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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

colour but eaten alone attenuates rather than refresheth for it provoketh urine and purgeth too much Hony warmes and cleares Wounds and Ulcers attenuates and discusseth excrescencies in any part of the body It is very effectual to produce hair in baldness for Quotidian Agues especially oyle of hony distilled Distilled water of hony makes a smooth skin provokes urine diminisheth heat in Feavers easeth the obstructions of the bowels quencheth thirst The salt of hony of all Corrosives is least painful and most energetical and therefore in the flesh of the yard by Chymicks and expert Chyrurgians especially commended The Epicures who chiefly studied health and pleasure did eat continually Ambrosia which consisted of a tenth part of honie as Tzetzes reports concluding that the daily use thereof would prevent griefs and keep them free from Diseases Hony infused warme by it self wonderfully helps exulcerated ears especially if they cast forth ill favours as also their singings and inflammations Hony Butter and Oyle of Roses of each a like quantity warme helps the paine of the ears he also commends Hony and infants dung brayed together in the dulness of the sight and for white spots in the eyes The rheume or droppings of the eyes in men or horses are hereby helped I have cured a Horse stone blinde with Hony and Salt and a little crock of a pot mixed in less than three daies it hath eaten off a tough filme and the Horse never complained after Hony wherein Bees are drowned or Ashes of the heads of Bees with hony clear the eyes A●tick hony with the first dung of a young infant and the milk of the Nurse mingled together and annoynt the eyes that are dull upon what occasion soever but first binde the party for such is the violence of the Medicine that he cannot otherwise patiently endure it and the benefit is so forcible that in the third day it wil make a clear sight Nothing is better for infants that breed Teeth or in the Ulcers of the mouth than butter and hony Galen prescribes only the gums to be rub'd with it for it conduceth wonderfully to the generation conservation and whiteness of teeth for difficulty of breathing and to cause spitting hony alone or mixed is very availeable Hony boyled with Bees or new Cheese stayeth a looseness helps the Bloudy-flux and Chollick But before hony be used it is necessary to clarifie it Thus take of hony and fountaine water of each two pound continually scum it as it ariseth to the consumption of the water afterwards clarifie it with the whites of twelve eggs Hony nourisheth not only because it is a kinde of nourishment but also because mixed with other things it is a cause that they are more easily carried through the body and he counsels old men to use it much if they would have a care of their health and live long without Diseases and he asserts it by the examples of Antiochus the Phisitian and Telephus the Grammarian who were old men and did eate Attick hony and bread and Galen testifieth the same with often eating hony boyled seldome raw and yet Galen forbids long or too much boyling because it will make it bitter Celsus reckons up boyled hony among such things as stop a Lask the reason is because the acrimony by boyling is taken away which is wont to move the belly and to diminish the vertue of the food The bodies of Bees taken newly from the Hives and powdered and drunk with Diuretick wine powerfully cures the Dropsie and breaks the Stone opens the fountaines of urine and heals and helps the stoppages in the bladder Bees drowned in hony and so killed stay vomitings and are profitable for deafness Bees powdered cure the Wind-collick mollifie hard ulcers in the lips and also the Bloudy-flux Hony mixed with powdered Bees and so taken is helpful for the crudities of the stomack it is also good for the stomach Pound Bees dead and dry in the combes mingle them with hony and annoynt bald places of the head and the hairs wil spring afresh The ashes of Bees ground with oyle make hair white Take twelve or fourteen Bees powdered in any thing every morning and it helps such whose retentive faculty is weak so that they cannot hold their water Oxymel is made of water vinegar and hony now water is mingled with it that by long boyling that may be resolved or loosened which the windiness raiseth up and that it may be more readily skimmed In a word that the working of the Medicine by the mixing of water might be weaker and more easily dispersed into the body and hony is added to resist the ●legme One ounce of hony and vinegar mixed together ariseth a certain third faculty which was in neither of them before which is most powerful and certaine to attenuate cut resolve thick and tough excrements which have been bred a long time in the Stomack and Liver and those that settle on the joynts and cause lasting Agues It is made thus take of vinegar one part two parts hony and twice as much water as hony first let the hony and water be boyled and when they have been well skimmed put in the vinegar and boyle them still continually skimming them let them boyle till there be an unity of qualities and the vinegar be not raw or crude it is given from one ounce to three Galen saith if you will make it the stronger adde as much vinegar as hony it drives out thick and gross humours and is profitable for the Sciatica Falling-sickness and