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Rel io HISTORY OF BEES, 
Nor do the female troops of Thrace obey 
af “aig ae 
Wii the itnibler care, their Queen’ 5 defpotick fuays 3 ‘ 
‘Than the fubmiffive Bees the royal mind 
Moft abfolute, yet always jyft and kind, 
Diftinélive honours in the regent ce 
To /bew.the virtues of the feepter’d line 5 © 
Superiar goodne/s finds a juf? reward, 
| and publick = isa pee guard, 
But if by death to the elyfian fhade, 
_. The much lamented royal gueft’s conveyed s 
In fiately pomp the bonsur’d body lies, 
find all the city’s fil'd with mournful cries. 
Dinfdale on Pees. 
CHAP, 
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