A profitable instruction of the perfect ordering of Bees/First Treatise/Chapter 39
Howe you may make redde Waxe. Cap. xxxix.
That you maye colour and make Waxe redde, take to one pounde of waxe, three ounces of verye cleare Turpentine, if it be in ſommer, but if it be in winter, then take foure ounces. Now theſe diſolue and melt togither ouer a ſoft fire, and taking it from the fire, let it coole a little, after which put in your Uermillian finely ground on a Marble ſtone, and of ſweete Salet Oyle, of eache one ounce, mixing theſe well, ſtirre al togither, diligently. But ſome in ſteede of Uermilion, doe take the reede leade, which is little commended, except there be three times ſo muche of the redde leade, as of the Uermilion putte in. And in the like ſorte may you make the greene Waxe, if inſteede of the Uermillian, you take ſo much of the greene Coporas finely ground, as you did of the Uermilian.