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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    r The (Prefac1 to the Reader. Nat. hift.lt x» |ooV ofw‘€ did fo raviJT Ariflotna4.fis and Pbilifeuipdax., cap. 9. as PAwreportet, dey wcr‘ pleafedto fpend mofft of dcir tjnft in dis pleafing bufincs. Ne quit (fait h«) miretur onto- re eorum coptos Ariftomocbtsm Solenfemydnodefexoginto annis nihil alt ft A cgiffe ; Philifcum veto Thaftum in dcfertis apesco- lentemt Agrium cognominatttm: qui ambo fcripfere de bis. Art- ft otic fowgt his Hiftorio animolium unperfetft, unlcs hee had inferted a Tratft of de Natuft of Be^s: of wic hec difccorfef morc at largc,dan bee daftt of any oder living creaturc. Plini likcwift, in his Naturalis Hiftorio, is very copious in dis ar¬ gument. Befid*s worn4,divers oders hav* written dcr*of; as Columella%Vorroy 'Palladius, Averroes. Yea de learned and gravc Faders of de-Cyre^S. A mbrop, &Ifidor'~] hav* towgt it a Subject fit for deir Pens. UntowicI migcadinfinito- ders of later tiracs, bot* in Latin andEnglif. But de many yeercs experiments and obfervations, wi-e dof‘ great Bee-mafter s[_Ariftomachu4 & Phtli[etu~\ had left in writing to poftcrity; Tim*, ah/ injurious Tim*, hat buried in oblivion. And for de reft, dac ar extant, dey faemc unto m® to rely* mot:* upon de relation of oders, dan any certain knowledg of deir own. Notwifftanding, der* ar Scattered in dem, fpeciatfy in Ariftotle and Plinit among many feined and frivolous conceipts,foom tru* and profitable not*s: wit, b®ing found agr®able to experience 1 hav* b®t* and der* in disTreatis, asde matter rcqiret, for Ornament and Autori- ry, inferted. But de later Writers,imitating de Ancient wer* dey towgt good , cooling fmm of deir diredions, and refil¬ ling oders, daft, fordemoft* part, unluckily lift upon dc woors : fo dat, beeing compared, dey ar no* way matcabte unto dem ; worn*,by de advantage of titrft, dey migt hav* furpafTed. Among wic Georgius Ptttorius a learned Py ficiati deiervet beftjas having taken moft* pains in perufing de an¬ cient Autors,&gaderingdeir matter into his metod.Wom* on* 7*. H. of London, tranflating woord for wocrd into E*r- glify as wel as hee ccold*,concealing de Autors namc,adven¬ tured to publhfin his own nam*. Deft and de Iikc, wen a Scollar hat toorrowly red;heetinkethimfeIfta>rrowly in- ftruded in deft myfteris:but wen heecoomet abroad, to put his reading in pra&ic*; every filly woman is reddy to derid* his learned ignoranc*. Wcr‘-