Beanes infuse them a day or two in white Wine in a Glasse-violl in the Sunne afterward distill them This water taketh away the spots of the face if it be washed therewith morning and euening The rootes of great Dragons distilled maketh a singular water to take away the prints and marks which the pocks haue left behind them so doth likewise the distilled water of the root of wild Vine of Corneflag Sowbread Costmarie Angelica Elicampane Tutneps wild Cucumbers white Onions Gentian Capers Lillies Madder Alkanet Cinquefoile Crowfoot Tasell and manie other hearbes Water of Guaiacum Take Guaiacum and cut it in small pieces infuse them a certaine time in the decoction of other Guaiacum and a third part of white Wine afterward distill them in a Glasse-Stillitorie The water that shall distill thereof is singular for the taking away of all spots out of the face especially if you ioyne with it in the distilling of it some Lillie rootes The water that is distilled in equall quantitie of the leaues of Peaches and Willowes taketh away the red spots and rubies of the face The water that is distilled in equall quantitie of the whites of egges and iuice of Limons scoureth the face and maketh it faire In stead of this water if you haue not the fit meanes to distill it you shall take seuen or eight Limons or Citrons which you shall cut into quarters and after infuse them in white Wine in the Sunne Another water Take six ounces of the crummes of white bread infuse them in two pound of Goats or Asses milke mingle them diligently together and afterward distill them Water of Snailes Take white Snailes about thirtie of Goats milke two pound of the fat of a Pigge or Kid three ounces of the powder of Camphire a dramme distill them in a Glasse-Stillitorie Water of the whites of egges Take the whites of new egges about twelue fine Cinnamome an ounce and Asses milke twelue ounces distill all in a Glasse-Stillitorie This water maketh a woman looke gay and fresh as if shee were but fifteene yeares old Water of Calues feet Take the feet of a Calfe and taking away their skinne and hooues of their hoofes cut the rest in pieces that is to say the bones sinewes and marrow and so distill them This water maketh the face Vermillion like and taketh away the blemishes of the small Pocks A singular water to make one white Take the dung of small Lizards or of the Cuttle fish the Tartar of white Wine the shauing of Harts-horne white Corall the flower of Rice as much of one as of another beat them a long time in a Mortar to make them into fine powder afterward infuse them a night in an equall portion of the distilled water of sweet Almonds Snailes of the Vine and white Mulleine and put thereunto likewise the like weight of white Honey distill all together in a Stillitorie Water of bread crummes compounded Take the crummie part of Barly bread indifferent betwixt white and blacke two pounds of Goats milke three pounds of white Wine halfe a pound of the foure great cold seeds of each two ounces of the flowers of Beanes or dried Beanes and Cich Pease of each two pound of Rice halfe a pound of the flowers of water Lillies and white Roses of each two pugillâ— the whites and yolkes of twentie egges distill them all in Maries bath and the water will be a great deale more excellent if you put vnto the distillation some Venice Turpentine Water of the broth of a Capon Take of the broth of a Capon Henne or Pullet three pound of the iuice of Limons one pound of white vineger halfe a pound of the flowers of Beanes and water Lillies of each three pugills the whites of two or three egges the weight of two French crownes of Camphire distill them all This water is of a maruellous vertue to take away the spots and staines of the face and other parts of the bodie The water of Branne Take Branne the best that you can find sift it diligently and afterward temper it with strong vineger put them into a Still and cast vpon them tenne or twelue yolkes of egges distill them all This water maketh the face cleane glistening and verie faire Another water Take the flower of Beanes and water Lillies of each a pound of bread crummes Rice flower flowers of Corneflags of each six ounces of Honey a pound of white Wine and water of the fountaine of each three pound let all be well mingled together and afterward distill them in Maries bath Take the rootes of Corneflag and wild Cucumbers of each three pound of the rootes of Holihockes and Lillies of each two pound of ripe Grapes halfe a pound of Beane flowers and leaues of wall Pellitorie of each a pugill of water Lillies and Mallowes of each a handfull of the crummes of Barly bread a pound infuse it all in white Wine or in the household store of Goats milke putting to the infusion halfe an ounce of the rootes of Turneps and of the foure great cold seedes another halfe ounce of the vrine of a little girle halfe a pound let all be distilled together This water is singular good to take away freckles scarres the prints of the small pockes and all other spots of the skinne A water vsed amongst the Ladies of the Court to keepe a faire white and fresh in their faces Take a white Pigeon a pint of Goats milke foure ounces of fresh Butter foure pugills of Plantaine and as much of the roots and leaues of Salomons seale 〈◊〉 ounce of Camphire halfe an ounce of Sugar candie and two drammes of Alloâ—e let all settle together and afterward distill it Another wâ—ter Take of the crummes of white bread two pound of the flowers of Beanes one pound of white Roses the flowers of water and land Lillies of euerie one two pound of Goats milke six ounces and of the flowers of Cornflag anounce distill all this water is good to keepe the hands cleane and white Take Cowes milke in the moneth of May in other moneths it is not worth aniâ— thing two pounds foure Oranges and fiue Citrons Roch Allome and fine Sugar of each an ounce cut the Oranges and Citrons into small quarters and infuse them in milke afterward distill them all this water is good to keepe the colour neat fresh Take a certaine number of egges the newest you can get and lay them to steepe in verie strong Vineger three whole dayes and nights afterward pierce them with a pinne in such sort as that you may cause all the water that is within them to come forth and then distilling this water you shall find it excellent to beautifie the face Likewise to wash the face with the water of Almonds or Sheepes or Goats milke or else to lay vpon the face when one goeth to sleepe a white Linnen cloth dipped in these
with water or the dung of Hennes drunke with Hypocras made of honey and wine or a Clister made of Brine or the heart of a Larke swallowed downe while it is fresh and new or the said heart of a Larke fastened to the thigh As concerning outward remedies some approue greatly to take the skin of a sheepe all new or the kell of the intrailes of a sheepe newly killed to apply it vnto the bellie or to make a bag of Millet Branne Wheat and Salt fried together to lap vpon the bellie A Cataplasme made of Wolues dung is also profitable against the Collicke the same dung drunke with a little wine doth verie much good the bones found in the dung of a Wolfe powned small and drunke with wine haue the like qualitie Some say that if you take ashes comming verie hot from vnder the coales of fire and put the said ashes in a dish or pot and afterward poure thereon a good glasâ—e of Claret wine and afterward couer the said dish with ashes with a linnen cloth foure double and apply it vnto the bellie you shall find release and mitigation of your paine For the â—uâ—orall â—lux of the Bellie it is good to drinke milke wherein hath beene quenched a gad of Steele or of yron or milke boyled with a halfe quantitie of water and that vnto the consumption of the water or hee shall take of a Stags pizzle with Cesâ—â—rue water to vse Rice parched to take a dramme of Masticke powdred with the yolke of an egge to make a Cataplasme with the flower of Wheat to apply all ouer the Nauell but it must be wrought with red Wine and after baked in the Ouen For the bloudie Flux giue to drinke with red wine the bloud of a Hare dried and made in powder or the powder of mens bones or else gather the dung of a dogge which for three dayes hath fed vpon nothing but bones and this you must drie to make into powder of 〈◊〉 powder giue vnto him that is troubled with such Flux twice a day in milke wherein you shall haue quenched manie stones of the Riuer verie throughly heated in a verie hot fire continue this two or three dayes or else giue to drinke the distilled water of the great Burre oâ— the decoction of shepheards Purse or the distilled water of Woodbâ—nd or else giue to drinke the seed of Plantaine in powder or the distilled water of the first buds of the Oake or the powder of Snayles burnt with the powder of Brier-berries and a little white Pepper and Galls or of the Harts and Goats horne burned or rather of the pizzle of a Haâ—t prepared as wee haue taught here aboue in setting downe the remedies for the Pleurisie For to stay the flux of Bloud drinke a reasonable draught of the iuice or decoction of dead Nettle make Clysters with the 〈◊〉 of Plantaâ—ne and Horse-taile vse the broth of Coleworts â—odden vâ—rie tender the iuice of Pomegrants and the substance it selfe Sallads of Plantaine and Sorrell chaw oftentimes some Rubarbe To loosen the Bellie â—ou must eat sweet Cherries or Peaâ—hes Figges or Mulberries fasting to sâ—p the first broths of Coleworts of Beets of Mallowes or Lettuces or of Cich-pease without salt to apply vnto the stomacke a Cataplasme made with Honey the gall of a Bull and the roet of Sow-bread or the leaues of Apples of coloquâ—â—tida to take a Suppositorie made of fat Bacon or the stalke of a Mallow or Beet To kill the wormes of little children it is good to cause them to vse preserued Rubarbe or the câ—nserue of Peach flowers to drinke the distilled water of Gentian or the â—â—ce of Câ—trons the iuice of Mints or Basill of Purcelane Rue or Wormwood or else to cause them to swallow with a verie small draught of Wormewood wine of the powder made of Wormes first dried and after burned on a fire-pan red hot and make it into verâ—e â—ine powder or of the powder of blessed Thistle or of Coralline the weight of a French crowne also to apply vnto the Nauell a cataplasme made of Wormewood Tansie and an Oxe gall and all this must be done toward the later end of the Moone To stay the excessiue paine of outward Hemorrhoids you must make a Liniment of oyle of Roses waâ—â—ed in the water of Violets fresh Butter oyle of Linseed the yolke of an egge and a little waxe or else to make a little cataplasme with the crums of a white loafe sleept in Cowes milke adding thereto two yolkes of egges a little Saffron and a little Populeon There may also a little Liniment be made with fresh butter and the powder of Corke-tree burned In the paine of the Hemorrhoids therâ— is nothing more singular than the perfume made of shauings of Iuorie To stay the excessiue flux of the Hemorrhoids it is a most singular remedie to drinke a dramme of red Corall or of the scumme of yron with the water of Plantain and also to make a fomentation of the decoction of white Henbane or in place of this a Cataplasme made of the powder of burnt Paper or of the shauings of Lead or of Bole Armoniack with the white of an egge or of three Oyster shells finely poudred either raw or burnt and mixt with a little fresh butter For the stone in the Reines you must drinke often of the iuice or water of the bodie of the Beech tree which water must be gathered in the Spring time in as much as then the bodie or the rinde thereof being 〈◊〉 or cut to the qâ—â—cke doth yeeld a great quantitie of water verie singular for this purpose The fruit of the Eglantinâ— preserued before it be ripe after the manner of Marmalate with Sugar hauing first taken the kernels from within taken fasting to the end of the last quarter and first daies of the Moone following in drinking somewhat more than a reasonable draught of white wine or of the water of wild Tansie or such other is verie excellent therefore He must also drinke very oft with white wine the pouder of the pâ—lling of Rest-harrow or Buck-thorne or of the gumme which groweth round about the riâ—des of Vines or of the seed of Goose-grasâ—e finely powdred or to drinke the distilled water of Radish roots and Nettle roots with a little Sugar or the water of Broome or of Dogs-grasse or of wild Tansie the water or iuice of Radish wherein is dissolued the powder of egge-shels burnt or of the stones of Medlars or of the eye of a Partridge or of the braine of a Pie or of the inward skin of thâ—â— stomacke of a Henne or Câ—pon Euerie man prayseth this decoction whereof Aetius maketh mention in his chapter of Sea-Holly Take the roots of Sea-Holly the pith taken out and make them verie cleane steepe them eight houres in Fountaine water after that to boyle them till the halfe of the water be consumed in the end of the boyling cast
of Sea-Holly and of Tasell mixed with white wine is singular in this case A Bath also is verie good and it may be pâ—epared with water of the Riuer in which shall haue boyled Mugwort Mallowes Holâ—hock Camomill Melilot and other such like hearbes and within the Bath to rub the hippes and thighes drawing them downeward with a bagge of Mugwort Celandine Cheruile Smallage Betonie seeds of Nigella and other such like Some esteeme it for a rare remedie for to take the weight of one or two French crownes of the marrow of a Hart to tye it within a little knot of fine and cleane linnen and to put the said knot into the woman her secret place deepe ynough but this to be after the bodie hath beene prepared and purged For the suffocation of the Matrix the legges must be rubbed alwayes drawing downeward and tying them hard to put the partie thereby to great paine put cupping-glasses vpon the thighes rub the stomacke drawing downeward from the pit thereof to the nauell Furthermore she must be made to smell vnto things that stinke and small strong as the feathers of Partridges or shooe soles burnt and below to apply things that are verie sweet smelling as Cloues Marierome Amber Time Lauander Calaminth Penny-ryall Mugwort Ciuer the leaues of white Mulleine which hath his stalke rising verie high you must also giue her to drinke the quantitie of a beane of Mithridate dissolued in the water of Wormewood or fifteene red or black seeds of Pioniâ— bruised and dissolued in wine The onely remedie for this disease is that if it fall out that the sicke partie be with child that then her husband dwell with her for the remedies before spoken of are dangerous for women with child Sume doe much esteeme in this disease the course following that is that the woman euerie weeke to keepe her selfe free should drinke three spoonefuls of white wine wherein hath beene boyled and steept an ounce of the root of Brionie For the falling downe of the Mother the partie must be caused to vomite to haue her armes rubbed and bound hard to moue great paine to set cupping-glasses vpon her breasts and to cause her to smell vnto sweet and odoriferous things and below to apply things that are of a strong and stinking smell There must be giuen her to drinke the powder of Harts horne or of drie Bay leaues with red wine that is verie sharpe In like manner a Cataplasme made of Garlicke stamped and dissolued in water or Nettles newly braied and applied vnto the bellie causeth the Matrix to returne into his place Holihocks boyled with oyle and the fat of Quailes made in forme of an emplaâ—ster and applyed to the bellie are verie profitable Ashes made of egge shâ—lls wherein Chickens haue beene hatched mixed with Pitch and applyed vnto the belly doe put the Matrix againe into the place Some are of opinion that one leafe of Clot-burre put vnder the sole of the womans foot drawech downe the Mother and being applyed vnto the top of the head doth draw it vp on high For the inflammation of the Matrix it is good to make an iniection with the iuice of Plantaine or of Nightshade or of Houseleeke or to apply a Cataplasme made of Barley flower the rinds of Pomegranats and the iuice of Plantaine Houseleeke or Nightshade For the inflammation of a mans yard the same Cataplasme will be very soueraigne if there be added vnto it some quantitie of driered Roses or else take the new dung of a Cow frie it in a panne with the flowers of Camomill Brier and Meâ—â—lot lay it to the cods you shall perceiue the swelling to depart quickly To take away the stinking smell of the feet put within your shooes the scuâ—â—me of yron For to make a woman fruitfull that cannot conceiue take a Doe great with fawne kill 〈◊〉 and draw out of her belly the membrane wherein the fawne lyâ—â—h turne the fawne out of the said membrane and without washing of it drie it in the Ouen after the bread is drawne forth being dried make the inner part and place where the fawne lay into powder giue of this powder three mornings vnto the woman and that by and by after midnight with three or foure spoonefuls of wine 〈◊〉 her not rise of foure houres after and aduise her that her husband may lye with her If a woman with child haue accustomed to lye downe before her time it is good that whiles she is with child she vse with the yolke of a new egge a powder made of the seed of Kermes otherwise called Diers graine and of fine Frankincense of each an equall part or else that she vse oftentimes of the powder of an Oxe pizzle prepared in such sort as we haue set downe among the remedies for the Pleurisie or elsâ— that she weare continually vpon some one or other of her fingers a Diamond for â— Diamond hath the vertue to keepe the infant in the mothers wombe Some say also that the slough of an Adder dried and made into powder and giuen with the 〈◊〉 of bread is singular good for the staying of vntimely birth The Eagles stone is commended for this aboue all other things which being worne vnder the left arâ—epit or hanged at the arme of the left side doth keepe the infant and hindereth vntimely birth To bring to bed the woman which is in trauaile of child you must tye on the inside of her thigh not farre from the place by which the excrement of ordure passeth the Eagles stone and so soone as the child is borne and the woman deliuered to take it away for the same purpose to giue her the decoction of Mugwort Rue Dittaâ—e and Pennyryall or of the iuice of Parsley drawne with a little vineger or of white Wine or Hypocras wherein hath beene dissolued of the powder of the Canes of Cassia of Cinnamon of the stones of Dates of the roots of Cypres of the flowers of Camomill of the root of round Aristolochie or Birthwort or the iuice of Tota bona with white wine or else the leaues of Tota bona stamped layd vpon the secret paâ—â—â— and round about And when a woman is in trauaile of child and looseth all her strength it is good to giue her bread steept in Hypocras or a spoonefull of the water called Claret water which must be prepared in this sort Lay to steepe in halfe a pint of good Aqua vitae according to the measure of Paris about three ounces of Cinnaâ—on well shaued by the space of three dayes in the end whereof let the said water ruâ—ne through a cleane linnen cloth and dissolue therein an ounce of fine Sugar after put thereto about the third part of old red Rose water and let all stand together in a bottle of glasâ—e to vse when need requireth This water is principally good for all the diseases of the Mother as also for Fainting Swowning weakenesse
is cured by being let bloud vpon the veine vvhich is found in 〈◊〉 middest of the thigh to the quantitie of sixe ounces or about the place vvhich is somewhat about the fundament but if in neither of those two places or vvhere they â—annot be found you must take the necke veine toward the vvind-pipe if you perâ—eiue that there is need of a drinke you shall straine a handfull of Purslane and â—â—ingle the juice vvith Gumâ—tragacanth fine Frankincense and a few Prouence Roâ—â—s you shall make him take it all vvith honied vvater in some prettie small quantiâ—ie It is knowne amongst other markes that he hath an ague if he haue the stopping of his vrine and his eares become cold withering and hanging downe In the faintnesse of the heart it is good to keepe the horse verie hot and to giue him this drinke Myrrhe two ounces Gum-tragacanth foure ounces Safron foure drams Mehlot in powder an ounce Mercurie a pound and fine Frankincense so much as shall be sufficient and proportionable all these mixt together and made inâ—o powder shall be reserued for your vse and that shall be in giuing two good spoonfulls thereof with one pinte of water two spoonefulls of Home and two bowles of Oyle of Roses This drinke vvill serue for many daies euen till the horse doe find himselfe better And further know that this drinke is good for those that haue their â—acke or loynes broken and members verie stiffe For the horse that is ouer-heated you shall cause him to swallow with the horne 〈◊〉 Winter three ounces of Oyle vvith one pinte of red vvine and in Sommer two ounces of Oyle onely vvith the like quantitie of Wine that is aboue named In the paine of the bellie vvhich some call the Birth you shall take the seeds of vvild Rue or of the garden Rue you shall poune it well and vvith hot vvine you shall make him a drinke vnto this drinke you may adde Cummine and Fennel-seed in like quantitie and after keepe him hot in some close and vvell couered place before you giue him this drinke you must get vpon his backe and vvalke him a long time and that rather in high places than in low and plaine fields when you are comming homeward if the season be cold you shall cloath him vvith a good vvoollen cloth rubbing his flankes vvith Oyle vntill such time as he be become cold and doe breake wind It vvould be good also to conuey into his fundament some hollow joynt of a Reed or Rose tree sufficient thicke and halfe a foot long annointed vvith common Oyle and let this same hollow Reed be in such sort fastened vnto his taile as that it may not by any meanes come forth and this done then to get vpon the horse and to vvalke him But howsoeuer things goe you must let him haue meat of hot qualitie and to drinke vvater boyled with Cummine and Fennell-seed in equall quantitie mingling vvith it Wheat meale and keeping it verie vvarme in a verie closâ— place For the difficultie 〈◊〉 vrâ—ne it is an approued thing to take fiue or nine of the flies called Cantharides to lap them in a linnen cloth and applie them to the thigh and howsoeuer it fareth with him yet to keepe them there for some time this will procure vrine but in anie case giue him them not in powder clister or drink◠〈…〉 good also to rub his cods with the decoction of Cresses Pellitorie and 〈…〉 Leekes For the sniuell take Orpin and Brimstone cast them vpon burning coales and 〈◊〉 the fume goe vp into the Horses nosthrils that so the humors congealed aboue in 〈◊〉 braine may be resolued and cast forth For the Flying worme take from him some bloud vpon the veines of the 〈…〉 applie a hot â—earing yron verie deepe vnder the throat and in the hole put 〈…〉 plegets vpon them moystened in the white of an egge and after let him stand 〈◊〉 dayes in the stable For the Iauar take Pepper as also the leaues of Coleworts old Swines 〈…〉 make an emplaister to be layd vpon the place For the Figge you must pare the hoofe so farre forward as that you may 〈◊〉 reasonable roome and space betwixt the sole of the foot and the figge then 〈◊〉 Spunge there and tye it verie hard that so the rest of the figge may be 〈…〉 euen to the cleft For the Wenne open it when you shall perceiue it to be full of matter 〈◊〉 make a plaister of Goole-turdes wine salt and vinegar and lay vnto the 〈◊〉 beware in any case that there be not in the bottome of it some strange and 〈◊〉 thing For the galling of the backe that is new done take two great Onions and 〈◊〉 decoction thereof in boyling water afterward you shall applie it to the sore place 〈◊〉 hot as the horse can abide it all the swelling will be gone away in one night Otherwise take salt in powder and wet it in strong vinegar putting thereto the yolke of 〈◊〉 egge with all this together you shall rub the place and you shall see the proofe 〈◊〉 else wash the place with wine or verie strong vinegar lay aloft vpon it Lime made 〈◊〉 powder and mixt with Honie continue this remedie so long as till the flesh be 〈◊〉 againe and the bone couered with it then to cause the haire to grow vpon it yoâ— must poune the shells of small nuts burned and being mingled with oile annoin◠〈◊〉 places wanting haire and it will be ouergrowne in a short time For a Horse â—wayed in the backe or complayning of hauing beene ouerladen â—â—â—plie vnto the reines of his backe an emplaister made of stone-pitch with the 〈◊〉 of Bole-Armoniake Dragons-bloud Olibanum Masticke Galles of each â—quall weight let the plaister be layed somewhat hot vpon the offended part which you shall not take away vntill it easily forsake the place when you touch it for 〈◊〉 the Horse is healed For the swellings caused on the Horse backe by the Saddle open it first with 〈◊〉 Knife afterward lay plegets vpon it wâ—t in the whites of egges three dayes together and the place if it be swolne and hard it will be healed with Coleworts 〈◊〉 Wormewood and Beares-breech bruised together and stamped and boâ—â—led together with sweet Seame applie it vnto the place offended and hurt For the disease called Graps which are moules and scabbes on the heeles 〈◊〉 way the scabbes and them wash the place with the decoction of Mallowes 〈◊〉 and Mutton Sewer put the drosse or thicke substance of this vpon the 〈◊〉 and bind it fast and close thereto afterward take it away and annoint the place 〈◊〉 an oyntment made of vinegar Mutton Sewet the gum of the Firre tree and new 〈◊〉 of all alike and boyle them altogether It is a singular good remedie for the Iaundise vvhich followeth take of â—â—nicke Corne and Smallage of eaâ—h a pound boyle them all vvith
