THE PREFACE 
TO THE Reader. 
H E great Naturali ft,ro exprefle the excel- 
lency of the nature o f Bees, faith thus,/»- ,u ^‘ 
ter omni a infctta principatws Apibus^fa jure 
fr&cipu& admiratio \folis ex eogenere homi - 
mm caufagcnitis. Of all infetfa the Bees 
are chiefe,and worthily to be mod admi- 
red * being the only things of that kinde, which are bred for 
thebehoote of men. The later part of which faying, al- 
though the delicate Silk-worme haue in fome hoter Cli- 
mates difproued * (form the colder countries, fuch as is 
our Hand of Brittine, I doubt mee (hee will neuer quit 
coft : and therefore is here to be entertained only of them, 
that doe more refpe£fc their pleafure,than their profit j and 
doe content themfelues with the beholding of their queinc 
workc, not expe&ing any further recompence for their 
cxpence and paines j ) yet muft fhe needs confefle the for- 
mer, and wherefoeuer (lie meet the ingenious and laborious 
Bee,yecld the precedence to her, as to hir Better. For the 
fruit of the Si Ik- worme ferueth only to couer the body^but 
the fruit of the Bees to nourilE and cure it : that is to be ap- 
plied outwardly, this to be inwardly receiued : that for 
comlinefle and conueniency, this for health and necefficy. 
Bur, to omit comparifon, the worke and fruit of the litcle 
Bee is To great and wonderfull, fo comely for order and 
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