Waxe hath a meane among heating things, both in the cooling, drying, and moistning, as writeth _Galen_ in the seauenth booke of Simples, and .22. Chapiter, whiche properly helpeth the roughnesse of the breaste, when it is ioyned or mixed with the oyle of Violets, for that bothe mollifyeth or softneth the sinewes, ripeneth and resolueth vlcers. The quantitie of a pease in waxe swallowed downe of Nurses, or such women as giue sucke, both dissolue the milke courded in the pappes. And tenne little péeces of pure newe waxe, vnto the biggenesse of a hempséede, drunke downe at one time, doeth cause the milke not to courde in the womans stomacke and breastes. If the priuie place or thereabout, of either man or woman, happeneth to swell, then by applying an ointment made of white waxe, it shortly assuageth and healeth the same. If anye also happeneth to be diseased with the bloudy flixe, by stuffing a yong Pigeon with newe waxe, after rosting the same, and eating the fleshe thereof, doeth in shorte time after staye the same. Also, if a Quince made hollowe and filled with pure newe waxe, be after rosted vnder hote embers, vntill the same be tender, and eaten fasting without drinking after it, doth in like sorte staye and helpe the perillous flixe, and scouring of bloude. The waxe besides serueth to all maner of plaisters, ointments, suppositories, and such like. ¶ Of that whych is a stay of the combes, and made for a defence of Bees from colde. Cap.xxxvij. The same made of Bées at the entrie of the mouth of hiues, oughte to be yelowe of coloure, and swéete smelling, like to _Storax_, and drawne into a length, like to _Mastike_. Yet that is rather chosen, bycause in heating and drawing it is principallest. For of itselfe, this draweth forth thornes or splents of wood run déepe into the flesh by applying it plaisterwise on the grief, it helpeth an olde coughe by making a smoake thereof, and holding the mouth ouer it, and applyed in the forme of an ointment on ringwormes, doeth spéedily heale them. Nowe this matter (as aboue was taught) is the stay of the hony combes, by whiche Bées stoppe and kéepe forth al manner of colde and other annoyances which might endamage them, the same also being of so strong a sauor, that some vse it in the stéede of _Galbanum_. _M. Varro_ nameth it a refuge of Bées, withoute their cottages, bicause Bées make the same at the entry of the hiue. ¶ Howe to make Waxe white. Cap.xxxviij.