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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 ? — 



