the most floures are then faded or quite gone away. Here note, that in the Spring and Sommer time, the bée-hiues ought to be loked vnto thrice in the moneth, gently smoking the Bées, to clense the Hiues of al maner filth, and to swéepe forth the wormes. Also _Menecrates_ willeth the kéeper of Bées, to kill the king blacke of colour, whiche by hys malice disquieteth the other king, and corrupteth the Hiue, in that he flieth out alone, or with a company of the bées folowing. So by that meanes (as _Virgil_ writeth) shall the battel of Bées be stayed. _Palladius_ writeth, that the swarmes be increased in the moneth of May, and that in the outmost sides of the combes be the drone Bées bred, which ought to be killed, in that those do muche disquiet the rest of the swarme. The Butterflies also do abounde, which he willeth diligently to kill, for their greate annoyaunce to the honny Bées. About the beginning of Nouember ought the Hyues then to be cleared of their filth, so that al the Winter following they may neyther be remoued nor opened. And this may not be done but in a warme sunny daye, the combes maye not be touched with hands, but with the feathers of a stiffe goose wing, or such bigge foule. After that to stoppe the chinkes round about wyth Oxe dung and clay finely laboured togither, and to lay strawe thicke ouer the toppes of the Hiues, the better to defende the Bées from the cold and tempestes. ¶ How the dead Bees may be restored to life againe. Cap.xix. The kéeper of bées ought to foresée and take héede, that the Bées perysh not through ouer great heate, or ouer mighty cold. If at any time by a sodaine showre in the séeking for foode, Bées happen to be beaten downe, or nipped wyth a sodaine colde (which seldome so commeth to passe that the Honny bées are so deceyued,) that harmed with the droppes, they lye grouelyng and flatte on the earth, as dead in a manner, then gather the Bées togyther, putting them into some vessel for the nonce, which after set in a warm chamber or Parloure, & couer warm ymbers, being somewhat more than hote, on the Bées, whiche gently shake with the ashes, but in suche sorte that you touche them not wyth your hande. And setting the Bées in the sunne, and neare to their hiues, they will after recouer, and flie again into their cotages. ¶ Of the battel that Bees sometime haue among themselues. Cap.xx.