Ile be a candle-holder and looke on, The game was nere so faire, and I am dun. Mer. Tut, duns the mouse, the conftables owne word Mer. I meane fir in delay We waft our lights in vaine, lights lights by day : Mer. Why may one aske? Rom. I dreampt a dreame to night. Mer. And fo did I. Rem. Well what was yours? Mer. That dreamers often lye. Ro. In bed a fleepe while they doe dreame things true. Mer. O then I fee queene Mab hath beene with you : She is the fairies midwife, and fhee comes in fhape no bigger the an agat ftone, on the forefinger of an alderman, drawne with a teeme of little atomies, ouer mens nofes as they lie afleepe her waggon fpokes made of long fpinners legs: the couer of the wings of grafhoppers, her traces of the smallest Spider web, her collers of the moonshines watry beames, her whip of crickets bone, the lafh of philome, her waggoner, a fmall gray coated gnat, not halfe fo bigge as a round little worme, prickt from the lazie finger of a man. Her chariot is an emptie hafel nut, made by the ioyner fquirrel or old grub, time out a mind, the faries coachmakers and in this state she gallops night by night, throgh louers brains, and then they : *Nay omitted. ‡ Spiders. *G 2 t of dream dream of loue. On courtiers knees, that dreame on curfies This is the hag, when maides lie on their backs, Romeo. Peace, peace, Mercutio peace, Merc. True, I talke of dreames : Which are the children of an idle braine, Begot of nothing but vaine phantafie : : Ben. This wind you talke of, blowes vs from ourfelues, Supper is done, and we fhall come too late. Ro. I feare too early, for my mind mifgiues, Some confequence yet hanging in the starres, With this nights reuels, and expire the terme By fome vile forfeit of vntimely death. But he that hath the stirrage † of my course, Ben. Strike drum. They march about the ftage, and feruingmen come forth with napkins. Enter Romeo. Ser. Wheres Pothan that he helpes not to take away? He shift a trencher, he fcrape a trencher ? 1. When good manners fhall lie all in one or two mens hands, and they vnwafht too, tis a foule thing. Ser. Away with the ioynftooles, remoue the court cubbert, looke to the plate, good thou, faue mee a peece of marchpane, and as thou loues mee, let the porter let in Sufan Grindstone, and Nell, Anthonie and Potpan. 2. I boy readie. Ser. You are lookt for, and cald for, afkt for, and fought for in the great chamber. 3. We cannot be here and there too, chearely boyes, Be brifk a while, and the longer liuer take all. Exeunt. Enter all the guests and gentlewomen to the maskers. 1. Capu. Welcome gentlemen, ladies that haue their toes Vaplagued with cornes, will walke about with you : Ah my miftreffes, which of you all Will now deny to dance, the that makes dainty, She Ile fweare hath cornes: am I come neare ye now? That I haue worne a visor and could tell A whispering tale in a faire ladies eare: Such as would please: tis gone, tis gone, tis gone, Muficke plaies, and they dance. A hall, a hall, giue roome, and foote it girles, For you and I are paft our dauncing daies: 2. Capu. Berlady thirty yeares. 1 Capu. What man tis not fo much, tis not fo much, Tis fince the nuptiall of Lucientio, Come Pentycoft as quickly as it will. Some fiue and twenty yeares, and then we maskt. His fonne is thirty. 1 Capu. Will you tell me that? His fonne was but a ward two yeares agoe. Ro. What ladie is that which doth in rich the hand Of yonder knight? Ser. I know not fir. Ro. O fhe doth teach the torches to burne bright: It feemes the hangs vpon the cheeke of night, As a rich iewel in an Ethiops eare, Beauty too rich for vfe, for earth too deare: As yonder lady ore her fellowes fhowes : The The measure done, Ile watch her place of ftand, Tib. This by his voice, fhould be a Mountague. Capu. Why how now kinfman wherefore ftorme Tib. Tis he, that villaine Romeo. Capu. Content thee gentle coze, let him alone, Tib. It fits when fuch a villaine is a guest, Ile not endure him. Capu. He fhall be endured. What good.an boy, I say he shall, go too, Youle not endure him, God fhall mend my foule, |