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A56300	A theatre of politicall flying-insects wherein especially the nature, the vvorth, the vvork, the wonder, and the manner of right-ordering of the bee, is discovered and described : together with discourses, historical, and observations physical concerning them : and in a second part are annexed meditations, and observations theological and moral, in three centuries upon that subject / by Samuel Purchas ...	Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.	1657 (1657)	Wing P4224; ESTC R6282	278,822	394

combs and to the wasting of one fifth or sixth part if it be made of clean hony not ceasing in the mean space to take off the scum as clean as you can One hours boyling may suffice but if the Mead bee of clean hony it may as well bee done in half the time Instead of twice slacking the fire you may twice cool the boyling Must with cold Must reserved or else bee sure that it do boyl all the while onely at one side and not all over After all this put in the Spices viz. to a dozen gallons of the skimmed Must Ginger one ounce Cynamon half an ounce Cloves and Mace ana two drams Pepper and Grains ana one dram all gross beaten the one half of each being sowed in a bag the other loose and so let it boyl a quarter of an hour more The end of boyling is throughly to incorporate the boorn and the hony and to purge out the dross which being once done any longer boyling is unprofitable as diminishing more the quantity than increasing the strength and goodness of the Hydromel As soon as it is boyled enough take it from the fire and set it a cooling the next day when it is setled pour it through a hair sieve or linnen bag into the tub reserving still the Lees for the Bees and there let it stand covered three or four dayes till it work and let it work two daies Then draw it through the tapwaze and run it into a barrel scalded with Bay-leaves making the Spice-bag fast at the tap If there remain much grounds you may purifie them by boyling and skimming as before but this will never bee so good as the first and therefore you may put it by it self or with some remainder of the best into a small vessel to spend first before it be soure If the Mead bee not much you may run it the next day and let it work in the barrel Being tunned it will in time bee covered with a mother which if by jogging the vessel or by other means it bee broken the Mead will turn sowre But so will it make excellent vinegar and the sooner if it bee set in the Sun which the longer you keep the better it will bee Metheglin is the more generous or stronger Hydromel for it beareth an egg the breadth of a groat or sixpence and is usually made of finer hony with a less proportion of water namely four measures for one receiying also in the composition as well certain sweet and wholesome herbs as also a larger quantity of Spices namely to every half barrel or sixteen gallons of the skimmed Must Eglantine Marjerom Rosemary Time Winter-savoury ana half an ounce and Ginger two ounces Cynamon one ounce Cloves and Mace ana half an ounce Pepper Graines ana two drams the one half of each being bagged the other boyled loose So that whereas the ordinary Mead will searce last half a year good Metheglin the longer it is kept the more delicate and wholesome it will bee and withall the clearer and brighter One excellent receit I will here recite and it is that which our renowned Queen of happy memory did so well like that she would every year have a vessel of it First Gather a bushel of Sweet-briar leaves and a bushel of Time half a bushel of Rosemary and a peck of Bay-leaves See the al these being well washed in a furnace of fair water let them boyl the space of half an hour or better and then poure out all the water and herbs into a fat and let it stand till it bee but milk-warm than strain the water from the herbs and take to every six gallons of water one gallon of the finest hony and put it into the boorn and labour it together half an hour then let it stand two dayes stirring it well twice or thrice each day Then take the liquor and boyl it a new and when it doth see the skim it as long as there remaineth any dross When it is clear put it into the fat as before and there let it bee cooled You must then have in readiness a tub of new Ale or Beer which as soon as you have emptied suddenly whel● it upside down and set it up again and presently put in the Metheglin and let it stand three dayes a working and then tun it up in barrels tying at every tap hole by a Pack-thred a little bag of Cloves and Mace to the value of an an ounce It must stand half a year before it bee drunk If you marvel that so great a quantity of water is required it is partly because of the goodness of the hony which being pure and fine goeth further than ordinary and partly that it may have the longer time in boyling before i● come to its strength and therefore some will have eight parts of water to one of hony but then they boil it so much the longer