264 THE BEE NATION. 



point of the absolute Prince of the Church) in his drama, 

 " King Henry V." : [Act 1, Sc. 2.] 



" Therefore doth heaven divide 

 The state of man in divers functions 

 Setting endeavor in continual motion ; 

 To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, 

 Obedience ; for so work the honey-bees ; 

 Creatures that, by a rule in nature, teach 

 The act of order to a peopled kingdom. 

 They have a king and officers of sorts ; 

 Where some, like magistrates, correct at home ; 

 Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad ; 

 Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, 

 Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; 

 Which pillage they with merry march bring home 

 To the tent-royal of their emperor : 

 Who, busied in his majesty, surveys 

 The singing masons building roofs of gold ; 

 The civil citizens kneading up the honey ; 

 The poor mechanic porters crowding in 

 Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate ; 

 The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, 

 Delivering o'er to executors pale 

 The lazy yawning drone. I this infer 



That many things, having- full reference 

 To one consent, may work continuously ; 

 As many arrows, loosed several ways, 

 Come to one mark."* 



* In Virgil's and in Shakspere's times the queen was regarded as 

 king. 



