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J Theatre cf Ptlitical fifing lnfe&s,

and ifitbe adulterated with fewer, or any thing else, youstiallperceive it by the seum» if it oe pure, it will be as clear as rockwater.

Newhony is better than old, the Sicilian was with the Anci-ents in highest estimation, so that by a Proverb, the Hjbltenwas notorious, Banbinm commends the Attick before allother.

Some imagine that the chief labour, or rather skill of the Beeis about the Wax, and that the Bee ( according to Aristttle )gatheteth hony only from the hony dew; but this wee madeclear before,that she maketb, that if r extracted more from theflowers, than (he gatheteth from the trees.

Cardan*fondly supposech, that they neither make, nor ga-ther properly, but convert what they gather into hony, by ver-rue of a little bagge or bladder sweet as hony} and like faith he,is made of like.

Various ate the opinions of the Ancients concerning those chatfirst found out hony, with the nature of Bees; some fay byUttkmnHt in the Island Cea; others, by EntbwuM , in the.dayes of Ericbmiui on Mount Hjmetu, a Country of jftma,Nice»dtr faith in £V«r, in the time of Saturne,

jirijltdemm the Philosopher studied many years to find out

* the nature of Bees, and could not j Artflomacbat faith Ctctrt did',nothing else for 6«y two years; and /’so./faith of him, that hefirst taught and sound out the enctealirg of Bees, and was soearnestly affected to them, that he studied day and night howhee might best order, and iocreat them according |o theirkind..

Others ascribe this invention to one T 1 who deservedgreat commendation for his skill among Bees, 'Dtodtrm faith,.,the Curttct, a people of Crete fi st sound out hony, Maertbimascribes) Dhdtrus-, and Phn}% and Ce/umeUe, to Arifiem in Tbtf-fa/fe, to whom Jud me agrees, although in his forty fourth Bookhe ascribes it to Gargoru-, but only 1 conceive for Spaine ; fabu-- lous Bereju cites him by the name of Mtlicola , Pi tidtre to theJtwtil hold it anciencer, foi Jacob sent a ptc lest of hony to the

* Govcrnourof Rgypt.

In no part of the world is more hony than in Ætbiapidi thecause whereof is-the plenty. o£ Flowers which, grow there ( let.

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