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Portia’s Picture From “The Merchant of Venice,” Act III. Sc. 2. FAIR Portia’s counterfeit? What demi-god Hath come so near creation? Move these eyes? Or whether, riding on the balls of mine, Seem they in motion? Here are severed lips, Parted with sugar breath; so sweet a... Poet: William Shakespeare	Imagination From “a Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Act V. Sc. 1. THE LUNATIC, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen’s beauty in a brow of Egypt:... Poet: William Shakespeare	Queen Mab From “Romeo and Juliet,” Act I. Sc. 4. O, THEN, I see, Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies’ midwife; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart... Poet: William Shakespeare	Fairy’s Song From “a Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Act II. Sc. 1. OVER hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moon’s sphere; And I serve the fairy... Poet: William Shakespeare
Compliment to Queen Elizabeth From “a Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Act II. Sc. 1. OBERON.—My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou remember’st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin’s back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil... Poet: William Shakespeare	The Fairies’ Lullaby From “a Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Act II. Sc. 2. Enter TITANIA, with her train. TITANIA.—Come, now a roundel, and a fairy song; Then, for the third part of a minute, hence;— Some, to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds; Some war with rear-mice for their... Poet: William Shakespeare