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Mercutio, Lines 68-79
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Act 1,
Scene 4
Lines 68-79

Mercutio performs the Queen Mab speech from Act 1, Scene 4 of myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. 

myShakespeare | Romeo and Juliet 1.4 Performance: Mercutio, lines 68-79

Mercutio

And in this state she gallops night by night
Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love;
O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on curtsies 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.
Sometime she gallops o'er a courtier's nose,
And then dreams he of smelling out a suit;
And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's tail,
Tickling a parson's nose as he lies asleep —
Then dreams he of another benefice.