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Their Arid Temperance^ and other Virtues, with a 
great deal more of fuch like Stuff : This is fo very 
whimlical, that it is not worth while to take any farther 
Notice of it: But there is a Story ferioully told by 
Monfetj (b') that deferves our Oblervation, viz. That 
in the Year 1582, being on the highefi Ridges of' the 
Cartmel-Hills, (Ifuppofe in Lancafhire ) he faw among 
the Rocks two Species of Wafps defperately fighting s 
That they differed only in Magnitude * that the larger 
trufied to their Strength \ and the leffer to their Num- 
bers, there being fix of the leffer engaged againfi only 
one of the larger fize , and that the Battle was not in 
the Air , but among the Grafs , and lafied for fome 
Hours in the hot eft Sun , not bemg at an end in two or 
three Hours fpace. The Caufe of this Engagement 
Moufet thinks was, that the great Wafps are wont to 
rob the leffer of their Honey and Young, or do them 
fome other fuch like Mifchief j and the leffer being 
very revengeful, and naturally full of Courage, did 
outbrave even Mars himfelf in affaulting their Ene- 
my. But this Engagement I take to be fuch another, 
as that which I have given the Hiftory of, namely 
one under the Condud of Venus , not of Mars. 
And as there is no Doubt to be made of its being 
fuch, and that the Engagement feen by Moufet was 
on the highefi Tops of Cartmel Qn fummis Cart melt 
montium jugis ) as that I faw was on the very Top of 
our Chapel , it may deferve Obfervation, whether 
the Wafps ever copulate in lower Places, obvious to 
Diilurbance, and every one’s Eye, or only on fuch 
Eminencies where they can be more out of Sight, 
and confequently in greater Safety: And if at any 
time they fhould be found in Copulation, they may 
all 
(t) Moufet Theat. Infect. 1. i. c. 8. 
