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' Of Bees. 
us in doubt what to conclude from fuch 
preternatural Accidents. 
And as they are fo univerfally dilperfed, 
lo are their melliflvous Colonies of very 
great Antiquity 3 Sampfon feeding on the 
Honey made by a Swarm ofBees that hiv’d 
themfelves in the Carcale of a Lyon, and 
Jonathan tailed of the Honey that dropped 
from a full Comb in a Wood. Prophane 
Authors alfo have not palled thele Inle&s 
over in filence, the molt ancient Poets and 
Naturalilts having written largly of them 3 
as He (tod, rhiltjius, Menecrates and many 
others. Arijlomachus for fifty eight years 
did little elle but keep Bees, and Philijhts 
employ’d his whole Life-time about them, 
as Pliny relates, lib. 11 . cap. 9. Honey being 
much more in ellecm in thole Ages than in 
thefe, Sugar having lately gained a Repute 
above it. For if you obferve molt of the an¬ 
cient Inltru&ions for Conferving, Preferv- 
ing, or other Confettionating, Honey was 
then preferibed where Sugar is now: Sothat x 
thence it may be prefum’d that. Bees were 
more nourilh’d and cherilh’d than in thefe 
later times. Such an opinion had the An¬ 
cients of Honey , that in cafe it were ga¬ 
thered by the Bees under a certain Con- 
Itellation, that it would be lb heavenly a 
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