And their Flies. 5 ? 
But wil you know 3 why this they onely eate? 
Why leaues they onely chufe,t he fruite forfake? 
Why they rcfole al choife and fortes ofmeate. 
And hungers heate with onely onedifh flake? 
Then lift a while,you wonder4eekers great, 
\yhilft I ananfwereplaine and cafiemake: 
~ Difdaine you not to fee the mighty ods, 
Twixt vertUous worms and finful humane gods. 
I thinke that God and nature thought it mectc, s ^ m 
The nobleft wormes on nobleft tree to feede: Xvtrmeseate on> 
And therefore they'elfe neuer fet their feetc %%**** 
On any tree that beareth fruit or feede: 
Others diuinc/that they themlelues did wcete 
No other tree cpuldjyeelde their fllken threede. 
Iudge learned wittcs-.But fore acaufe there is, 
yyhy they elfe feede vpon no tree but this. 
Ne eate they all,as greedy Kafers do. 
But leaue the berries to their Soueraigne: 
R eligioufly forbear ing once to bloc 
ypon the fiuitjfhat may their Lord, maintains 
Nay,if rliefe leauesfthough nothing cifedoth grows 
In Uden rich their nature to fuftaine ) 
Had ei ft bin giuen for other creatures meate. 
They would haue chufde rather^o ilaructheneat. 