The third part at least being wasted CHAP. XXVII Of diver● kinds of Wild-Bee● THere is one kind not half so bigge as a Hony-Bee with a bright shining green head and fore-part she hath longer horns than a Hive-bee she hath four wings her neather part is of a light shining Carnation on the out-side the belly of a greenish shining glistring colour almost as bright as the shining of a Glo-worm with a very large long sting not forked or somewhat like to a sting I could not force it to enter it into my hand whether it wil sting I know not that which is equivalent to the skin is as it were continued without ringles this Bee is very strong gathers as the Hive-Bee sandaracha and breeds in holes of old posts divers near one another we may call her the glistring Bee There is another sort of Wild-Bee which is very laborious she is not so great as a Hive-Bee by a third part but in shape and making altogether like her the mouth opens side-ways wherewith she holds very fast like pinchers her hinder leggs are of a tawny colour the ringles of her hinder part gray the rest of a blewish black her fore-part is partly black and partly gray she useth to abide if my memory deceive me not in Brick-walls in holes in the morter between the Bricks many neat one another we may call her the Mortar-Bee There is another sort not half so great as the former but grayer she diggs or mines perpendicularly into stiffe clay ground in High-ways or Foot-path sides the earth that she works out lyes round about her hole like the casting of a Worme but much siner after she hath entred three inches right down she makes traverse holes one under another sometimes two sometimes three in breadth as several cels or chambers where she breeds her young which are not Worms at first but have a perfect shape of a Bee herein concurring with the Queen-bee and though she be laborious and gathers much Bee-bread yet could I never finde any thing provided before-hand or laid up

the hand t●ey go on together with their friends after them towards the Church-porch where hee is met by s●me with pots and cups in their hands full of Mead the Russe proper wine whereof the Bridegroom taketh first a Cha●k or little cup full in his hand and drinketh to the B●●de who opening her hood or vail below putteth the cup to her mouth underneath it for being seen of the Bridegroom pledgeth him again The Romans in the Nuptial supper gave the new married couple the juyce of Poppy tempered with milk and hony The Ancients did use hony in all their Sweet-meats as wee do Sugar indeed they knew not what Sugar was The Romans used hony in their first service at their feasts as also in their second And indeed formerly no kindes of meat but were with the use of hony made more acceptable Pithagoras usually fed on hony and Hony-combes because they were prepared without mans labour and were a kinde of heavenly food To this day the Iews give Infants a taste of butter and hony before they suck Among the Illirians was first of all the use of Mead which in Aristotles time the Greeks were scarce acquainted with CHAP. XXIII Of Tree-bony THere was anciently and is still Tree-hony as well as Beehony And this Tree-hony is of two sorts either a plentifull hony-dew which might bee gathered or else sweet saps or juices drawn out or concocted from several sorts of trees and fruits to the consistence taste and likeness of hony Of the first sort it is reported that near the Cospian sea there are plenty of trees with leaves like Oaks yeelding much hony but it must bee gathered before the rising of the Sun for the rayes thereof quickly consume and waste it In Arabia Naba●bea they gather hony plentifully of the Trees which they call Wild hony of which mixt with water they use to drink There is a Tree called Occhus in the vallies of Hireania that distilleth hony in the mornings In Lidia there is plenty of hony gathered of the Trees of which the inhabitants make loaves or lumps of such hardness that without many blows they cannot bee broken The inhabitants of Mount Libanus spread hides under the trees and then shake and beat them and after gather up the hony which they reserve in earthen pots The Maguey is a Tree of wonders it yeelds Hony Water Wine Oyl Vinegar Syrrup Thred Needles and a thousand other things It is a tree which the Indians esteem much in new Spain and have commonly in their dwellings some one of them for the maintenance of life It grows in the fields and hath great and large leaves at the ends whereof is a strong and sharp point which serves to fasten little pins or to sow as a needle And they draw out of this leaf as it were a kinde of thred which they use This liquor being sodden turns like Wine which grows to Vinegar suffering it to sowre and boyling it more it becomes as hony and boyling it half it serves as Syr●up Below by the root of the Magueis Tree the Indians make a hole whereat they take out twice a day a certain kinde of liquor which they seethe in a great kettle untill the third part bee consumed