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Grocott & Ward, comps.  Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed.  189-?.
 
Glow-worm
 
The glow-worm shows the matin to be near
And ’gins to pale his ineffectual fire.
        Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 5. (The Ghost to Hamlet.)		  1
Reading his breviary by the light of a glow-worm.
        Foote.—Taste, Act II.		  2
 
 
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