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Their Neatnefs and Decency. 
NOTHER Virtue that fhould not 
be paft over in Silence, being a Pat- 
tern to all, efpecially the Female Sex, Ladies, 
Gentlewomen, and others, particularly thofe 
whofe Province it is to difcharge the Offices 
of the Kitchen, €c. is their Cleannefs and 
Decency. They naturally abhor all that 
is filthy and impure; empty themfelves in 
‘Flight, cleanfing their Hives of all that is 
defiling and offenfive ; carry forth their Dead, 
and fuffer nothing to remain that is in their 
Power to remove, and in the leaft difagree- 
able.* : 
They alfo live upon the fineft Food, the 
pureft Honey; as they extract it from the 
Flowers, they depofite it in their Cells ap- 
pointed for that Purpofe, without any deba-~ 
fing Mixtures or Adulterations. 
And in their Drefs and: perfonal Appear . 
ance they are neat to a Proverb, I write 
not this to countenance Pride in any, but 
rather to recommend and encourage. decent, 
- modeft Apparel in all. 
When the Tenants of the Place,.or ra- 
ther the Natives and rightful Pofleflors, are 
difin- 
® Mundiffimum eft omnium hoc Animal. 
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