C. io . 
P. i. Of the fruit and profit of Btes, 
for nine pound the Barr ell , the like Heath-honicwill fcaree 
yeeld fiue. And generally the finer the Wheat and the Wool! 
is, the finer is the Honie of the fame Region : v, and there- 
fore no raaruaile that the courfe Heath, hath as courle Honie c - 6 ‘ n ’3 i - 
as Wooll. 
Good Honie, when it hath wrought, hath thefe properties How 
wherebyicisknowne:Itiscleere, odoriferous, yelow like gold Honie* 
pale gold (but right Virgin-honie is more cryftalline at the 
fir ft, v.) fharpe, fweet, and pleafant to the tafte, of a meane 
confidence betweene thickeand thinne, fo clamnaie, that be- 
ing taken vp vpon your fingers end, in falling it will not part, 
but hang together like a long ftring, as that vfeth to doe 
which is clarified. So doth lacobus Syluitts deferibe the beft 
honie. Mel optimum fit purum adeo uttotumper lucent ,odorum, 
fl#v urn, acerrimum, dulciffimumj 3 gufianti, & jHcuncfjfimHm, 
confiftentianec craffa nee liquid# , fed tam fbi coherent ut con - 
tinuitatem fuam, cjuafi line a longiffma , non intercifum fervet , 
ji digito attotlitur : idem coejnendo pattcam fpumam emittit. 
And Guil, c Plantius, <JMel prohum efi quod inter craffiffi- 
mum & tenuiffimum, fit mediocre, fapore dulctfftmum,& acer- 
rimum, fimttlff dale ‘dints fenfum infer ens & v elite at u pungens 
linguam, colore pallidum aut fttbrutulum, & pellncidum , odor a- 
ttffimum & recentiffimum , quo dfefttb latum non facile ob fequa- 
cem lent ,remabrumpatur,pondere grave, & inter coquendum 
(fuma parum emittens. In Fern, h7.de Oxymel. 
This good Honie, fpecially that part which is in the bot- GeodHoniewitb 
tom, will in time grow (likevnto Corne-honie , v. in the ftaodingnaxuh 
vppermoft part of the Combes ) hard and white: fuch as is <W and white 
the Honie of * Spline and Narbona in France, which is ac- r.e.6.n.i 7 .& 
counted thechiefeft,and compared with that of f Hy met t us z8 ‘ 
and Hybla. But this is to be vnderftood of ordinarie Honie : 
for thepure Virgin Honie will bee neitherhard nor white* 
bur changed* his liquidicieand cryftalhne cleernefiTe t/. into 
a thicke foftnelle, and bright yelow colour. 
* Quin Hijpani & Tgarbmenfes mittunt alhiffimttm & Ungs praflavtiffi~ 
mum, id m j; prxdurum. Sylu.l. 1 . m ed. 
t tisc Attico au: Hybla* rrferiut, cum regionii-temperaiura , & thymi Urgn 
Uixttritt vtrobiq i (twfentidm. Idem 1. a. 
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