Whose threats, voluminous and vast,
With all their verse and all their prose,
Can make but little on’t, God knows.
[XIX.] THE ANT AND THE FLY.
An Ant and Fly had sharp dispute
Which creature was of most repute;
When thus began the flaunting Fly:
“Are you so laudible as I?
I, ere the sacrifice is carved,
Precede the gods; first come, first served—