the Gout good also to gargarize with in a Squinancy Water distilled of hony four times by a Limbick so that the hony were first boyled makes beautiful hair kills Lice and Nits the hair wet there with doth not only become yellow but softer and increaseth likewise especially if it bee done in the Sun it heals swollen or bloud-shotten eyes and helps the hurt corners of the eyes it is excellent for burnt places most of all for such as are soft and tender so that no scar will be left It must be distilled in a Glass Still but first mixe with it pure and well washed Sand and make a soft fire The first water is cast away the second is preserved which hath a golden colour and red at the last the red purgeth out corruption in putrid wounds if they be washed with it and a linnen cloth moystened in it be laid upon them and when it hath purged them it produceth flesh Hony when it is distilling is wont to swell and flow over when it grows hot this is prevented when the distillation is performed by a woodden Sieve made with hair being placed within the cover so that it toucheth the hony Reubeus distilleth it otherwise and adds other cautions he saith the water is with difficulty drawne out of the hony because it readily as the fire grows hot

ascends to the top wherefore some mingle glass with it others sand the most doe annoynt the Still within with oyle but it is best distilled especially where they purpose to use the dregg● by wetting linnen cloathes in water continually and spreading them on the head and sides of the Still and a soft fire below by which the swelling thereof is resisted and leaving much vacu●ty and emptiness in the Still so that it be filled a fifth or at the most a fourth part but because sometimes a larger fire is necessary the cucurbite must be well crusted with clay It is excellent for a Catarrh Cough Spleen c. Oyle also is distilled out of hony let hony in the combes bee put into an earthen vessel and well macerated in warme Horse-dung until the waxe being separated from the hony swims alost which being taken off let some Flint stones be mi●gled with the hony and little peeces of glass the first water when it is distilled is very sharp and then comes the oyle It is singular for the Gout and for the cure of all Wounds Oyle of Waxe is thus made let two pound of new odoriserous waxe be melted in a Frying-pan and then poured out into a vessel filled with Muskadine or other generous Wine and let it continue there until it be cold after taken out and squeezed well with your hands and againe melted and poured into the Wine as before and let it be seven times reiterated and then let it be melted againe and three handfuls of beaten Bricks put into it let them be well mixed together and being all cold let them be put into a Glass Limbeck well stopt with clay and the joynts well lined therewith that there be no expiration then let a little fire be made underneath until the Cytron phlegme ceaseth to run and then let another vessel be set under and the fire a little increased until the drops be first thick and then of a Cytron colour and lastly drop true oyle of waxe and let this be received in a proper vessel mixed with the thick droppings and let it be made thick and like butter congealed And now the fire must be enlarged until thick drops dot againe distill which as soon as you see let the vessel that receiveth the oyle bee removed and another placed to receive the remainder Oyle of wax heals the cracks and chaps of the lips or paps and hinder not the childe from sucking and take off all superfluous excrescences by drying and are especially good in cold griefes It is good for them that are troubled with the stone provokes urine helps the Palsie Sciatica contracted nerves by anointing or drinking of it kills worms of all sorts helps the pain of the back cures a distempered spleen a drop injected into the nostrils opens their obstruction It conserves the memory confirms the brain asswageth the Toothach brings forth the dead or living childe opens the veynes frees the lungs from thick superfluities with sirrup of Violets helps the Astmatick cures running eyes c. Wax saith Galen after a sort holds a middle of things that heat cool moisten and dry and hath some kinde of thick and stopping parts and therefore it may seem not onely to dry but by accident also perhaps to moisten hindring perspirations and therefore is the matter both of heating and also cooling medicines and although forbidden to bee taken inwardly yet some make Pills of wax and others mix it with other costives and give it for a violent loosness Dioscorides prescribes it in broth for ulcers of the bowels for all wax saith hee mollifies heats moderately fills the bodies which as Dalechampius expounds produceth flesh in hollow ulcers and Pliny confirms the same New wax and soft saith Galen is better than old for medicines yellow wax for the aery nature doth mollifie more loosen and resolve the malady And therefore new wax is often prescribed for being often melted it loseth the aery nature is more earthly and answers white wax And white wax is most refrigerating is most profitable for inflamed rains where the matter is to bee repelled which yet saith Aldrovandus is neglected by practitioners in Physick There may bee admirable baths made of hony which are excellent for Aches and strong Itches Mr. Remnant saith that a friend of his had such a foul itch that hee was like a Leper whom