The Realm of the Red Fairy » queen mab http://www.redfairy.co.uk Fairy Tales and Faerie Lore. Elves, pixies, genies, banshees, naiads, dryads, sylphs, salamanders, undines, gnomes Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:03:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you http://www.redfairy.co.uk/fairies-in-verse/o-then-i-see-queen-mab-hath-been-with-you/ http://www.redfairy.co.uk/fairies-in-verse/o-then-i-see-queen-mab-hath-been-with-you/#comments Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:24:10 +0000 Red Fairy http://www.redfairy.co.uk/?p=211 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 spinner’s 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;
Her chariot is an empty hazelnut,
Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,
Time out o’ mind the fairies coachmakers.

~ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.

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