and the 'Drefsing of them , 
is fetled, take the Hiue that you thinke fit for it in bignefTe, 
■^.and witha branch ofHazell,Oake, Willow, or any of the V,c. 
forefaid herbs , but chiefly with a fprig of that tree whereon 
the fwarrae lighted, wipe the Hiue cleane ; and then dipping 
it into Meth, or faire water mixed with a lictle hony, or with 
milke and fair, or, for a need, with fait onely, befprinkle the 
fame. 
But if the Hiuehaucbeenevfed before, after you haue 
pared away the wax as cleane as may be, if you thinkethe 
former drcfling will not make itfweet enough ; then let a 
hogge eat two or three handfuls of mault, or peafe , or other 
come in the Hiue : mear.e while doe you fo turne the H:ue, 
tharthe fame or froth ^tfvhich the hogge maketh in eating, 
may goe all about the Hiue. And then wipe the Hiue light- 
lie witha linnen cloth , and fo will the Bees like this Hiue 
better than anew. But befprinkle it alfo, when you doe vfe 
it, as is (hewed before. And fo ferue a new Hiue when the 
Bees arefo froward, that they will not otherwife abide. 
And thus are the Hiues to be prepared and Dreffed, be- 
fore they receiue the Bees. Now will I fliew you how they 
are afterward to be fitted and furnilhedo 
The feu] cuing of 
an old Him, 
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Hoyv Hive! dr s 
to he ordered 
Vrben the Bees 
drt in them. 
i. T^Irft, let them be alwaies wellcouered , thatthey may The mils al- 
1 be fafe in Sunitnerfrom heat, left, the wax melting, vraiesveelih-ul^ 
the Combes fall downe ; v. in Winter from cold , left it kill 
the Bees and at all times from raine, leftitcorrupt firft Vx - 7 - »• 53 « 
the Hiue, afterward the Combes, and atlaft the Bees alfo. v. 
In fome places (where the flails are not many ) they vfe Nat.iufUi* n. 
earthen couers: but thefedoenotdefendthelowerpart,and c. 14. 
in Summer are too hot. 1 6. 
The beft couer for Hiues is a thicke hackle: Afaearia {fra- HoV ^ t0 a 
mentooferiri tiultfp-mHm. Which is thus to be made. Take 
foure or flue handfulls of * Wheat or Rie leafed out of the ^ 
(heafe : which being bound vp feuerally, beat out the corne $ v/oodZZm 
and then calling away their bands, draw out the eares of each Sedge, or fyfhes 
handfull longer on the one fide than on the other: and m.rj ferue, 
putting the longfides together (fo to make the Head in 
forme of aPyramis or Suger-loafe, forfhootingtheraine) 
F 1 binde 
