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By a sense of their bad reputation molested, / The Drones in grave council assembled one day; / And various measures each idler suggested, / To wash of their sloth the sad stigma away.
No other expedient well could they see, / In the eyes of all animals better to stand -- / Though lazy and stupid as well they could be -- / Than to try, at the making of honey, their hand.