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Of the Nature and properties of Bees, m 
and fome leffe, as if there were degrees of thofe dignities 
among them. In all other refpe&s they are like to the vulgar. 
Thefe I thinkc are they that Plin'te meanech, where he faith , 
Circa re gem fate Hites quidam, liflorcfqttc affuhta cufodes au- 
tboritatis . In lelle then a quarter of an houre you may fee 
three or foureofthem come forth of a good flail; but chiefly 
in Gemini, before their continuall labour hauc wornc thefe 
ornaments. So thathemightwell {lyfPimpublicam babenr, 
conflict, deduces. All which hee that ferioufly confideretb, 
muft with admiration acknowledge that Angular wifedome, 
order, andgouernmentin them, which in no other creature, 
man onely excepted, ( if yet to be excepted ) is to be found: 
whence fome haue inferred a farther matter , 
His equidem fznis atque hac cxempla fe quitii, 
Vir.Gcor.A.v-i/O- 7 •, ft . . r . / L 
-r Jc. fe aptbus partem aivina mentis, £r baujtus , 
as£thereos ^ x ^ re 
tArifiotle maketh two forts of Becs^ the one ( which is 
belt) fliort, diuers coloured, and round ; the other long, like 
vntowafpes. Optimum genus apum qua breves, varia, & in 
rotweditaterfFcompaftiles ; fecutida qua long* & vejpis ft miles. 
And in another place he putteth a difference betweene wilde 
and tame : faying, Dtjferunt inter fe apes parent thus nata ur- 
banis , & qua ruftico montanoque vittu educatis prodierint j 
funt entm hafjlveflres horridiores afptftu, ($■ iracundiores , & 
minor es ; fed opere & lab ore prapantiores. Whom Plinie fol* 
loweth almoft verbatim : faying, Apes funt etiam ruficafyl- 
vefircffj, borrida ajpe flu, mult o iracundiores ; fed opere ae la- 
bore praflantiores. ZJrbanarnm duo genera : optima breves , 
varia, & inrotunditatem companies ; deteriores longa , gh 
quibus fmilitudo vefparum , etiamnum deterrima ex ijs pilofe . 
But thefe differences my experience hath nor found: neither 
doe I fee how they can be 3 feeing the fwarmes of tame Bees 
doe often flie into trees, and fo become wilde ; and the 
fwarmes of wilde Bees are not feldome found, and put into 
hiucs. Indeed the wilde are more angrythen the tame : but 
that is becaufe they are leffe vfed to the company of men. 
Moreouer, there is fome difference in the bignefle of Bees : 
For they that areloaded feemc greater and longer then thofe 
that 
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Two forts ofBecs. 
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