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A56300	A theatre of politicall flying-insects wherein especially the nature, the vvorth, the vvork, the wonder, and the manner of right-ordering of the bee, is discovered and described : together with discourses, historical, and observations physical concerning them : and in a second part are annexed meditations, and observations theological and moral, in three centuries upon that subject / by Samuel Purchas ...	Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.	1657 (1657)	Wing P4224; ESTC R6282	278,822	394

indiscreet curse So the truly righteous though great temporall advantages present themselves with the breach of Gods Law yet rather choose a contented poverty then riches with the appurtenances of everlasting sorrow LXXXIX As Sampsen tooke honey out of the carkasse of the Lion so it becomes the Magistrates to pull the honey of the Church out of the jawes of all sacrilegious Lions But if the cunning conveyances of sacriledge have made that impossible since it lies not now intire in the combes but is let downe and digested by these ravenours Let him whose glory it is not to be pater patriae but pater ecclesiae provide that those few pots we have may still seeth and that if nothing will be added nothing can be recovered yet that nothing may be purloyned from the Altars of God XC Thy lippes my Spouse drop as the honey-combe honey and milke are under thy tongue He commends the Spouse for her lippes and her tongue Now her lippes are the Preachers and Doctors and other Teachers of the Church who ought to be a honey-combe to their people with the sweetnesse of love and distilling with gentlenesse and affability The lippes of Moses were not an honey-combe because they had more bitternesse then sweetnesse I am not el●quent Also the Law of Moses had bitternesse for it required eye for eye tooth for tooth Againe though the lippes of Moses were a honey-combe yet not dropping but dry and stony and mysterious that is in stony Tables where in truth the secret of the divine Law was hidden so that he made him to suck honey out of the Rock But now the lippes of the Church drop as a honey-combe A honey-combe is honey in the waxe that is the divinitie in the humanitie Or by honey-combe is understood the secret of divine wisdome which is melted from the lippes of the Church whence it followes Honey and milke are under thy tongue by tongue is to be understood the same with the lippes by honey is signified the instruction of the perfect but by milke the teaching of the simple The Apostle had honey under his tongue when he said As unto Babes in Christ I have fed you with milke A honey-combe dropping not dilated and spread abroad For the words of Doctors or Preachers ought to drop according to the capacitie of the hearer not to be powred out all at once XCI Bees are not only profitable for our bodies but morall uses are by Divines made of them The Queene-Bee only useth not her sting hath a body greater then the rest wings not answerable to her body workes not yet though throned in the top of the hive makes a continued progresse or walke over it after a sort over-seeing directing exhorting others in their severall stations and employments So kings and great men ought to have innocent hands readily extended for the good of all valiantly defending willfully hurting none with counsell and authoritie presiding and profiting whensoever there is need and occasion XCII The Bee saith the sonne of Syrach is little among winged creatures she composeth her workes admirably and observes a wonderfull politie and order in government So some men that have little bodies and lesse strength yet have acute wittes and working braines XCIII Bees gather of many flowers but hurt none so ought the Governours among Gods people have a care of all their subjects but wrong and prejudice none XCIV Bees ordinarily delight not in dead carkasses nor gather of dead flowers so ought heroicall natures to abominate vices and vicious persons XCV Bees gather not all things of every thing but Bee-bread of some flowers honey of others water else-where so ought the Governours of kingdomes to exact and expect some services from Divines others from Lawyers others from the Nobilitie others from Citizens and others from men of inferiour ranke and qualitie Now it is a singular part of judgement and prudence to observe what beseemes each order what every man can performe and to draw all orders to a pleasing harmonie XCVI Bees are diligent in their labours whensoever faire weather invites them and not only on some set times or dayes taking libertie to be idle on others So ought the Governours of kingdomes alwayes attend and procure the good of the Common-wealth and of each particular person in the same but without hypocrisie a●…d dissimulation Friderick the third Emperour of Germanie not without cause when he saw his Counsellers enter into the Court at Vienna was wont to wish that every man of them before they entered in would put off two plagues of the Common-wealth simulation and dissimulation XCVII Bees as some other Insects will flie