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<titlePart type="main">THE <lb/>
<hi rend="italic">FEMININE MONARCHIE</hi><lb/> OR<lb/> <anchor xml:id="ch0ancs1"/>A TREATISE CONCERNING
BEES<lb/> AND THE DUE ORDERING OF THEM<anchor xml:id="ch0ance1"/><lb/></titlePart>
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<anchor xml:id="ch0ancs2"/><hi rend="italic">Wherein</hi><lb/> The truth found out by experience and
diligent<lb/> observation, dicovereth the idle and fond<lb/> conceipts,
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<hi rend="italic">By</hi><lb/> CHAR: BUTLER <abbr>Magd.</abbr><lb/>
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<docImprint>
<anchor xml:id="ch0ancs3"/><hi>At <placeName>Oxford</placeName></hi><lb/> Printed by <persName>Joseph
Barnes</persName>. <date when="1609">1609</date>.<anchor xml:id="ch0ance3"/> </docImprint>
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<div type="preface">
<head>THE PREFACE<lb/>
<hi rend="italic">to the Reader.</hi>
</head>
<p xml:id="frontpar1"><hi rend="drop-capital">T</hi>He great naturalist, to expresse
the excellencie of the nature of Bees, saith thus, <hi>Inter omnia insecta
principatus apibus et jure praecipua admiratio; solis ex eo genere hominum
causam genitis</hi>. Of all <hi>insecta</hi> the Bees are chiefe, and
worthily to bee most admired; beeing the only thinges of that kinde, which are
bred for the behoofe of men. The later part of which saying although the delicat
Silk-worme have <anchor xml:id="ch0ancs4"/>else-where<anchor xml:id="ch0ance4"/> disproved, <anchor xml:id="ch0ancs5"/>and is now setting foot in this land, here
also to except against it;<anchor xml:id="ch0ance5"/> yet must shee needs confesse the former, <anchor xml:id="ch0ancs6"/>and, when
shee is come, yeelde the precedence to the <anchor xml:id="ch0ance6"/>laborious Bee, <anchor xml:id="ch0ancs7"/>as to hir elder
sister; which as in time, so in vertue is before her<anchor xml:id="ch0ance7"/>. For the fruite of the
Silke-worme serveth onlie to cover the bodie; but the fruite of the Bee to
nourish and cure it: that is to bee applied outwardly, this to be inwardly
received: that for comlinesse and conveniency, this for health & necessitie.
But, to omit comparison, the worke and fruit of the little Bees is so great and
won- <fw type="catch">derfull,</fw>
<pb n="a2v"/>
<fw type="header">
<hi>The Preface</hi>
</fw> derful, so comely for order and beauty, so excellent for art and wisdome,
and so full of pleasure and profit; that the contemplation thereof may well
beseeme an ingenious nature. And therefore not without cause are the Bees called
the Muses birds.<note>
<hi>Var.l.3.ca.16.</hi>
</note>
</p>
<p xml:id="frontpar2">The love of which did so ravish <hi>Aristomachus</hi> and
<hi>Philiseus</hi>, that, as <hi>Plinie</hi> reporteth,<note>
<hi>Nat hist.li.II.</hi>
</note> they were pleased to spend most of their time in this pleasing busines.
<hi>Nequis</hi> (saith hee) <hi>miretur amore earum captos Aristomachum
Solensem duodesexaginta annis nihil aliud egisse; Philiscum vero Thasium in
desertis apes colentem Agrium cognominatum: qui ambo scripsere de
iis</hi>.<hi>Aristotle</hi> thought his <hi>Historia animalium</hi>
unperfect, unles he had inserted a tract of the nature of Bees: of which hee
discourseth more at large, than he doth of any other living creature.
