39 * 
Tin tVafftsUfye 
Vultures. 
40 . 
Tbs battaile en- 
ded they bury 
their d^ad. 
Vug. tieosi 
Of the "Bees Enemies. C.7. 
they be drawne after. Moreouer the young Souldiers, which 
haue fcarce beenc abroad before, you fhallfee the elder fort 
goe round about them, fmoothing and trimming them 
in euery place , as if they did addrelle, and hearten them to 
fi 2 hr * . f . * 
During the time of this battaile, as afterward, the Wafpes 
like Vultures prey vpon the dead carkalles, carrying them 
away peece-meale.t/. n. 1 2. 
The battaile being ended by repulfe of the enemy, thofe 
corpfes, which the Wafpes haueleaft, they honeftly burieas 
farrefrom the Hiues as they can beare them. 
-Turn corpora luce carentum 
Expert ant teftis, & trifiia funera due tint, 
' And then they draw together at the Citie gates : and there 
they buzze one to another, as if in their language they did 
talke of the fight, and commend one an other for their for- 
titude. 
The Robbers, preuailing not that day, will vp the next 
dayfo fooneasit is light, an houre before the Bees vfe to 
come abroad : and then doe they make a frefh affault. The 
Bees finding the enemy among them, are prefently vp in 
artnes :andfo beginnes the fecond skirmifh, which, with- 
out the taking of the Citie or the ouerthrow of the aifailants, 
( which feldome hapneth ) continueth,vntill verydarknelFe 
part them. 4Zo 
When the true Bees, finding themfelues ouermatcht with tvhentbe true 
multitude, fee there is no remedie, and that no refifla nee will Bees yeeld, they 
feme 5 at length they yeeld, and fuffer the Conquerours qui- 
etly to fpoile their goods. And after a while, when, by be- ‘ — — 
ing together in thefameHiue, and fucking the fameHonie, 
all fmell alike ; they will ioyne with their enemies, and help 
carrie away their owne goods, and fo become friends and 
liue together. At night they lodge with them : but in the 
day-time they returne with their new fellowes to fetch that is 
leaft behinde. By this meanes feme venterous lhlls are fud- 
dainly much increafed both in Bees and Honie : although 
when a Swarme not oucr-ftored conquereth a poorc flail, 
and fo getteth, by the vi&orie, more eaters than meat; ic 
R 2 turneth 
4T. 
The fecond df- 
fault of the ene- 
my. 
