIO: O, then 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 forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Over men's noses as they lie asleep; Her wagon spokes made of long spinners' legs, The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; Her traces, of the smallest spider web; Her collars, of the moonshine's wat'ry beams; Her whip, of cricket's bone; the lash, of film; Her wagoner, a small grey-coated gnat, Not half so big as a round little worm Pricked from the lazy finger of a maid; <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">Her chariot is an empty hazelnut, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">And in this state she gallops night by night <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love; <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on curtsies straight; <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees; <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">Sometimes she gallops o'er a courtier's nose, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">And then dreams he of smelling out a suit; <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">And sometimes comes she with a tithe-pig's tail <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">Tickling a parson's nose as 'a lies asleep, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">Then dreams he of another benefice. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">Sometimes she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">And being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">And sleeps again. This is that very Mab <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">That plats the manes of horses in the night <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">Which once untangled much misfortune bodes. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">That presses them and learns them first to bear, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">Making them women of good carriage. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #262626; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">This is she!
 * <span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><range type="comment" id="125764">ROMEO AND JULIET **