and the Hitting of them, C. | . 
notpreucnted. In this cafe you haue no other way, but the 
next morning, if flill they fight, to call them all out of the 
Hiue: and To will they either knit apart, orrcturnc to their 
old flockes : from whence another time they may fwarmc 
more luckily. The fix and twentieth of Iune, i 6 2 i.f had 77 . 
twofaire fwarmesvp at once, which going together ouer- of * 
filled a good Hiue : where neither of them yeelding their 
Q^ieene to the other, the fight continued full two dates and 33 
two nights, eaen from Thurfday noone till Saturday in the 33 
afternoone : wherein fuch hauock was made, that the better 33 
part of thefe braue Souldiers ( a mournfull fpc&aclc) lay 33 
fome dead, fome halfc-dead fprawling on the ground. At 31 
the lafl it was my hap to fpie one of thefe Quccnes at the 33 
Hiue skirts in a Clufter : which taking vp, now, quoth I to ” 
one that flood by me, heere is fiice for whofc fake all this 33 
flaughterwas made: about an houre after my fonne found n 
the other dead on the ground. When they had thus merci- 33 
lefly murdered both the Quecnes, and the better part of the 33 
fwarnies j they thatefcaped rofc all out of the Hiue, and 33 
( went into another fwarme which flood behinde them : of ” 
which, becaufe they brought no Ruler with them, they were 33 
quietly receiucd. 33 
Sometime a fwarme being abroad, yea knit in the Cone, 7 i >e dufis of a 
will not abide, butreturne homeagaine: the caufe whereof fwarmugamg 
is windie, wet, or cloudie weather, the not finding of a fit hnrn, ‘ w*-- 
lighting-place, trouble in hiuing, the hot Handing of the 
Hiue without defence, and the miffing of their Prince. And 
this fpecially in a plentifull feafon, they being then as readie 
to returne vpon little or no occafion,as loth to come abroad, 
euen in the fafefl weather. V. ». 20. I obferued once, that the 
Prince being fcarce ready, fell downe from the floolevnable 
to recoucr hir wings : whereupon the fwarmc returned. She 
beihgput into the Hiue, the next day the fwarme rofc a- 
gainc and fetled , but the Prince hapned to fall befidc the 
Cone. The fwarme being knit, miffing her, began to vnknit, 
and be gone : which I pcrcciuing prefcntly hiued them : but 
they being flill difcontented,rannc vp and downe the Hiue, 
with a ipurmuring nojfc both without and within. Anone 
N 2 I had 