defend the parts of the bodie from all cold and staruing how great soeuer it might proue to be if so be that you rub the ridge of the backe the soles of the feet and the wrists of the hands therewith Likewise the iuice of this Neule mixt with a little Populeon and applyed vnto the wrists appeaseth the great heat of Agues The leaues beaten and mixed with oyle of Violets and Poppies and applyed vnto the wrists doe alike The vapour of the decoction of Nettle seed doth take away the stuffing of the nosthrils Such as haue the Cough with a great ratling in the throat cannot meet with a better medicine to make them spit out lustily than to take with some pâ—ctorall syrrop or decoction the weight of halfe a French crowne of Nettle seed finely powdred You must furthermore obserue this vertue in Nettles as that if it be put into a pot wherein is flesh boyling it will cause the flesh to be the sooner boyled Stauesacre must be sowne in a place reasonably drie and shadowed The seed chewed and held in the mouth draweth vnto it by his heat great quantitie of moisture stamped and mingled with oyle it driueth vermine out of the head and other parts of the bodie it cureth scuruinesle and itch sleeped in vineger and held in the mouth it assuageth the tooth-ach There is not anie need of great care to be taken in sowing the great small or middle Plantaine for they grow euerie where and yet they must be esteemed by reason of their vertues The iuice of Plantaine leaues or rootes pressed out and 〈◊〉 two houres before the fit to the quantitie of two ounces doth assuage the 〈◊〉 Feauer The leaues of Plantaine stamped with the whites of egges doe 〈◊〉 burnings An emplaister made of the iuice of Plantaine the white of an egge and Bole-Armoniacke and applyed vnto the brewes doth stay the bleeding of the nose Horse-taile as well the great as the small requireth a verie moist ground as neere to some poole or shadowed place The decoction thereof in wine or water doth stanch bleeding and all other fluxes whether it be the bloudie or anie other such The iuice put into the nosthrils doth stay the bleeding of them and with a Pessarie put vp into the necke of the Matrix it stayeth the flux thereof Pellitorie craueth no great care or tillage for it groweth naturally neere vnto walls A Cataplasme made of Pellitorie and the grease of a male or female Goat is a singular remedie for the gowt and slidings or falls The leaues of Pellitorie fried with fresh Butter or Capons grease and laid in forme of a Cataplasme vnto the bellie doth assuage the paine of the Colicke The iuice mingled in like quantitie with white Wine and oyle of sweet Almonds newly drawne doth assuage the paine and torment of the stone A Cataplasme made of greene Pellitorie stamped with crums of Bread and oyle of Lillies Roses or Camomile doth resolue Apostemes happening in the breasts It is good also for mollifying Clysters and Bathes that are deterging Shepheards Powch groweth in all ground but principally vpon the ruines of old walls and neere vnto walls The decoction of this hearbe in raine water with Plantaine and Bole Armoniacke being drunke certaine mornings or taken in Clysters doth stay the bloudie flux and the spitting of bloud A bath prepared with the decoction of the leaues stayeth the excessiue flux of the termes But if you take it and boyle it in red wine with a little Cinnamon and Tanners barke and so giue it the patient to drinke it will stay the most dangerous bloudie flux that can be possible It is verie good also for the same disease if it be giuen in milke The iuice doth heale greene wounds and being dropped into the eares doth drie vp the vlcers of the same The leaues stamped and applyed in forme of a Cataplasme doth kill inflammations and the wild fire The leaues eaten doe stay all sorts of bleeding being put into the nosthrils as also holden in the hand they stay the nose from bleeding Sow-bread desireth a shadowed ground as vnder some tree or bush which must notwithstanding be fat and well tilled to feed the root thereof which is full grosse solide and as it were like vnto the Turnep The Forest of Orleance is well stored and replâ—nished with this hearbe This is a thing to be maruelled at that the iuice of the root of Sow-bread snuffed vp into the nose purgeth the head and the distilled water thereof snuffed vp also into the nosthrils doth presently stay their bleeding The same water drunke to the quantitie of six ounces with an ounce of Sugar doth presently stay the bloud running downe from the breast stomacke or liuer and knitteth together the vessels therein if anie be broken which I my selfe haue proued and tried Two drammes of the iuice drunke with honied water doe loosen the bellie and free the liuer from obstructions as also the spleene in respect whereof it is singular good for the Dropsie and Iaundise but you must mixe with it a little Mallicke or Nutmeg or Rhubarbe for to correct the vehemencie thereof It is incredible what ease the iuice thereof worketh in the Colicke and other such like griping pangs if it be put into Clysters how greatly also it profiteth in Oyntments Liniments and Cataplasmes appointed for the hardnesse and swellings of the spleene and liuer If you infuse the roots chopped small in the oyle of Roses or Camomill or sweet Almonds and afterward boyle them together putting thereto a little wine in the end you shall presse them out This oyle dropped by two or three droppes into the eares doth driue away the noyse and deafenesse of the eares especially if vpon the eares you apply the drosse of these rootes at night at the parties going to bed or else chop small the rootes stampe them with Peaches and bitter Almonds steepe them all in Aqua vitae afterward straine them and drop certaine drops of that which shall be pressed out into the eares this is verie soueraigne for deafenesse and the noyse of the eares Crowfoot although there be six kinds of it yet they all loue a moist and marish ground and whereas the frogges delight to liue which also take pleasure in and 〈◊〉 themselues about this hearbe It is true that some of the sorts doe loue these 〈◊〉 places more than other some for the Crowfoot that hath a double flower not 〈◊〉 yellow but somewhat red and which appeareth onely in Autumne cannot grow in a verie moist place so as it doth in the drie medowes and in places a little 〈◊〉 contrariwise that which beareth a single flower of a yellow and golden colour cannot grow but in some watrie medow-plot and neere vnto standing water The other which beareth a double flower not verie yellow hath a bulbous and whitish root of a sharpe tast This same as well the leaues but
swim aboue the water and so you shall sunder them one after another without breaking of them and thus hauing freed them one of another you shall plant them along thâ— sayd wall some three foot from it and foure foot euerie one from another and if thâ— earth neere vnto the wall be not so good as it ought you shall helpe it by such 〈◊〉 of batteling as hath beene spoken of and shall close vp all your care about thâ— plants so remoued with watering them oâ—t The time to sow them is about 〈◊〉 Aprill or in the beginning or else earlier if the Spring-time begin earlier the Indians and Spaniards sow it in Autumne As concerning his vertues seeing it is hot and drie in the second degree as his biting and sharpe kind of tast doth declare we cannot doubt but that it is good to cleanse and resolue as also good for the effecting of the things which â—t hath beene tried to haue wrought that is to say for the healing of the Noli me tangere all old wounds and inueterate and cancred vlcers hurts ringâ— wormes and exulcerated seabs what maligne qualitie soeuer is in them Kings euill clouds of the eyes conlusions impostumes stingings of liuing creatures rednesâ—e of the face and many other accidents which we will runne ouer hereafter particularly But in respect of the verâ—â—es thereof the best and most to be esteemed part are the leaues and for want of them the seed though it haue no such vertue as the leaues the leaues thereof are vsed either as they are greene at the time of their ripenesse or being kept drie in the time of Winter or in powder when they are dried and made in powder as for the way to keepe them we will speake thereof hereafter And to speake particularly of the effects of Nicotiana The cold and windie paine of the head armes and legges will be holpen if you lay vpon the griefe oftentimes the greene leaues of Petum somewhat dried ouer the fire the tooth-ach is stayed by rubbing the teeth with a linnen cloth that hath beene dipt in the juice of the said shearbe and by putting into the tooth a pill of the leaues of the same hearbe The wounds of the armes legges and other parts of the bodie how old soeuer they be will be throughly siccatrized if you wash them first with white wine or vrine and afterward wipe them verie cleane with a linnen cloth and by and by after put thereupon one or two greene leaues well stamped with the juice or the juice alone and vpon it some fine white Linâ— or white linnen cloth continuing the same daily vnto the end of the cure and if you haue no greene leaues take drie ones and powder them and put of this powder into the wounds after you haue washt them as hath beene said and wiped them with cleane linnen The Indians vse it to comfort the feeble not digesting stomach first rubbing it with oyle oliue and then applying thereupon one or two leaues somewhat dried and made pale ouer the fire it is in vse also among the Indian Canibals against poyson wherewith they vse to annoint their arrows when they go to shoot and this poyson will kill by and by if bloud be but drawne for when they go to warre they carrie in one Harts foot of that poyson and in another of the juice of Petuum to remedie the mischiefe and if they haue no greene they carrie drie with them and so soone as they haue applied it to the wound they account themselues out of all danger of death how great soeuer the wound be This remedie was tried by the Indian Câ—nibals by reason of a battell where they were hurt in a prouince called Sauinam and as their custome was to cure their poysoned wounds with sublimate so they not finding store thereof sufficient were made to applie vnto their wounds the juice drawne out of the leaues of this hearbe which shortly after tooke away the paine and venime thereof and so they became whole the proofe of this thing hath also beene made in Spaine sundrie times and amongst others by the Catholicke King himselfe who to make triall of this hearbe caused the wound of a dogge to be rubbed with sublimate and then presently after to be applied the juice of Petum together with the substance and all This same remedie may serue against the bitings of mad dogges so that it be vsed within a quarter of an houre after The decoction of the leaues boyled in water and made into a syrope with sugar or into a â—uleb or Apozeme and taking euerie morning the quantitie of two or three ounces remedieth the difficultie of breath old â—ough so that the partie before he vse this decoction haue beene vniuersally purged by some purgatiue medicine the â—uice and drosse of the said leaues stamped in a mortar doth open the obstructions of the spleene and softeen the hardnesse of the same applied vnto the region of the â—pleene in the morning for want of the leaues the powder may be applied being 〈◊〉 with some oyntment appropriat vnto such diseases The same remedie serueth â—or the paine of the stomach the paine of the bellie and the colicke as also such other griefes comming of coldnesse and windinesse being applied warme and vsed ofâ—entimes till at length the paines be asswaged It is not of the least seruice for the paynes of the matrix the said leaues applied vnto the nauell in manner aforesayd as also if the fume thereof be put into the nose of a woman grieued with the 〈◊〉 of the Mother This is the reason why the women that are subject vnto the disease of the Mother should haue the same alwaies readie Some hold it for a â—â—â—gular remedie against the gowt to chaw euerie morning fasting the leaues of 〈◊〉 because it voydeth great quantitie of flegme out at the mouth hindering the 〈◊〉 from falling vpon the joynts which is the verie cause of the gowt If you 〈◊〉 the leaues amongst hot embers for some space and alterward taking them forth 〈◊〉 them without shaking off the ashes from them vnto his bellie that hath 〈…〉 drunke much you shall asâ—wâ—ge his swelling fulnesâ—e and keepe him from 〈◊〉 The juice of the leaues of Nicotiana stamped clarified and mixt with 〈◊〉 sugar of the forme of a syrope being taken in the morning killeth and casteth 〈◊〉 wormes but therewithall you must lay vpon the parties nauâ—ll some of the 〈◊〉 bruised stamped in a mortar and wrapped in a linnen cloth and let it be presently after he hath taken a clyster of milke and sugar All aches of the joynes 〈…〉 a cold cause all swellings tumours and impostumes comming likewâ—â—e of cold and windie causes all kiâ—es on childrens heeles as also exceeding great itches are 〈◊〉 led by applying the leaues of Petum The juice of Petum layed vpon a 〈◊〉 carbuncleo how pestilent oâ— venimous
picked and the leaues pulled off euen from the lowest part of them vnto where you perceiue the leaues to grow tender and these stalkes you must salt in a little Trough or Tray and so let them continue a day and a night vntill that they haue turned the â—alt into brine after this they must be washed in the same brine of salt and after that they haue beene spraind they are layed abroad vpon hurdles vntill they be well dried afterward there must be put vpon them dried Dill â—ennell a little Rue and Lâ—â—kes chopped small after all this the said stalkes are put vp in a pot thus dried and there is powred in vpon them a pickle which is made of two parts of vineger and one of salt brine after this in stead of a double Linnen cloth to couer it there must be thrust in good store of drie Fennell vpon them in such sort as that the pickle may swell vp and ouer-couer them And euermore in all confections it must be a speciall great care that they remaine not drie and to that end to powre in pickle oftentimes â—f by turning them aside you see they haue need After this fashion may Succorie Scariole Harts-horne the tender shoots of Brambles the young and tender croppes of Thyme Sauorie Organie and Radishes be preâ—erued and such preserues must be made in the beginning of Summer The hearbes preserued with salt and vineger are chiefely ordained for Salads but these that are made with sugar and honey doe serue for the vse of Physicke such are those which follow hereafter There is but verie seldome any preserues made of the flowers and leaues of herbes I vnderstand by this preserue taken properly the preseruing of things whole and not stampt and beaten into one bodie notwithstanding who so is disposed to preserue the flowers or leaueâ— of hearbes may doe it in this fashion Take the leaues or flowers of such herbes as you will preserue make them very cleane afterward without anie manner of stamping of them put them all whole into some vessell wherein 〈◊〉 will keepe them cast vpon them a sufficient competencie of fine Sugar made in pâ—â—der and so â—et them to Sunning in the vessell Also in this â—ort boyle them at a 〈◊〉 fire with Sugar so long as till the Sugar become as thicke as a syrrup and 〈…〉 them in a vessell Otherwise after that you haue diligently cleansed the leaues or the flowers of the hearbes put them in an earthen pot or glasse and after poure into them of boyled Sugar of the consistence of a syrrup and well clarified Thus may Roses leaues of Mines Spleenewort Maiden-haire Sorrell Ceterach Buglosse and such like be preserued the flowers of Marigolds Succorie Violets Broome Sage and other such like and such preserues are more acceptable than conserues because the flowers and leaues doe in better sort retaine and keepe their naturall smell thus than in conserues for in conserues they are powned with Sugar which doth rebate verie much the naturall smell of the leaues or flowers Now as concerning making of conserues of leaues or flowers of hearbes you 〈◊〉 keepâ— this course Take the tendrest parts of the flowers or leaues and cast away the hardest such as are the white tailes of Rose leaues the stalkes of Mints Spleenwort Maiden-haire and such like make them verie cleane and bray them afterward in a Marble Mortar or of other Stone with a pestle hard and solide ynough and that so long as till they become in manner of a past and then put vnto them twice or thrice as much Sugar or Honey And if it fall out that the leaues or flowers so â—â—amped be of themselues somewhat too moist as the leaues of Violets water Lillies and Bugloâ—â—e be then put thereto great quantitie of the powder of Sugar When you haue thus done put them into an earthen Vessell and set them abroad a Sunning a whole moneth that so their superfluous moisture may be spent by the heat of the Sunne but they must be stirred euerie day Or if you had rather doe thus Set the Vessels vpon hot ashes to the end they may take a little boyle but this is not so good as the setting of them in the Sunne After this manner may the flowers of Rosemarie Marâ—golds Beâ—onie Pionie Marierome Balme Scabâ—oâ—s Elder tree Mints fuâ—â—itorie Eye-bright Succorie of the flowers of the Peach-tree Sage Broome Oranges Mâ—â—lowes Hollyhocke and other such like the toppes of Thyme Hysope and Worme wood the conserue whereof we haue said before to be verie soueraigne in the Dropsie as also the conserue of Peach-tree flowers and that of Broome flowers for the obstructions of the reines and spleene And for as much as the conserues of Violets and Roses are in great vse and request we will speake particularly of them To make conserue of Roses you must take the leaues of Roses white or red which are not as yet open and blowne you must make them cleane and stampe them without being dried before in a Stone Mortar and after put thereto thrice their weight in Sugar and then put it vp in a Glasse-vessell well couered with Parchment and set in the Sunne the space of three moneths and stirring it almost euerie day If you would make conserues of drie Roses boile in halfe a pound of Rosewater one whole pound or thereabout of fine Sugar afterward when you see that all the water is conâ—â—â—med cast into the Sugar an ounce of drie Roses made into powder boyle them altogether reasonably and after with a spatule of wood you shall make your conserue into morsels or cakes Otherwise make three infusions of Roses in Rosewater let the third settle the bottome whereof you shall let alone as being the earthie and grosse part taking that onely that is aboue and in it you shall boyle fine Sugar and after that you shall cast thereinto halfe an ounce or thereabout of dried Roses in powder and doe in like manner afterward as hath beene alreadie said To make conserues of Violets you must take the fresh and new flowers of Violets and take from them their taile and the little greene cup by which they hang and after drie them some small time in the shadow of the Sunne to take from them their superfluous moisture which they haue after that bray them in a Stone Mortar with twicâ— so much Sugar and put them in a Glasâ—e vessell which shall be set to Sunne for the space of three moneths and stirred verie oft during the said tâ—â—e as hath beene alreadie said of the conserue of Roses If you would make conserue of drie Violets make one or two infusions of Violets and in them boyle fine Sugar afterward casting halfe an ounce of powdred Violets to one pound of Sugar then boyling them a little together you shall with a spatule make your conserue into morsels or cakes For to make Mustard you must picke and cleanse your seed verie
and transparent which is a signe of their sufficient watering afterward boyle them in a vessel of brasse that is cleane or in a leaden vesâ—el so long as til they be tender vvhen they haue cast out all their waterishnesse put them to steepe in a Iuâ—lep made of one part of sugar and three of water for the space of foure and twentie houres afterward make them to boyle at a little fire so much as is sufficient take them out of the Iulep and put them in a glasse vessell and putting vpon them the Iulep of Rose-vvater thicke ynough of consistence that so it may affoord them as it vvere a crust you may if you vvill aromatize them with a little Amber and Muske To preserue whole Peaches you must pill them and cleanse them as carefully as may be and after boyle them whole or cut in quarters in a sufficient thin Iulep not to boile them to the full but onely to boile out their waterishnesse wherewith they abound and then after this in a better boiled Iulep to boile them vp to the full till they be become through tender and soft and finally to put them vp into some eaâ—then vessell and to couer them with the sirrup wherein they haue boyled For their longer keeping you may aromatize them with Cinnamon or Muske This manner of preseruing of whole Peaches is generall for the preseruing of all other grosse fruits as Peares Quinces Apples Abricots small Peaches and timely Peaches To preserue Cherries you must chuse the fairest sowre Cherries that you can full ripe for if they be not full ripe in boiling them toward the end you shall find nothing but skinne and bone cutting off their starts at the halfe and afterward boile them in their owne iuice with sugar in such proportion as that for euerie pound of Cherries you haue halfe a pound of sugar taking away the sâ—umme still as it shall rise in boiling of them when they shall be sufficiently boiled you must put them in glasse vessels and powre vpon them the sirrup wherein they haue boiled notwithstanding if the sirrup should still seeme waterish boile it more perfectly Otherwise and better put apart some quantitie of your said sowre Cherries which you shall presse to haue a sufficient quantitie of iuice in this iuice so soone as you haue pressed it out melt your sugar and not in anie other liquor boile them together presently and in boiling scumme them when the iuice is well scummed clarified and become red without taking it from the fire or making it loose his boiling put the Cherries thereinto to boile as long as needeth without anie stirring of them but looking well to the scumming of them with a spatule stirre them not from off the fire vntill they be perfectly boiled and that you shall discerne if you see the sirrup dropt vpon a trencher to fall into drops that doe not spread abroad for then it is exactly boiled and you must put vp your Cherries into their glasse vessels good and hot for to be kept In this manner you shall preserue Plums Ceruises Gooseberries and such other small fruits For the preseruing of Barberries you shall take the fairest and goodliest bunches of Barberries that you can find being gotten verie drie from the tops of the trees and as neere as you can from the Sunne side thereof being fully ripe and of one entire colour then with a pinne or needle you shall open the side and pick out all the stones or kernels from the same then to euerie bare pound of these Barberries thus stoned you shall take a pound downe weight of fine sugar well beaten and searced and so boile them on a gentle charcoale fire till the sirrup be thicke then let them coole and afterward pot them vp being sure to couer them all ouer with the sirrup But if you intend to make Conserue of them then you shall not need to stone them but onely picke them cleane from their branches taking all the sound berries and casting away all that are vnsound or spotted and so boile them in their sugar ouer a hot fire vntill they burst stirring them continually with a spatule of wood or steele made for the purpose and then straine them through a strainer not exceeding fine and squeese them so soone as is possible then being cooled pot it vp and vse it as you shall haue necessarie occasion This Conserue is most excellent against burning feauers or other pestilent diseases growing from inflammation or corruption of the bloud it comforteth the stomack and begets an appetite it cheareth all the spirits and being drunke in Iuleps bringeth the bloud to his true qualitie and taketh away all thirst inflammation or roughnesse in the throat or mouth it is also good for anie heat in the liuer For to haue paste of Plums first boile the Plums with a little water stirring them oftentimes that they may not burne too afterward straine and force them through a sâ—arce and weigh them that so you may put thereto for euerie pound foure ounces of sugar set all vpon the fire to boile againe and stirre them well not giuing ouer vntill all the scumme be consumed and spent which done make them readie as they are where you will afterward lay them in the Sunne to drie three daies and then shut them vp and in case that they grow moist or that there spring forth anie water out of them you must lay them in the Sunne againe This patterne of making this paste may serue generally for the making of paste of anie other fruits as Peares Apples Cherries and Peaches saue that you must haue respect vnto the quantitie of Sugar which shall be more or lesse according to the more or lesse moistnesse of the fruits which you are determined to make vp in paste To keepe Peaches or other fruits take Peaches or other fruits which you would keepe when it is faire weather and drie and opening them in the middest take out the stone then lay them all one day to drie in the Sunne or in an Ouen after that the bread is drawne out afterward take sugar well boiled and purified and annoint them ouer and lay them againe the day following in the Sunne and so annoint them ouer againe and so oft as they shall drie and vntill they haue gotten a sufficient crust and after keepe them at your pleasure To make Oliues readie against a day Take greene Oliues and cut off a little from the one side after lay them in water with lime and good sifted ashes but take withall that you must haue twice so manie ashes as lime and let them steepe in that sort the space of 24. houres after you shall take them out and wash them foure or fiue times in warme water afterward you shal put them in a stone or glasse vessell with salt water and this you shall change euerie three moneths and mingle amongst them common
