It so much forceth to vnderstande and know, what maner of foode the same is, with the which the Bées do liue, as the poysoned hony also, that may be gathered by them, whether it be euill or venomous. For the Honny of _Heraclea_ in the Countrey of _Pontus_, hath bin for certaine yeares, very dangerous, especially throughe a certaine hearbe growing white, whiche also vexeth their cattell by eating thereof, named of the dwellers there, _Aegellothron_. But by these notes is that Honnye founde out and tried to be venomous, as firste, that the same is not thicke at all, the colour brighter or more glistering, and hath a strong sauour, mouing forthwith often snéesing, and is also waightier. Also such persons, as taste somewhat thereof, doe couet to lie or fall hastily on the earth, séeking for coldenesse, and be all on a sweate, so that in sodaine daungers, muste some spéedy helpes or remedies be ministred, like as the olde Mulse of the best hony, and herb Grace, or other like confections, be often ministred to suche persons. There is also another kind of venomous hony, in the border of the country of _Pontus_, that for the madnesse which it engendereth, is named of the people _Neonomenon_: the same hony is supposed to be gathered of the floure _Rhododendros_, whiche groweth plentie there in the wooddes. _Plinie_ writeth of a maruellous honny to be in _Creta_, for that in _Carina_ being a hill of that Countrey, he affirmeth a honny to be gathered, whiche the flies will not touch, and supposed also to be a singular Honny, for the composition of euery medicine. ¶ Of the miraculous worthiness of Honny. Cap.xxvij. Most men in Italy prepare and make their medicines which they purpose to kéepe long, with honny, so that honny preserueth euery thing from putrifying, which you would haue in safety, and to continue for a season, through his clamminesse. And of this, auntient men did enbalme bodyes of the deade, which they would haue preserued, and to continue sound without corrupting many yeres, with hony only, and the same they also smeared within the tombes or sepulchres of the deade, for the longer kéeping of bodyes. The self same writeth the learned _Papinius_ of the body of _Alexander_, which was likewise embaulmed with Hony. And not vnlike to this writeth _Plinie_, in the xxij. booke, and xxiiij. Chapter of his Histories, of sundrye dead bodyes also embaulmed with hony. Which in another place also of his Histories writeth by _Claudius Cæsar_, that brought a monster out of _Egipt_ into his countrey, whiche was also embaulmed with Honny. _Ahanæus_ also writeth, that bodies subiect to sickenesses, maye both be kept frée from sicknesses, and from corrupting a long time, through the often smearing and annoynting of Honny ouer all the bodie. As the like wryters report, that the Isle of _Corsica_, or _Corse_ do, whiche liue a long time.