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and dry weather) and in the end itdiflolueth them quitch 
Thetimein which thefeHonie-dewes fall, is vfuailybc- 44 
tweene the firft and laft daies of this moneth : although ^ben 
the continuance of hot and dry weather may caufe them 
come fomewhat rather, or laft fomewhat longer, euen vn till 
mid-Leo or * after. They may happen at any time of the 
day : but for the moft part in the morning before it be light: 
Sub lucanis tsraporibus. It upturn prima aurora folia arbo - Nat.HiftJi.n. 
rummede rofctda invenimtur. And then (hall you haue the c * Il » 
Bees vp in a morning as foone as they can fee, making fuch 
a (hrill noife where they goe, that, as rnerrie Goffips when 
they meet, amanmayheare them farther than fee them. 
* Intheyeare 161 almoft twomoneths after the vfuall time, namely 
inthe later parr of Ftrgo, there fell diuers Honie-dewes: which camero 
paffe by reafon that continual! wet kept them backe in their due time, and 
followed exceeding hot. he wcathtrfor them. But becaufe the Sate 
of the flowers was then weake,theftate ofthofe Honie-dewes alfb was f® 
weakc, that the Bees were little the better for them. The flails, that were 
taken, proued light : and mod of the fwarmes and flocks, that were kept 
forftore,d:ed for want before the end of Winter. Except oncly in the 
Heath Countries, where the Heath-flower being then in his prime, thole 
late Honk-Jcwcs made fat flails. 
In Leo Vetches, Malowes, Tyme, Knap-weede, Blacke- 
berie , white Honie-fuckle, Redweed, Thiftle, Melone,&c. 
Nowallbdoe they gather ontheLauendcr , if their haftie 
Dames doe not gather it from them before it be readie. 
In Virgo Knap-weed , Black-berie, Redweed, Dandelion, 
Milowes, Borage, (See. and the ample Heath, which yeeldcth 
Honielikevnto their Wooll. P'. #. 31. and c.io.p. z.n. ii\ 
In Libra Dandelion, Heath, Iuie, &c. 
In Scorpio Dandelion, Iuie, Arch-angell, &c. 
And in this great variecie this is ftrange, that where they 
beginne they will make an end : and not meddle with any 
flowreof other fort, vntill they haue their load. Mosapibus 
tie jUmm plura genera petant uno eodem^ profelht, ( ed(tn - 
gulls fingula . infomuch that thole which beginne with the 
flower of the Vetch will not once touch the rich fpotted 
leafeof the fame, beforethey hauebeeneathome. Altnough 
When they come to a flower that yeeldeth both Nettar and 
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*he Bees gather 
but of ont l^iade 
sf flower in one 
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