elegies:

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Ad doctum Authorem, in Mellifluam

ipsius de Apibus historiam carmen,

F Ltribtu tximiis ml Apes producers luftnntSic (Purchas) Ubrit rofeidt meffa Itgis.

£u<e veteres [cripfere diu, tu teftibus sequisAm prtbm Ltudem dulce loquitur tpueTnfflatus d»8us } permi[cens utile duki,

S tiffins delicias Relightte liber »

Hie liber-, bee opus eft, Apibus medicine ftimbresCtnditur^ac mediem pirrigie arte mtmum.

jUj/flica nature. nor rat-, amor target babendiI NeStr Apis} plttida iismtis hi ft or ie.

Gratukr ingenim , librttm dum mente revolve >

Mel fish [cripth cm pietate mvum,

Guil.Rogers A%M,

Upon the Authors Treatise of BEES.

Hac Creature isl’chac God bach made ?

VV But emblems forth some signal (hadeOf that divine and highest power,

Who makes,unmakes, all in an hour.

The sea is fill’d with small and great,

The earth as full, and most com pleat,

The glorious heaven beyond compare,

That place where Saints and Angels are:

The basest worm, who eats but dust,

Speaks glorious praise, and that most just;

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