An angry Wasp th'one in a viall had, / Th'other in hers an hony-laden Bee.

Stirring ere the break of day.

And when the above account is framed in a joculous way, there is still a great deal of serious thought behind it.

You have in the merchant the shrewd calculator of probable contingencies; we shall see that we have in the prophet the absolute proclaimer of necessary and inevitable facts.