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A09766	The secrets and wonders of the world A booke right rare and straunge, containing many excellent properties, giuen to man, beastes, foules, fishes and serpents, trees, plants &c. Abstracted out of that excellent naturall historiographer Plinie. Translated out of French into English.; Naturalis historia. English. Abridgments	Pliny, the Elder.; Alday, John, attributed name.; I. A.	1585 (1585)	STC 20032; ESTC S110483	38,595	64

commanded The Popingay can speake humaine speach they come from the Indians they haue their head as hard as their bill they liue most commonly with Acornes and they speake best that haue fiue clawes on their féete they are taught secretly where as there is no other noyses but the teachers Crowes haue bene séene speake and call noble men by their names specially one in Rome which by that meanes was solemnely buried It is easier to tame a Lyon an Eliphant or any other great beast or foule then to tame a Mouse or a Swallow Strabo was the first that did cage birdes which before had libertie in the Sky he taught the way to fatten Capons with meale and milke Among the birdes many haue foure féete and some lay many egges some foure and some two They ioyne together in two maners the Cranes with their height And Hennes and other Females the Cockes tread them down Some egges and the most part are white others coloured and others red as the egges of Fesantes and all kinde of egges within are of two colours white and red Egges of fishes are round and they haue no white she Egges of feathered foules liuing on the water are rounde and of others long the yong ones come out of the shell at the round ende Horace saith that the longest egs haue the best sauour that Hen is best and most tenderest that laieth round egs Some birdes ingender at all times as Hennes that lay euery day an egge some two at a time and some so many that therewith they dye In some places Doues ingender ten times in a yéere In Egypt the Turtle twice a yéer and other birdes but once a yéere As touching Egges there is a red droppe in the middest of the yolke the which maketh the birdes harte and it is the first formed and of the white is formed the body and within the Egge the head is greater then the body and liueth with the surplus of the yolke the twenty day he hath life and crieth within the Egge and then the feathers beginne to come The yong one in the Egge lieth after this sort it hath the head vnder the right foote and the right wing vpon the head and they growe on their féete contrary to the nature of other beastes Ye ought not to giue a Henne aboue xxv Egges to coue on and those Chickens that are hatched about the beginning of the yéere are the best For to sette Hennes to broode take egges of ten dayes olde for they are better then older or more fresher and ye ought to put odde when the Henne hath coued foure dayes in looking on them in the Sunne ye shall knowe whether they be good or no or in puting them in warme water for the good Egge will sinke to the bottome and those that are putrified and naught will flotte and swimme If the eggs are neuer so little craised the are sette they wil neuer proue It is best to set Hennes to coue in the newe Moone for if they are set in the wane of the Moone or at the full they will profite little When the weather is hote Chickens will come within one and twenty dayes and if it be colde not til fiue and twenty dayes If it thunder the egs that are coued wil be lost also at the voice of the Rite or Puttock The remedy against the thunder is to put a naile in the Hennes nest or els of the earth of a Cart whéele It hath bene recited of a Cock which after the Hennes death hath atchieued couing and by this meanes to ceasse from crowing The Ducke meruaileth at the first to sée her Ducklins but after most carefully she calleth them together and lamenteth if she sée them drowned in the water and some there are that can make Chickens come in warme water as well as if the Egge were coued The pip commeth lightly vnto pullaine betwéene haruest and the vintage for a remedy therefore it is good to let them hunger and to giue them little meate or to giue them to eate Garlike and butter Doues they lay two egges and if they lay thrée they will hatche but twaine they bring foorth a Male and a Female the Male first and two dayes after the Female The Male is hatched in the day time and the Female in the night the yong Pigeons come foorth of the shell twēty dayes after they are hatched and the Female layeth egges within fiue dayes after that she hath knowen the Male. In sommer oftentimes they haue yong ones thrice in two monethes for if the weather be hote they conceiue in eightene dayes and therefore in the nest is found many times egges and yong ones And Pigeons conceiue at fiue moneths The Pecock at the age of thrée yéers bringeth forth yōg ones the first yéere one euery yéere after she increaseth the Male breaketh the egs to haue the Female at his pleasure therefore she hideth her egs and for one Male shée hath fiue Females in thirty dayes shée