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Rh  cluſters of Grapes, and doe hang togither on heapes one vpon another.

The other note is, that when they be minded within three daies after to flye awaye, they make as meruellous noiſe and ſturring too and fro within hiues at euening, as Souldiours at the Alarme within a Caſtell, whiche you maye eaſilye knowe, (this readineſſe of them) if that you lay your eare to ech hiue. And when ſome of the Bees are flowen awaye, then doe thoſe waite for the others, vntill the whole ſwarme be come togither. That the Bees fly not awaye, Plinie teacheth in the xi. Booke of his Naturall Hiſtorie, that the hiues ought to be annointed about with ye iuyce of ye herb named Balme. Alſo other affyrme, that the ſwarme to ſettle and ſtay againe through the onely throwing of fine duſte on them, if ſo be the ſame be throwen on light, and that ouer the bees. Some beſide affirme, that the Bees will not flye awaye, if that the dung of the firſt calfe of any Cowe, be ſmeared about the mouths of the hiues. Plinie writeth, that by the only binding of the freſh white Uine (running in hedges) rounde about the bodies of the Hyues, it ſtayeth the ſwarme from flying away.

Hen the Bees are nowe in a tumulte in the ayre, by throwing fine earth on high ouer the Bees, or ringing a baſen or kettle, they be with the ſhrill ſound made aſtonied, that they maye the ſooner ſettle downe neare to the keeper, whiche if the ſame happen to be on the branch of a tree, or on a graft or yong ſet, then with a very ſharpe ſawe, gently ſawe that off, and laye it on the grounde, and ſpeedily ſet Hiue on the ſame prepared for the purpoſe. For by that meanes (without doubte) will the whole ſwarme flye vp to the toppe and head of the Hiue. Yet it often happeneth, that they doe not wholy cleaue on a heape to the braunch of a tree, but to the ſticke or body of the tree, whych  by