i8o T'he^Hjtural Hiftory 
ed "Dt. Harvey^ andftiewnby him to that incomparable Prince, 
Charles the Martyr^ and many others; Vidi in quit 0mm per exi- 
guum (¥zhnc\us Cent eninumvocat, & Nofirates mwWtXQs Gallo 
fcrihunt') crufta teCium^ intra aliud Galling ovum majfi^^ ferfe^um 
iy cortice circumcirca obte^um^ contimri\ JuO: fuch an Egg as 
this, pregnant with another, is preferved in the Repofitory of 
the King of Denmark-, which was (hewn by his Majefty to Tbo, 
Bartholine^ as he teftifies in his Efiftles ^ ; who alfo faw another 
in the year 1669^ And Geo. Sehaftian Jungim met with ano- 
ther of thefethe nineteenth of /wwe, 1671 which are Autho- 
rities enough (though more might be brought) to juftifie my 
mentioning the thing , though by fome thought inconfider- 
able. 
18. Yet before we take leave of the inhabitants of the Air^ 
we have fomthing worth notice concerning winged Infe^is^ and 
particularly of the feminine monarchy o( Bees^ not only the Fro- 
gnojiicators^ but Concomitants of Eloquence : of their Prophetical 
prefagcs of future Eloquence, we have inftances in Plato^ Pindar^ ■ 
Lucan^ and that eloquent Father of the Church St. Chryfojiom, a- 
bout whofc mouths, whil'ft Infants^ the Bees gathered,and dropt 
t\\Q\v hony, thereby fore-telling thofe Rhetorical Endowments 
fliould hereafter be poiTeft of, which accordingly came to pafs. 
19. But none of thofe, fays the induftrious Butler'', are more 
memorable than the Bees of Ludovicii6 Vives^ who being fent in 
the year 1520. hy Cardinal Wolfey to Oxford^ to bepublick Pro- 
feforof Rhetorick there, and placed in the To/Z^^e of Bef^ (Cor- 
fffs 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 (zt the wejl- end ohhe Cloy/ier} 
where they continued about 130 years. 
20. The truth of th^sftory appears as well by the general voice of 
theHou^e, who have received it by tradition, 06 by the (fecial tejli- 
mony of a worthy Antiquary [Mr. Brian Twine] who affirmed [to 
Mr. Butler] that he had often heard hps mafier. Dr. Benefield Qo?ie of 
thepublick ProfelTors 0/ Divinity) who then bad L.V'wes's cham- 
ber and Jiudy, and Dr. Cole (/te Prefident, and in Q. Maries 
* De Generat. Aitimalitim^ Exercit. lo. de Ovi cortke. ^ E^i[l. Cent. %. Ep, 42- ifr Eptfl. cent. 4. Ep. 
63. " MifcellaJieaCur. Med. ThyJ. Acad. Nat. atrioformu. Afi'. i. obferv.'xG. * jhid. An^z. ohferv- 2')Q- 
^ Hiftory of Bees, Numb. 59- " 
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