To the Reader. 
recompence you manifold. For their de¬ 
light is in warm and dry Habitations, not 
narrow and tall, troublefom to afcend, but 
broad and fallow. For it was not the Love 
the trci bare to Ludovicus Vivcs that made 
them fettle under the Leads over his Study 
in Oxford, and continue there above an 
hundred years, although their coming thi¬ 
ther at that time might prove ominous to 
the future Eloquence of that perfon: nor 
could a narrow place have afforded Jo great 
a Mafs of Honey as was taken thence upon 
renewing the Leads, Anno 1630. as Mr. 
Butler hath related: But it was the conve¬ 
nt ency of the place being broad, warm and 
dry, that invited them to fo long and con¬ 
tinued a Succejfion : In other places of the 
fame nature 1 have known the like, although 
not for fo long a time. And as the Bees de¬ 
light in a clofc and private Dwelling, fo you 
muji endeavour to prejerve them by the fmall- 
nefs and clofenefs of the Doors to keep out 
their enemies, which are not a few, and fave 
them much of their labour in a continual 
watch for a great part of the year, and fe- 
cure them in their Sleep at other times from 
being dejlroyed or deprived of their Wealth , 
yet not to Jlraiten them in their buflc times of 
gathering. Many other things you may objerve 
