360 The Honey-Makers 



Benefield (one of the public professors of Divinity) who 

 then had L. Vives' chamber and study ; and D. Cole 

 (then President, and in Q. Mari's days scholar of this 

 house) to say as much, calling the bees Vives' Bees. 



"In the year 1630, the leads over Vives' study, being de- 

 cayed, were taken up and new cast ; by which occasion 

 the stall was taken, and with it an incredible mass of honey. 

 But the bees, as presaging their intended and imminent 

 destruction, (whereas they were never known to have 

 swarmed before) did that spring (to preserve their famous 

 kind), send down a fair swarm into the president's garden. 

 The which, in the year 1633, yielded two swarms; one 

 whereof pitched in the garden for the president ; the other 

 they sent up as a new colony into their old habitation, 

 there to continue the memory of this mellifluous Doctor, 

 as the University styled him in a letter to the Cardinal." 



Quite carried away by these honeyed happenings, Butler 

 thus concludes : — 



" How sweetly did all things then concord ; when in 

 this neat museum, newly consecrated to the muses, the 

 muses' sweetest favorite was thus honoured by the muses' 

 birds?" 



" The Bee " is a common name for periodicals, as, for 

 instance, the " Omaha Bee," a daily newspaper, and the 

 " Tryon Bee," a semi-weekly sheet. But the most interesting 

 of these is undoubtedly " The Bee " of Oliver Goldsmith, a 

 weekly paper conducted and wholly written by its gifted 

 editor. The first number came into circulation October 

 6th, 1759 ; but a single bee cannot do the work of a hive, 

 so it is not surprising that Goldsmith's " Bee " ended its 

 existence November 24th, 1759, having, like the true 

 honey-bee in a season of abundant honey-flow, worked itself 

 to death in about six weeks. 



A very interesting Order of the Bee was that founded 



