3 The Hiftory of Bers. 
wii Once engaged, they feat no Ené- 
mies ; they regard no Perfon, Nor will 
they ever yield, till difabled or deftroyed ; 
they will conquer or dié. ~ 
It is perfectly furprizing to fee fo much 
Refolution and Courage in fuch little, con- 
temptible Infects. They have {mall Bodies, but 
sreat Spirits, and great Wrath. “ Exafperate 


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"take a Bear by the Tooth, or offer to. bind J 
«© ‘Time of Labour, and you may as 
«<a Lion with a fingle Thread ‘or Hair, z 
“ by Refiftance and Oppolition to compofe 
«« and quiet them.” 
Should any Man queftion an Truth of 
this, he may quickly refolve the Doubt, and 
too late repent his foolifh Rafhnefs and Pre- 
fumption, It would be more prudent and fafe 
to follow Mr. Rufden’ s Advice, z. e.to believe - 
the Report, than try the Experiment. 
_ And here, with my Reader’sLeave, I would 
relate an Event, of which I was a Witnefs, 
not foreign to the prefent Defign. 
About Twenty Years ago a Friend of: 
mine, at 2 Neighbouring Village in this 
Parith, in the Month of Fuze, favw a Swarm 
of Bees entering into an high Afh-Tree, 
which: was hollow, growing in the common 
Field -near his Houle ; no Perfon laying any 
Claim, or pretending, any Right to them, he 
‘was Gatos (if poffible) to diflodge them, 
and 
