βA dream itself is but a shadow.β
βGet thee to a nunnery.β
βWolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.β
βWhat, no more ceremony? See, my women! Against the blown rose may they stop their nose That kneel'd unto the buds.β
βI am not bound to please thee with my answer.β
βAway, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps, an you play the saucy cuttle with me. Away, you bottle-ale rascal! you basket-hilt stale juggler, you!β
β...and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked / I cried to dream again.β
βO, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairiesβ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Athwart menβs noses as they lie asleep.β
βFor in that sleep of death what dreams may come.β