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22 much shall suffice for the ordering and improving of bees, from whose labour rises great profit to kingdoms.

Bugs.

Ake a handful of wormwood and white hellebore; boil them in urine till it is half wasted and wash the joints of your bedstead with it.

Burn brimstone under the joints of the bedstead and creases where they lie, and they'll come out presently, that you may kill them; do this two or three times a week, and keep the room close.

Old oil and brimstone powdered and mix'd together, then anoint the bedsteads with it.

Boil glue and vinegar together, then rub the bedstead with it, and it will kill them.

Nits and lice—Take of bees-wax an ounce, three ounces of olive oil, three drams of staves acre, of these make a salve, and anoint; it kills both nits and lice.

Take red orpiment and saltpetre, each a dram, louse herb two drams, mix them together with oil and vinager, so anoint the head.

Fleas—Take lavender and wormwood, and boil them in vinegar well, and sprinkle your blankets with it; or savory laid in your chambers kills them.

Take wormwood well dry'd and put in a bag