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Of the Bees Enemies. q ^ 
Bees, if they bcluflie, will kill many of them that come to 
theHiue. But if it be a poore Stall, they will in timcpoffeire 
theHiue, and eat vptheHonie. The beft remedie againft 
them is to fcald them. 
The Spider, as the Moth , doth vfe to harbour betwcene Xl , 
the Hackle andthe Hiue : where commonly (he hatha Bee or 10 .The spider. 
twaine in (lore to feed on , an vnfit mellc for luch a mouth : 
Sometime fhe hangeth hir Nets vnder the Stoolej which ea. 
fily intangle a wearie Bee, when fhee commeth laden home, 
and miffing of the lighting place falleth into them :yea, and 
fometime where the Bees are f ew, chiefly in the winter, they 
will bee bold to enter the Hiue, and there weauc their fatall 
VVebbes. In for thus lax os fufpendtt aranea caffes. Aranei quet^ Virg. 
v el maxim'e hofttles : cum pravalucrc ut intexant , enecant Nar.Hift.Lu-, 
alveos. & ' l ^° 
The Toad is by nature fonoyfome to the Bees, that while 
he is about the Hiue, though he lie but vnder the Stoolc, the t x. The Toad. 
Bees will not profper. He is faid alfotodeuourethcm at the ^ Tfj _ " 
Hiue,astheFrogatthcWatring-place. Ran<& Apes , ubi ad an 
atjuam accefferint } rapiunt : cjuamobrem eai Apiary perpaludes c>40 
& ftagna,und« Apes aejuantHr,venart folent. Rub eta etiam A- Ibidem. 
pes interimit : fubiens enim adtttu alvei a flat, & obfervans ra- 
p'd evelantes. Nttllo bac affei malo ab Apibtes potefl j fed ab 
usd'piario facile intcrimttur, Item, Infdiantur aquantibtu Ra - Nat.Hift.I.ar. 
na : ejua maxima earum eft operatio, turn ettm fobolem facimt. 
v. Nec ha tantum sjua, ftagna riuqffe obftdent , verttm & rub eta, ^A.n. yj. 
veniunt ultro , adrepentefy forth tu per eas fuff-ant : ad hoe pro- 
volant , confeftimefe abripittnlur. 
B Vt not any one of thefe, nor all thefe together, doe halfe 
fomuch barmeto the Bees, as the Bees. Apesapi, as ho- 
mo bomini, Lupus, They. make the greateif fpoile both of nemit. 
Bees and Honie. Forasthey of the fame Hiue liue in inuio- " ~ 
lable peace one with another ; fo haue they no entercourfe,, 
no friend (hip or focietie with others, but are rather at perpe- 
tuall defiance, and deadly feud with them. In fight they arc 
fierce, and in vidtorie merciletfe : within the fpaceof a day 
or twain#, yea, of an after-noone fometime, if the Hiue bee 
©pen 
ay. 
IJ. The Bee the 
B'ei gre*tft e. 
