9354. Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas. 1544-1590. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.


NUMBER:	9354
AUTHOR:	Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590)
QUOTATION:	For where ’s the state beneath the firmament That doth excel the bees for government? 1
ATTRIBUTION:	First Week, Fifth Day, Part i.

Note 1.
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. [back]

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