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Rh  for theyr flying in and out (as afore was taught) in the ordering of the other hiues. But it behoueth the diligent ſercher, to choſe the morning times for ye finding out of Bees, wherby you may haue the ſpace & libertie of the day before you, to finde out ye reſort of Bees. For by loking late after thē, it falleth out ſo, that although the Bees are neare hande, yet bycauſe they haue then done their buſie and careful laboure, they flye no longer abrode to ſeeke foode, nor yet reſorte to drinke.

Throughe which it ſo commeth to paſſe, that the ſearcher after Bas knoweth nor then howe neare, or far off, the ſwarm is from the ſpring or running water. Some take the iuyce of the hearb Baulme in the Spring time, and annoint the ſame round about the hiue, whereby the ſauour of the iuyce maye cleaue and abide on the veſſell, whiche afterwarde being fayre within, ſprinckle aboute with a littl honny, ſetting the ſame hiue downe neare to the woodde or groue of trees faſt by that ſpring or water rūning by it, and after the ſame be filled with a ſwarme, carry it gently home. Yet doeth not this like, but in ſuch places where the ſwarmes of Bæs do abounde, for that oftentimes it ſo hapneth, that vnleſſe the hiues be dailye watched, that the goers by do take them away. But to loſe ſundrie hiues, gretly hindreth not, ſo that you may in the mean whiles enioy one or two of them full.

Nowe hitherto hathe beene ſufficientlye taughte, ſuche remedies and helpes, as neceſſarily ſerue, to the taking, and recouering of Bees loſte, and otherwiſe to finde oute ſtraunge ſwarmes.

Linie in his twentith book writeth, that the hearb Sperage, bruſed and mixed with oyle, and annoynted with the ſame, doth defende the perſon from being ſtinged, by coming nigh to their hiues. And in his xxviy. booke he alſo wryteth, that  Rh