C. 5. Of the Swarming of Bees, 
ther, not fuffering them to fwarme when they arc ready : for 
when their number is growne To great through their conti- 
nuall breeding, that the Hiue cannot hold them, feeingthey 
may not fwarme, they muft needs, for want of aire & roome 
within, lie without : which when they haue once caught , 
they will hardlie leaue:and the longer they lie out, the lothcr 
they arc to fwarme. 
An other caufe of their lying forth, iseontinuall hotand 
drie weather, fpecially after the Solftice : which caufing 
plentie of hony both in plants and dewes, their mindes are 
lo fet vpon that their chiefe delight 5 
Firg. ( Tanttu amor flornnt, dr generandi gloria me Ills ) 
that they haue no leifure to fwarme :* although they 
might moft fafelie come abroad in fuch weather , which 
would not fuffer the weakeft Nymph to fall. 
And when by continuance of fuch honie-weathcr they 
are once fufhcientlie prouided, they will then be loth to 
leaue the fweec fruits of their labours, and to change their 
full ftorc-houfes for that which makes giddie Houfe-wiues. 
But if they haue once begun a combe without where they lie, 
the matter is out of doubt. Whereas contrarily in wet and 
fcanty Summers, no weathcrwill ftay them from fwarming 
as fooneas they are rcadie: although by thatmeanes (VnlefTe 
they be rathe, or the weather fodainelie mend ) moft as well 
h ' oftheftockes as fwarmes are like to die for hunger: c\and 
fairc and ^at therefore jss neere as you can,fo * order the matter, that y cur 
young ttoekes, fwarmes may come betrme. For rathe fwarmes and their 
in a good flan- ftpcks,that haue thefummer before the,proue alwaies good. 
ding,notouer- But f or t h 0 f e ftockes, which not fwarming in Gemini 
kept ^ WC h a PP en afterward to lie forth, this may be a remedy. 
*2i. Firft keep the Hiueas coole as may be, by watering and 
The remedy and fh ad owing both it, and the place where it ftandeth: and then 
meaner to rmkf enlarging the dooreto giuethem aire(alwaies prouided that 
tjm wirme there be no backe-doorein the Ihadie parts of the Hiue) 
moue the clufter gentlie with your Brufb,and driue them in. 
* If yet they lie forth and fwarme not;(though they haue 
had fit weather two or three daies) then the next calme and 
warm e day , betweene 11. and 1. of the clock e, or within an 
hourefooner or later, (when the Sunne fhineth, and you fee 
•i no 
