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(which is more manly, and more healthfull) a paire of buts, 

 to stretch your armes. 



" Rosemary and sweete eglantine are seemely ornaments 

 about a doore or window, and so is woodbinde. 



" And in mine opinion, I could highly commend your 

 Orchard, if either through it, or hard by it there should 

 runne a pleasant riuer with siluer streames : you might sit in 

 your mount, and angle a pickled trout, or sleightie eele, or 

 some other dainty fish. Or moats, whereon you might row 

 with a boate, and fish with nettes. 



" Store of bees in a dry and warme bee-house, comely made 

 of fir-boords, to sing, and sit, and feede vpon your flowers 

 and sprouts, make a pleasant noyse and sight. For cleanely 

 and innocent bees, of all other things, loue and become, and 

 thriue in an Orchard. If they thriue (as they must needes, 

 if your gardner bee skilfull, and loue them : for they loue 

 their friends, and hate none but their enemies) they will, be- 

 sides the pleasure, yeeld great profit, to pay him his wages. 

 Yea, the increase of twenty stockes or stooles, with other 

 fees, will keepe your Orchard. 



" You need not doubt their stings, for they hurt not whom 

 they know, and they know their keeper and acquaintance. 

 If you like not to come amongst them, you need not doubt 

 them : for but neere their store, and in their owne defence, 

 they will not fight, and in that case onely (and who can 

 blame them ?) they are manly, and fight desperately. Some 

 (as that Honorable Lady at Hacknes, whose name doth much 

 grace mine Orchard) vse to make seats for them in the stone 

 wall of their Orchard, or Garden, which is good, but wood 

 is better. 