hee thus cured Hee took an empty Wine cask called a Pipe and took out one head and made a liquor of water and hony making it pretty strong with the hony and heat it as hot as hee could endure to stand in it and put it into the Pipe and caused him to stand in it up to his neck a pretty while and this hee did three dayes one after another and hee was recovered as clear as ever The like experience hee made for Aches If they bee renewed with a little hony every day it will bee better In the Northern Regions are few Physicians but the healthfull aire wholesome food and especially their Mead are instead of the best physick Mead the elder it is being well boyled some say ten or twelve years old is most sovereign and a present remedy for many diseases Mead or Hydromel is of two sorts the weaker and the stronger Mead and Metheglin For the making of Mead if the Must when it is altogether bee not strong enough to bear an egg the breadth of two pence above it then put so much of your course hony into it as will give it that strength which is sufficient for ordinary Mead. And afterwards untill night ever now and then stir it well about the tub According to the quantity that you will make so must you add a proportionable measure of hony and water namely six of water for one The learned Physitian Lobel requireth this proportion of six to one to bee boyled to four His receit of Spices is Cinamon Ginger Pepper Grains Cloves ana two drams The second morning put to the Must the scum of the hony stir all together and stop the tub a little backward When it hath setled an hour or two draw it out to bee boyled And when you see the grounds begin to come stay and let the rest save the very thick grounds which cast to your Bees run into some vessell by it self which when it is settled pour out into the boyling vessel through the clean sieve and east out these grounds also into you garden This Must being set over a gentle fire when you see the scum gathered thick all over and the bubbles at the side begin to break it having slacked the fire to cease the boyling skim it clean Then presently make a fresh fire to it And when you see the second scum ready having slacked the fire again take it quickly away then make to it the third fire and let it boyl to the wasting of a fourth part if it bee made of the washing of

often by wofull experience finde the contrary receiving by the frequency of them great prejudice in our hops and corn Seventhly If the Hony-dew bee the matter of hony how comes it to pass that it falls onely on flowers and not on the plants and leaves of trees Answer It falls not only on flowers but on leaves of trees and plants also though some plants and leaves are not so tenacious and retentive of it as the great Maple and the Oaken leaf but being more porous and spungy suck it up and consume it Lastly When the Hony-dew falls the Bees gather it and flock to it but onely for their present repast and food Answer There is no rustick conversant among Bees but knows the contrary and by experience can say that they then gather more hony in two or three dayes than in two or three weeks after they cease Ribera as you may remember attributes smuttiness of Wheat to the Hony-dew and Helmont seems to be of the same opinion calling it Triticum roratum sive mol●itum and so do some others also Now in a word to undeceive them The cause of smutty Wheat is not at al from the Hony-dew nor yet from any of those causes that the author of the first letter in Mr. Har●libs Legacy delivers No● yet is it a deficiency onely in the vegetative faculty for it grows and produceth a blade and an ear but then it wants power to quicken and give life as it were by blowing to that corn that is put out in the ear so that not being enlivened it proves abortive and turns into a stinking black powder Corruptio optimi pessima smelling like a red Her●ing or Carrion Now this falls out for want of a nitrous and thereby a nutritive quality in the grain for it is most certain that salt is the seat of life and vegetation and so the subject of nutrition This by the way take notice of that they are most under ears that are subject to that malady not therefore subject to it because they are lower than others but therefore lower because of a deficiency and weakness in the vegetative faculty And usually if one stalk hath the ear smutty all that arise from the same ●oot are infected yet it falls out though ra●ely that sometimes one side of the ear is good corn and the other bags for one side blows and the other doth not and whatsoever blows not will be smutty Many years together I suffered much damage by it but knew not how to remedy my self but after the projection of divers experiments at last successfully I fell upon this course I caused a Hogs-head of salt water to be fetched and put into the water near a bushel of Bay-salt not at once no● yet into the Hogs-head but pouring half of it at a time into a Tub I after put in half the salt wherein when it was melted I imb●bed my Seed-wheat thus Filling a close well-wrought Ozierbasket that would admit the water and hold near a bushel with Wheat and then put it into the Tub holding it by the ears and when it was all well moistened took it out letting the water drain as it stood on the Tubs side into the Tub again And when it began to leave dropping poured it on a floor and strewed upon it as it was turned over near a shovel full of slaked lime not that lime addes