2io NATURAL HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE. 
Arthur. 0 heaven!—that there were but a mote 
in yours, 
A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair, 
Any annoyance in that precious sense! 
King John, Act iv. Scene i. 
Clifford, . And whither fly the gnats but to the sun ? 
King Henry VI., Part III. Act ii. Scene 6. 
Cleopatra. . . . the flies and gnats of Nile 
Antony and Cleopatra, Act iii. Scene n. 
Mercutio. Her waggoner a small gray-coated gnat, 
Romeo and Juliet, Act i. Scene 4. 
Simonides . . . . like to gnats, 
Which make a sound, but kill’d are wonder’d at. 
Pericles, Act ii. Scene 3. 
Imogen. I would have broke mine eye-strings ; 
crack’d them, but 
To look upon him 
Nay, follow’d him, till he had melted from 
The smallness of a gnat to air; 
Cymbeline, Act i. Scene 3. 
CRICKET. 
Mamilius. I will tell it softly; 
Yon crickets shall not hear it. 
A Winter’s Tale, Act ii. Scene 1. 
Petrucio. . . . thou winter-cricket thou: 
Taming of the Shrew, Act iv. Scene 3. 