bringeth forth her yong ones Géese conceiue in the water they make their egs in the Spring it is necessary to giue them nine or eleuen egs to coue at xxv or xxx dayes they are hatched commonly Swannes or such like coue thirty dayes the female Crowe olone coueth and the Male féedeth her in the nest The Bat hath the members and wings as feathers she bringeth two yōg ones the which she nourisheth with the milke of her breasts Vipers do winde one about another in conceiuing that they séeme to be but one Serpent the Female conceiueth by sucking the Males head which shée putteth into hers Some Serpentes make her egges on the grounde and then couereth them with earth and the next yéere after bringeth foorth their yong ones Men are more proner to lust and fornication in Winter then in Sommer and women more in Sommer then in Winter Beastes haue societie and knowe when the Female will haue the Male. Among the foure footed beastes their smelling bringeth the operation of lecherie The greater the beastes are the fewer yong they bring foorth and the longer they beare them All beastes are replenished with the Male at one time though they bring neuer so many and the yong ones lie in the females belly the ioyntes or knées against the belly But a yong Childe in the mothers Wombe hath his face betwéene his knées and is like a Citie Rattes and Mice doe ingender by licking one another and it hath bene séen that one hath made six score so it commeth to passe that by this meanes there are so many both in the fieldes and in mens houses The Salamander in touching the fire doeth quench it as if it were Ise and notwithstanding that she casteth by the mouth which is like mike if it touch any part of a man the haire of his skinne will fall away they grow as the Eagle in the water and among them there is neither Male nor Female and they neuer

aunciently called Libia doeth containe the Moores and the pillers of Hercules among the sloods there is Onylus that doeth ingender Cocodrils There are goodly Forrests with vnknowen trées some of the which trees beare small threades of the which is made clothing of Cotton Cyrenes and Syrtes make their houses of salt stones cut out of the mountaines there is the mountaine of Giry the which doeth ingender and bring foorth many precious stones In Libie which is at the ende of the Ethiopes there are people differing from the common order of others they haue among them no names and they curse the Sunne for his great heate by the which they are all blacke sauing their téeth and a little the palme of their handes and they neuer dreame The others called Troglodites haue Caues and holes in the grounde and haue no other houses Others called Gramantes they make no marriages but all women are common Gamphasantes they goe all naked Blemmy is a people so called they haue no heads but haue their mouth and their eyes in their breasts And others there are that go more by training of their handes then with their féete There are gathered the spices and there is nothing that they are afrayde of but of great dogs that will barke at them and bite them Africke beginneth beyonde the Realme of Spayne and Grenado and is deuided in the Sea of Europa as betwéene Douer and Calis there beginneth the Kingdoms of Feoz of Tunis of Barbaria of Carthage of others of the Ethiopians Europia beginneth from the Sea Meditarene so called because it is a flood in the middest of the world Vpon this Sea that deuideth Asia and Europa the King Xerses caused to be made a bridge of shippes such a number hee had for the warre Europa conteineth Rome the auncient Citie the plentifull Italy Venice descended of the Troyans Grece Thessalia Acaia Macedonia and Thessalie where as is a flood called Peneus nauigable in the middest for into the saide flood entreth the Riuer of Orcon but his water swimmeth aboue the other without mingling together as doeth Oyle Italy hath the noble Riuer of Poste beating vaines of golde In the Iles of Pont there are people that liue with the egges of wilde foule others that haue féete like horses whose eares are so great and so long that therewith they couer their whole bodies Europe doeth containe Germanie which is hie and base Almaine Burgony Sauoy Brittaine Gaule that is deuided into thrée partes From the Riuer Lescault to the Riuer of Sayne is called Gaule the faire from Sayne to Gyrrond is Gaule the anciēt and conteineth Lionois and from Girronde to the hilles of Pirennes that deuideth Spaine and Fraunce is Aquittaine Spaine also is of Europia where as is Cathelognia Araragon Castilian Portingall Syuell Andelosia Leon Galicia and the kingdome of Granado euen to the Sea The seuenth Booke treateth of man THe world hath brought foorth many things of the which man is almost the least Hée hath clothed the Beastes Birdes Fishes and Trées with skinnes feathers scales barke and otherwise But man cōmeth foorth all naked ready to wéepe and lightly before fourtie dayes he doeth not laugh he that ought to raigne ouer the beastes on the earth is at the beginning weaker then any he knoweth nothing without hée be taught neither