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 can bear a nearer Resemblance to this Rump Bone than the present Parliament, that has been so many Years dead and rotten under Ground to any Man's thinking, that the Ghosts of some of the Members thereof have transmigrated in to other Parliaments, and some into those Parts from whence there is no Redemption, should nevertheless at two several and respective Resurrections start up, like the Dragon's Teeth that were sown, into living, natural, and carnal Members? And hence it is, I suppose, that Physicians and Anatomists call this Bone Os sacrum, or the holy Bone.

The Ægyptians in their Hieroglyphics decyphered a Prince by a Bee: now a Bee, you know, does carry not only his Militia or Defence, but his whole politic Interest in his Tail; for when he has lost his Sting he is presently banished that well order'd Government, as an unprofitable Member and a Drone.