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 ...

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Title: 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 ...
Author: Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.
Publication: London :: Printed by R. I. for Thomas Parkhurst ...,; 1657.
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Subject terms: Bees -- Early works to 1800.
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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 grea∣test? 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.