so long about a Candle till they burne their wings and lose their lives And a wandring mind growing wanton with curious care about the flame of hidden secrets oft befooles nay destroyes it selfe XCVIII A wise soule in his thought-worke is as a Bee-hive all the powers are in labour and continually going out and returning no power idle and none returne emptie and all their observations as honey said up for use it gathereth and digesteth in it selfe a substance and masse of purified knowledge and that for affection and action and all of them for the obedience of God and union with him XCIX Bees are not only laborious when they are in want and their provision small but when they are largely supplyed they are as earnestly bent on their gathering as if they had nothing Beleevers are not to stint their endeavou●s when they have attained to a competency of knowledge but to goe on still forward and grow for though they have enough to make them thankfull yet never enough to make them remisse and negligent they must still presse forwards like runners in a race and look not how much they have runne but how much remaines let it alwayes displease thee to continue as thou art if thou meanest to arrive where thou art not C. Bees have a common house a common ear● of posteritie common labour common food common generation a common use and fr●ition of all things and therefore intirely and cordially love one another if one be wronged they will all though with the losse of their owne lives vindicate the injury and vanquish the adversary And shall not professors of the same religion who are in so neare a relation one to another be tenderly affected one to another and love one another They have the same God for their father the same Church for their mother Christ their elder brother are begotten of the same immortall seed nourished with the same milke of the word eate the same bread of the Sacraments and looke for the same blessed inheritance and therefore must needs by the teaching and worke of the Spirit love one another heartily and mutually THE THIRD CENTURIE I. THere is something of God in every creature this makes the meditation of the creature to be usefull There is none even the meanest

Savory Origanum Hysop Pondweed with a flowre like Patience Lang d●z beuf common Thistle Bugloss sometimes but seldome Burrage Parsly Lotus Lis●●achia Roses red Damask Velvet Henbane Mustard-seed Sharewort Canker-rose Daneswort Bindweed Mallows Melilot Calamint Cowcumber Thyme which onely yeeldeth Nectar So Mr. Butler who therefore findes fault with Virgil for saying Crura thymo plena but let any observe and hee shall finde they gather as often Bee-bread as honey and again hee saith The Bees gather not of the Rose the Primrose the Clove-July-flower the Pease of all which they gather plentifully but not of the Pease untill the blossome begins to wither and the cod to put forth and then they gather Sandaracha of it plentifully especially in the morning In Iuly Tobacco Love Carduus-benedictus Jacea Lampsana Penny-royal Small Dentdelion Sca●let Beans Mayweed Gourds Clotbur Live-long Horse-mints Skir●e●s Yarrow Germander Nip Sowthistle single and double July-flowers Succory Dill Clematis Altera Fenil Filius Ante patrem Holy-hock French-marigold Coriander Lavender Melon Blackbery Buck Jacobea Stechados In August Red Eye-bright Knap-weed Heath Virga Aurea Ivy. In September You are to take notice that many of these flowers blow twice a year as Rosemary Archangel Tamari●k Bu●rage Charlock also although not the same roots And some continue longer than the month whereto they are ascribed and some begin to blow a little before but whensover they blow the Bees gather of them but less in Autumne than in the Spring Many flowers afford matter of gathering in the morning before the dew is quite exhaled which in the heat of the day yeeld little as the Pease and a tall rank grass having a stalk a foot and a half long with a large bushie ear Bees have this property that whatsoever Flower they first begin with when they goe to work they meddle with no other that journey but lade themselves with such meat alone as that kind yeeldeth this is a common but no catholique custome for I have often observed the contrary It is true if there be flowers enough near at hand to make up their burden of that sort they begin withall they will meddle with no other but if they have begun to gather of a flower that likes them and cannot finde enough to furnish them then they wil make up their load of some other CHAP. XVI Of the ordering of Bees IN February lift up your Hives on the one side nimbly and with a wing wipe away all the sharings of combs dross dung or whatsoever else lyes upon the stoole which although the Bees in time would performe yet hereby shal you save them a great deal of labour If your old Stocks have any crumbling or crispie combs take them out in the Spring for they cannot work to them lay the Hives on one side having ready a fire of dried Cow-dung in a Chafingdish without a flame the smoke wil drive the Bees inward and you may securely performe it Some tell us of putrefaction