>Sounds like Puck's epilogue in A Midsummer Night's Dream (one of my favorite
>Shakespeare plays). I can't remember all of it off the top of my head but it
>goes something like... "And if we shadows have offended, think but this and
>all is mended, that you have but slumbered here, while these visions did
>appear. And this weak and idle theme, no more yielding than a dream."

Ever seen Neil Gaiman's take on Shakespeare? He makes a deal with Dream to be able to be a good playwright, for the price of two plays -- A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest. The first performance of AMND is for Oberon, Titania, Puck, and the other members of their court. (Puck knocks the actor out halfway through and takes over for the rest of the play. :-))

The Sandman series of graphic novels is absolutely amazing. I'd suggest reading "Season of Mists" first, if you want to get into the whole thing: SoM won the World Fantasy Award one year for best novel, I believe.... Gaiman hadn't quite hit his stride yet in "Preludes and Nocturnes", the first book in the series, but it's still an amazing read.