With scorn, his scorn return’d again,
Proud insect! impotently vain!
The fool who thus by self is priz’d,
By others justly is despis’d.”
She said, and flutter’d round on high,
Nor stay’d to hear the Beau’s reply.
Fable XV.
The Bears and Bees.
As two young Bears in wanton mood,
Forth-issuing from a neighb’ring wood,