Thomas Hill, A profitable instruction of the perfect ordering of Bees… (1579)
“ For Augustus on a time demaunded of him by what meanes a man might liue to great yeares, and all that season free from sickenesses, to whome he thus aunswered, the 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 ye Greeks properly name Melicrate, & some Hydromel, as the drinke made with wine vnlayde, or without water, and hony, they aptly name Oenomel. ”
