A profitable instruction of the perfect ordering of Bees/First Treatise/Chapter 5
Whether the Bees drawe breath, or haue any bloud in them. Cap. v.
NOw ſome affyrme, that the clouen beaſts draw no breth, in that they haue not the fan of the hart, which is y lights or lungs, for as they write, nothing without them can breath. But Ariſtotle writeth, that the ſame poſſible among Bees, hauing the ſting (although they haue no bladder) to breath by their ſting. And the Bees haue no bloude, bicauſe they haue neither hart nor lungs: yet Plinie affirmeth, that nothing done by nature may be thought or iudged incredible: for the ſame is fully perſuaded in wiſe mē, that the Bees haue a certain liuely moiſture, like as the Cuttle in the Sea, which hath a kinde of ynke in it, and is as the iuyce of it, with the whiche the Diers (at this day) do make their Purple colour.