in the combs in regard of dead brood chilled which combs they would have taken out but I never met with more than the Bees could rid themselves of except when the Bees are almost if not altogether starved That they so love quiet that they scarce endure the company of men is false and therefore must have walls built about them with holes to see what offends them is ridiculous yet commended by Florentinus Bees are much offended with long hair on head or face let such therefore as must be often among them wear short hair or be wel covered on peril of stinging If a Bee have stung you in hot weather your wisest and safest way is to depart for a while for there issues with the sting a strong poysonful savour which you your self may smel but howsoever the Bees wil readily and knowing thereby that some of their company are wronged wil with eagerness seek to vindicate the injury on whomsoever they finde present in the place and come about you thick and threefold there is no way to appease them but one get away as fast as you can and when the ●●roar is over you may securely come again The best time to doe any thing about your Bees is in the morning before they stirre or when they are new gone abroad or in the evening when they are returned from their work Make the mouth narrow least the Summers heat dissolve the Dissolve the hony or cold Winter freeze For both extreams alike annoy the Bees Be very careful about the doore or entrance into your Hives for negligence herein occasions the loss of more Bees than any other neglect from the Dor-mouse and Tit-mouse in Winter and the Wasp and robbing Bees in Autumn Let the doors be somewhat long but very low not much above the height of a Bee and let them be more or less open according to the seasons but rather offend in leaving too narrow an entrance than too large a thin board in Winter cut in notches like a grate wel fastned to the Hive with Cow-dung and Ashes tempered together two notches open in Winter is enough for a good Hive one for a poorer for thereby they are kept more warme in Winter and more secure from enemies When they have wrought a week in the Spring the better Hives may have three or four notches open and by degrees more until they be full and then you may take away the grates altogether until Autumne but be sure to set them early to the old Stocks that have over-swarmed as also to the poore swarms and in a dry year sooner than in a moyst for the Waspes wil be more numerous and early and the robbing Bees finding little abroad to busie themselves about will be seeking to plunder poor and weak Stocks betimes When you see the Waspes begin to be busie and forsake eating of dead Bees before the stooles venter into the Hives set up your doors to the poorer Stocks and narrow the passage of the better with a little Cow-dung tempered as before that it may not be above an inch long If you will bee at cost it will be very beneficial to have a hurdle made of Oziers set before your Hives even with your stools or else boards shelving outwards at the bottome for the Bees to rest on when they come home weary and laden Mr. Levit mislikes the keeping of Hives four or five years at the most but his reasons are weak because saith hee the combs will be black and unsavoury and the old Bees are not so good for increase and breed as the young nor so strong and lusty for labour but these reasons are without reason for blackness of the combs is no fault as wee shewed before and of the age of Bees wee shall treat by and by onely in a word note that they are an annual creature and live not beyond a year with the vantage on the same ground therefore all the old stocks must be taken every year Many

tongue as Aristotle and others say extract a gummy and viscu●us matter which they receive with their fore-feet and rubbing them on the thighes of their hind●ee● there fasten it very little at a time and scarcely visible Mouffet saith the burden is of the bigness of a le●til on either thigh and that it is of divers colours according to the nature of the Flowers yellow pale red Saffron colour white black c. but hee and many others were mistaken taking Bee-bread for Waxe The best Waxe is somewhat yellow fat pure odoriferous and expressing in some sort a scent of honie Dioscorides commends the Pontick or Cretan Pliny commends the Punick and it is called Punick saith Iacobus Dalechampius because it is the whitest Artificial Wax is that whereto the perfection of it the skill and industry of man is required and this is variously performed two waies are set down by Anglicus First that the Wax should be often melted every time taking new water until it be white Another way is thus that when it is dissolved in the water by the fire to dip into it a Glass vial or vessel clean rinsed and that which sticks to it let it be dried in the Sun and Moon and this so long continued until you have gathered up all the Wax and then set it abroad in the open air for it grows white by the force of the Sun that I say nothing of water because so the hony is taken out of it and those parts expire by whose thinness the colour is made Waxe as