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_ Their Method of Generation. 105 
In a very warm and early Spring I have 
found them at their foreign Labours about 
the middle of anuary; at other Times 
in February; but in a very cold and late 
Spring not before the End of March, or 
after, as in the late fevere Froft a few Years 
ago. 
The fulleft and richeft Stocks generally 
begin firft. And tho’ they begin in Fanu- 
ary, they continue their Brood till the Ho- 
ney-gathering is paft, tho’ it were to the 
End of Augu/t or September. 
The Phyfician then publifhed an Untrath,* 
when he told the World, that the fooner 
they begin the fooner they make an End; ° 
for it is not the Length of Time, or the 
Number of Months, but the Plenty, Penury, 
and Want of Materials to employ them, 
and work upon, that determines their La- 
bours. To my Knowledge Bees have been | 
bred as late in the Year as OJfober. 
Hating Inactivity and Idlenefs, as Death 
jtfelf, thefe induftrious Infects begin early, and 
continue to the laft. Labour is their dear 
and delightful Employment, 
In Morn thefe bufy Lab’rers cut the Sky, 
Thro’ all the Gardens and the Meadows fly ; 
And free from Envy, by their Labours ftrive, 
Which fhall do moft t enrich the common Hive. 
Such 
* Warder’s Amazons, ch, 3. p. 10. 
