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A56300	A theatre of politicall flying-insects wherein especially the nature, the vvorth, the vvork, 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 ...	Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.	1657 (1657)	Wing P4224; ESTC R6282	278,822	394

affections upon the things they fancie or as the Creeple layes his full weight upon his crutches and therefore when they are taken from them as Pharaohs chariot wheeles they are drawne upon all foure and stick in the mud yea they set on their affections as the Bee her sting with all their might and strength they convey into others their very bowels and hearts and therefore when they are gone they are heartlesse LVIII He that is pained with the Bees stinging must for cure speedily pluck out the sting and then apply juice of mallowes mixed with oyle or honey to the wound And the best remedy for a wounded conscience is first to pluck forth the sting of sin and then to wash in Christs blood and for the future keepe the heart above all keepings for as the eye is subject to infinite distempers so is the conscience LIX Bees solitary and alone especially in the night or winter season are quickly benummed with cold and die but many united together are agill and livel nay one chilled with cold put to the many recovers and hath a new returne of life So that I doe not improperly speake if I say they live as much by heate as by meate And therefore if there be many in a hive though there be but a tollerable supply of food they will doe well but if they have never so much meate and be not many and numerous they will miscarry and come to nothing The communion of Saints puts life into those that have it not and increaseth it in those in whom it is The health of the body doth not communicate it selfe to others it is otherwise in the life of the soule the life of it makes others to live more as iron sharpens iron so one holy man doth another when two lie together they keepe one another warme there is action and redaction this is a powerfull meanes to get and increase this life LX. Bees in the Spring when the weather is faire will worke chearefully but if the Sunne withdraw his beames the wind blow hollow the chilling showers descend then they are presently dull and livelesse scarce appeare if at all not farre from the hive it is an uncomfortable time the spirits of the Bees lower are heavy and sad we see it also in the body that the animall spirits in the braine which are the causes of motion and sense if they be obstructed there followes an Apoplexie and death So it is between Christ and the soule he is the Sunne of righteousnesse by whose beames we are all comforted and cheared but when they are withheld then our spirits decay and are discouraged Summer and Winter arise from the presence and absence of the Sunne the presence of the Sunne when it comes neare causeth the earth to be cloathed with a rich embroiderie of fruits and flowers And what makes the Summer and Winter in the soule but the absence or presence of Christ what makes some so vigorous beyond others but the presence of the Spirit As it is in nature so it is here the presence of Christ is the cause of all spirituall life and vigour but if he withdrawes his presence a little the soule failes LXI Bees when they assault a man strike fiercely at the face the beauty of man and principally in the face aime at the eye the beautie of the face Thus Satan though he be malicious against all mankind yet chiefly against those who by Christ are conquered out of his hand and having their garments washed in the blood of the Lambe are most beautifull For as the Panther rageing on the picture of a man bewrayes the hatred he beares unto him So the Devill to testifie how much he hates God himselfe spends the greatest of his fury on them that beare the image of God Thus doe Satans instruments incarnate Devils though they care not usually whom they wrong opprosse injure hate yet most of all the holy ones in earth are the object of their hatred they are the drunkards songs and a sport to the foolish What muttering what whispering what censuring what sinister construction is set upon every action of theirs what discovering what blazeing of infirmities what so high but they will reach it what so deepe but they will be sounding the bottome of it but a day will come when they will cry out with Cicero O me nunquam sapientem et aliquando id quod non eram falso existimatum Aye me that indeed was never wise but falsely thought to be what I was not And with those in the booke of Wisdome We fooles thought his life madnesse and his end without honour how is he accounted among the children of God and his portion among the Saints But the innocent heart shall then lift up a chearfull countenance as knowing that though here it were despised yet there it shall be justified and rewarded with a crowne of glorie LXII Waspes gather not as Bees yet some seeing them running on the tops of flowers and sucking in the cels are notably deluded supposing that they gather as well as the Bees Whereas they only suck to satisfie a wanton fancie but carry away nothing for a future supply of themselves or Common-wealth Hypocrites in many out-side duties may comply with beleevers and have their conversation in such actions that they are usually practicall in and so deceive many who are easily beguiled with similitudes All deceite is from similitude False wares having the same die that the true have deceive the buyers so falling starres are like other starres When we see men that