...atomies were born of Shakespeare and of Mercutio, a team now joined by Keats in team-work, dream-work: Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep. (Romeo and Juliet 1.4.57-8) Dreams are real but do not present realities exactly; the same is true...

...exuberante: 3. Mer. O then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. / Benvolio. Queen Mab, what's she? / Mer. She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes / In shape no bigger than an agate stone / On the forefinger of an alelen nau, / Drawn with a team of little atomi / Over men's...

...combination of images of fairy delicacy and of sexual disease: Her wagon-spokes made of long spinner's legs; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; Her traces, of the smallest spider web; Her collars, of the moonshine's watery beams; Her whip of cricket's bone ; the lash of...

...Homeric canvas is one immediately beneath, also military, but comparatively — shall it be said ? — " In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman." Not exactly ; but yet a very small surface ; not more than would accommodate the head of the Mexican...

...bed asleep, while they do dream things true. MERCUTIO. O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . What is it? DUKE OF GLOSTER. That it may please...Crosby-place; Where — after I have solemnly int wagon-spokes made of long spinners' legs; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; The traces, of the...

...true. Mercutio O then I see Queen Mab hath been with you: She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes 55 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. Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut, 60 Made by the joiner...

...Which once vntangled much misfortune breedesi Mercutio. О then I see Queene Mab hath bin with you: She is the Fairies midwife, and she comes in shape no bigger the an Agot stone, on the forefinger of an Alderman, drawne with a teeme of litde 5 ottamie, ouer mens...

...calming effect and are frequently used as worry-stones O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape...an agate-stone on the fore-finger of an alderman. — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ROMEO AND JULIET Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent...

...Romeo's friend Mercutio is critical of his dreamy romanticism: 'I see Queen Mab hath been with you. / She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes / In shape...an agate-stone / On the forefinger of an alderman.' It requires Elinor to point out that keeping this supremely fanciful gift is beyond the family's means....

...bed asleep, while they do dream things true. MERCUTIO O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. 53 She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone 55 On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi 57 Over men's noses...