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Pastorius's Section Header: Mellitotrophium Apicula Germanopolitan[ae]. F.D.P.
Pastorius's Description: 1. Franciscus Daniel Pastorius Alvear istud Condidit Ergò suae Posterirtatis erit Posteritatis erits PastorI, siqua Superstes, Sin orbus posthàc, Orbis habeto favos. Est prius in Votis, ast bac suprema Voluntas, Vota, Voluntatem suldo JEHOVA Tibi. Velle Tunno, non Velle meum fiat Sanctissisme JESU! Fac tamen, ut quod vis, id simul Ipse veliu. Fac, prècor, ut no strum Velle sit harmonicum. * F. D. P. / - who may according to his good pleasure either suppress it, or send it to the Press. // 2. Apes (: it ajunt :) debemus imitari, que vaganeur, & flores ad mel faciendum idoness carpunt; Deinde quidquid attulére disponunt, ac per Favos digerunt, Et ut Virgilius noster ait - Liquentia Mella Stipant, et dulci distendunt Nectare Cellas &c. Seneca Epist. 84. / [F. D. P.] Floriferis ut Apes in saltibus omnia libant, Omnia nos itidem / Depascimur aurea Dicta Aurea, / Perpetuâ semper dignissima Vitâ. Lucretius. / [Philologus, i.e. Eruditus per omnes Circumvolat Artes, Rinstar Apis ubiq' Mella collogit, ut Voce formet Linguam, & rerum Intelligentia Mentem, inquit ??enfelder in apparatu Eruditionis p.3.] / Bees are industrious and go abroad to gather honey from each plant & flower. But drones lie at home and eat up what the Bees have taken pains for, saith Culpepper in his Engl. Phys. pag. 108. / Ergo Fucos à Prasepibus arce. // 3. The sedulous Bee (: saith another :) doth not thyme all her thighs from one flowers single vertues, She takes the best from many and together She makes them serve: not without working that to honey [which the putrid Spider would convert in poyson. / Hujus ad Exemplum ~ componamus Amici; / Mens assueta libris per tanta Volumina solers Ambuler, atque, suos aliquid comportet in usus; Instae Apis potius volitans per Prata, per hortos, Quaie mala cloam[?] fingens ceu turpis Araneus erse / Les Abelles tirent le Micl - le Cira des Fleuts, mais ?? araigneed font venin de tout. / O Beßer bringt man Honig-senn Immen-gleich von fernen sein, als daß man nach art der Spinnen selbst das giftige solt ersinnen. // 4. My Friends we see the toilsome laborius Bee, In Gardens, Orchards, Fields / To seek and suck what yields a sweet and wholsom Sap; / Here She loves to tarry, and that Juyce to carry Into her Hive. / This Let us strive to Imitate the same, Accounting it a Shame / If we should fail to gather some good things for our Reader. / Again we see the cautious Bee In Gardens, Orchards, Field, / To shun that herb which yields a bitter tainted Sap; / Here She loaths to tarry, This She will not carry into her Hive. / Thus Let us strive to Imitate the same, Accounting it a shame, / If we should go & gather what's hurtful for our Reader. // [vide infrà p. 86. num. 70.] All Blossoms and all Books which poisoned filth infects, / We leave to Spiders, Toads, and venomous Insects. // Apes oderunt non solum foedes odores, sed etiam unguentorum delicias; En quo fit, it homines his delibutos percutiant. Aristot. // and the Germantown Bee saith! / Whoever stinks or smells of any leacherous thing, Shall not be free from me, but surely feel my Sting; / I am a Commoner, and not the sovereign King, Qui Spicula nescit. See above page 36. / Dirty Boys, false-coloured Wives Must not approach to our hives. / Why so? Quoniam Apes in hoc Luco abhorrent à Muco & fuco. / [Hos/Has a praesepibus arcent. /// 5. [: . :] This Bracket (: Crotchet, or whatever you will call it, :) contains such things as come from mine on Brain & Fancy. /// Spending my Time among the English Nation, I wrote this for my private Recreation ; And If by Inadvertency, heedlessness, Oversight & Neglect one and the same Phrase or Saying be inserted twice, I therefore kindly entreat ye Reader to forgive me, as I forgive him. Whoever hath time to Copys this Book may not only let alone what he displeaseth, but also Class there after an exacter Method and more lovely Order. &c. See pag. 1. / For I own myself to be but a two footed Bee (: Apiculam potius quam Apem :) that having no Wing, & something else to do than to make honey in day-time, was obliged to work at this Paper-hive by the Lamp, in the night-season. &c. ...
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