professe religion false hearted many are apt to thinke that all are so wherefore the Apostle prayes that they might abound in all knowledge and judgement to discerne of things that differ this proximitie makes many deceived LXIII A lamp or candle by the brightnesse of it intiseth the Bee as many other flies to embrace it but by that meanes she is eyther drowned in the oyle or burned in the flame So the shewes of sinne and the pleasures of the world entice the mindes of men that their hearts are drowned in many feares and sorrowes and when they suppose that they have catcht all they themselves are caught Finally corruption and destruction the naturall ends of all things under heaven layeth hold upon them Qui lachrimarum causas tripudiantes peragunt et ridentes mortis negotium exequuntur Who goe dancing through the causes of their mourning and with laughter act the tragedie of their owne death LXIV The Titmouse is a great destroyer of Bees and more easily and certainly to obtaine his pray will in the winter watch at the doores of their hives their Castles of security and as soone as any come forth seizeth upon them and eateth them If none appeare he knocks with his bill and they feeling the motion come forth to know the cause and are presently devoured by him In the Spring time he resorts to the willow trees whither

low and almost close to the ground and rest often Aristotle saith The smaller Bees are more industrious than the greater his reason is their wings are worn and jagged their colour black and their backs bowing when saith hee the greater are smooth and beautiful like idle women when indeed they are originally of one magnitude but growing old their bodies are small thin and grey and their wings torn and tattered a certain symptome of an approaching death whereas the others beauty and lustiness is a Crysis of their youth not their idleness In the morning they are husht and still saith Aristotle untill one surely the Master of the watch with two or three loud buzzings calls them all up as it were to work But no such exciting sound could I ever hear nay I am confident there is none at all But some such like thing is practised by the Apes which some have transferred to the Bees Near the River Gambra in Africa and in many other places it is certain that the Apes gather together towards night some hundreds in a company and in the trees especially near the Rivers side dance their Lav●lita's and perform many strange Garbo●les but about the setting of the Sun one of the company called by the English Mr. Constable with two or three loud voyces ceaseth all their disports and after that they continue quiet and silent untill the next morning when by a like voyce they have liberty given them to play and recreate themselves When the Bees likewise return from work they are as Aristotle and others a while in a tumul●uous hurly burly and then by degrees make less noise and less untill one flying about gives notice as it were that they must all to sleep but it is nothing so for in full Hives in the latter part of the Spring and in the heat of Summer they make a great buzzing sound all night Bees live in a Martial discipline like Souldiers in a Garrison some alwaies watching and warding understand it of the Summer season when the chilling cold or nipping frost doth not force them into their Hives yet in the day time they continue it longer A hot Sun-shine or warmer aire even in Winter will quickly prompt them out of their Hives to take a short vagary near their stalls but if the cold bee intense they are quiessent if not dormant Bees are indefatigably that I say not covetously laborious alwayes working but never satisfied alwayes toyling but never coming to a period of their endeavours sti●l progressive never at their journies end being impossib●e to bee st●nted and the longer they work the more ●a●●est they are and impatient of delayes or loyterings while there is matter to work upon in the fields and the weather is seasonable Nay if the flowers decay and grow scanty The Stocks that have enough and to spare will to keep themselves doing rob from their neighbours For every Hive or Commonwealth endeavours to bee a Non-such and to engross all within its own circumference and by any means to make it self the increasing figure though toyl and restlesness continually attend it They are not offended with red coloured cloaths as some affirm nor yet in●briated with sweet oyntments no nor much offended with stinking favours I have known twenty Hives together stand against a dunghil divers years and thrive and prosper well yet would I not perswade any to set them in such a place if hee can provide another They express not more love to their keepers than strangers but they being used to them with greater confidence venture among them which some more fearful beholding fancie that the Bees respect and love them more than strangers whereas would they boldly come among them nay take them in their hands and carry themselves peaceably towards them except when they bee irritated and offended before they should finde all love and favour from them They feed not on any flesh nor need Pythagoras cavea●s for that purpose That some Bees gather not honey but water for the King and his guard is a meer fable for they mutually perform all imployments That there is such an order that the elder Bees should have a proper place in every Hive and the younger another peculiar to themselves is as most of the opinions of the Ancients a fabulous narration for they are all promiscuously mixed together Bees as many other Insects have