92 THE HISTORY OF BEES. 
to every cell, The attentive reader will, no doubt, put 
a remark hereon ; atown bull, and yet nothing of engen- | 
dering or copulating w.th any female whatever, Queen 
or common Bee; and I leave him to put what cenfure 
he thinks proper upon the Doctor, who treats his Queen 
as bad or worfe, publickly proclaiming her a common 
roftitute ; a bafe, notorious, impudent {trumpet ; the moft 
hateful and abominable whore, with gallants by hundreds. 
‘Thus has he unawares highly injured her honour, at- 
tacked her in the moft tender and affecting part ; robbed 
her of the moft precious poffeffion next to her life ; ruin- 
ed her chara@ter ; and ftripped her of one of the bright- 
eft jewels in all her crown; indifcretly expofed his Queen 
to publick contempt and fcorn, and fhewn her no mer- 
cy. For if this be admitted as a truth, what is become 
of her fo much boafted, admired chaftity, wherein fhe 
appears fuch an eminent pattern to the human {fpecies. 
J think therefore, upon the whole, it cannot be at all un- 
reafonable to conclude, that fuch numbers of Drones 
mutt be produced for fome other purpofe, and have fome 
other office or employment affigned them ; being no way 
neceflary for the work of generation. 
But to enter into the merits of the caufe, and bring 
the debate to an iffue, I add as follows : it is matter of 
fact, and known to all who have any acquaintance with 
thefe infects, that they not only begin to breed early in. 
the {pring, (fometimes in the middle of ‘fanuary, or elfe 
in February, &c.) but alfo proceed therein feveral entire 
months; and confiderable numbers, or many broods are 
continually compleated, before one of thefe fuppofed 
males are to be feen among them. Thefe 
