TO CLARIFY HONEY. 141 the water be evaporated, which may be known by the bubbles that rise from the bottom; then to make it pure, put to every pound of honey the white of an egg, and afterwards skim it again in the boiling. Towards the end of the boiling you must slacken your fire, for the honey is apt to be set on fire, and to become bitter by too vehement a heat. When your honey is boiled enough, take it from the fire, and that rather too soon than too late; for if here be any dross remaining, you shall find it on the top when it is cold; but over much boiling consumeth the spirituous part of the honey, and turneth the sweet taste into a bitter. EXPLANATION OF A FEW TERMS USED IN THE FOREGOING. Page 115. Spleets, the cross sticks in a Hive. 116. Cloom, a cement made to join the bottom of the Hive to the stool. 127. Coul-staff, a piece of wood, on which the Coul (a tub or vessel with two ears) is carried.-BAILEY. 131. Ridder, a cullender, adapted to run honey. ΜΕΛΙΣ ΣΗΛΟΓΙΑ. OR, THE Female Monarchy. Being an ENQUIRY into the Nature, Order, and Government OF BEE S, Those Admirable, Instructive, and Useful INSECTS. With a New, Easy, and Effectual METHOD to preserve them, not only in COLONIES, but common HIVES, from that cruel DEATH, to which their Ignorant, Injurious, and most Ingrateful OWNERS so commonly condemn them. A SECRET unknown to past AGES, and now Published for the Benefit of MANKIND. Written upon Forty Years By the REVEREND Mr. JOHN THORLEY, of Oxon. Illustrated with COPPER-PLATES. Μελίσσαις ἐστὶν ἡγεμὼν, ἐστὶ δὲ ἀκολουθία τε καὶ θεραπεία καὶ πόλεμοι καὶ νίκαι καὶ τῶν ἡττημένων αἱσέρεις, καὶ πόλεις καὶ προπόλεις τε καὶ ἔργων διαδοσχὴ, καὶ δίκαι κατὰ τῶν ἀργῶν τε πονηρῶν. Τοῦς δὲ κηφῆνας ἀνελαύνουσι τε κολάζουσιν. Celsus ap. Origen cont. Cels. L. 4. p. 217. LONDON : Printed for the AUTHOR; and Sold by N. THORLEY, at the Lock and Key facing the Mansion-House; and J. DAVIDSON, at the Angel in the Poultry, Cheapside. MDCCXLIV. CONTENTS. PAGE THE AUTHOR TO THE CANDID AND JUDICIOUS READER (145) CHAP. I. Of the Bees Nature and Property II. Of their Polity, or Form of Government.......... 1 35 ΜΕΛΙΣΣΗ ΛΟΓΙΑ, OR, THE Female Monarchy. The Author, to the Candid and Judicious Reader. THE belief of a Deity is necessarily presupposed to all religion, whether natural or revealed. Herein I find the heathen and the Christian fully agreed.* And the belief of a Divine revelation is necessary to give it it's due influence upon us.† Where the Word of God is not credited, what force can all it's arguments have? The threatenings of the law have no terror, and the promises of the gospel have no sweetness in them to an unbeliever. If men do not believe themselves concerned in the threatenings and promises; do not apprehend that it is *Primus est Deorum Cultus Deos credere. Sen. Heb. xi. 6. ПOTEUσai γὰρ δεῖ τὸν προσερχόμενον τῷ Θεῷ ὅτι ἐστὶ. + Heb. iv. 2. |
