Of the 'Bees Worke. 
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Andtokeepe the Bees from danger of drowning, vnto 58. 
which they are very obnoxious, (for if they but touch the trough-ca- 
water with their wings, they cannot rife from it) let each "f'f” 1 * ^ 
Quarter of the Trough haue his Couer,in thicknefTc about — : <■ 
halfean inch, in breadth and length fitting to his Quarter 5 
but fo, that without let it may rife and fall with the water. 
The matter of this Coucr muft be corkc, which mull as 
well haue open fpaces for the water to take aire $ as places for 
the Bees to light on : leftit being coueredtooclofe, doe cor- 
rupt and become vnfauourie. It is bell: to diuideeach couer 
into two equall parts : and in the edges on both lides to^ut 
bttlenickes. Andfo this may betheformeof it. 
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Other fafhions both of their Troughes, and of their Cq- 
uers, may be deuifed : but thefe haue Teemed to me in all re- 
fpe&smoftfitting. 
A new Trough thus framed and fitted, is to be feafoned be- , 
fore it bevfed,by often fealdingit, and changing the foulc a ndoljerin^»f 
water 5 vntill,hauingftooda day or two, icremaineth cleare, the Eee-ireugh. 
and without a glittering flime: afterward the older and more ^ 
earthie it is, the better they like it. 
The Trough being feafoned,fct in fomc conuenient place, 
about a pearch from the Bees jhauing a moueableplancke, 
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