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Suffolk. Drones suck not eagles’ blood, but rob 
bee-hives : 
King Henry VI., Part II. Act iv. Scene 1. 
Gower. Good Helicane hath stay’d at home, 
Not to eat honey, like a drone, 
From other’s labours; 
Pericles, Act ii. Gower. 
WASP. 
Autolycus. He has a son, who shall be flayed alive ; 
then, ’nointed over with honey, set on the head of a 
wasps’ nest; 
A Winter’s Tale, Act iv. Scene 3. 
Petrucio. Come, come, you wasp ; i’ faith, you are 
too angry. 
Katharine. If I be waspish, best beware my sting. 
Petrucio . My remedy is then, to pluck it out. 
Katharine . Ay, if the fool could find out where it 
lies. 
Petrucio. Who knows not where a wasp does wear 
his sting? 
In his tail. 
Katharine. In his tongue. 
Taming of the Shrew, Act ii. Scene 1. 
Suffolk. There be more wasps that buzz about his 
nose, 
Will make this sting the sooner. 
King Henry VIII., Act iii. Scene 2. 
