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Talbot. So bees with smoke, and doves with 
noisome stench, 
Are from their hives and houses driven away. 
King Henry VI., Part I. Act i. Scene 5. 
Warwick. The commons, like an angry hive of 
bees, 
That want their leader, scatter up and down, 
And care not who they sting in his revenge. 
Cade. Some say the bee stings; but I say ’tis the 
bee’s wax, for I did but seal once to a thing, and I 
was never mine own man since. 
King Henry VI., Part II. Act iii. Scene 2 ; 
Act iv. Scene 2. 
Cassius. . . . they rob the Hybla bees, 
And leave them honeyless. 
Julius Cesar, Act v. Scene 1. 
3d Fisher. We would purge the land of these 
drones, that rob the bee of her honey. 
Pericles, Act ii. Scene 1. 
Imogen. . . Good wax, thy leave :—bless’d be 
You bees that make these locks of counsel! 
z Cymbeline, Act iii. Scene 2. 
HUMBLE BEE. 
Titania. The honey-bags steal from the humble- 
bees, 
And, for night-tapers, crop their waxen thighs, 
