A profitable instruction of the perfect ordering of Bees/First Treatise/Chapter 32
Another manner of diſtilling the Honie, more at large taught. Cap. xxxij.
TAke a pinte, or as much as you wil, of ye pure roſed hony, which put into a bodie of glaſſe cloſe couered & luted about, ſetting the ſame after into hote horſe dung with a ſquare ſtone on the head, & couering it ouer with ye horſe dung for 14. {{bl|dayes, after which time, take the body forth, ſetting it into a fornace of fine ſifted aſhes, well a finger breadth or more aboue ye hony, preſuppoſing on your part, ye little peeces of flint ſtones be put into ye hony, & then diſtilled with a ſoft fire into a receiuer well luted at the mouth, for doubt of the ayre breathing forth. Whē ye ſame beginneth to diſtil, then draw forth part of the fire (vnleſſe you can otherwiſe gouerne your fire by the help of the fornace) whiche comming forthe white, let ſo long diſtill, vntill there appeare yealow droppes like to gold. Upon the ſight of this, ſet vnder another receyuer, keeping diligently this firſte water by it ſelfe, and increasing the fire, let that long diſtil, vntill certain white ſmoakes appeare, running into the receiuer: that ſpeedily take away, putting to another receiuer, which let ſo long diſtill, vntil no more will droppe forth, and this laſte, is or a rubie colour in redneſſe, ſo that if a woman often wetteth the heares of hyr head with this thirde water, ſetting then in ye hote Sunne, both to drie and wette them againe, wearing in ye meane whiles a large ſtrawe hatte with an open crowne, to ſpreade the heares vpon, for the ſpeedier drying of them, whiche ſo ordering, doeth not onely cauſe the heares to grow long and very fayre, but dyeth them in time ſo yealowe as gold. Alſo to diuerſe other vſes, doth this red water ſerue, as afore is taught in the other Chapter. The white water (which commeth firſte) by waſhing the face orderlye with it, doeth cauſe it to become cleare and fayre, and keepeth the ſkinne from loking olde, for a long time, as the ſame hath ben experienced often by the worthy dames of}} Rome, Naples, and Venice. And the yealow lyke golde being the ſecond water, doth eſpecially ſerue to this vſe, that if any perſon happeneth to be infected with the plague or Peſtilence, then to take two ounces of this yealow water of Aloes Epaticke, of redde Myrre, and of the eaſt ſaffron, of each ten graines, and a leafe of the beſt golde, all which grinde into fine pouder, mixing the ſame with this water: after that giue it vnto the ſicke to drinke, whiche no doubt wil both helpe this & many other diſeaſes.