r it 
0 
C. 3. 
j8. 
WINTER. 
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S A GIT. 
CAPRI C. 
AQVAR. 
three ftill mo- 
r uths. 
60. 
How the Beet 
fpentl their time 
in them. 
6 \. 
The firfl Jharpe 
weather in Capr. 
{hut the Bees in. 
V, C.'j.n.G. 
6i. 
^4 nd inpleaftnt 
weather let them 
loufc) if it may 
he, once aftrt- 
nfht. 
y.u. 59.gr c.i. 
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Of the Hines, 
the Hiues dry and warme. And now remember alfo to fliut 
the wickets of them all. 
After Autumne, the Sunne drawing ncerc the Winter 
Tropicke, with afhortand lowcourfe aboue our Horifon , 
there follow three ftill moneths , Sagittarim , Capricorntu , 
and Aquarius : in which as the plants lie ftill in the earth 
waiting the Sunnesreturnetoreuiue them 5 fo the Bees lie 
ftill in their Hiues , pafling this fruitleffe time in fleepc and 
Dumber. Yctfo, that if there happen amildeand warme 
houre, they prefently perceiuing it awake out of their fwi- 
uer, and hye them out of doores with all alacricy : that they 
may take thefrefh aire, recreate themfelues, drinkc, exercife 
their wings , carry out their dead and other noyfomenefle, 
and lighten their little bellies, which are oft times fo fluffed , 
when the weather fuffereth them not togoe abroad, that 
they can hold no-more: fo loth are they to defile their nefts. 
And hauing thus refrefhed themfelues, at their rcturne, they 
take their repaft, and then betake them againe to their reft. 
But many fuch daies,fpeciallyin timeoffcarcity, are dan- 
gerous, as caufingthem to fpend much of their ftere, which 
in ftill frofts they would fpare. 
The firft foulc and cold weather in Capriconie Ihut the 
Wieketsclofe, to faue the Bees from the Tit-moufe,*/. and 
from the cold, as well within the Hiue as without. For as the 
froftand fnow and cold winds, yea and the ordinary dif- 
pofitionofthe aire doth chill many of them, whom theflat- 
teringfun-fhine enticeth abroad ; fo the great frofts, ftriking 
through the doore,doe freeze the nethermoft in the Hiue to 
death : fo that by little and little many flails in fome winters 
haue bcene thereby wholly deftroyed: the which, by keeping 
them warme, might haue beene preferued. But when you 
(hut them in, be fure the Hiues bealwaiesclofeandfure: for 
the Bees when they awake will ftriue by allmeanesto come 
forth, though they netier finde the way in againe. Yet when 
there happeneth any pleafant day ( namely when the funne 
ftiineth, the windeis ftill, orbloweth mildly out of the 
South or Weft, and the earth is without frolV& fnow ) it is 
very behoueftill to giue them lcauetoplay, t/.and to refrefh 
them- 
