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A theatre of politicall flying-insects : wherein especially the nature, the worth, the work, 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
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to their paucity, do by a continued flying about, allure as manyas they can to come forth to augment their numbers.

Sometimes swarms will settle in two or more clusters , alittle distance one from the other (seldome prime (warms.) Nowusually the cause is, because there bee divers Commanders, andeach gets a company. Hive the greatest cluster first, and set ftdown towards the other, Chen into an unfpleated Hive, (hakedown the other, and when they bee all in, knock them downclofehy the first, and they will »o together.

Second swarms except they bee early, and out of large stocks,seldome thrive alone : Therefore unite two or three together,and so they will bee as good as a first swarm; you may do itthus, Having hived that swarm chat you intend co put co ano-ther, as (bon as it begins to bee dark > cake a fan, and laying acouple of sticks on it, set your first hived swarm on them to-wards one end of the fan, and then fetch th* other, and betweenyour hands dap the Hive hard on the one side, holding it closeto the other, most of the Bees will fall down at the first clap,but reiterate your knocking, and they will all fall down, and ifthey enter not presently, stir and guide them to the Hive, with abrush os weeds, and such as go any other way, sweep them totheir fellows, and they will all quickly , and quietly ascend.Within an houtc or two, you may (for th: most part) sec up theHive again in his place. I have not lost forty Bacs in unitingtwenty swarms, besides the Commanders, which of necessitymust perish.

Swarms after they b:e well seeled , seldome return home a-gain (if you let them not hang too long in the heat) and thechief cause of their returning ac any time, isthe miscarriage ofthe Queen Bee, who cannot well use her wings, bring ^perhaps)never torch of the Hive before, and assaying to stye, (alls be-sides the stool, sometimes styes further, but being quickly wea yfalls short of her company.

You may easily know if it bee thus, for Us soon as you havehived the duster, the fiist inquiry they make is for their.dea-der ( whose coming while they hang , they did anxiously ex-pect) but now being I ived , and missing her, they presently dis-CoVer it with a mournful mtinnurin^/omecimes bcwaylwg heircondition-, jointly crying out cogeehcr, and then areaiiludicnly

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