But if throughe the Maggots or little wormes of the Butter-flyes the Bées be diseased, _Rutilius_ then iudgeth it beste, to set a brasen Candlesticke, or suche like vessell, with lighte burning in it at Euening, within the hyue, that to the same light (the Butter-flyes gathering, and flying about) may so fall down into it, and be destroyed.
_Aristomachus_ writeth, that the diseased Bées maye bée couered in this maner, if that all the corrupt combe within the hiue be taken forth, and freshe foode anewe put in of the whole, and the hiue after smoaked within. Also he affyrmeth, that Rosemarie sodden with water and honny togither, and beyng colde, poured into halfe canes or Elder stickes, made hollow like gutters, and the same set by the mouthes of the hiues, for the Bées to drinke on, doth recouer the Bées again. _Hyginius_ affirmeth that eyther the Oxe or mans vrine set in like manner (as aboue saide) by the mouths of the hyues, doth also recouer the diseased Bées. Nowe all these, and suche like muste the kéeper of the Bées doe, whiche is bothe sober and chaste, and féedeth not vppon sowre or tarte meates, nor filthy or strong of sauour, nor any salt meates.
¶ What manner of person, the keeper of Bees ought to be. Cap.xiij.
The Bées for that they muche abhorre all filthye stinkes and smells, _Palladius_ willeth the kéeper of them to eschewe dilligently al strong and yll smelling sauoures, one also that delighteth to be chaste of body, and frée from filthinesse, among these not breathing sowrely, or of a stinking breath, not sweating, nor sauouring of sweat, not one besides of wicked conditions, or suche a person as standing among the flight of the Bées, doth not earnestly moue and procure them to fly to him, or as one stinged endeuoreth to defend himselfe from them, but rather as a flatterer among his acquaintance, and children, hath learned to entreate, and please the Bées by a more gentle manner. He also whiche mindeth to haue also in a readinesse the hiues vnto his vse, in which he may receiue forthwith the rude youth of the swarmes put forth, which if they be not diligently preserued, they flye quite awaye at the full heate of Sunne. But how these hiues ought aptly to be prepared, shall hereafter bée taught in the sixtéenth Chapiter.