C.y] Of the Bees Enemies. 
turnethto their owne ouerthrow : for when their foodfai- 
leth they dye all together. 
Remedi't. Seeing therefore in fo cruell and continuing a fight, oft- 
titties the enemies are Conquerors, and then all is loll ; and 
if they be vmquifhr,yet this vi&orieis not without lode of 
men and goods, which the enemy euer now and then fhif'ceth 
away j I know your defire is to know how to fuccour the 
truemen, either by preuencingthis dangerous conflift, or by 
Tc present mb- rclcuing them in the fame For the firfl readeC. 3 .n. 45. 
b*ng, 46 47. For the other many praflifes haue beene tried : 
fome call daft, fome drinke among them : the one whereof 
A»d t'jftayttiif doth no good, the other harme. For drinke maketh them 
>n to fmell all alike, fo that the true men cannot know che, 
— - — - Tiieeues from their fellow es: and therefore fome vfeto doe . 
fo, when two fwarmes are put together, that they may feeme 
to be of one companie. If thefe vfuall helps be no helps, 
' what help is there then i If you perceiue their fighting in 
time before any great harme be done, then this mull you 
doc. Firfl flop them vp clofe,that nonecan pafle either in or 
out, leauing onely a breathing place. Then fhall you haue a 
double conflift j one within, an other without. Thetheeues 
that arc within, hailing no way to efcape with their preyes, 
firfl or lafl will be fiaine all. They that are without, after a 
little wreflling, feeing nothing to be had but blowes, will 
not long abide this bootletfe danger. When you perceiue 
thefiegeto be raifed, and that there is little or no fighting 
without ; ( W'hich will be about an houre after) then may 
you let out your Bees, making the doore halfe an inch high, 
and fcarcehalfean inch wide. Thofe few that were within 
will they bring forth to burialljfome then, fome on the mor- 
row. In theeuening, when the Bees are all in, fhut them vp 
as before. The next day betimes, before the Bees would be 
abroad, mufl you lookeforfomeof them againe. When they 
are come, beat them away with a bough, but kill themnoc: 
for fo may you doe your neighbour a fhrewd turne, and your 
felfe too. 
But let not the Bees out before noone : and then make 
the doore fo narrow, that but one Bee may pallc at once. So 
will 
