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Bees: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

So work the honey bees; Creatures, that by a rule in nature teach The art of order to a peopled kingdom. 7 They have a king, and officers of sorts; Where some, like magistrates, correct at home; Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad; Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds; Which pillage they with merry march bring home, To the tent-royal of their emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold; The civil citizens kneading up the honey; 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— H.V i. 2.

The lazy yawning drone.