A profitable instruction of the perfect ordering of Bees/First Treatise/Chapter 31
Of the ſingular water of Hony gotten by order of diſtillation. Cap. xxxj.
{{bl|THe Hony of Bees meete to diſtillation, ought eſpecially to be white of coloure, which before the diſtilling muſte bee mixed with pure and white and well waſhed ſande, but not drie in any caſe, after that, putte the ſame either into a common Roſe Limbecke of Tinne, ſetting a heavie ſiue cloſe vppon it, that it may touch the Hony in the diſtilling, or elſe into a body of Glaſſe, ſette into a potte of fine ſifted aſhes or ſande, making at the firſte a ſofte fire vnder it, vntill the firſt water bee come, whiche is white, and after the yelow water appeareth, then put vnder another receiuer, ſetting aſide the white, and ſo long diſtill vntill the redde beginneth to ſhewe: at the appearaunce of whiche, put vnder another receiuer, letting that remaine vntill no more will come. Which red water being the laſt, ſerueth for ſundrie vſes, as to die womens haire yellow, by oftē wetting the haire with a Spunge, and drying the ſame in the hote Sunne. Alſo it cauſeth fayre and long haire, and ſtayeth the ſheading of haire: beſides (this thirde water) doeth clenſe the foule corruption and matter being in filthye woundes, and olde vlcers, if they be waſhed twice a daye with the ſame, cauſing alſo newe fleſh to grow in thoſe places, if you dayly waſhe them with the ſayd water, or otherwiſe dip linnen clouts in it, laying them aptly on the ſores. The ſelfe-ſame healeth places grieuouſly burned, without appearaunce on anye ſcarre afterwarde, by often applying lynnen cloutes dropped in it. And the ſeconde water being of a golden coloure dipped into the eyes, doeth not onely helpe ſwollen and bleared eyes, but the pinne and webbe in them, by the dayly and often dropping of the ſame into the eyes. But as touching the white and firſte water, there is no worthy matter mentioned in thys place by any of the old Practiſers.}}