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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

order page 51 Cucumbers hurtfull to Bees page 57 D Driving of Hives how when and the use 39.41.42.47 the benefits 43. choyce of stockes to drive 44. avoyding inconveniences in driving page 49 Droanes whether to be killed how and when 43. their iniurie page 41 Dung hurtfull to trees page 54 E Elme hurtfull to Bees page 57 F Feeding of Bees page 14 G Googe confuted page 47 Guelding of Bees page 47 H Hils opinion for killing of Droanes page 35 Hives how to be placed 6.8 the dawbing of Hives ibid. hurts in setting Hives too close 7. the choyce 16.17.18 Hives must not be too broad 18. the trimming of Hives 19. anoynting 20. what Hives have most store of Honey page 45 Honey when most plentifull 26. how to order it page 49 Hoysting of Bees page 33.34 I Iramboys good for Bees page 55 L Lavender good for Bees page 57 Lisimachus good for Bees page 57 M Mallowes good for Bees page 57 Mault good for Bees page 20 Mayweed hurtfull for Bees page 57 Mellilot good for Bees page 57 Mice enemies to Bees page 68 Moathes enemies to Bees page 44 O Olibanum good for Bees page 15 P Pallatilla good for Bees page 55 Peach trees good for Bees page 53 Pease good for Bees page 20 Plants good and hurtfull for Bees page 52 Plinie of the nature of Bees page 59 Plumb trees good for Bees page 53 Ponds how hurtfull page 8 Primrose good for Bees page 56 R Rapes good for Bees page 55 Raspis good for Bees page 55 Removing of Bees 4.12 observations in removing ibid. the time of the yeare ibid. how they should stand page 5 Rivers how hurtfull page 8 Rosemary good for Bees page 54 S Sage good for Bees page 57 Sallow good for Bees page 56 Sarazanica good for Bees page 57 Snayles enemies to Bees page 6 Solidago good for Bees Southernes way of Coating of Hyves page 10 Spat of Bees page 62 Spiders enemies to Bees page 44 Spurge hurtfull to Bees page 57 Stecados good for Bees page 57 Sticking of Hives page 19 Swarmes when to be attended page 21 how ordered 22. that but one swarme rise at one time 24. whether many swarmes from one Hyve 25. in what season they swarme most ibid. putting divers swarmes in one Hive and how 27. when Bees will swarme 30. to hinder Bees from swarming 32.33 how long swarmes may rise without danger 36. what swarmes to save page 1 Thime good for Bees page 57 Toades hurtfull to Bees page 8 Trees good and hurtfull for Bees page 52 Trimming of Hives page 19 Turneps good for Bees page 55 V Violets good for Bees page 56 Virgil on the Master Bee page 66 W Waxe how to order page 51 Westerne honey not good page 49 Wicker Hives page 18 Winde and weather how to defend Bees from them page 9 Woade hurtfull to Bees page 57 Wormes hurtfull to Bees page 8.44 Wormewood hurtfull to Bees page 57 Y Yewe tree hurtfull to Bees page 57 FINIS A DIALOGVE CONCERNING THE ORDERING OF BEES Tortona Petralba TOrtona Well met good neighbour Petralba but whether away so fast man thus early in the morning I suppose your businesse is important you make so much haste Petralba O I cry you mercy Sir I saw you not before you spake in good sooth I was even comming to you my friend and kinsman that was Philippo Ambrosia having as you know made me his Executor amongst some other things hath left me some eight or tenne Hyves of Bees which at the first I made small account of but after my businesse of greater regard was over I beganne to looke over his Bookes amongst which I found these discourses or Pamphlets concerning the ordering of Bees whereupon I began not onely to consider the profit reported to arise and come of them but also to take especiall delight as well in their order and government resembling the forme if they report the truth of a most exquisite and well governed Common-wealth as also admired their notable arte and industry in framing of their combes gathering of their honey and other labours and great travailes to maintaine and preserve themselues and their Brood Tortona Good neighbour Petralba there is no man more welcome unto mee then your selfe and I am very glad that any cause hath made you to take pleasure and delight in Bees because my selfe as you know doe also the same For by this meanes I shall have a companion to converse withall for according to the old Proverbe simile simili gaudet and that may-communicate with me in the same pleasures and so make them the more delightsome unto mee which for want of conference with such as take pleasure in the same seeme often wearisome and irkesome unto me And to talke of Bees to those that love them not is like musicke out of tune or a pleasant tale told to the sorrowfull But wherefore doe you bring your Bookes with you Petralba Marry Sir although my Bookes have stirred up in me some affection towards Bees as before I said and have some what informed me of the manner how to use them at the least in my conceit yet knowing your great practice and long experience amongst Bees with the plentifull increase and profit that I suppose you make of them by that little that I have read of the profit of Bees I made bold to conferre with you first before I put in practice any of those preceps that are taught in these my bookes and for that cause I have not stirred nor meddled with them as yet untill I might perceive how your opinion agreed with their writings or dissented from the same and this was the cause that I brought my bookes with me Againe my purpose is shortly to remove them to mine owne house if you thinke the time fit and convenient for the same Tortona Concerning the time fit for their remove I will tell you my opinion hereafter but first let me know whose works those bookes are that you have brought with you Petralba The one is that which we commonly call Googe his husbandry who amongst many other precepts of husbandry concludeth his worke with a Dialogue of the ordering of Bees the other is a Pamphlet set forth by one Master Southerne to the same purpose I have also seene a booke called the Country Farme lately set forth wherein also there is somewhat said concerning this matter I make no doubt but you have seene them all Tortona Yea verily I doe know them well the first of them is principally a short collection gathered out of the works of sundry learned men that have long since written of Bees as Aristotle Virgil Varro Pliny Celsus Collumella Didmus Dionysius Thaseus and others rather then any great knowledge or experience that himselfe seemeth to have had in the ordering of Bees But the other is onely certaine practises and experiments gathered by his owne observations by long keeping of Bees as himselfe confesseth Both which workes no doubt are worthy of