<hi>Plinie</hi> likewise in his <hi>Naturalis historia</hi> is very copious
in this argument. Besides whom, divers other have written therof: as
<hi>Columella, Varro, Palladius, Averroes</hi>. Yea the learned and grave
fathers of the Church <hi>S. Ambrose</hi> and <hi>Isidore</hi> have thought it a
subject fit for their pens. Unto which I may adde infinite others of later times
both in Latine & English; <anchor xml:id="ch0ancs8"/>which have written many things of these admirable
creatures.<anchor xml:id="ch0ance8"/> </p>
<p xml:id="frontpar3"><anchor xml:id="ch0ancs9"/>But in al their writings they seeme unto me to say little out
of experience, and to rely more upon the relation of others; than anie certaine
<fw type="catch">know-</fw>
<pb n="a3r"/>
<fw type="header">
<hi>to the Reader.</hi>
</fw> knowledge of their owne. Notwithstanding in some of them, specially in
<hi>Aristotle & Plinie</hi>, are scatered many true and good
observations; which, being found agreeable to experience, <anchor xml:id="ch0ance9"/>I have here and there,
<anchor xml:id="ch0ancs10"/>as occasion required<anchor xml:id="ch0ance10"/>, for authority and ornament <anchor xml:id="ch0ancs11"/>interlaced<anchor xml:id="ch0ance11"/>. But the later
writers, imitating the ancient where they thought good, choosing some of their
directions and refusing others, doe, for the most part, unluckely light upon the
worse: so that, being compared, they are no way matchable unto them; whome by the
advantage of time they might haue surpassed. Among which <hi>Georgius
Pictorius</hi> a learned Physitian deserveth best, as having taken most
paines in perusing the ancient authors, and gathering their matter into his
methode. Whom one <hi>T. H.</hi> of London translating word for word into
English as wel as he could, concealing the authors name, adventured to publish
in his owne name. These and the like when a scholar hath throughly read, he
thinketh himselfe throughly instructed in these mysteries: but when he commeth
abroad to put his <anchor xml:id="ch0ancs12"/>skil<anchor xml:id="ch0ance12"/> in practise, every silie woman is ready to deride his
learned ignorance.</p>
<p xml:id="frontpar4"><note>v.c.10.p.3</note>Wherefore considering howe greate the vertue and efficacy of
the fruite of <anchor xml:id="ch0ancs13"/>these creatures<anchor xml:id="ch0ance13"/> is, both for the
preserving, and restoring of mans health, I thought it not amisse to spend some
by-time for my recreation, in sear-<fw type="catch">ching</fw>
<pb n="a3v"/>
<fw type="header">
<hi>The preface</hi>
</fw> ching out <anchor xml:id="ch0ancs14"/>the nature & properties of Bees<anchor xml:id="ch0ance14"/>, that I might know how to do
good unto them, which are so good for us, and what is the due & righte
ordering of these delightful, profitable, and necessary creatures. And having to
my contentment, though to my cost, in some sort attained my desire, I was
incited, even by the rule of charity, to communicate that to my neighbours &
countrymen, which I have found so beneficiall to my selfe: so that the reader
may now freely reape the fruit of that, which the author hath deerly sowen unto
him.</p>
<p xml:id="frontpar5">
<note>
<hi>De generat.an.l.3.c.10</hi>
</note> The Philosopher intreating of the breeding of Bees, professeth himselfe
uncertaime of their sex: and therefore, willing in this uncertainty to grace so
worthy a creature with the worthier title, he every where calleth their governor
<hi>βασιλεύς</hi>, <anchor xml:id="ch0ancs15"/>or<anchor xml:id="ch0ance15"/> <hi>Rex</hi>. As many as followed him, searching no
farther than he did, were contente to say as he said. So that I am <anchor xml:id="ch0ancs16"/>enforced<anchor xml:id="ch0ance16"/>
(unlesse I wil choose rather to offend in <hi>rebus</hi> than in
<hi>vocibus</hi>) by their leave and thine (learned reader) to straine the
common signification of the word <hi>Rex</hi>, and, in such places, to translate
it <hi>Queene</hi>, sith the males heer beare no sway at al, this being an
<hi>Amazonian or Feminine kingdome. v.</hi>
<note>
<hi>V.c.4.n.20.&22.</hi>
</note>
</p>
<p xml:id="frontpar6">In distinguishing the times of the yeer, I use the
Astronomical months as most natural and fitting to my purpose; <anchor xml:id="ch0ancs17"/>beginning each
month with the day that the sun entreth into his sign, <fw type="catch">and</fw>
<pb n="a4r"/>
<fw type="header">
<hi>to the Reader.</hi>
</fw> & giuing the name of each signe to his month; because the most notable
thinges concerning Bees, which are to be observed in them or to be done for them
fal out in the beginnings of these months. <anchor xml:id="ch0ance17"/>Where note that by the name of each
month, is commonly understood the first day of the same month (namely
wheresovever this preposition <hi>at</hi> is set before it) except only where it
followeth the preposition <hi>in</hi> or <hi>after</hi>, or otherwise the sense
doth plainely shew that it is spoken of the whole month. </p>
<p xml:id="frontpar7">I am out of doubt that this book of <hi>Bees</hi> wil in his
infancy be hidden in obscurity, as the book of <hi>tropes and figures</hi> did
for a while go unregarded, without friends or acquaintance: But as that did by
litle & litle insinuat it selfe into the love & liking of many schooles,
yea of the Vniversity it selfe, where it hath been both privatly and publikley
read (a favour which this mother doth seldome afford to hir owne children, least
happily shee should seeme too fond over them) so this will in time travaile into
the most remote partes of this great kingdome of greate <hi>Britaine</hi>, and
be entertained of al sorts both learned and unlearned: although the
<hi>Muses</hi> birdes are fittest for the <hi>Muses</hi>, & the
knowledge of their long-hidden secrets was chiefly published for the <hi>Muses
friends</hi>.<hi>Quibus me, quic quid sum, & studia mea dico.
