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Faëry elves,Whose midnight revels, by a forest sideOr fountain, some belated peasant sees,Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moonSits arbitress.
O then I see Queen Mab hath been with you:She is the fairies’ midwife; and she comesIn shape no bigger than an agate-stoneOn the fore-finger of an alderman,Drawn with a train of little atomies,Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep.