Edward Topsell Quote

If you will have the endowments of his minde described, he is a political and flocking or regal creature, subject to Monarchy, laborious, a lover of his young, and a lover of his neighbor, of a very quarrelsome disposition, and very prone to choler.

The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents - The Theater of Insects - Chapter I (p. 921), G. Sawbridge. 1658