<placeName>Wotton</placeName>. <anchor xml:id="ch0ancs18"/><date when="1609-07-11">Jul. II.
1609.</date><anchor xml:id="ch0ance18"/></hi>
</p>
<signed>CHAR: BVTLER.</signed>
</div>
<pb n="a4v"/>
<div type="dedication">
<fw type="ornament"/>
<div type="poem">
<head>
<hi>Ad Authorem.</hi>
</head>
<anchor xml:id="ch0ancs19"/>
<lg>
<l><hi rend="drop-capital">Q</hi>Ui fuerint apium fructus, apiumque,
labores</l>
<l>Saeduladum plena grammate penna docet;</l>
<l>Pene fatigatae nemo est qui, <hi rend="opposite">Carole</hi>, penna</l>
<l>Et libri fructus non notet inde tui</l>
</lg>
<lg>
<l>Mellea Nestoreo defluxit ab ore loquela:</l>
<l> Et, <hi rend="opposite">Butlere</hi>, tua mellea penna manu.</l>
<l> Labris viva semel, iam mortua, Nestoris haec vox</l>
<l> Scilicet in libris est tumulata tuis.</l>
</lg>
<lg>
<l>Incipis ex apubus, sed & in mel de finis ipsum:</l>
<l> Suaviter inceptum suavius exit opus.</l>
</lg>
<signed><persName>Warnerus South</persName>, Jurista Novi Collegij
Socius.</signed><anchor xml:id="ch0ance19"/>
</div>
<anchor xml:id="ch0ancs20"/><fw type="ornament"/><anchor xml:id="ch0ance20"/>
<pb n="b1r"/>
<div type="poem">
<anchor xml:id="ch0ancs21"/><head>
<hi>To the Author:</hi>
</head>
<lg>
<l><hi rend="drop-capital">T</hi>Hough learned Authors old and new,</l>
<l> Have handled skilfully</l>
<l> The argument thou hast in hand,</l>
<l> Yet none so fruitfully,</l>
<l> For they relate uncertaine things</l>
<l> Which bare report had blowne:</l>
<l> But thou set'st downe the certaine truth</l>
<l> By thine experience knowne.</l>
</lg>
</div>
<div type="poem">
<head>
<hi>To the Reader.</hi>
</head>
<lg>
<l>The chiefest cause, to read good bookes,</l>
<l> That moves each studious minde</l>
<l> Is hope, some pleasure sweet therein,</l>
<l> Or profit good to finde.</l>
<l> Now what delight can greater be</l>
<l> Than secrets for to knowe,</l>
<l> Of Sacred Bees, the Muses Birds,</l>
<l> All which this booke doth shew.</l>
<l> And if commodity thou craue,</l>
<l> Learne here no little gaine</l>
<l> Of their most sweet and sov'raigne fruits,</l>
<l> With no great cost or paine.</l>
<l> If pleasure then, or profit may</l>
<l> To read induce they minde;</l>
<l> In this smale Treatise choice of both,</l>
<l> Good Reader, thou shalt finde.</l>
</lg>
<lg>
<l>Omne tulit punctum, qui miscuit utile dules.</l>
</lg>
<signed>A. Crosley.</signed><anchor xml:id="ch0ance21"/>
</div>
</div>
<pb n="b1v"/>
<div type="contents">
<head>
<hi>The contents of this Booke</hi>
</head>
<p xml:id="frontpar8"><hi rend="drop-capital">M</hi>Y Booke of Bees I divide into 10
Chapters.</p>
<list>
<item>1 The first, of the nature and properties of Bees, & of their Queene </item>
<item>2 The second, of the placing of them, & of their seats. </item>
<item>3 The third, of their hives, & the dressing of them. </item>
<item>4 The fourth, of the breeding of Bees, & of the drone. </item>
<item>5 The fift, of their swarming, and the hiving of them. </item>
<item>6 The sixt, of their worke. </item>
<item>7 The seaventh, of their enimies. </item>
<item>8 The eighth, of removing them. </item>
<item>9 The ninth, of feeding them. </item>
<item>10 The tenth of the fruit and profit of the them.</item>
</list>
</div>
<div type="contents">
<div type="contents-chapter" n="1">
<head>The Contents of the first Chapter.</head>
<list>
<item>1 <hi>Bees yeeld great profit with smale cost.</hi>
</item>
<item>2 <hi>Every Country fit for Bees.</hi>
</item>
<item>3 <hi>Bees abhorre idlenesse.</hi>
</item>
<item>4 <hi>Bees have a common wealth.</hi>
</item>
<item>5 <hi>Their working, watching, fighting, dwelling, diet, wealth, and
young are al in common.</hi>
</item>
<item>6 <hi>Bees alwaies loial to their Soveraigne.</hi>
</item>
<item>7 <hi>Bees endure no government, but a Monarchie.</hi>
