# A profitable instruction of the perfect ordering of Bees/First Treatise/Chapter 14

By what ſubtil meanes, the ſwarmes come forth, may be preſerued from flying quite awaye. Cap. xiiij.
PAlladivs in his ſecond Booke writeth, that ye ſwarmes of the honny Bees fly awaye eſpeciallye in the moneth of June. But with vs the ſame oftner happeneth in the moneth of May, as hathe bin noted by ſundrye, diuerſe times, eſpecially if the yong Bees be ſounde and hartie within the Hyues. Therefore the keeper muſte diligently looke to the Hyues, and at no time be abſent eſpecially when the young Bees increaſe and abound in the Hyues, for if they be not then carefully looked vnto, and ſtayed by the diligence of the keeper, they al fly quite away. For ſuch is the nature and propertie of the Bees, that as ſoone as the ſwarmes of the yong Bees, are bred with the Kings, and that they be ſtrong & able to flye away, then as diſdayning the ſwarmes of the olde Bees, they ſeeke the more gouernment. For that they be ſuche liuing things, that delight to rule alone, not ſeeking ayde and counſell of the elder Bees: and therefore do the newe kings flye forth, with the young ſwarmes following them, which for a day or two before their flying away, remaine heaping togither before the mouths of the Hyues, & right vnder the Hyues, ſo that by their comming forth, and heaping in ſuche order, they properly ſhewe the deſire of a newe place, and be as yet contented to remaine thereabout, if ſo be the keeper prouide for them a place and an apt Hiue. But if they haue no keeper to looke diligently to them, then as it were by an iniurie repulſed, they after ſeeke a newe place. That this may not happen, let then the warye and diligent keeper, looke circumſpectlye to the Hyues in the Spring time, aboute the eight houre of the daye, (when as the ſwarmes are not yet flowen away,) that he maye the diligenter marke and ſee the flying oute and comming in of the yong Bees.
{{bl|Now the readineſſe of ye Bees in flying away, is known two wayes, as ye firſt is, whē for certaine daies before, in a maner at ye ſetting of the Sun, they plentifully or abundantly gather on a heape righte before the mouthe of the Hyue, like vnto greate ​cluſters of Grapes, and doe hang togither on heapes one vpon another.}}
The other note is, that when they be minded within three daies after to flye awaye, they make as meruellous noiſe and ſturring too and fro within hiues at euening, as Souldiours at the Alarme within a Caſtell, whiche you maye eaſilye knowe, (this readineſſe of them) if that you lay your eare to ech hiue. And when ſome of the Bees are flowen awaye, then doe thoſe waite for the others, vntill the whole ſwarme be come togither. That the Bees fly not awaye, Plinie teacheth in the xi. Booke of his Naturall Hiſtorie, that the hiues ought to be annointed about with ye iuyce of ye herb named Balme. Alſo other affyrme, that the ſwarme to ſettle and ſtay againe through the onely throwing of fine duſte on them, if ſo be the ſame be throwen on light, and that ouer the bees. Some beſide affirme, that the Bees will not flye awaye, if that the dung of the firſt calfe of any Cowe, be ſmeared about the mouths of the hiues. Plinie writeth, that by the only binding of the freſh white Uine (running in hedges) rounde about the bodies of the Hyues, it ſtayeth the ſwarme from flying away.