
Their Sorts, Sex, &c. a7 
Gentlemen were miflaken ; her Sting in 
Reality being longer than others. 
Others are of Opinion fhe hath no Sting 
at all,* becaufe they never faw it. And 
for the fame Reafon there are Men in the 
World, who fay there is neither God nor 
Devil, Angels or Spirits, 
It is very true that this Sword is wore 
by the Sovereign, rather for State, than 
Service, having feldom obferved the Royal 
Infect to put it forth, tho’ highly provoked 
thereto. In Oéfober laft I made the Experi- 
ment upon feveral, and found every one of 
them determined rather to loofe her deareft 
Life, than ufe her Sword in her own De- 
fence ; fo contrary to the Principle of Self- 
Prefervation implanted in Nature. 
Her Tongue is fhorter than that of the Ho- 
ney Bees; Nature having defigned them only 
for foreign Labour, but not the Queen, who 
is to live, as do other fovereign Princes, that 
are maintained and protected by their Sub- 
jects. 
5 Mr. Rufden alfo affirms, that feveral of thefe 
Princes have at firft a Spot upon their Fore- 
| heads, 
* Apum Regina ftimulo caret. The Bees yield Obedi- 
sence to her unarmed Sovereignty. Memorable to this Pur- 
pofe was the Praétice of a certain King of France, who 
entering a conquered City, exprefled his Clemency by - 
this Symbol, viz. a Cart full of Images and Piétures of 
Bees, with this Motto upon it, Rex Mlucrone caret, — 
‘The King does not wear, neither does he ufe his Sting, 
Purchas. 
