2 o6 NA TURAL HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE. 
ANT. 
Hotspitr. . . . sometime he angers me, 
With telling me of the moldwarp and the ant, 
King Henry IV., Part I. Act iii. Scene i. 
Fool. We’ll set thee to school to an ant, to teach 
thee there’s no labouring i’ the winter. 
King Lear, Act ii. Scene 4. 
BUTTERFLY. 
Titania. And pluck the wings from painted butter¬ 
flies, 
To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes : 
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act iii. Scene 1. 
Achilles. ... for men, like butterflies, 
Show not their mealy wings but to the summer ; 
Troilus and Cressida, Act iii. Scene 3. 
Valeria . I saw him run after a gilded butterfly; 
and when he caught it, he let it go again; and after 
it again ; and over and over he comes, and up again; 
catched it again : or whether his fall enraged him, or 
how’t was, he did so set his teeth, and tear it; O, I 
warrant, how he mammocked it! 
Cominius . . . . with no less confidence 
Than boys pursuing summer butterflies, 
Menenius . There is difference between a grub and 
a butterfly; yet your butterfly was a grub. 
Coriolanus, Act i. Scene 3 ; Act iv. Scene 6 ; 
Act v. Scene 4. 
