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  • How many men
    Have spent their blood in their dear country's service,
    Yet now pine under want; while selfish slaves,
    That even would cut their throats whom now they fawn on,
    Like deadly locusts, eat the honey up,
    Which those industrious bees so hardly toil'd for.

    Thomas Otway, Roger Boyle Earl of Orrery (1703). “The Orphan, Or, The Unhappy-marriage: A Tragedy, as it is Acted at His Royal Highness the Duke's Theatre”, p.12