212 NA TURAL HIS TOR V OF SHA KESPEARE. 
Belarius. And often, to our comfort, shall we find 
The .sharded beetle in a safer hold 
Than is the full-wing’d eagle. 
Cymbeline, Act iii. Scene 3. 
Macbeth. . . . ere, to black Hecate’s summons, 
The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, 
Hath rung night’s yawning peal, 
There shall be done a deed of dreadful note. 
Macbeth, Act iii. Scene 2. 
FLY. 
Orlando . I would not have my right Rosalind of 
this mindfor, I protest, her frown might kill me. 
Rosalind. By this hand, it will not kill a fly. 
As You Like It, Act iv. Scene 1. 
Autolycus. ... in the hottest day prognosti¬ 
cation proclaims, shall he be set against a brick wall, 
the sun looking with a southward eye upon him, where 
he is to behold him with flies blown to death. 
A Winter’s Tale, Act iv. Scene 3. 
Falstaff. ... for thy walls,—a pretty slight 
drollery, or the story of the prodigal, or the German 
hunting in water work, is worth a thousand of these 
bed-hangings, and these fly-bitten tapestries. 
King Henry IV., Part II. Act ii. Scene 1. 
Clifford. The common people swarm like summer 
flies: 
King Henry VI., Act ii. Scene 6. 
