and the Mining of them . 
ho clouds comming to hide it) put in the better part, at the 
leaft, of them that lie out, with your Brufh jand the reft gent- 
lic fwccp away from the ftoole, notfuffering any to cluftcra- 
gaine. Thcferiflngin thecalmeheatof the Sunne, and Hy- 
ing about before the Hiue, will make fuch a noyfe, as if they 
were fwarming: which their fellowes hearing, will happlie 
come forth vnto them, and fo begin to fwarme. 
If this doe not feme , but that returning to the Hiue they 
lie forth againejthcn reare the Hiue high enough to let them 
in , and cloome vp the skirts all but the doore. 
But if notwithftanding all this they doe not fwatme § then 
allure your felfe that either they haue no Prince bred togoe 
forth with them, or elfe they are fat and full ofhonie, which 
they are refolued not to leauc. ~ 
And then if it be before M id'Caucer, 8 c the hony- weather 
hold ; your beft way is to double theftall, by turning the 
skirt of the Hiue vpward, and fetting a lcere prepared Hiue 
faft vpon it : into which they will afeend , and worke and 
breed there as well as in the old. v. In the end of Firgo 
driue them all into thenew Hiue, (which then,if the weather 
haue held good, will be full of wax and hony ) and take the 
olde for your labour. But if Mid - Cancer and the hony- 
dewes be paft, ( becaufe they want time and meanes;o ftore 
the void Hiue)letthem ftand : fuch a ftall will be verie good 
to be taken; or, being young, to be kept. v. Butfirftreple- 
nilh fome ouer-fwarmer with his exceffe or lying out (fpc- 
cially ifyou mcaneto take him) thus. 
When allhope of their fwarming is paft; in fome euening 
(while it is yet light)holdingaHiue vnderthofe that lieout, 
cut them off from the ftoole with a * tight thread : and car- 
rying them to an ouer-fwarmer that you would mend, knock 
them downe on a Table clofe before his Hiue : into which , 
becaufe they come without a Prince, they are quietly admit- 
ted, and quickly vnited vnder one common Commander. 
The manner of doubling a ftall is this : Hauing firft mea- 
fured the Hiue about in the largeft place, prouide a lecre 
fplccted Hiue of the fame fize ana compafte : make ready al- 
fo two fquare ftickcs 1 3* or 1 4. inches long ; and an inch 
thicke at one end, and halfe an inch at the ocher : thefetwo 
K 2 fticks 
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