Act 1, Scene 4 - Video Performance: Mercutio, Lines 80-93a

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Mercutio, Lines 80-93a

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Act 1,

Scene 4

Lines 80-93a

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 80-93b

Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck,

And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,

Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,

Of healths five-fathom deep; and then anon

Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,

And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two

And sleeps again. This is that very Mab

That plaits the manes of horses in the night,

And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,

Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes.

This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,

That presses them and learns them first to bear,

Making them women of good carriage.

This is she —

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