A profitable instruction of the perfect ordering of Bees/First Treatise/Chapter 26
Of the venomous Honie, and of the wonderfull Honye of Creta. Cap. xxvj.
IT ſo much forceth to vnderſtande and know, what maner of foode ye ſame is, with the which ye Bees do liue, as ye poyſoned hony alſo, that may be gathered by them, whether it be euill or venomous. For the Honny of Heraclea {{bl|in the Countrey of}} Pontus, hath bin for certaine yeares, very dangerous, eſpecially throughe a certaine hearbe growing white, whiche alſo vexeth their cattell by eating therof, named of the dwellers there, Aegellothron. But by theſe notes is that Honnye founde out and tried to be venomous, as firſte, that the ſame is not thicke at all, the colour brighter or more gliſtering, and hath a ſtrong ſauour, mouing forthwith often ſneeſing, and is alſo waightier. Alſo ſuch perſons, as taſte ſomewhat thereof, doe couet to lie or fall haſtily on the earth, ſeeking for coldeneſſe, and be all on a ſweate, ſo that in ſodaine daungers, muſte ſome ſpeedy helpes or remedies be miniſtred, like as the older Mulſe of the beſt hony, and herb Grace, or other like confections, be often miniſtred to ſuche perſons. There is alſo another kind of venoumous hony, in the border of the country of Pōtus, that for ye madneſſe which it engendereth, is named of the people Neonomenon: the ſame hony is ſuppoſed to be gathered of the floure Rhododendros, whiche groweth plentie there in the wooddes. Plinie writeth of a maruellous Honny to be in Creta, for that in Carina being a hill of that Countrey, he affirmeth a honny to be gathered, whiche the flies wil not touch, and ſuppoſed alſo to be a ſingular Honny, for the compoſition of euery medicine.