INTRODUCTION. 
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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 ?— 
