Yet boasted of their honesty.
Calling, whene’er they strain’d their right,
The slipp’ry trick a perquisite; 120
And when folks understood their cant,
They chang’d that for emolument;
Unwilling to be short or plain,
In any thing concerning gain;
For there was not a bee but would 125
Get more, I won’t say, than he should;
But than he dar’d to let them know,