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A woman based on this character steals back Venetia Moore’s fiance Captain Fox in a story from Susanna Clarke’s The Ladies of Grace Adieu. This character titles a utopian “Philosophical Poem” by Percy Shelley. (0[1])This character causes (0[1])a (0[1])man to think of “breaches, (0[1])ambuscadoes, Spanish blades” and “plaits the manes (0[1])of horses.” After this character “drums in [a soldier’s] ear,” he “starts and wakes… (0[1])swears a prayer or two and (*) sleeps again.” This character has a “whip of cricket’s bone” (0[1])for a horse-team of “little atomies” and is (10[1])“in shape no bigger (10[1])than an (10[2])agate stone.” This character makes lovers dream of love, (10[2])ladies dream of kisses, and lawyers dream of fees. (10[1])For 10 points, name this “fairies’ midwife” (10[2]0[1])who (10[1])is the subject (10[1])of a speech by Mercutio (10[4])in Romeo (10[1]0[1])and (10[1])Juliet. (10[3])■END■ (10[3]0[12])

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<Jaimie Carlson, Literature - British - Drama&gt; ~25792~ &lt;Editor: Jaimie Carlson>
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