A profitable instruction of the perfect ordering of Bees/First Treatise/Chapter 35
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What waxe is beſte allowed and commended. Cap. xxxv.
WAxe being the foode of lighte, and ſeruing vnto innumerble vſes of men, of all the kindes, the ſame is beſte allowed and commended, whiche is bothe newe made, meanelye redde of coloure, ſomewhat fattie, ſmelling ſweete, hauyng ſome ſauoure in it of the Honny, and cleare. Of the Waxe alſo in ſundrie Countries, that in the countrie of Pontus is well commended, and the ſame in the Isle of Creta: nexte to theſe is the Waxe in the Isle of Corſica, which is made of the Boxe tree, and ſuppoſed to haue ſome good effects in it for Medicine.