title: The Parliament of Bees
title_page_title: THE PARLIAMENT OF BEES, With their proper  Characters. OR A Bee-hive furnisht with twelve Hony-<i>combes, as Pleasant as  Profitable</i>. Being an Allegorical description of the actions <i>of good and  bad men in these our daies</i>.
title_page_author: By I<small>OHN</small> D<small>AYE</small>,  Sometimes Student of <i>Caius</i> Colledge in <i>Cambridge</i>.
title-page_latin_motto: O<small>VIDIVS</small>.  [in single column] ——  —— <i>Mihi Flavus Apollo</i> | <i>Pocula Castaliæ plena ministret Aquæ.</i>
title_page_imprint: <i>LONDON:</i> Printed for <i>William Lee</i>, and are to be sold at his shop in <i>Pauls</i> Church-yard neere <i>Pauls</i> Chaine. 1641.
paratext_dedication: Epistle <i>to</i>: George Butler (<i>professor of the liberal arts</i>); <i>from</i>: John Day [B1r]
paratext_charachter_list: "The Arguments of the 12. Characters or Colloquies" [B1v]
paratext_other_paratexts: "The Authors Commission to his Bees" signed "Iohn Day" [B3r]
stationer_entries_in_register: Mar 23, 1641:  Entered to William Lee (2): "a booke called The Parliam<sup>t</sup>. of Bees &c by Iohn Day".
transcript_modern_spelling: The parliament of bees with their proper characters or a beehive furnished with twelve honeycombs as pleasant as profitable being an allegorical description of the actions of good and bad men in these our days by John Day Sometimes student of caius College in Cambridge Ovidius Mihi flavus Apollo Pocula castaliae plena ministret aquae London printed for William lee and are to be sold at his shop in paul's churchyard near paul's chain 1641