"Heried" means praised.
I heard a noise approchen blive,
That fared as bees done in a hive,
Against their time of out flying;
Right such a manere murmering,
For all the world it seemed me.
Tho gan I look about and see
That there came entring into th' hall,
A right great company withal;
And that of sundry regions,
Of all kind of conditions, &c.—Pope.
[100] This description is varied with improvements from Dryden, Æneis, vi. 958.
About the boughs an airy nation flew
Thick as the humming bees that hunt the golden dew:
The winged army roams the field around,
The rivers and the rocks remurmer to the sound.—Wakefield.
He was assisted by another passage in Dryden's Flower and Leaf:
Thick as the college of the bees in May,
When swarming o'er the dusky fields they fly,
Now to the flow'rs, and intercept the sky.
[101] So in Chaucer all degrees, "poor and rich" fall down on their knees before Fame and beg her to grant them their petition.
[102] "The tattling quality of age which, as Sir William Davenant says, is always narrative." Dryden's Dedication of Juvenal.—Wakefield.