and of the Drones, C. 4. 
after a while, when the ftrange Bees and they fmell all alike , 
by conucrfing together in the fame Hiue, and fucking the 
fame hony, away they goe with them to their Drones. But 
euery faire day they will returnc to fetch that they leafcbe- 
hinde them : you may fee them flie fo thicke to and fro that 
hiue, as if it were full of Bees : but when night is come, they 
are all gone. 4. 
Thirdly, becaufe omne Jlmile genet at fibi (imile , Euery li- The f«/c» 
uing thing doth breed Male, or Female of his kinde, and 
experience doth teach vs that the Bees doe yeerely breed, as fv 
well Drones as honi-becs j v, feeing the honi-bees are fe- 
males, it followeth necetfarily that the Drones are the Males 
of the fame kinde. And therefore in the learned Languages 
the Drone hath his * Mafculine appellation, as the Honi-bec 
hir feminine. 
* Hit fucm , 9 KtytuS ■ ~4t bat a fit, » [itKiext, , cum feminine. Deborah , 
Mtliff* the daughter of Meliflui King of Crete , being one of Jupiter s 
nurcei , is faid to haue beene by him transformed into the Honi-Bee : 
which retaincth ftill her gender, fex , and name. Didjmmaijt d»nt Mt- 
UflifniffejUiae, Amalthtam & MeliJJam, qualtytm ptterum caprino Lfle & 
meUe nutritrunt. La&.lib. i. inftit. c.aa. I^et fane ruflieo dignum eft feifiitari, 
fueritnc mulierpultherrimafftcic M tlijfa^uam lufiter in jiptrx tonuertit. Co- 
Iumella.Iib.io.c.z. 
Fourthly, wc fee the like in the likeft infetta , the Wafpe T j, e regr 
and the Dorre : for the manifefting wherof I wil briefly fhew fon it, that the 
you the breeding of themboth. v>afpt and dorre? 
The Wafpcs ncaft is begun by one great Wafpe , which 
you may therefore call the Mother-wafpe: the which in Can - art ‘ mr 
cer ( or in hot and dry fprings fomewhat rather ) within — ^ - 
fome hole , vfually made in the ground by aMoalc, Moufe , The breeding of 
or other mean es,workcth a Comb of the vtterdrix of pales, h dnnet , 
or other timber, in forme of a round tent hanging by the 
top to theouer-partofthchole. This combe containeth a- 
bout fix Cells, of the bignelTe and fafhion of the Bees cells, 
wherin (hebreedeth fo many young ones: which, when they 
are fledge, doe breed as well as their dam: and fo enlarge the 
combe to fome eight inches ouer. Then, making more room 
beneath by morning and carrying out the earth,thcy hang an 
other combe vndcr the firft, by litdepinns, and fo an other , 
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