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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05403	The ordering of bees: or, The true history of managing them from time to time, with their hony and waxe, shewing their nature and breed As also what trees, plants, and hearbs are good for them, and namely what are hurtfull: together with the extraordinary profit arising from them. Set forth in a dialogue, resolving all doubts whatsoever. By the late unparalell'd experience of Iohn Levett, Gent.	Levett, John.	1634 (1634)	STC 15555; ESTC S108514	50,655	92

He who by Bees doth ever thinke to thrive Must order them and neatly trim his Hive The ordering of Bees OR THE TRVE HISTORY OF MANAGING THEM From time to time with their hony and waxe shewing their nature and Breed As also what Trees Plants and Hearbs are good for them and namely what are hurtfull together with the extraordinary profit arising from them Set forth in a Dialogue resolving all doubts whatsoever By the late unparell'd experience of IOHN LEVETT Gent. I H DVM SPERO FERO LONDON Printed by Thomas Harper for John Harison 1634. TO THE VERTVOVS gentlewoman M rs Dorothy Kemp wife to the Right Worshipfull Mr. Robert Kemp Esquire one of his Maiesties Iustices of Peace in the County of Northfolk MOst vertuous and kinde J here present unto your hands and view this Treatise not great of a subiect in seeming small indeed full of greatnesse and glory For howsoever the body of this little creature while she is under sayle on her airy voyage can scarce be apprehended of sense yet the admirable power and manifold wisdome of the Creator manifested in this his working work cannot bee comprehended by reason no not by the industrious inquisitors into her busie industry This therefore hath in many ages busied many of the most learned of Natures Secretaries to observe the nature working policy thrift and exquisite perfection of this little Flie in all affayres of war or peace at home or abroad and yet have they all beene rather brought to height of admiration than made fit for full explication of the wisdome which surpassing their owne wisdome they have found in the Bee Among others the Author of this Booke Father to my selfe and it was a scholler of this schoole and hat thus written of their orders and ordering which he not living to publish J have presumed to set forth under your Name as the heire of that love and duty which he bare to the common good and your selfe whom in regard of birth qualities and fortunes as gentle friendly and the most worthy wife of a most worthy husband he alwayes highly esteemed J hope therefore that to be silent of my selfe either of your own generous disposition or your love to the deceased Author or your charity to this posthume Orphling you will most heartily accept what I most heartily dedicate together with my selfe unto you Your Worships in all duty IOHN LEVETT To the Reader BEcause it is the most usuall manner friendly Reader of those that publish any thing in writing to bestow an Epistle upon the courteous and well affected Reader I resolved also to follow the same order But I stood long in doubt whether I should do it by way of Apology for surchargeing the world with more books whereof that seemeth overfull for writing of so meane a subject when all mens minds conceit great matters or for that my selfe being one of the least should presume to thrust in my opinion among so many rare and excellent inventions found out by the curious wits of these dayes or else following the most ordinary and old fashion when all men enquire after new I should fall to commendation of the matter I write of and the profit and commodity that may grow by the well-ordering of the same Yet at the last I determined to say something concerning them all they account a part thereof whom our English writers following have not a little erred And this is the cause that concerning the ordering and keeping of Bees little is found amongst them some precepts of Mr. Southerns only excepted worthy remembrance And although that for the breeding industry art and government of Bees they have written many curious and good observations of the Ancients which are worthy the knowledge especially of such as keep Bees againe I was not much diswaded from my intention because the greatest use of this book will be for the unlearned and Country people especially good women who commonly in this Country take most care and regard of this kinde of commodity although much the worse for the poore Bees because sometimes they want help sometimes diligence but most times knowledge how to use them well And this principally moved me to undertake this