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The right ordering of Bees

propertie of honny, is to clenſe and open, and to expel humors. Therefore it is profitably applyed in flithy vlcers, being boyled and annoynted vpon. It cloſeth alſo looſe and gaping fleſhe through his wholeneſſe. Alſo with Liquid Alume & honny ſodden togither, are Ringwormes, and cornes or ſwelling of the feete healed, by annoynting therewith. Againſt the vncertaine ſoundings and noyſe of the eares, and grieuous pains of them, the hony grounded with that ſalte digged out of the earth, and dropped warme into the eares: the ſelfe ſame killeth both nits and lyce, by only annointing the heade therewith. Alſo the hony purgeth the eyes dimme of ſight, healeth the ſwellings, and other defaultes and griefes of the iawes, the ſwellings and kernels vnder the iawes, neare to the throte, after the preparing to vſe, the ſame be gargelled in the throate, and the mouth waſhed therewith. The honie eaten cauſeth vryne, helpeth ye cough (being cleane ſkimmed before) and the byte of a Snake or Adder. The hony alſo helpeth thoſe which haue drunke vnwares the iuyce of blacke Poppie, ſo that againſte the ſame euill and daunger they drinke roſed honny warme. Alſo the ſame drunke helpeth the malice and daunger of Muſhromes eaten, and the byte of a madde dogge, or otherwiſe melting in the mouth, after the forme of an Eclegma. Yet all the ſortes of rawe Honny be windie and ſwell the bodie, mouing a rumbling or noyſe in the belly, procuring ye cough, eaſily cōuerted into euil humors, ſtopping the liuer and the milt through the clammineſſe, and hurtfull to chollericke bodies, if ſo be the honny before (as Dioſcorides writeth) be not throughly ſkimmed and clenſed as the ſame ought to be. The honny alſo boyled doth better nouriſhe then the rawe, yet leſſe mouing the belly to ſolubleneſſe, and to the ſtoole. And the honny of it ſelfe, or mixed with other helpeth the ſore in the lungs and all other diſeaſes of the lungs. The honny is rightly miniſtred to ſuch as haue the impoſtume in the lungs and the plureſie. And the hony is which dead Bees are, is applyed to the venemous honny. The honny drunke with wine helpeth the corruptiōs which are engendred of the meate fiſhes. But to colde and moyſte bodies the honny is more pro-

fitable