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Queen: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

She had all the royal makings of a queen; As holy oil, Edward Confessor's crown, The rod, and bird of peace, and all such emblems, Laid nobly on her.— H. VIII. iv. 1

A queen in jest, only to fill the scene.— R. III. iv. 4

Mab

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 waggon-spokes made of long spinners' 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 crickets' bone; the lash, of film: Her waggoner, a small gray-coated gnat, Not half so big as a round little worm Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid: Her chariot is an empty hazle-nut, Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub, Time out of mind the fairies' coachmakers. $06 Shakesprarian Dictionary.