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til the Leaves of the Oak and other Honey - 
bearing Leaves and Plants yield plenty of 
thatNeftar orCeleftial Dew that they lay 
up in ftore for their Winter and Vernal Pro- 
vifion, and whereof their Mailers many 
times deprive them. 
In vain therefore can it be expected, 
that this noble (yet indocile) Infeft, Ihould 
be either perfwaded to debit from breeds 
ing looner than the lealbn of the year en- 
forceth them ; or to gather Honey before 
it is to be had, as fome would inlinuate into 
us to believe. 
It is not to be fear’d (in cafe it were in 
our power to prevent them) that Bees will 
ever overftock themfelves; for were the 
Hive never fo full of Bees, they would the 
looner fill their Cells with Honey, and the 
better live over the Winter. And after 
they have kill’d their Drones, which they 
ufually do before the gathering of their 
Honey, there is not anidle Bee nor a Beggar 
among!! them. 
Belides, there is a neceffity of their con¬ 
tinual breeding all the Summer, by reafon 
of their continual waiter For after the 
breeding time they every day wafte their 
Number: that upon an ealie computation, 
a thoufand Bees fcarce fupply the lofi'es 
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