The Fable of the Bees (1714) [ Concepts ]
… ... Thus vice nurs’d ingenuity, Which join’d the time and industry, Had carry’d life’s conveniences, Its real pleasures, comforts, … remedies. Their clergy rous’d from laziness, Laid not their charge on journey-bees; But serv’d themselves, exempt from vice, The gods with pray’r and sacrifice; All those, that were unfit, or knew, Their service might be spar’d, withdrew: Nor was their business for so many, (If th’ honest stand in need of any,) Few only with …
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