 a lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice: 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...  The Dramatic Works - Page 392by William Shakespeare - 1831Full view - About this book
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - Dramatists, English - 1916 - 228 pages
...Juliet, perhaps his earliest tragedy, Queen Mab's pranks are provocative of similar dreams. Sometimes she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams...starts and wakes, And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two And sleeps again!13 In The Two Gentlemen of Verona, his second or third comedy, three... | |
 | Gertrude Elizabeth Johnson - Elocution - 1920 - 444 pages
...a suit : And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's tail Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep, Then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches,...starts and wakes, And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two And sleeps again. Romeo and Juliet. Act I. — Scene IV. JAQUES \ JAQUES. A fool, a fool... | |
 | Ralph Philip Boas, Edwin Smith - English literature - 1925 - 490 pages
...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...starts and wakes, And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two And sleeps again. He understands equally well the simple manliness of Horatio, who has... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 412 pages
...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...anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts, and wakes ; 1 And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab That... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1900 - 252 pages
...suit ; And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's tail Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep, 80 Then dreams he of another benefice ; Sometime she...blades, Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon 8 $ Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes, And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1926 - 190 pages
...sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's tail Tickling a parson's nose as 'a lies asleep, 80 Then he dreams of another benefice. Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's...blades, Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon 85 Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes, And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two And... | |
 | Dominic Barthel - Elocution - 1927 - 790 pages
...Sometime she gallops o'er a counsellor'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...starts and wakes; And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab That plats the manes of horses in the night,... | |
 | Edmondstoune Duncan - Ballads, English - 1927 - 634 pages
...tithe-pig's tail, Tickling a parson's nose as 'a lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice ; Sometimes she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams...starts, and wakes, And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab, That plats the manes of horses in the night,... | |
 | William Peacock - American poetry - 1928 - 476 pages
...oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues, Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are. Sometimes she gallops o'er a courtier's nose, And then dreams...starts and wakes ; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. Borneo and Juliet, i. iv. PATIENCE AND SORROW 'Tis all men's office... | |
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