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“But if thou wilt have the favour of the bees, that they sting thee not, thou must avoid such things as offend them. … Thou must not come among them smelling of sweat, or having a stinking breath, caused either by eating of leeks, onions, garlic, or the like : the noisomeness whereof is corrected with a cup of beer. Thou must not be given to furfeiting and drunkenness: thou must not come puffing and blowing unto them; neither hastily stir among them; nor violently defend thyself when they seem to threaten thee; but softly moving thy hand before thy face, gently push them by ; and lastly, thou must be no stranger among them; so will they love thee, and know thee from all others.”

From A Treatise on the Management of Bees, published in 1778.