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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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1^4 A Theatre of Pelitical Flying lnsetft.

TausanUtin The TraflMiiU* Oracle was thus seurd t ut : When as aBcotios. year or two together, there w-s no rain, some were sent fromevery City to Delpbtt to implore help. To whom desiring aremedy for the drought, ApaUe commanded them to go to' Luludea, and seek a remedy for their evill os Traphoniuf. Go-ing therefore to Labadea, but not able to sinde the Oracle,Saan one of the Ambassadors an old man, when he had espieda swarm of Bees, resolved to follow them whithersoever theywenr. WUrn therefore hee saw them flying to a Cave, hee en-tred in , and understood that place was the Oracle which theysought for.

Comatet seeding the flock of his rich Master in Sicily , wassometimes accustomed co osser somewhat of his fleck to theMuses ; which when his Master knew, hee reproved him verysharply, whom Cematu intreats not to bee angry, for by theMuses help there should be a large remuneration. Go to, faithhis Master, ltt us make trial whether the Muses willfeedthee,and inclosed him in a hollow tree, and there left him to perishwith famine. And at the years end returning, found his servantalive, and well, and many Hony-combs about him, for the Beesby a hole had entred into the tree, aed maintained him.

. . The 6 c mister being absent, one came and stole the combesÆtap. **'out of the Hive, who afterwards returning found his Bees plun-dered , and while he stood still a while to examine and cor siderconcerning the author of in The Bees came home from work andfinding their house robbed,and him standing by>did sal upon him,and cruelly sting him. To whom hee thus spake ,Ob yam wicks dtreasures, you let go urtburt him that refoedyo* , and punish metst a: am careful of four safety*

Melijjaonect the Oread Nymphs finding Hony-cembes idFtlopenafus, invited her fellows to taste theiecf, with the sweet-ness whereof they were so ravished that the Grecians called theBees by the name of that Nymph.

Jacobus SamoKariut that excellent Poet, hath his figure curto the life in Merge Bit* ( near Naples where be lived) from.whose mouth the Bees do seem as it were co fuck hony.

Livj doth re late .that there was found two Coffins of lead foa tomb, whelms one contained the body of King Num *; be-ing feme four mndredy ears after hisdeseb; and the other hia

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