which you distill because the â—legme commeth forth sometime first sometimes the last in the distillation as in the distilling of Aqua-vitae is stayeth the last notwithstanding that it be distilled diuers times in the distilling of the most part of other things it commeth forth first as in vinegar honie and such things and the thing is discerned by tasting of the first and last distilled waters And if it happen that the flegme be not seuered in this sort as indeed it is not in some such as with which it is mixt then the next course is to set such vvaters in the Sunne certaine daies in vessells couered with linnen clothes or parchment prickt full of small holes that so the excrementous part by such meanes may be consumed and wasted or if the Sunne faile as in Winter time then you must set your vessell contayning your distilled waters in other vessells full of vvater and cause them to boyle to the consumption of the third part The distillation is to be judged to be in good state and case if betwixt the fall of euerie drop you can account to the number of twelue and hence also is the judging of the force and quantitie of the fire to be learned and fetcht If any man desire that waters should haue some smell taste or other qualitie of something as of honie cinnamome camphire muske or other like sweet smelling thing whether it be to giue such smell to the thing that hath none at all or vnto something that hath a bad and vnpleasant smell as we will speake of by and by in the water distilled of mans dung it vvill be good to annoynt and besmeare the head of the still vvith these things or else to tie vp the same in some little knot of linnen cloth and hang them at the verie poynt of the spout or pipe to the end that the vvater distilling through this matter may retayne that smell or other qualitie intended And vvhereas distilled vvaters by force of the fire are euermore seene to retaine some impressions and printes of the heat it will be good presently after they be distilled to let them stand some time vncouered in the vessells wherein you meane to keepe them hauing yet therewithall regard that neither their small nor any part of their force doe vvaste or spend and therefore to take the fittest course it will be best to set your vessell close and fast stopt in some cold place in moist sand to diminish and take away the great heat of the same Notwithstanding you must marke and know that cold waters vvhich shall be distilled in Maries-bath will haue no great need to be so vncouered but that they rather must be set in the Sunne in a glasse vessell not altogether full or else that they with their vessell be set ouer head and eares in hot sand for the space of fortie daies to the end that their flegme and thickest humour may be consumed If your distilled vvaters become troubled you shall restore them to their clearenesse by putting thereinto some one or two drops of Vinegar for euerie pint of water CHAP. LXV Of the particular manner of distilling of Hearbes Rindes Flowers and Rootes DIstilled vvaters are of diuers sorts and vertues some are physicall or medicinable as the water of roses sage marierom and such like Others are nourishing as restoratiues and many both medicinable and nourishing as nourishing restoratiues vvhereinto are put medicinable things Others are purgatiue as the water or liquor of rhubarbe if it were new and greene Others serue to grace the face and hands and to make beautifull Others for to gratifie the nose by yeelding a sweet smell as those which are drawne out of spices and sweet smelling simples vsed also to vvash the hands face and whole bodie and againe all these waters are either simple or compound but we will first speake of the simple medicinable ones Wormewood must be distilled in Maries-bath to draw out his vvater in such sort as that it may expresse by smell and taste from whence it came and for the better doing of it you must see that you distill it not verie new but somewhat dried and afterward infusing it a little in wine to distill it in Maries-bath or in hatâ— ashes Mugwort Agrimonie Sorrell and such other like plants are thus distilled also but with obseruation had of the generall things specified before Thus the water of Winter cherries is distilled seruing against the stone and grauell as well of the reines aâ— bladder The vttermost pilling of common vvalnuts vvhether it shale willingly or no may be distilled in the moneth of September and the water drawne from them drunke in small quantitie with a third part of Vinegar is a certaine remedie against the plague if before drinking of it you cause the partie to be let bloud it is singular good also to make gargarismes of for the vlcers of the mouth it is good also to foment goutie places withall and good to colour the haire blacke Water distilled of the leaues of the Walnut-tree in the end of the moneth of May is singular for to drie and cicatrize vlcers if they be washed euening and morning with a linnen cloth moistned therein To distill strawberries you must let them putrifie in a glasse vessell putting thereto a little salt or sugar and then afterward to extract and draw out their water which is verie soueraigne against venime as also to take away spots to prouoke the termes and drie vp weeping eyes it will performe all these vertues in admirable manner if there be mingled with it a little Aqua-vitae The inward rinde of the ash-tree being distilled doth yeeld a singular water against the plague if it be drunke in equall quantity with aqua-vite as three 〈◊〉 of either especially if the same drinke in the same quantitie be drunke againe vvithin three houres after it is good also being dropt into the eares for the noyse in them The stones of blacke cherries being broken or the kernells alone distilled make a vvater vvhich doth quite take away the fit of the Falling-sicknesse in young children presently after that there hath beene put into their mouth about an ounce The distilled vvater of new filberds drunke the weight of two drams is a present remedie against the collicke and gripings of the bellie a thing that will not failâ— hauing beene proued and tried The vvater vvhich is distilled of the barke of Danewort or Elder-tree being oftentimes drunke doth euacuate and draw the vvater out of such as haue the dropsie The vvater of betonie You must stampe the leaues of betonie and infuse them a certaine time in Wine and after distill them The vvater of balme and sage is distilled in like manner The vvater of betonie is good for the diseases of the head reines and bladder The water of balme rejoyceth men keepeth away the fits of the Apoplexie and Falling-sicknesse
Maries-bath or vpon hot ashes after the manner of Roses Thus the young and tender storke which did neuer flye is distilled but he must first be bowelled and stuffed with an ounce of camphire and a dram of amber the water that commeth thereof is excellent to make liniments and fomentations in palsies and conâ—â—lsions After the same sort is the pie frog snailes ants liuers and lungs of calues of a Foxe and other such like beasts distilled howbeit vvithout any such long and teadious preparation they may be distilled by and by after the manner of other vvaters as vve vvill forthwith declare in the distillatioâ— of restoratiues The vvater of Swallowes Take Swallowes the weight of sixe ounces and castâ—reum an ounce let them infuâ—e a whole night in vvater and put into a Limbecke be distilled This vvater is singular to preserue one from the Falling-sicknesse if it be taken but once a moneth to the quantitie of two spoonefulls and that in a morning fasting The flesh of beasts is distilled on this manner Cut and chop the flesh small incorporate and stampe it vvith a tenth part of common salt after put it in a 〈◊〉 like vnto a gourd vvell stopped that so you may burie it in the earth set and 〈◊〉 passed round about with vnquencht lime and dung of horses halfe rotten to be digested in the same for the space of a moneth or thereabout during vvhich time you shall vvater the said vnquencht lime and dung often with vvarme vvater to stirre vp their heat and you shall renew the lime and dung three or foure times euerie weekeâ— for you must thinke that for vvant of heat the flesh might putrifie in steed of digesting And after they haue beene sufficiently digested vvhich you may know by seeing the grosser parts seperated from the more thinne and subtile the vessell shall be taken out of the dunghill and the head of a Still set thereupon the nose or 〈◊〉 being vvell luted and so it shall be distilled in Maries-bath diuers times ouer powring the distilled vvater againe vpon the residence or drosse remayning in the bottome so oft as you redistill it And after the fifth distillation you shall set aside the water to keepe if so be you had not rather circulate it to giue it the nature as it vvere of a quintessence As well the vvhites as the yolkes of egges are distilled after the manner aboâ—â—sayd but they must not be digested in the dung aboue fiue or sixe dayes at the most The vvaters thus distilled are more than restoratiues hauing the vertue to encrease the substance of the bodie and members as naturall flesh and nourishment doth CHAP. LXVIII Of the manner of distilling of restoratiues REstoratiues are prepared after diuers sorts notwithstanding the most vsuall and best is thus Take the flesh of a Veale Kid or Weather cut and chopped as small as possibly may be or else take musculous flesh which is called the vvhites of capons pullets fat and well fleshed hens after they haue beene well hunted and tired cut likewise and chopped small put vnto this flesh calues feet peeces of gold or rather the thin beaten leaues of gold put all in a glasse Still well luted with mortar made of flower whites of egges and a little masticke into this Still you shall cast for the giuing of some grace vnto the distillation and somewhat to mitigate the heat which it might get by the fire halfe a handfull of cleane barley a handfull of drie or new red Roses which haue beene infused in the juice of pomegranates or rose-water and a little cinnamome place them all in the Still as it were after the manner of little beds and strew thereupon the powder of the electuarie of cold Diamargariton or of precious stones and a little coriander prepared and finely powdred to discusse and waste all windie matter If you would make your restoratiues medicinable you may adde thereunto things concerning the disease that presseth as rootes and hearbes respecting the head in the diseases of the head as betonie penniryall staechados organie sage and others such like for the diseases of the reines the rootes and plants that are good to breake the stone for the Falling-sicknesse the seed of pionie and misletoe of the oake for the quartaine ague polopody scolopendrum and the rootes of Tamariske for the French disease the rootes of gentian enula campana and the wood guajacum and so of other things yet it seemeth vnto me that it were better that the cordial powders 〈◊〉 not be mingled among the rest for feare that their force which is thin subtile and verie fragrant should euaporate through the heat of the fire and that it would be farre better to straine the distillation through a linnen cloth that is verie cleane and which should haue the cordiall powders in the bottome of it there may likewise be added a quantitie of Treacle with some conserues as occasion shall be ministred the matter thus disposed of it shall be distilled in a stillitorie of glasse well luted as we haue said and in Maries-bath or else in ashes grauel or hot sand for by this meanes the distillation vvill taste least of the fire It will be good before the flesh be put into the still to be distilled that they should haue boyled a boyle or two in a new earthen pot to take from it the grosse excrements hanging about the same Againe it must be remembred that if there be any gold put into the distillation that it will be better to put in such as is wrought into leaues than grosse peeces because that grosse peeces in respect of their solidenesse consume but a verie little and with much adoe This is called a diuine restoratiue and must be giuen vnto the sicke partie prettie and warme Another manner of restoratiue after the Italians fashion Take a Capon or a good Henne which yet neuer laid egges let her or him be pulled aliue that so the bloud may be stirred and dispersed throughout the bodie after you haue pulled them â—â—ke â—out the guts and afterward stampe bones and all together in a Mortar putting thereto as much â—rummes of new bread as there is stamped flesh pound all together with a handfull of Seabious either greene or drie and the weight of a French crowne of the leaues of gold let it all settle a whole night after distill it adding thereto three pound of verie good Wine such as is of a ripe Grape Another manner of restoratiue Boile a Capon or some such other flying fowle whole and entire with Borage Buglosse Scariole Endiue Lettuces or other such like hearbes as shall be necessarie in respect of the disease and when it hath boiled till it seeme as rotten with boiling take the broth or supping and put it into the stillitorie afterward put thereinto also the flesh of partridge hen or other such flying fowle cut and chopt small and adde vnto these such other
matter as you shall know to be necessarie for the present disease as conserues of roses and buglosse damaske raisins the powders of the electuaries of precious stones aromaticum rosatum and such like things and finally distill them after the manner aboue specified Some there are vvhich vvill not make any restoratiues but of capons-flesh the oldest they can get such they strangle and plucke by feather and feather not vsing the helpe of any hot vvater then they take out the entrailes and chop them small adding thereto flowers or conserues of buglosse burrage damaske raisins mundified barley whole coriander-seed pearles powder of the electuarie diarrhodon or some other like vnto it and the leaues of gold they distill all together and cause it to be giuen to sicke persons women in child-bed and old folke To make a restoratiue in shorter time and that vpon the sudden with lesse cost charges as also paine and labour chop your flesh small after the manner alreadie deliuered put it into a glasse viole or bottle of a sufficient bignesse and in such sort as that all your peeces of flesh be strung or put vpon a double threed and hold one by another and the double threed vvhereupon they hang be vvithout the bottle which must be well stopt aboue with a linnen or cotten cloth wet in a mixture made vvith whites of egges and barley â—lower set this bottle in a caldron full of water boyling at a small fire and there let it stand foure houres more or lesse vntill such time as a good part of the flesh bee conuerted into moisture See that the bottle stand in the vvater vp to the necke and that it touch not the bottome of the caldron and vvithall vvell stayed vp on euerie side that so it may not slip or bend more one vvay than another When the foure houres are spent rebate the fire gently that so the bottle also may coole by little and little vvhich if so bee that you should take all hote out of the water it vvould breake presently Afterward vnstop the bottle vvith vvarme vvater if you cannot vvell otherwise and then draw forth the string and the flesh softly that so the liquor may remaine alone straine the vvater after the manner of Hypocras and aromatize it vvith Sugar and Ciâ—â—â—mome that so it may be giuen to the sicke that are vvasted You may after this manner make restoratiues such like as you shall thinke good either cheaper or dearer more or lesse pleasant and delicate and more or lesse medicinable as occasion may require CHAP. LXIX The manner of distilling compound waters WAters are not onely distilled of one onely or simple plant liquor or other matter but also of many mixt together and such vvaters are called compounded vvaters by reason of the mixture of many things These compound vvaters are of three sorts some are for physick othersome for sweetnesse and the other for â—ukes and painting as ornaments to the bodie vve vvill first and before the rest speake of those which serue for medicine and physicke Sage water compounded Take equall parts of sage and penniryall stampe them in a mortar and distill them This water taketh away the paine of the bellie and stayeth cold rheumes if it be drunke with a little quantitie of castoreum Water of turneps compounded Take turneps either garden or wild ones or both together the roots of smallage and parsley and anise-seed infuse them all in white wine or vinegar and distill the vvater as good against grauell Angelica water Take equall parts of Angelica as well the rootes as the leaues but especially the rootes and the flowers of lauander infuse them in Wine there will distill from them a singular water against the Falling-sicknesse if it be taken in the quantitie of two or three spoonefulls Water of Celandine Gather in the beginning of the moneth of May the leaues of celandine veruaine rue and fennell pound them and draw from euerie one of them three ounces of juice vvhich you shall mix together put vnto them some buds of roses of sugar-candie three ounces of verie good Tutia foure ounces and as much of dragons bloud distill them all in a stillitorie This vvater taketh away the rednesse and spots in the eyes Water of the Vine Take the vvater that distilleth from the vine-stockes at such time as they are cut vvhich is in the Spring-time distill it with like quantitie of honie this vvater healeth itchings heat and rednesse of the eyes the verie vvater of of the vine alone vndistilled doth the like Rose-water Take roses three parts fennell and rue of each one part shred them small and mingle them verie well together afterward distill them and let the distilling vvater fall into a vessell wherein is a handfull of the foresaid hearbes this vvater preserueth the sight if the eyes be vvashed therewith in Sommer Water of Eye-bright Take Celandine Fennell Rue Eye-bright Veruaine red Roses of each halfe a pound Cloues and Long-pepper of each two ounces bruise them all and distill them in a glasse stillitorie This vvater is singular good for a vveake sight Water of Rosemarie Take Aqua-vitae distilled of white Wine the distilled vvater of rosemarie and sage of each fiue pound of sugar two pound in these infuse of the flowers of sage and rosemarie for the space of eight daies of each two ounces straine them and keepe the water to heale the fistulaes of the eyes Water of Treacle Distill in a glasse stillitorie Treacle with a like quantitie of Aqua-vitae and Vinegar This vvater is good to touch the vlcers and rawnesse of the mouth vvithall especially if there be added vnto it a little bole-armoniacke Another Treacle water Take old Treacle a pound of the rootes of Enula campana Gentian Cypers Tormentill of each an ounce of blessed Thistle halfe an ounce of conserues of Borage Buglosse and Rosemarie of each an ounce infuse them all together in three pints of white Wine a pint and a halfe of Cesterne water and two pints of Rose-water distill them Water of Cloues Take equall parts of Cloues Ginger and flowers of Rosemarie infuse them in verie good Wine the space of eight daies distill the whole This vvater comforteth the stomacke assuageth the paines and vvringings of the bellie killeth vvormes and maketh fat folke to become leane or maketh fat the leane if they drinke it mixt with sugar Water of Saxifrage Take of the juice of Saxifrage two pound of the juice of Pearlewort Parsley Anise and Clotburre of each halfe a pound of vvhite Vinegar eight ounces distill them all This vvater drunke in the morning breaketh the stone Water of Swallowes Take Swallowes and drie them in an ouen make them into powder mixe it vvith a little Castoreum and a little Vinegar distill it all this water cureth the Falling-sicknesse if it be drunke foure
mornings Water of horse-taile Take horse-taile plantaine red roses Winter-cherrie-berries rootes of holihockes and scraped licorice of each an ounce of bole-armoniacke halfe an ounce of the seed of gourds and cucumbers of each three drams of the seede of white poppie six drams of the seed of quinces halfe an ounce Infuse them all in vvhay made of goats milke the space of two daies afterward distill the vvater which will serue for the vlcers of the reines and bladder if there be foure ounces of â—â—taken vvarme in the morning Water of corneflag Take equall parts of corneflag hyssope and southernewood stampe them throughly and leaue them so a certaine time afterward distill them this vvater prouoketh womens termes and killeth wormes in young children Burnet-water Take the seed of burnet parsley smallage the leaues and rootes of clotburre and smallage of euerie one equally stampe all together after put thereto of draggons bloud an ounce and a little good vinegar â—et all to infuse together a certaine time afterward distill it this vvater hath a meruailous vertue against the stone and grauell A singular vvater for the grauell vvhich the deceased Monsieur de Tillet had great vse of vvith happie succesâ—e Take the rootes of parsley and fennell made verie cleane and the vvooddie part taken out of each â—oure handfulls boyle them in twelue pintes of riuer water vvhen they are halfe boyled put thereto of the tender buds of Mallows holihockes violets and sea-weed of each foure handfulls boyle all together to the consumption of the halfe after straine them through a white napkin distill them putting thereunto two pound of Venice turpentine A singular water for the eyes Take celandine veruaine betonie eye-bright rue and fennell all new and fresh of each two handfulls stampe them together sprinkling them with halfe a pound of white Wine presse out the juice and afterward infuse in the same pepper and ginger made in powder of each halfe an ounce of saffron three drams of myrrhe aloes and sarcocol of each one ounce of verie good honie a pound distill them all in a glasse stillitorie at a small fire and keepe the water for the spots of the eyes Take foure ounces of the pills of Oranges dried in the shadow of the Sunne sixe dayes nutmegs and cloues made into powder either of them by themselues of each foure ounces infuse the said aromaticall powders in a glasse viole with rosewater the space of seuenteene dayes in the Sunne after cast vpon the said powders the rindes of oranges vvhich you shall let steepe there a certaine space of time Afterward take of new red roses gathered two daies before a pound of the roote of cypeâ—us halfe a pound of the leaues of rosemarie hysâ—op balme roses of the bush of each two handfulls of bay-leaues a handfull lay them all to drie in the Sunne for two houres after infuse them in rose-water the space of three houres this done put them all into a Still after this manner In the bottome of the Still make a bed of one pound of new red roses then next a bed of aromaticall powders and the rindes of oranges in the third place a bed of Violet flowers and in the fourth place the last and fourth bed of the afore named hearbes distill them all in Maries-bath with a gentle fire Adde vnto the distilled water two pound of rose-water or thereabout so that it may be in proportion equall to the third or fourth part of the water drawne out by distillation This vvater taken in the morning the weight of a dramme keepeth the bodie sound lustie and reneweth youth It is singular for the paine of the head tteeth bellie gripings palsie conâ—ulsions apoplexie faintings and other such cold diseases This is the vvater that is so much esteemed in the courts of kings and princes and amongst the great and renowned ladies An Allome-water Take Verjuice the juice of Plantaine and Purslaine of each a pound seuen whites of egges ten ounces of Roch-allome mingle them together and distill them Otherwise take plantaine purslaine sorrell gourds nightshade and verjuice of each a handfull poune them grosly mixe therewith ten or twelue whites of egges put them all in a glasse stillitorie to distill mingling amongst them halfe a pound of Allome as you lay bed vpon bed this water is good for caâ—kers for the rednesse of the face and for vlcers applying linnen clothes thereunto that haue beene wet therein You may likewise distill purging waters in infusing purgatiue medicines both simple and compound seeing that they be as new as may be and that in Aqua-vitae wine milke whay distilled waters or conuenient decoctions and such waters vvill haue the like vertues as the purging medicines haue thus you may distill Catholicum Diaphoenicon confectio Hamech and Electuarium de â—ucco rosarâ—m Thus you may distill rhubarbe agaricke hellebor scammonie and such other purgatiues that are sound and new The maner of distilling rhubarbe may be this take a quantitie of new and greene Rhubarbe vvhether it be a pound or halfe a pound more or lesse make it â—â—to small pieces or make it into grosse powder and vpon it cast of the iuice of Borage and Buglosse of each two pound for one of Rubarbe infuse them all together for the space of foure and twentie houres vpon hot ashes then distill them in a Stillitorie in Maries bath This distilling of purgatiue Medicines is for such kind of people as are verie delicate and cannot abide the smell of the purging medicine to be ministred otherwise vnto them CHAP. LXX Of sweet Waters particularly described SWeet Waters serue to wash the hands face haire of the head and beard as also to make Linnens Garments Gloues and such other things to smell sweet Water of Lauander Take the flowers of Lauander new or drie beâ—prinkle or infuse them in Rose-water Wine or Aqua-vitae afterward distill them The water will be sweeter if you drie the flowers in the Sunne in a Glasse-violl close stopped and cast vpon them afterward some white Wine And if in the time of want and lacke of distilled water you would haue a water presently made which should resemble the smell of the water of Lauander cast a drop or two of the Oyle of Spike into a good sufficient quantitie of pure water and swill them well together in a bottle or Glasse-violl with a narrow necke This water though it be not distilled yet it ceaseth not to haue the sweet smelling sent and sauour that the distilled hath Water of Cloues Take halfe an ounce of Cloues well bruised set them to infuse in a pound and a halfe of Rose-water the space of foure and twentie houres after distill them in Maries bath The water of sweet Smells Take Basill Mints Marierome rootes of Corneflag Hyssope Sauorie Sage Balme Lauander and Rosemarie of each a handfull of Cloues Cinnamome and Nâ—tmegs of each halfe an
