Of Bees. 
C H A P. It 
Of the Breeding of Beer; 
T Hat Bees are Infers, and that the 
raoft, if not all, of bife&s arefbme- 
tiiiiesengendred by Putrefaction, is not by 
any denied Beef many times being en* 
gendredin the corrupted Carcafes ofBeafts, 
according to the Poet; 
ghtatuor eximios prajlanti eorpore Tan* 
ros , &c. 
Four of his largejl Bullocky forth he took* 
As many comely Heyfers never brook?-’ 
And. when the ninth day bright Aurora 
fjew'd , 
He worfoips Orpheus, and the wood re¬ 
view'd : 
A Wonder, not to be believ’d , he fees 
From the dtjjolved Entrails, Swarms of 
Bees. 
Which from the broken ribs re founding fly , 
And in a thickJCloud fally to the Sky • 
On a tall top branch they Clujler now. 
As Grapes hang dangling on the gentle 
bough, Geor. 4-3 
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