and of tht Drone. 
C.4, 
Jfe'/fTz cr>fhu*~. 
2iAe 
■> Si 
Queene,t/. after a peculiar and more excellent manner. For ^ 
the golden matter whereof they are made, is not turned in- n 
to a Worme at all ; but immediatly rcceiueth the fhape of a / , A 
Bee. Primordium regum colore cemitur fulvo , corpulentia 
mellif craffioris,magnitudine ilico proxima fiua futura foboli: «-<- 
nee primumex eovermtculus gignitur, fed flattmapis. Item, 
Higtnitts negat ex vermiculo, ut cat eras apes, fieri ducem ; fed CoIum.I.9 c.n g? ^ 
in circuit u favorum paulo major a, quam fint plebeij feminis, in- fvfj 
veniri foramina repleta quafi forde rttbri color is, ex qua proti- 
nus aUtus rex figuratur. x 9> 
When the old Bees haue ended their firft broods of fe- the Drones 
males, then laft of all after the fame manner in wider Cells ? reM - 
made for the nonce, v. they breed the Male-bees or Drones: v.e.6.n.io. U 
as was long fince obferued, Sunt fuel fine aculeo velut im- Nac. Hift. li. 
perfeft* apes , nouiffimety d fejfis &jam emeritis ineboata, fie- c. u. fifi 
rotinus foetus. And therefore fome flails doe not dronie be- 10 - Afin • 
fore Cancer, not many before Gemini, nor any before Tati- ^henthty come tyy 
; although you may fee the * Nymphes of good (falls a- 
broad in Aries , of others in Taurus , and of all in Gemini . ^ 
By chancefomefewCcphensmay be bred betime with the T/^-^yr 
femals:butthcy,ascommingout of feafon, are not fuffered S-4^ 
to liuc, 
* The youngBees are called Schadons: Sc&dd«»« fobolem dico.Hifi. I. ^ I 
f.c. is. The brood of females, when they haue the fhape of Bees, arc cal- | 
led Nymphs, and the young Drones Cephens : Catera turba, cum fornutm Tn- c- 
taper* tapit, Nympba vocantur, ut fuel Ctpbeuei.Pl. li. 1 1. c. 1 x. y VC ' 
Thcfe Cephens or Drones, when they are fledge,doe not T*o >f*s of 
©nely ferue for generation} (as hath beene (hewed) but alfo Dronet ‘ /^V 
doc helpe the females much, by reafon of their great heat, in 1 | 
hatching their broods. /» foettt adjuvant apes , mult tun ad Nat.hifl. li. 
calorem confer ente turba. And for thefe caufes they areal- c,IIt 
waies in breeding-time mingled with them throughout the 
22 . 
Hiue. Although afterward (when they haue beene much where they ly*. 
beaten, and can goe no where (ingle, but one or other will ' 
be on their jackes ) they gather all together in a clufter, for 
their fafetie in one fide of the Hiue: fo that it is true at fome 
time which thePhilofopher fpake indefinitely, Tenent alvei Hif. 1, j. c. 4 ®? 
locum penitiorem. And yet their hanging together will not 
1 ferue 