faithfull or that she her selfe be present with them Let her compell her sonnes to be formost at worke and let her shew them the example of their father that this may be as a double spurre vnto the men seruants Let her not endure them to vtter or speake any vnchast word oath or blasphemie in her house and let her cause Tale-bearers to be silent and not to trouble themselues with other folkes matters Let her keepe close vp her Stubble and lopping of Trees for fuell for the Ouen Let her not suffer the stalkes of her Beanes Peason Fetches Thistles Danewort the refuse of pressed things and other vnprofitable hearbes to be lost for in winter they being burnt into ashes will affoord prouision to lay Bucks withall or else be sold by little and little vnto the Towne Let her giue good account vnto the Mistresse or Lord of the Egges and young ones as well of Birds as of other Beasts Let her be skilfull in naturall Physicke for the benefite of her owne folke and others when they shall fall out to be ill and so in like manner in things good for Kine Swine and Fowles for to haue a Physition alwayes when there is not verie vrgent occasion and great necessitie is not for the profit of the house Let her keepe all them of her house in friendly good will one toward another not suffering them to beare malice one against another Let her gouerne her Bread so well as that no one be suffered to vse it otherwise than in temperate sort and in the time of Dearth let her cause to be ground amongst her Corne Beanes Pease Fetches or Sarrasins Corne in some small quantitie for this mingling of these flowers raiseth the paste maketh the Bread light and to be of a greater bulke At the same time she shall reserue the drosse of the Grapes shee presseth affoording them some little corner for the imploying of them in the deâ—raying of some part of charge for the seruants Drinke that so the Wine may serue for her husband and extraordinarie commers But the naturall remedies which shee shall acquaint her selfe withall for the succour of her folke in their sicknesses may be those or such as those are which I shall set downe by writing in manner of a Countrie Dispensatorie leauing the other more exquisite Remedies to bee vsed by the professed Physitions of the great Townes and Cities CHAP. XII The Remedies which a good Huswife must be acquainted withall for to helpe her people when they be sicke FIrst for the Plague shee shall make a distilled water of the hearbe called Regina prati after that shee hath caused the same to be steept in white Wine or else shee shall cause to lye to steepe in the iuice of Citrons a peece of Gold or the powder or leaues thereof for the space of 24 houres and afterward mixe that iuice with white Wine and the powder or decoction of the root of Angelica and so giue it to drinke to the infected Or else let her take two old Walnuts one Figge tenne leaues of Rue one graine of Salt powne and temper them altogether and rost them vnder the ashes and afterward being sprinkled with Wine let her giue them to be eaten Or else let her take one head of Garlicke twentie leaues of Rue as many of Clarey and powne them altogether with white Wine and a little Aqua vitae afterward let her straine them out and giue the partie to drinke thereof a good draught The water of Naphe drunke to the quantitie of six ounces causeth the malignitie of the Plague to breake forth by Sweats the iuice of Marigolds Scabious and of the flowers of Betonie doe the like Apply vpon the swelling a loafe very hot or a Henne â—ut through the middest or a white Onion made hollow on the root side and filled vp againe with good strong Treacle or Mithridate softened with the iuice of Citrons it hauing all this within it and being well stopped must be rosted vnder the ashes till it be rotten after that powne it well in a Mortar and apply it or else if it be strained the iuice drunke and the drossie part applyed to the place you shall perceiue the like effect For a continuall Feauer which is otherwise called the hot Disease shee shall apply vpon either wrest of both the armes the iuice of the stinging Nettle mixed with the oyntment of Poplar buds or two springs of new-layed Egges Soot taken off from the Hub of the Chimney and well beaten togethâ—â— and mixt with salt and strong vineger let her bind the whole vnto the parties wrests with a Linnen Cloth or else in place of this shee shall take away the heart of an Onion and fill it with Mithridate and apply it fast bound vpon the wrest of the right arme or else shee shall take the heart of a water-Frog and apply it vpon the heart or backe bone of the sicke partie or else she shall apply vpon the region of the Liuer or vnto the soles of the seet quicke Tenches Many for this cause doe stampe the small Sorrell and make a drinke for the great heat thereof as also make a Cataplasme thereof to apply to the wrests of the sicke partie Others doe the like with the water which they straine out of a great Citrull Others cause to steepe in water the whole seed of Flea-wort for the space of a night and minister of this water with a little Sugar to the sicke partie to drinke For a Quartane Ague take of small Sage or for want of it the other Hysope Wormewood Parsley Mints Mugwort white spotted Trefoile stampe them all together with the spring of an Egge and the grossest Soot that you shall find cleaâ—ing to the Chimney and of the strongest vineger that may be found infuse them altogether and make thereof Cataplaâ—mes fit to be applyed to the wrests of the hands To the same purpose steepe the crummes of two white Loaues as they come from the Ouen in a quart of Vineger afterward distill the same by a Lâ—â—becke and giue thereof a small draught to the sicke partie to drinke about some two houres before the fit come Some hold it also for a singular remedie to take the iuice of the female white Mulleine before it put forth his stalke pressed or drawne forth with white Wine and drunke a small space before the fit The like effect hath the iuice of Folefoot the decoction of the leaues and rootes of Veruaine boyled in white Wine the decoction of Calaminâ— Peniryall Organie Burrage Buglosse Languede-boeuf the rind of the root of Tamariske Ash-tree Betonâ—e Tyme Agrimonie and the roots of Sperage all boyled in white Wine the iuice of Wormewood and Rue powred from their feelings and drunke before the fit the iuice of Plantaine drunke with honied water Some doe make great account of the powder of the root of Asarum otherwise called Cabaret dryed in the Sunne or in
the Ouen and taken in the weight of a French crowne with white Wine halfe a quarter of an houre before the fit Furthermore the Liniment made with Mithridate or the oyle of Scorpions applyed to the ridge of the backes soles of the feet palmes of the hands brow and temples some small time before the fit The verie same vertue hath the oyles of Bâ—yes mixed with Aqua vitae Some townesmen doe vse this superstitious rite against such manner of agues that is to say they eat nine dayes together being fasting the leaues of Sage the first day nine the second eight and so consequently they diminish euerie day a leafe vntill the last of the said nine dayes and the confident persuasion that they haue of this medicine doth cure them Some find it verie singular in a Quartane Ague after purging to drinke white wine wherein there hath beene Sage steeped all night if you eat before the fit a head of Garlicke pilled you shall scape the fit of shiuering cold if you drinke one or two ounces of the iuices of the root of Elder stamped and strained some small time before the fit and take the same againe two or three times you shall lose your ague The distilled water of the roots of Sea-Holly or else take a dramme of Myrrhe in powder and drinke it with Malmesey an houre before the fit The distilled water or decoction of Carduâ— Benedictus and taken before the fit Pills made of Myrrhe and of Treacle as big as a â—ich pease taken an houre before the fit For the Thirst of an Ague let him roll to and fro vpon his tongue the three-cornered stone found in the heads of Carpes or the leaues of round Sorrell or a piece of Siluer or Gold or a Snayle stone or a piece of Crystall oftentimes dipt in water or the leaues of Purslâ—ne or of Houseleeke or the husked seeds of Cucumbers For a Tertian Ague steepe in white Wine the bruised root of hearbe Patience for the space of three or foure houres afterward straine it and reserue about a pretie draught to giue the sicke to drinke an houre or two before his fit or else doe the like with the rootes of Plantaine steept in equall quantitie of Wine and Water or take a pretie draught of the iuice of Plantaine or of Purâ—lane or of Pimpernell and drinke them a verie little while before the fit or else drinke with Wine euerie day six leaues of Cinquefoile that is to say three in the morning and three at the euening or the iuice of Smallage of Sage and good strong Vineger of euerie one an ounce three houres before the fit The most soueraigne remedie that some men doe find for it is to drinke fasting fiue houres before the fit two ounces of the iuice of Pomegranats and presently after to lay to the wrists temples and soles of the feet small pills of the bignesse of a Pease made of an ounce of the oyntment of Populeon and two drammes of Spiders webs and there to leaue them vntill such time as that the houre and feare of the fit be past or else a Cataplasme made of Sage Rue Greeke Nettle gathered before Sunne-rise of each a handfull Salt and Soot the quantitie of a Walnut it being all stamped with vineger and applyed to the pulset an houre before the fit Some doe greatly approue of a Liniment of Earthwormes boyled with Goose grease to rub the brow and temples of the sicke partie withall before the fit or else to carrie about his necke the hornes of a swift Hart which is a singular remedie For a Quotidian it is good to drinke somewhat before the fit the iuice drawne out of Betonie and Plantaine or to drinke euerie morning a reasonable draught of the decoction made of the root of Smallage Parsley Radishes Sperage leaues of Betonie and Spleenwort red cich Pease and the middle riâ—de of Elder or to steepe in white wine the roots of Danewort and to drinke a small draught thereof an houre before the fit but after that hee must take heed of sleeping or let him drinke euerie day with Wine two leaues of Cinquefoile one in the morning and another at euening as also let him apply vnto his pulses the Cataplasme that wee haue set downe for the Quartane Ague To take away the paine of the Head comming of great heat namely such as befalleth Mowers during the Summer time there must be applyed vpon the browes slices of Gourds or Linnen Clothes dipped in Rose water or the iuice of Plantaine Nightshade Lettuce Purcelane and Vineger of white Wine or let her beat two whites of egges with Rose water and with Flaxe make a Frontlet or stampe bitter Almonds with Veruaine water and apply them vnto the browes or to wash the head in warme water in which hath beene boyled the leaues of Vines and Willowes the flowers of Water-Lillies and Roses and with the same water to wash the feet and legges and if in case the paine be so great as that there is feare that hee should loose his wits let there be applyed vpon the crowne of his head browes and temples a Cataplasme made of the white of an egge Bole-armoniacke Crabbes throughly boyled and Poppie seed with the water of Betonie and Vineger If the Head complaine it selfe of too much Drinke there may be made a Frontlet with wild Time Maiden haire and Roses or receiue and take the fume of the decoction of Coleworts or by and by after the head beginneth to be ill to eat one or two short-started Apples or some bitter Almonds or else to drinke of the shauings of Harts-horne with Fountaine or Riuer water or if you see that your stomacke be not sicke thou mayst take of the haire of the Beast that hath made thee ill and drinke off a good glasse of Wine If the Head become sicke of some great Cold apply and lay to the Head a bag full of Branne Millet and rubbed Salt or of Sage Marierome Betonie Tyme Annise-seed Fennell-seed Bay-berries and Iuniper-berries as hot as you can endure them or else chafe the temples with the iuice of Nightshade oyle of Roses and Vineger To cure the Frensie that commeth of a hot cause you must apply vpon the head of the patient the lungs of a Sheepe newly killed or the whole Gather or some Henne or Pigeon slit along the backe and applyed vnto the same place or rub his browes and all his head ouer with oyle of Roses Vineger and Populeon or with the iuice of Nightshade oyle of Roses and Vineger To awake those which are giuen to sleepe too soundly it is good to make a Frontlet of Sauorie boyled in Vineger or to make a perfume for the patients nosthrils with strong Vineger or seed of Rue or Nigella or feathers of a Partridge or of old Shooe soles or of the hoofes of an Asse or of mans haire or else to apply vpon the browes a Cataplasme of
make water in Copper Brasse or Latten vessels they swill the vrine round about the Basin and afterward vpon the suddain doe cast it out of the Basin they couer the Basin with a cleane Linnen Cloth and let it stand so couered foure and twentie houres they find rust in the bottome and round about it they gather and dissolue the said rust with Rose water which Rose water they keepe within a Violl well stopped and drop thereof into their eyes euening and morning holding them wide open Many likewise there be which content themselues with Tuthia prepared To take away the filthinesse or gumminesse of the eyes touch them and rub them round about with a Saphire dipt in cold water To preuent that the eye doe not continue blacke or red after a blow there must by and by be dropt into the eye the bloud of the wing of a Pigeon or Turtle doue To take away red spots or blemishes of the eye it is good to vse the like remedie or else to apply to the eye a Cataplasme made of young Wormewood stamped with the milke of a woman and Rose water For an old rednesse in the eye take the bignesse of a small Nut of white Copperas and a scruple of Florence Ireos as much of Roch Allome make a powder which you shall mix with halfe a pint of Fountaine water after the measure of Paris or else boyle them all together vntill the water become cleare and drop into your eye three or foure drops either of the one water or of the other or make a Liniment to apply vpon it with the drosse of oyle of Linseed gumme Arabicke Tragacanth Mastick and Camphire For the inflammation of the Eye it is a singular remedie to apply to the eye the lungs of a Sheepe newly killed or to make a Cataplasme of the pulpe of a sweet apple roasted vnder the embers mingled with Barley meale the milke of a woman Rose water and the white of an egge The water of Marigolâ—s is also soueraigne good in this case A Wolues eye or the stones that are found in the mawes of Swallowes haue the like vertue hanged about the necke Or take with the point of a needle a piece of Frankincense set it on fire with a waxe Candle after quench it in foure ounces of Rose water goe ouer this course thirtie times and straine the Rose water through a white Linnen Cloth and keepe it to drop in some drops of the same into the corners of your eyes at night when you goe to bed and in case you may feele great paine in your eyes mixe together with this water a little of womans milke To restraine teares and all other humors falling vpon the eyes it is good to take a decoction of the leaues of Betonie the roots of Fennell and a little fine Frankincense and to make an eye-â—alue thereof also to wash the weeping eyes oftentimes with the decoction of Cheâ—uile or to drop thereinto sometimes the iuice of Rue mixt with purified Honey Some hold it for a secret remedie to tye behind the head some drops of Amber which also haue the vertue to slay the â—heume falling downe into the throat or else to drop into the eye water distilled of the gall of a man and Celandine or else to annoint the edges of the eye-lids with the soot of Butter burned in a Lampe which is a secret for to drie vp and stay all rheumes of the eyes and to shut vp most speedily all vlcers made in the great corners of the eyes and all rheumes comming of the tendernesse or blearednesse of the eye For the white spots of the Eyes take one or many new egges layd the same day by one or moe blacke Hennes or for want of blacke Hennes by other rost them hard vpon hot embers cut them afterward into equall quarters and take away the yelke and put in place thereof as much Sugar candie made in powder of the whitest you can get strayne all together through a Linnen Cloth verie cleane and doubled that so you may doe it verie strongly the water or liquor that commeth forth is verie good to drop one drop after another into the diseased eye at night when they goe to bed or at any houre of the day There is another water verie good for the same disease which is made of white Copperas Sugar candie Rose water and the hard whites of egges they being all strayned through a Linnen Cloth and of this there must be some put into the eye after dinner and at night going to bed Some doe vse with verie good successe another Water which is this Take of Tuthia prepared and powdered an ounce Mace halfe an ounce infuse them together in Rose water and white Wine of each halfe a pint of Paris measure for the space of sixe weekes in a Glasse well stopped this Glasse you shall set in the Sunne when it shineth and take it in when it shineth not or is Night or Raine stirre the Glasse twice or thrice euerie day These remedies are likewise good for red running and weake eyes For ach in the Eare comming of a hot cause drop thereinto the oyle of Henbane take oyle of Roses and a little Vineger and make thereof an iniection into the eare apply thereto afterward a bag of Camomill Melilote Linseed and Holihocks boyled in milke If the cause be of cold then put therein musked Cotton or a graine of Muske Seribonius doth commend greatly the foot of Pitch dropped warme into the eare which aketh by reason of an inflammation together with a little of the oyle of Roses Against the noyse and sounding of the Eare it is good to drop into the eares of the oyle of Rue or Spike oyle of bitter Almonds or Bayes together with a little Aqua vitae or fat of an Eâ—le or Aqua vitae wherein hath beene steept the seed of Cummin or Aâ—â—ise or else take the scrapings of the wood of Cedar tree made verie small and thereof fill a bag of crimson Taffata verie thin of the greatnesse of an Almond dip it in verie good Aqua vitae in such sort as that the said bagge be throughly drencht with the same put the same bagge well and forward and close into the hole of the eare which bloweth and soundeth and afterward lye downe vpon the same eare Against Deafenesse you must drop into your eares the iuice of an Onion or of Brionie mixed with Honey or Oyle wherein haue beene boyled the roots of Daffodill or of the iuice of the riâ—des of Radishes mixt with oyle of Roses or the fat of an Eele and the oyle of bitter Almonds For the losse of Smelling or when it is corrupted make a perfume with the seed of Nigella the leaues of Aron Rue and other hearbes which haue a strong fauour also smell oft vpon Mints For tumors vnder the eare you must make a Cataplasme of the flower of Barley
place with a Liniment made of Linseed and the powder of the tooth of a wild Boare or else to apply vnto the place a Cataplasme made of the dung of a young boy of a good constitution fed for the space of three dayes with Lupines and well baked Bread leaâ—ened and salted and hauing Claret Wine to drinke and no other eyther meates or drinkes and adding to the foresaid childs dung an equall quantitie of Honey Against the Pleurisie drinke presently with the syrrup of Violets or some other appropriate to the Breast whatsoeuer the weight of a scruple of Nettle seed or of the Ash Trees or take three ounces of the distilled water of Maries thistle or of Carduus Benedictus or of Broome a spoonefull of white Wine six springs or straines of Egges that are verie new the weight of a French crowne of the shells of French small Nuts made into powder eighteene graines of red Corall powdred all being mixed together let it be giuen warme with as much speed as may be mundified Barley and the seeds of Melons Gourds Cucumbers and Poppie are in that case highly commended roast a sweet apple vnder the embers mix therwithall when it is roasted the iuice of Licorâ—ce Starch and white Sugar giue thereof vnto the diseased twice a day two houres before meat or else take the weight of a French crowne of the powder of a wild Bores tooth and cause him to swallow it either with the iuice of sweet Almonds and Sugar Candie or with the broth of red Coleworts or decoction of the water of Barley or some other such like which is appropriate for the Breast or else burne to ashes the pizzle of an Oxe and giue a dram thereof with white Wine if the ague be but small or with the water of Carduus Benedictus or Barley water if the ague be strong and great and assure your selfe that such remedies are singular if they be vsed within three dayes of the beginning of the sicknesse The manner of making these ashes is to cut the pizzle of the Oxe in gobbets and laying it vpon the harth that is close layd to set a new pot ouer it and afterward to lay hot burning coales or hot embers about the pot which must be oft renewed vntill one be assured that it is burnt into powder and the better to iudge of the time he must thinke that this will not be done vnder a whole day It is good to lay a playster of blacke Pitch vpon the grieued side and where it commeth to passe that the paine of the side continueth and that the sicke partie cannot spet cause him to vse the decoction of the flowers of red Poppie or of the powder of them the weight of a French crowne with the water of Scabious and Pimpernell and syrrop of Hysope if there be no great Feauer or Violets if it be great Furthermore for a Pleurisie which is desperate and past hope take a sweet Apple euen a verie excellent one and take the kernels forth of it and fill vp the hollow place with fine Olibanum rost it couered ouer and rolled in stupes vnder the hot embers throughly and then giue it to the sicke of the Pleurisie to eat For the spetting of Bloud cause him to drinke the distilled water of the first little buds of the leaues of the Oake or the decoction of Comfrey or of Plantaine Horse-taile or Knot-grasse otherwise called the hearbe of S. Innocent or to swallow downe some small drops of Masticke or Harts horne or Goats horne burnt or Bole Armoniake or Terra sigillata or Corall or Amber or the powder of the innermost rind of Chestnut tree or of the Corke tree or frie the dung of an Hogge with fresh Butter and of that cluttered bloud which the sicke partie shall haue spet and so giue of these thus fried together to the sicke partie to eat For the beating of the Heart it is good to hang about the neck so much Camphire as the quantitie of a Pease or to drinke two or three ounces of the water of Buglosse and of Baulme some hold the distilled water following for a singular and soueraigne remedie Take two Hogs harts three Stags harts or the harts of three Bulls Nutmeg Cloues and Basill seed of each three drams flowers of Marigolds Burrage Buglosse and Rosemarie of each halfe a handfull steepe them all in Malmesey or Hipocras for the space of a night after distill them with a Limbecke and reserue the water for vse which shall be by taking three or foure ounces when necessitie doth require The conserue of Betonie and Rosemarie flowers Cinnamon water Aqua vitae and Imperiall Waters which wee haue set downe in our worke of the beautifying of mans bodie For the faintnesse of the Heart or Swouning it is good to straine and wring the ioynt of the Ring or Physitions finger as also to rub the same with some piece of Gold and with Saffron for by the meanes of that finger his neere communicating with the heart there is from it conueyed and carried some vertue restoring and comforting the heart For the flagging and hanging breasts of Women make a liniment with the drosse of the oyle of Linseed a little gumme Arabick Tragacanth Mastick and Camphire or with the iuice of Succorie or apply thereunto ground Iuie or the egges of Partridges which you shall change oftentimes or small Basins of the distilled water of young Pine-apples or the iuice of wild Pine-apples To procure much Milke vnto Nurses they must vse the fresh and new-gathered iuice of Fennell oftentimes or the iuice of Smallage or of Beets or the powder of the rootes of Maries thistle adding thereto the seed of Fennell and a little Pepper the fore-hoofes of a Cow burned and drunke with Wine or Broth or other conuenient liquor or the powder of Crystall powdred very finely and drunke with Wine or some broth or let them eat of boyled Coleworts seasoned with Pepper or of the roots of Rapes boyled with Pepper To cause Women to loose their Milke you must apply vpon the nipples of their Breasts the roots of great Celandine â—odden and powned or vse a fomentation of verie sharpe Oxicrate vpon the Breasts or else you shall apply a Cataplasme of the flower of Beanes or an emplaister of Rue Sage Mints Wormewood Fennell Branne boyled and mixed with Oyle of Camomill or the leaues of young and verie greene Gouâ—ds or of Cray-fishes all to brayed and stamped in a Mortar For the inflammation of the Breasts comming of the great aboundant store of Milke take the dyrt found in the bottome of the Troughes of Cutlers or Grinders and therewith couer the Breast and so you shall asswage the paine in one nighâ—â— you may adde thereto a little of the Oyle of Roses or if the Milke be much curded without any great inflammation in the Breast you may apply vnto it a Cataplasme of the flower of Rice or of
