Of their Induftry. ; a5 
either wafhed away the mellifluous juices, or prevented 
their gathering, or both, and fo occafioned the faid 
loffes. Yet the Bees are in fafety, united with other 
ftocks. , is | 
Thus conftant are they in their honeft labours, from 
morning till night; and when the day is gone, their 
work is not done: they labour in the-night, in building 
combs, (if they are new fwarms) or in filling the maga- 
zines with honey, or fealing the cells, miniftring more 
nutritive matter to the young brood, killing the drones, 
Cc. . | 
In a word: fuch is their natural temper and difpofition, 
that rather than be idle and inactive, they will be doing 
mifchief, viz. plundering and robbing their neighbours. 
To conclude; if ants are commended for their prudent 
pains, providing their meat in Summer, and gathering 
their food in harveft, though unferviceable to men ; how 
much more worthy of praife are thefe inftructive, exem-. 
plary infe&ts, who herein fet us (both as men and Chrif- 
tians) a pattern fit for our imitation? Go then to the ant, 
(or rather to the Bee,) thou fluggard, and learn wif- 
dom 
My drow/y pow'rs, why fleep ye fo? 
Awake my fluggifh foul! 
Nothing has half thy work to do, 
Yet nothing’s half fo dull, 
The little Ants for one poor grain 
Labour, and tug, and firtve ; 
