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rathe fwarmes, though fudden ftormes doc hinder them, w 
asfugent f»ellaficcitates,fobolem imbret . 
* Dry weather makes plenty of hony, and t moift of fwarms^ 
But note that the chiefe time for breeding lwarmes isthe 
Spring, v, and for honie-gathering the Summer : v. fo that 
when a dry Summer followeth a moift Spring, the Bee-folds 
are rich. If theSummer be alfo moift , the increai'e of Bees 
will be greater ; but,becaufe of the fcarcity of hony, this in- 
creafe will proouea decreafe : the more fwarmes you haue 
at the end of this Summer , the fewer ftalls fliall you haue at 
the beginning of the next. For , except fome faire rathe 
fwarmes, and fome good ftockes, which caft betimes or not 
at all, they die all for hunger j when they haue fpent their 
owne pittance, and Ipoiled their fellowes. How to preuent 
this pouerty,fec»*r* 1 i.& * in xo.and to preuent the Ioffe 8c 
fpoile that would come thereof, take the light ftocks , toge- 
gether with the fmalland late fwarmes, deed the midling 
fort, v. and be furc they be not ouer-hiued 
*Thc rcafonis,that in hot and drie weather the hony dewes arc rai- 
fed, and thcaduentitious tnoifturc is drained from the flowers, the pure 
natural! tuice onely being lesfc in them : of both which they gather all the 
daylong without interruption. 
t The rcafon is , that the weather keeping them in, they can doe no- 
thing but breed and hatch their fchadons : and when theygoe abroad, 
they bring in gtofle Bee meat , ^imbrifia and water, wherewith to feed 
them j but can finde nothing flt to lay vp in (lore. So that moift weather 
giues them two caufes of fwarming, plenty of Bees, and penui / of hony i 
the one makes them able, the other willing s and thtn neither winde, nor 
cloud, nor raine can flay tfeeoa. Whereas in times of plenty it is other- 
wife. v. ».ao. 
Likewifc, im w&rme and calme weather the fwarmes de- 
light to arife , but fpecialiy in a hcat-gleame, after that a 
ftiowre or gloomie cloud hath fent them home cogethers 
in extreme hot and dry weather not fo : v. in fo much that 
ftalls being full and ready to fwarme with the firft, are fome- 
timefo kept backe with cold dry windesin (jemini , and with, 
extreme heat and drought in Cancer, that they haue not 
fwarmed at all that ycere. 
The fwarmes yfc to come forth betwcenc the houres of 
