XLVIII.

The making of Honey. Mellificium.

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The _Bees_ send out a _swarm_, 1. and set over it a _Leader_, 2. _Apes_ emittunt _Examen_, 1. adduntque illi _Ducem_ (Regem), 2.

That swarm being ready to fly away is recalled by the Tinkling of a _brazen Vessel_, 3. and is put up into a new _Hive_, 4. Examen illud, avolaturum, revocatur tinnitu _Vasis ænei_, 3. & includitur novo _Alveari_, 4.

They make little _Cells_ with six corners, 5. and fill them with _Honey-dew_, and make _Combs_, 6. out of which the _Honey_ runneth, 7. Struunt _Cellulas_ sexangulares, 5. et complent eas _Melligine_, & faciunt _Favos_, 6. è quibus _Mel_ effluit, 7.

The _Partitions_ being melted by fire, turn into _Wax_, 8. _Crates_ liquati igne abeunt in _Ceram_, 8.