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If love be rough with you, be rough with love; |
Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down. |
Give me a case to put my visage in: |
A visor for a visor! what care I |
What curious eye doth quote deformities? |
Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me. |
BENVOLIO: |
Come, knock and enter; and no sooner in, |
But every man betake him to his legs. |
ROMEO: |
A torch for me: let wantons light of heart |
Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels, |
For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase; |
I'll be a candle-holder, and look on. |
The game was ne'er so fair, and I am done. |
MERCUTIO: |
Tut, dun's the mouse, the constable's own word: |
If thou art dun, we'll draw thee from the mire |
Of this sir-reverence love, wherein thou stick'st |
Up to the ears. Come, we burn daylight, ho! |
ROMEO: |
Nay, that's not so. |
MERCUTIO: |
I mean, sir, in delay |
We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. |
Take our good meaning, for our judgment sits |
Five times in that ere once in our five wits. |
ROMEO: |
And we mean well in going to this mask; |
But 'tis no wit to go. |
MERCUTIO: |
Why, may one ask? |
ROMEO: |
I dream'd a dream to-night. |
MERCUTIO: |
And so did I. |
ROMEO: |
Well, what was yours? |
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' 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 as they lie asleep; |
Her wagon-spokes made of long spiders' 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 grey-coated gnat, |
Not so big as a round little worm |
Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid; |
Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut |
Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, |
Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers. |
And in this state she gallops night by night |
Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love; |
O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight, |
O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees, |
O'er ladies ' lips, who straight on kisses dream, |
Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues, |
Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are: |
Sometime she gallops o'er a courtier's nose, |
And then dreams he of smelling out a suit; |
And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's tail |
Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep, |
Then dreams, he of another benefice: |
Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, |
And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, |
Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, |
Of healths five-fathom deep; and then anon |
Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes, |
And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two |
And sleeps again. This is that very Mab |
That plats the manes of horses in the night, |
And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs, |
Which once untangled, much misfortune bodes: |
This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs, |
That presses them and learns them first to bear, |
Making them women of good carriage: |
This is she-- |
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