*8 Of Bees. 
rent Species amongft them that command¬ 
ed the reft, as hath been long difcourfed of 
to be amongft the Bees; For the moft Cu¬ 
rious Eye cannot difcern thofe majeftick 
Cells, nor thofe ftately Bees in a Virgin- 
ftock, taken in the firft Winter after their 
Hiving ; which if they had fo great under- 
ftanding and reafbn, as is required in lo 
grand an Affair as Government, efpecially 
Monarchy, the beft of all Governments, 
and proper only to the moft excellent of 
all Living Creatures, Man; furely they 
would take care to erect a Court for fuch 
their Prince, for his prefer vat ion; whole 
care they depend on, to preferve them. 
This concerning their Government, I 
only add to abate that opinion that is fo 
rivetted in moft Bee*Mafters, that they do 
believe that a Swarm of Bees cannot prof- 
per without a Leader; and that, The rea¬ 
fon of their not Swarming, fometimes is 
becaufe they want a King, Queen, or fuch 
like, to lead them forth. To the end that 
my defign of multiplying Swarms and 
Colonies may be the better thought of, 
which otherwife muft be blafted in the ve¬ 
ry bud, it being irrational to think or 
imagine to encreafe them this new propofed 
way, in cafe the other received opinion be 
true. CHAP. 
