and the TJimg of them, q ^ ; 
W Hen your fwarme hath made choice of alighting 4». 
place, you lhall quickly fee it knit together in forme 
(if nothing let)of a* Cone, Pine-aple, or duller of grapes. As — : — 
foone as ins fetled, or at leaft as foone after as may be, bine whenVdj an to 
them. Forthclongerthey hang, the locher they arc to be put be hiued/ 
from theplace, the more time they lole from their worke, * A CondlT 
and the more in danger are they to begone, either home a- round Pyramit. 
gaine, or quite away . For when they are once fetled , they 
prefently fend forth fpies, to fearch out an abiding place ; Z/Jtun and* 
who if they returne witii good newes before fwarming-time therefore is a 
be pall that day, they rife prefently, and are gone: otherwife l 3 ine-aple,of 
they willftay till fwarming-time the next day. But when- j jj §UrejQ *~ 
foeuer the fpies hauefped, they returne with all fpeed, and e 
no foonerdoe they touch the Cone or Cluftcr ^but they be- The tj$n of 
gintolbake their wings like as the Bees doe that are chilled : ll >eir fiyingaway 
which the next perceiuing doc the like : and fo doth this “fy* thy be fit- 
foft fhiuering paffe as a watch-wordfrom one to another, vn- 
till it come to the inmoil Bees: whereby iscaufed a great 
holiowneirein 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. 
When you fee your fwarme, firft choofe out a hr hiue,nci- How n fit the 
ther too big nor too little, but proportionable to thequan- Him to the 
tide and time of the fwarme : fo char the Bees may fill it that - fr * arme! - 
y ecre,or at the leaft within a handfull, which they may make 
vp the next yeere in good time. 
A fwarme before A4ict-gemini, put into a Hiue thatcontei- 
nethtwicefomuchasthe' , 'fwarmeis: afwarmat Cancer, in- 
toaHiue rhatconteincth fomuch, and halfefo much : and 
for a fwarme at LfiHid-cancer,z Hiue,that will hold it or little 
more, may fuffice. The reft between® -thefc let be fitted in 
like proportion vntothefe. 
For example, a fwarme of three gawns, or a fgood Prime- 
fwarme before c Jblid-Cj emini , will, aske a Hiue of three 
pecks : fuch a one at Cancer , a Hiue of fiue gawnes. Like- 
wife a double-prime fwarme comming betime,is fitted with 
a bufhell-Hiuc ; and all pecke-fvyarmes 9 and other fingle 
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