shaued or scrap 〈…〉 a linnen cloth in manner of a Cataplasme and apply it vnto the pained 〈◊〉 Otherwise take the roots and leaues of Danewort the leaues of Scabious 〈◊〉 Coâ—â—frey and wild Sage boyle all together in wine after let it passe 〈…〉 put thereto oyle of Spike Aqua vitae and the oyle of Neats 〈…〉 take a very fat Goose puld and the garbage taken cleane out after 〈◊〉 her with 〈◊〉 that are well liking and chopped verie small with common 〈◊〉 and roasted at a small fire and looke what droppeth forth let be reserued for 〈◊〉 for the grieued place Some likewise apply for the paines of the ioints 〈◊〉 whelpes vpon the pained places Galen saith That hee was wont to softer 〈◊〉 such hardnesse as is wont to happen about the knees by applying vnto 〈…〉 Cheese all mouldie stamped with the broth wherein a salt Gammon of 〈◊〉 hath been boyled To take away the Swellings procured of Wind you must take fried salt and 〈◊〉 it betwixt two Linnens vpon the Swelling or apply a Cataplasme made of the 〈◊〉 of white Wine the branne of 〈◊〉 and new Oxe dung For such Swellings as are 〈◊〉 make a Cataplasme with the leaues and flowers of Violets flowers of Heâ—â—ane leaues of Nightshade flowers of Camomill and Meliloâ—e all boyled in wine and water strayned through a Searce and applyed vnto the aking place Or else draw the iuice of Houseleeke with a little red Wine and the flower of Barley make an emplayster for the place The dung of Goâ—â—â— hath power to wast spend and consume the hard Swellings how hardly soeuer resolued and wasted especially the old hard Swellings about the Knees mingling the same with Barley flower and water and vineger in forme of a Cataplasme To ripen an Impostume apply vnto it the dung of Goslings which haue 〈◊〉 kept from meat three whole dayes together and after fed with the gobbers of a fresh Eâ—â—e It is good also to apply raw Wheat champed or chawed a long time A Cataplasme made of the leaues and roots of Mallowes Holihocks Onions Lillies crumâ— of white bread all â—od together and after strayned through a Colander adding thereto the volke of an Egge and a little Saffâ—on It is true that if the Aâ—ostâ—me be very cold there may be added to the decoction of the Cataplasme abouesaid the roots of Elacampane Danewort Lilâ—â—es and Brionie flowers of Camomill and Melilot Oâ—ons and Wheat Leauens To ripen a Naile otherwise called a Felloâ— or Cats-haire take raw Wheat a long time chawed or the flower of Wheat the yolke of an Egge Honey and Hogges grease after heat them all together and make a plaister to lay to the sore or else lay vpon it Sheepes dung steept in vineger if in 〈◊〉 you mind to soften and resolue it For Tetters you must vse the iuice of Purcelane Celandine Plantain Nightshaâ—â—eâ— and Limons and if this medicine appeare not to be strong ynough it will be good to mixe some red Tartar amongst and with this composition to rub the spotted places Otherwise infuse for the space of a whole day in strong white vineger the rooâ— of hearbe Patience cut into shiuers rub the place where the Tetter is with one of the shiuers three or foure times a day Or else boyle tenne graines of Sublimate and halfe a dramme of Aloes in equall quantitie of Plantaine and Nightshade water vnto the consumption of the one halfe Or else steepe the powder of a Slaâ—e in very good vineger with salt and rub the place Otherwise take the gumme of Cherrie trâ—e a verie little Brimstone with twice so much salt as Brimstone steepe all together in the strongest vineger you can get and with this composition rub the spotted places Or else rub the place with your fasting spettle or with the guâ—â—â— that groweth about the Vine but before this you must rub them with Salt Nitre or else with the hearbe Nicotiana applying both drosse and iuice together vnto the place To take away the markes and pits of the small pocks take an ounce of Oyle or of the flowers of S. Iohns wort halfe an ounce of Venice Turpentine as much of Sperma coeti melt it all vpon the fire in a dish of earth well glased when it beginneth to boyle and to swell vpward take it from the fire and let it coole rub and chafe the places of blacke spots with this oyntment and continue it so long as till the pits be filled vp For Vlcers and Apostemes which happen about the Nailes lay vpon the soare a little worme which is found in the head of the Tasell when it is drie For hard Swellings take Mallowes Holyhocks the roots of Lillies Pellitorie the leaues of white Mullein seed of Line and Holyhocks flowers of Camomill and Melilot let all be boyled in equall portions of water wine and vineger after passe them through a Colander adding thereto the flower of Barley and Beanes the powder of Camomill and Roses Hennes grease and fresh and new Butter make a playster to lay to the soare Likewise it shall be good to lay hot thereunto a Cataplasme made of the drosse of Bee-hiues dissolued in white wine and fried in a Frying panne For such at are fallen from on high giue the weight of halfe a French crowne of this powder with good wine Mummia Tormentill Rhaponticke Sperma coeti of each a dramme or else giue the weight of a French crowne of the powder of the seed of Garden-Cresses of Mummia of the seed of Houseleeke prepared and Sugar Candie For a greene wound you must take Garden Baulme the great and small Comfrey and a little salt poune them all together and apply them vpon the wound It is good also to drop into the wound the iuice of Nicotian or for the more profitable vse thereof to apply both the drosse as also the iuice thereof stamped and to bind vp the wound by and by and assure your selfe that within three dayes it will be recouered Otherwise take the Elme apples the flowers of S. Iohns wort and of Rosemarie the knops or buttons of Roses put all together in a glasse-bottle full of oyle Oliue stop the bottle diligently and set it to the Sunne so long as till all be so farre consumed as that it may seeme to be rotten afterward let it runne through a linnen cloth diuers times and then keepe it in a violl to drop into wounds The readiest and most soueraigne remedie is the iuice of Nicotiana and the drosse or substance likewise and also the oyntment made thereof which wee will handle hereafter viz. in the seuentie six chapter of the second Booke This oyntment is very singular Take Veruaine Agrimoniâ— Beâ—onie and Pimpernell of each a handfull wash them diligently and being washed swing them well stampe them together in a mortar being stamped put them in an earthen vessell well glased with seuen pints of white wine to boyle till halfe
and Centaurie alike much of all two ounces of the seed of turneps harts 〈◊〉 one ounce and vvith vvhite vvine it will serue to take at three times the day after the three aboue named you shall make him a clyster of the decoction of Wormewood and Rue putting thereto in the strayned liquor two Oxe-galls and an 〈◊〉 of Aloes Against the flux of the bellie which some vse to call the current there is made a drinke of great seruice and vse of the powder of gals with red vvine and the flower of starch tempered together or else iâ— the flux come of taking cold giue him 〈◊〉 dipt in sweet Red vvine and Rose-water and rub his reines and bellie with 〈◊〉 vvine Oyle of Roses and a little Salt For the flux of bloud passing by vrine you must let him bloud of the veine of 〈◊〉 breast afterward make a decoction of Wheat with sweet Seame and the powder of the rinds of drie Pomegranats straine them all to make a drinke for to giue him euerie morning not putting him to any trauell at all Likewise you shall applie a 〈◊〉 plasme vnto his backe and reines made vvith Knoâ—grasse Boleâ—armoniacke and the bloud of the beast mingled together with strong vinegar or thicke red vvine which may also serue for them that haue their reines relaxed or haue beene pricked vvith 〈◊〉 Lancet A restie horse for to make him goe forward must haue a coarde tyed vnto 〈◊〉 cods and it must be so long as that reaching betwixt his forelegs it doe come vp 〈◊〉 high as that the rider may hold it in his hands and so may pull it hard wheâ—as the horse should offer to goe backward but if it be in a Gelding you must bumbast 〈◊〉 buttocks with a good long sticke taken hot out of the fire and burnt at the end for 〈◊〉 will make him goe and likewise if you vse the same course in his rearings it will â—â—â—rect him and make him leaue them If the horse at any time vvith eating of his hay doe eat any venimous beast as Scâ—â—pion Spider or the venimous flie called Buprestis he must be couered till he 〈◊〉 and then in all hast let him bloud in the roofe of his mouth which so soone as it is 〈◊〉 forth shall be giuen him againe to drinke warme and in such quantitie as it 〈◊〉 forth for his meat giue him leekes and wheat boyled together Looke more aboâ—â— in the Chapter of the Neat-heard or Oxe-keeper For the stinging of Vipers a liue Cocke slit through the middest and applied warme vnto the vvound is much worth and presently after this a powder of the 〈◊〉 of yellow Daffodill with strong vvine and Salt made all in a drinke for him or 〈◊〉 the root leaues and fruit of vvild vine made in ashes and drunke with good 〈◊〉 or else take presently that kind of buglosse called Echium and draw out of it a good pint of juice hauing first watered it vvith vvhite vvine or vvater of Cardâ—us 〈◊〉 It you perceiue that the leafe vvill not yeeld you juice ynough of it selfe 〈◊〉 the horse first to drinke that vvhich you haue and after applie the substance of 〈◊〉 hearbe vpon and about the stung place and couer it The Shrew by her biting of the Horse maketh him oftentimes to dye as 〈◊〉 haue oftentimes seene both in Horse and Oxen this is a beast as bigge as a 〈◊〉 of the colour of a Weâ—ill vvith a long snout and a short tayle she fasteneth vpon 〈◊〉 infecteth most chiefly the cods and maketh foure small vvounds for to heal◠〈◊〉 venimous biting you must cause him presently to take downe through the â—â—ose â—â—â—â—leaues stamped or powdred with vvater and to applie vnto the place that is 〈◊〉 â—ummin and Garleeke stamped together and in case there be any vlcer you must â—ment the place with Brine or with the decoction of the Mirtle-tree and to scatter â—nd sprinkle thereupon the powder of burned Barley or of a Pomegranat rinde â—ooke more in the chapter of the Ox-keeper The biting of a madde dogge hath for a singular remedie if it be vsed before it be 〈◊〉 daies the flowers of Medicke fodder burned and mixed with old Swinesâ—rease and applied vnto the wound or else to stampe it with old white Wine and â—â—use him to drinke it Also the root of the Eglantine-tree made in powder and put â—pon the wound or giuen him to drinke with good old Wine Likewise the Berâ—ies of Elder-tree or the juice of the leaues thereof or of Ashe-tree Hens dung swallowed by hap bringeth frets and wrings in the bellie for which â—â—ke of old Smallage and drie two ounces and cause him to drinke them with Wine â—nd Honie afterward walke him vntill his bellie rumble and that he begin to dung The leane horse may be made fat if you giue him to eat Fasels or long Pease boyâ—ed in vvater and mixt amongst his prouender but and if he should be so weake as â—hat he could not swallow them downe you must strengthen and get him into couâ—age againe making him sup egge-yolkes with sugar in verie good quantitie warme vvater mixt with Salt and meale of Millet and giuen to the horse doth greatly fat him Also Panicke Rice and Millet boyled and mixt with Beane-meale and Salt â—are excellent good and it would be giuen him foure times a day but not much at a time least the horse should cast it vp againe It commeth to passe sometimes that Mares are troubled with a kind of rage that is to say vvhen they see their owne pictures in the vvater they are taken with loue and hereupon they forget to eat and drinke and drie vp their heat or signe of desiring the horse The signes of this madnesse are manifested by their running thrâ—â—gh the pastures as if they were spurred oftentimes looking round about them as if they sought and desired something They are cured of this madnesse by being brought vnto the water for when they see by their shadows how ill fauoured they be they will forget the first shape which they had beheld before For a Horse that is troubled with the Yellowes you shall first let him bloud in the necke veine and in the roofe of the mouth then take a quart of Ale a handfull of Celandine fine spoonefuls of Honey three ounces of Cummin seed beaten to pouder a little Saffron and a handfull of Tyme boile these together then straine it and giue it the Horse to drinke luke warme If your Horse be troubled with the Staggers you shall first let him bloud in the necke veine and take from him great store of bloud then take Veriâ—ice and Bay salt beaten together with a good prettie quantitie of Assafetida and dip in Flax hurds therein stop it hard into the Horses eares and then bind them vp so as the medicine may by no meanes fall out and doe thus diuers daies together and if need
of Rocket gathered with the left hand and bruised in honied water and taken in drinke are soueraigne against the Iaundise and hardnesse of the Spleene Also Rocket being boyled and mixed with Sugar doth take away the Cough in little children Tarragon is made of Linseed prickt in manie places of the head of a red Onion the strongest and sharpest that may be found and put into well manured earth And after it hath shot vp the height of a foot or somewhat more you must take the slippes or branches and set them againe in the same earth and water them often Tarragon hath the same force and vertue that Rocket hath and is not to be eaten alone but with Lettuces and such like hearbes CHAP. XXVIII Of Smallage Cheruile Costmarie and Auens SMallage must be sowne in a well toiled ground and neere some wall for iâ— loueth the shadow and groweth well in all manner of ground And after that it is once sowne if it be not all pulled vp by the roots but that there be but one stalke left from yeare to yeare to seed it will continue for euer and it hath not anie great need of being weeded The good time to sow it is from the end of Februarie vnto the first day of September It hath the like vertue that Parsley hath not to eat but for Physicke It is good also for all blew stroakeâ— and bloud that is setled by reason of anie kind of blow The oyle thereof is likewise good for manie diseases and especially for the rawnesse that commeth in the throat if the place that is sore be oft annointed therewith It is true that Smallage stirreth vp the Falling sicknessee if we may beleeue Plâ—nie although that Galen in the curing of the Falling sickness doe prescribe the roots of Smallage and Parsley I haue tried by experience oftentimes that the leaues of Smallage chewed raw doe prouoke the termes of women Cheruile called in Latine Cerefolium loueth to be sowne in a ground that is well manured and in the time of Februarie March and Aprill and sometimes in August and September for to haue it in Winter and it would be often watered Cheruile doth shirre vp the stomacke and is verie good to prouoke vrine and purge the bloud Costmarie and Auens are verie pleasant hearbes to giue a sauour like Spice in Pottage and Salads They would be sowne in May and Aprill and remoued in Nouember Both of them haue the taste of Pepper and Cloues and therefore cannot but be good to comfort the stomacke Some to prouoke appetite make a greene sawce of Sorrell for to eat with meat Physicions doe greatly esteeme of the decoction of Costmarie against the Swimming disease Astonishments falling Sicknesse obstructions of the Lungs Dropsies and Iaundise as also for the Colicke Stone difficultie to make Water staying of the Termes for quicke deliuerie in Child-birth and to bring downe the after-birth CHAP. XXIX Of Asparagus THe hearbe Asparagus doth grow bigge in a fat and spongie ground that is free from stones well dressed plaine and smooth demanding no helpe of watering except a little in 〈◊〉 Some sow them in the Spring at the new of the Moone but it is better to set the rootes which spread and encrease better and sooner than the seeds whether they be sowne of seedes or set of rootes it must be done in furrowes three ynches deepe and a fathome ouer on euerie side standing one from another a good long foot put into euerie furrow two or three seeds euerie one off from another some nine ynches about fortie daies after the seeds doe gather together and ioyne one with another becomming one after you haue set them thus low you must cast vpon them the third part of the earth that you haue taken out of the furrowes which must be â—ifted before you put it there with an yron Sieue that so the Sunne may pierce the deeper and draw the Asparagus vnto it after this you must weed them oft and helpe them in October with some well rotted manure of Horse Sheepe or Birds or which is better with the filth and ordure of Sinkes and Priuies and the dust which falleth out of Wooll when it is beaten and againe vpon this the â—eeds and drosse of the Vine-presse and Grapes You must renew their ground oftentimes in Februarie and cast new dung vpon it you must doe the like also the second yeare in Februarâ—â— or March and likewise euerie yeare in October It is true that they must be remoued the second or third yeare and neuer to cut them vntill the third yeare and then in the moneth of May. In stead of remouing them it were better to vncouer their roots and to take away those that are supersâ—uons for to set in some other place and then to purge them of withered and rotten or corrupted branches in as much as Asparagus would neuer be remoued out of their place except it be when they grow too thicke together For doing so two or three yeares one after another it will fall out that all the intangled and folded one within another will be taken away and then you may prune and trimme those which you leaue standing which you must couer from foot to foot or from root to root with well seasoned manure being rotted and mixed with as much sifted mould sifting moreouer the same which was aboue before and putting it into his old place from whence it was taken and in such manner as it was found there Howsoeuer it be the yeare after they be planted there may well be taken from them some one of their stalkes and the other let stand to seed The stalke so taken away must be cut away not pluckt away for feare of doing hurt to the root For to haue Asparagus to grow faire and aboundantly you must couer the earth of the trenches with beasts hornes or else sow in the furrowes where you shall set them the powder of the hornes of Weathers or wild Rammes or some others and afterward you shall water them And this is the cause that maketh them grow naturally in the Medowes Others there are which say though it be a wonderfull thing that there must nothing be done to the hornes but onely bored through and to hide them in good ground and that of them will breed and grow Asparagus And to cause Asparagus to sprout and bring foorth often you must rake and weed and digge about them often opening their roots after that you haue gathered the fruit and straw vpon thâ—â— the powder of beasts hornes for the plant being thus handled will beare his 〈◊〉 otherwise Asparagus is a delicate fruit and wholesome for euerie bodie and especially when it is thicke tender sweet and not verie much boyled it giueth a good stomacâ—e vnto the sicke if it be vsed before meat it prouoketh vrine it openeth the obstructions of the reines and the liuer The root thereof applyed to
your better choice of the said seed take that which is of the Melons first put foâ—th as I haue alreadie said iâ— so be that your melon plot doe bring forth the fruit somewhat late for otherwise it will be good to take them that come forth last as also that which groweth betwixt the middle and head or crowne of the melon and out of it not that which is on that side whereupon the Melon lieth the best seeded and most rising from the earth being heauie and full and you may make triall of it in water because that such seed will sinke downe to the bottome and it must not be aboue one yeare old for if it be it soone groweth sicke and casteth his fruit in vntimely sort Pompions and Melons must be gathered in the morning before Sunne rise and they must be gathered when as they begin to cast their taile and yeeld a pleasant smel at their ends and then you must beware of and looke to Cats that goe a catterwauling and if you would carrie or send them farre you must gather them a little before they be ripe and with the hand onely without any edge-toole for they will come so their just and perfect ripenesse by this course which the cutting with an yron would keepe them from there must notwitstanding care be had that those which are called Winter Pompions be neuer suffered to ripen vpon their beds but for to ripen them they must be gathered and hung vp vnder the floore of some higher roome and when they are once turned yellow to eat them Furthermore that I may say something of their goodnesse you must vnderstand that there are diuers sorts of Pompions for there are some female and are called pompionets and they are more long than the other and haue not their wrinkles standing vp so high the other be more thick greater bellied and haue their wrinkleâ— more high and stretched out from the taile vnto the eye Some of them are called Turquins as those which haâ—e a verie greene colour and drawing somewhat toward a blacke some other of them haue the shape of a Quince and they are properly called Melons and haue a more fast and solide flesh than the pompions haue which likewise haue not so many wrinkles in their sides nor so much moisture in their nollow parts neither yee are they so thicke but haue a whitish flesh and a great deale more seed than the pompions The other sort may be called citruls as hauing the fashion and colour of a citron and their leaues diueâ—sly drawne with many small lines like vnto the feathers or wings of birds The other are Winter pompions and these are not so thick or great as the common pompions and yet furthermore the one hath a white meat and the other a yellow whereupon the first doe craue more water than the later and the later are better in a strange Countrie But the Melons are best of all as also the blacke coated Pompion and the Muske Melon which become so by hâ—uing their seed steeped in water that is well sweetned with sugar or honie The signe of a good Melon is the bitternesse of the taile the hardnesse of the crowne the heaâ—â—nesse and good smell of the whole As concerning their vse they are somewhat more delicate and pleasant than Câ—cuâ—bers so that they haue a fast meat and their hollownesse drie for otherwise they are fitter to make meat for Cats that goe a catterwauling or for Mules and Asseâ— to make them fat thaâ— for to feed men withall notwithstanding this is a thing wel and sufficiently proued that a slice of a melon or pompion put in a pot with flesh causeth it to boyle the sooner Physitians likewise giue it out for a truth that the seed as well of melons as of Pompions cousred with sugar or without sugar is a soueraigne remedie to prouoke vrine to asewage the heat of the reines and to breake the stone CHAP. XL. Of certaine speciall obseruations for and about Cucumbers Citrons Gourds Melons and such like fruits IF the border whereon you set your Melons be not so fat nor well dunged as that of the Cucumber and Gourd and if it be not watered so soone as it is put forth and sprung it becommeth the faster meat and more 〈◊〉 and sooner ripe To cause Pompions Cucumbers and Gourds to grow without seed you must steepe your seeds in the oile of Sesamum otherwise called Turkie millet three dayes before you sow them To haue Cucumbers of such forme and fashion as one would wish they must be put whiles they be yet young and small together with their stalke into vessells or bottles that haue some figure or shape drawne within them and tie them about them for in time they will fil vp the draughts and prints within the same likewise to make them long you must put their flowers into reeds throughly emptied of their piâ—h for then the Cucumber will grow all along or else to set neere vnto them some vâ—â—sell full of water as namely about halfe a foot off for as I haue said cucumbers 〈◊〉 moisture so well as that vpon the onely standing by of water they will grow the more and become longer in like sort standeth the case with the Gourd For their better and greater growth you must sow them in cases or pots or other great vesselâ— full of sifted and well manured earth which may be carried and rolled or drawne from one place to another into the Sun that so it may haue both the presence of the Sun-shine and absence of the cold winds and frosts and when they begin to grow breake off their ends To free them of vermine and lice sow Organie round about them or else pricâ—â— some boughs amongst their plants To make that a Cucumber or Melon shall haue no water fill the pit that yoâ— haue digged to plant your seeds halfe full of straw or the shutes of vines cut 〈◊〉 small and put vpon the earth and afterward your seed and doe not water them 〈◊〉 all or else verie little To make melons or cucumbers laxatiue sprinkle them fiue dayes together 〈◊〉 fiue times â—uerie day with water wherein hath beene steeped and infused the 〈◊〉 wild Cucumber for the space of three dayes Otherwise vncouer them so soone 〈◊〉 they haue put forth any budd and dung them at the foot with about two ounces of blacke Hellebor steept in water and afterward couer them againe Otherwiâ—â— steepe the seed before you sow it three daies in the infusion off cammonie or 〈◊〉 or Agaricke or some other purging medicine To make Pompions sweet and smell well so soone as you haue taken out the core and wiped and dried the seed put it amongst drie Roses or some graines of Muske and there keâ—pe it vntill you must sow it and if it so like you sow them together or else steepe the seed foure daies before you sow it in
