[1] This was wrote in 1714. [↑]
THE
GRUMBLING HIVE:
OR,
KNAVES TURN’D HONEST.
A spacious hive well stock’d with bees,
That liv’d in luxury and ease;
And yet as fam’d for laws and arms,
As yielding large and early swarms;
Was counted the great nursery 5
Of sciences and industry.
No bees had better government,