neither visible bones nor Cartilages nor Nerves nor fat nor flesh nor a brittle shell as some land and Sea-creatures have nor that which may bee properly called a skin but a body of a certain middle nature between all these like to a dry Nerve but far softer Their body is divided into three principal parts and there is motion in every part severed one from another so that whatsoever is the reason of their life it is not fixed to any one member but in the whole and therefore Pliny was deceived who accords in the former but denies that Insects and therefore Bees have any symptome of life by motion in the head except it bee cut off with the breast Aristotle taught him this lesson which without trial hee took upon trust as many more And Sealiger also after him and is not content to entertain an errour but insolently insults over Galen for placing the chief residency of the soul in the brain It is true that the heads of Eeles and Snakes cut off live not long when as the body lives a great while nay a speedy way to kill an Eele is to peirce her through the middle of her ●●il Upon dissection I have found that onely the head being cut off the horns the chaps and the tongue also will stir and that a great while after the separation from the body Now the reason hereof may bee this Bees have the spirks diffused amost all over and therefore they move in their several peeces whereas men and beasts move very little time after their heads are off And therefore it is certain that the immediate cause of death is the resolution or extinguishment of the spirits and that the destruction or corruption of the Organs is but the mediate cause but some Organs are so peremptorily necessary that the extinguishment of the spirits doth speedily follow but yet so as there is an interim of a small time but for Worms and Bees the spirits are diffused almost all over and therefore they move in their several peeces Further to illustrate this Iohn Leo reports that men condemned to suffer death in Egypt have lived a quarter of an hour divided asunder set upon a heated Caldron sprinkled with unslaked lime and understood and given answers A living creature is sensible in every part so that it can exercise it in regard of heat and can also perform in every office that the organ or instrument for that office is remaining and hence are determined many controversies Some query whether a living creature can subsist without the head

lead an army of Ants. I say under the Commander of the Bees who useth not his sting that is exerciseth tyranny against none and orders nothing but that which is profitable for the Commonwealth when as they that lead an army of Pismires that is men who neither will nor know how to obey never perform any thing notable and praise-worthy so that aptly Him●● describing the Greeks hastening to the Oration of Agame●non the General of the whole Army and as hee calls him the Pastor of the people compares them to Bees swiftly flying with their labours to the Hive where their Commander is constantly resident The Egyptians on this ground placed on the top of the Kings Scepter the bird Cu●●phus which is a Stork with a River-horse underneath it implying that piety must suppress impiety clemency ferity And from hence the Tribunes of the Souldiers among the Romans carried their swords without edges intimating that the Generals of Armies ought not to kill the Souldiers but to correct them as the Commander of the Bees doth her subjects and perhaps on this ground the Egyptians by the Hieroglyphick of a Bee signified a King because it becomes a Commander of a people to mingle with the sting of justice the honey of clemency Memorable to this purpose was the practise of a certain King of Fr●●ce who having conquered the Ins●brians and entred their City by a symbole or type thus exprest his clemency wearing a coat full of Images or pictures of Bees and this Motto written upon it Rex mucrone caret the King wants or useth not his sting Their Ethicks and Economicks appear in many particulars They make frugality the basis of their subsistance and therefore as they laboriously gather store of honey they shut up the Cells still as they fill them and untill Winter come will not open them but live in the mean time of Bee-bread and such provision as they get abroad lest if they should prodigally waste while they may work they might after starve when they cannot work And in the pleasures of this life they are so moderate that perfect temperance seems to rest onely in them They are neat and cleanly creatures never suffering any filth or excrements long in the Hive emptying themselves alwayes abroad And if in the Winter while they are weak and not able to indure the colder aire filth bee contracted yet as soon as the Spring comes and they grow numerous and strong they diligently cleanse their Hives and carry out all Their cleanliness also thus appears That they will not suffer their dead to continue long in the Hive but carry them forth to burial Their chastity is admirable for whereas many other creatures couple together openly Waspes also and Humble bees and many sorts of wilde Bees scarce specifically differing from them yet whatsoever the Bees do in Venus service they act in secret and far remote from the eyes and knowledge of all men The Poets say That this is the reason of it Saturn the husband of Ops and father of Iupiter was wont to devoure his own children when they were brought forth the reason of it was because Saturn was named the god of time and all times passing and returning revolve again into themselves which