Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 24 July 1978.
Perhaps I may finish this point. I shall forget it if I do not finish it now. Two centuries ago Isaac Watts wrote those rather silly little verses about
How doth the little busy bee".
But one was not so silly, and it ran:
In works of labour, or of skill,
I would be busy too;
For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.