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Ariel’s Song

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

‘Where the bee sucks’ is a song taken from Act V of The Tempest (1611) by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), first printed in the 1623 First Folio. It is sung by Ariel, a spirit, when told that soon he will be freed from the service of his master Prospero.

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