...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'...little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep." — Act I, scene 4. pine and scrubby oak formed a singularly pleasing contrast to the lofty and majestic...

...MBRCUTIO. That dreamers often lie. ROMEO. In bed asleep, while they do dream things true. MERCUTIO. O, le man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome,...ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar Unte atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep: Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners' legs;...

...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'...little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep; Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs; The cover, the wings of grasshoppers; The traces, of...

...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...forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Over men's noses as they lie asleep. Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut, Made by the joiner squirrel...

...MERCUTIO. That dreamers often lie. ROMEO. In bed asleep, while they do dream things true. MERCUTIO. O, confirm his happiness for ever. LADY ANNE. What is...repair to Crosby-place; Where — after I have solemnly Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners' legs; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; The traces,...

...strength, and beauty. Agates have a very calming effect and are frequently used as worry-stones O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the...an agate-stone on the fore-finger of an alderman. — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ROMEO AND JULIET Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent...

...reference to Romeo and Juliet, where Romeo's friend Mercutio is critical of his dreamy romanticism: 'I see Queen Mab hath been with you. / She is the...an agate-stone / On the forefinger of an alderman.' It requires Elinor to point out that keeping this supremely fanciful gift is beyond the family's means....

...have been human, but somewhere in the old floorboards of the house, I had heard a mother's voice. V 'She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape...little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep.' WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, ROMEO AND JULIET Thrcadneedle Street, London, September 1912 "m \7"TITH every...

...Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. Romeo: In bed asleep, while they do dream things true. Mercutio: Oh, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the...little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep; Her wagon-spokes made of long spiders' legs, The cover of the wings of grasshoppers, The traces of...