126 THE HISTORY OF ace 
HOS ERNE EEK MDEBANSDEPINED ANS CALNES. 
GBDCODSORGOREEL TARANEH: 
C- HA’ P. VIL 
Of Bees Wars and Robberies. 
A ems G © infeds, that ‘has given | me £3 heh a un- 
eafinefs and labour, as their martial Spi- 
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ANON; ow rit, ftriving to enrich themfelves, at the 
expence and ruin of their neighbours, 
Not that they are influenced by, or aét from a prin- 
ciple of cruelty or injuftice ; but their fighting and plun- 
‘dering of one another ought rather to be imputed, either 
to their perfect abhorrence of floth and idlenefs, or to 
their infatiable thirft for honey ; for when no honey 4s 
to be had among the flowers abroad, but only among 
their neighbours, they will venture their lives to get 
it there, and not a hive within their reach is left unaf- 
faulted. Now the trumpet founds to arms, and thefe 
true fons of Mars prepare themfelves for war. And 
many a terrible battle have I beheld between the one and 
the other, and great multitudes quickly flain. 
A few Bees perhaps at firft find means to pafs by the 
guard, and encouraged by repeated fuccefs, they return 
with frefh forces, conftantly encreafing the number, till 
the invafion is too powerful to be oppofed, and the hive 
- 4s entirely ruined, 
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