The fable of the bees: or, private vices, publick benefits / With an essay on charity and charity-schools, and a search into the nature of society.

Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733.

Date:: 1725

Credit: The fable of the bees: or, private vices, publick benefits / With an essay on charity and charity-schools, and a search into the nature of society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$The Grumbling Brutes had been content With Minifters and Government* But they, at every ill Succefs, Like Creatures loft without RedreCs, Curs’d Politicians, Armies, Fleets; Whilft every one cry’d, Damn the Cheats, And would, tho’ confcious of his own. In others barb’roufly bear none. •wf]' oviftirtftaT'.Mj sjlil ,rno 2wsrl> avyi One, that had got a Princely Store, By cheating Mafter, King, and Poor, Dar’d cry aloud, The Land muft Jink For all its Fraud-, And whom d’ye think The Sermonizing Rafcal chid ? A Glover that fold Lamb for Kid. The leaft Thing was not done amifs, Or crofs’d the Publick Bufinefs; But all the Rogues cry’d brazenly, Good Gods, Had we but Honejly ! &• ; . f i . , / f $ f l * \i Merc ry$