to speake nor to goe and naturally doeth nothing but wéepe Naturally the beastes séeke their liuing flie from their enemy swimme with many other things giuen them of nature The Lyons doe not warre betwéene themselues the Serpents doe not bite one another but men studie howe to destroy one another by warres and dissentions Men neuer lightly in all points resemble one like another in their faces the which commeth by the diuersitie of the cogitations of their parentes the which maketh their similitudes so farre vnlike and therefore the brute beastes that haue no such varieties in their thoughtes engender none but their like Men there are called Arimaspi that haue but one eye in their forehead which incessantly warre against the Grissons about mettals and they finde in the ground golde and other mettalls Those that are toward the end of the West drinke in dead mens sculles In Albania some haue their eyes yellowe that cōmeth to them in their youth they sée better by night then by day In Affrica in some places there are a great multitude of Serpentes whose properties they vse for the triall of their wyues chiefly after this sort If the husbandes will haue probation of the honestie of their wiues they will present their children before the Serpentes which will stye awaye if that the children bée egitimate but if that the Serpents remaine and feare not then are they bastardes When they are bitten with Serpents they put their spittle vpon the place for to heale it specially their fasting spittle for the Serpēt feareth mans spittle as hote water In India there are hye men and also marueilous hye beastes as for a witnesse there are Dogges as great as Asses trées as hye as an Archer can scarce shoote to the top and vnder the shadowe of one Figge trée may a hundreth horses stande because of the fertilitie of the lande the temperance of the ayre and the aboundance of waters there are men fiue cubites in height the which neuer vse to spit nor are troubled with the paine of head eyes or téeth and are seldome sicke Others there are in the Mountaines with heads like Dogs In a part of India the women neuer beare children but once whose children waxe straight way olde And others called Sciopedae that haue their féete so broade that when they are layde they couer them therewith from the heate of the Sunne and they be very swift in running Some toward the East haue no heads but haue eyes in their shoulders and others called Epithamai Pigmei that are of one yarde hye In the farther part of India towards the East neare to the Riuer of Gangis there is a people clad with leaues that liue by smelling they neuer eate nor drinke in their iourneies they beare floures and rootes to smell at and they are easely killed by filthy smelles and sauours There are little men called Pigmei among which the highest passe not the height of two cubites hauing a wholsome aire and pleasant countrey where they dwell the which men are molested with Cranes as writeth Homer therefore it is no maruell though often times they are caried away with those Cranes In the spring time the Pigmei assemble together mounted vpon Shéepe and Goates armed with dartes and arrowes for to descende downe to the sea and for the space of thrée monethes consume and breake the Cranes Egges and kil the yong ones otherwise they would so multiplie that those little men should neuer rest in quiet Some there are in the valleys called Pandore that liue two hundreth yéeres in their youth hauing white haire in age their haires become blacke There is a people that liueth but

fourtie yéeres whose wiues doe bring foorth children at the age of seuen yéeres There are people that haue long hairie tailes growing These things and others hath nature made moustruous for our examples Among the womē there are diuers childings some haue had sixe children some eight and some nine and sometime children of diuers kindes which are called Hermaphrodites which are both man and woman There hath bene that haue had in their life time thirtie Children and among the maruailes of the worlde a childe being new borne did enter againe into his mothers wōbe in the Citie of Saguntra And it is no fable nor tale to haue séene women and maydes transformed into men The females are sooner engendred then the Male and become soonest olde the Females doe moue in their mothers wombe most on the left side and the males on the right side And Plinie reciteth to haue séene a maide on the night of her marriage to be naturally transformed into a man and incontinent her beard to growe and shée to be married againe to a woman If that a woman bring foorth two children at one burthen lightly there is short life either to the mother or to one of her children and if they be both Males or Females then are they lightly of a short life Among the women there is no certaine time prefixed of their trauailings with childe for some bée deliuered in seuen moneths some in eight and most commonly in nyne moneths Also sometime at ten and eleuen moneths Before the seuenth moneth the childe hath no life the tenth day after shée hath conceiued