Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Quote

For where's the state beneath the firmament
That doth excel the bees for government?


First Week, Fifth Day, Part i. Compare: "So work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in Nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom", William Shakespeare, Henry V, act i. sc. 3. - La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)


For where's the state beneath the firmament That doth excel the bees for government?

For where's the state beneath the firmament That doth excel the bees for government?

For where's the state beneath the firmament That doth excel the bees for government?

For where's the state beneath the firmament That doth excel the bees for government?