40Like a thick-branching pedigree.

So 'tis not her the bee devours,

It is a pretty maze of flowers;

It is the rose that bleeds, when he

Nibbles his nice phlebotomy.

About her finger he doth cling

I' th' fashion of a wedding-ring,

And bids his comrades of the swarm

Crawl as a bracelet 'bout her arm.

Thus when the hovering publican