Of the Bees Work t* 
pofuutbthere artts & gratia t quantum habent crates favorum] 
in quibm minute ac rotunda cellula connexions fui invicemfuh 
ciuntur ? Quit enim architettus cos docuit hexagonia ilia cellar 
rum indifcreta laterum aqualitate componere , ac tenues inter 
dtmorum fepta ceras fufpendere , JUpare metta, intext a fioribm 
horrea neClare quodarn difiendere f 
But heerein their Art isyet more exquifite, that whereas 
there are two courfes of cells in the two fides of euery combf 
the cel-bottoras in thefe two fides are neuer oppofite one to 
an ocher : but each hexagonial bottom of one fideanfwcreth 
to three third parts of the hexagonial bafes of three cotiguous 
cells on the other fide, meeting all in one angle right in the 
centre of the oppofite bottome : as in this forme % 
which is fo artificiall , as well for ftrength as beauty 5 
that no fchadon, though the thin bottome of his cell ihould 
faile, canbreake through into a cell of the other fide. Hee 
that fees this, feeshe not a wonder i 
Befidcs thefe ordinary combes, there is commonly one 
Drone-combe in a hiue, wherin the Cephens are bred, made 
for the nonce with wider cells. Sunt loculi ip ft fucorum amplfi 
ores , & fingunturfeorjim quorf per fefavi fucorum. Although 
in feme hiues part of the Drone-combes be madeout with 
Nymph-cells. The Drone-combe being no thicker than cn 
thers, and yettheDroncs longer than the fmall Bees ; they 
increafe the length of his cells by couering them, not with a 
flat couer, as they doe the reft, but with a deepe hollow one 
like an old wiues thrumbd cap : which afterward, when the 
Drones are bred, they takeaway. And whenthofe cells are 
void of Cephens , they fill them as they doe the other with 
hony : yea and after fwarming-time, ifthey want vpper cells 
for their hony , they will not tarry till their Cephens come 
forth themfelues, but liking better their roome than their 
company, they draw them out of their feminaries before they 
be ripe. v.c. 4. w. 31. 
But the Quecnes cells are built fingle, euery one by him- 
felfe: and that in diuers places of the Hiue, fomeaboue, and 
fome beneath : that, as other princes, (he may for her delight 
rcraoue at hir plcafure.But,for the moft part, in the out-fides 
O — of 
The Drms * 
etmte. 
rr. 
The Queenesceh 
are bmlt fingle 
in diners places. 
