By the aunswere of _Pollio_ the Romaine vnto _Augustus_ Emperour, we may euidently learn, that the Mulse made of hony, is healthfull drinke in strengthning the bodie. For _Augustus_ on a time demaunded of him by what meanes a man might liue to great yeares, and all that season frée from sickenesses, to whome he thus aunswered, that applying the Mulse water within, and annoynting Oyle without the bodye, doeth worke the like. The Mulse truly is a drinke made of water and hony mixed togither, which the Gréeks properly name _Melicrate_, & some _Hydromel_, as the drinke made with wine vnlayde, or without water, and hony, they aptly name _Oenomel_. Now the Mulse water drunke, doeth ease the passage of winde or breath, softneth the belly, and the long time of oldenesse changeth it into the kinde of Wine, moste agréeable and profyting the Stomacke: but the same contrary to the Synowes, yet it recouereth the appetite lost, and is a defence against the dangerous drinke of Henbane, if it be ministred with Asses milke. Thys drinke truely (_Aegineta_ wryting therof) is thus made: let eight times so muche water be mixed vnto your Honnye prepared, whyche boyle or séeth so long, vntill no more fome aryseth to be skymmed off, then taking it from the fyre, preserue it to youre vse. But the same _Paule Aegineta_ affyrmeth, that the Mulse profyteth nothing in manner the collericke, bycause the same in them is lightly conuerted into choller. ¶ Of the drinke Oenomel, which is made of pure wyne and Hony. Cap.xxx. The _Oenomel_, which is a swéete wine made with Honny, _Aegineta_ teacheth the same, not only for the preseruation of helth, but also to expel the torment of sicknesses, through this most wholesome drinke, as that whiche giueth, not onely strength of body and courage, but the long race of yeares. Also it expelleth an olde griefe of the Reines, being often drunke with Parcely séedes. But the beste _Oenomell_ is that which is made of olde and tarte wine, and the beste purified hony, for the same doth lesse swell. The same also harmeth drunke after meales, but before taken, doeth procure an appetite. _Dioscorides_ teacheth that maner of making the _Oenomell_ in this order: first he willeth to take one gallon and a quarte of Wine, and mixing it with halfe a gallon, and a pinte of the beste hony, to prepare the same orderly. But some prepare or make the drinke spéedilier to vse after this manner, as the hony they boyle with Wine, and after poure foorth the same into other vesselles. ¶ Of the singular water of Hony gotten by order of distillation. Cap.xxxj.