and Moral'I upon the nature of Bees. 267

I fay, love alone would be too wanton except it be poilxd andballanced wich a holy feare and awe and reverence of Cod.

XXI.

If a fwarme be checked and stunted with bad weather pre-sently after it is hived, or if it he small,or very late in the yeare,the Bees will be carelelly desperate, and gather nothing to pur-pose, for they are out of hope to get enough for their wintersprovision and maintenance, and as good never a whit as neverthe better.Good is the Loadstone of all endeavours, a man will Mr. ihokfrnot labour for nothing,therefore despaire killes a mans labour#, Soules prepaand plucks up the roote of all his endeavours; if there be any for .good present, hope makes us labour to increase it ; if there be Chtlft 'any good t< > come, hope labours to attaine it: but good theremust be at least in hope and expectation, or else all endeavourswill flag and wither away to nothing.

XXII.

The feild wherein Bees feed, is no whit the barer for their Mr. Fulltnbiting, when they have tooke their full repast of flowers or Med.grasse, the Oxe may feede, the sheepe fat on their reversions.

The reason is because those little Chvmists distill only the refi-ned part of the flower, leaving the grosser substance thereof.

So ejaculations bind not men to any bodily observance, onlybusie the spiritual! halfe, which maketh consistent with theprosecution of any other employment.

XXIII.

Many observing the Bees flying into their hive,suppose thembest furnished, that they ste goe home laden on their thighs,and thinke the other idle that they fee carry nothing; whereasthough the former be well busied, yet oft times the other arebetter who are more deeply more richly laden,being full fraigh-ted with honey. Gods servants in this life are more in substancethen in shew, when they fast, they anoynt not their faces ; andwhen they give almes let not their right hand know,what their

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