work which I have performed without Art or Eloquence and after a different method or order from all those which have formerly written of Bees having set down every thing that I supposed worthy observatiō And notwithstanding many of them at the first sight may peradventure seeme to bee of little worth or else needlesse for being commonly known to most that keep Bees Yet I would intreat your patience in reading of those also and I suppose that my purpose being to teach I was unwilling to omit any thing were it never so little worthy the noting Moreover have I written any thing contrary to the common received opinion or different from your conceit bee not over hasty to censure it but observe and then try before you give iudgement And thus much by way of Apology Last of all to conclude with the excellency of hony and wax let this only suffice that they are numbred amongst the notable and chiefe commodities of some Kingdomes and the very Land of promise it selfe to give the Israelites a better liking unto it was called the Land that flowed or to use our English phrase abounded with Milk and Hony which were esteemed at that time amongst the principall earthly commodities that were to bee expected from the blessing of God And as for the profit of this booke I referre it to the successe that it shall please God to give in the use of it And so Farewell TO THE MEMORIE OF THE THRICE WORTHY Gentleman Mr. IOHN LEVETT deceased and to the eternity of his well-taken-labour in this most excellent and profitable Relation and History of BEES THere are two immortall enemies which like Butchers dogges whose mouthes are ever bloudy do continually besiege and assault everie good labour and that is Curiositie and Envie the first striving to finde out knots in Rushes or Miracles beyond mans capacitie the other devouring and gnawing upon all vertuous Actions till with the poyson of her corrupt Nature she have brought all wholsome Intents within the compasse of scandall with these two enemies if this excellent and well-taken-labour chance not to encounter it may passe into the world with infinite applause and well-liking of all men being a worke so exact and compendiously done So plaine and easie for the meanest understanding yet with all so succinct deepe and elaborate that as a Flie may easily wade it so an Elephant may with difficultie swimme in it not that there are unresolved Enigmas or things fetcht beyond the clouds to adorne it but because the Experiments being new approved and allyed both to truth and Reason the collections so manifest and not to be controlled the corrections and reconcilements of the errours of others former publishings so modestly handled cleared and adorned and the whole worke so purged

from all glosse or flourish of ayrie words from the folly of amazing Inventions and from the intricate windings turnings and returnings of a wilde braine which many times carries the Reader into a new world farre beyond all his acquaintance That here every good man and good Minde shall finde as much as he can expect and yet no more then is sufficient For mine owne part I have had a singular affection and an earnest desire in the pursuit of this knowledge and was once a great Master of these creatures neither have I spared to bestow my pen in the advancement of the Art and knowledge of the Bee yet not with that felicitie and happinesse which this Gentleman hath attained unto to whom I cannot chuse but allow all possible praise and estimation confessing ingeniously that I have not read or seene any worke of this Nature more exact and compleat then this is And howsoever others have or may adde more words more quaint devises and more amazing Meanders yet the substance of the Art and the excellent things which are meet to inrich and adorne every good mans knowledge cannot be better or more fully discussed for here you shall know what the Bee is his breeding and government how to order him house him and maintaine him how to remove him purge him from injuries and to preserue his health of swarming driving hoysting and destroying things superfluous And lastly of their profits and how those profits are to be disposed and what accommodations are necessarie for the support and encrease of so usefull and delicate a commonwealth And he that in this Art will looke beyond this let him looke beyond the Moone I will neither lend him mine eyes nor my commendations Your Admirer GERVASE MARKHAM I. S. ad lectorem FOr profit pleasure policy and fame High pregnant wits themselves have lost to finde But couched here lo under Levetts name These vertues grave flow from his godly minde Athenians looke for news of other