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 moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.
Nod to him, elves, and do him courtesies.
– William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 3, Scene 1. Titania orders her retinue of fairy attendants to wait on her new lover Bottom. They are commanded to courtesy to him and bring him all the treasures of the wood. These include fruits, honey, beeswax candles, and butterfly wings to shade his sleeping eyes from the moonbeams. The Fairy Queen is smitten by Bottom, who is to receive the royal treatment.