INSECTS. 
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I ago. And though he in a fertile climate dwell, 
Plague him with flies : 
Othello, Act i. Scene 1. 
Cominius. ...... 
Or butchers killing flies. 
Coriolanus, Act iv. Scene 6. 
Marina . I never kill’d a mouse, nor hurt a fly : 
I trod upon a worm against my will, 
But I wept for it. 
Pericles, Act iv. Scene 1. 
Flavius . . . . one cloud of winter showers, 
These flies are couch’d. 
Timon of Athens, Act ii. Scene 2. 
Arviragus. . . . smiling, as some fly had 
tickled slumber, 
Cymbeline, Act iv. Scene 2. 
Titles . What dost thou strike at, Marcus, with thy 
knife ? 
Marcus. At that that I have kill’d, my lord ; a fly. 
Titus . Out on thee, murderer ! thou kill’st my 
heart; 
Marcus. Alas, my lord, I have but kill’d a fly. 
Titus. But how, if that fly had a father and 
mother ? 
How would he hang his slender gilded wings, 
And buzz lamenting doings in the air ! 
Poor harmless fly! 
That, with his pretty buzzing melody, 
