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they get (besides honey ) and also considers, how much they eatabroad when they gathct, cannot but acknowledge that they aregreat eaters. And Aldnvandut upon experience affirms, thatmany insects are hot,and Bees in particular,and his reason is,be-cause they grieve and violently pain those that they strng. In- L.Verul.Silva.sects have been noted by the Ancients to feed little, but this Sil.ccm.?.hath not been diligently observed, for Graflhoppers eat up the 6 97rgreen of whole Countries, and silk-worfns devour leafs swift-ly, and Bees eat in great quantity according to their bodies;which is evident to any that (hall observe, what store they carrydaily into their Hives, and what little increase there is some-times, after three months laborious constant working.

It is true, that creatures that steep and rest much, eate littlein those times, as Bats, Dormice, and Bees, But faith Cardtn Card.de Sub-it is necessary, that Creatures that steep much, feed much, and uLlib.?.by the vertue of the meat formerly eaten in abundance, subsistwhen they sleep.

All creatures almost, more er less sleep , yea insects steepfimn) tameti tieviutunlur, but they steep but a little faith A- Arist ae Son-r/stsf/e, surely if at all a great deal, the brain is chiefly the cause no « Vigil. 'of steep, and such creatures a; have not a brain, steep not. Beessteep faith Arifotle, and hee proves it because they are quiet,as bee faith, all night and make no noise, and they ceale notfrom motion, because they are weak sighted and not able So ^ om "

move, bring a light they stir not,faith hee, but this is false, for inthey will stye after and into a Candle, or light, like a moth, and eodem.pWn.burn themselves, but suppose they did not stitre with a light, nat.hist.l.i iyet were the argument of no force, they stir not at a light, and e 3 7 •therefore steep, for wee know that many fowls ate taken in the enight with a light, at which they stir not, although they beea- * * 0wake, because they sec nothing beyond or beside thelight.

That they sleep from the beginning of winter to .the rising ofof ArGwm sixty daies together, and eat nothing at all as Pliny•affirms, is not true with us, perhaps in Northern Countries,where the cold is more intense, they feed little, and steep for alonger space, which is a principal! reason of their so great plentyof Hony. The more temperate winters with us, occasion if therebe not the larger ptovision, a great decay of Bees. For every

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