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" 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 moonbeams from his sleeping... "
The Works of Shakespear: The tempest. A midsummer-night's dream. The two ... - Page 109
by William Shakespeare - 1768
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A Description and History of Vegetable Substances: Used in the ..., Volume 1

Botany, Economic - 1830 - 438 pages
...delicacies of fruit, if we may judge from the celebrated passage in Midsummer's Night's Dream: — " Feed him with apricocks and dewberries, With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries." The red cranberry (Vaccinium vitis ideea), of which the berries are excellent, has borne fruit abundantly...
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The Modern Dunciad: Virgil in London and Other Poems

George Daniel - English literature - 1835 - 376 pages
...dream out a summer season with such beings, to " Hop in our walks, and gambol in our eyes ; Feed us with apricocks and dewberries, With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries ; The honey-bags to steal from the humble bees ; All passions rose — fear, horror, madness, rage, Alternate mov'd...
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The Modern Dunciad: Virgil in London and Other Poems

George Daniel - English literature - 1835 - 366 pages
...dream out a summer season with such beings, to " Hop in our walks, and gambol in our eyes ; Feed us with apricocks and dewberries, With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries ; The honey-bags to steal from the humble bees ; All passions rose — fear, horror, madness, rage. Alternate mov'd...
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Gentleman's Magazine: And Historical Chronicle, Volume 160

Early English newspapers - 1836 - 748 pages
...Titania, in A Mid~ summer Night's Dream, instructing the Fairies how to treat Bottom, tells them to " Feed him with apricocks and dewberries, With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries." — (iii. 1.) The word dewberry being applied to more than one species of fruit, and the above mention...
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The wisdom and genius of Shakspeare: comprising moral philosophy ...

William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...love-in-idleness. 7 — ii. 2. 142 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...
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Complete Works: With Dr. Johnson's Preface, a Glossary, and an Account of ...

William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...Where shall we go ? Tifa. Be kind and courteous to this gentleman ; Hop in his walks, and gambol in C honey bags steal from the humble bees, And, for night-tapers, crop their waxen thighs. And light them...
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The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy ...

William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 478 pages
...love-in-idlenesa. 7 — ii. 2. 143 Be kind and courteous to this gentleman; Hop in his walks, and gambol in his eyes ; Feed him with apricocks, and dewberries,...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...
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The works of William Shakespeare, the text formed from an entirely ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1842 - 582 pages
...Where shall we go ? Tita. 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...
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Knight's Cabinet edition of the works of William Shakspere, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 376 pages
...Where shall we go. Tita. Be kind and courteous to this gentleman ; Hop in his walks, and gambol in his eyes ; Feed him with apricocks, and dewberries...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...
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The family Shakespeare [expurgated by T. Bowdler]. in which those words are ...

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 1008 pages
...Where shall we go ? Tita. Be kind and courteous to this gentleman ; Hop in lus walks, and gambol in ? honey bags steal from the humble-bees, And, for night-tapers, crop their waxen thighs, And light them...
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