_Plinie_ nameth Bées Cleft beasts, bicause of the diuision or parting betwéene of the head & shoulders: and _Aristotle_ nameth them plighted or ringed, in that their bodies are diuided with plightes and rings. And most men know, that the Bées haue neyther sinews, bones, fleshe, gristle, backe-bone, nor fat, but are only created of a certaine mixture, being a meane betwéen these, and hauing a very few intrailes. And againe, no man néedeth to doubte, but that the Bées be a kinde of beasts, greatly to be set by for mans vse, & for mans prouision, are nourished of the aire, passing throughe the diuided places, which they by great diligence and care preserue from being stopped, for as soone as they be stopped, they shortly after die, like as the same we may learne, when anye happeneth to fall or light into Oyle, which straight way after die, throughe the Oyle stopping then their powers. They haue and fly with foure wings, that they maye the better carrye in their bellies the stings of reuengement. For when two of them striue togither in flight, then do they hold and kéep their stings in their mouths by a gréedy desire, or for eagernesse sake. Now after the seauen starres named _Vergiliæ_, be once risen in sight aboue our horizon, then do they hyde them in their proper holes, so that they go seldome after abroade, vntill the Beanes doe bud, and if they happen to beginne at any tyme to flye abroade when as a fayre daye moueth them forwarde, then slacke they no suche dayes afterwarde, but occupy themselues. And firste they prepare and make their combes, which they fashion into apt houses, or rather celles of waxe, after this they haue yong, and then beginne they to gather hony. They liue also the longer by hauing their stings, for that once gone, or taken away, they dye forthwith through the lacke of their intrailes, whiche they lose togither with their stings. ¶ Who first taught the preparation and increasing of Bees, and founde oute the vse of Honny. Cap.ij.