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duty_n	good_a	husband_n	wife_n	5,477	5	7.5435	4	true

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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