Thomas Hill, A profitable instruction of the perfect ordering of Bees… (1579)
“ But the honny gathered of bitter hearbes is counted vnprofitable, as the same Honny which the Bees gather in the country of Pontus, where the Bees onely gather their honny of the Wormewoode. The white in all Countries is better esteemed than the blacke, but the beste honny is that whiche is very cleare, of a golden colour, of a moste pleasaunt and sweete taste, cleauyng somewhat to the fingers in the handlyng, and but little stiffening or waxing hard togither. ”