</item>
<item>8 <hi>The description of the Queene-Bee.</hi>
</item>
<item>9 <hi>Bees have also inferior governours or captaines</hi>
</item>
<item>10 <hi>Which are knowne by peculiar markes.</hi>
</item>
<item>11 <hi>Two sorts of Bees.</hi>
</item>
<item>12 <hi>The parts of a Bee.</hi>
</item>
<item>13 <hi>Hir hornes.</hi>
</item>
<item>14 <hi>Hir fangs.</hi>
</item>
<item>15 <hi>Hir tongue, with the parts of it.</hi>
</item>
<item>16 <hi>Hir fowre winges.</hi>
</item>
<item>17 <hi>Hir feete.</hi>
</item>
<fw type="catch"> 18 <hi>Her</hi>
</fw>
<pb n="b2r"/>
<item>18 <hi>Hir two weapons.</hi>
</item>
<item>19 <hi>Her fanges, commonly used against insects.</hi>
</item>
<item>20 <hi>Her speare sometime.</hi>
</item>
<item>21 <hi>Stinging present death to Bees.</hi>
</item>
<item>22 <hi>The speares commonly used against other creatures.</hi>
</item>
<item>23 <hi>Haire and feathers cause the Bees to sting.</hi>
</item>
<item>24 <hi>Woole and wollen doe not offend them</hi>
</item>
<item>25 <hi>Fustian, leather, and velvet, naught among Bees.</hi>
</item>
<item>26 <hi>The Bees in their anger aime at the head.</hi>
</item>
<item>27 <hi>When any is stung the company must be gon.</hi>
</item>
<item>28 <hi>The Bees have the worst when they sting.</hi>
</item>
<item>29 <hi>They loose their sting and entrals, & consequently their
lives</hi>
</item>
<item>30 <hi>The speare of it selfe pearceth deeper when the Bee is gon.</hi>
</item>
<item>31 <hi>How to prevent the paine and swelling.</hi>
</item>
<item>32 <hi>Nothing but time can cure their stinging.</hi>
</item>
<item>33 <hi>What things the Bee-master must avoid.</hi>
</item>
<item>34 <hi>The six properties of a Bee-master.</hi>
</item>
<item>35 <hi>Safer to walke than to stand among Bees.</hi>
</item>
<item>36 <hi>The fittest time to stirre about Bees is in the morning.</hi>
</item>
<item>37 <hi>In the heate of the day they are most angry.</hi>
</item>
<item>38 <hi>How to be armed when the Bees are angry.</hi>
</item>
<item>39 <hi>Bees dangerous to cattaile.</hi>
</item>
<item>40 <hi>The Bees senses.</hi>
</item>
<item>41 <hi>Their sight dim.</hi>
</item>
<item>42 <hi>Their smelling very quicke.</hi>
</item>
<item>43 <hi>Hearing and seeing.</hi>
</item>
<item>44 <hi>Tasting.</hi>
</item>
<item>45 <hi>Their virtues.</hi>
</item>
<item>46 <hi>Fortitude.</hi>
</item>
<item>47 <hi>Prudence and knowledge.</hi>
</item>
<item>48 <hi>A strange tale concerning the knowledge, and devotion of
Bees.</hi>
</item>
<item>49 <hi>Temperance.</hi>
</item>
<item>50 <hi>Justice.</hi>
</item>
<item>51 <hi>Chastity.</hi>
</item>
<item>52 <hi>Cleanlinesse.</hi>
</item>
<item>53 <hi>The age of Bees.</hi>
</item>
<fw type="catch"> 54 <hi>The</hi>
</fw>
<pb n="b2v"/>
<item>54 <hi>The difference betweene yong Bees and olde.</hi>
</item>
<item>55 <hi>The offices of the yong Bees.</hi>
</item>
<item>56 <hi>And of the old.</hi>
</item>
<item>57 <hi>Bees wont eft-soones to play.</hi>
</item>
<item>58 <hi>They are soone killed with cold.</hi>
</item>
<item>59 <hi>How to revive them.</hi>
</item>
</list>
</div>
<div type="contents-chapter" n="2">
<head>The Contents of the second Chapter.</head>
<list>
<item>1 <hi>Of five things requisit in a Bee-garden, the first is that it
bee nigh at hand.</hi>
</item>
<item>2.<hi>That it be fastly fenced from cattaile, and windes.</hi>
</item>
<item>3 <hi>The north and east fences should be high.</hi>
</item>
<item>4 <hi>The south and west fences must be also good, but not so high, as
to hide the sun from the hives.</hi>
</item>
<item>5 <hi>In rough winds the Bees need a skreene.</hi>
</item>
<item>6. <hi>That it be sweet.</hi>
</item>
<item>7. <hi>Neither very cold in winter, nor over hot in sommer.</hi>
</item>
