A profitable instruction of the perfect ordering of Bees/First Treatise/Chapter 19
How the dead Bees may be reſtored to life againe. Cap. xix.
THe keeper of bees ought to foreſee and take heede, that the Bees peryſh not through ouer great heate, or ouer mighty cold. If at any time by a ſodaine ſhowre in the ſeeking for foode, Bees happen to be beaten downe, or nipped wyth a ſodaine colde (which ſeldome ſo commeth to paſſe that the Honny bees are ſo deceyued,) that harmed with the droppes, they lye grouelyng and flatte on the earth, as dead in a manner, then gather the Bees togyther, putting them into ſome veſſel for the nonce, which after ſet in a warm chamber or Parloure, & couer warme ymbers, beyng ſomewhat more the hote, on the Bees, whiche gently ſhake with the aſhes, but in ſuche ſorte that you tuche them not wyth your hande. And ſetting the Bees in the ſunne, and neare to their hiues, they will after recouer, and flie again into their cotages.