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More Mab Written by Maisy (9/28/2006 7:44 p.m.) in consequence of the missive, Other Queen Mab's, penned by teri-mc

This is from Charles Boyce's Shakespeare A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Plays, His Poems, His Life and Times, and More:

[I]n the dialect of Shakespeare's native Warwickshire, the word Mabled" was once current, meaning "led astray by fairies or elves." Also, Mab is expressly tiny, and the word "mab" means "small child" in Cymric, the language of Wales. Shakespeare's interest in Wales and its language at the period when Romeo and Juliet was written, and its importance as the origin of many elements of Warwickshire folklore, make it a possible source for the name (p. 386).

I love the word Mabled! Great stuff!

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Queen Mab Barbara (9/27/2006 11:12 p.m.)

Dream imagery.... Mandy N (9/28/2006 1:04 a.m.)
- Inducing young women into folly Delories (9/28/2006 2:55 a.m.)
  - Exactly calculated Barbara (9/28/2006 10:22 a.m.)
    - Yes and this has turned... Moni (9/28/2006 11:08 a.m.)
    - Excellent points--all. You gals are great! Robbin (9/28/2006 11:14 a.m.)
    - Exactly calculated.....hmmm Jan (9/29/2006 12:54 p.m.)
      - No, you're not doing him an injustice, imo... nfm Delories (9/30/2006 3:42 a.m.)
Other Queen Mab's teri-mc (9/28/2006 12:54 p.m.)
- Drayton Barbara (9/28/2006 1:00 p.m.)
  - Okay--a short note and a link Barbara (9/28/2006 10:47 p.m.)
    - Sometimes, it's not a question of whether JA read it... Delories (9/29/2006 2:46 a.m.)
- More Mab Maisy (9/28/2006 7:44 p.m.)

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