and then it waxeth thick it is as sweet as any hony It is not so sweet as the hony saith another of Bee● but it is better to be eaten with bread In and about the City of Themisti●an besides the hony of Bees is hony of the Canes of Maiz which Canes yeeld very much hony and as sweet as the juyce of the Sugar-cane In Sancta Cruse and the Country about it which is in the Province of Tucuman grow sweet Canes of which they make very good hony The fruit of the Palm-trees growing about Iericho being ●rodden and pressed out yeeld great quantity of hony There grow trees in Palestina with broad and round leaves of a milky-colour and a hony taste very brittle by nature which they eat rubbing them in their hands This a certain Bishop called Archulphus who had visited the Holy-land supposeth to be the wild-hony that Iohn Baptist lived of in the wilderness But others say It was a mountain-hony made by wilde Bees bitter and unpleasant to the pallat Theophilact wilde hony was made by wilde Bees in trees and rocks They get the Palm-wine after this sort in Cong● they bore a hole near the top of the tree whence flows a liquor which they receive into pots fastened underneath at first it is in taste and colour like milk it quickly ●oureth In Crangan●● they make hony of it after this manner within three dayes for after of its own nature it proves vinegar they boyl it in Caldrons or Kettles untill two parts bee wasted and then it is very sweet hony Of this hony mixed with water and purged twenty dayes together they make an excellent sweet wine I might speak of the Indian Palm or Coco-tree which likewise yeelds hony but I will adde no more CHAP. XXIV Of Wax WAx is either natural or artificial the natural Wax is the gross part of the combs containing the hony and Bee-bread sometimes the Seminaries for generation And this is either Virgin-wax or of a courser fo●t the Virgin-wax is that which is made by a swarm or a stock new driven not that only which is made by the younger Bees as Hellerius for they work altogether This is called by some Propolis as Aldrovand observes out of Actuaries And Scrib●nius Largus It might bee expected that I should speak somewhat of Propolis Commosis Mity and Pissocera used anciently in Physick and supposed to bee made by the Bees But I can finde no agreement among Philosophers nor yet Physitians what they are and am certain that they are not what Aristotle Pliny and others determine them to be and therefore I will leave the discussion to others Only in a word Mity saith Aristotle is the black dross of wax of a sharp smell I suppose he means the feces of the wax when it is melted and strained Propolis seems saith Scaliger a translative sirname of Mity Caza translates it Commosis but Pliny make a difference between Commosis and Propolis wherefore Scaliger was of opinion that Commosis and Mity were different things Scribonius takes Virgin-wax as before for Propolis Silvaticus ●●kes it for the dreggs of the combes but amiss saith Mouffet and yet he would have it to be Hive dros● but whether of a Swarme or a Stock he declares not between which is a great difference Andreas Bellunensis the filth or dross of the sides of the Hive I subscribe to Sylva●icus Propolis is as much as suburbe dross with which the Bees fasten the skirts of the Hive to the board it is not saith Mouffet now to be found Waxe is thus made by the Bees they creeping upon the Flowers with their sangs and

colour but eaten alone attenuates rather than refresheth for it provoketh urine and purgeth too much Hony warmes and cleares Wounds and Ulcers attenuates and discusseth excrescencies in any part of the body It is very effectual to produce hair in baldness for Quotidian Agues especially oyle of hony distilled Distilled water of hony makes a smooth skin provokes urine diminisheth heat in Feavers easeth the obstructions of the bowels quencheth thirst The salt of hony of all Corrosives is least painful and most energetical and therefore in the flesh of the yard by Chymicks and expert Chyrurgians especially commended The Epicures who chiefly studied health and pleasure did eat continually Ambrosia which consisted of a tenth part of honie as Tzetzes reports concluding that the daily use thereof would prevent griefs and keep them free from Diseases Hony infused warme by it self wonderfully helps exulcerated ears especially if they cast forth ill favours as also their singings and inflammations Hony Butter and Oyle of Roses of each a like quantity warme helps the paine of the ears he also commends Hony and infants dung brayed together in the dulness of the sight and for white spots in the eyes The rheume or droppings of the eyes in men or horses are hereby helped I have cured a Horse stone blinde with Hony and Salt and a little crock of a pot mixed in less than three daies it hath eaten off a tough filme and the Horse never complained after Hony wherein Bees are drowned or Ashes of the heads of Bees with hony clear the eyes A●tick hony with the first dung