The Fairy Attendants: Servants Who Treat a Weaver Like a King

Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, and Mustardseed enter Act 3, Scene 1 when Titania summons them to wait on Bottom, the weaver with an ass's head. They have four names and very few lines. Their value is almost entirely visual: the most rarefied beings in the play, running errands for the most earthly one.

Bottom treats them with cheerful practicality. He sends Cobweb to fetch a honey-bee's honeybag. He asks Mustardseed to help him scratch. He commends Peaseblossom to his parents, 'Mistress Squash' and 'Master Peascod,' inventing relatives with the ease of a man who finds fairies fundamentally unalarming.

Their names are a small cluster of plant and insect imagery that fills out the play's woodland world: midsummer flowers, spider silk, moth wings, mustard seed. They are dismissed in Act 4, Scene 1 when Titania wakes from the enchantment. They have no opinions about any of what has happened to them.