C. io. 
Of the fruit and profit of Bees. 
natures, which haue hot livers : and in this point he prefer- 
reth our Englilh Honie. Minns ( faith he ) fpeciofum ac deli- 
celt urn. Anglum : fed cjuibufdam prafertim faltibus & pafeuis, 
# 6 i lan a comm end at ior, v. left urn, biliofa excrement a infer ins 
extergendopellit , & aciei oculorum prodejfe putatur. So that 
he feemeth to fay, th at our honie is hurtfull to none ; becaufe 
it purgeth that euill humour, which ocher Hony, in fome bo- 
dies, is thought to breed. But the Prouerb faith. Too much of 
vne thing is good for nothing: and the Wif-man in his Pro- 
uerbs. It is not good to eat much Honie. Prou. 25,27. and in 
the I < 5 , 6 . Haft thou found Honie ? eatfo much as is fuffeient 
for thee : &c.For all Hony often and immoderately taken ( 3) 
caufeth obftru&ion, (4) contrarie to his naturall qualitie,and 
fo in time (5) breedeth thefcab. 
. *• 
Englijh Hony, 
f. 
T 00 much Hony 
vnhotfotne. 
(1) fa) G3len.L4.fimpbn1ed.d1ft. 3.C4. /frw Seth. Pi&orius, & Freitag. 
(3) Wikerus &Freitagius (4) vide ( 8 ) & ( 18 )fupr.i. ( y ) Lobel. 
Raw Hony doth ( 1 ) more loofe the belly, (2) caufeth the 
cough, and ( 3 ) filleth the entrailes with winde, fpecially if feratiwslflo* 
itbeofthecourferfort. Being boiled it is (4) more nouri- & boiled Hony, 
filing, (5) lighter of digeftion, and ( 6 ) lelfelaxatiue, alfo * 
(7) lelfe fharpe and abfterfory : for which caufe they vfe it 
( 8 ) to knit together hollow and crooked vlcers, andlikc- 
wife ( 9 ) to clofc other difioined flefh. It is alfo good againft 
the ( 1 o ) pleurifie, againft the (1 1) phthifis, and all other 
difeafes of the lungs. 
( l) ( 2) ( 3) Freitag. Piftor. &W'kerue. (4) Freitag. & Wikcr. (y } 
Wikerus. ( 6) Fidorius.(7)Gal.& Sethj&FerneliusMethodi.lib.^. c. 12. 
Crudutn codo&defpumato detergentius ouidem multoeft & mordacius: 
fcdeomimisagglutinar.(8 ) ad firuum glutinationes, Seth, fimioforutn 
ulcerum, Galen. (9 )(io)(m) Pidorms. 
7 . 
Honie is clarified by boiling: and that either by itfelfe, Twoveam to 
orelfewith a fourth part of water, or other liquor.Butalwaies 
in boiling skim it, that it may be pure. 
By it felfe you mull: boileit vntillit will yeeld no more 
* skum, (which will be about halfe an houre ) and that with 
a very foft fire, or in a -}- double veflell 5 left, by ouer-hea- 
ting, ic get a bitter tafte, and left it fuddainly run ouer and 
fiame. 
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