Of the Bees Enemies. 
C. 7* 
7 & 
When *f if toe 
late, and rvhat 
n tbtn to be done 
will chey keepc the Robbers our, and follow their bufinelTe 
neuercheleffe. The nexcday you may let them. out rather: 
and if the doorebe fo narrow that it hinder their parage, 
you may make it wider. If this doenot fuffice, but ftillthe 
ftrange Bees will ftriue to get in; allure your felfe that Hall 
Will yeeld. And therefore if you bee loth to take it now, 
becaufcof the Schadons that may corrupt the Honiey. then r.t.io./j.aj 
muft you lookevnco him carefully, left by little and little it 
come to little or nothing. 
But if the Bees haueyeelded before you are aware of it, 
fo that the rheeues rob quietly without refiftance;or haue 
broken the Home-cels 5 ( which you may perceiue by the 
crumblets of Wax vpon the ftoole) then, hauing fliut the 
Hiue clofe alToone as you can, the next euening or morning 
take that is leaft : otherwife in the end you fliall lofe all. For 
the Bees there about fmelling the Honie when the Combes 
are broken, will haue it or die for it. 
This fierce and cruell robbing being alwaies in Harueft, 
when people are bufie in the fields ; many Hiuesare leaft 
Honie-lelfe, and they neuer the wifer. Wherefore itis good 
toleauefome body at home, as well to watch thefe, as the 
two legged R bbers. 
Neither is this robbing hurtfull onely tothofe that are 
robbed, but to the Robbers alfo. For many of them are dai- 
ly cutoff in the aftaulr: (you may fee them lye fprawlingat 
euerieHiue-doore) whereby their whole flail fometimeis fo 
weakned ; that, while they feeke to prey vpon others, they 
become a prey themfelues. 
After a moift Spring, when Swarmes are moft plentifully, 
is robbing moft rife: otherwife there is leffe danger. 
Befidcs tho<e Bees that are thus fpoiled in robbing, many 
alfo are killed by other flails when they come to them for 
fuccour. For in the Spring thofe Swarmes that were late- 
ward, or haue beene halfe-robbed; when 
47 . 
Robbing hurtfull 
alfo to the 
T beeues. 
48. 
In 'what te arts 
robbing if moft 
rife. 
V.c. f.». f. 
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Bees ^ 'll foore 
they haue fpent all fwarma that 
th?irftore, the next warme day after, away they flye: fome zander tnthc 
to a tree where they hang rill they be dead: fomeaduenture 
into ocher Hiues ; where if they haue large entrance , that 
they may throng in fuddainely ; fometime they fcape with 
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