gave occasion to this history when Iupiter was born his mother Ops fearing the cruelty of her husband to him concealed his birth and the Cretans for fear that Saturn should hear the childe cry ●ung their brazen pans and kettles which noise the Bees following came to the place where the Infant was and fed him there with honey Iupiter for so great a benefit bestowed on his Nurses for a reward this admirable gift that they should have young ones and continue their kinde without wasting themselves in Venery Others report that Iupiter being much in love with a faire Nymph called Melissa turned her into a Bee and for her sake bestowed this and other priviledges on the Bees And they are not less valiant than chaste though industry and diligence may do much with all other creatures yet little with these no not to palliate their fierceness let them bee exasperated near their Hives you may as easily binde a Lion with a single hair as by opposition and resistance compose and quiet them though the creature is but little yet virtus no● minima Is it not strange to behold such a little Insect to contend with the most mighty to see such vigour in a creature without bones or scales or hard defences and yet to bee offensive to nay prevalent over the most strong and powerfull creatures In valour therefore and magnanimity they surp●ss all creatures there is nothing so huge and mighty that they fear to set upon and when they have once begun they are invincible for nothing can make them yeeld but death so great hearts do they carry in so little bodies In private wrongs and injuries done to their persons for which cause men will soonest quarrel they are very patient but in defence of their Princess and Commonwealth they do most readily enter the field For them they hozzard death And think in War they nobly lose their breath Their War whatsoever some say to the contrary is onely forreign for though in the same Hive by a violent or accidental congression of two swarmes there bee sometimes a deadly contest and bickering yet still it is forreigne for they were never united under one Commander They never fight whatsoever some unexperienced Observers report for food nor fall out among themselves for meat but alike communicate of all they have though but little and when it is spent if it bee no gathering season starve altogether Their Geometry appears in the fabrick of their combes and their Astronomy in the knowledge of the weather for they fore-know and presage windes and storms and either keep themselves in their Hives or go not far perhaps fetch water and quickly return When they flye not far from the Hive but flye about it the weather being serene and fair it is an usual token of an approaching storm or tempest Aratus prompted him if not experience with this observation But above all one excellent skill they have which the most experienced females though they much desire it must yeeld themselves to want for they know certainly when they breed a male and when a female which appears by this that they lay their Cephen-seeds in a wide comb by themselves and the Nymph-seeds in the rest which are of a smaller size In their own Commonwealth they are most just not the least wrong or injury is offered among them but I cannot commend their justice towards strangers for all that they can catch is their own unless they may bee excused in this respect that the Bees of divers Hives are at deadly feud or rather as Kingdomes that are at difference one with another If Bees creatures without reason have such Prudence Providence Fortitude

when they go forth with a Leader you may put them any where for they have by a voluntary departure excluded themselves from their former society and to return thither again except it bee in a short space is capital They are reputed as enemies forsaking their own Commander and going away with another Leader but if their Princess in a short space return with them there is no question about their admission but if by a wile they are taken from their own company without a Leader they will return back again do what you can except you carry them so far that they know not the way Mr. Butler for such Hives as have not swarmed before Midsummer directs this course to double the stall by turning the skirt of the Hive upward putting the crown into the rim of an old Pale or the like well staked about that it may stand fast and setting an empty prepared Hive fast upon it then dawb them in the middle where they are joyned round onely leaving a passage even with that of the old stock and they will ascend into this and breed and work as well as in the old And in the end of August you may drive them all into the new and take the old for your labour This course seems plausible upon the first proposal but upon frequent trial I have found it to little purpose For the Bees having many young ones in the old Hive and much meat will not ascend but as they are necessitated for room and then work their combs to the old upwards and not downwards from the top of the Hive newly set over them so that by parting of the combs which will not bee without trouble you may take some little profit of the combs new wrought but must continue the old Hive to stand still except you mean to take all I never found any to have wrought above half way upwards so that having no foundation but the old combs it is impossible to set down the new Hive Bees will swarm any time of the day between eight in the morning and four in the afternoon but the chief time of swarming is between eleven and one Many stocks when they are disposed to swarm