Of Beef. 
To which end alfothe fame Poet dire&s 
the very Method of ordering a Steer , fome 
a Heyfer , others an Ox, limiting it to that 
Species, others producing other Infefts, that 
out of their Carcafes multitudes of Bees 
may be engendred. And it is not improba¬ 
ble that the Carcafes of rhefe Beafts lhould 
produce Bees , when we every Summer 
perceive, that other Beafts that lie in the 
open Air do produce Infefts of other Spe¬ 
cies. But this of Bees may not lb well fuc- 
ceed in thefe Northern, as in the more 
Southern Parts of Europe , where our Poet 
lived. 
It was the Opinion alfoofthe fame Poet 
and of other., that Bees gathered their 
Seed out of certain Leaves and Flowers, 
and carried them to their Hives , out of 
which their young were produc'd. 
Tis flrange that Bees fuch cufiom fhould 
maintain, 
Venus to [corn, inwanton lujl difdain 
To tvajie their (Irenph 3 and without throws 
they breed : 
But cull from Leave: and various Flowers 
their Seed. 
