mettles

Updated: July 26, 2026

Sprites of all looks and all hues of all "dimensions, shapes, and mettles," the dwarfish elf and the elegant fay Cobweb commissioned to kill a red-hipped humble-bee on the top of a thistle, that Bottom might have the honey-bag Pease-Blossom, who had the less agreeable employment of scratching the weaver's head and that individual fairy who could find the hoard of the squirrel and carry away his nuts with a score of equally merry companions are swarming everywhere and in full employment.

Shearjashub Spooner - Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3)