Therfore, of the former matters must a smoake be made, & that (at the entry) or mouth of the hiues, that the Bées assaying to fly in, may through the smoke be driuen to flye backe again. Now after the hiues be gelded, and that anye shall haue ouerthwart or crossed combes at the entrance of the hiue, those then shall be so conuerted, that the parts behind maye be emptied & left void for another time. So that when they shal be next gelded the old combs rather than the new are to be taken forth, & the waxe renewed, for that the older the waxie combes are, so muche the worser they be. If it happeneth, that the hiue be so made, that the same may not be remoued out of the place then ought you to geld first the hinder parte, and after the foreparte: and this especiallye ought to be done afore fiue a clocke in the morning, and after nine of the clocke at night, or in the nexte morrowe. Nowe the Bées when they knowe this, all come to fill the emptie place, so that after they haue repaired and filled the same, and fulfilled all the reste aboute it, then flye they to the forepart, and do worke in like order. By whiche we may euidently learne, that they haue filled the same empty place also, by their abiding stil there. Besides these, as the great plentie of honny, doeth cause sluggishnesse in the Bées, euen so doeth the much abatement, and excéeding taking awaye of their honny, bothe dull the quickenesse and diligence of them, and cause them also to bée sluggishe. ¶ What the honny is, and howe from the hiues the same maye be prepared to vse. Cap.xxiiij. As we firste gather the honny from the combes, so do we the waxe for the comforte of the light, and other commoditie besides. Nowe what the honny is, and howe the same taken from hiues, maye be prepared to vse, shall hereafter bée taughte. Firste the learned _Isidore_ writeth, the honny to be of the deawe of some lyquide matter, and affyrmeth also the same to be founde sometimes in the leaues of the greate Canes. To whiche in a manner doth _Publius Maro_ agrée in this verse, writing, that hitherto the heauenlye giftes are of the Aereall honny. Others teach the honny in _India_ and _Arabia_, to be like to salte gathered there on the leaues of trées. Others do doubt whether the honny be a sweat from heauen, or a certaine spittle of the starres, or a iuyce of the aire purging it selfe. But whatsoeuer substance the same is, yet is it a moste swéete, subtill, and healthfull iuyce, _Plinie_ witnesseth, which at the first gathering of it, is as a cleare water, but after the boyling a while, and purging of it selfe, as the newe wine (after the pressing forth) is wonte to do, doth by the twenty day after come to a perfect thickenesse of honny, throughe the often repeating and working of it in the hote dayes, from the beginning of May and vnto the middle of Iune.