More fickleness, or less content:
They were not slaves to tyranny.
Nor rul’d by wild democracy; 10
But kings, that could not wrong, because
Their power was circumscrib’d by laws.
These insects liv’d like men, and all
Our actions they performed in small:
They did whatever’s done in town, 15
And what belongs to sword or gown:
Though th’ artful works, by nimble slight