damaske or sweet water by such meanes you may giue them such tast and smell as you please if you steepe their seed before you sow it in any such liquor as in honied-Honied-vvater in rose-Rose-vvater or in some other kind of water sweetned with Sugar or Muske notwithstanding watering of them doth take from them a great deale of that smell as also of their sauour and taste To make Cucumbers or Pompions sugred you must steepe the seed in water that is well sweetned with Sugar or Honie and to make them sweet in Sheepes milke or Honied water and so sow them and when they be growne you must sprinkle them ouer with the dust of some drie earth and water them a little To make Pompions to keepe long and not to be spoyled or rotted you must sprinkle them with the juice of Housleeke A woman hauing her termes and walking by the borders of Pompions Gourds and Cucumbers causeth them to drie and die but and if any of the fruit eâ—cape it wil be bitter Cucumbers indure fresh a long time if they be put in the sweet lees of wine or else in brine or if they hang in a vessell wherein there is a little vinegar Pompions will haue the smell of Roses if their seed be mingled with drie Roses and afterward sowne together and then also they are excellent good to quench the thirst in burning agues CHAP. XLI Of Strawberries STrawberries haue no need of great toyle or tilling so that they be planted in some good ground not manured notwithstanding but well shaded howsoeuer because they delight greatly in the shadow of other hearbes so also they are found growing amongst great tall trees without any manner of husbanding or tillage It is true that they grow well in the open Sun so that they be watered once or twice a weeke especially when they begin to looke red they must be remoued euerie three yeares to make them beare faire berries and their earth raised about them once euerie yeare and that about Christ-tide and to weed them by hand when as weeds doe ouergrow them in the ground whither you remoue them you must first put horse-dung well rotted or cowes dung a scuttle full to euerie border that is three foot broad dresse this ground in a drie time and let it lye afterward and in a moist time but not rainie you shall set the Strawberries halfe a foot euerie way thrusting the earth close to the root with a dibble In these you may obserue a certaine kind of wonderfull harmelesnesse and innocencie which although they creepe vpon the earth and be continually troden vpon by Adders Lizards Snakes and other venimous beasts are notwithstanding neuer infected with them neither get they any venimous sauour which sheweth that they haue no â—ffinitie with venâ—me or poyson Amongst other pleasures or commodities that they afford the juice or wine that 〈◊〉 strained from strawberries is good to take away the red pimples itching knobs which grow in the face by the heat of the liuer as also to take away the rednesâ—e of the eyes and to wipe out the spots and knobs of the Leprosie Likewise the decoction of the roots and leaues of Strawberries made with wine is singular good for the 〈◊〉 if it be drunke for some time in the morning as also to prouoke the termes in women and this neuerthelesse doth stay the white termes and bloudie 〈…〉 vsed in forme of a Gargariâ—â—e it comforteth the gums and teeth and 〈…〉 rheumes Of Physicke Hearbes CHAP. XLII Of Mallowes WE haue heretofore dedicated and appointed certaine borders downeâ—â—low the Kitchin garden neere vnto the wall of the orchard for Physick hearbes whereof we desire and wish that the huswife may haue 〈◊〉 knowledge thereby to helpe the necâ—ssities of her people And in 〈◊〉 respect it shall not be â—hought strange if we touch in a word the dressing and 〈◊〉 of some few such as are most vsuall and familiar amongst women leauing 〈…〉 and exact description of thâ—m vnto such as make profession thereof for 〈◊〉 drift of my purpose is to instruct the Farmer and his wife or her that is the 〈◊〉 and Dairie-woman so much as is needfull for the maintenance of their house and fâ—milie But we will begin with Mallowes as those that are most in vse Mallowes notwithstanding that they grow euerie where yet if you be disposed 〈◊〉 sow them you may doe it most commodiously in Autumne rather than at any other time to the end their growth on height may be represâ—ed by the comming of Wiâ—ter for by how much the Mallow is the lesse by so much it is the better They loâ— a fat and moist earth and craue to be remoued after they haue put forth foure or 〈◊〉 leaues though indeed it would be much the better not to remoue them at all 〈◊〉 they will keepe a better rellish but to the end they should not grow vp into high and great stalkes alter that they be come forth of the earth you must put some 〈◊〉 bricke in the midâ—est of their leaues They would be oft wed and when they 〈…〉 if their leaues be tâ—ed together at the end they will bring forth a well 〈◊〉 and thicke set root The root of Mallowes steâ—pt in Wine a whole day and afterward wrapt in a 〈◊〉 and roasted vnder the ashes and dried is a fine medicine to rub the teeth withâ—â— and to cleanse and scowre off from them the filth gathered thicke about them 〈◊〉 juice drunke to the quantitie of halfe a pound oâ— the decoction of the 〈…〉 leaues comming to a certaine thick conâ—â—stence is exceeding good for wâ—men 〈◊〉 are in trauell of child birth It is singular also for many other things and therefore is called of some Omnimorbia Hollihocks craue the like husbanding and tillage that the Mallowes doe 〈◊〉 they are of the same kind and in both of them especially in the Mallowes we 〈◊〉 obserue as a miraculous thing that their leaues and flower doe open at the approâ—d and comming of the Sunne and shut vp themselues to goe to bed when it 〈…〉 doe the Marigolds Both these haue verie great power and vertue to mollifie they serue also to 〈◊〉 the bellie especially the young and tender crops of Mallowes haue vertue to 〈◊〉 swage the paine of the reines and doe cause a man to make water The juice 〈◊〉 with oyle doe healâ— the stinging of Waspes The juice mingled with 〈◊〉 doth helpe women trauailing of child birth Their leaâ—es stamped with the 〈◊〉 of willows doe stay inflammations A cataplasme made of their leanes doth 〈◊〉 way the hardnesâ—e of the mother and other parts especially if it be made of 〈◊〉 with oyle of Roses Gentian grows in high places open to the ayre being notwithstanding 〈◊〉 and somwhat ouershadowed This hearb through his bitternesse draweth downe the termes and the stayed vrine The water thereof especially of the root being distilled
through a Limbecke in Maries-bath doth maruailously heale the Agues caused of the obstructions of any noble part and which is more it killeth the wormes and wipeth away all the spots of the face it they be often washed therewith It is exceeding good against the inflammation of the eyes It is verie soueraigne against any infection or mortall sicknesse if it be drunke with Water and Honie it abateth the swelling of the bodie and easeth the colicke whether it be in the stomach or in the bowels it also cureth the biting or stinging of venimous beasts and it causeth a woman to be deliuered of her dead birth The root is a present remedie against the Plague not onely in men but also in all â—orts of cattell it is a speciall preseruatiue against all poyson and a meanes to withstand all putrefaction in regard whereof the Switzers mingle it amongst their owne meat and the sodder or prouender of their cattell that so they may continue in good health Arsmart so called because the leaues applied to the fundament for to wipe it doe cause great paine and of the Latines Hydropiper doth require a marshie ground full of water or at the least verie moist or often watered and it groweth rather being planted of a root then sowne of seed It is verie singular in ointments for old vlcers and fistulaes as also in clysters for bloudie fluxes the leaues thereof washed in cold water and applied vnto wounds and vlcers either of man or beast doe take away by and by the paine thereof and doth throughly heale them as the swellings or gaules vnder the saddles of horses that 〈◊〉 hurt if they be renewed euerie day and the horse needs not to be forborne for all that Or else take the hearbe new steepe it in water and wash it then rub therewith the swolne or gauled place then put the hearbe in some place where it may quickly rot or else burie it in some fat ground and coâ—er it with a great stone so soone as the â—hearbe is rotted so soone will the fore be healed If you spread it all greene in the bed it killeth fleas you shall keep powdred proke from wormes if you wrap it in the leaues of this hearbe thâ— juice thereof dropped into wormie eares doth kill the wormes that is in them Eye-bright delighteth in a leane ground and shadowed place and yet where moiâ—ture is not altogether wanting such as are the meadows and little mountaines is groweth of roots not of seed It is singular good against the dimnesse waterishnesse â—ataract rheume and weaknesse of the eyes being either applied and layd thereto or â—aken inwardly by the mouth there is a powder made of â—he dried leaues which beâ—ng oft taken by the mouth with the yolke of an egge or alone or mixt with aloes â—nd swallowed downe with Fennell-water or with water of veruaiâ—e doth comfort â—nd strengthen mightily the weake and diseased eyes some vse much to take Winâ— wherein eye-bright hath beene infused and steept a long time for the same purpose or the powder vsed with wine but the powder alone or the decoction without wine 〈◊〉 a remedie far more certaine than the wine of eye-bright as I my selfe haue proued â—y experience in as much as the Wine by his vapours doth fill the braine and proâ—ureth rheumes and therefore if you would auoid these inconuenienees you must â—elay your Wine vvith the vvater of Fennell or mixe Sugar therewith 〈◊〉 de â—illa-noâ—a aâ—â—irmeth that by the continuall vse of this heâ—healed an old man which â—â—ad alreadie wholly lost his sight by the often vse of the leaues of this hearbe as well 〈◊〉 as drie as well in his drinke as in his meat Veruaine as well the male as the female must be planted of roots in a moist soile â—nd that it may grow the fairer it requireth to be remoued and that into a place of â—he like nature and qualitie Besides the helpes that this hearbe affordeth vnto vveake eyes it is also good aâ—ainst the paine of the head teeth and vlcers of the mouth and principally in the â—â—fections of the skinne as the itch the tetter the flying-fire the ring-worme the â—prosie the Gangrena and Shbaâ—lus if it bâ— vsed in manner of a bath 〈◊〉 in manner of a foâ—entation made with Fâ—mitorie in Water and Vinegar Elicampane must not be sowne of seed because the seed hath no power to 〈◊〉 but it must rather be planted of the young sprouts pulled gently from the 〈…〉 that in a verie well tilled ground and which hath beene manured not verie 〈…〉 yet ouershadowed It is good to plant it in the beginning of Februarie leauing 〈◊〉 foot distance betwixt plant and plant for it hath great leaues and the roots do 〈◊〉 verie much as doe the young sprouts or roots of Reed The Wine wherein the root of Elicampane hath steept for the space of four◠〈◊〉 twentie houres is singular good against the colicke as we haue alreadâ—e said in 〈◊〉 first booke the juice of the root is singular good to continue and keepe the 〈◊〉 and beautifull hew of women The decoction of the root is likewise good 〈◊〉 â—â—joyce the heart and to prouoke vrine and the termes of women as also to 〈…〉 to spit out but then it must be vsed inwardly and whiles it is new and greene 〈◊〉 when it is old and drie it is fit to be vsed outwardly and not to be taken into 〈◊〉 bodie Dittander which hath the tast of pepper and mustard for which cause it is 〈◊〉 of the Latines Piperitis must be planted before the first of March cut as the 〈◊〉 but not so oft for feare it should die with cold It will continue two 〈◊〉 prouided that it be carefully weeded and dunged it continueth in many 〈◊〉 whole ten years and it cannot easily be destroyed The root of Dittander stamped with Hogs-gâ—ease or with the root of 〈◊〉 and applied in forme of a cataplaâ—me vnto the Sciatica doth cure it throughly It taketh away the great spots freckles and scales or pilling of the face by 〈…〉 the thin skin wherein these are fixed and as for the rawnesse left after the away of this skin it is healed easily with ointment of Roses Great Celandine groweth in euerie ground so that there be any shadow 〈…〉 and it would be sowne in Februarie and may so continue ten yeares so that â—waies after it hath cast his seed the stalkes thereof be cut downe within 〈…〉 of the root The juice of the flowers mixt with honie or womans milke or some othe◠〈◊〉 asswage the sharpenesse of it doth take away the spots in the eyes 〈…〉 scartes and vicers healeth the ring-wormes and itch of the head and the 〈…〉 the haire of little children The Alchymistes doe make great account of it 〈◊〉 their extractions of mettalls Some say that the old Swallows doe recouer the 〈◊〉 of their young ones being pore-blind by applying vnto their
the seed of Gromell to the quantitie of two drammes Ceterach halfe a dramme and Amber two scruples all being powdred with the iuice of Plantaine or Purcelane or Lettuce In like manner two drammes of the seed of Gromell with womens milke doth much comfort and strengthen a woman in her child-birth Hyporicum loueth the like entreatie that Gromell loueth and yet withall it doth refuse a fat and well tilled soyle The iuice of the leaues and flowers healeth cuts and wounds The seed drunke with white wine taketh away the tertian Ague The flowers and crops are principally in vse to make Balmes of for the curing of wounds such like as this is Take of the fruit of the Elme tree the flowers of Hypericum and the buds of Roses put them all together in a Glasse-bottle and set them in the Sunne so long as vntill you see them all so altered and changed as that they may seem to be rotted then straine them all through a linnen cloth and reserue it for your vse See further in the third Booke of the oyle of Hypericum Ground-pine loueth a drie sandie and stonie soyle and groweth better planted than sowne The whole hearbe boyled in honied water doth heale the laundise prouoke the termes in Women prouoke Vrine and is soueraigne against the Sciatica either taken in drinke or applyed vpon the hippe in forme of a Cataplasme for the whole hearbe with the flowers and roots made into powder and taken at the mouth fortie daies with halfe an ounce of Turpentine doth throughly heale the Sciatica The conserue made of the flowers is good for such as are subiect vnto the Palsie The whole hearbe boyled in vineger and taken at the mouth doth minister insinit helpe to a trauailing women when the child is dead in her bodie Agrimonie would be planted in a stonie and drie place and further craueth no great helpe of hand or husbandrie The decoction openeth the obstructions of the Liuer and strengtheneth it and it being boyled and drunke doth helpe against the bitings of venimous beasts The iuice of Agrimonie mixt with vineger and salt in a Liniment doth cure the Itch. Agrimonie is good against the cough of Sheepe and for broken-winded Horses The liquor of the decoction of Agrimonie with fumitorie made like Whay doth prouoke Vrine expell the Termes heale the Itch and Scab of the whole bodie whereupon it is singular in the beginning of the Leprosie The seed mixt with the iuice of Agrimonie and taken in manner of pilles doth kill the Wormes The Stagge being shot and wounded is healed so soone as he hath eaten of this hearbe If you gather good store of this hearbe and steepe it in faire Spring water in a large earthen pot till the water putrifie and then euerie morning wash the face therein it will take away all manner of Morphew Sunne-burning Farn-freckles and other spots or dunnesse of the skinne whatsoeuer making the same also cleare and smooth and filling vp euerie manner of wrinekle Some likewise vse in this case to vse with Agrimonie the like quantitie of Goose-grasse and sure it is not amisse for they haue both one manner of force and working White Mullein groweth euerie where but best in a stonie and sandie ground The white Mullein both leaues flowers rootes and seed is singular good against all manner of venime as also to containe in his place the falling Fundament Good wiues in like manner for this consideration doe make a fume of the seed and flowers of Mullein the flowers of Camomill and Masticke all made into 〈◊〉 The iuice pressed from the root before it put forth his stalke and drunke foureâ—â—â—â— in the quantitie of an ounce with Hippocras or Malmesey in the beginning of a 〈◊〉 of a quartane Feauer doth driue it quite away The iuice pressed out of the floweâ—â— or leaues applyed to Warts doth take them cleane away Likewise Gentlewomâ—n find no better remedie than the iuice of white Mullein flowers to take away the wrinckles and other blemishes in their face The leaues bruised betwixt two stoneâ— and applyed in forme of a Cataplasme vpon the foot of a Horse that hath beene cloyed doth affoord him a singular and present reliefe The water distilled of the flowers quencheth the firinesse of the face if there be a little Camphire added thereâ— unto It doth in like manner with the tumor called Erisipelas the itch burnings 〈◊〉 other diseases of the skin The flowers of white Mullein with the yolke of an eggâ— crummes of bread and the leaues of Leeks applyed vnto the Hemorrhoids doe 〈◊〉 them altogether There groweth about the leaues of white Mullein a whitish 〈◊〉 which is good to make match or tinder to take fire Mercurie craueth one and the same ground with the Vine there to be sowne and grow in great aboundance without anie great care of husbanding and yet thâ—â—â— must care and regard be had not to sow it among Vines because the wine which 〈◊〉 Vines should yeeld amongst whom Mercurie hath beene sowne would retaine the tast of Mercurie and become verie vnpleasant to drinke The iuice of Mercurie being drunke helpeth conception prouoketh womeâ—â— termes and deliuereth them of their after-birth The decoction of Mercurie doâ—â— loose the bellie being drunke or taken in a Clyster Some make a honey of the 〈◊〉 of Mercurie with a halfe quantitie of honey and this is good for laxatiue Clysteâ—â— The iuice of Mercurie taketh away Warts the seed of Mercurie in a decoction with Wormewood doth cure the Iaundise and the iuice thereof with vineger doth ripâ— vp the scab and scurffe Yarrow doth grow in a ground that is indifferent fat and moist The decoctioâ— thereof doth stay all manner of fluxes and especially the red termes of women 〈◊〉 also that which commeth of a wound especially the leaues dried made in powder and drunke with the iuice or water of Comfrey or Plantaine The leafe put into the nose stayeth the bleeding and put into a Clyster it stayeth the bloudie flux Milfoile bearing a white flower being powned with his flower and drunke with 〈◊〉 distilled from the same and Goats milke doth cure the burning of the vrine in 〈◊〉 and the whites in women Danewort groweth better plunted than sowne and craueth a fat ground well â—â—nured and somewhat moist The iuice pressed from the roots of Danewort being drunke for a certaine time preserueth a man from the Gout The seed of Danewort being well washed and drunke in powder to the quantitie of a dramme hauing beene first steeped a whole night in Wine doth helpe the Dropsie because it procureth stooles downward and vomit vpward to the voiding of great store of water Being drunke also with the dâ—coction of ground Pine it asâ—uageth the paine of the Gout and Pocks There is also made a soueraigne Oyntment of the same for the appeasing of the said paines Taâ—â— the iuice of the roots of Danewort the flowers of Rye and
to the quantitie of two drams purgeth hot and châ—lericke humours Dame Violets haue great leaues somewhat blacke notcht round about and broad the flowers are white and incarnate and in shape like vnto the Auens they grow sometimes so high as that they degenerate into a tree Goats-bread that it may haue faire double and full flowers doth craue a fat and moist ground The leaues thereof open at the Sunne rise and they close at noone the root boyled in mudde doth appease the paines and pricking of the side taken in forme of a lohoch with syrope of Violets it helpeth obstructed lungs and the pleâ—risie boyled in vvater and preserued with Sugar it is a singular preseruatiue against the Plague Poysons Venime and deadly Stinging the juice or distilled vvater of this hearbe doth heale greene vvounds if you dip linnen clothes therein and applie them to the wounds some vse the root of this hearbe in sallades where daintie and fine fare is the same boyled in a pot vvith Veale and Mutton and afterward prepared and made readie betwixt two dishes with butter and vinegar Marie or Marians Violets for the beautifulnesse of the flowers deserue to bâ— sowne in a fat and well laboured ground the flowers are good to make gargariâ—â—â—â— for the inflammations and vlcers of the mouth Lillie-conually called of the Latines Lillium conuallium notwithstanding thâ—t it groweth in shadowed Woodgrounds yet it deserueth to be tilled in gardens as 〈◊〉 in regard of the faire little flowers white as snow which it beareth being also of a most amiable smell somewhat like vnto the Lillies as also in respect of his vertues because the distilled vvater of the flowers being taken vvith strong and noble vvine doth restore the speech vnto them which haue lost it vpon an apoplexie it is good likewise for the palsey distillations and fainting of the heart yet these nor any other Lillies whatsoeuer can I commend for any vse of nosegaies because the smell of them â—s lussious grosse and vnwholesome apt to make the head ake and as some hold of â—pinion apt to in ingender infection by reason of a certaine putrefaction which it â—tirreth vp in the braine vvhereby all the inward parts are distempered therefore whosoeuer planteth them shall preserâ—â— them more for shew than smell and make â—se of their medicinall qualitie not oâ— their order and touching their medicinall qualtitie there is none better than this that if the root be taken and cleane washt and boyled in milke and so applyed to any hard tumour swelling byle or impoâ—tumation it will either dissolue it or else ripen breake and heale it so that it be applied pultus wise verie hot Water lillie as well the white as the yellow desireth a waterish and marshie place vve see it grow likewise in pooles and fish-ponds The root of vvhite vvater lillie â—oyled with grosse red wine and drunke stayeth womens whites the flowers roots â—nd seeds as well in decoctioâ—s as in conserues are verie singular or procure sâ—eepe â—nd to preserue chastitie Hyacinth groweth verie vvell in a sandie ground The root and seed boyled in vvine and drunke doth stay the flux of the bellie Narcyssus so called of a Greeke word because the smell of it comming vnto the 〈◊〉 doth cause an inclination vnto sleepinesse and heauinesse would be sowne in a â—at ground that is hot and moist it groweth also aboundantly in Languedoe and Iâ—alie and but a little in this countrie The root thereof boyled or roasted and taken with meat of drinke doth greatly procure vomit also the same brayed with a little Honie and applyed doth heale burnings taketh away the freckles and spots of the face being mixt with the seed of nettles Corneflag called in Latine Gladiolus as well the blew as the white would be planted of new plants in March and Aprill or else of slips but such as haue roots for they are neuer sowne neither doe they require any great tilling Their flowres differ from the flowres of marigolds in this in that the flowres of the marigold doe open at the Sunne-shine but the flowres of Corneflag doe shut and close vp themselues then not opening againe but when it is cold and moist weather The roots must be pulled out of the earth in the beginning of the Spring that thereby they may haue a pleasant smell and a delectable kind of sauour and afterward they must be died in the shadow of the Sunne Some people to take away the superfluous moisture thereof which putteth them in danger to be consumed with Wormes doe vvet them with Lee of ashes as well whiles they are in the earth as when they are out and so drie them and keepe them for to procure the linnens and woollen garments to smell well The juice of the roots put in a clyster doth appease the paine of the Sciatica the root dried and made in powder doth cleanse and consolidate hollow and filthie vlcers being held in the mouth it causeth a good breath layed amongst clothes it preserueth them from all vermine and maketh them smell pleasantly The juice of the root taken at the mouth sundrie times purgeth water in such as haue the dropsie especially if it be taken mixt with the yolke of an egge halfe boyled The root mingled with the root of ellebor and twice so much Honie doth wipe away freckles red pimples and all spots of the face if it be annointed thereupon The decoction of the root taketh away the obstructâ—ons caused of a grosse humour prouoketh vrine killeth vvormes and casteth out the stone The Italians make a preserue of this root whiles it is new with Sugar to Honie and vse it in all the cases aforesaid some make an oyle of the flowers infused in oyle which hath power to resolue soften and appease the griefe of cold rheumes or distillations Lillies must be planted in the moneth of March and Aprill in these 〈◊〉 and in hot countries in the moneths of October and Nouember as well the 〈…〉 the orange colour in a fat and well digged ground you shall make their flowe◠〈◊〉 what colour you will if before you set them you steepe their roots in such 〈◊〉 substance as shall best like you and afterward likewise to water the roots when they are set and planted in their trench with the same liquor and that after this 〈◊〉 Some say that the flowers of Lillies become red and purple if their roots before 〈◊〉 be planted be steept in the Lees of red Wine or in dissolued Cinnabrium and 〈◊〉 watered with the same in the little pit or trench wherein it is set Or else when 〈◊〉 are in flower in the moneth of Iune you must take ten or twelue plants and 〈◊〉 them together to hang them in the smoake for so they will put forth small roots 〈◊〉 vnto vvild Garleeke and when the time of setting is come which is in the 〈◊〉 of March and
