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be like a compleat Egg : This Cell now to the Senfe is 
moderatljr hot, as an Eggfat on by a Hen. 
lObfervedthe lefler Bees often to creep over, anda- 
bout this Theca, or Cell j as though they had a mind to 
keep it warme, and fo hatch it , and again I law them 
fcratch it, as though they wou’d make a crack or opening 
in it; but they made it fofter by Icratching it. 
The included in this Egg-like Cell, daily grew 
biger and biger , in the itiean time the lefler Bees did not 
ceafe their indeavours to hatch it, nor did they leave 
itofl^ untill it was broke afunder ; alfo i\\& iFormt with- 
in by the continuall agitation and motion of themfelves, 
did help forwards, this work of breaking it open ; and 
they growing ; the heat alfo iricreafed, which made the 
Wax yet more fofr. 
Th^lVorms hatched from this Egg or Theca lay quiet 
a whole Day, and then the great or Old Bee coming, de- 
vowered all the Wax, ol which the Theca was made, and 
in which thal^clVorms were included ; that this Wax be- 
ing again liquified in her body, might ferve, as the raate- 
rialI,ofanother 
Now when thefe iVonfis ( thus hatched out of the firft 
Theca) have layn a whole Day, quiet without moving 
at all, and like dead things, they weave each for himfelf 
an Egg, ofthe bignels of a Bay-berry, of a pertain Ipittle, 
deftillingfrora their mouth, and body. 
And being now made, they are indeed, moift and fofi, 
but in time they dry and become hard. 
Thefe Eggs are all glued together in a Bunch by thefe 
tFcrntJi and out of each Egg comes a Bee, as h Figured in 
the ; where the Eggs or Foliculi is opened at one 
end, that the Bee may be feen,which comes ofthe War me ^ 
Figured alfo in the Table,. 
This done the Great comes again, and makes a new 
Egg-, and puts therein 5 ^^'r«r/ofher own laying, and 
then a nother Bee do’s the like, and Befjand fo the reft 
follow. 
