Their Innacenty, 27 
Such is th’ employment of their happy days 
And fuch their title to immortal praife. 
Dimfdale on Bees. 
Their Innocency. 
THEY are alfo naturally innocent, inoffenfive, and 
patient. In their foreign labours, gathering honey, or 
other materials diftant from their hives, they are not ea- 
fily provoked, but will bear perfonal injuries and af- 
_ fronts with wonderful patience. In their honeft and 
lawful employments you may difturb them, drive them 
from place to place, and from flower to flower, without 
any refentment, and efcaping by flight, they follow their 
work elfewhere, in fome peaceable quarter; but he that 
affronts them in their own dominions, and in their bufy 
times of gathering, will foon be fenfible of their refent~ 
ment, that they are implacable and unmerciful; and if 
he be a fufferer, he may blame himfelf for his impru- 
dence and prefumption.. 
In their own kingdom, and among themfelves, they 
are firiCtly juft; not the leaft injury or wrong done by 
any one member to another: but they are not fo to ftran- 
gers and foreigners ; to thefe'they are moft notorioufly 
and inexcufably unjuft, robbing and plundering from 
others wherever they have power, and WASHERS they 
find an opportunity, 
Their 
