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If love be rough with you, be rough with love;
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Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.
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Give me a case to put my visage in:
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A visor for a visor! what care I
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What curious eye doth quote deformities?
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Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me.
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BENVOLIO:
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Come, knock and enter; and no sooner in,
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But every man betake him to his legs.
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ROMEO:
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A torch for me: let wantons light of heart
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Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels,
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For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase;
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I'll be a candle-holder, and look on.
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The game was ne'er so fair, and I am done.
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MERCUTIO:
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Tut, dun's the mouse, the constable's own word:
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If thou art dun, we'll draw thee from the mire
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Of this sir-reverence love, wherein thou stick'st
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Up to the ears. Come, we burn daylight, ho!
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ROMEO:
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Nay, that's not so.
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MERCUTIO:
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I mean, sir, in delay
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We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
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Take our good meaning, for our judgment sits
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Five times in that ere once in our five wits.
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ROMEO:
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And we mean well in going to this mask;
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But 'tis no wit to go.
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MERCUTIO:
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Why, may one ask?
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ROMEO:
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I dream'd a dream to-night.
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MERCUTIO:
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And so did I.
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ROMEO:
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Well, what was yours?
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MERCUTIO:
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That dreamers often lie.
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ROMEO:
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In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.
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MERCUTIO:
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O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
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She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes
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In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
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On the fore-finger of an alderman,
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Drawn with a team of little atomies
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Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep;
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Her wagon-spokes made of long spiders' legs,
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The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,
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The traces of the smallest spider's web,
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The collars of the moonshine's watery beams,
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Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film,
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Her wagoner a small grey-coated gnat,
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Not so big as a round little worm
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Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid;
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Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut
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Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,
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Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers.
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And in this state she gallops night by night
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Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love;
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O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight,
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O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees,
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O'er ladies ' lips, who straight on kisses dream,
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Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues,
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Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are:
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Sometime she gallops o'er a courtier's nose,
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And then dreams he of smelling out a suit;
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And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's tail
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Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep,
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Then dreams, he of another benefice:
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Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck,
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And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,
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Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,
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Of healths five-fathom deep; and then anon
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Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,
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And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two
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And sleeps again. This is that very Mab
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That plats the manes of horses in the night,
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And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,
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Which once untangled, much misfortune bodes:
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This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,
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That presses them and learns them first to bear,
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Making them women of good carriage:
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This is she--
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