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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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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Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.
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London :: Printed by R. I. for Thomas Parkhurst ...,
1657.
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Bees -- Early works to 1800.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56300.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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LXII.
If the Waspes rob, and the Drones profusely spend too much, to the prejudice of the Common-wealth, the Bees then bestirre themselves, and chase away some and chasten others. And it is no lesse the Magistrates duty to procure the publique good, Et videre ne quid respublica detrimenti capiat. To provide that the Common-wealth suffer no detriment or harme. If there∣fore any hinder the publique good, or shall worke any disad∣vantage or dammage unto the State, the wrath of the Magi∣strate ought to turne against such a man. And as God when his Lawes are broken, or himselfe any way dishonoured, waxeth angry with men: so these Gods on earth, when men by con∣temning their authoritie, and denying them due subjection, goe about to disturbe and set combussion in the State, have just cause to be angry, and to seeke revenge upon them.