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Of the breeding of Bees, 
though you may fee them gathering, and flying about fome- 
what longer then theWafpes. In Sagittarius they betake 
themfeluesto their Winter-reft, where they lie Angle as the 
Mothcr-Wafpe in a fleepe or fwiuet. But the Drone-dorrcs, 
asthc Drone- wafpes, are deftroyed by the weather: not one 
afterward to be feene till next Leo , when the females breed 
newagaine. But one thing in the Dorres and Wafpes is 
more ftrange, then in the Bees. For whereas the Bees alfoone 
as they haue bred their firft brood of females, doe prefently 
breed Drones, v. (both which, when they arc ripe, multiply 
together) the young Dorres and Wafpes in the beginn ing of 
Summer, doe not immediatly take the Drones ( for then 
there are none ) but rcceiue from their dams, togither with 
their nature and being, that Mafculine feed, whereby when 
they are ripe they breed all the Summer following, vntill in 
the end they likewife concciue by their late-bred Drones for 
thenext yeare, both for themfelues and the young that fliali 
come of them. 
By this time thou wilt fay with me, that the Drone is the 
male-Bee : Whereof if fomc curious Chirurgion would 
make an Anotomie, helhould eafily dlfcern cDhos amplos & 
Candidas tefies, two lawfull witnelfcs of his Mafculine Sex. 
This truth began to appeare many yeares agoc, eucn in 
Ariftotfes time, tsiliqtii (faith he ) mares ejjefucos, focmir.as 
veroapeseffe contendnut. Which opinion he reciteth in an 
other place. Sunt cjui fttcos mares effe, apes faminas arbttren- 
tur. Where though he doe not approucitjyethath he no 
other reafon againft it but this, Arma ad pngnam virefa exer- 
c end as nullifcemina d naturatribunHtur. Nature hath armed no 
female for fight and force againft the male: but the Bees haue 
power and weapon to chaltice the Drones :v: and therefore 
the Drones cannot b e their males. 
The weafcnclleof which reafon I maruaile he didnotfee, 
feeing in all the kindeof *Hawkes the female doth com- 
mand the male, as being both ftronger and better armed. 
Whereunto may bee added the example of the Amazons 
reigning in his time: who by force of armes fubdued many 
Kingdomes of men, and held them in fubieftion : like vnto 
which, 
