180 The Natural Hiflory 



d Dr. Harvey, and (hewn by him to that incomparable Prince, 

 Charles the Martyr, and many others; Vidi inquit Ovum pcrexi- 

 guum (Fibricius Centeninumvocat, & Noftrates mulieres Gallo a- 

 fcribunt) crufta teCium, intra aliud Galling ovum majus, perftlum 

 isr cortice circumcirca obteclum, contineri*. Juft fuch an Egg as 

 this, pregnant with another, is preferved in the Repofitory of 

 the King of Denmark* which wasiliewn by his Majefty to The 

 Bartholine, as heteftificsinhis Epiflles* ; who alfo faw another 

 in the year i66y u . And Geo. Sebaftian Jungius met with ano- 

 ther of thefethe nineteenth of June, i6ji w . which are Autho- 

 rities enough (though more might be brought) to juftifie my 

 mentioning the thing, though by fome thought inconfider- 

 able. 



1 8. Yet before we take leave of the inhabitants of the Air, 

 we have fomthing worth notice concerning winged Infecls, and 

 particularly of the feminine monarchy of Bees, not only the Fro- 

 gnofiicators, but Concomitants of Eloquence : of their Prophetical 

 prefages of future Eloquence, we have inftances in Plato, Pindar, 

 Lucan, and that eloquent Father of the Church St. Chryfoftom, a- 

 bout whofc mouths, whil'ft Infants, the Bees gathered,and dropt 

 their hony, thereby fore-telling thofe Rhetorical Endowments they 

 fliould hereafter be poffeft of, which accordingly came to pafs. 



19. But none of thofe, fays the induftrious Butler*, are more 

 memorable than the Bees of Ludovicus Vives, who being fent in 

 the year 1520. by Cardinal Wolfey to Oxford, to bepublick Pro- 

 feforof Rhetorick. there, and placed in the College of Bees (Cor- 

 pus Chrifti being fo called by the Founder in his Statutes) was 

 welcomed thither by a fwarm of Bees, which to fignifie the in- 

 comparable fweetnefs of his Eloquence, fetled themfelves over his 

 head under the leads of his Study (atthc weft- end of iheCloyfter) 

 where they continued about 130 years. 



20. The truth of tb'usftory appears as well by the general voice of 

 tbe Houfe, who have received it by tradition, a* by the fecial tefti- 

 mony of a worthy Antiquary [Mr. Brian Twine] who affirmed [to 

 Mr. Butler] that he had often heard hh majler, Dr. Benefield (one of 

 thepublick. Profeflbrs of Divinity) who then had L.Vives\y cham- 

 ber and ftudy; and Dr. Cole (then Prefident, and in Q. Maries 



De Getter at. Animalium^Exercit. io- deOvictrtht. Ei(l. Cent. 3. Ep, 42. fcr Epijf : . CM . 4. Ep. 

 63. u MtfceUoneaCur. Med. Thy], Acad. Nat. Curiojbnmi. An. 1. obferv.^d. w Jbid.An.2. obferv- 2<jO- 

 * Hiftory of Bees 3 Numb. 59. 



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