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The poor mechanic porters crowding in 



Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate ; 



The sad-ey'd justice, with his surly hum, 



Delivering o'er to executors pale 



The lazy yawning drone. I this infer, 



That many things, having full reference 



To one consent, may work contrariously ; 



As many arrows, loosed several ways, 



Come to one mark ; as many ways meet in one town ; 



As many fresh streams meet in one salt sea ; 



As many lines close in the dial's centre ; 



So may a thousand actions, once afoot, 



End in one purpose, and be all well borne 



Without defeat." 



Henry V. Act i. Sc. 2. 



"The lazy yawning drone" is frequently alluded to as 

 the type of idleness and inactivity (Pericles, Act ii. Sc. I ; 

 Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2). 



And we are counselled 



" Not to eat honey, like a drone, 

 From others' labours." 



Pericles, Act i. Sc. 4. 



Who does not remember the scene in which Titus 

 Andronicus reproves his brother Marcus for killing a fly at 

 dinner ? 



