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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

Where the Bee Sucks

William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

From “The Tempest,” Act V. Scene 1

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.