A theatre of politicall flying-insects. Wherein especially the nature, the worth, the work, the wonder, and the manner of right-ordering of the bee, is discovered and described / Together with discourses, historical, and observations physical concerning them. And in a second part are annexed meditations, and observations theological and moral, in three centuries upon that subject. By Samuel Purchase.

Samuel Purchas

Date:: 1657

Credit: A theatre of politicall flying-insects. Wherein especially the nature, the worth, the work, the wonder, and the manner of right-ordering of the bee, is discovered and described / Together with discourses, historical, and observations physical concerning them. And in a second part are annexed meditations, and observations theological and moral, in three centuries upon that subject. By Samuel Purchase. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$I U Theatre »f *MM Flying Mg,; thlt'h'ola N°cks Carry ,n fo much, is , be- > G££siS83&.mm* i 'll,' ‘SUf honC,y the Bces'fuckor 8ath« with their tongue, i themhke^L^11 T ft thcir>-Aiks> v*i* are within 7 themrllkebladders,each of them will hold a drop at once. you 4; may fee their bellies ftruc withal). Many think becaufe they fee nothing on their thighs,that they come home empty, hi 3i they arc better, and more heavy laden than the other, * l This fclulous diligence and indefatigable induftrv of the : Bccs ,s moft e^i<ient and emineoc in the Spring, after they have 4 bef? Iog c®™ucd to their hives with the Winters froft and »kold , but being fet at liberty by the Suns warmer beams, they fpeedily fcoure over hills and dales gathering of every bloffome, and flower as greedily as the griping Ufurer grafpeth gold.which fl t llnS»nr/» a! thwifr «• __ . rV i i . . * 75 diligence of theirs, is notably exprelled by a Modern Poet. mi 1 h- rk i # a £>t*\es vere mvofictile* fub coUibtts Hybla Vafiibus, cut riguif late fragrantk Hjmeth Excrcmur apt, ftabsslis ubi pnguibtts agmen Predit thane novum, & carlo baccbatur aperto, Ha verir ptfulantur ofes, Tymbraque labor ant: 1 lla Apii laebrymam, &graveolemis Cent awe* Narciffique leguntflmm, Caftafque rubtntes: CaterA dum legio tell is a/cripta, t enacts Sufpeniunt carat, & me lla hquentiafmdmt. • V • • • ■* ■dSlius Juliu Crota. Bid; if ■ O' ■ I * - \ • / Thus in the Spring the diligent Bee fpreads forth herwiW et ftiffe as it were with the Winters cold, and with hafle Greg-Naz| • _ « ait. -- . erat#-- * - Meads and plcalant 4J,ti ]f -. - - -[leaving the hive, flyes to the 'Gardens. t But for your further delight , confider rhe Bees labour,in the words of one of our beft Englifli Poets, yetfomewhat altered, jccaofe not intended by him for this purpofe. tai “the H'oids, the Rivers, and the Meadows green. Wi\h bet Jr-miwg wings,fie meafu\etb wide, 1 ' ‘ * t 2 No Spenfers Mi nopotmes.$

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