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IV /r Y name is Queen Mab. I am little 

 more than twenty years old, not 

 a great age, counted by years, as the life 

 of a horse goes ; but it is the pace that 

 kills, and I have been made to go the 

 pace in my younger days, and have done 

 my duty as far as in me lay, since I have 

 withdrawn from the more active scenes of 

 the world. I have brought up five of my 

 offspring and never lost a foal, and I have 

 gained the admiration and affection of those 



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