M r.c r o s c opical Essays. 



Oe the Proboscis or the Bee, Fig. 3 and 4, Plate XIIF. 



The more we penetrate into the hidden recefles and internal 

 parts of nature, the more we find it marked with perfection in 

 form anddefign. This pofition is fo clearly proved in the little 

 apparatus we are now about to deferibe, that Swammerdam,* 

 [peaking of it, fays, that he cannot refrain from confeffing, to 

 the glory of the immenfe and incomprehenhble Architect, that 

 he had but very imperfectly deferibed and reprefented this little 

 apparatus ; for to reprefent it to the life in it's full perfection, as 

 truly molt perfect it is, far exceeds the utmoft efforts of humaxu 

 knowledge.. 



Soon as the matin glory gilds the fides,. 



Behold the little virtuofi rife ! . 



Blithe for the talk, they, preen their early wing; . 



And forth to each appointed labour fpring. 



Now nature boon exhales the morning fleam, 



And glows and opens to the welcome beam 



The vivid tribes amid the fragrance fly, . 



And ev'ry art, and ev'ry bufinefs ply. . 



Each chymift now his fubjtle trunk unfheathes, 



Where from the flower the treafur'd .odour breathes ; . 



Here fip the liquid, there felect. the- gum* 



And o'er the bloom with quiv'ring membrane hum,: 



Still with judicious fcrutiny they pry, 



Where lodg'd the prime e ffential juices lie ; 



Each Iufcious vegetation wide explore, 



Plunder, the fpring of every vital 1 tore : ; 



* • Swamaierdam's Book, of Nature, p. ,1955. 



