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326 GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE And how much more doth it please the pious curiosity of Christian to see that place on which the blessed Saviour of the world was pleased to humble himself and take our nature upon him and to converse with men to see Mount Sion Jerusalem and the very sepulchre of our Lord Jesus How may it beget and heighten the zeal of Christian to see the devotions that are daily paid to him at that place Gentlemen lest forget myself will stop here and remember you that but tor my element of water the inhabitants of this poor island must remain ignorant that such things ever were or that any of them have yet being VI Translate into &rcrk 1n1biaf True therefore doth Heaven divide The state of man in divers functions Setting endeavour in continual motion To which is fixed as an aim or butt Obedience for so work the honey bees Creatures that by rule in nature teach The act of order to peopled kingdom They have 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-eyed justice with his surly hum Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drones