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Before / warming 
the yoices come 
do xvne to the 
fioole. 
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The manner of 
their f warming. 
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The prime 
ftvarme being 
brobgnjht next 
may call and 
f 'frame within 
the eighth day 
3 6. 
ud& the fxvarmes 
of one hint come 
within a f»rt- 
Of the Swarming of Bees, 
In the morning before the fwarme come abroad, thefe 
Ladies come downeneerer the ftoole : and there they hold 
on their melodie fomewhat longer, Tinging fometime aboue 
twentie notes together, and with Ihor ter paufes. 
At the very fwarming-time they defeend to the ftoole: 
where anfwering one another in more earned manner, with 
thicker & fhrilkr notes, the mainie begins to march along * 
thronging one another for hade, and buzzing with their 
v/ings in great iolitie. 
As foone as thefe gallant Nymphs are aloft, they doe mod 
nimbly bedirre themfelues, fporting and playing in and out 
as if they were dancing the Hcy$in this manner waiting for 
the comming_of their Prince. Now when fome two third 
partsor three fourth parts of the fwarme is palled, the Mu- 
fickeccafeth, and * then commeth forth this flately Dame 
Orithya : who walking a turne or two before the doore ( of 
purpofe,you would thinke,to be feene) flie takes hir leaue, 
leauing but a fitiall traine to follow her, which high them af- 
ter as fall a$ they can. 
* Sometime when ill weather hath kept in the fwarme ouer long, fhee 
will come forth before them, as it were checking their fhekneffe and ti- 
miditic : but then returning in, (he commeth forth afterward in hir due 
place 
This decent order the great Lords of the earth feeme to 
haue learned of this little Ladie : who in their Country- 
progrelfes, goings to Parliamcnt,and other folemne procef- 
fions, doe fend thegreated and faired part of their retinew 
before them, hauingbehinde but afmail troope ofnecelTarie 
attendants, to guard their perfons. 
If the prime fwarme be broken, the fecond will both call, 
and fwarme the looner * it may be the next day : and by that 
occalion haply a third alfo may arife, yea and fometime a 
fourth. 
But all within afortnight after the prime fwarme. 
Except in fome extraordmarie plentifull yeares both for Breed and, 
Honie. Such as was wherein not onely many fwartnes did fwarme, 
as old ftockesjbut alio old ftockes hauing berimes fwarmed twice, about: 
fiat wetkes after began to fwarme a frelh, as in an other yeare : and fo bad, 1 
in sffc&j two Summers in one. * 
After 