Paine in the head a shadowe or mist before the eyes no taste nor relisse in meates and a vndigesting stomacke are signes of conception That woman that bringeth foorth a Male childe hath better colour and easier deliuerance Miserable is the condition of man For the Princes by this meanes haue their originall and are subiect to Fortune and hath nature as others We reade of a Romaine Prince that died in the morning in pulling on his hose an other died with the stinging or biting of a Grape an other was choaked with a haire in eating of Milke Scipio Affricanus was the first called Caesar for that Caesus fuit matris Vterus his mothers wombe was opened for him to passe out Of those that are cripple lame and conterfeite of nature commeth whole limmed and perfect children in their members and sometimes of perfect and wel proportioned people commeth lame and vnperfect children A woman doeth not beare children after fiftie yéeres there are many that ceasse at fourtie As touching men we reade truely of a Prince which at the age of foure score and sixe yéeres begate a childe When Cato was borne his father was foure score yéeres olde Vnto children their téeth come commonly at seuen monethes the seuenth yéere they renue for then their téeth fall and there commeth to them others and some are borne with téeth And if that a dead bodie be burned the téeth will neuer burne but remaine whole Vnto some their téeth faile them at middle age commonly a man hath thirtie two téeth and hée that hath more is estéemed to be the longer liuer Zoroastes did laugh that day hée was borne yea that with the very force of laughing he did reiecte the hand that was vpon his head for the placing and fashioning of his head and setling of his braines A man is as long from the foote to the head as the extending or spreading abroade of his armes counting from the great fingers Men doe way more then women the dead bodies way more then the liuing and those that are a sléepe way more then they that are awake Some liue without marow in their bones and therefore they neuer thirst and for this cause women drinke lesse then men and such doe neuer sweate It is recited of Crassus the Senatour that he did neuer laugh Socrates the great clarke was neuer séene mery nor ioyfull nor angry at one time more then at an other and therefore mens complexions are diuers In Rome hath bene seene a Princesse called Antonia Drusi neuer to spitte Pomponius neuer to belke The strength of men hath bene great and more in one than another It is read of one that with one hande did holde a Chariot that thrée horses could not make to goe for wards nor remoue Hercules did carrie his great Mule on his backe Fusius Saluius did beare two hundreth on his féete two hundreth in his hands and two hundreth on his shoulders so being loden or charged with sixe hundreth waight went vpon a ladder Plinie writeth to haue séene one named Athanatus to haue a iacke on his backe waying fiue hundreth waight going to aplay with shooes on his féete waying fifty pound waight a piece Milo set his foote in a place from which place there was no man able to make him goe backe or remoue If that he helde a staffe in his hand there was no man able to take it away or writhe it out of his fist For running there hath bene many light and nimble men that would runne a thousand a hundreth thréescore furlongs a day and more Also there are some that haue their sight very singuler We reade of a man called Strabo of the countrey of Sicilia that is toward the East to recken and count the ships that parted from Carthage for to enter into the South sea Cicero did recite that he did sée the Iliades of Homer in verse written being included in a Nut shell so small were the figures Marmecides made a Cart or Wagon so litle that a flye did couer it And he made a ship that a Bée might couer it with both her winges For a trueth there haue bene people that haue heard battailes and fighting fiftie Leagues of for they haue counted the time and houres of the assaultes The memorie hath bene very singuler to some Cyrus King of Persie had the memorie to know and call euery one of his armie by their names Methridates the king did talke one day to his people in two twentie languages without stutting or stammering Others léese their memorie by fantastes or otherwise haue forgotten their vnderstanding Messalla the Orator did forget by grieuous sicknesse his sciences yea his owne name in such sort that hée knewe not from whence he was Marueilous was the memorie of Iulius Cesar the which named to foure Scribes or writers at one time and in the meane time he read writ and heard and if he had no other affaires he would name to seuen He fought 52. battailes And Marcellus 40. Cesar in his battailes is reputed to haue slaine of his enemies 1192. thousand men Pompeus did spoile and take from the Pirates and sea robbers against whome he was sent by the Romaines 876 ships Moreouer Cesar had this constancie that the letters that Scipio did sende him for to betray Pompeus hee cast into the fire without reading them Cato was accused to the Senatours 42.