not halfe so much roome as the Borders Againe you may at your pleasure either within these Hedges or in the sâ—me Line wherein these Hedges grow plant all manner of Fruit trees or other Trees of anie curiositie whatsoeuer and within them you may plant your Gooseberrie 〈◊〉 Prouence Roses Muske Roses or anie other fruit or flower that growes shrub-wise or not aboue two or three foot aboue the earth So that whereas your Border containeth not anie thing but one entire hearbe as Prympe Boxe Hysope Lauander and such like by this manner of bordering which is to say with a Quickset Hedge you shall haue not onely all them but also all kind of fruits flowers and sweet smelling hearbs whatsoeuer besides they will keepe your Quarters and Knots in a great deale more safetie because they are not so easie to be runne ouer or broken downe either by man or beast as your other Borders of hearbes are Now for the making of these Quickset Hedges it is in this manner First you shall with fine small stakes cut to the length and proportions of your worke stake your Quarters about then with small poles bound to those stakes either with strong Wyar or Oziers but Wyar is the better make a Lattice-worke about two foot aboue the earth then with shorter poles and wands made plyant for your purpose fashion your battlements of what shape soeuer you please to haue them whether made plaine or pyllaster-wise or in semicircles or other proportions in such manner as you intend your Hedge shall grow and this done either in Autumne or the beginning of the Spring Alongst the bottome of this Hedge you shall set Prympe white Thorne Eglantine and sweet Bryer mixt together and as they shoot and grow vp so you shall wind and plash them within the Lattice-worke making them grow and couer the same euer and anon as need shall require either with your Sheeres or Hooke cutting them to that shape and proportion to which you first framed your Lattice-worke and this will in two or three yeares bring your Hedge vnto such perfection that besides the beautie thereof the defence will be so good that you shall not feare the harme that Dogges Swine or other Cattell may doe if at anie time they shall chance to breake into your Garden These Hedges are also verie excellent to set alongst your Alleyes or other Walkes and adde a great beautie thereunto There be some that make these Hedges onely of Oziers or small Sallowes planted crosse-wise or otherwise as your inuention pleaseth and these Hedges are good and beautifull and verie speedie in their growing but they are not of any very long continuances therefore except your ground be very moist the former Hedge is much the better Which that you may the better know how to make I will here set you downe the models of a couple of them by the example whereof you may at your pleasure make anie other proportion whatsoeuer and you shall also vnderstand that these two Models containe but the dead worke onely which is to be made of Poles or Wands and the Quickset to be planted close vnto it and so placed within the dead Lattice-worke as you may here perceiue CHAP. LI. Of the manner to keepe and preserue Hearbes either for the vse of the Pot or of Physicke or such as are of a sweet smell and sauour THe root of Elecampane is preserued after this sort When you haue taken vp the root in the moneth of October at such time as it is verie ripe you must first take away all the sand and earth which is about it with a rough Linnen Cloth or with a Strainer after that you must scrape it all ouer with a verie sharpe knife and according as the rootes are of bignesse to cleaue them in two three moe or lesse pieces of a fingers length and boyle them in a Brasse Cauldron with vineger and that in such sort as that the slices may not burne within the Cauldron Three daies after they must be dried in the Sunne and put into a new pot well pitched and cuted wine put vnto them and that so much as that they may be couered therewith and a good deale of Sauorie pressed downe vpon them and then the vessell close shut vp and couered well with leather Otherwise You must carefully looke that the rootes thereof be made verie cleane and then cut in two or three pieces of a fingers length then afterward for the space of a whole day together you must infuse them in water vpon hot embers and afterward boyle them with twice or thrice as much Honey or Sugar There may likewise conserue be made of the root of Elecampane after this manner Make verie cleane the roots of Elecampane as wee haue said and cut them in small slices infuse them a long time vpon hot embers in water and after to boile them so long as till they be tender â—odden then stampe them and straine them through a Linnen cloth or Strainer and in the end boyle them vp with thrice as much Honey or Sugar You may in like manner preserue and conserue manie other roots as Gentian Pionie Corne-flag wild Vine Parsneps Althaea or marsh Mallowes Turneps Carrets Radishes Naueâ—s Caraway Eringus and such other like all which will be the more pleasant if you put vnto the conserued or preâ—erued a little Cinnamon Lastly be it knowne that by this word confected preseruing or confection is to be vnderstood the remaining of the root or other thing whatsoeuer it is that is preserued or confected whole and by the word conserue or conserued is to be vnderstood that manner of ordering things whereby they are stamped and beaten verie small Purslaine is preserued in this manner Gather Purslaine before it haue cast the seed â—ake the tenderest stalkes thereof and the fullest of leaues from these you shall â—ake the roots and wash them throughly from the sand and earth that might hang about them afterward drie them a little euen so long as till you perceâ—ue them to begin to wither afterward put them vp handsomely in some Barrell or little Vessell of earth in manner of little Beds euerie Bed sufficiently couered with salt When the Barrell or Vessell shall be full powre thereinto a sufficient quantitie of Vineger or else one part of Veriuice and two of Vineger This being done set the Vessell in some drie place and not moist for feare that the preserue should smell anie thing of mustinesse and looke to it well that the Purslaine be continually couered ouer with the pickle And when you would vse it wash it first with warme water or wine afterward make it vp in Salads with Salad oyle After the same manner Samphire the â—proâ—ts of Asparagus Harts-horne Trick-madame Broome flowers the flowers of Capers Cucumbers Limons Oranges Plummes Peares and such like may be preserued Lettuce is preserued after this sort They take the stalkes of Lettuce cleane
gladly accepteth the watering of hiâ— roots with the lees of old red Wine strained Note likewise that seeing of one Date stone alone there will hardly grow vp any Date-tree bearing sufficient bignesse in the bole and bodie to carrie and 〈◊〉 the weight of the head it will be good to put and ioyne together two or three 〈◊〉 stones sowed vp in a Linnen cloth in such sort as that the sharpe sides may behold one another and so to set them for by this ioyning of two or three together your tree may come by a bodie sufficient big to beare the head Not further that if you would haue the female Date tree to beare fruit that then you must plant it neere vnto a male Date tree and not one onely but manie if it be possible because the neere standing of the one vnto the other causeth that the vertue of the male is conueyed and imparted vnto the female and that by the commixtion made by the wind from 〈◊〉 ariseth aboundance of fruit But and if you haue not the meanes to plant manie 〈◊〉 Date trees neere vnto the female it will be sufficient if you doe but touch the male oftentimes with your hand and then afterward lay the same hand vpon the femaleâ— or you must gather oâ— the flowers of the top oâ— the male or of the mosâ—e of the male and sprinkle the same vpon the female Eat but as â—ew Dates as you can for they make obstructions in the liuer and spleene and are also of hard digestion and 〈◊〉 the head-ach The Pine-tree groweth chiefely of a kernell which must be planted in October or Nouember in warme places or in cold places in Februarie or in March or about the fall of the apple or a little after and that in pits well digged and which haâ—e lyen vntilled and vnoccupied a gâ—od time the apple must not be broken by force of an yron thing to get out the kernels which must lie in steepe three dayes before hand and seuen of them set together and that fiue fingers deepe onely when they are growne vp you must not be too hastie to remoue them because they take 〈…〉 but in long time and verie hardly nay they cannot abide at all to be transplanted without their great hurt and hinderance but yet when time may serue to transplant them in any câ—se beware that you doe not hurt their roots especially the principall and thickest ones The Pine-tree groweth chiefely and thrâ—ueth best vpon high mountaines and places that are open vnto the wind still regard being had that the place where they shall be planted be as carefully husbanded and tilled as if it 〈◊〉 for to beare and bring forth wheat It will continue the longer time if the barke 〈◊〉 oft taken from it because that vnder the barke certaine little wormes do breed whiâ—â— fret and destroy the wood The distilled water of new Pine-kernells â—â—ake away the wrinckles of the face and diminish the breasts that are too great and swagging if there be laid vnto 〈…〉 clothes dipped â—n this water as oft as you can this water also is singular good to draw narrower the secret parts of women being too much distended and enlarged and to cure them of all manner of rheumes and distillations but yet their juice â—s more effectuall for these matters than the distilled water Pineapples are a meat of verie easie nourishment â—nd for that cause are verie good for such as arâ—troubled with the cough for them which are in a consumption and such as are sicke of an hectâ—cke â—euer but they must haue beene sâ—â—â—pt sometime in rose-Rosewater to take away their acrimonie sharpnesse and oylie substance it is true that they be hard to digest and therefore to such as are cold of nature you must giue them with home and to those which are hot with sugar to helpe out with the hardneâ—â—e of their digestion They are good for such as haue the palsey for ach in the sinews and backe for heat of the vrine and gnawing of the stomach taken with the juice of Purslaine Figges being one of the best fruits we haue according to the ground and plant whereof they come are either more or lesâ—e sweet and sauorie and this commeth of the ayre as it is tempered with heat cold or a milder temper or else in respect of the moisture and drinesse of the grounds their fatnesse and leannesse their roughnesâ—e or smoothnesâ—e their sâ—â—ngth or gentlenesse and easinesse their stoâ—â—nesse or being without stones or their scituation amongst some old ruines and rotten stone walls for in respect of all these it falleth out that there are great diuersitie of figges as hauing some great some small some round some sharpe pointed some white some blacke some greene and some gray So that this tree loueth to be in places standing open vpon the Sunne and therewithall rockie or clayie stonie or mixt much with lyme neere vnto walls or old ruines yea within the verie walls being 〈◊〉 or halfe fallen downe especially that which beareth little figges verie sweet and white ones such as are those of Marâ—â—â—llis for such a figge-tree delighteth in a drie and grauelly place as on the contrarie the figge-tree that bringeth forth great lesse sweet and reddish figs desireth a fat and well manured ground It thriueth and prosperâ—th in a hot and tâ—mperate aire so that the ground be somewhat moist for this tree is verie daintie and quickly wronged and injured by frosts broken downe by winds and made thin and leane by drought by the which the fig will sooner be ouerthâ—owne and spoyled than the Mulberrie They are easily hurt by Frosts Mists and great Cold wherefore they must be planted in the Spring when Frosts are past vpon the South or East quarter in great deepe and well-digged pits of shootes and boughes of two yeares growth being faire and round ones and full of knots for these are most fruitfull And to cause them the better to take root you shall take away their barke at the nether end of the stemme about halfe a foot and yet leauing it notwithstanding fastened thereunto that so the said barke may turne into â—ootes It may in like manner be sowne of figges layd in steepe and bound about with small lines and then afterward planted in that manner and watered often and diligently but it would suâ—e better if it were grafted vpon a Plumme tree or Almond tree for so it continueth a great deale longer But whether it be planted or grafted it must not be much watred for aboundance of water corrupteth the naturall beautie of the figge-tree and maketh them verie subiect to rot It would be a great deale better to make them grow faire and become fruitfull to thrust the plant into a wild Garlick called in Latine Squilla and better in English Sea-Onion or else to steepe it in Brine or to set it round about with Oxe dung or with vnquencht Lime And to keepe and guard them
vnto it you must then couer such chase with thicke new cloth being well woolled or else with straw and to tye the one or the other fast to by wreathing it about with one of the breadths of a Mat and stay it vp with a prop if need be In hot Countries as Spaine and Portugall it is held as an approoued opinion That by how much the more Orange trees are watered in Winter so much the lesse subiect are they to frost because their water is either out of the Well or fresh drawne from some Fountaine or of water broken out of the earth and made warme with the Sunne or with the fire and for that it is drunke vp all into the earth but I feare me that it would not fall out for well done if so be that in this cold Countrey one should take that course notwithstanding if you will vse the same order you shall doe it either by the helpe of the foresaid Sunne beames or by a pipe of Lead laid good and deepe in the earth a farre off from the root of the tree powring of the said water into it that so it may descend and reach vnto the roots but so soone as you haue thus powred in your water you must stop verie well and couer the said pipe with earth and dung that so the cold ayre may not runne along it vnto the roots for so they would be frozen They must be vnder-digged and cast at the foot from moneth to moneth if the season will suffer it and the earth made light and soft mingling it with dung and watering it as hath beene said And for the better preseruing of the branches of these plants and keeping of them in their strength and force they must be cut euerie yeare more or lesse according as the good and expert Gardiner shall iudge it necessarie in as much as these trees being both daintie and precious doe require a verie carefull regard to be vsed in this cutting It must not furthermore be forgotten to take from them continually all manner of superfluitie filth and grasse growing at their foot or elsewhere and likewise thornes or pricks and that with the hands or some other cutting yron And if anie branch through â—rost or otherwise grow drie pale or blacke you must cut off the dead part at the Spring in the decrease of the Moone in faire weather and calme and temperate and vpon the putting of it forth againe and this must be done with a Garden Sickle or Knife well sharpened and the cut must be well 〈◊〉 together and couered ouer that so it may put forth branches againe You must also bow the boughs as shall be necessarie and to raise some higher and pull some lower as occasion shall require cut the ends and sprouâ—s which put forth at the toppes of the tree take away those that grow too high to the end they may be proportâ—â—â—â— in an equall measure of growth for these trees especially the Citron tree growing in anie great height and hauing anie great store of boughes doe neither bring 〈◊〉 so much nor so good fruits as when they are otherwise fitted and freed from their vnâ—necessarie boughes and further if need require to seâ— some store of pâ—les to hold vp the boughs If notwithstanding all the paine and preseruation spoken of before they fall now and then into mislikings and diseases then you must burie at their 〈◊〉 some Sheepes hornes for some are of opinion that by these they are maintained is â—ound estate and good plight And thus much as concerning the ordering of these Trees when they be brought out of other Countries but as for those which wee procure to grow and spring out of the earth here in this Countrey wee must know that they grow either of 〈◊〉 boughes grafts or â—eeds But to speake of these particularly the Orange tree groweth not but verie hardly either vpon shoots or grafts for hauing a verie hard 〈◊〉 it hardly taketh root It is true that some vse to prepare a Plant of it in such manner They picke and prune from an Orange tree bough his sprigges and 〈◊〉 plant it the small end downeward wrapt in a Linnen cloth hauing within it 〈◊〉 dung that is verie new and of such plants haue beene seene to grow Orange trees growing indeed lower than the other but hauing a well spread and large 〈…〉 yet it is better to sow it so that it be in a good soyle notwithstanding it be long before it bring forth fruit but he that will helpe that and cause it to hasten to bearing must graft it The manner of sowing all these sorts of trees is first to prepare and manure the ground verie well with Horse dung about the moneth of May or else with Oxe or Sheepes dung and to mixe therewith some Wood ashes or which were better some Cucumber ashes then making pits in the said ground of the breadth of halfe a foot to put three seeds together and the sharpe end vpward and the higher part of the seed toward the earth after this they must be oft watered with 〈◊〉 water or with Sheepes milke for so they will grow better and sooner And yet 〈◊〉 not before you sow them to lay them in steepe in Cowes milke that is warme and if you desire to haue them sweet fruit put to the liquor wherein you steepe them 〈◊〉 Sugar candâ—e You shall plant their shoots after the same manner in a well husbanded and 〈◊〉 ground as also their boughes and grafts about mid May setting the great ends vpward and filling the pits with ashes made of Cucumbers These bring forth 〈◊〉 and the middle part of the apple will be sweet if the bodie of the tree be pierced with a Piercer in the moneth of Februarie and that there be made therein an oblique and sloping hole which must not goe through and from out of this the sappe is let distill vntill such time as the apples come to be formed and then you must stop vp the said hole with Potters clay or mortar or else giue a slit in the thickest branch of the tree and in the place where you haue giuen the slit make a hollownesse of the depth of a good foot which you shall fill with honey and stop vp with mortar 〈◊〉 feare of raine and of the heat of the Sunne when as the tree hath drunke in all the â—onâ—y you shall put in more and water the root with vrine in the end you shall 〈◊〉 off all the little shoots which shall put forth of the tree letting those alone which shall grow vpon the slit branch At the same time Orange trees may be grafted chiefely vpon the Pom◠〈◊〉 â—tree for vpon this they thriue maruellously especially the Orange tree both in goodnesse greatnesse beautie and thicknesse of such fruits as they bring forth in respect and comparison of those which they bring forth when they are grafted one 〈◊〉 another that is to say the Orange
vpon the Citron or the Citron vpon the Orange tree They may be grafted likewise vpon themselues as the Citron-tree vpon the Citron tree and sometimes vpon the Pomegranate Peare Apple and Mâ—lberrie tree but seldome betwixt the barke and the wood but vpon the head of the trunke or bodie of the tree cut off neere vnto the root In the grafting of them you must make choice of the fairest grafts which may be found as â—o graft a good Citron tree vpon a better The Limon grafted vpon the Citron doth beare fairet fruit than the Citron grafted vpon the Limon because the Citron tree is a great deale more â—appie and full of iuice for to make nourishmenâ— of than the Limon tree Citrons and Liâ—â—ons grafted vpon an Orange tree doe beare more fruit than vpon their owne â—â—umpe and bodie and are not so subiect vnto the cold because they enioy and parâ—â—cipate so largely of the Orange tree his properties and qualities which consisting of a hard wood without sappe doth resist the cold a great deale the more 〈…〉 way to graft them is by cleauing the stocke and then it must be done in Aprill or in March or by way of crowning and that must be done in May or by cutting a â—ound hole in the barke of the tree and this must be done in Iuly When they be grafted into the barke of the tree you must cut away whatsoeuer is superfluous or more than needeth of buds or sprouts which are not grafted and withall take away all the shoots which grow thereupon afterward When they are planted you shall â—ot suffer anie weeds to grow there about them except it be the Gourd whereof they are refreshed if it grow neere vnto them as being much succoured by them and protected from the cold as also for that the ashes thereof sowne and cast about â—he roots of Citrons doe make them more faire and fruitfull And seâ—ing that the Citron tree is verie fruitfull and bearâ—th a heauie fruit after such time as it hath brought forth his fruit you must gather the greater part and leaue but a few remaining and so the remainder will proue verie faire ones and a great deale the better The Orange tree will neuer freese nor die with a cold wind nor yet with the frost if it be grafted vpon Holly being an approued thing but then indeed the fruit will not be so naturall as that of the others Citrons Oranges Limons and Syrian Citrons must be gathered in the night with their leaues in the change of the Moone not before they be ripe but when the Orange is of a golden colour all ouer if you purpose to keepe them long and you must not tarrie till they be become pale before you gather them You may keepe them fresh and vncorrupt all the yeare if you hide them in heapes of Barly or Millet or else if you annoint them ouer with plaister well tempâ—red or if you close them vp in vessels euerie one by it selfe You must not in anie case lay Citrons neere vnto hot bread for it would make them not To haue Oranges of a mixt nature and as it were halfe Oranges halfe Citrons you must about the beginning of March cut a sience or branch of the Citron tree whiles it is yet young of the thicknesse of three fingers and plant the same in a conuenient time giuing it all his orders and best helpes of husbanding at the end of two yeares or thereabout when it is well taken and betwixt March and Aprill you shall sow it of a finger within the earth and closing the cut fast you shall graft by way of cleft a graft of a young Orange tree thereupon as of some two yeares old proportionable and sutable vnto the Citron tree in thicknesses afterward you shall rub and annoint the said cut and chaâ—e or cleft for the receit of the graft with the root of the hearbe called Aron and you shall couer it well with a good cappe after the manner of other grafts putting therewithall vnto the foot thereof well rotted dung or the ashes of Gourds after that you shall lay it about with good earth a reasonable height and vnderprop it till such time as it shall grow great and strong but know that the graft must be taken of the side of the Orange tree which standeth towards the East and it must be done in the encrease of the Moone and day for so it will prosper more effectually The Citron will be red and sweet if it be grafted vpon a Mulberrie tree and will grow in such forme after such manner as a man will haue it if before it be growne to his bignesse any way it be closed vp in a frame or mould cut after the shape you would haue it 〈…〉 may grow 〈…〉 quantitie therein By the 〈…〉 it be put into a vessell of earth or glasse 〈◊〉 it be fully growne it will 〈…〉 fashion of the vessell and become as great as the vessell but in the 〈…〉 is haue ayre you must make some small holes in the vessell The fruits of these Trees are alike differing both in colour disposition 〈…〉 for Oranges haue a more yellow and golden rind a sowre or 〈…〉 sowre and sweet together being round as an Apple and fitter for the Kitchin 〈◊〉 for Medicine The Limon hath a longer shape a paler rind a sowre-tast and is good for the Kitchin and in Physicke to coole cut and penetrate The Citron is long 〈◊〉 the fashion of an egge the rind thicke yellow without sowre good for 〈◊〉 and preseruatiue medicines Syrian Citrons are twice so great as 〈…〉 fashioned like Cucumbers and the rind an 〈◊〉 thicke The leaues of the Citron tree doe cause a good smell amongst clothes and 〈◊〉 them from the freâ—ting of Moathes The rind iuice and seed of Citrons are all of them verie soueraigne against all manner of Poyson and danger of the Plagues 〈…〉 also that of the Limon And for this cause there may a whole Citron and 〈…〉 boyled in Rose water and Sugar vntill such time as all be consumed away to 〈◊〉 iuice and after to vse euerie morning to the quantitie of one or two 〈…〉 this decoction in the time of the Plague The rind and iuice of Citrons doe procure a sweet breath the rind preserued heatâ—th the stomacke and helpeth digâ—â—â—â— The iuice pressed from the rind of an Orange is quickly set on fire it 〈…〉 by his great subtlenesse through the glasse euen into the Wine that is 〈◊〉 therein The iuice of Limons killeth Sâ—abs Itch and Freâ—kles and taketh away the spots of Inke out of Cloth The same distilled through a Limbeck maketh 〈◊〉 countenances smooth and beautifull and taketh away all filthinesse from all the 〈◊〉 of the bodie being giuen to children to drinke it killeth the Wormes which are in their bodies If one bring the Limon neere vnto the fire the thinne iuice that will come forth doth
and Fullers clay tempered together with water You may make Quinces of what fashiâ—â— you will if you teach them to grow in moulds of wood or baked earth As coâ—â—â—â—ning the meanes to keepe them we shall speake of that hereafter The garden and reclaimed Quince-tree beareth two sorts of fruits the 〈…〉 male which is called the Quince Apple the other the female which is called the Quincesse thus differing the male is lesse more writhled and wrinkled drier of a sweeter smell and of a more golden colour than the Quincesse the wild Quince is verie odoriferous but of a verie hard flesh If you graft a male Quince-tree vpon a female or the female vpon the male you shall haue tender Quinces and 〈◊〉 as may be eaten raw whereas the other are not fit to bee eaten before they 〈◊〉 prepared The smell of Quinces is contrarie vnto venime and poyson also the Quinâ—◠〈◊〉 selfe doth comfort the stomacke stay the flux of the bellie and make men to 〈…〉 sweet breath For which reason wise Solon as saith Plutarch did 〈…〉 onely the betrothed but also the married women that they should neuer lye 〈◊〉 their husbands but that they should first eat of the flesh of a Quince And yet notwithstanding the woman with child when she draweth neere the time of her deliâ—â—rance may not vse Quinces although that in vsing of them in the time of her beiâ—g with child they will be some meanes of her bringing forth of a faire babe Soâ—â— make a confection of Quinces called Marmalade which is verie soueraigne againâ—â— the flux of the bellie which is prepared and made in manner as we will shew in the fiue and fortieth chapter according vnto which patterne wee may make a laxatâ—â—â— Marmalade after this sort Take of Quinces cleansed from their Pippins cut theâ— in quarters but pare them not boyle them throughly in water then sâ—raine them through a cleane Linnen cloth and wring them out diligently then boyle them againe with Sugar putting thereto a sufficient quantitie of Rubarbe in powder This Marmalade purgeth verie speedily and withall comforteth the stomacke and the liuer In stead of Rubarbe you may put some other laxatiue thereunto as 〈◊〉 Agaricke or such like The Cydoniatum or Marmalade of Lyons is 〈…〉 Scammonie CHAP. XXVI Of Oranges Assyrian Citrons common Citrons Limons and Pome-adams THe Orange Assyrian Citron and Limon desire to be set vpon the South or South-west wind for being touched with such winds as are 〈◊〉 and moist they become more aboundant in iuice better coloured and thicker which is the cause that the Sea-coasts being haunted with 〈◊〉 said-winds doe abound with durable plants and such trees bringing â—orth 〈◊〉 fruitfully for others set vpon the North and North-east are not thereby so 〈◊〉 fitted Some make Nurseries of these kind of trees sowing their seeds in 〈◊〉 They will affirme and giue it out likewise that they grow of siences set and 〈◊〉 downe in small furrowes or stucke downe in baskets and some do◠〈…〉 vpon the stocke neere ynough vnto the root and that in Aprill and in May 〈◊〉 some say that they may be grafted after the manner of the Scutcheon like graft 〈◊〉 the moneths of Summer putting their pippins in a pot or basket neere vnto 〈◊〉 tree where you would they should be grafted or halfe swallowed but the 〈◊〉 certaine direction and instruction about these Trees is that which is set 〈◊〉 in the second Booke and whereunto also wee referre you for the same 〈◊〉 The Pome-adam-tree is much to be esteemed euen of the best Gardiners not in reâ—pect of his fruit which indeed is more beautifull than profitable in as much as it is â—â—either good to eat raw nor yet to preserue but onely fit to wash the hands or else to 〈◊〉 in the hand but to graft Citron-trees Orange-trees Limon-trees and Assyâ—â—an Citron-trees vpon as wee haue said in the second Booke because they prosper â—â—aruellously vpon this tree and bring forth verie quickly faire and great fruit espeâ—â—ally the Orange-tree We haue entreated in the second Booke of the differences 〈◊〉 Oranges Citrons Meâ—ons and Assyrian Citrons whereunto we will further adde 〈◊〉 the Citron of Assyria is of a verie good smell but of little sweetnesse or anie â—â—ther tast and therefore it is vsuall to eat his flesh with salt or sugar or with salt and â—â—ineger The Limon differeth from this kind of Citron because the Limon is lesse 〈◊〉 colour drawing toward a greene bunching out both aboue and below after the â—â—anner of womens nipples As for Pome-adams they are round twice or thrice as great as Oranges not haâ—â—ing a verie thicke rind rugged vneuen and hauing manie clefts or chaps varie maâ—ifestly appearing like to the prints of teeth Some thinke they had this name giuen â—f being the Apple which Adam did bite vpon in this earthly Paradise They are â—â—ellished almost like Limons but not altogether so pleasant If you cut it in the â—alfe and season it with the fine powder of Brimstone and after rost the same vnâ—â—er the ashes and rubbe therewith the itching bodie or anie part thereof it will â—eale the same CHAP. XXVII Of the Figge-tree FIgge-trees are either white carnation red pale or green and some also be blacke There are some that beare before the cold come others are more late in their fruit and againe of all these some beare a small fruit as namely the white ones and othersome a great and grosse fruit stanâ—â—â—ng out with great bellies as by name the blacke ones of which yet further there 〈◊〉 one kind that beareth long Figges hauing almost no bellies and these draw noâ—hing neere in goodnesse vnto the great bellied ones and those which are more short All sorts of Figge-trees loue a hot ayre and countrey a drie and stonie ground insoâ—uch as that it ceaseth not bearing of excellent fruit amongst the heapes of small â—â—ones prouided that there be good store of depth of earth to spread and sinke â—owne his roots into at ease Such a tree as manie others is apt for hot Countries â—ut hee that would haue of them to grow in cold Countries must make choice of â—â—ose which bring forth their fruit before the cold time of the yeare and must couer 〈◊〉 with some shield in Winter and compasse it about the foot with fat ground or â—ung of Oxen or Asses verie well rotted for otherwise it will yeeld him no pleaâ—ure This tree is so full of pith and his fruit so moist as that if you water it the fruit will not keepe but yet you may vnder-digge and digge it to the end that the nights â—et may enter into it You must take from it all dead and rotten wood not suffering â—y it the water to find anie standing vpon the tree for otherwise the fruit would not haue anie tast or sauour The Plant of the Figge-tree which is of a branch or of shoots newly put forth 〈◊〉 planted in October
