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(Variety is indispensable in works intended to please.) Leaving the apiary, the Bee said to the Cuckoo: "Be quiet, for your grating voice will not let me work. "No bird is so tiresome 5 in its singing as you: Cuckoo, cuckoo, and more cuckoo, always the same old thing." —"Does my unchanging song weary you? (The Cuckoo replied): 10 Why, in truth, I can find no variety in your honeycomb. "And since you make a hundred exactly as you make one, if I invent nothing new, 15 everything you do is old indeed." To this the Bee replies: "In work that serves a useful purpose, a lack of variety is not the greatest fault; 20 "But in work intended solely to delight and entertain, unless invention offers variety, all the rest is worth nothing."