 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 446 str.
...at which he starts, and wakes; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab, That plats the manes of horses in the night; And bakes the elf-locks 1 in foul sluttish hairs, Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes. This... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 str.
...at which he starts, and wakes; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab, That plats the manes of horses in the night; And bakes the elf-locks in foul sluttish hairs, Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes. This... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 str.
...at which he starts, and wakes; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab, That plats the manes of horses in the night; And bakes the elf-locks 9 in foul sluttish hairs, Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes. This... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 356 str.
...at which he starts, and wakes; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab, That plats the manes of horses in the night; And bakes the elf-locks in foul sluttish hairs, Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes. This... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - 374 str.
...at which he starts, and wakes; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab, That plats the manes of horses in the night; And bakes the elf-locks in foul sluttish hairs, Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes. This... | |
 | Francis Douce - 1807 - 540 str.
...chirurgi, fo. 10; and there is also a proverb, As dull as Dun in the mire. Sc. 4. p. 376. MBB. ——— This is that very Mab That plats the manes of horses in the night. No attempt has hitherto been made to explain this line, which alludes to a very singular super* stition... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 498 str.
...at which he starts, and wakes ; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab, That plats the manes of horses in the night; And bakes the elf-locks 9 in foul sluttish hairs, Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes. This... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 420 str.
...at which he starts, and wakes ; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab, That plats the manes of horses in the night ; And bakes the elf-locks in foul sluttish hairs, 8 Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes. This... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 472 str.
...at which he starts, and wakes; And. being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab, That plats the manes of horses in the night; And bakes the elf-locks 2 in foul sluttish hairs, Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes. This... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 538 str.
...which he starts, and wakes ; And, (||)beingthus frighted,(||) swearsaprayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that (||)very(||) Mab, That plats the manes of horses in the night; And bakes * the elf-locks 6 in foul sluttish hairs, Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes •{-.... | |
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from being hag-ridden, and their manes elf-knotted, were, at this period, in common use. To one of the superstitious evils against which it was held as a protective, Shakspeare alludes, in his Romeo and Juliet, where Mercutio exclaims — " This is that... 
