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BriclcUjt'ts Servants carry Morter, and Bricks with 
which they Walls: In like manner, thefe Tomg 
Sees ferve the Old ones^ but they do not carry Earth for- 
wards? but like Hw/ fcratch it backwards, and thofe 
reiwg Bees which were firft hatched and are elder then the 
reft, are imployed about the more mafter-Iike works ; for 
they mike Wax, dig ho!es,and Arch them? the Younger 
geting Earth; Theelder eat Waxand foften it in their 
ftomacks,and throw it up againe,by little andlittle Liqui- 
fied ? and of this LiqttidWax and Earth mixed together, 
they make Nijis ? not unlike Swallatps, and finifh their 
work iviththeir fore Feet complicated, and the Younger 
help them in bringing and ramming the Earth. 
mnfondity 3i\£o has its Kings ot Captaine as the 
Noble Bees-, by whorathey are governed, and this Bons~ 
Bylins or M^^er Bee is very old, and in body Gre^ter^ then 
the reft, like as the of the little Bees do 'sexcell the 
reft in magnitude , and Ihew : But this is deftitute of 
Wings and Hair, where the reft abound, with White, 
rellow, and Black. Hair, and are rough ? this is alltoge- 
therBald, like naked Birds, or as is painted on the back 
part of the Head j moreover he is Black and (hining, 
as Polifht Ebony', fometimes he corns to look upon the 
Works in which the Commonality is bufied, and to ex- 
plore whether they are made of ai juft meafure, as well 
Latitude, as Altitude, conveniently creepii^ into the 
Neft, and creeping oat j Alcending, and Defcending, 
he do’s feem, to mealure as Architeifs are wont to take an 
cxaft account of the work, which the Work-men make : 
the lejfe when they meet this Old Bee,-dkO not ex- 
hibit a little honour to him , as to the King ? they do 
run about him every way j they ftroke him once and 
again? in the mean time playing with their wings ex- 
panded, embraceing him with the leer, as 
with armcsj even as we gratufate him we meet, therefore 
