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Fairies: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations
Se suck In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer merrily: Merrily, merrily shall I live now,— T. v. 1.
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, shades You moon-shine revellers, and shades of night, of night, You orphan-heirs of fixed destiny,— M. W. v. 5
Attend your office, and your quality. Elves, list your names; silence, you airy toys. thou leap : Cricket, to Windsor chimneys shalt thou leap: Where fires thou find'st unrak'd, and hearths unswept, There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry:— W.M. v. 5
Our radiant queen hates sluts and sluttery. But that it eats our victuals, I should think— Cym. iii. 6
Here were a fairy. Come, now a roundel, and a fairy song; -rose buds Then, for the third part of a minute, hence; ; Some, to kill cankers in the musk Some, war with rear-mice for their leathern wings, To make my small elves coats; and some, keep back The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots, and wonders At our quaint spirits.— M. N. ii. 3
Where's Pede?-Go you, and where you find a maid, That, ere she sleep, has thrice her prayers said, Raise up the organs of her fantasy, Sleep she as sound as careless infancy; But those that sleep, and think not on their sins, Pinch them, arms, legs, back, shoulders, sides, and shins.— M. W. v. 5.
About, about; Search Windsor Castle, elves, within and out: Strew good luck, ouphes, in every sacred room: That it may stand till the perpetual doom, In state as wholesome as in state 'tis fit; Worthy the owner, and the owner it. The several chairs of order look you scour With juice of balm, and every precious flower: Each fair instalment, coat, and several crest, With loyal blazon, evermore be blest! And nightly, meadow-fairies, look, you sing,. Like to the Garter's compass, in a ring: The expressure that it bears, green let it be, More fertile-fresh than all the field to see; And Hony soit qui mal y pense, write In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue, and white; Like sapphire, pearl, and rich embroidery, Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee: Fairies use flowers for their charactery.— M. W. v. 5.
Away; disperse. Then, my queen, in silence sad, Trip we after the night's shade: We the globe can compass soon,— M. N. iv. 1.
Swifter than the wand'ring moon. Pray you, lock hand in hand: yourselves in order set: And twenty glow-worms shall our lanterns be,— M.W. v. 5
To guide our measure round about the tree. Be kind and courteous to this gentleman; Hop in his walks, and gambol in his eyes; Feed him with apricocks and dewberries, With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries The honey bags steal from the humble bees, And, for night-tapers, crop their waxen thighs And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes, To have my love to bed, and to arise; And pluck the wings from painted butterflies, To fan the moon-beams from his sleeping eyes: Nod to him, elves, and do him courtesies.— M. N. iii. L
Employment
To tread the ooze of the salt deep; To run upon the sharp wind of the north; To do me business in the veins o' the earth, When it is bak'd with frost.— T. i. 2.