<item>8 <hi>A grasse ground is best, but keept notte and dry.</hi>
</item>
<item>9 <hi>Beset with trees and bushes.</hi>
</item>
<item>10 <hi>Two sorts of seats.</hi>
</item>
<item>11 <hi>The benches not so good as single stooles</hi>
</item>
<item>12 <hi>Swarmes may be set on benches.</hi>
</item>
<item>13 <hi>Wooden stooles better than they of stone.</hi>
</item>
<item>14 <hi>The size of stooles.</hi>
</item>
<item>15 <hi>Which way the stooles should be set.</hi>
</item>
<item>16 <hi>How neere to the fence.</hi>
</item>
<item>17 <hi>How neere to each other.</hi>
</item>
<item>18 <hi>How neere to the ground.</hi>
</item>
<item>19 <hi>How to be footed.</hi>
</item>
</list>
</div>
<div type="contents-chapter" n="3">
<head>The Contents of the third Chapter.</head>
<list>
<item>1 <hi>Two sorts of hives.</hi>
</item>
<item>2 <hi>Strawne hives,with their inconveniences and remedies.</hi>
</item>
<item>3 <hi>Wicker-hives, with their inconveniences and remedies.</hi>
</item>
<item>4 <hi>Strawne-hives best.</hi>
</item>
<fw type="catch"> 5 <hi>The</hi>
</fw>
<pb n="b3r"/>
<item>5 <hi>The size of hives</hi>
</item>
<item>6 <hi>When hives are to be made.</hi>
</item>
<item>7 <hi>How hives are to be dressed, before they receive the
swarmes.</hi>
</item>
<item>8 <hi>The pruning of hives.</hi>
</item>
<item>9 <hi>The spraying or spleeting of them.</hi>
</item>
<item>10 <hi>The seasoning of them.</hi>
</item>
<item>11 <hi>The seasoning of an old hive.</hi>
</item>
<item>12 <hi>How hives are to be ordered, when the Bees are in them.</hi>
</item>
<item>13 <hi>The hives always well hacled.</hi>
</item>
<item>14 <hi>How to make a hacle.</hi>
</item>
<item>15 <hi>The working of the cap.</hi>
</item>
<item>16 <hi>The bignesse of the hacle.</hi>
</item>
<item>17 <hi>The length of it.</hi>
</item>
<item>18 <hi>The girale</hi>
</item>
<item>19 <hi>The hives always close cloomed.</hi>
</item>
<item>20 <hi>Then seldome to be moved.</hi>
</item>
<item>21 <hi>How soone lifted up is to be set downe againe.</hi>
</item>
<item>22 <hi>The bignesse of the hive-dore.</hi>
</item>
<item>23 <hi>The making of the barre.</hi>
</item>
<item>24 <hi>The use of it.</hi>
</item>
<item>25 <hi>The making of the porch.</hi>
</item>
<item>26 <hi>The use if it</hi>
</item>
<item>27 <hi>The makking of the porch-dore</hi>
</item>
<item>28 <hi>The use of it.</hi>
</item>
<item>29 <hi>The greese.</hi>
</item>
<item>30 <hi>How to order the Bee-hives in every month, and first in
GEMINI.</hi>
</item>
<item>31 CANCER.</item>
<item>32 <hi>How to make the Bees swarme.</hi>
</item>
<item>33 <hi>How to keepe them from swarming.</hi>
</item>
<item>34 <hi>How to keepe full stalles from killing their yong.</hi>
</item>
<item>35 LEO.</item>
<item>36 <hi>Fasten the barre to the dore.</hi>
</item>
<item>37 VIRGO.</item>
<item>38 <hi>To keepe the hives from robbing.</hi>
</item>
<item>39 <hi>Set up the porch to the weaker.</hi>
</item>
<item>40 <hi>And keepe them shut til they offer to goe abroad.</hi>
</item>
<item>41 <hi>How hives not ful are to be used against cold &
robbers.</hi>
</item>
<fw type="catch"> 42 <hi>The</hi>
</fw>
<pb n="b3v"/>
<item>42 <hi>The reared stalles now to be set downe againe.</hi>
</item>
<item>43 <hi>In Virgo try whether the Bees will live.</hi>
</item>
<item>44 LIBRA.</item>
<item>46 <hi>Now set up the porches to the best, & keepe them all shut
til the Bees offer to go abroad.</hi>
</item>
<item>47. <hi>Now take the combes.</hi>
</item>
<item>48 SCORPIO. </item>
<item>49 <hi>Continue the shutting & opening of the porch this month
also.</hi>
</item>
<item>50 <hi>How to dresse the hives for winter.</hi>
</item>
<item>51 SAGIT. CAPRIC. AQUAR. <hi>are</hi> 3. <hi>dead months.</hi>
</item>
<item>52 <hi>How the Bees spend their time in them.</hi>
</item>
