



The Sovereign, or Queen-Bee decfribed. 57 
his following defcription takes no further notice of the 
fecond rank, { 
From forty years diligent btieheatibn and experience, 
I have not learned any fuch difference, as thefe two gen- 
tlemen have infinuated ; nor in reality is there any fuch 
diftincétion among them. Both the phyfician and apo- 
thecary have herein impofed upon their readers. 
Tho’ the Doétor was no doubt the beft, and the moft 
judicious writer, of his time, upon this fubject; yet from 
many other inftances, befides what I have mentioned, we 
find him fallible, and much miftaken; afferting many 
Things as matters of fact, which are only mere conjec- 
tures. © | 2 er} 
Some things moreover he writes, not fuited to'vulgar 
minds; as in others he feems too prolix and volumi- 
nous. Yettake his monarchy together, and in all it’s 
parts, it muft be owned an excellent performance, efpes 
cially in that age of the world. 
The Sovereign, or Queen- Bee defcribed, 
THIS ftately, beautiful, moft noble and glorious in- 
fet, in fo many things expreffing royal majefty, ‘has 
been for a great number of years my grand favourite. A 
Princefs I greatly admire ; very highly value and efteem, 
and as juftly prefer before the many thoufands of her 
fubjects. : 
The reafons determining me to give her (in this hife 
tory) the title of Queen, rather than King, in oppofition 
not 
1 Rufden’s Difcov, pag. 2, 3. 
