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116 The Hiflory of Bras. 
that Pofture, ereCting it’s Head, itdiredts it- 
felf towards the Mouth of the Cell. . 
When it is arrived at a certain Bignefs 
or Stature (a fufficient Quantity of fuitable 
Food, to bring the. Embryo, to Perfection 
being put into the,Cell) the Bees clofely feal 
it up, taking no further Care about their 
Young: Having faithfully fo far difcharged 
their Office, they have nothing more to do, 
but by a natural Heat to cherith the Brood, 
and. haften the Birth, 
And now follows the ftrange and admi- 
ble Metamorphofis, It is manifeft, that 
moft Infects pafs through a very. gteat Va- 
riety of ‘Transformations, fucceffively aflum- 
ing the Form of one living Creature, and 
then another, between which there is not 
the leaft Affinity ot Refemblance. Yet the 
wonderful Change is progrefflive and gradual ; 
firft in one Part, and then in another. Opening 
one of thefe Matrixes, wherein is enclofed 
the Embryo, whofe improving Change ap- 
proaches; what do you behold but an ugly 
Worm, or confufed Mafs of corrupt Mat- 
ter! Yet in that putrid Mafs are implanted 
and fown the Seeds of fo noble an Infe&. 
Thus it lies hid from the Eyes of all the Liv- 
ing, {eems to be intombed, and buried in it’s 
_ Grave, without any the leaft Sign of Life; yet 
have Patience, and you fhall fee the noble 
Creature rifing, as it were, from the Dead, 
perfect in all it’s Parts, and in the moft 
; beautiful 
