and the TJiuing of them . 
W Hen your fwarme hath made choice of alighting 4>. 
place, you fhall quickly fee it knit together in forme ^ 
(if nothing let)of a * Cone,Pine-aple,or clufter of grapes. As — : ~ 
foone as itis fetled, or at leaft as foone after as may be, hiue MenVdj ante 
them. Forrhe longer they hang,thelocher they arc to beput fc 6»w/ 
from the place, the more time they lofe from their worke, "AConeuT 
and the morein danger are they, to begone, either home a- round Vyramu, 
gaine, or quite away. For when they are once fetled , they 
prefently fend forth fpies, to fearch out an abiding place : 2fi»eu7: and* 
who if they returnewith good newes before fwarming-time therefore isa 
be pall that day, they rife prefently, and are gone: otherwife Pme-aple, of 
they will rtay till fwarming-time the next day. But when- j™jfig“re,cal- 
foeuer the fpies hauefped, they returnewith all fpeed , and °”™' 
no fooner doe they touch the Coneor Clufter ,~but they be- The t^n of 
gintofbake their wings likcas the Bees doe that are chilled : tlwflyinga’way 
which the next perceiuing doe the like : and fo doth this a fc r ‘b e y befit- 
foftlhiuering paffe as a watch-wordfrom one to another, vn- ■■■ ■ 
till it come to the inmortBees: whereby iscaufed a great 
hollowndfein the Cone. When you fee them doe thus, 
then may you bid them farewell : for prefently they begin 
to vnknit,and to be gone. And.then.though you Hiue them 
neuer fo well, they will not abide. 4?> 
When you lee your fwarme, firrt choofe out a fit Iu'ue,nci- How toft the 
thcr too big nor too little, but proportionable to the quan- H met to the 
tide and time of the fwarme : lo that the Bees may fill it that f nrarmes - 
y eere,or at the leaft within a handfull, which they may make 
A fwarme before Afid-gemtm, put into a Hiue thatcontei 
neth twicefomuch asthe*fwarmeis: a fwarm at Cancer, in- 
toaHiue thatconfeineth fo much, and halfe fo much : and 
for a fwarme at c JW.id-cancer,z Hiue.that will hold it or little 
more, may fuffice. The reft between* -thefe let be fitted in 
like proportion vnto thefe. 
For example, a fwarme of three gawns, or a |good Prime- 
fwarmc before CAdid-Cjemini , will aske a Hiue of three 
pecks:fuch a one at Cancer, aHiueof fiuegawnes. Like- 
wife a double-prime fwarme comming betime,is fitted with 
a bulhell-Hiuc ; and all pecke-fyvarmes ? and other fingle 
vp thenextyeerein good time. 
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