and in stéede of blood haue humor The Dolphin is the most swiftest fish in the Sea and most hardest to be taken euery one foloweth his like they haue yong in ten monethes in Sommer and nourish them as doe the Whales the olde ones carry the yong ones and there is alwayes a great Dolphin that followeth the little one they haue the tongue mouing like a Hog Aboue the nature of other fishes they loue yong childrē and the sounde of Instruments they liue three hundreth yéeres and they haue their greatnesse at tenne yéeres they reioyce when one calleth them Symon and they loue humaine voyce Many examples are both séene and reade of little children that they haue caried by Sea on their backes and brought backe againe without doing them any harme Shell fishes are so great in some places that with their shelles they couer their houses The beastes of the Sea haue diuers clothings some are couered with leather and with haire as the Sea calfe some onely with leather as the Dolphins others with great thicke and harde shelles other softer shelles as Oysters Cockles and Muscles that haue no heads others with sharpe prickles as the Ecchinus called the Sea Porcupen others with scales as Carpes and many other fish others with rough skinnes with the which they shaue fine wood and Iuory some with soft skinnes and others that haue none The Sea calfe which is clothed with skinne and haire they ioyne Male and Female together as Dogges and they neuer haue but two at a burthen they nourish their yong ones with their pappes or tettes and are deliuered on the lande and within twelue dayes after they bring thē to the Sea The Sea calfe is more grieued and more constrained to sléepe then any other beast and therfore their skinne put on a mans head doeth prouoke him to sléepe Great is the diuersitie of beastes in some there is neither bone nor thorne and of many kindes there is no male Among the fishes the Females are greater then the Males there are some that haue their scales tending towards their heads cleane cōtrarie to the nature of others Some there are that goe alwayes to sléepe vpon the drie lande The Whale maketh her yong ones aliue without egs Eeles liue commōly eight yéere they will liue six daies without water specially when the winde is at West and lesse with other windes In Winter they couet déepe and cleare waters and swimme in the bottome they féede in the night and they of all other fishes slote not aboue water when that they are dead In the Lake of Verone they are taken by thousandes Some kinde of fishes rendreth their yong ones aliue others that flye by the Sea as the Sea swallowe Some make egges and couer or sit on them as doe the foules in the ayre so doeth the Sea kite a foule called Lucerna of the propertie of his name séeketh the maine Seas whose tongue shineth or glistereth as may well be séene in a faire and calme night The Dragon of the Sea as soone as she is taken and brought to land she maketh incōtinently an entery or hole in the sande that shée might be lost Some fishes haue no blood and haue their heads in their bellies betwéene their féete with their feete they cast meate into their mouths The Sea Locusts hide them selues for the space of fiue monethes and swimme in the spring time they battaile betwéene themselues with their hornes If they be put aliue into hote water for to séeth they will be tender The Sea Creuices liue in Rockes and stony places there are very great ones In Sommer and in the Spring they fatten and in the full Moone and they augment diminish with the Moone they are of a long life they haue all eight féete The Females haue the first foote folded or double and the Males single and they créepe as much backward as forward Cockles haue two little hornes wherewith they féele the way for they haue no eyes The fishes ioyne Male and Female ioyning their bellies then the female rūneth or swimmeth away touching with her mussell the belly of the Male and the Males eate the Females Egges for if all the Egges should profite the Sea Riuers and Pondes would be filled with fish there would be such an innumerable multitude The Sea Mouse maketh her Egges on the lande and couereth them with earth and thirtie dayes after doeth vncouer them and bringeth her yong ones into the Sea Some fish liue thrée score yéere as by the experience of markes put on them Some fishes there are that liue on the lande when that in