How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day,
From every opening flower.
Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.
'Tis the voice of the sluggard, I heard him complain,
"You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again."
SIR SAMUEL TUKE.
—1673.
Adventures of Five Hours. Act v. Sc. 3.
He is a fool who thinks by force or skill
To turn the current of a woman's will.