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Featuring Where the Bee Sucks there suck I - Ariel, Act 5 Sc 1 The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Act 1 sc 4, Queen Mab speech (Mercutio), A Midsummer Night's Dream: Over Hill, Over Dale - Fairy, Act 2 sc 1.

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