Sommer the Riuers and poudes are dried vp and some will goe feede in the corne and on the lande tarying for the water and such is the nature of some to liue on the earth with wormes There are certaine fishes with sharpe prickles on their backes that will cut the line of fishers Nettes Other fishes that are called Sea starres doe burne other fishes by their great heate In the Sea there is warre among the fishes as among the foule in the aire for one féedeth not with another The tenth Booke treateth of the Foules of the Ayre IN Affrica and Ethiopia there are birdes that are called Struthiocameli as hie as a man on horsebacke which doe not forsake the earth but runne faster then horses The Phenix liueth in Arabia I say not that hée is alone but neuer man sawe him eate he liueth sixe hundreth yéeres and in his age maketh a Nest of the braunches of spice trées wherein he dieth and of his bones commeth a worme the which afterwarde natarally becommeth a Phenix He is as great as an Eagle the feathers about his necke are of the colour of golde the taile yellowe and the surplus like to Azure Eagles there are of sixe kindes some liue with their pray on the earth other in the water that fishe with one foote they haue the knowledge to take Whelkes and other shelled fish vp into the ayre then let them fall to breake their shelles for to haue the fish they cause their yong ones to looke vp into the Sunne beames and cast those out of the Neast that will not beholde the Sunne as bastards they die in their age because that their vpper bill doth growe so long that they can not eate they fight against Déere and against the Dragons and in flying they cast dust that they take vp on the lande in the eyes of Crowes other beastes for to blinde them The Cuckoe resembleth to the colour of the wood Doue they are killed of others of their kinde they change their voyce and come in the spring time and doe alwayes bring vp their yong ones in other birdes nestes specially in the nestes of stock Doues she neuer lightly maketh aboue one egge and very seldome two because she knoweth that shée is hated of all other birdes They thinke them selues very fayre and dispraise others and there is no

conceiue nor make egges nor yet haue yong Mans sense is perfect but in séeing the Eagle doth surmount him The Vulture to smell and the Mole to heare what soeuer is on the earth Fishes doeth both smell and sée and yet haue neither eare nor hole in the head Some fishes get their pray with their téeth others with their féete and others with sucking and licking according to their nature Some liue by sucking of venime as Serpentes and Spiders that haue neither blood nor heate nor sweate and to them néedeth no meates Wolues doe often times liue with earth Beastes doe fatten with drinking and therefore salt for them is necessary Those beastes that haue their téeth close doe lappe as Dogges in their drinking and they that holde their téeth together doe sowpe hume as doe Oxen and Horses The Beare in drinking séemeth to bite the water In Affrica wilde beastes drinke not in the Sommer for default of water and there are certaine beastes that neuer drinke and yet they haue alwayes thirst within the body There is that haue a bladder full of liquor in drinking thereof one shall endure long without thirst Birdes haue both amitie and warre amōg them selues as well as beastes on the earth One robbeth from the other their nestes yong ones Egges and meate All beastes hauing hart will sléepe boeth on the earth and in the water A childe newe borne to let him sléepe long is to him nourishment as he growes to age he sléepeth lesse and yong children dreame in their sléeping The eleuenth Booke treateth of little Beastes NAture hath made more meruailes and hath giuen more sense and vnderstanding to little beasts worthy of more greather memorie then the great They haue no blood but in stéede of blood haue humiditie and moisture in the body which maketh them giue both sound and voyce to aspire and respire they haue neither heart nor liuer but only certaine bowels and haue eyes other sentemēts and féelings their head moueth not without the body vnlesse it be pulled off Among the which the good flies or hony Bées haue sense and labour for the publike profite they haue among them Princes and conductours of their counsell and maner how to behaue them selues in their frequentations In the