Now some affyrme, that the clouen beasts draw no breth, in that they haue not the fan of the hart, which is the lights or lungs, for as they write, nothing without them can breath. But _Aristotle_ writeth, that the same is possible among Bées, hauing the sting (although they haue no bladder) to breath by their sting. And the Bées haue no bloude, bicause they haue neither hart nor lungs: yet _Plinie_ affirmeth, that nothing done by nature may be thought or iudged incredible: for the same is fully persuaded in wise men, that the Bées haue a certain liuely moisture, like as the Cuttle in the Sea, which hath a kinde of ynke in it, and is as the iuyce of it, with the whiche the Diers (at this day) do make their Purple colour. ¶ Of the great vtilitie and profite of the Bees vnto mans vse. Cap.vj. A great profite ariseth by Bées, if they be set in a conuenient and fit place, and that both carefully & wisely guided, as _Plinie_ writeth in his xj. booke, where he willeth, that of al other clouen beastes, the Bées to bee principallye cherished, bicause to mans vse they gather a subtile and wholsome iuyce, beyng very swéete, and besides they frame by a maruelous skill and cunning, theyr cotages of waxe vnto mans vse, that no workman (be he neuer so ingenious) can do the like. The profite also comming by them in a short time, if the weather hindereth not, is so greate, that they increase in a shorte time into manye swarmes, which swarmes againe increase others, so that the firste swarmes increased, they especially thrust forth from them in the moneth of May, or Iune, by whych meanes they cause a great increase of them. As _Varro_ affirmeth the same of two head Gentlemen in Spaine, which only by the means of their Bées, gayned yerely ten thousand pound (but I rather thinke fiue thousand pounde, which also is very muche) yet here is to be noted, that the swarmes of syxe yeares olde, doe seldome encrease after other swarmes of themselues, although in waxe they giue a great yéelde and gayne to the owners. ¶ Of the great care and diligence of the Bees. Cap.vij.