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fy if ‘ : 
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122 » Lhe Hiftory of) 
fions; and. feeds on that, wherein) :the.. is 
bred, till. fhe comes to. PerfeCtion.* . The 
golden Matter, of which the Queen. is 
made, is not turned into a Worm, but 
immediately receives the Shape of a Bee. + 
Doth the feed purely of a {permatick Mat- 
ter; and that Matter injected by a Female? 
And is Sperm, and Sperm alone, Matter 
both of Generation and Augmentation? 
And how will he prove, that tho’ both the 
other Sorts are produced in the Manner re- 
prefented, and the Young nourithed by 
proper Food duly prepared, this principal 
Bee is generated, nourifhed, and perfected, 
without any Miniftrations, or Contributions 
of the Commons, 
Tho’ I allow a prolifick Virtus in his 
fpermy Matter, yet furely fome Nutriment 
or other is of abfolute Neceflity to it’s Im- 
provement and Perfection. 
Certain it is, whatever that worthy Di- 
vine has publifhed to the contrary, that thofe 
of the Royal Race are generated in the fame 
Manner with the Comtons and:the Drones, 
tho’ in Cells appropriated to themfelves, 
And that in thofe Cells they are nourithed by 
a very {elect and peculiar Matter gathered by 
the Commons. What the faid Matter is, or 
whence it is gathered, is not eafy to deter-. 
mine. Yet that it is really peculiar, and 
: very 

20) "Pure. Theat, ch. 8, p. 29. + Butler*s Fem, 
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