This is a speciall argument and note, that the Bées, are diseased, if that they fly scattering in the swarme, if they kéep not their proper colour, but be (as it were) of a strange and contrarie colour: if they also are ouer leane, if they appeare dustie and hairy, and that out of their cottages bée dead Bées carryed thence. When al these notes and signes are espied in the Bées, it is then highe time to séeke remedye for them, leaste helpe (by longer running) be sought too late. Therfore _Palladius_ willeth to minister the kernels of _Pomegranats_, brused and mixed with swéete and pleasaunt Wine, and the same powred into the chanels or gutters of halfe canes, set nere to the mouths of hiues, or honny, with Rose leaues well beaten togither, and so ministred to them, or the berries of the Saruice trée brused, and mixed with Honny: for lacke of these helpes, a man may make a smoake of drie Oxe or Cowe dung, whiche smoake muche delyghteth and comforteth them, so that the same be often vsed vnto Haruest. But if throughe the Maggots or little wormes of the Butter-flyes the Bées be diseased, _Rutilius_ then iudgeth it beste, to set a brasen Candlesticke, or suche like vessell, with lighte burning in it at Euening, within the hyue, that to the same light (the Butter-flyes gathering, and flying about) may so fall down into it, and be destroyed. _Aristomachus_ writeth, that the diseased Bées maye bée couered in this maner, if that all the corrupt combe within the hiue be taken forth, and freshe foode anewe put in of the whole, and the hiue after smoaked within. Also he affyrmeth, that Rosemarie sodden with water and honny togither, and beyng colde, poured into halfe canes or Elder stickes, made hollow like gutters, and the same set by the mouthes of the hiues, for the Bées to drinke on, doth recouer the Bées again. _Hyginius_ affirmeth that eyther the Oxe or mans vrine set in like manner (as aboue saide) by the mouths of the hyues, doth also recouer the diseased Bées. Nowe all these, and suche like muste the kéeper of the Bées doe, whiche is bothe sober and chaste, and féedeth not vppon sowre or tarte meates, nor filthy or strong of sauour, nor any salt meates. ¶ What manner of person, the keeper of Bees ought to be. Cap.xiij.