C-3. 
Hift. I $. c. 40 . 
4*. 
jtnd kftpc them 
{but til they offer 
to go abroad. 
*»• ?3* 
49 ’ 
The reared flails 
now to he fet 
down * again’. 
V.n. 41 . 
V.t.x.n.jg. 
V.c.^.n.iy.&c. 
y.n. 1(5. 
yo 
In Virgo try 
whether thtEees 
Will Hue. 
Y^J. n. 45 . 
Of theH'.ucs , 
■become vnluflie in all their doings : as the Philofopher well 
noted, Si aheusjuflo amphor fit, defidiofiores rcdduntur. 
Moreouer, becaufe the Walpes and robbing Bees will bee 
dealing betimes, before the true Bees be ftirring ; it is good 
in the euening, when the Bees ate all in, to barre vpthe Wic- 
kets of thofe that areweake, that a Bee cannot palfe: and 
not to open the fame the next day till the weather be warme, 
and the Bees offer to come abroad, though it be not before 
nine, or ten, or eleuen a clock: and then you may cither open 
it, or halfe-open it, according to the bight of your Bees, tv 
The flails which you reared in the end of ( fancer for feare 
of fwarming or want of roomc.t'- (now that the death of the 
old Bees v: and of the Drones v. hath made roome)are to be 
fet downe againe, v : left their fwarming be hindred the next 
yeare : vnlelfe they be f wartnes that haue wrought downe to 
the ftoole. 
Alfo in this moneth, about the middle,thofe Hiues which 
youdeemeto beweake becaufe the Bees are gonevp from 
the doore,knocke with your hand,oneafter an other :rhey 
that atthefirftor fecond ftrokedoe make agreatnoife both 
aboue and beneath , continuing the fameforafpace, haue 
ftore of Bees, and are therefore in lelfe danger: but thofe 
that make a little fhort noife, though they be heauy and haue 
Honi.e enough ( fuch as are commonly thofe of three yeare 
old,& vpward,that hauecaft twice or oftner that yeare, a«d 
did not by Virgo beate away their Drones) yet haue they 
bur few Bees, and are therefore ill able to refill the violent 
multitude of Robbers: which , when they perceiue their 
weakneife, will ncuer ieaue them, as long as there is a drop of 
H oniein the Hiue, 
If you fee them once fighting, v. either prefently take 
rhem, or make their entrance fo narrow , that but one Bee 
may paiTe at once : and before Libra bee fure to take them. 
For though they efcape tjiis robbing- time through your care 
and diligence j yet at rheb'pring they will furely yeeld, or die 
of themfelues, or flie away. Note yet, that thofe flails which 
are very full, will make but a little noife when you knocke 
shem, (but different from the other, as being quicke, fmarr. 
