anitbt Hmng of them. 
C.j, 
brt)odof nymphes haue beenc a good while flying abrotd ? 
and are now able to endure both weather and labour. 
Other fignes of the Hiues fulneireand readineifeto fwarm 
are at theHiue doore, Firft, the Bees houering in cold eue= 
nings and mornings. Secondly, the moiftneffe or fweating 
vpon the ftoole. Thirdly, their hafty running vp & downe. 
Fourthly, their firft lying forth in foggy andlultrie mor- 
nings & euenifigs, & going in again when the aire is clcerc. 
When they will fwartne, fometime they firft gather to- TUtjigmofpm 
gether without at the doore, not onely vpon theHiue, but f* n * farmi ng. 
vpon the ftoolc alfo : where when you fee them begin to T ' 
hang one vpon another in fwarming time, and not before, 
and to grow into a Clufter that coucreth the ftoole in any 
placej(fpecially if there be Drones among therfi)then be fare 
they will prefently rife , if the weather hold. The firft that 
come forth wil increfe that Clufter to fome fourth part of the 
fwarmc ; and then begin they to flie away, firft out of the 
Hiue,and after from the Clufter. But commonly fome few 
of them doe firft flie forth and play to & fro the Hme-doorc, 
fo to till out more company vntothem : and when by this 
meanes they haue gotten out fo many, that you may fee them 
begin to dance v abouc the Hiucj then doe they haftili^ 
Hiue forth and fwarmc. 
But hcere you muftnote, that as to fill the Doore, 
or to lieforth a little now and then in foggieor fultrie mor- 
nings and euenings,(which is becaufe then they are moft of- 
fended by heat within, and can beft indure the aire abroad ) % 
and otherwifeto go in again e, is a figne that the Hiue is full, Tt lie forth «c»i 
and therefore ready to fwarme ; fo to lie forth continually (as t l nuaUy , ** 
in extreme hot and dry fummers they vfc to doe) vnder the ™ ne - 3 ey w 
in extreme hot and diy fummers they vfc to doe) vnder the 
ftoclc orbehinde the hiue,&c.(fpecially after Cancer is come 
in)is a figne and caufeof not fwartning. For the Bees, know- 
ing by nature that the greateft companies doe profper beft , 
i vntill they finde themfelues fo peftred with heat and throng 
9 of multitudes, that the Hiue can fcarce hold any more , will 
haue no minde to fwarme : and when they haue once taken 
to lieforth-thc hiue will alwaies feem empty, as though they 
