if a Bee wer as big as a Bull, it must have a ſting proportionable, and what miſchiefs do you think ſuch ſtings would do, when we can hardly endure the ſting of that ſmall inſected animal […] ?
1655, James Howell, “To Dr. T. P.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […]