208 APID.E — BEES. 



As this dolh blaze, and break away in fume, 

 How soon it takes, let Delpbid's flesh consume, 

 lynx, restore my false, my perjured swain, 

 And force him back into my arms again. — 

 As this devoted wax melts o'er the fire, 

 Let Mindian Delj^hy melt in warm desire ! 



Idylliums, p. 12, 13, 



Samoetha burns the bough in the name of her false lover, 

 and terms the wax devoted. With this the more modern 

 ritual of witchcraft corresponded. The name of the person, 

 represented by the image, was invoked. For according to 

 the narrative given concerning the witches of Pollock-shaws, 

 having bound the image on a spit, they " turned it before 

 the fire, — saying, as they turned it, Sir George Maxwell, 

 Sir George Maxwell; and that this was expressed by all 

 of them." Glanvil's Sadducismus, p. 391. 



According to Grilland, the image was baptized in the 

 name of Beelzebub. Malleus, ut. sup., p. 229. 



There is nothing analogous to the Grecian rite, mentioned 

 by Theocritus, of strewing salt. For Grilland asserts that, 

 in the festivals of the witches, salt was never presented. 

 Ibid., p. 215. It was perhaps exclnded from their infernal 

 rites as having been so much used as a sacred symbol.] 



The following are among the twenty-eight " singular 

 vertues" attributed by Butler to Honey ;"..., It breedeth 

 good blood, it prolongeth old age . , , , yea the bodies of 

 the dead being embalmed with honey have been thereby pre- 

 served from putrefaction. And Afhenseus doth witness it 

 to be as effectual for the living, writing out of Lycus, that 

 the Cyrneans, or inhabitants of Corsica, were therefore long- 

 lived, because they did dailie vse to feed on honey, whereof 

 they had abundance : and no marvaile : seeing it is so sove- 

 raigne a thing, and so many waies available for man's 

 health, as well being outwardly as inwardly applied. It is 

 drunke against the bite of a serpent or mad dogs : and it 

 is good for them having eaten mushrooms, or drunke popy, 

 etc,"i 



In the Treasvrie of Avncient and Moderne Times,^ there 

 are two chapters devoted to the " Yertues of Honey." 



1 Fern. Monarchies c, x. 1. 



2 B. 3, c, XV. xvi. p. 274-9. See also extract from Works of Sir 

 J. More, London, 1707, given by Langstroth — on the Honey-Bee, p. 

 287, note. 