will rise in a cloudy season often before the Sun shine upon them I have had some by eight of the clock but chiefly in a hot gleam after that a showr or a dark cloud hath sent them home but in hot and dry weather it is not so The swarming month● are April May June and July rarely though sometimes in August To judge by the time of their swarming which will thrive is very uncertain because of the variable weather that often follows after for being checked a little and discouraged at the first for a week together they will scarce work kindly all the year after so that many though less and coming a month after not hindred at all by ill weather will bee better than those at the end of the year And another cause why forward swarmes thrive not after soul weather is because they are very ventrous abroad and by the stormy winds and unseasonable weather many are diminished and thereby their increase exceedingly retarded Signes of after swarms are more manifest and certain for about ten dayes after the first swarm is cast sometimes a little sooner sometimes a day or two later the next Princess will begin to tune in her treble voyce a mournful and begging note as if shee did pray her Queen mother to give her leave to bee gone unto which voyce if the Queen vouchsafe to reply ●uning her base to the young Princess treble as commonly shee doth though sometimes not intreated in a day or two then shee consents and the third day after expect a swarm The first day after the grant how fair soever the weather be they will not go and not ordinarily on the next day except it bee very fair but on the third day though it bee somewhat close and cloudy weather yet sometimes the weather proving very cold and windy I have known them stay five or six dayes after liberty granted The evening before they swarm the young Princess goes calling from one part of the Hive to another sometimes shee is before sometimes behinde sometimes above but still calls and resting a while between shee still renewes her calling In the morning before shee often descends to the bottome of the Hive with shriller and thicker longer and more continued notes than at first that none may plead ignorance but all know and acknowledge there is a new Princess and bee ready to attend her when shee takes possession of her Royalty dealing herein but that shee is her own officer and it is no disparagement for the Queen mother is her continual assistant as Princes on earth that come newly to succeed in their Dominions they make it known by sound of Trumpets and Proclamations in the most eminent parts of the Kingdome But take notice by the way that sometimes the Commonalty knowing best their numbers within and the state of the weather abroad not thinking it good to make a division will after leave obtained kill the young Princess and all the infants of the blood Royal but this is not ordinary If the Queen mother after a long intreaty be silent then there is no way but one shee must dye and all her Allies As the Queens voice is a grant so her silence is a s●●t denial The Proverb here hath no place Quitacet consentire vide●ur for without this concent there is no consent Sometimes a third nay a fourth will arise after a second if the prime swarm bee broken but all ordinarily within a fortnight I have known the last but rarely and in bad weather seventeen dayes after the fi●st When the swarm i● up and busie in their dance it hath been an old and common p●●ctice for want of other musick to play them a fit of Mirth on a Bason Warming-pan or Kettle to make them more speedily light and keep them from slying away but this though ordinary yet is needless in this respect for they will settle of themselves except they have chosen a place before-hand which is very near And then when their company is all out they will flye directly thi●her and your ringing and tinging will prevail nothing to perswade their stay This benefit there is of ringing that if you have neighbours near you that keep Bees you may give notice thereby to prevent wrangling if some of theirs should rise at the same time Mr. Levi●s opinion is That tinging is so far from preventing their flying away that it is often a cause to return them back into their Hive if not to drive them qu●te away for they are amazed as it were and confounded with the unwonted and clamorous noise Mr. Remnant dislikes ringing before the swarm bee quite out of their Hive but if they be on the wing ready to flye away then prescribes to make the greatest sound you can to

the Bees come to gather and there invade● them so that they are no where secure And thus and more active is the great Apollion the Devill to destroy men● bodies and soules sometimes ●itting temptations to mens tempers and constitutions for he cannot by force without our owne consent prevaile over us As a bait of promotion for Absolon because he is ambitious of pleasure for Sampson for he is volupruous every man will not be drawne to sin by every object an earth-worme esteemeth not pleasure and a man by temper voluptuous esteemeth not profit much no●●n ambitious man either and therefore the Devill who is wise as Isid●re saith hath his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ephes. 6. 11. and his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ● Rev. 2. 