Of the ’Bees Worke. 
dainely affrighted , what with the handling, and what with 
the noife,tnade vp againe with all fpeed poflible : the man 
held, and theBeare pulled, vntill with maine; force he had 
drawne of the mire: and then, being letgoe, away 
he trots, more afeard then hurt , leauing thelmearedSwaine 
in a ioyfull fearc. 
T HE Bees earneftandhot Labour, and the drought of 
the Aire, together with their cholerike Complexion, 
which their very hue bewrayeth, doth caufe them much to 
defire cold Water. Somechinke it ferueth onely to feed their 
Schadons:^ Aquam turn part ant, cum prolem nutr'iunt )v: and 
that not without reafon, feeing that Amhrofa their daily 
food is hot and dry : and indeed when the Drones are done 
away, and breeding is ended, the Bees are nothing fo fre- 
quent at the watring-placcs. But Columella, thinketh the 
vfe thereof to be more generall, Sine qua neq 7 favi, neg ? mel- 
la nec pu/fi denifo figurari queunt. Vnto whom the Poet, in 
the place firft cited in this Chapter, feemeth to afient; ma- 
king water and flowers the common matter of their three 
workes. 
The Watring-placelhould 1 * 3 * * * * * * * notbefarre from your Gar- 
den, b in the next fide of a Pond or Brooke, c madeiheluing, 
not very fteepe, in manner of a Foord, and 11 defended from 
Beafts, Geefe, Duckes, and fuch like: and efpecially young 
Ducklings,v.f 3./WW.59. 
1 For they will ncuer goe farre for water, if any be to be had necre 
hand. Submtniltu urbimquamur. And therefore when you fee Bee* wa- 
trir.g in woods or other places, not neere anyHiues; bee fare thofe arc 
wilde Bees, which are not farre from their neaft. Watch them there- 
fore which way they flic : for they will ihcncc dire&ly to it. Which if it 
be not within view, take a Rcede or Kcx,or fome like hollow thing open 
at one end, withachinkccut in the other to let in light: and taking vp a 
Bee by the wings put her into the Cane, and (hut her in with your thumb: 
while (hegoeth downe to the light, put in an other, and fo as many as you 
thinkegood. And then where you laft fee the Bees flying homeward from 
the water, goe to that place, and there let out one of the Bees in the box : 
which, when flic hath caft a Ring to know where (he is, willfly as dire&ly 
home « the other :likewifc where you fee her laft, let out another: and 
fo the reft, vntill they have brought you to the flail. 
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Bees haue tsecef • 
farie yfe of w<t-> 
ter. 
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Chiefly for their 
breeds 
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the Watering- 
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How ta finde 
Wilde Bees. 
