C.4* 
Tot male- Bee $ 
are fabietl to 
the femmes. 
Nat.hift. h, ii. 
cap. si. 
? 4 . 
I when the Bees 
team breeding, 
and heat away 
their Drones. 
Of the Breeding of Bees, 
feructheir turne : for the Bees, when they are difpofcd,will 
quickly make them part, and depart. Whenthereis novfc 
of them, there will be no roomc for chem. 
For the Drones are but valfals to the Honie-bees: which 
as they doe cxcell them in vertue and goodnetfe, fo doc they 
alfo in power and authorise, ruling and ouer-ruiing them at 
their pleafures. Smt c/uufi ferviti* verarum apum : epuamo- 
brem imperant ips. For albeit generally among all creatures 
the males, as more worthy, doe matter the females; yet in 
thefe, the females haue the preeminence: and, by theGram- 
marians leaue , the Feminine gender is more worthy 
then the Mafculine, H<ec apes then hie focus , hac Nympho, 
then hie Cephen. But let no nimble tongued Sophifters ga~ 
therafalfe conclufion from thefe true premi ires, that they, 
by the example of thefe, may arrogat tothemfelues the like 
fuperioritie : for Exparticulare non efifjllogi^are.znd he that 
made thefe to command their males, commanded them to 
be commanded. But if they would fofainehaueit fo, let 
them fitft imitate their lingular virtues, their continuall in- 
duftry in gathering, their diligent watchfulneife in keeping, 
their temperance , chaftitie, cleanlindTe , and difereet 
oeconomie, 8cc And then, if they meete with fuch dull 
Lubbers as thefe Drones are; they may with Idle blame bor- 
row a point of the Law, and enioy their longing. Yet when 
they haue it, let them vfe poore as gently as 
they may ;efpecially in publike,to hide his fhame. 
And this they may note by the way,that albeit the females 
*n this kinde haue the Soueraigntie, yet haue the males the 
lowder voice : as it is in ocher liuing things, Doues, Owfils, 
Thrulhes, &c. the males being knowne by their founding 
and fhrill notes from thefilenc females. Yea the wiues them- 
felues will not fuffer that Hen to liue, which prefumeth to 
crow as the Cock doth : nature teaching, that filence and foft 
noife becommeth that Sex. 
The Bees breeding or laying of feeds beginneth to ceafe, 
in fomeby Leo, in fome not before Virgo. After which time 
thefe * Amazonian Dames , hauing concerned for the next 
yeare, begin to yvax wearte of then mates, and to like their 
xoome 
