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Queen Mab: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

And in this state she gallops, night by night, Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love: On 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 Sometimes she gallops o'er a courtier's nose, And then dreams he of smelling out a suit: And sometimes comes she with a tithe-pig's tail, Tickling a parson's nose as he lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice: Sometimes 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 ancn Drums in his ear; at which he starts, and wakes; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.— R. J. i. 4