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120 [From "A Midsummer Night's Dream."]

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 atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep: Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners' legs; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; The traces, of the smallest spider's web; The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams; Her whip of cricket's bone; the lash, of film; Her wagoner, a small gray-coated gnat, Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut, Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub, And in this state she gallops night by night, Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love.