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Some (unmet 
prouide them 
beufts afore - 
band. 
40. 
vf then they 
fiy away dirert* 
ly to the place. 
4 »* 
V ecua alytarid 
fern femperpa- 
rata in Aprario, 
Of the Swarming of 
permittcthyoutopurfuc them whithcrfocucr, forthercco- 
uerie of yourowne. 
Furientet ptrfeqni ptfjum in fundum alitnum yel inyite Dorriito aeyetantt. 
Lege Thefaurus § ad exhibendum. Quia tut caique acqmfitum ei confer- 
yari debet. Lege Patre. § de ijsqui funt. Se<tu ft apet ferae noy't in alien* 
f radio captarem. § Apium, in fine de rerum diviGonc. 
Butfometime they flye fo faft and fo farre before they 
picch, that though you follow them neuer 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. 
Lxamenqnid ere alyeotuo tytlarerie , eonfq t intedigitur tjfe ttmm, donee in 
confpsclu tuo eft, nee diftietln perfeetttio tju4 eft- alioquin occupant it eft. luitiruan. 
i.j.inihtutioncrm juris, tit. de rerun divilione. 
Sometime they will be prouided of a houfe before they 
fwarme, which fome Harbingers haue found and viewed, 
and drelFed againft their comming : as either a hollow tree, 
or a void 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 times) vncertainly this way and 
that way ; but as direttly as they can guefle. 
A poore Woman hauing taken a poore fwarme to keepc 
for halfe, by New-yeares-tideloft hirowne part and hir Part- 
ners : and being carelelfe of the Hiue when the Bees were 
dead, (he let it ftand abroad till fhe had forgotten it: The 
next Summer comming into hir Garden, (he found fome 
Bees parting to and fro hir Hiue, which were then.bufie in 
cleaning and dreflingit: fliee wifely fearing that fhe Bees 
came to carrie away the Wax that was leaft,bade hir Daugh- 
ter take the Hiueand carrie it in. The Wench following hir 
play did happily forget hir mothers command : and by that . 
meanes the Hiue ftood ftill , till the vnexpe&cd fwarme 
came, that afterward ftored hir garden.lt is not amiflfe there- 
fore to follow the counfell of Columella: O ported autem va- 
cua domic ilia collocata in apiary s habere. Nam funt nonnulla .(■ 
examina qua cum procefferint , ftatim fedem fbi qtwant in 
proximo, ( Seupotius print qmfitam,luflratam, & par at am ad- 
cant, v.r.^ep,) randemff, occupent quam vacnam repererint. 
When 