any thing to the vegetation perhaps it accelerates the growth nor yet secures it from vermine as some conceive but onely dryes it being done over-night that it is more nimble and better to sow the next day Lime without steeping your corn doth not prevent smuttiness but corn thus imbibed and then sown without lime will not smut Thus adventitious Salt supplies the defect of that nitrous quality which some grain are defective of and are hereby quickned refreshed and as it were impowred to perfect vegetation to maturation Such as are remote from the sea must make a brine which will bee every way equivalent onely more chargeable I have many years made trial of this course and without any great curiosity for my seed have had constantly bright wheat and so also my neighbours to whom I readily divu●ged what I found good for the publike but in my publick Discourse I forget too much my private Design CHAP. XXII Of Hony CArdan affirms That neither Hony nor Waxe is made by any creature but a Bee which is a truth if wee take it conjunctively otherwise not There is no other creature that makes both hony and waxe And that which Scaliger saith Pliny observes out of Aristotle which I remember not that Waspes make wax is false whosoever affirms it Combs they make as some other Insects but they are not wax but drossie collections of old pales and other old wood tempered with a gummy liquor flowing from the Oak or felled Elmes whereby they become tough and capable to contain their young Try to melt them and you shall quickly resolve your self And whereas Scaliger saith There is in the Mol●●●a Islands hony made by Flies less than Ants the truth is questionable for it is onely reported by Pigafetta I suppose hee called them Flies onely for their smalness The earth-Bee with us a kinde of wilde Bee is smaller and yet gathers Bee-bread abundantly and hony also for ought I know And most of the American Bees are not bigger than Flies but yet are Bees not Flies And for his instances of the solidity of some hony admitting of the Histories they do not at all enervate this position that Bees onely make honey Among the Troglodites in a Country called Balgada there is hony found whiter than snow and as hard as a stone And in the Country about Calicut the hony is so hard that they carry it in baskets what then was it not made by Bees I have seen as white and as hard made by my own Bees Indeed besides the domestick Bee the humble Bee makes hony but little in quantity and nothing so pleasant in taste for quality In China there is not onely plenty of Bees wax but there is another sort which is not onely whiter but also better for it is less glutinous and being lighted burns brighter It is made of certain worms which they breed up in trees for this purpose They make a third sort of a fruit of a certain tree which is not less white than the former but burnes nothing so brightly Thus have wee found hony and wax too made by other creatures besides the Hony-Bees but both by no one creature Libanius saith Hony and Wax may be gathered without the Bees labour there is in the flowers saith he and leaves of plants both hony and wax which by sublimation may be easily segregated but as a fruitless and needless speculation I wil not insist upon it Gorrbeus saith hony is a sweet juyce hot and dry it seemes to have its original from the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

combs and to the wasting of one fifth or sixth part if it be made of clean hony not ceasing in the mean space to take off the scum as clean as you can One hours boyling may suffice but if the Mead bee of clean hony it may as well bee done in half the time Instead of twice slacking the fire you may twice cool the boyling Must with cold Must reserved or else bee sure that it do boyl all the while onely at one side and not all over After all this put in the Spices viz. to a dozen gallons of the skimmed Must Ginger one ounce Cynamon half an ounce Cloves and Mace ana two drams Pepper and Grains ana one dram all gross beaten the one half of each being sowed in a bag the other loose and so let it boyl a quarter of an hour more The end of boyling is throughly to incorporate the boorn and the hony and to purge out the dross which being once done any longer boyling is unprofitable as diminishing more the quantity than increasing the strength and goodness of the Hydromel As soon as it is boyled enough take it from the fire and set it a cooling the next day when it is setled pour it through a hair sieve or linnen bag into the tub reserving still the Lees for the Bees and there let it stand covered three or four dayes till it work and let it work two daies Then draw it through the tapwaze and run it into a barrel scalded with Bay-leaves making the Spice-bag fast at the tap If there remain much grounds you may purifie them by boyling and skimming as before but this will never bee so good as the first and therefore you may put it by it self or with some remainder of the best into a small vessel to spend first before it be soure If the Mead bee not much you may run it the next day and let it work in the barrel Being tunned it will in time bee covered with a mother which if by jogging the vessel or by other means it bee broken the Mead will turn sowre But so will it make excellent vinegar and the sooner if it bee set in the Sun which the longer you keep the better it will bee Metheglin is the more generous or stronger Hydromel