Their Neatnefs, 2g 
Sant 
Butler fays they do not copulate as other living crea- 
tures do *, 
_ Come hither all you drunkards and debauchees, and 
from thefe learn to be chafte and fober. Nomore dif- 
honour your bodies; no longer degrade thofe noble na- 
tures God has given you. Meaner fouls than yours 
would ferve well enough for thofe bafe offices you 
commonly employ them in; to eat, drink, and play. 
Are you capable of converfing with angels, and the God 
of angels, and of enjoying him? place your fouls no 
more with dogs of the flock. — 
Their Neatne/s. 
ANOTHER virtue that fhould not be paft over in 
filence, being a pattern to all, efpecially the female fexy 
ladies, gentlewomen, and others; . particularly thofe 
whofe province it is to difcharge the offices of the kit- 
chen, €¥c, is their cleannefs and decency. They natu- 
rally abhor all that is filthy and impure, empty them- 
felves in flight, cleanfing their hives of all that is defiling 
and offenfive, carry forth their dead, and fuffer nothing 
to. remain that is in their power to remove, and in the 
leaft difagreeable t. , 
They alfo live upon the fineft food, the pureft honey; 
as they extract it from the flowers, they depofite it in 
their cells appointed for that purpofe, without any de- 
bafing mixtures or adulterations, 
Aad 
* Apes femine non coitu concipiunt, t Mundiffimum eft omnis boe 
animalium, 
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