The feminin' monarchi', or the histori' of bee's. Shewing their admirable natur', and propertis; their generation and colonis; their government, loyalti, art, industri; enimi's, wars, magnanimiti, etc. Together with the right ordering of them from tim' to tim': and the sweet' profit arising ther'of / Written out of Experienc( by Charles Butler.

Charles Butler

Date:: M.DC.XXXIV

Credit: The feminin' monarchi', or the histori' of bee's. Shewing their admirable natur', and propertis; their generation and colonis; their government, loyalti, art, industri; enimi's, wars, magnanimiti, etc. Together with the right ordering of them from tim' to tim': and the sweet' profit arising ther'of / Written out of Experienc( by Charles Butler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$At dis tim‘, in a morning befoi*de Bee*s coom mu« a- 69 broad, lift up your Hiv*s: and qikly fwa?ping de dcd Bee's clem de fool's. and odcr noyfomnes away, and fcraping clean de Scool*s,fet dem doun again,-v.and doom* dem clof* as befor*. For albeit ^ i6b de Bee*s in tim* woold* rid dem clean demfelvs; yet/all it has good for dem to hav* it doon at one*, dac dey bas nei- dcr hindered,nor annoyed der*wit: and nou and dende car¬ rying out of a ded Bee* at dis tim* of de y«r*, doot* cofl a qik Bee* hir lif*: for beeing di awn wit'de weigt of de corps, to de cold* ground; wii* fee flandet panting a little, /ee is ■eilled: and lo not able to rif‘ any mor*. Dis clenfing of de Stools j^after a calm Aquarius, wen de Bee*s hav* been muc abroad, is not (o neceffary: and fpc- cially for de better flails. In de beginning of dts moont tak* away de fals skirts of Swarms under* hived, (v.c,5,k.46.) wic wer* left at Virgo: (v. n. 4p.) paring of de Corns end‘s a little witin de Hiv‘s skirts ; unles de enlarged Hiv* bee under de midling fiz* of free peks. Aud in de end* of dis moont, tak* away de fa Is bottoms of Swarms over, hived, v. c. 5. u.^6. Dof* dat by deir ligtnes you perceiv to Iak Hoonni, you 70 may nou fav* by fading, [v*c. 8. ». 13 .& 20. ) or driving And fe^c or dem into odcrsdat hav* flor*. v.c.io.p.i.» 15. ^r/V l,t(ftn 11 ^ Aries is almofl* as dangerous a moont, for robbing, as 1 ]Virgo: and der*for* you mufl hav * a car* in de eevnings to AR1 £ s- /ut de Wickets,& in de mornings (not befor* it bee warm) 7 * to half-open dem again: and, wer* de dry* wind*sandhot ®ffec0nd€lft iun hav* Jfunk de doom*, beecar*ful to fil up de cinks a-rg, m gain. De poor* flails dis moon* woold* bee half-/uc all dc day: as in Virgo and Libra. At Taurus (and fC0ner,if fooneryou fee *caus) rem«ov- 73 ingde Bars from de better flails, fet de Wickets open: and motftsTetlrs. for de weaker fort, let dem,all dis mCCnf, bee /ut in de ee v--L nings : and in de mornings, as fcon* as it is warm*, bee but half* opened. * Vat U, wen eiifer $cj keep' mate at de dost' in de ee\ningt, or tee fo encreafedjat Jej cannot eaftij pas to and fro tn deir woorkj for if de pa f- H 1$

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