<item>53. <hi>The first sharp weather in Capr. shut the Bees in.</hi>
</item>
<item>54 <hi>And in pleasant weather let them loose, if it may be, once in a
fortnight or </hi>
<hi>3. weekes.</hi>
</item>
<item>55. PISCES.</item>
<item>56 <hi>The I. faire day in Pisces set your Bees at liberty.</hi>
</item>
<item>57 <hi>Now cleanse the stooles.</hi>
</item>
<item>58 <hi>And drive light stalls</hi>
</item>
<item>59 ARIES: <hi>The second chiefe robbin-g time</hi>
</item>
<item>60 <hi>In</hi> TAUR: <hi>remove the porches.</hi>
</item>
<item>61 <hi>In</hi> GEMINI <hi>the barres.</hi>
</item>
</list>
</div>
<div type="contents-chapter" n="4">
<head>The contents of the fourth Chapter.</head>
<list>
<item>1 <hi>The drone no labourer.</hi>
</item>
<item>2 <hi>The drone is the male-Bee.</hi>
</item>
<item>3 <hi>Divers reasons proving the drone to be the male. The first
reason is, that they are suffered in breeding time only.</hi>
</item>
<item>4 <hi>No drone in winter.</hi>
</item>
<item>5 <hi>The second reason is that, the drones being taken away in
breeding time, the Bees breed no more.</hi>
</item>
<item>6 <hi>The second reason is that they are bred by the Bees.</hi>
</item>
<item>7 <hi>The third reason is that Wasps and Dorres have drones which are
their males.</hi>
</item>
<item>8 <hi>The breeding of Wasps by drones.</hi>
</item>
<item>9 <hi>The breeding of Dorres by drones.</hi>
</item>
<fw type="catch"> 10 <hi>The</hi>
</fw>
<pb n="b4r"/>
<item>10 <hi>the fift reason is the apparent signes of their sex.</hi>
</item>
<item>11 <hi>When the Bees begin to breed.</hi>
</item>
<item>12 <hi>The manner of their breeding.</hi>
</item>
<item>13 <hi>The Bee-seed is first turned into a worme.</hi>
</item>
<item>14 <hi>The worme being dead groweth to the shape of a Bee, & then
liveth againe.</hi>
</item>
<item>15 <hi>The breeding of the lady-bees.</hi>
</item>
<item>16 <hi>When the drones are bred.</hi>
</item>
<item>17 <hi>When they come abroad.</hi>
</item>
<item>18 <hi>Two uses of the drones.</hi>
</item>
<item>19 <hi>Where they lie.</hi>
</item>
<item>20 <hi>The male-bees are subject to the females.</hi>
</item>
<item>21 <hi>When the Bees leave breeding, & beat away their
drones.</hi>
</item>
<item>22 <hi>The Bees compared to the Amazons.</hi>
</item>
<item>23 <hi>They rid not their drones all at once.</hi>
</item>
<item>24 <hi>When forward stalles begin.</hi>
</item>
<item>25 <hi>When the backward.</hi>
</item>
<item>26 <hi>When full stockes that have not swarmed.</hi>
</item>
<item>27 <hi>When those that are overswarmed.</hi>
</item>
<item>28 <hi>The drones first banished are welcome to other hives.</hi>
</item>
<item>29 <hi>In the end they are all killed.</hi>
</item>
<item>30 <hi>Some die in the hive.</hi>
</item>
<item>31 <hi>But most abroad.</hi>
</item>
<item>32 <hi>Sometime the Bees cast out even the white Cephens.</hi>
</item>
<item>33 <hi>Timely ridding of drones a good signe.</hi>
</item>
<item>34 <hi>Sometime they rid their drones in the spring.</hi>
</item>
<item>35 <hi>And afterward beed new againe.</hi>
</item>
</list>
</div>
<div type="contents-chapter" n="5">
<head>The Contents of the fift Chapter.</head>
<list>
<item>1 <hi>The parts of a swarme.</hi>
</item>
<item>2 <hi>When you may see the queene-bee.</hi>
</item>
<item>3 <hi>The swarme no yonger than the stocke.</hi>
</item>
<item>4 <hi>Many drones in a swarme a good signe.</hi>
</item>
<item>5 <hi>A kinde spring for swarmes.</hi>
</item>
<item>6 <hi>Swarming-weather.</hi>
</item>
<item>7 <hi>The swarming-howres.</hi>
</item>
<fw type="catch">
<hi>The</hi>
</fw>
<pb n="b4v"/>
<item>8 <hi>The two swarming months.</hi>
</item>
<item>9 <hi>Rathe swarmes.</hi>
</item>
<item>10 <hi>Late swarmes.</hi>
</item>
<item>11 <hi>Blackbery-swarmes are seldome to be kept.</hi>
