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A theatre of politicall flying-insects : wherein especially the nature, the worth, the work, the wonder, and the manner of right-ordering of the bee, is discovered and described : together with discourses, historical, and observations physical concerning them : and in a second part are annexed meditations, and observations theological and moral, in three centuries upon that subject / by Samuel Purchas
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A Theatre of Political Flying Infests*

one stir, ye: then shall you take notice of their flying abroadevery day about noon. But when the Hives are full, and yetswarm not so early as their fellows, they will then (but not oftenuntill Mid-May) stye forth, and play awhile, and then returninto the Hive to fill their bellies.

But to put all out of doubt, that the Drones arc miles, I addethat the D.one in dissection hath two large testicles, greater,proporcionably to his body than any other creature.

They are joyned together upward , but hang down towardsthe tail in two visible pares,of a whitish watry colour towardsthe ends, their ends or points are of the bigness of a small pinshead, milk-white; the testicles are half as long as the nether partof the Drones body.

In the belly isa white entral longer when it is extended thenthe whole body. They have lungs ( if my eyes deceive meenot) of a reddish colour, divided as it were in the middle. Theoutward part of the back and breast is of a. grisly substance,under which is a kinde of flesh, all of a reddish colour, where isthe heart, and other necessary parts, although (without a mag-nifying glass, by an expert Anatomist) not exactly to bee di-stinguished.

The eye hath a watry substance,. and there is a visible brainin the head,of a reddish colour.

In the tail (which I had almost forgot, though oscen madetrial of it) upon a little pressing, a saffron-coloured Ox-head,with stretched out horns, and a crooked snout will discover itself,which one (cited by Aldrovandtu ) pressing a Drone to ex- ^ ernar ^ * nperiment whether it had a sting, reports as a strange, and neverbefore heard of relation^ ( I often saw it before I read him, or ’any other.) And hee concludes that nature in this portent dothshew the seminal reason of them, and how being lost they maybee recovered; which hsw to effect, Virgil and others have at Mt Remnant >large discoursed. This is supposed to bee the instrument 0 f “* e ® ur e ®generation. ^

The testicles- are.in the upper part of the belly, and so like- Ub-4-c»p 4wise the males among b.rds have the testicles drawn- in-wards. L.Verul. Silva

The difference between male and female, in some creatures Sil.ccmy.is,not to bee discerned, otherwise thaain the parts of generation, 8,1 ‘

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