The _Bees_ and the _Drones_.
There was a Controversie betwixt the _Bees_ and the _Drones_ about some
_Hony-Combs_ that were found in a Hollow Oak. They both laid Claim to
’em, and a _Wasp_ was to be _Judge_, as one that well understood the
Matter. Upon the Tryal of the Cause, they seem’d both to stand fair
for’t, as being of the same Size, Make and Colour. Now, says the Wasp, I
am upon my Oath, and therefore let me see them work their Combs, and fill
’em here before me in the Court, and I shall be then the Better able to
Understand the Merits of the Cause. The _Drones_ would not Agree to’t,
and so the Verdict went for the _Bees_.
The MORAL.
_Pretences go a great way in the World with Men that will take Fair words
and Magisterial Looks for Current Payment: But the short and the certain
way of bringing the Cause to a Fair Issue, is to put the Pretenders to
the Test of Doing what they say._