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Rh great noyſe, flying and daſhing togither, and that in heapes and rounde companies mixed or ioyned togither, and greate is the noyſe made among them. And to be ſhorte, in this ſtrong and eager battell, many of them fal headlong downe, and that thicker then haile ſtones to the ground.

The kings themſelues in the meane time flying in the middel frontes, doe fight with a fierce courage within themſelues, and they alſo are ſeene to flie hither and thither among thicke heapes and ſwarmes of the Bees, (like as valiaunte Capytaines are wont to do in the time of a battell) with their gliſtering wings and beakes, beating downe of the ſwarmes, here & there and on eche ſide of them, of both parties. So that of themſelues not giuyng ouer this eager battell, untill the one part be forced to turne the backe to the other, and flye away with expedition. Therefore ye this doubful battel in the meane time may be ceaſed and quieted betwene them, the wiſe practiſers wyll that the keeper of Bees, do ſtaye and appeaſe this broyle of thē, by the caſting of fine earth ouer the Bees, whiles they be thus fighting, which (as the wiſe affirme) of experience doth forthewith pacifie the great ſtomackes and courages of both partes. But if this auayleth not, then with honny and water ſodden togither, or rayſons in like order, or with any other ſweete licour ſprinckled on them, is their furie appeaſed, whiche doth as it were with the pleaſaunt ſweeteneſſe, quiet the irefulneſſe of ye warriours, and wyth the ſame in this controueeſie they are maruelouſly appeaſed. If neyther of theſe remedies do yet preuaile, then let the keper marke diligentlye thoſe whyche fyghte in the fronte, and bee moſte eager Capytaines, that hee maye kill them with expedition, for by that meanes, and with the other remedies aboue taughte, maye the battels and fight of the wariours be throughly ceaſed.

Now after the Bees are thus quieted, and the ſwarme ſetled rounde on ſome greene bowe nexte hande, then marke whether the whole ſwarme hangeth downe like a cluſter of grapes, whiche ſo ſeeing, declareth there to bee eyther one king or two, by good agreement reconciled, whiche let alone on