c. 5 . 
and the Hiring of them. 
lowers. Notwithftanding each of thele, when hir elder filter 
is gone, and hir turne next, changeth hir note, begging in 
Onthyas tune leaueto begone too : which as fometime the 
Queene granteth vnasked, beginning firft hir felfe ; fo fome- 
time by hir filence (he denicth,though mournfully intreated: 
and chen the fwarme tarieth, and the poore Ladiemuft die. 
Withthefc various and harmonious notes, anfweringone 
an other, andfomepawfesbetweene, they goe folemnly 
roundabout theHiue,fo to giue warning vnto all the com- 
pany. This they continue daily vntill their fwarming: but 
youmayheare them befteuenings and mornings. Which 
Mufickeasit cannot but pleafe and delight them thatliften 
to it } fo mud it be mod fweet and pleafant to the young 
Prince hir felfe, vnto whom therby is proclaimed a Warrant, 
notonely of hir life, but ofaKingdomc alfo : both which 
otherwife (he werefure tolofe. 
Inthis Mekffomelos, or B ees Madrigall,Muficiansmay fee in the Bees fmg 
the grounds of their Art: firft their Moodes, fometime.the are thegroitnds 
triple or imp erfe clot the more, fometime the duple or imper - °f Mu l ie k' 
fetl of thelelfc : then the tunes of the fix notes, vt, re, mi , fa, 
fol , la ; whereof the Queene foundeth the firft foure, and the 
Prince the other two, together with the doubling of fa- fol in 
two higher Cliefes, to make vp the fnWEight : and laftly the 
fix Concords, an imperfect Third, a perfect Third, a Tiatefa- 
ro»,z Diapente,z Sixt,auda.Diapafon, And if any man diflike 
the harfhnelfe of the Seconds and Sevenths, which nowand 
then hit among them ; he (heweth himfelfe no experienced 
Ardft, which knoweth not that as well in o^f»y?c^as O econo- 
mic^, there muft fometime be Difcords: yea and that in ei- 
therthey haue their laudablevfe, as feruing to makefweet 
Concords thefweeter. So that iiMufckg were loft, it might 
be found with the * Mufes Birds. 
Thefeuerall part$ E of whofe Song comprizing thefemen- 
tioned notes, with paufes interpofed (as I haue at feucrall 
times by a Win de-inftrument, whofe notes can neither rife 
nor fall, attentively obferued ) I thought good hcere to prick 
downe, that you may fee in them all thefe particulars of their 
Naturall Art. Onely I cannot altogether warrant the Con- 
clufion: becaufein that confufed noife, which the buzzing 
[ Bees inthebulietimeof their departing doe make, my dull 
hearing could not perfe&ly apprehend it : fo that I was 
fainetomakevp that, as I could. 'But I am fure, if I mi lie, I' 
* Var.l.j.c. i j. 
V. Trtafat. 
