Of course, there's this piece from the Tempest:
Where the bee sucks, there suck I;
In a cowslip's bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
-- William Shakespeare
This morning I found this in a Gordon Reader digitized by Google:
The Gordon Readers By Emma K. Gordon, Marietta Stockard
Clearly Shakespeare thought, as did most people of his time,
that the bees had a king rather than a queen.
In a New Zealand journal article from 1948, the writer mentions
that Shakespeare very frequently had an entymological bent.
This was a moment of fun distraction while I spend my Saturday
cleaning out my basement!
This is the tale that began in 2006 in my first year of beekeeping in Atlanta, GA. ...there's still so much to learn.
Pages for Bee Information
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:) It was fun!
ReplyDeleteMy friend is named Merrily and she is in a "bee" group dedicated to the fans of Sherlock Holmes, who became a beekeeper in his retirement. Laurie King has written a series of books about Holmes' retirement; the first in the series is entitled "The Beekeeper's Apprentice". Merrily is also an English major and loves Shakespeare. Six degrees?????
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