kinde Fables not truth their fansies for to feed Sure vertue is news who is to her inclinde Vertue is gone Maecenas being dead From Court and City to the Country fled Obscure she lives amongst her rurall friends Thence by her beames are little Bees discried Their wit their work their policy and kindes But pore not much upon this regall race Lest ere you know they sting you on the face Idem Non quantum sed quale Iovis primordia parva Rebus in exiguis grandia saepe latent S. Purcas VNskild am I to usher forth thy Book Or blaze thy selfe with termes of commendation Nor busie Bees such idle court ' sies brook Nor can I rules queint affected fashion Thy selfe thy selfe enough enough thy Booke Thy Book commends and I my Levett leave it Here in small Bees Gods greatnesse first I looke And then thy selfe though dead to live yet Industrious Fly fly forth and sound him farre Which here sounds thee thy nature art thrift keeping Much can he prayse thy peace and much thy warre Modell of policy a sweet good seeking And in those lazy Drones thy sting fix sure Which nor their own nor others paynes can dure Idem ad I. L. Editorem hujus libelli VVEll hast thou shewed the world thy fathers worth As by the foot is known in Symetry The body whole when thou this Book sett'st forth Iust witnesse of his wit and industry And though he never sipp'd at Hipocrene Nor clymb'd Parnassus top he well devised Of Mathematicks which no Academe Him taught but studious paines and time high prised Of policy of States of peace of warre Of natures art plants planting lands to measure Of Histories times places neere and farre Off oh but death hath rob'd us of this treasure Earth hath his earth heaven his heavenly part his name Thou here intomb'st while Bees there be in fame Nos quoque nostra A. Cook Let Bees be praysed by that Latian Bard That sweetly sang their occupation Enriching with his song his song rich nation Himselfe with never dying fames reward While thee we prayse with hearty loves regard That hast set forth this sweet Flyes operation With Maro's skill though in another fashion To thee thy Country men like fame anward Oh had thy Countrymen enioyd thee still How many choise fruits had they reapt by thee Which now death envies to posterity What art-surpassing drops did heaven distill Into that graden where this plant did grow And thousands more which natures hand did stow The winged Citizens of mount Hymete Forsaking once their flowry mansion Flew down to Athens laden with sweet meat For infant Plato's mouth to feed upon There did they turn his cradle to a hive And gently buzzing harmlesse busses gave him Thereby presaging that his name should live And that his wisdome from to dy should save him I saw a swarm descended of that stock Fly to our Authors tomb from whence proceeds This posthume birth conceiv'd of heavenly seed I heard the humming of that airy flock Mourning his death then swearing on this book His fame as they should dure their flight they took L. M. utcunque P. A Table of the principall heads contained in this Booke REmoving of Bees page 1 Coating of Bees page 9 Ordering of Bees in the Spring page 14 Chusing of Hives page 16 Trimming of Hives page 19 Swarming of Bees page 21 Hoysting of Bees page 32 Killing of Drones page 34 To know if Bees will live page 37 Of driving of Bees page 39 The ordering of Honey page 49 The ordering of waxe page 51 Trees and Plants good for Bees page 52 The nature of Bees page 58 The breeding of Bees page 61 Of the master Bee page 65 The government of Bees page 69 An Alphabeticall Table of all the things contained in this Booke A A Bricots good for Bees page 53 Ayre how hurtfull page 13 Angelica good for Bees page 57 Ants hurtfull to Bees page 8 Apple trees good for Bees page 53 when to plant them page 54 Avens good for Bees page 57 Author his way of Coating of Hives page 10 B Balme good for Bees page 57 Basons not to be rung page 23 Barley good for Bees page 21 Bearefoot good for Bees page 55 Beanes good for Bees page 55 Bees are lovers of quietnesse page 58 how to place them 6. of the master Bee 31.32.64.67 how long Bees will swarme 36. to know if Bees will live 37. the best seasous for Bees 38.39 if Bees be to be killed 41. how long Bees will live 46. guelding of Bees Ibid the nature of Bees 58. the breding of Bees 61. the governement of Bees page 69 Black-berry bush good for Bees page 57 Box tree hurtfull to Bees page 57 Buck-Hyssope good for Bees page 57 Burrage good for Bees page 55 C Cabbages good for Bees page 55 Cherry trees good for Bees page 53 Claver good for Bees page 57 Coating of hives 9.10 when to Coate page 29 Cow dung good for Bees page 15 Combes how to