</item>
<item>12 <hi>A prime-swarme and an after swarme naturall.</hi>
</item>
<item>13 <hi>A stalle may cast 4 times.</hi>
</item>
<item>14 <hi>Divers causes of breaking the prime-swarme.</hi>
</item>
<item>15 <hi>One prime-swarme worth three after-swarmes.</hi>
</item>
<item>16 <hi>The vulgar Bees appoint the rising of the fore-swarmes, and
that upon 4. grounds.</hi>
</item>
<item>17 <hi>Five signes of the first swarming</hi>
</item>
<item>18 <hi>The signe of present swarming.</hi>
</item>
<item>19 <hi>To ly forth continually is a signe they will not swarme.</hi>
</item>
<item>20 <hi>How to remedy their lying forth.</hi>
</item>
<item>21 <hi>The signes of after swarmes.</hi>
</item>
<item>22 <hi>The rising of the after-swarmes is appointed by the
rulers.</hi>
</item>
<item>23 <hi>When they begin to call or sing.</hi>
</item>
<item>24 <hi>The Bees musicke.</hi>
</item>
<item>25 <hi>When you may best heare it.</hi>
</item>
<item>26 <hi>Before the Bees swarme, the voices come downe to the
stoole.</hi>
</item>
<item>27 <hi>The manner of their swarming.</hi>
</item>
<item>28 <hi>The prime-swarme being broken, the next may call & swarm
within the eighth day.</hi>
</item>
<item>29 <hi>All the swarmes of one hive come within a fortnight.</hi>
</item>
<item>30 <hi>What to do when a swarme is up.</hi>
</item>
<item>31 <hi>Some swarmes provide them houses afore hand.</hi>
</item>
<item>32 <hi>And then they flie away directly to the place.</hi>
</item>
<item>33 <hi>Vacuae alvearia stent semper parata in apiario.</hi>
</item>
<item>34 <hi>The hiving of Bees.</hi>
</item>
<item>35 <hi>When they are to be hived.</hi>
</item>
<item>36 <hi>The token of their flying away after they be setled.</hi>
</item>
<item>37 <hi>How to fit the hives to the swarmes.</hi>
</item>
<item>38 <hi>How to make your stalls great.</hi>
</item>
<item>39 <hi>A Mantle a Rest and a Brush alwaies in a readines.</hi>
</item>
<item>40 <hi>What the hiver must doe.</hi>
</item>
<item>41 <hi>The manner of hiving.</hi>
</item>
<item>42 <hi>Howe to hive a swarme that lighteth upon a low bough.</hi>
</item>
<fw type="catch"> 43 <hi>How</hi>
</fw>
<pb n="[c1r]"/>
<item>43 <hi>How if it light upon a high bough.</hi>
</item>
<item>44 <hi>How if it light upon a bough that cannot be cut.</hi>
</item>
<item>45 <hi>How if it light upon the body of a tree.</hi>
</item>
<item>46 <hi>How if it light upon the top of any thing.</hi>
</item>
<item>47 <hi>How if it light in the middle of a dead hedge.</hi>
</item>
<item>48 <hi>How if it light on some hollow side of a stub, or tree.</hi>
</item>
<item>49 <hi>How if it fly into a hollow tree.</hi>
</item>
<item>50 <hi>The swarme is alwaies to bee kepte together, lest the Bees kill
one another.</hi>
</item>
<item>51 <hi>The swarme to be set neere the lighting place</hi>
</item>
<item>52 <hi>What to do if a swarme part.</hi>
</item>
<item>53 <hi>When and how to put two swarmes togither.</hi>
</item>
<item>54 <hi>How to staie a swarme that is going home againe.</hi>
</item>
<item>55 <hi>How to keepe them from other hives, when they are going
home.</hi>
</item>
<item>56 <hi>What to doe when the swarme is new-hived.</hi>
</item>
<item>57 <hi>How to remove it in the evening.</hi>
</item>
<item>58 <hi>How to set it on his seat.</hi>
</item>
<item>59 <hi>How to use it in the morning.</hi>
</item>
<item>60 <hi>A swarme lighting neere his seate is presently to be set
thereon.</hi>
</item>
<item>61 <hi>Fowle weather the first day doth much discourage a swarme.</hi>
</item>
<item>62 <hi>A swarme may live five daies without hony.</hi>
</item>
</list>
</div>
<div type="contents-chapter" n="6">
<head>The Contents of the sixt Chapter</head>
<list>
<item>1 <hi>Bees most industrious creatures</hi>
</item>
