C.6« 
12 . 
Jnfafthn 
round. 
?.c. 4. m. 1?. 
Nat. hift. Ii. ix. 
C.II. 
, *?• 
Tbetommon er- 
ror anent tliefe 
(diet. 
* 4 *' 
T he combes dee 
of da change 
theirhncc 
Virgin wax 
and ordinary. 
15. 
Wax is gathered 
tnjely infante 
months. 
16 . 
Many the fecond 
fruit is gathered 
in <j. moneths. 
r. f.j.n. 59. 
17. 
T wo forts of 
'll any. 
Of the 'Bees Workt. 
of the combes : for although it be fit for Princes to be neere 
their chiefe Cities jyet doe they not loueco be peftered in the 
midft of them. Infafhion they are round : which is the raoft 
perfeft figure, as the fix fquare is moll: fit tor comely ioyning 
many fuch buildings together. They are alto larger chan the 
reft: to fii ew that fubietts houles Ihould not match their So- 
ueraignes in greatnefte.In thefe Palaces do they breed their 
young Princes, v. TLinj fpeaketh thus of them : Re gins int- 
peratortburextrumt amp l as, magnificats, feparatas , tuber culo 
eminent;!. The common people, finding them alwaies in 
thofe flails that die , take them for cerraine fignes of death , 
and call them pipes, or taps : and therefore when they fee 
them in aftal that they take, they fay, This was taken in good 
time, for it is piped: and therefore would haueftood no lon- 
ger. But feeing none are without,nonot theyongeft fwarms; 
ordinary realon might teach them to forgoe that fond con- 
ceipt. 
TheCombeshaue fuccefliuely fundry colours : white, 
yellow, browne, blacke. Their, fir ft colour white, by the 
end of Summer is turned to a light yellow. Thofe that are 
taken and tried this firftyeere,arecalled Virgin-wax, but the 
whiter the purer : and the reft are ordinane. The fecond 
Summer this light yellow is changed to a fad. The thud 
this fad yellow into a browne : which afterward, as they wax 
old and corrupt, alterech againe into a blackifiiand durrie 
colour : but thefe being tried will returne to yellow. 
Thecimcwhen Bees gatherwax,is onely betweene Tau- 
rus and Virgo: (yn\t([c Aries betnilde and warme:) for then 
they may begin in that month. 
B Vc Hony they gather all the yecrc: faue onely in thofe 3 . 
$<// moneths , when the weather keepeth in both Bees 
and flowers, v. And itisoftwoforcs : the one pure and li- 
quid, which is called Neflar , the other groilc and folid , 
which we may by like reafontearme* Ambrofia. For both 
ferue for the food of thefe diuine creatures. 
* "Yea rather this is the true Neflar Si ^mbroft wherwith Jupiter firfl 
nounfhedm the He of Crete while the Curates hid him fro Saturn , 
Which gaue ©ccafion to the Poets of this fifiion, that the Bees were his 
nurfeso 
