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A necessarie Table setting forth the contents of these two Treatises.
_These treated of in the first Treatise._
Why Bees are named to be crested or parted Cap.j. betweene, or as it were ringed or rather pleighted: what worke the swarme new gathered in the Hiue firste taketh in hande: and whether they may liue after their stings be gone.
Who first taught the preparation and increasing of cap.ij. Bees, and found out the vse of honie.
Of the vnperfit Bees, which men properly name cap.iiij. drone Bees.
Whether the Bees draw breath, or haue any bloud in cap.v. them.
Of the great vtilitie and profit of the Bees vnto cap.vj. mans vse.
Of the care and diligence of the Bees. cap.vij.
Of the maruellous gouernement of the King of honie cap.viij. Bees, and of the obedience which they vse to hym.
What kind of Bees be best, and rather to be cap.ix. chosen.
Where the Hiues of Bees ought especially to be cap.x. placed.
What things Bees do chiefly abhorre, and greatly cap.xj. hate.
By what signes men may knowe when the honie Bees cap.xij. are diseased, and how men may cure them.
What maner of person the keper of the Bees ought cap.xiij. to be.
By what meanes the swarme come forth, may be cap.xiiij. preserued from flying away.
Of the Bees new settled in a swarme togither, and cap.xv. taken and recouered againe.
Which are the best and fittest hyues for the honie cap.xvj. Bees.
Of the cleanlinesse and sweetenesse of the keeper cap.xvij. of Bees, and howe hiues ought to be fenced about, and prepared within.
How Bees lacking honie may be fed in that present cap.xviij. neede.
How the dead Bees may be restored to life againe. cap.xix.
Of the battell that Bees sometime haue within cap.xx. themselues.
How Bees lost, may be recouered and found againe. cap.xxj.
That the Bees sting no person comming neere to cap.xxij. their hiues.
When and how the hiues ought to be gelded. cap.xxiij.
What the honie is, and how from the hiues the same cap.xxiiij. may be prepared to vse.
Of the venomous honie, and of the wonderful hony cap.xxvj. of Creta.
Of the miraculous worthinesse of honie. cap.xxvij.
How profitable the vse of honie is in medicine. cap.xxviij.
Of the drinke of hony whiche they call the Mulse cap.xxix. water, or sweete water of the Romaines.