In Ben Jonson's The Entertainment at Althorp, a satyr named Vere mocks this character, who is supposedly a stand-in for Elizabeth I. In Sense and Sensibility, Willoughby promises to give Marianne a horse with this name.
In Ben Jonson's The Entertainment at Althorp, a satyr named Vere mocks this character, who is supposedly a stand-in for Elizabeth I. In Sense and Sensibility, Willoughby promises to give Marianne a horse with this name. An author lost custody of his children to Lord Eldon after publishing an atheistic poem dedicated to Harriet Westbrook and titled for this character. In another work, this character is said to have a "team of little atomies," to bake "the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs," and to plait "the manes of horses in the night." This character names a nine-part poem which was the first published work of Percy Bysshe Shelley. She is said to gallop over lawyers' fingers, causing them to dream of fees, even though she comes "in shape no bigger than an agate-stone." A speech about this character convinces the protagonist of a play to forget Rosaline and attend a dinner party. For 10 points, name this "fairies' midwife," the subject of a speech that Mercutio gives Romeo.
In Ben Jonson's The Entertainment at Althorp, a satyr named Vere mocks this character, who is supposedly a stand-in for Elizabeth I. In Sense and Sensibility, Willoughby promises to give Marianne a horse with this name.
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