C. 5. Of the Swarming of Bees t 
permittcthyoutopurfue them whithcrfocucr, forthercco- 
uerie of yourowne. 
Fuwientes ptrfejui pcjjum in fundum alienum vel invito Dotriito aeyttantt 
Lege Thefaurus § ad erhibendum. Quiaius cuique acqmfitum ti confer- 
yari debet. Lege Patre. § de ijsqui funt. Se<M ft apes ferae noy'tin alien* 
pradio captarem. § Apium, in fine de rerum divifione. 
Butfometime they flye fo faft and fo farre before they 
pitch, chat though you follow them neucr fo faft, you muft 
be content to leaue them, happily to the happy finder. For 
when you haue loft the fight and hearing of them, you hauc 
loft al right and propertie in them. 
? 9 * 
Some fwarmei 
prouide them 
houfts af ore- 
hand. 
40. 
’And then they 
fly aveay divert* 
lytothe place. 
4 ** 
Vacua alyiaria 
fitnt femper fa- 
ttila in ftpiario. 
Examenqned eoe alyee tuo eyelayerit, eoi:fq l inteUiptur tjTe tuum, dome 1 n 
conjpichi tuo eft, net dijfteiln perfeentio ejue eft-- alioquin oceupamu eft, Juituwsn. 
l.x. mfbtutiofiua) juris, tit.de rerun diviiione. 
Sometime they will be prouided of a houfe before they 
fwarme, which fome Harbingers haue found and viewed, 
and dreired againft their comming : as either a hollow tree, 
or avoid Hiue : and then will they away prefently, and by 
no meanes fettle till they <;ome thither. Vnto which place 
they will flic, not, as at other timesjvncertainly this way and 
that way ; but as direftly as they can guefte. 
A poore Woman hauing taken a poore fwarme to keepe 
forhalfe,by New-yeares-ddeloft hirowne part and liir Part- 
ners : and being carelelfe of the Hiue when the Bees were 
dead, fheletit ftand abroad till (he had forgotten it: The 
next Summer comming into hir Garden, fhe found fome 
Bees palling to and fro hir Hiue, which were then.bufie in 
cleaning and dreflingit: fliee wifely fearing that fhe Bees 
came to carrieaway the Wax that was leafc,bade hir Daugh- 
ter take the Hiueand carrie it in. The Wench following hir 
play did happily forget hir mothers command : and by thae 
meanes the Hiue flood ftill , till the vnexpc&ed fwarme 
came, that afterward ftored hir garden.lt is not amilfe there- 
fore to follow the counfell of Columella: O port et ant era va- 
cua domicilia collocata in apiarijs habere. Nam funt nonnulU 
examina qua cum procejferint , ftatim fedem fihi quay ant h 
proximo, ( Seupotius print cjmfitamftufiratara, (ft paratam ad- 
cant. v.K'i9') eanderoef occupent qttam vacuatn repererint. 
Whe 
