MUSHROOM/TOADSTOOL

PROSPERO

You demi-puppets, that

By moonshine do the GREENSOUR RING

Let’s make,

Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime

Is to make midnight MUSHRUMPS.

—Tempest [Act V, sc. 1]

FAIRY

And I serve the Fairy Queen,

To dew her ORBS UPON THE GREEN.

—A Midsummer Night’s Dream [Act II, sc. 1]

AJAX

TOADSTOOL, learn me the proclamation

—Troilus and Cressida [Act II, sc. 1]

MISTRESS QUICKLY

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.

—Merry Wives of Windsor [Act V, sc. 5]

TITANIA

To dance OUR RINGLETS

to the whistling wind

—A Midsummer Night’s Dream [Act II, sc. 1]