Thomas Hill, A profitable instruction of the perfect ordering of Bees… (1579)
“ That you maye colour and make Waxe redde, take to one pounde of waxe, three ounces of verye cleare Turpentine, if it be in sommer, but if it be in winter, then take foure ounces. Now these disolue and melt togither ouer a soft fire, and taking it from the fire, let it coole a little, after which put in your Uermillian finely ground on a Marble stone, and of sweete Salet Oyle, of eache one ounce, mixing these well, stirre al togither, diligently. ”