of a young infant and the milk of the Nurse mingled together and annoynt the eyes that are dull upon what occasion soever but first binde the party for such is the violence of the Medicine that he cannot otherwise patiently endure it and the benefit is so forcible that in the third day it wil make a clear sight Nothing is better for infants that breed Teeth or in the Ulcers of the mouth than butter and hony Galen prescribes only the gums to be rub'd with it for it conduceth wonderfully to the generation conservation and whiteness of teeth for difficulty of breathing and to cause spitting hony alone or mixed is very availeable Hony boyled with Bees or new Cheese stayeth a looseness helps the Bloudy-flux and Chollick But before hony be used it is necessary to clarifie it Thus take of hony and fountaine water of each two pound continually scum it as it ariseth to the consumption of the water afterwards clarifie it with the whites of twelve eggs Hony nourisheth not only because it is a kinde of nourishment but also because mixed with other things it is a cause that they are more easily carried through the body and he counsels old men to use it much if they would have a care of their health and live long without Diseases and he asserts it by the examples of Antiochus the Phisitian and Telephus the Grammarian who were old men and did eate Attick hony and bread and Galen testifieth the same with often eating hony boyled seldome raw and yet Galen forbids long or too much boyling because it will make it bitter Celsus reckons up boyled hony among such things as stop a Lask the reason is because the acrimony by boyling is taken away which is wont to move the belly and to diminish the vertue of the food The bodies of Bees taken newly from the Hives and powdered and drunk with Diuretick wine powerfully cures the Dropsie and breaks the Stone opens the fountaines of urine and heals and helps the stoppages in the bladder Bees drowned in hony and so killed stay vomitings and are profitable for deafness Bees powdered cure the Wind-collick mollifie hard ulcers in the lips and also the Bloudy-flux Hony mixed with powdered Bees and so taken is helpful for the crudities of the stomack it is also good for the stomach Pound Bees dead and dry in the combes mingle them with hony and annoynt bald places of the head and the hairs wil spring afresh The ashes of Bees ground with oyle make hair white Take twelve or fourteen Bees powdered in any thing every morning and it helps such whose retentive faculty is weak so that they cannot hold their water Oxymel is made of water vinegar and hony now water is mingled with it that by long boyling that may be resolved or loosened which the windiness raiseth up and that it may be more readily skimmed In a word that the working of the Medicine by the mixing of water might be weaker and more easily dispersed into the body and hony is added to resist the ●legme One ounce of hony and vinegar mixed together ariseth a certain third faculty which was in neither of them before which is most powerful and certaine to attenuate cut resolve thick and tough excrements which have been bred a long time in the Stomack and Liver and those that settle on the joynts and cause lasting Agues It is made thus take of vinegar one part two parts hony and twice as much water as hony first let the hony and water be boyled and when they have been well skimmed put in the vinegar and boyle them still continually skimming them let them boyle till there be an unity of qualities and the vinegar be not raw or crude it is given from one ounce to three Galen saith if you will make it the stronger adde as much vinegar as hony it drives out thick and gross humours and is profitable for the Sciatica Falling-sickness and the Gout good also to gargarize with in a Squinancy Water distilled of hony four times by a Limbick so that the hony were first boyled makes beautiful hair kills Lice and Nits the hair wet there with doth not only become yellow but softer and increaseth likewise especially if it bee done in the Sun it heals swollen or bloud-shotten eyes and helps the hurt corners of the eyes it is excellent for burnt places most of all for such as are soft and tender so that no scar will be left It must be distilled in a Glass Still but first mixe with it pure and well washed Sand and make a soft fire The first water is cast away the second is preserved which hath a golden colour and red at the last the red purgeth out corruption in putrid wounds if they be washed with it and a linnen cloth moystened in it be laid upon them and when it hath purged them it produceth flesh Hony when it is distilling is wont to swell and flow over when it grows hot this is prevented when the distillation is performed by a woodden Sieve made with hair being placed within the cover so that it toucheth the hony Reubeus distilleth it otherwise and adds other cautions he saith the water is with difficulty drawne out of the hony because it readily as the fire grows hot