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Of the Nature and properties offices, 
neerethetop a mod fine boxe, wherein the Hoft was lai<d r 
and the Quires of Bees finging about it, and keeping watch 
in thenight, asMonkesdoe in their Cloiftcrs. TheBifhop 
therefore taking the Hofl, carried it with the greateft honour 
into the Church : whither many refoiting, were cured cf in- 
numerable dileafes. 
I doubt nor, but fome incredulous people will quarrell 
this Storie as w ell as the former : making queftion, fince the 
combs in the top of the Hiue, are nor part halfe an inch one 
from an other, how there could be roome fora boxeof that 
bredth that would containe the Hofl; and then beingthere, 
how it might be feene by the Bifhop, feeing thofe fpaces are 
alwaies filled with Bees, and the Storie faith, that they were 
then finging about it: and therefore perhaps they wjll luf- 
pett the whole Narration, fuppofing it rather to be an vnad- 
uifeddeuiceof fome idle Monke, which, if he hadconful- 
ted with them that haue skill among Bees, might haue made 
his tale more probable. Allcdging moreouer, that there- 
fore there is no mention made of any particular perfon, time, 
or place, left the circumftances fhould difprouethe matter 
itfelfe. All which obiedlionsl could as eafily anfweras the 
former, if Ithoughtitneedfull ; Butnowbecaufe fome may 
be as ready tomiftruft my relation, as others are to obieff a- 
ainftthe truth of the Stories; I will here inmincowne be- 
alfe for their fatisfaftion , fet them downe in my Authors 
owne words. 
Cum mult- r quadam fimplicis ingenij nonr.ulla apum alv ea- 
ria pojjideret, rtec^ HU redder ent expetitum fuFcum , fed lug 
quad am tabefeentes merer ent ur ; de con ft ho alterius f amino, 
[tmpliciorif , acceffit ad facerdotem percept ura Eucharifliam ; 
tjuam fumptam tamen ore coat wait, domume^ reverfa extra- 
Elam collocavit in uno ex alvearvs. Lues Ceffavit , me II a af- 
flu^bant. Ita fuo tempore muher, aptrtis, ut mel educerei , 
ahearijs, vidit ( miranda res ) exadificatum ab apibus facel- 
lu?n , corflruFum alt are, parietes miro Architecture artifich 
fuis feneflris appoffe fuis loess ornatos, oftium, turrim , cum 
fuis tintinabulis: Euchartfliam vero in altari repojttam circunt- 
Tjhe. 
volabant frnvi fufurro perflrepentes apes , 
