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round about. A more likely way than that, were to haue a 
inoueablcpeecein one fide of theHiue: which when you 
haue taken away, you may lee the Drones and the Hony- 
Bees walking together to and fro, and with their doubled 
heathatching their young : but their vvoike can you not fee j 
though you remoue and part the Bees till the bare Combes 
appeare. But if your curiofitie would fofaine behold the 
manner of their curious and artificial! building, the onely 
Way is this. In fet vp alallyeeresmidling fwarmc 
two or three handfullsaboue the ftoo!c:and then when moft 
of the Bees are abroad (but moll fitly in the forenoone when 
they are moft quiet ) you may behinde the lloole behold 
them working on the edges of their combes : andhauing 
blownc their liquid and foft wax out oi their mou'thes (as 
the Wafpes doetheir droflie ftuffe, which you may fee them 
gather from pales with their fangs and fo carry it away) to fa- 
llen and falhion it with their fangs and forefeet. 
How much waxthey bring at once, doth appeare by the 
newfwarmes : whofe firllwcekes workeisfpent chiefly in 
building combes : wherein they are fo earned, thacitfallech 
out with them as it is in theProuerbe, Th c more hafie the 
reorfe {peed. For many of their burdens doe fall from them 
before they can fallen them to the Combes. Yoii may their 
fee great Hereof them vpon the llooleby the sk'rts of the 
hiue, like vnto the white 1 calcs, which fall from yomg birds 
feathers.And therforefome haue imagined, that rhtyalfoare 
fcalcs which the young Bees doe likewife Ihed ff^rn their 
wings. But putyoufome of thofc parcells together with 
warme fingers, & you will quickly berefolued of thatlpubt. 
The Bees combes are placed otherwife than the Wdpes : 
for the Wafpes hang theirs one vnder another, and theses 
theirs one befide another ; beginning them in the top of \ c 
hiue, at that diftace that a Bee may reach fro one to anothL 
Their cells or little holes are made fix fquare, according ft 
the number of their feet: and of that length and widenelfe, 
that each of them may eafily containe a Bee. Which are fo | 
artificiallie wrought and ioyned together, that S . Ambrcfe in 
thcconfideration thereof faith, Qua caftra quadrat* tanttm 
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