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the fwarm ftay in the hive near a fortnight before they 
rofe again; and perhaps waited foraleader. Sometimes 
they rofe no more. 
The poor difabled, unhappy Princefs I have picked 
up in the grafs, but never without fome attendants, 
‘whom nothing but violence could feparate from her. 
, Their Language, 
AS to the time of fecond fwarms, we (generally) fix 
it to a day or two, and know when to expect them, by 
means of thofe diftinét, peculiar, and mufical notes, 
which are always heard two or three days before they 
rife [tad 
Bees certainly have a language among themfelves 
which they perfectly underftand, tho’ we do not, or at 
beft very imperfectly. Eight or nine days after the 
prime {watm is departed, one of the young Princefles, 
addreffing herfelf in a very humble and fubmiffive man- 
ner to the Queen-mother, petitions for leave to with- 
draw, and erect anew empire, with a felect body of 
the populace. 
The Regent for a time feems filent, and for a day or 
night there is no anfwer, nor any grant given; however 
the young Princefs (bent on a crown and kingdom) eotts 
tinues her fuit, and at laft fucceeds. . The fecond night 
you may hear the Queen, with a very audible voice (be- 
ing an eighth) giving her royal grant, and proclaiming 
it as by found of a trumpet thro’ the whole kingdom. 
Her voice is a grant, her filencea denial. And the day 
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