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

principall that I can now call to remembrance Petralba Are there not some trees and plants that are hurtfull vnto Bees and so not good to bee placed neere them Tortona Yes sundry whereof the cheifest are these that follow the Yew tree the Box tree And of plants these Spurge Wormwood Woad wilde Cucumers Mayweed some hold the Elme in flowring time to be hurtfull for Bees Any oylie or vnctious matter is very hurtfull for Bees Pet. Sir I am bold to claime your promise for your further declaration vnto me of the nature breeding and government of Bees Tortona Sir I will declare unto you my opinion and conceit concerning your request And yet I must heere tell you that as in our former speech I did chiefly trust to mine owne experience and practice amongst Bees in this dayes worke I must as much leane to and be ruled by the opinions of others now and then mixing amongst them some of mine owne observations and experiments yet so as I rather leave them to the consideration of those of better iudgement then affirming them as a certaine and undoubted truth Because many of the questions that will offer themselues here to be considered of are so intricate and doubtfull that they shall neede much observation and great iudgement to determine But to proceede Aristotle Virgil and divers others that have curiously searched and written of the nature gouernment and breeding of Bees doe make many sorts and kinds of Bees as well for their difference in their quantity and bignesse as also in their fashion and forme Aristotle he liketh best the short speckled and well knit Bee and Virgil preferreth the long smoth and faire Bee But for mine owne part as one not so well acquainted with the variety of their kinds wherein I could never perceive in our countrey any great difference I doe like best such Bees as be gentle and well coloured for the waspish and fell Bees are never good neither for increase or profit and the evill coloured are not in health But because every man must content himselfe with such as he hath or can get it behoveth those that haue of the worst sort so to use them by gentle and good meanes that their curst and waspish qualities may bee bettered and made more gentle Plinysaith that the Bee is the onely best of all Insects whatsoeuer exceeding every one in profit excellence and use they are creatures of a strange composition and much stranger substance for they have neither flesh blood bones or sinewes doe not moue by ioynts haue neither chyne nor gristle fat or excrement but are compact and made of a corporeall substance or middle nature betweene all these through which the life or mouing is dispersed generally and not seated or settled in any particular part as other creatures haue in the heart and in the braine whence it commeth as we see by daily experience that if you devide and cut them or dismember them into two parts each part will equally liue a long time after such dismembrings They haue no Intraylls or other inward Organs by which either to retaine or evacuat onely a certaine Conduite or pipe which instead of a gut being wrapped together carrieth and disposeth whatsoeuer it receiveth They haue many feete that is to say sixe and the reason thereof is because as before I said the vitall parts are not seated in any one member but disperst abroad and communicated to every other part of the body holding the least of it residence in the head They haue wings to transport and carry them to what place they please and also to bring them home when they are laden with the wealth and riches of their labours Their feete are crooked and longer from the bent downeward then from the bent to the body and the longer the feet are the better for it is a great signe of long life and faithfull labour They haue all the fiue senses which man hath and in a liberall proportion As first eyes by which they see and discerne to distinguish of one Flower from another and to make choice of that which is most amiable and best agreeing to their natures and profits Then hearing by which they listen unto sounds as the commands of their Soveraigne or Master Bee the noyse of their companions and their one or others Musicke as we see by daily experience when the tinkling of a Bason or such like Instrument will congregate and gather them together when the swarmes are never so farre or wide dispersed Then smelling by which they know the sweet Flowers from the bitter hearbs cleaving unto Roses Violets Buglosse Borrage and the like but eschewing and abandoning Onions Garlicke Rew and Hemlocke nay so excellently curious are they in their smelling that they will not abide any distastefull smell that is about them that Gouerne them and will naturally take an offence at a stinking breath Then feeling as is most easily to be perceiued by their embracing and loue to the things they affect and the offence and reuenge they take when at any time they are opprest or offended being so sensible of paine that they will lose their sting which is halfe a losse of life rather than to bee tormented or pained above their nature Lastly they haue the sense of tasting being able to iudge which Flower is sweete and will affoord plenty of Honey and which is gummy or slymie from whence they may draw waxe The Bee of all creatures is the most laborious and neuer giveth over his dayes labour from the midst of Aprill till the beginning of November neither would he then cease were it not for his two mortall enemies Snow and Frosts the bitternesse of both which he can neither indure nor suffer And thus much I thought good to say concerning their nature or kinds Now concerning their breeding there is much adoe and great variety amongst writers as well for the manner of their breeding as also for the time of their bringing forth and the comming to perfection of their brood Some hold the Drone to be the Male and the Bee the female and that they ingender by copulation Others affirme that they ingender not but that they gather their young ones upon some Flowers againe some are of opinion that the Kings or Master Bees doe ingender all the rest and some that they lay egges and sit upon them which will come to be Bees in 45 dayes But I am of opinion with Mr. Southerne that they doe blow as a Flye and Waspe doth in their holes or Cells and as the blowes of the Flyes are nourished by the flesh wherin they are blowne and the young of the Waspes by the earth wherein they are bred so the spat or brood of the Bees are nourished by honey and water For in the Combes wherein they are bred you shall see every second or third hole or cell filled with water or honey whereof if they want their spat will perish And if they are bred by