winter they are hiddē for that they can not resist the Snowes windes and frostes they make hony and waxe when they goe to their worke they neuer léese no time First they wype or rubbe their Hiue with things that are bitter as the Gumme of trées and other things for to take the taste from other beastes of the swéetnesse of their hony after ward they make their chambers or dwellings then they make their yong ones without corruption and after that they make their hony and waxe of floures and prouide foode for winter otherwise bitter meate full of humor seperated from hony On nights in their voyage when they are from their wonted place to rest they lye their belly vpward to kéepe their wings from the dewe The maner of their workes is to remaine some of them at the gate or doore of their Hyue there to kéepe watch as the custome is of a Castle in the night they rest till the morning except those that are appointed to watch of the which one of them in the morning goeth about making a sound or noyse as it were a Trūpet and then euery one departeth and flieth away if the day be faire otherwise they continue in their house they knowe the disposition of times the yong ones goe or flie abroade into the fieldes the old ones remaine to make the worke or to deuide the roomes within Some bring the flowers to the entrie of their place others doe discharge it carieth it in others bring water in their throte for to temper or giue moisture to their workes and they deuide their offices Some do garnish some pollishe some sucke and others make ready soode of that which is brought in for they liue together and doe not seperate to the end that equally their foode be deuided they make double alleyes or pathes some to come in at and some to goe foorth by the most hony is in the highest roome If there chaunce to rise a great winde whylest they are in the fieldes then they flie close to the grounde along the hedges and they take a little stone or earth to bée more waightier to the ende the winde beare them not away and lode their floures in their fore féete against their breastes Those that are appointed maisters or ouerséers of their house will chastice those that are negligent and slow They neuer file nor make filth in their Hiue they are so cleane In the night their watch being set they retire into their lodging and make a murmuring or noyse still diminishing till that one maketh the last sound or Trūpet flying in the midst of them and then they ceasse off all till the morning First they make their common houses and then the house of their king or Captaine whome they doe elect and choose Among these good flyes there are others more greater without sting which serue at the workes and to chafe or warme the yong ones betwéene their féete and they are straightly corrected and if they faile without any remissiō These make their king a faire house pinacled like a Castle seperated from other houses The lodgings of the cōmon sort haue six rowmes or corners for the worke of their sixe féete and they make them in close darke or raynie dayes and at such times they fill the vpper Celles with hony and in a faire and cléere day they goe to the fieldes The maner how the yong ones are borne there is great difficultie for they neuer couer one another There was a Romaine that made a hiue of cléere lanterne hornes for to sée their works it séemeth that they make little wormes that become flyes and before that they haue feathers there is nothing that the dame desireth more to eate when their heads are pulled of Their king is chosen in euery swarme or company and they choose him that is greatest he is knowen for he hath a spot in the forehead If he goe or flye to the fieldes the others followe him as his garde and he goeth not out of the Hiue vnlesse that all the rest doe followe If he haue a wing broken or perished hée goeth not out of the Hiue he onely taketh no paines but admonisheth them of their worke If by aduise of counsell he commeth forth euery one putteth their paine to serue him and will carry him if he be wearie If he haue a sting yet he vseth it not When they intend to depart and leaue the hiue certaine dayes before they murmure and make a noyse and flye their way by tempests Oftentimes they be at strife for their bondes floures or if one Hiue haue no foode they will spoyle another and their king doth defende them If there wante vittailes they kill