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Lear . So we’ll live, 
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh 
At gilded butterflies, 
King Lear, Act v. Scene 3. 
MOTH. 
Portia . Thus hath the candle singed the moth. 
Merchant of Venice, Act ii. Scene 9. 
Desdemona . A moth of peace, 
Othello, Act i. Scene 3. 
Valeria. You would be another Penelope : yet, 
they say, all the yarn she spun in Ulysses’ absence 
did but fill Ithaca full of moths. 
Coriolanus, Act i. Scene 3. 
GRASSHOPPER. 
Mercutio. ...... 
Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners’ legs, 
The cover of the wings of grasshoppers ; 
Romeo and Juliet, Act i. Scene 4. 
GLOW-WORM. 
Evans . And twenty glow-worms shall our lanterns 
be, 
To guide our measure round about the tree. 
Merry Wives of Windsor, Act v. Scene 5. 
