 ThefecondBeoke. 3 
ont the ony, Macrobins aferibeth the fame ta one Saturnus. ~ 
Dthersto the Theflatians. Gup many ts Mcliflus, anauntiont 
3 ing of Creta,others to Naflus Liber Pater,tgus writing, that 
Liber bath obtapned the reno wie fo2 finding oat of oniuss 7 
@ How Bees do naturally engender. Cap.iij. 
Irife the Bes procede of Bes ty theacuall doing tegy? 
ther after whiche thep lay eages, Gtting vpyon them, as 
tie ens do on their eqs. And tohbcn they baue fit on them for 
the {pace of.rib.dafes, ther do thep batch their peng ones, wht 
the pong (at the firft)come forth, much like te white Gic2ns, 
ercept the hing, who ontclp as hes hatched, bath wings. At 
the firffe time,anc of thei Hatcheth fiue young togither, the 
nerfe time fewer, aid fo fewer ¢ feiwer, bnitll he commmeth fo 
one at a tinie, bicaule the abundaunce whiche ts tn thein,vothe 
~ tnthe comtinuaunce oftime weaken . Fn the time of thetr fitz 
ting they make muche noile to gette them beate withall . Aud 
aboute the fides of the cambes, be fomietimes greater Wes 
bed, which mé fo2 their found ¢ noile do properly mame {ri 
peters,and they alfo haue whole borics,of which come the bas 
Harde Wes: There be alfo other Wes bigger tnboop, muches 
like to the Bitigs but thep be pale,and haue to ing, bicaule of 
the beauinefle of thete body. All which &indes, Guiliclmus de 
Conchis didde obferne in the Hpues of a certaine Confull of 
Rome, tobiche pecperlp were mace of verpe thinne and cleare. 
boone. Some tite, that wes are allo engendwed and bredde 
monfroufly ,and that contrarpfo ature, without the mutus 
all coniundion,if that a tobole calfe be buricd in fhe earth, and 
there Ipe rotting whiles the wind blow out of the Gicite , for 
by that meates, as watteth Maro, doth the fame brate es. 
And not onlike to this doeth Cornelius Agrippa in bis firfte | 
‘Boke de Occulta Philofophia, and Hiero. Cardanus iwhyps 
ninth boke of Subtilties wise pot a rotten boofe do wafpes 
procedesof an Ate, umble beso a Mule, hopnettes : of the 
haire of a Woman(hauing then bir motherlp courfes)Serpéts: 
and of hte ti fhelles ssa off, )Scogpions, e 
Bb. if. Of . 