for it beareth an egg the breadth of a groat or sixpence and is usually made of finer hony with a less proportion of water namely four measures for one receiying also in the composition as well certain sweet and wholesome herbs as also a larger quantity of Spices namely to every half barrel or sixteen gallons of the skimmed Must Eglantine Marjerom Rosemary Time Winter-savoury ana half an ounce and Ginger two ounces Cynamon one ounce Cloves and Mace ana half an ounce Pepper Graines ana two drams the one half of each being bagged the other boyled loose So that whereas the ordinary Mead will searce last half a year good Metheglin the longer it is kept the more delicate and wholesome it will bee and withall the clearer and brighter One excellent receit I will here recite and it is that which our renowned Queen of happy memory did so well like that she would every year have a vessel of it First Gather a bushel of Sweet-briar leaves and a bushel of Time half a bushel of Rosemary and a peck of Bay-leaves See the al these being well washed in a furnace of fair water let them boyl the space of half an hour or better and then poure out all the water and herbs into a fat and let it stand till it bee but milk-warm than strain the water from the herbs and take to every six gallons of water one gallon of the finest hony and put it into the boorn and labour it together half an hour then let it stand two dayes stirring it well twice or thrice each day Then take the liquor and boyl it a new and when it doth see the skim it as long as there remaineth any dross When it is clear put it into the fat as before and there let it bee cooled You must then have in readiness a tub of new Ale or Beer which as soon as you have emptied suddenly whel● it upside down and set it up again and presently put in the Metheglin and let it stand three dayes a working and then tun it up in barrels tying at every tap hole by a Pack-thred a little bag of Cloves and Mace to the value of an an ounce It must stand half a year before it bee drunk If you marvel that so great a quantity of water is required it is partly because of the goodness of the hony which being pure and fine goeth further than ordinary and partly that it may have the longer time in boyling before i● come to its strength and therefore some will have eight parts of water to one of hony but then they boil it so much the longer The third part at least being wasted CHAP. XXVII Of diver● kinds of Wild-Bee● THere is one kind not half so bigge as a Hony-Bee with a bright shining green head and fore-part she hath longer horns than a Hive-bee she hath four wings her neather part is of a light shining Carnation on the out-side the belly of a greenish shining glistring colour almost as bright as the shining of a Glo-worm with a very large long sting not forked or somewhat like to a sting I could not force it to enter it into my hand whether it wil sting I know not that which is equivalent to the skin is as it were continued without ringles this Bee is very strong gathers as the Hive-Bee sandaracha and breeds in holes of old posts divers near one another we may call her the glistring Bee There is another sort of Wild-Bee which is very laborious she is not so great as a Hive-Bee by a third part but in shape and making altogether like her the mouth opens side-ways wherewith she holds very fast like pinchers her hinder leggs are of a tawny colour the ringles of her hinder part gray the rest of a blewish black her fore-part is partly black and partly gray she useth to abide if my memory deceive me not in Brick-walls in holes in the morter between the Bricks many neat one another we may call her the Mortar-Bee There is another sort not half so great as the former but grayer she diggs or mines perpendicularly into stiffe clay ground in High-ways or Foot-path sides the earth that she works out lyes round about her hole like the casting of a Worme but much siner after she hath entred three inches right down she makes traverse holes one under another sometimes two sometimes three in breadth as several cels or chambers where she breeds her young which are not Worms at first but have a perfect shape of a Bee herein concurring with the Queen-bee and though she be laborious and gathers much Bee-bread yet could I never finde any thing provided before-hand or laid up

less than an hour find●ng no entrance and trouble without they will return home After sunset open them and all the robbers that are alive will go to their own Hives Examine their state after the robbers depar●ure and i● you finde but a few Bees it will not bee worth your labour to trouble your self for their preservation for at one time or other they will bee robbed if not they will never thrive But if there bee a considerable quantity of honey stil left and also of Bees then stop them up again close allowing them aire through a quil but bee sure you stop them up very well for in the day time they will bee gnawing and mineing to make a hole out and the robbing Bees will bee ever and anon visiting the door to see if it bee open which if they ●inde if you do not presently stop them in again the last danger will be worse then the first After sun-set allow them a passage to go forth to take the air and empty themselves take this course seven or eight daies and when you give them a free passage in the day let it not bee untill nine of the clock and the first and seco●d day that you