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362 GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE of his subjects he now implored their forgiveness that for his part he should ever retain grateful sense of their fidelity and attachment and would carry the remembrance of it along with him to the place of his retreat as his sweetest consolation as well as the best reward for all his services and in his last prayers to Almighty God would pour forth his most earnest petitions for their welfare IV -CranSlatt into mk amines 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 Whicli pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor Who busied in his majesties 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 over to executors pale The lazy yawning drone -Eranilate into Eattn fetfamcttri Ο Nightingale that on yon bloomy spray Warhlest at eve when all the woods are still