A Treatise of the Doctors of Grey House

A Treatise of the Doctors of Grey House (But as the Doctors Are Dead, It Is Forgotten) Concerning Honey

In the courts of Black Tower are many beehives, and 'tis wondrous to behold their variety. On divers flowers are their bees fed, and the Lady in Black Tower hath granted them the privilege of endle?s ?pring, the which is for the better feeding of the bees. It is ?aid that, from the end of the Ro?e Era to the end of the Thi?tle Era, this honey was of marvellous virtue, and each era produced its own proper virtue. How?oever that may be, none hath ?urvived the great downfall of the Bellflowers; except, mayhap, in ?ome lo?t corner of the palace.

It is a maxim of the beekeepers that: The Thi ? tle Ladies were Ladies who fed on Thi ? tle honey. This is a matter beyond our knowledge. What honey can have been in that era but Thi?tle honey? Dr. Comfrey LV hath written, that the Thi?tle Ladies produced a nectar of their own ?ub?tance, and from this the bees fed, and from it in turn made their honey; and this honey, being fed to any per?on, produced ?uch changes in their fle?h as to render them of the ?ame kind as any Lady born of Black Tower. Dr. Comfrey LV likewi?e hath ?aid, that as all Thi?tle Ladies have vani?hed from the palace, this is a matter of conjecture, and cannot be taken as a true and u?eful ?aying.

Marvels have been reported ?catter?hot by travelers through the We?t Pa??age, but never of the ?ame kind, and by ?uch unreliable folk, that we mu?t believe none of them. In the mean time, a?ide from its plea?ance in the mouth, honey is of great u?e in curing wounds and burns, and ?oothing ?ore throats, and loo?ening ?toppages of the bowel.