open them stop up their enemies that they may not trouble them who are not lusty as at the first by shutting in and in eight days their enemies will forget them Some prescribe to cast ●lour on the Bees that you let out that so you may know the plundering Hives which you may easily otherwise but if you do not take this course and observe whither they go when you once know the robbing stock with a long pen-knife through the Hive cut the combs towards the top that so they may find work at home to stop up what you have broken Although they will not admit of strange Bees in their Hives yet diverse stocks will conspire together and agree well to undo their neighbours and usually like the fox they prey furthest from home seldome robbing their next neighbours The chief times of robbing are Autumn and the Spring usually about the end of August but in dry years about a fortnight before when the honey gathering is almost over then do the lustiest being most numerous in Bees practise it on the old stocks such chiefly that have overswarmed and have but a few Bees left on such also as have lost their Leaders who are carelesse to resi●t and will quickly go along with them and help to carry their own goods There is no way to save such but as I prescribed formerly Another time of robbing is in the spring and then those poor old stocks that escaped in Autumn must bee carefully watched poor swarms also shall now bee tried until the year grows up and the flowers bee plentiful Let all such have as I ordered before very narrow doors swarms are more difficultly prevailed against then old stocks for though perhaps they have not wrought down to the board and so the entrance be more easy yet being usually more multitudinous they will hold out longer whereas old stocks although they have more provision yet have fewer souldiers and therefore are quickly overcome and plundered and more easily in the spring then before Once if you perceive that waspes in multitudes or robbing Bees have made a breach into an old stock delay no longer but take them for although by your circumspect care in stopping them up and narrowing their entrance you may prevent their present destruction yet will they not escape in the spring but if it bee a swarm there is some hope that by your care you may prevent their present and future destruction CHAP. XX. Of Bees Enemies and Sicknesses ALl Common-wealths are infested with enemies and the Common-wealth of Bees as much as any other Wee have already spoken of the worst namely Bee● In the next place let us treat of Mice which are also very hurtful and destructive Sometimes they get in at the door when it is left too l●rge and open sometimes they make their way through the Hive most commonly near the crown of it and they are no sooner in but they presently share down the Combs and eat the honey and if they be let alone will often make their nests among the Combs To prevent them bee carefull of the door of●en especially in the winter view your Hives If you see any crumbles of wax at the door bee sure there is something amis● look therefore wa●●ly and keep traps baited about your stalls Waspes in Harvest do great mischief sometimes destroy whole stalls At first when they are new come they content themselves with dead Bees but after a while they grow bolder and venture into the Hives and most of all in the cool mornings when the Bees stir not And after they have found the way they will never give over but invite their fellows nay they are often the robbing Bees harbingers who make an end usually where they beginne And although there bee an antypathy between them and Bees yet will they readily joyn together to plunder the poor Hives They are naturally hardier and stronger than Bees one waspe will often violently break away from two or three Bees yet many of them come short home being slain in the Hives by them In the spring at your watering troughs or other places where your Bees drink and on the south-side of your pales you may see the mother Waspes drinking or gathering kill them if you can and know that you destroy as many nests as waspes for every mother Waspe makes a nest After when they have bred let their nests bee sought ou● and destroyed burn them or scald them or which is sooner done in the evening with an iron spade having before observed which way they go seek for their nest by putting it into the ground and you shall know when you meet with it by the hollownesse then loosen the earth round and stamp it in Set glasses with strong worte sweetned water or sweet fruit or rather pots covered with a paper with a hole in the middle and that is the best way for in the other the Bees will be o●ten drowned The Hornet is as hardly censured as the waspe but shee is nothing so dangerous shee now and then ea●s a Bee but the waspes destroy whole Hives her manner is to flye about the Hive and when shee seeth a Bee ●esting her self upon the stool shee presently seizeth upon her and carries her away in her feet as the Hawk doth a bird Destroy their nests if you can without danger if it be no large hole in the evening having made a woodden plugge suddenly knock it in and you are sure of them or set lime twiggs before their holes and thereby you will much diminish their numbers The Titmouse is more hurtful then the Hornet I mean the great Titmouse called a Colmouse with a black head for shee will eate ten or twelve Bees at a time and by and by be ready for more