Of the 'Bees Worke . C 6 a 
The Necldror liquid hony the Bees gather with their 27. 
tongues, whence they let it downeinto their bottles, which Sloyvtbe pure 
are within them like vnto bladders : each of them will hold 
a drop at once. You may fee their little bellies drut withall. — — — =. 
Men thinke, becaufe they fee nothing on their legs, that they 
comeinleere : when they are better and more heauily la- 
den than the ocher. Thele bottles, as foone as they come 
home, they empty into their combes. ( JMel ore evommt in Hift.an.Iiy c 
cellos. This Netlar, being cleere as Crydall atthefirdand 22. 
liquid as water, when it is two or three yeeres old, becom- Hift.an.ly c » 
nwch white and hard. Concrefcit antem melconcoftum jam 1 z. 
tempore : initio emm, ut aejHO, dilttttim eft, & primis diebus fine * 8 . 
crajfttudine eernitur. Whileitcontinueth liquid, and will 
runne of it felfe, ic is called liue-hony : when it is turned — ■ j — — — 
white and hard (euen like vnto fugar) it is called corn-hony, 
or ftone-hony. 2y . 
And theliue-honyisoftwo forts: thatwhichis gathered Liue-hony 0 f 
by a fwarme, cleere and crydalline at thefird,^. lay d vp in t)prn r ° rt '• 
virgin-wax, v. and taken the fame yeere, is the right virgin- 
honie: the other, which is yellow and thicker, gathered by v ' c ‘ 10- f - zu> * 
an old dall, and thereiore kept in corrupter cells with drolfe ^ 
and courfer hony, is called ordinary. 
Thefird (hoot whereof (fpeciallyin 
NeBar- dewes) running fheere of it felfe, 
hony,-z;. andlittle inferiour totherighr 
NeBar, whether it be ordinary or virgin-hony , is either fr ' cAO -P- 
finer or courfer, according as the foile is where it is gathered: hi ny, courfer 
v. For the bed countries, which yeeld the bed wheat and the r, r finer, hccor- 
beft wooll, yeeld alfo the bed hony. And therefore the dm^t» the (dir , 
Wood-landsof Hampfhire haue better honiethan theheach, P-*. to.p.i,*. 12. 
and the champion or field country, betterthan the wood- 
lands. The reafon is , becaufe where the flowers are mod 
fragrant and vertuous, as well of the fields as gardens, in the 
purefl and fweeted aire $ there the honi-dewes,which are ex- 
traftedfrom them, are mod fine and pure, ^.77.40, 32. 
When the cells are full, they dole them vp with little The full cells they 
filmes of wax, which they will not breake vntili winter and c l( '^ wti> ^ ax - 
hunger driue them to it* Ana thus doe they all the dimmer, 
O 3 . defeending.. 
JO. 
laplentifullyeere of The fine/} 6 rd>« 
, is a kinde of virgi n- " ar J * a binit 
*>f yir^in- hony . 