<item>2 <hi>In three months they cannot worke</hi>
</item>
<item>3 <hi>All the yeere after they loose no time.</hi>
</item>
<item>4 <hi>How they gather waxe.</hi>
</item>
<item>5. <hi>How you may see the working of the combes</hi>
</item>
<item>6 <hi>How much waxe they bring at once.</hi>
</item>
<item>7 <hi>The fashion of their combs and celles.</hi>
</item>
<item>8 <hi>The drone combe.</hi>
</item>
<item>9 <hi>The queenes celles are built single in divers places.</hi>
</item>
<item>10 <hi>In fashion round.</hi>
</item>
<item>11 <hi>The common error anens these celles.</hi>
</item>
<fw type="catch"> 12 <hi>The</hi>
</fw>
<pb n="[c1v]"/>
<item>12 <hi>The combes have 3 colours successively.</hi>
</item>
<item>13 <hi>Wax is gathered only in 4 months.</hi>
</item>
<item>14 <hi>Hony in 9.</hi>
</item>
<item>15 <hi>The Bees gather 2 sorts of hony.</hi>
</item>
<item>16 <hi>How ambrosia or grose hony is gathered.</hi>
</item>
<item>17 <hi>Ambrosia some serveth to feed the scadons: some is wrought with
nectar and laid up in store.</hi>
</item>
<item>18 <hi>Ambrosia alone is soone corrupted.</hi>
</item>
<item>19 <hi>And then becomemeth most unsavory stopping.</hi>
</item>
<item>20 <hi>Much stopping maketh the Bees forsake their hives.</hi>
</item>
<item>21 <hi>This Ambrosia is commonlie taken for wax.</hi>
</item>
<item>22 <hi>Which error is disproved by sense.</hi>
</item>
<item>23 <hi>And reason.</hi>
</item>
<item>24 <hi>And by authoritie.</hi>
</item>
<item>25 <hi>How the pure nectar is gathered.</hi>
</item>
<item>26 <hi>At the first the Bees lay up meere nectar: afterward they mix
it with Ambrosia</hi>
</item>
<item>27 <hi>Nectar of two sorts. Stone-hony and live-hony</hi>
</item>
<item>28 <hi>Live-hony of two sorts. Virgin hony. Second hony.</hi>
</item>
<item>29 <hi>The ful cells they close with wax.</hi>
</item>
<item>30. <hi>After Leo they lay up no hony.</hi>
</item>
<item>31 <hi>Nectar and ambrosia made of many simples, whereof each month
yeeldeth variety.</hi>
</item>
<item>32 <hi>Dandelion continueth longest.</hi>
</item>
<item>33 <hi>What Pisces yeeldeth.</hi>
</item>
<item>34 <hi>What Aries.</hi>
</item>
<item>35 <hi>Taurus.</hi>
</item>
<item>36 <hi>Gemini.</hi>
</item>
<item>37 <hi>Cancer.</hi>
</item>
<item>38 <hi>Of hony-dewes.</hi>
</item>
<item>39 <hi>The Bees worke most earnestly in a hony-dew.</hi>
</item>
<item>40 <hi>What the hony-dew is.</hi>
</item>
<item>41 <hi>When the hony-dewes are most frequent.</hi>
</item>
<item>42 <hi>The time when they fall.</hi>
</item>
<item>43. <hi>Leo.</hi>
</item>
<item>44. <hi>Virgo.</hi>
</item>
<item>45. <hi>Libra.</hi>
</item>
<fw type="catch"> 47 <hi>Scorpio</hi>
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<item>46 <hi>Scorpio.</hi>
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<item>47 <hi>The Bees gather but of one kind of flowre in one voiage.</hi>
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<item>48 <hi>They gather hony out of poison.</hi>
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<item>49 <hi>What store of hony a stale may have.</hi>
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<item>50 <hi>Bees have necessary use of water.</hi>
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<item>51 <hi>Chiefly for their breed.</hi>
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<item>52 <hi>The making of a watering-place.</hi>
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<item>53 <hi>How to find wild Bees.</hi>
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<item>54 <hi>The fashion of a watring trough.</hi>
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<item>55 <hi>After a showre they water at home.</hi>
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<head>The Contents of the seaventh Chapter</head>