(A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act I, Sc. 1.)

Fairy: “I must go seek some dewdrops here

And hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear.

(Act II, Sc. 1.)

Oberon: “And that same dew which sometime on the buds

Was wont to swell like round and orient pearls,

Stood now within the pretty flowerets’ eyes.

(Act IV, Sc. 1.)

Sebastian: “This is the air: that is the glorious sun:

This pearl she gave me, I do feel’t and see’t