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fingers, it mftttereth apart : where wax fticketh faft together. 
Ifyoupucictothefire, itmeltethnot, as wax doth. And 
whereas wax is all of one colour, i. white at the firfi, v. eucn 
as thofe little fallings of thenew fwarmes ; (which lswax in- 
deed) this leg-home is of diuers colours, white, blacke, yel- 
low, greene, red, tawny, orenge, murry, and of lundry 
midling colours. Therefore fenfe doth fay it is no wax. 
Thereafons are two. Thefirft is, becaufe when they ga- 
ther abundance of this fluffe,they haue neuer the more wax. 
The other becaufe when they make moll wax, they gather 
none of this. 
For proofe of the firft, All the Bees betweene Virgo and 
Taurus doe gather abundance of it : and yet are not their 
combes in this time any whit enlarged. AJfooneof-thofe 
old Halls that are full of combes, doth carry more of this 
matter all the fummer long than many fwarmes ; and yet 
haue they no more wax at the end of theyeere than at the 
beginning. 
For proofe of the other, The new fwarmes within one 
weeke, if the weather ferue them, will haue halfe filled their 
hiues with combes : aHd yet in all this fpace (hall you lcarce 
fee one carry any of this. J f you would know the reafon why 
the Hocks gather fo much, and the new fwarmes fo little; jt 
is becaufe the Hocks hau efehadons which they feed with it, 
and the new fwarmes haue none. And if any foolilh Bee 
doecarry in timbre fa , it is put in a dry cell where it rur- 
neth to Stopping, v. as I haue leene within a fortnight af- 
ter the hiuing. 
And this, though 'now it feeme new, yetwasitknowne 
many ages agoe. Tlinie writeth ofit thus •. Trater bac ( t.pra- 
ter ceram & neZlar ) convehitur ertthace , cjuam aliqui fanda- 
racham, alij cerintbunt vocant. Hie erit apum dum operant nr 
cibus : tjui ftepe invenitur in favor am inanitatibus fepofitus ; & 
ipfeamari faporis, Speakingin the laH words of that which 
is corrupted v. And before him Ariftotle himfelfe thus: Mel 
apibus turn aft ate turn hjeme cibo eft : fed recondutit alterum 
quotf cibarij genus, cuichmtks eeraproxima, quod fqndara - 
chamnomulli appellant * . 
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