194 NATURAL HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE . 
Brutus. It is the bright day that brings forth the 
adder; 
Julius Caesar, Act ii. Scene i. 
Hector. ... for pleasure, and revenge, 
Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice 
Of any true decision. 
Troilus and Cressida, Act ii. Scene 2. 
Ha?nlet. There’s letters seal’d : and my two school¬ 
fellows,— 
Whom I will trust, as I will adders fang’d,— 
They bear the mandate; 
Hamlet, Act iii. Scene 4. 
Edmund. To both these sisters have I sworn my 
love ; 
Each jealous of the other, as the stung 
Are of the adder. 
King Lear, Act v. Scene 1. 
2 d Witch . Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting, 
Macbeth, Act iv. Scene 1. 
SNAKE. 
Oberon . And there the snake throws her enamell’d 
skin, 
1st Fairy. You spotted snakes, with double 
tongue, 
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act ii. 
Scenes 1 and 2. 
Moth. 
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