A profitable instruction of the perfite ordering of Bees
Transcriber's note:
The final four chapters of the second Treatise, "Certaine husbandlyconiectures of dearth and plentie for euer," are absent. No knowncopy of this edition is complete. Entries in the Table of Contentsreferring to them have been removed.
A profitable instruction
of the perfite ordering of
Bees, with the maruellous nature,
propertie, and gouernemente of
them: and the necessarie vses
both of their Honie and waxe,
seruing diuersly, as well in
inward as outward causes:
gathered out of the
best writers.
To which is annexed a proper Treatise,
intituled: Certaine husbandly coniectures
of dearth and plentie for euer,
and other matters also méete
for Husbandmen to
knowe. &c.
By Thomas Hyll Londoner.
Imprinted at London, by
Henrie Bynneman.
Anno. 1579.
The Authors out of the
which this Treatise is
gathered.
C. Plinius.
Aristotle.
Albertus.
M. Cato.
Iunius Columella.
M. Varro.
Palladius Rutilius.
Theophrastus.
Guilhelmus de Conchis.
Galen.
Paule Aegineta.
Cornelius Agrippa.
Hieronimus Cardanus.
And sundrie others.
To the worshipfull maister M.
Gentleman, Thomas Hill wisheth all
health and felicitie.
As it hath beene, and is yet (worshipfullSir) a trade commonly vsed amongmost men, to choose out from agreate number, some one, vnder whosename and title they may publishe theirworkes: Euen so I (following the stepsof the learned, though in all otherpoyntes most inferiour) hauing finishedthis little treatise of Bees, and castingwith my selfe to whome I mighte presente it, founde my selfemuch bounden vnto your worship, both for your gentlenesse whichI haue of late tasted, and also for youre friendship which I finde alwayesreadie t
