A profitable instruction of the perfect ordering of Bees/First Treatise/Chapter 37
Of that whych is a ſtay of the combes, and made for a defence of Bees from colde. Cap. xxxvij.
THe ſame made of Bees at the entrie of the mouth of hiues, oughte to be yelowe of coloure, and ſweete ſmelling, like to Storax, and drawne into a length, like to Maſtike. Yet that is rather choſen, bycauſe in heating and drawing it is principalleſt. For of itſelfe, this draweth forth thornes of ſplents of wood run deepe into the fheſh by applying it plaiſterwiſe on the grief, it helpeth an olde coughe by making a ſmoake thereof, and holding the mouth ouer it, and applyed in the forme of an ointment of ringwormes, doeth ſpeedily heale them. Nowe this matter (as aboue was taught) is the ſtay of the hony combes, by whiche Bees ſtoppe and keepe forth al manner of colde and other annoyances which might endamage them, the ſame alſo being of ſo ſtrong a ſauour, that ſome vſe it in the ſteede of Galbanum. M. Varro nameth it a refuge of Bees, withoute their cottages, bicauſe Bees make the ſame at the entry of the hiue.