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Bee made Jupiter a Preent of a Pot of Hony, which was o kindly Taken, that he had her Ask what he would, and it hould be Granted her. The Bee deir'd, that where-ever he hould et her Sting, it might be Mortal. Jupiter was loth to leave Mankind at the Mercy of a Little Spiteful Inect, and o had her have a care how he Kill'd any Body; for what Peron oever fhe Attacqu’d, if he left her Sting behind her, it hould cot her her Life.

Here was a Whole Swarm of Waps got into a Hony-Pot, and there they Cloy’d and Clamm‘d themelves, till there was no getting Out again; which brought them to Undertand in the Concluion, that they had pay'd too Deare for their Sweet-Meats.