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86 The Hiftory of Bets. 
_ney-Bees fecretly conceive; as. the Breeches 
upon the Bed got the Maid with Child: 
For which he urges. the fame Reafon with. 
the Authors. beforae mentioned,, vse. that: 
upon a curious Diffection. of the Drone, | 
there appears two large and white Tefticles,. 
lawful Witneffles of his mafculine Sex. * 
‘This is contradi@ed by the Philofopher,. 
who fays, Nature hath not: armed: the Fe- 
male for Fight and’ Force againit the Male; 
but the Bees are armed with Weapons, and. 
Power to chaftife the Drones which have no’ 
Weapons; and therefore the Bees cannot be 
the Females, and the Drones the Males.-- 
The Drones are not Strangers, or Fo: 
reigners, but Natives, and one of the tliree 
Eftates of the Kingdom, (as above): and 
bred in a Comb and Cells, more fpacious 
than the reft, prepared’ on Puipofe for them. | 
What then is their peculiar Province? Are they : 
the Queen’s Royal Conforts? =| As fome con-— 
jeCture that their principal, Employees is-to” 
furnifh the Queen with a numerous Progeny, 
or people the State with Subjects. 
By the Anatomy of the Drone'fome: Nas: 
turalifts have imagined, that they were the - 
Authors of Generation, Yet that Author > 
obferves, that on the utmoft Endeavours to! 
find out, by prying with all Actention imaz) 
, ginable;: 
% Duos amplos et candidos teftes. But. p. 60, ) 
+ Generat. Liby 33 c..10. 
+ Nat. Delin. Dial. 6, P. 89. 
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