it is newer so it is better for it is more odoriferous pu●rer and apt to take impressions Waxe is worst at the bottom best at the top so that it be not frothy The Bees gather Waxe all the year from the blowing of the Willow to the I●i● In old Waxe saith Aristotle there is bred small white Creatures the least of creatures called Acari in regard of the smallness not devisible I suppose he means Mites which are bred also in many other things The Kingdome of Cha●dec●● watered with the river Ganges is plentifully stored with Waxe which in abundance the people finde in the Woods and therewith supply Bengala and a great part of India The Li●●nia●● knew not the use of Waxe and therefore pressing out the hony threw it away Cadomustus reports the like ignorance of the Africans in M●uritania From the Coast of M●li●dio near adjoyning to Madagascar there is brought one thousand five hundred T●● of Waxe yearly to Indi● Tecule●● a Town of Hea sendeth Waxe into Portingale and to Temfethne resort ships from Portingale for Waxe In F●● on Mahome●s Birth-day the Schollars of every School which are two hundred celebrate a Feast when the Fathers are bound to send each man a Torch unto the School whereupon every Boy carrieth a Torch in his hand some of which weigh thirty pound these Torches are most curiously made being adorned round about with divers fruites of Waxe which being lighted betimes in the morning doe burne till Sun rising when the solemnity ceaseth This day useth to be very gainful unto the School-masters for they sell the remnant of the Waxe upon the Torches for above a hundred Duckets The Persians in old time and also the Africans had a custome stome to wrap up in Waxe their dead that so they might preserve them for a long time The Romans in the B●rial of a Senator or chief Officer had certaine waxen Images of all his Predecessors carried before him on long Speares Wax was much used anciently to make the Images of eminent persons deceased as also in our daies which by many circumstances as appears were borrowed of the Romans who when the deceased Emperour was to be consecrated the whole City gave over all exercises as if it had been a Festival day First they burned the dead Body with sumptuous exequies and then they made an Image of Waxe as like as was possible to the deceased and set it in the porch of the Pallace upon a great bed of Ivory placed aloft and covered all over with cloth of gold this Image lay pale on the Bed as if it had been a Sick Person about the bed sate a great part of the day all the Senators cloathed in black and on the left side the Ladies that in regard of their Husbands or Fathers were most illustrious and none of them did wear any gold or any other ornament about their necks but were all cloathed in pure white garments and by their countenance seemed very sorrowful and they continued thus in this guise seven dayes but every day the Phisitians came to the body and made shew of feeling the sick Parties pulse and alwaies reported that he grew worse and worse until in the end they said he was dead As soon as they had declared him dead the most noble and proper young men of the Order of the Senators and Cavaleers li●ted the bed on their shoulders and carried it by the Sacred way into the ancient Market where the Romane Magistrates were accustomed to lay by and renounce their command and authority In this place was erected a Tribunal of Wood which seemed to be of stone on which was framed a certaine edifice sustained on every side with Pillars and variously garnished with Ivory and Gold on which was laid another Bed with ornaments of Purple and Gold woven together and about it were the heads of divers Sea and Land creatures now in this Bed they placed this Image of Waxe triumphantly adorned which they had brought from the Pallace and there stood a very fair youth with a fan of Peacocks Feathers to scare away the Flies as if the Emperour slept In the meane time while the Image lay there the living Emperour the Senate and their Wives drew near to the Bed until they were all met together there the Ladies ●ate under the Porch but the Senators open on both sides of the Market were set up Scaffolds to ascend on which on one side were a Quite of noble youths all pa●ricians and on the side a Quite of illustrious Women which sung Hymns and other Songs in honour of the dead with sad and mournful voyces But I must play the Procrustes with this Discourse and referre them that desire to know further to Dion or Herodian Greek Historians CHAP. XXV Observations and Discourses Historical and Fabulous BEfore the battel of Phasilon Bees lighted on the Altar and also on the ships pres●ging Pomp●es overthrow and therefore when in the Army of Bru●us there setled a swarm of Bees the South-sayers bad him to shift his Camp le●t hee should receive loss and damage in that place All the Statues of Antoninus Pius in Hetruria were filled with swarms of Bees which were ominous presages of his Empire It was ever esteemed as an ill omen for swarms of Bees to light in places where they were not accustomed and therefore reported as a presage of the