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and then with more weakness, and ac last ceasing , yet life C06*tinuing in either part of the divided body above an hour.

A Hornets intrals is contracted in the body, but extended, isal long as the body, they have a very large cavitie in the end ofthe tad, out of the middle of it, the sting is extended and drawnin also as they please, it is not hollow ( as some think ) that Icould discem;near to the tail I found in dissecting a Hornet (andnever but once) a white egg as great as a lentil!, and just such aone as I have seen in the combs, but never dissecting divers Bees,and Wasps could I finde any, nor yet in Hornets (excepting one)perhaps they are very small (isatall) and quickly grown, andsuddenly ejected.

Some suppose them to bee bred of a horse: Cardan of dead Cornel. Agrtp-Mules: Virgil of Asses: Pluhercb of a rotten horse; and so also pa I. de occult,some conceit Waspes are bred, but with us they are bred for the PhUos. strict*most part by generation : Os their copulation Arifatlt was hist.Anuoal»ignorant, they breed most commonly in hollow trees, in thatch,or * *in houses, in empty Bee-hives, rarely (but sometimes) in theground : For the manner of their breeding, fee the tenthChapter, and the former Chapter of Waspes, with whom forthe making of their combs, hatching and feeding their young*they do altogether agree, they arc not so prolifical as the Wasps,for their combs are never larger, and the cells being much grea-ter of necessity, they must breed fewer : Their stinging is verydangerous , but otherwise they ate not so mischievous as theWasps, sot though they sometimes kill a Bee, yet they rob northe Hives, they seed on flefb and fruits, and most of all of ashentrees, seeding of the bark, making the boughs whiter , and inAutumn gather plentifully of thejlvy, contrary to Aristtile, andothers,who assert, they gather of no Bowers, and herein to differboth from Bees and Waspes,

They sting dangerously , some creatures deadly, Dr. Pennyreports, that being at Ptierbtreugb in a publrck street of the p cnn;i . |apu( jCity, heesaw a Hornet pursue a Sparrow , whom at last shec Mug ftU md estruck with her sting, and therewith presently kilted her,and insect,I. i.filled her self with tire dead Sparrows blood,to the astonishment c.p.and wonder of many beholders.

It is reported by AriSvtlt, as a strange and almost incrediblething >of-certain Mice in Per fa , which being dissected, great

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