A profitable instruction of the perfect ordering of Bees/First Treatise/Chapter 22
That the Bees ſting no perſon, comming neare their Hiues. Cap. xxi.
PLinie {{bl|in his twentith book writeth, that the hearb Sperage, bruſed and mixed with oyle, and annoynted with the ſame, doth defende the perſon from being ſtinged, by coming nigh to their hiues. And in his xxviy. booke he alſo wryteth, that if any happeneth to be ſtinged by a Scorpion, that he ſhall neuer after be ſtinged of any Bees, but yet being ſtinged, he teacheth to drinke the iuyce of Hearbe-grace and Rue mixed with wine, and to lay the leaues alſo in plaiſter forme on the ſtinged placed. In the}} 21. booke he writeth ye like, that bees ſtings are by nature venomous, againſt ye which be teacheth to take & vſe the iuyce of Mallowes, or the iuyce of Iuie leaues, and to annoint eyther of the two, on the ſtinged places, as a ſouerain remedy. And in the 23. booke, he teacheth wyne for a remedy, as boyled with bay leaues, and after drunke. In the 24. booke he teacheth to take a drop of that molten, whiche the honny Bees make at the entrye of the Hiue, to be a like remedy, as of the water Bezoar to be vſed againſt venemous bittes. Auicen in his ſeconde rule teacheth, that the decoction of the March Mallowes wyth vineger or wine, and the ſame anoynted on the ſtinged places, to be a perfit remedie.
Whiche alſo in his fouth rule affirmeth, that the Honnye Bee hath like diſpoſition to the waſpe, ſauing that they leaue their ſtings behinde thē: wherefore for remedie of ye waſps, you may vſe thoſe which we haue afore taught againſte the ſtings of Bees.