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ADDER. 
Caliban. . . . sometime am I 
All wound with adders, who, with cloven tongues, 
Do hiss me into madness :— 
The Tempest, Act ii. Scene 2. 
Hermia. . . . O, brave touch ! 
Could not a worm, an adder, do so much ? 
An adder did it: for with doubler tongue 
Than thine, thou serpent, never adder stung. 
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act iii. Scene 2. 
King Richard. And when they from thy bosom 
pluck a flower, 
Guard it, I pray thee, with a lurking adder, 
Whose double tongue may w T ith a mortal touch 
Throw death upon thy sovereign’s enemies.— 
King Richard II., Act iii. Scene 2. 
Queen Margaret. What! art thou, like the adder, 
waxen deaf? 
King Henry VI., Part II. Act iii. Scene 2. 
York. She wolf of France, but worse than wolves of 
France, 
Whose tongue more poisons than the adder’s tooth ! 
King Henry VI., Part III. Act i. Scene 4. 
Anne. More direful hap betide that hated wretch, 
That makes us wretched by the death of thee, 
Than I can wish to adders, spiders, toads, 
Or any creeping venom’d thing that lives ! 
King Richard III., Act i. Scene 2. 
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