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How they Agree; how temp'ratly they Feed;How curiously they Build; how chastly Breed;How seriously their Bus'ness they intend;How stoutly they their Common-good defend;How timely their Provisions are provided;How orderly their Labors are divided;What Vertues patterns, and what grounds of Art;What Pleasures, and what Profits they impart;When these, with all those other things I mindWhich in this Book, concerning Bees, I finde:Me thinkes, there is not half that worth in Mee,Which I have apprehended in a Bee.And that the Pismere, and these Hony-flies,Instruct us better to Philosophize,Than all those tedious Volumes, which, as yet,Are least unto us by meere Humane-wit.For, whereas those but only Rules doe give;These by Examples teach how to live.

Charles Butler

How they Agree; how temp'ratly they Feed;How curiously they Build; how chastly Breed;How seriously their Bus'ness they intend;How stoutly they their Common-good defend;How timely their Provisions are provided;How orderly their Labors are divided;What Vertues patterns, and what grounds of Art;What Pleasures, and what Profits they impart;When these, with all those other things I mindWhich in this Book, concerning Bees, I finde:Me thinkes, there is not half that worth in Mee,Which I have apprehended in a Bee.And that the Pismere, and these Hony-flies,Instruct us better to Philosophize,Than all those tedious Volumes, which, as yet,Are least unto us by meere Humane-wit.For, whereas those but only Rules doe give;These by Examples teach how to live.

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