<» 4 - 
flow if flight 
>f>6* another 
hiue. 
dry. 
The fwarme U 
alw.tiesto bee 
kept together, 
left the Bees kjU 
one another. 
a 
The fwarme to be 
fit neere the 
lighting-place. 
Of the Sw Arming of Bees, 
them : butbeefure that the vpper hole bee wide enoughs 
rather then fade make two or three with a two-inch auger, 
or, with a hatchet, one as great. Then fire a peece of Match, 
orforwantof Match, take a little Hay, or other thing that 
Willfmoake moderately, and not flame j and put it into the 
tree beneath them : and you (hall fee them fly forth aboue 
for life, and prefently pitch in feme place where you may 
hiue them. Butthisis to be done the fame or the next day 
at the farcheft: for (afterward they will abide the fmother, 
and rather lofe their hues then leaue their goods. 
If afwarme by reafon of the coldneflfe of the aire, and 
roughnefle of the wind being not able to get away, do offer 
to light vpon any other Hiue j quickly couer the Hiue clofc 
with a Mantle, left the Bees entring be pittifully murdered. 
But in all manner hiuings this one rule is gencrall. The 
fwarme rnuft bee continually kept together: for if at that 
time part remaine from the company but thefpaccof halfc 
an houre or leftejafterward when they findethem,and would 
returnevnto them, they arevfed as Strangers and Robbers : 
as fart as they come they are beaten and killed. And thofe 
that efcaping thence goe backe to their old home, finde no 
better entertainment : and thofe few that efcape thence, de£ 
peratly runne into any other Hiues, and fo leape out of the 
Frying*pan into the fire. And therefore when the fwarme 
ishiued, if you fee part begin to gather together by them- 
feluesj remoue them as fpeedily as you can, that they may goe 
to their fellowes in time. 
And alwaies if you may chufe, fet the fw-arme in the mor- 
ningSunne, and as neere the lighting-place as may be; which 
if fome ineonuenience will not fuffer you to doe, yet fet it 
within the length of a Pearch,or at the leaft within fight and 
hearing : and then ( left thofe which are leaft at the lighting 
place, by lofing their company a while , lofe their Hues al- 
fo ) firft trouble them by the meanes mentioned n. 59. and 
thencaufe fome of the hiued part toanfe by fliakingthetn 
off the bough, and by wiping them downe that are on thej 
out-fide of the Hiue. Which, when they are vp, will make 
fuch a noife, that their fellowes may cafily finde them, Andi 
