6 04«=©69°T HE HISTORY OF BEES, 
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Egg GX Aad egy Aae Gg\ And Gg AAO GEN ARS GX A? 
Ci HA Pe oth 
Of Bees Wars and Rakion 

expence ae ruin of their inenboee 
Not that they are influenced by, or act from a prin- 
ciple of cruelty or injuftice ; but their fighting and plun- 
-dering of one another ought rather to be imputed, either 
to their perfe&t abhorrence of floth and idlenefs, or to 
their infatiable thirft for honey ; for when no honey is 
to be had among the flowers abroad, but only among 
their neighbours, they will venture their lives to get 
it there, and not a hive within their reach is left unaf- 
faulted. Now the trumpet founds to arms, and thefe 
true fons of Mars prepare themfelves for war. And 
many a terrible battle have I beheld between the one and 
the other, and great multitudes quickly flain. 
A few Bees perhaps at firft find means to pafs by the 
guard, and encouraged by repeated fuccefs, they return 
~ with frefh forces, conftantly encreafing the number, till 
the invafion is too powerful to be oppofed, and the hive 
is entirely ruined. 
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