INSECTS. 
Mercutio . O, then, I see. Queen Mab hath been with you. 1 
Drawn with a team of little atomies 
Romeo and Juliet, Act i. Scene 4. 
BEE. 
Prospero. . . . thou shalt be pinch’d 
As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging 
Than bees that made them. 
Ariel. Where the bee sucks, there suck I; 
The Tempest, Act i. Scene 2 ; Act v. Scene 1. 
King Henry. When, like the bee, culling from every 
flower 
The virtuous sweets; 
Our thighs pack’d with wax, our mouths with honey, 
We bring it to the hive .; and, like the bees, 
Are murder’d for our pains. 
King Henry IV., Part II. Act iv. Scene 4. 
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Canterbury. ... for so work the honey-bees ; 
Creatures, that, by a rule in nature, teach 
The act of order to a peopled kingdom. 
King Henry V., Act i. Scene 2. 
