“tu regibus alas
Eripe.”iv. 106.
And,—
“ipsæ regem parvosque Quirites
Sufficiunt, aulasque ei cerea regna refingunt.”iv, 201.
[157]. At a time even later than Shakespeare’s the idea of a king-bee prevailed; Waller, the poet of the Commonwealth, adopted it, as in the lines to Zelinda,—
“Should you no honey vow to taste
But what the master-bees have placed
In compass of their cells, how small
A portion to your share will fall.”