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and Morall upon the nature of Bees.

the Sea, only to take their sport and passe-time therein. Loversthey are of pleasure, and having their fooles paradise here, musttherefore in the equity of a just and holy proportion, with therich man looke for their payment and torment hereafter.

XIX.

Bees will not continue well nor long without a Leader, norwill they endure diverse or more then one. Therefore in theunion of fwarmes, and in castlings, where sometimes many goeforth, yet will the Bees dethrone and destroy all but one, anduntill it be effected are in a discontented tumult and hurly bur-ly, yea often in acivill warre, and if it fall out the parts to besomewhat equall, thereby is occasioned ( sometimes ) a total!ruine and destruction.For looke how farre any thing goes fromunitie, so neare it comes to perishing, and any where the morepeace and unitie, the more safety and security. And if in thelittle compaffc of a hive, there is such need of a governour andunitie, much more in the great hive of the world. And this go-vernour must needs be God, for by men or Angells it cannotbe governed. The preservation of every thing is in the unitie ofit; and therefore you sec any thing that is divided, that divisi-on is the dissolution of it, as when the soule is divided from thebody, and when the body is divided from it seise; so likewise ina family or Common wealth, much more in the world. If therewere not one fountain:, there would be different streames, andif there were diverse principles of things, there would be aswarving and division in the nature and order of things, and sonot an unitie,and so by consequence it would be the destructionof the whole. Of nccessitie therefore there must be a gover-nour, and this governour must be one, and that one is God,who guides every creature under the Sunne, even the smallestof the creatures, and orders and directs them to their several!ends and businesses, to which he hath appointed them.

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Bees being little and light creatures, are much agitated anddisturbed, with tempestuous and stormy winds, which because

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