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triidt the Honk- 
dew it. 
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When the Honit- 
dtmt are mfi 
frequent. 
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other : and refilling their old haunts , fearch and fecke after 
the Oake: which for that time fhall haue more of their cu- 
ftome, than all the Plants of the Earth. Sometime the Ma- 
ple and Hazell, take part with the04^?; but little and fei- 
dome. While the Honie-dew ladeth, they are exceeding 
earned, plying their bufinelTe like men in Harued : you may 
fee them fo thicke at the Hiue-doore palling to and fro, that 
dfeentimes they throw downe one an other for hade. 
What this Mel Rofcidnm fhould be, feemeth much 
to doubt where hefaith, Siveillnd fit tali fndor y five cju&dam 
fy derum faliva, Jive purgantis fe aeris fuccus. But, if conie- 
£tures might be admitted, I would rather iudge it to be the 
verie quintelfence of allthefweetneire of the earth (which 
at that time is mod plentifull ) drawnc vp,as other dewes, in 
vapors into the third Region of the Aire, by the exceeding 
andcontinuall heat of the Sunne; and there concrete and 
condenfated by the nightly cold into this mod fweet and 
Soueraigne Neftar : and then doth it defeend vnto the earth 
in a dew or fmall drizling raine: that he might well fay, Con- 
flat materiam , ex qua mel gignitnr , rori ejfe cengenerem . 
Which opinion is the more probable for thefereafons. Fird 
becaufe that when the yeare is backward in his fruits , the 
Honie-dewes are alfo backward : comming onely at fuch 
time as the flowers haue the mod folid and bed iuyee. Be- 
fore, when the iuyee is wcake and waterifh, andafterward y 
when it is dryed and waded, they arc noc.t/: Secondlyjbe- 
caufc that in more hot & Southernly climats,whcre the fruits 
are more forward, the Hony-dewes alfo are more timely; 
as in Italy before Gemini. Non omnino , faith 7 ’lime , print 
vergiltarum exortu : v. whereas with vs they fall not vfually 
before (flancer. And thirdly, becaufe the Countries that 
haue Aore of the bed and fweeted flowers, haue euer the bed 
Horde, v.n. 29 . 
The hotter and drier the Summer is, the greater and more 
frequent are the Honie-dewes ; cold and wet weather is vn* 
kinde for them: much raine at any time, as comming from 
a higher Region, wafheth away that which is alreadie eleua- 
jred : ( fo that these can be no more vn till an other fit of hot 
and 
