+ The right orderingof Bees 
- in their mssuths bp a greedy defire,o2 fo2 eagernetie fabe. Pots 
after the feauen ftarres named Vergilix,be once rileti infight 
abotte our hoztson, then do thep hyde the i thete proper bales, 
fo that thep go fcloome after adgoade, vatili the Beanes doe 
buo, and tf ther happen to beginne at anp tyme fo flpe abzoade. 
whe as a fapre dave nisueth them fozwarde, then dacke thep 
ito fuche Bayes afterwarde,but occupy themfciues . And firfte 
the? prepare and make their combes, which they fathion info 
apt houfes, 02 rather ce'les of tuare, after this thep bate pong, 
ana then begitne they to gather bony. Whey liue allo thelone 
ger bp hauing their ftiugs,fo2 that once gone, 02 taken away, 
thep dye fo2thiwith through the lacke of thetr intrailes, whiche 
thep lofe tagither with their fings. — fotos 
@ Who firlk taught the preparation andincreafing =~ 
of Bees, and founde oute the vfe of - ; 
Honny, Cap.ij. . 
wipe reporte gorth,thatone Ariftomachus fir fourde out 
wd taught the increafing of Wes, whome Plinic writeth. 
to befe carniclt in the fame, that fetting aparftal otbet affarzes, 
be onlp Ludted night ¢ say how be might bef intreate and ble: 
{Wes accowing to their kinde. But others alcribe this inacne 
-‘tton te atte Thafsius, tube (as they fape)deferned no letfe coms 
mendation,both for his diligence and fkill among Wes : but 
this be (pecially followw2d titthefieloe, andthatfarrefronsthe 
SL atone. And of this the common people(as bp a ntchname) na 
img7e named hint Phatsius,but Acrius,foz bis totite'e2 rather 
fraunge life, whiche be then led inthe fielde, Gbome Plinie 
alfa affyznteth fo bate written a weke of the increafirg and 
muitipiping of Wes. And Columelila afcribeth this invention, 
fo the nhabitaunts of toc bili (named Hyimetus) being inthe | | 
Countrey of Attica, for there (faicth-he,}was one Encthonus, 
who taught (as me w2ite)the trucand perfea o2dering of the. 
_Phoie againe alcribeth the inuentio’ of Bonpto one Arifteus 
amattof Athens. Diodorus Siculus inthe pte Bake of bps 
) imahes, wuiteth that Curetes,a people of Creta, did fiKe finde 
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