INTRODUCTION. 19 
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.” 
flenry V. Act i. Se. 2. 
“The lazy yawning drone” is frequently alluded to as 
the type of idleness and inactivity (Pericles, Act ii. Sc. 1; 
Flenry VJ. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2). 
And we are counselled— 
“Not to eat honey, like a drone, 
From others’ labours.” 
Pericles, Act i. Se. 4. 
Who does not remember the scene in which Titus 
Andronicus reproves his brother Marcus for killing a fly at 
dinner ?>— 
