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THE HISTORY OF BEES. 
Nor do the female troops of Thrace, obey 
With humbler care, their Queen’s defpotick fway 3 
Than the fubmiffive Bees the royal mind 
Mop abjolute, yet always jufi and kind. 
Diftinéiive honours in the regent fhine, 
To foew the virtues of the feepter'd line 3 
Superior goodne/s finds a juft reward, 
And publick love ts a perpetual guard, 
But if by death to the elyfian fhade, 
The much lamented royal gueft’s conveyed ; 
In fiately pomp the honour’d body lies, 
And all the city’s filPd with mournful criese 
Dinfdale on Bees, 

