The feminin' monarchi', or the histori' of bee's. Shewing their admirable natur', and propertis; their generation and colonis; their government, loyalti, art, industri; enimi's, wars, magnanimiti, etc. Together with the right ordering of them from tim' to tim': and the sweet' profit arising ther'of / Written out of Experienc( by Charles Butler.

  • Butler, Charles, -1647.
Date:
M.DC.XXXIV
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Credit: The feminin' monarchi', or the histori' of bee's. Shewing their admirable natur', and propertis; their generation and colonis; their government, loyalti, art, industri; enimi's, wars, magnanimiti, etc. Together with the right ordering of them from tim' to tim': and the sweet' profit arising ther'of / Written out of Experienc( by Charles Butler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE QEEN‘S / MOST4 EXCELLENT M A I E S T Ic. • s- ; Madam^ moflc ancient and Y in- * c. i,w. 48, 'Vincible Monarch of the Earth faluteth You : EFho though fee lee? by divin* rightyof entiri and abfolut* pouer ? commanding ynany Myriads ofbotl/fexes^yet doocthfee humbly fubjett hir flat* unto a JubjeEl Trince/]C. whom*, in beaTVti*, majeftf, tem* peranc*, chaftitf, prudencc, taciturnity, and os¬ tler Trindly femininc graces^fhee rnar^eileth to fee hir felf furpajfed, that erft woont thercin to furpaf all other Creatures of hir fex. Tins Excellence and Trebninenc*, though it may feemcfoomwhat to derogatc from hirdigniti• % z yet