C.£ 
3 *. 
Gemini. 
19 - 
Cancer, 
Of the Bees Worke. 
little picked leafe of the Vetch, which groweth on each fide 
the two or three vpper-moft ioyncs. 1 hefc they ply conti- 
nually :I neuer (aw Vetches, howfarrc foeuerftom Hiues, 
that for three moneths together (if the weather ferued) were 
not full of Bees. 
dn Gemini, the firlt rnoncth of fruitfull Summer, befides, 
thofe prime Plants, Vetch and Maple, (which now are in 
their prime) and the reft forenamed j Beanes alfo, whjcjb. 
with their flowers haue alfoblacke (potted leaues like Vet- 
ches, on which fometime they gather, Arch-angell, Barberie, 
Fumitorie, Ribwort akinde o( Planranie, Holme or Hollie, 
Hawthorne, Elder, red Honie-fuckle, Red-weede, white 
Honie-fuckle, which they like much better than the red, &c. 
Ia-fancer, with the fore-named, the hlollbme of the 
Vetch, as wellastheLeafe, Benet, Malowes, the (oucraigne 
Tyme, which yeeldeth onely Netlar: and therefore he was 
deceiued that faid CruraThymo plena. Tyme, for the time ic- 
lafteth, yeeldeth moil and beft Honic : and therefore in old 
time was accounted chiefe, (Thymus aptifftmus ad melltfici- 
um, Paftus gratijjimus apibusThymum eft. 
Dum Thy mo pafcentur apes,dum rore cicada.) 
TUmetius in Greece , and Hfb U'm Sicily were fo famous 
for Bees and Honie, becaufe there grew fuchftoreof Tyme: 
Propter hoc Siculum me l fert palmam, quod ibi Thy mum bo- 
ny.m dr frequent eft. The Knap-weed flouriftieth about the 
middle of this moneth,and the Blackberic about a weekc 
after: Both which, as fweet and plentifull, the Bees much 
haunt. 
But the greateft plentie of the pureft NeElar- commetb 
from aboue : which Almightie God doth miraculoully de- 
ftill outof the Aire,, (aerei melhs coeleftia dona ) and hath or- 
dained the Oaky , among all the trees of the Wood, to re- 
■ ceiuc and ktepe the fame vpon his fmooth and folide leaues, 
( Et quercm fttdabunt rofcidaonetla J vntill either the Bees 
tongue, or the heat oftheSunne haue drawne it away .When r ^ g - 
there is a Honie-dcw,you may perceiue by the Bees : for,as if J'p elrnafii 
they fmdled itv: by rhefweetnelfeof fbe Aire, they prefent- tna Hon,e-d!v?. 
lyitlueout of their Hiues, in great hafte following one an 
other : 
Pl.nat.hift. 1. 
I I.C.II. 
Hift.l.p. c 40. 
Vir.Oeor.4. 
Var.l.$.c.i6. 
• 
40 
0 r Honie- deWet, 
Virg. Georg, 
Virg. Poflio, 
41. 
