{"id":221,"date":"2007-03-30T19:43:12","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T18:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2007-03-30T19:43:12","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T18:43:12","slug":"shakespeare-faerieworlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/2007\/03\/30\/shakespeare-faerieworlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Faerieworlds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben. Queen Mab! What's she?
\nMer. She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes
\nIn shape no bigger than an agate-stone
\nOn the fore-finger of an alderman,
\nDrawn with a team of little atomies
\nAthwart men's noses as they lie asleep:
\nHer waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs;
\nThe cover, of the wings of grasshoppers;
\nThe traces, of the smallest spider's web;
\nThe collars, of the moonshine's watery beams;
\nHer whip, of cricket's bone; the lash, of film;
\nHer waggoner, a small grey-coated gnat,
\nNot half so big as a round little worm
\nPrick'd from the lazy finger of a maid;
\nHer chariot is an empty hazel-nut,
\nMade by the joiner squirrel or old grub,
\nTime out o' mind the fairies' coach-makers.
\nAnd in this state she gallops night by night
\nThrough lovers' brains, and then they dream of love;
\nO'er courtiers' knees, that dream on curtsies straight;
\nO'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees;
\nO'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream;
\nWhich oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues,
\nBecause their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are.<\/p>\n

Sometimes she gallops o'er a courtier's nose,
\nAnd then dreams he of smelling out a suit;
\nAnd sometimes comes she with a tithe-pig's tail,
\nTickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep,
\nThen dreams he of another benefice;
\nSometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck,
\nAnd then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,
\nOf breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,
\nOf healths five fathom deep; and then anon
\nDrums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes;
\nAnd, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two,
\nAnd sleeps again.
\nRomeo and Juliet (1.4.60-95)<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>\"Romeo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ben. Queen Mab! What's she? Mer. 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; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,8,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}