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Orient Pearls
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Act 4,
Scene 1
Lines 51-55

The significance of pearls from the Orient discussed in Act 4, Scene 1 of myshakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

myShakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream 4.1.55 Word Nerd: Orient Pearls

Oberon

With a coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers.
And that same dew which sometime on the buds
Was wont to swell like round and orient pearls,
Stood now within the pretty flow'rets' eyes
Like tears that did their own disgrace bewail.