and of the Drone. C 4. 
which, it is maruaile but there were then fome mankind Vi- 
ragoes in Greece , as well as there benow in other Countries. 
Which thing, if nothing clfc, the experience of his Ma- 
tters! Mailer might haue taught him. 
• The firft inftanec is beyond exception : neither doe I fee how the 
other can be anrwored,valcffe persduenture it be replyed that f’uchrulc is 
againft Nature. 
| Ariflot.t his Matter was Vlsto, whofe Mailer was Socrates, whofe Ma- 
tter was Xantippe that thurfHring fho wring Queene of Shrcwes. Xantippe 
S'Aratis Vhilofopbi yxotmonfa admodum f stifle ftrtur iurgiofa : iratun.^ & 
mltfliarun muliebrium ptrditm perfynefhm fcatebat. A.Gelliusl. i.c. 17. 
Socrates, cum in cum Xantippe print cm'yitia malcdtfla veto 
fjy firdidu nquit perfudijfet , Tgcnne ( inquit ) dicebam X ant if pen tonantem 
I quandojue piuiturami Laertius lib; 2.111 vita Socratis. 
But you mutt vnderftand that the Philofophcr fpcaketh 
thus, not dogmatic} but dijputatme , onclyby way of reafo- 
ning : for in the end of the fame chapter he y eeldeth himfelfc 
tohaueno certainc knowledge thereof. Non t amen fat is ad- 
huc cxplsrata qua cvemant babemtu. J2 v 
T O rcturne therefore to ourpurpofc, theHony-Beeaha- when the Etes 
uing,a$ thofe other infecla, conceiued by the Dqbnes $ to breed, 
thebeft about Ttfcej when they firft gather vpon flowers, ^ 
others in Aries , and the weaker later, begin their breeding : -vr k 
which is continued all the Summer ,euen to the end of Virgo.s ¥f 
B ut the chiefe time is in Aries, Taurus, and Gemini: which J 3- ; 
moneths yeeld Ambrofta the Schadons food, in greateftplen- of^elin'^ 
tie, varietic and vertue. • — — 
The Bees will be fureto feme themfelues firft, their firft T he firft breed 
generation being alwaies females : which they breed after »r« females. 
this manner. ij. 
Clofe vnder the Honie ( which is at that time altogether T, ’t manner of 
inthevpper parts of the Combs) in the middle of theboc- the,r Ceding , _ 
tomes of the void Cels, as the Wafpes doc on the one fide, 
they lay their feedes, about the bignclfe of thofewhich the 
Butter-flic leaues vpon the Cabagc-leaucs : but of different 
colour, the Bees being white like Wafp-feedes,and the But- 
:er-flies yellow. Andfo they defeend by degrees toward 
:he neather part of the Combes , Ailing one Cell after 
m other. Although when the chiefe breeding is paft, 
they 
