Therefore doth heaven divide 
The state of man in divers functions, 
Setting endeavour 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 : 
AV here some, like magistrates, cori cct 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 ey’d 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 concent, may work contrariously; 
As many arrows, loosed several ways, 
Fly to one mark; as many ways meet in one town; 
As many fresh streams run in one salt sea; 
As many lines close in the dial’s centre; 
So may a thousand actions, once afoot, 
End in one purpose, and be all well borne 
With defeat. 
Siiakspere. Henry V. Act i. 
Scene 2. 
