No Fear Shakespeare: Romeo And Juliet: Act 1, scene iv

	ROMEO
	And we mean well in going to this mask,
	But 'tis no wit to go.

ROMEO

We mean well by going to this masquerade ball, but it's not smart of us to go.

	MERCUTIO
	Why, may one ask?

MERCUTIO

Why, may I ask?

	ROMEO
50	I dreamt a dream tonight.

ROMEO

I had a dream last night.

	MERCUTIO
	And so did I.

MERCUTIO

So did I.

	ROMEO
	Well, what was yours?

ROMEO

Well, what was your dream?

	MERCUTIO
	That dreamers often lie.

MERCUTIO

My dream told me that dreamers often lie.

	ROMEO
	In bed asleep while they do dream things true.

ROMEO

They lie in bed while they dream about the truth.

	MERCUTIO
	Oh, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.

MERCUTIO

Oh, then I see you've been with Queen Mab.

	BENVOLIO
	Queen Mab, what's she

BENVOLIO

Who's Queen Mab?

	MERCUTIO
55	She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes
	In shape no bigger than an agate stone
	On the forefinger of an alderman,
	Drawn with a team of little atomi
	Over men's noses as they lie asleep.
60	Her wagon spokes made of long spinners' legs,
	The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,
	Her traces of the smallest spider's web,
	Her collars of the moonshine's watery beams,
	Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film,
65	Her wagoner a small gray-coated gnat,
	Not half so big as a round little worm
	Pricked from the lazy finger of a maid.

MERCUTIO

She's the fairies' midwife. She's no bigger than the stone on a city councilman's ring. She rides around in a wagon drawn by tiny little atoms, and she rides over men's noses as they lie sleeping. The spokes of her wagon are made of spiders' legs. The cover of her wagon is made of grasshoppers' wings. The harnesses are made of the smallest spiderwebs. The collars are made out of moonbeams. Her whip is a thread attached to a cricket's bone. Her wagon driver is a tiny bug in a gray coat; he's not half the size of a little round worm that comes from the finger of a lazy young girl.