24. his artificiall wayes and deepe reaches and presenteth men with sutable objects for the love of which he thinkes they will be content to straine their consciences and breake Gods lawes and presenteth them at sit times and places for every tune is not a season all places are not opportunities there is the houre and power of darknesse And there is the time of pleasure and prosperitie when men are apt to be regardlesse of themselves and the high Priests hall to worke upon Peter the times of our weaknesse when we are wholly deprived of such a friend or governour as might by their watchfull observation of our courses restraine us from sinne or by their counsell uphold us by their rebukes and corrections recover us if we fall LXV If the Queene Bee miscarrie in the hive or flying out of it for recreation or evacuation for otherwise ordinarily she stirreth not forth come to some mischance All her subjects are presently in a sad mourning posture now there is nothing but confused discursions a wofull complaining a cessation from worke and quickly a miscarriage and death of all And if Christians sad and grieve the holy Spirit of God and cause him by their sinnes to goe away from them they cannot if they be sensible of their condition but be in a sad and mournfull estate for as the ayre is darke and chill the earth cold and wet and the face of the sublunary world uncomfortable when the Sunne which is the light and life of it hath withdrawne his light so must the face and state of the soule needs be very gloomy when the Spirit who is the comforter hath withdrawne his presence LXVI When a man crops a flower from the earth he can get nothing out of it but the sweetnesse of the smell or the delightfulnesse of the colour but when the diligent Bee comes she will make more of it she will extract that which is as it were the very spittle of the starres So when simple carnall minded men read the Poets and the Philosophers they gather nothing but delight and pleasure but when the diligent Bee comes a wise man a serious considerate man he drawes honey out of them LXVII There is left in the Church a power and authority which must be used when there is occasion to draw the sword against contumacious rebells which will not be reclaimed by other meanes As St. Ambrose saith The Preacher of the word must be like unto the Bee he must have both a sting and honey LXVIII Bees when they have filled themselves with water they cannot gather honey untill they have vomited it up And he that will thrive by the food of the word must empty and unburden the stomack of his soule of all things that will hinder the purity and power of it from taking possession of his heart he must bring a heart and a head like two emptie buckets to draw with geedinesse and joy the waters of life out of the wells of salvation even the honey combe the sweetest thing in the world is loathsome to a full stomack LXIX Many creatures in particular Bees by antipathie and instinct of nature shunne that which is contrary or obnoxious to their safetie and men by their intellectuall parts doe foresee and diseerne what is hurtfull and dangerous to them or their lives and decline and oppose things that have a tendency thereunto LXX As Sampson met the Lion as an enemie when he was alive but after he was slaine he went unto him as unto a table there was only terror while he lived but honey when he was dead So doubtless many men to whom the bodily presence of Christ and the mighty power and penetration of his heavenly preaching whereby he smote sinners unto the ground and spake with such authoritie as never man spake would have been unsufferably irkesome and full of terror as it was unto the Scribes and Pharisees can yet now that he is out of their sight and doth not in person but only by those who are his witnesses torment the inhabitants of the earth pretend much admiration and thankfull remembrance of that death of his which was so full of honey for all that come unto him LXXI Bees are diligent and painfull in their worke but frugall and temperate in their feeding Their sood consists of two kindes or rather one diversified wet and drie honey and Bee-bread so that you may draw a bill of their fare and a catalogue of their provision in setting downe bread and water and having these they have enough for they want nothing But many men lay out on a meale a yeares allowance and wast as much provision in a few houres as were sufficient to releive the famine of an armie Quickly doe many men devoure all that all other members the Caters and P●rveyors can bring in yea whatsoever art can devise luxurie and all the obsequious servant of the idoll Belly invent So that Iudas his purchase Aceldema is no way comparable that indeed a greedy grave employed to funerall uses able in eight and fortie houres as it is reported to consume the flesh of any carkasse therein buried but this in foure and twentie houres consumes many carkasses of fishes and fowles and generally twice a day all the flesh therein interred LXXII What is a Bee to a Beare or a Mouse to an Elephant and yet if a Bee fasten his sting in the nose of a Beare or a mouse creepe up and gn●w the trunke of an Elephant how easily doe so little creatures upon such an advantage torment the greatest certainly the proudest of men have some tender part into which a sting may enter the conscience is as sensible of Gods displeasure as obnoxious to his wrath as subject to his word in a Prince as in a beggar If the word like Davids stone find that open and get into it it is able to smite the greatest Goliah LXXIII The Drones are a lazie and carelesse generation delighting themselves in sportfull recreations and delicious dainties never providing nor forecasting for themselves how it shall be with them afterwards but thinke to fare tomorrow as they have done to day and so succeeding dayes as they have dayes but