C.6. 
They gather Ho - 
vie out »f poiCnn. 
*Matncrs or 
May-weed, 
€o tula fast ida. 
p. 
JVhat /tore of 
H onto a flail 
majhaue. 
Nat. hift.li.1 1. 
(.14. 
De legatiene 
Mofcevitarn, 
& Munfterus 
de Mofcoria. 
Of the Bees Worke. 
Ambro (ia, they will vfe fometime the Tongue, and forae- 
time the Fangs, and gather them both. 
But this may feeme more ftrange and wonderfull, that 
out of the moll blinking and poifonfull weeds, as Redweed, 
'"Margs, Henbane, and the like, they gather moll fweet 
and holefome Home : and yet regard not fome of the beft 
and fweetell Hearbs and Flowers, as the Rofe,thcPrim-rofe, 
Cloue-Giliflowers j Wheat, Barley, Peafe,&c. 
Whatlloreol WaxandHonie a Hall may gather, is vn- 
certaine:lome hauing more, fome Idle, according to the 
number of the Bees, the greatnelle of the Hiue, and the 
pientifulnelTeof the yeares. With vs it is counted agood 
Rail that yecldeth two or three gawnes of Pulfe : although 
in a tree there haue beene found more than feuen or eight. 
But in other Northerne Countries we reade of farre greater 
quantities. Phme affirmeth, that there was feenein Germany 
a Honie-comb eight foot long. Ard PayJtts Iovtus , that in 
CWofcovia there are found in the Woods and WildernelTes 
great Lakes of Honie, which the Bees haueforfaken, in the 
hollow trunkes of maruellous huge trees. Info much that 
Home and Wax are the moRcertaine commodities of that 
Countrey. Where, by that occafion, he fetteth downe this 
Scorie, reported by Dcmefrim a (JMvfcovite Amballadour 
fent to Rome, A neighbourof mine ( faith he ) fearching in 
the woods for Honie, flipt downe into a great holiow tree, 
and there funke into a Lake of Honie vp to the breaft : 
where when he had lluckefall tw T o daies, calling and crying 
out in vaine forhelpe, becaufe no bodie in the meane while 
came nigh that lolitarie place ; at length when he was out of 
all hope of life, he was ilrangely delmered by the meanes of 
a great Beare : which comming thither abou: the famebufi- 
ndletnathe did, and fmelling the Honie fibred with his 
firming, clambered vpto the topoi the tree, and thence 
began to let himfelfe downe backward into it. Th*e man 
bethinking himfelfe, and knowing chat the worfi: was but 
death, which in '■hat place he was fure of, beclipt the Beare 
fall with both his hands about the loines, and wichall made 
auoiit»cry aslowd as he could. The Bear<e being thus fud- 