Ciders the best and most wholesome are those which are made of these Apples the Heroâ—t sweet Kennet Curtaine and Rangelet because these Applâ—s are verie sweet of a golden colour good smell and long lasting Sowre Cider whether it were made such by reason of the sowrenesse of the Apples or become such by reason of the space of time in as much as it is verie waâ—rie and somewhat earthie as also verie subtill and piercing and yet therewithall somewhat astringent and corroboratiue becommeth singular good to coole a hot liuer and stomacke and to temper the heat of boyling and cholericke bloud to stay choler and adust vomiting to asswage thirst to cut and make thinne grosse and slimie humors whether hot or cold but chiefely the hot Such drinke falleth out to be verie good and conuenient and to serue well in place of wine for such as haue anie Ague for such as are subiect to a hot liuer and hot bloud for such as are scabbed or itchie for such as are rheumaticke vpon occasion of hot humors and it needeth not that it should be tempered with water Of sowre Ciders those are the most wholesome which are made of sharpe sowre Apples as of Rundockes Ramburs and sowre Kennets The Cider that is harsh and rough in as much as it is verie cold and drie is not good but after a long time as namely not before that it haue lost his harshnesse changing this his great coldnesse and drinesse into a meane and middle coldnesse accompanied with some moisture drawing thereby neere vnto some kind of sweetnesse or tart and pleasant sharpenesse as we see it come to passe in fruits which yet whiles they are not ripe haue a certaine kind of harshnesse in them but comming to be ripe change by little and little their harshnesse into an eager tartnesse and after into a pleasant sweetnesse Wherefore such Ciders would not be drunke till of a long while after they be made or if that great necessitie should compell then to allay them with a sufficient quantitie of water for otherwise they would but cause costiâ—enesse the strangurie shortnesse of breath and an infinite number of obstructions yea they would procure manifold crudities in the stomacke guts and principall veines yea they would ouerthrow a weake stomacke beget a grosse cold and flegmaticke bloud in the liuer send vp manie thicke vapours vnto the braine which would offend the head and hurt the sinewes and ioints but it is as true that they 〈◊〉 this commoditie with them as to comfort the languishing stomacke the quâ—asie stomacke and that which hath altogether lost his appetite such as commonly beâ—ideth women hauing newly conceiued and strange appetites for which this Cider is verie fit and conuenient as also to stay excessiue vomiting all sorts of fluxes of the belly all distillations also falling downe vpon the ioints it quieteth the beating of the heart and cutteth off faintings it helpeth digestion drunke at the end of meat so that as we haue said it be allayed with a little water to diminish and reforme the heauinesse and slownesse to pierce and passe away which is in it following the counsell of Galen who teacheth three manner of waies to vse sowre and binding Apples and Peares without aniâ— preiudicing of the health the first way being to boile them in 〈◊〉 that so they may get more moistnesse and softnesse the second to set them in the breath and vapour of boyling water to moisten and ripen them and the third being to cut them in the middest and to take away their core and in place thereof to put honey or sugar and then afterward to roast them amongst the hot ashes These kinds of Ciders are made principally of the Apples called small Ruddocke of wild Apples not grafted nor husbanded of Apple Bequet Rellet and such other hauing their coats diuersly spotted Ciders without all tast become such by reason of their great waterishnesse and are easily corrupted and that not onely in their vessels but also being drunken and vsed for drinke and therefore there is no reckoning to be made of such As concerâ—ing Ciders hauing seuerall tasts as â—ager and sweet harsh and sweet or anie such other medley the eager sweet are much better and more wholsome than the harsh sweet because they are not onely more pleasant but also more speedily passing piercing and cutting than the other which by reason of their harshnesse ioyned with some sweetnesse and causing a thicknesse and heauinesse in them abide and stay long about the principall parts where they may cause crudities and manie obstructions As for the age and lasting of Ciders such as are new made and continue as yet troubled not being fined are not wholesome and cannot be drunke without 〈◊〉 vnto the stomacke without head-ach and an infinite companie of obstructions and other accidents tedious to the health For such as are verie sowre and begin apace to turne tart and eager they are not lesse hurtfull than the former and therefore they must not be vsed but when they are well fined and in their middleage as wee see it obserued in wine As concerning the compounding of them those are the best most wholesome and easiest to be digested which are made of verie ripe Apples gathered in due time and not ouer-long kept which are likewise made of one onely kind of Apples or else of manie kinds but either agreeing in tast or else being of a a diuers tast yet are such as may be tempered together and make a more pleasant tast than if they were alone and seuerall as for example if one should mingle amongst sweet Apples such as were eager and sharpe such a medley would make a farre more pleasant Cider and more profitable than if either of the said sorts were alone The Cider likewise that is made of Apples onely is better than that which is made of Apples and Peares stamped and pressed together better in like manner and more wholesome are those which are made without water than that which is made with water seeing water maketh it to lose his naturall tast maketh it sowre and corrupt and that it will not last or endure long wherefore it is better not to mix any water at all with it when you make any but rather at the time of drinking of it to dilay it and powre in 〈◊〉 water if necessitie require it and according as there shall be any of the occasions 〈◊〉 mentioned The worst of the Ciders is that which is made of wild Apples stampt and cast into a vessell with fountaine water in sufficient quantitie and yet worse than this is that which is made of the drosâ—e remaining of the first pressing as that also which is only cast into a vessell with sufficient quantitie of water Wherefore seeing that Ciders how pleasant and excellent soeuer they be affoord no such nourishment vnto the bodie as is verie profitable for them as we will handle more at large hereafter
or hang vpon the sides of the vessell as being the verie marke of the perfect and sufficient boiling If you be disposed to put any spice into it as Cinnamon Cloues Nutmegs and Ginger you must doe it in the end of the boiling of them and then also stirre it well about with the spatule After the same manner you may preserue or make Marmalade of Peaches Peares and other fruits Yet there is another Marmalade which is made of Oranges which desireth a great deale of more curiositie in the working and is exceeding pleasant to tast and indeed more wholesome than anie other Marmalade whatsoeuer especially for those which are sicke and weake for it fortifieth the stomacke and encreaseth appetite it expelleth wind and comforteth the vitall spirits This Marmalade of Oranges is made in this manner Take of the fairest and best Oranges you can get not those which are called Ciuill and haue a sweet tast but those which are of a cleere high and bright colour and are sowre in tast then with a very sharpe knife pare away the vpper yellow rinde I doe not meane to the white but so exceeding thinne as is possible taking away as it were but onely the smooth thinne skinne and leauing the Orange as yellow as before onely looking a little more blanke and rough this done you shall by them in faire running water pressing them so downe that they may be all couerted ouer with the water then at the end of euerie fiue houres shift them into fresh water till hauing layne full fiue or six houres in each of them you cannot tast anie biâ—â—ernesse in the water but that it is sweet and pleasant as when it came out of the Foâ—â—taine then you may be assured that they are steept ynough so that then you shall take them forth of the water and drie them with a fine cleane cloth then to euerie pound of Oranges you shall take a pound of refined Sugar well beaten and â—earced and six or eight spoonefuls of Damaske-Rose-water and in the same you shall boilâ— the Oranges till they burst and become like vnto pappe or pulpe which you shall the more occasion by continually stirring them with a spoone or spatule then when they are fully broken ynough you shall take them from the fire and presently strainâ— them through a cleane Strainer into your boxes and so let them coole and stiffen Iâ— this sort you may make Marmalade of Limons Citrons or anie other whole 〈◊〉 whose rinde is bitter or vnpleasant You may also after this manner preserue other Oranges Limons Citrons or anie other such like fruit obseruing not to let them boile vntill they breake but keeping them in a verie moderate and gentle temper If you would make a laxatiue Marmalade such as they vse at Lyons looke into the 26. Chapter of this Booke To make good and excellent Gellie of Quinces cleanse your Quinces that 〈◊〉 verie ripe and yellow taking out of them their kernels them cut them in small quarters without paring of them for the skinne doth encrease the smell whiles you are thus making of them cleane and cutting them in quarters cast them presently into a basin full of vvater for if they be not cast into vvater so soone as they be thus chopt in peeces they vvill become blacke boyle them in a great quantitie of water vntill such time as they be almost become like pap meat vvhen they are sufficiently boyled strayne this water through a new linnen cloth that is good and thicke and that euen all the decoction and so strongly as possibly you can To this decoction thus strained adde the fourth part of fine sugar cause all to boyle vpon a reasonable coale fire so long as till in the end you perceiue it verie neere perfectly boyled then make a small fire that so it may not burne to the sides for that would make the gelly to be of an euill colour and you shall know when it is perfectly boyled if you find it cleauing like glue vnto the oyle and therefore you must then put it in boxes To preserue Walnuts Gather vvalnuts whiles they are small tender and greene vvith their rinde and all and make many small holes therein and after lay them to sleepe in vvater eleuen or twelue dayes more or lesse cleanse then from the skinne that lyeth vpon the shell vvithout shaling of them and boyle them in clarified Sugar a long time still putting vnto them more and more clarified Sugar because the long boyling vvill make great vvaste in the end put them into vessells with cloues ginger and cinnamome but lesse of cloues than of any of the rest because they would make them ouer bitter Another vvay to preserue them is to take greene Walnuts about the moneth of May or of Iune before that their pilling become hard pill them and let them steepe nine dayes more or lesse according as you shall perceiue them to become tender in pure water vvhich must be changed euerie day three or foure times boyle them yet afterward to make them more tender being boyled drie them in the shadow of the Sunne or vvipe them drie with a linnen cloth afterward pricke them with cinnamome and cloues In the end set them a boyling in clarified sugar so long till the sugar be boyled vp to the consistence of a sirope afterward put them in tinne or earthen vessells made for the purpose together vvith the sirope vvherein they were boyled Others doe them otherwise They gather the Walnut whiles it is greene they pricke it vpon a spindle or some such like instrument of wood not of yron for yron vvould make it more blacke and let it steepe in water often changed and then boyle it till it be tender being tender they cast it by and by into verie cleane cold water being cooled they cleanse it from a little skin which sheweth it selfe aboue the shell and drie it with a linnen cloth and finally pricke it about with cloues and cinnamome they put it thus in vessells and couer it with sirope to keepe it in if it happen that after some small time the sirope become too thin then they boyle it againe and put it againe into the vessell this is the way to keepe walnuts alwaies greene according to their naturall colour In steed of sugar or honie to make liquid preserues you may for need vse cute such as we will intreat of in the fiâ—t Booke vvhich cute or boyled vvine is of no lesse sweetnesse and goodnesse than honie or sugar To preserue pills of Cytrons or Oranges chuse great pills of Cytrons or of Oranges or of Assyrian Cytrons cut in foure or six peeces cleanse thâ—m from their inward skin and pippins steepe them in cleare vvater for the space of nine daies changing the water the fifth day vvhen the nine daies are past put them againe in cleare vvater to steepe vntill they become sweet and haue lost their bitternesse and withall appeare cleare
Thyme wild Thyme Anniseed or the ribbes and boughes of Fennell and thus you may keepe them a long time To preserue Oliues lay white Oliues to steepe six daies in a vessell of Sea-water and vpon them powre the iuice of Grapes as it commeth from the presse but fill not the vessell too full to the end that the sweet wine when it shall boile doe not shed ouer and when it hath boiled you must stop the vessell Some doe put a handfull of salt in first and after it the Must of new wine and last the Oliues and when the new â—ine hath boiled they stop vp the vessell Otherwise drie them in the shadow in a place that is open for the wind to enter then put them vp in an earthen vessell filled with honey mixing therewithall some Spices Filberds or small Hasel-Nuts may be preserued two seuerall waies that is to say either in the shell or without by the kernell onely To preserue them in the shell and to haue them verie full large and pleasant in tast you shall take a large earthen pot as wide in the bottome as at the mouth and then first lay therein a pretie thicke layre of Nuts and then strew vpon them a handfull of Bay salt then lay another layre of Nuts and an handfull of Bay salt and thus doe layre vpon layre till you haue filled the pot vp to the top then couer it with leather parchment exceeding close which done lay a smooth stone on the top of it and then dig a hole in the earth in some drie vault or cellar and set the pot therein and couer it all ouer with the earth and this wil keepe them all the yeare or diuers yeares in as good strength fulnesse and sweetnesse as if they were but newly gotten from the trees Some vse only to burie these pots thus filled in red or yellow sand and some vse not to burie them at all but to keepe them in a low coole and moist vault and surely anie will doe will but the first is the best and maketh them most full and to haue the pleasantest rellish But if you would preserue them without the shels in the kernels only then you shall open them and pick off the vpper red hull or skin and in all points doe to them as was taught you before for the Walnut To make Quince-cakes thin and as it were almost transparent you shall take your Quinces and pare them and cut them in slices from the chore then take weight for weight of refined sugar beaten and well searced and onely moistened with Damaske Rosewater and in it boile your Quinces till it be thick and then take it forth and drie it vpon a flat place-dish ouerasoft fire not leauing to stirre it with a spoone or slice till it be hard then put it into a stone-mortar and beat it very well and if you find that it wanteth sugar then as you beat it strew in more sugar till it haue the tast you desire then being come to a paste take it out of the mortar and rowle it forth into verie thin â—akes and so print it and in this manner you may make thin cakes of anie manner of fruit you please whatsoeuer If you will make your Pastes Cakes Marmalades Preserues or Conserues of diuers colours as red vvhite or betweene both you shall doe as followeth a first if you vvill haue your paste or marmalade red you shall take your Quinces Apples Peares Oranges or what other fruit you please and after you haue paâ—ed or riâ—ed them you shall cut them in halfes and chore such as are to be chored then take weight for weight of refined sugar and to euerie pound of sugar a quart of faire running water and boyle them in the same ouer a verie soft fire and turne them ouer many times and couer them verie close with a pewter-dish obseruing euer that the longer they are in boyling the better and more ruddie will the colour be then when they be soft take your knife and cut them crosse ouer the tops that the sirrop may pasâ—e through them and make the colour entire then take vp some of the sirrop and coole it vpon a sawcer and when you see it begin to be thick then breake your Quinces with a slice or a spoone as small as is possible then straine it and boxe it after you haue strewed sugar in the boxes or if you will haue it in paste or cakes then vse it as is before said of the Quince cakes and so mould it and roll it forth Now if you will haue it of a pure white colour you must in all points vse your Quinces Apples Peares Oranges or other fruit as is beforesaid onely you must take but to euerie pound of Sugar a pint of water and you must boile them as fast as is possible and not couer them at all but suffer the ayre to passe away as freely as may be Now if you will haue it of a carnation or more pale colour then you shall take a pint and a halfe of water to a pound of Sugar and a pound of Fruit and you shall so couer it with a Pewter dish that at one corner of the same a little of the ayre or smoake may pasâ—e away and no more and thus obserue that the more ayre you suffer to goe away the paler the colour will be and in this case you shall neyther suffer it to boile exceeding fast nor verie slow but of a temperate and indifferent manner If you will make artificiall Cinnamon stickes so like vnto the true Cinnamon it selfe that the one can hardly be iudged from the other and yet the counterfeit to be a most delicate and pleasant sweet meat and wholesome and soueraigne to be eaten you shall take an ounce of the best Cinnamon from which no water hath by anie meanes beene extracted and beat it into verie fine powder well fearced then take halfe a pound of refined Sugar also well beaten and searced and mixe them verie well together then take gumme Dragon the quantitie of a Hasel Nut and sâ—eepe it in Rose-water so as it may be thicke and verie glewie then with it temper the Cinnamon and Rose-water till you bring it to a fine paste then worke it out with your hand after that rowle it forth with your Rowling-Pinne then print it and lastly fold it vp in the same manner that you see a Cinnamon sticke is folded vp Now if where you dissolue your gumme Dragon you also dissolue with the same a graine or two of fat Muske and also twice as much Ambergreece it will be a great deale the better and adde more pleasantnesse and delicacie of smell vnto the stickes To make Conserue generally of anie fruit whatsoeuer you please either sweet or sowre you shall take the fruit you intend to make Conserue of and if it be stone fruit you shall take out the stones if other fruit take away
ounce then take three or foure Citrons and cut them in sufficient thicke slices which done infuse all this in a sufficient quantitie of Rose-water for the space of three daies distilling it all afterward in Maries bath at a small fire the distillation done put thereto a scruple of Muske Water of Roses musked Take the buds of Roses and cutting out the white put them into the Stillitorie and in the middest thereof vpon your Roses put a little knot of Muske and so distill them Water of Spike Take Spike before the flower be altogether blowne and taking away all the wood from it lay it on a bed within the Stillitorie afterward lay vpon that bed a bed of Roses almost blowne and thereupon some dozen of Cloues but and if you haue not Spike then you may put Lauander in his place distill it at a moderate fire and with as little ayre as possibly you can giue it And when the distillation shall be as good as finished beâ—prinkle the matter with a little verie good white Wine and so finishing your distillation keepe your water in viols well stopped Damaske water Take two handfuls and a halfe of red Roses Rosemarie flowers Lauander and Spike flowers of each a Pugill of the sprigges of Thyme flowers of Cammomile flowers of small Sage of Penyryall and Marierome of each a handfull infuse them all in white Wine the space of foure and twentie houres then put them into the Stillitorie sprinkling it with verie good white Wine and scatter thereupon this powder following take an ounce and a halfe of well chosen Cloues an ounce of Nutmegs of Beniouin and Styrax calamiâ—a of each two drammes make them in powder The water that shall be distilled must be kept in a vessell verie well stopped There is also made a verie sweet water of cleare Myrrhe if it be new guâ—mie and diuided into small gobbets and set to steepe in the iuice of Roses six times as much in quantitie as the Myrrhe It must be distilled vpon hot ashes at a small fire for and if you should encrease it there would come forth oyle with the water Such water being dropped but onely one drop of it into an hundred of well or foâ—â—taine water maketh it all to smell most sweetly Rose-water sweetened with Muske Take a Glasse-vessell of the fashion of an Vrinall that is to say wide below and straight aboue therein put twelue graines of Muske or more and stop it close with good Parchment setting it in the Sunne for foure or fiue daies then take another vessell of the fashion of the first which you shall fill with Roses dried a verie little and stamped then stop that vessell also with a verie thinne Linnen cloth or with a Strainer afterward put the mouth of the vessell wherein the Roses be into the mouth of the other wherein the Muske is luâ—e them well together and set them in the Sunne in such sort as that the vessell with the Roses may stand aboue that wherein the Muske is and that in some window or such other place where the Sunne shineth verie hot and by this meanes there willâ— water distill downe vpon the Muske which will be good either to be vsed aboue or mingled with some other Otherwise Take twentie graines of Muske 〈◊〉 Cloues Galingall Schaenanthum graines of Paradise Mace and Cinnamome of each an ounce bray them all together and put them into a Stillitorie with a 〈◊〉 and a halfe of Rose-water then let them stand so foure or fiue daies and afterward distill them Water of Oranges Take the pilles of Oranges and Citrons when they are greene of each halfe an ounce of Cloues fiue or sixe of the flowers of Spike or Lauander newly gathered six ounces infuse all together in six pound of Rose-water the space of foure or fiue daies afterward distill them Water of Orange flowers Take flowers of Oranges and distill them in a Glasse-Stillitorie or in an earthen one verie well baked and glased hauing but a small fire you may also put vnto them the flowers of Citrons if you thinke good The water must be kept in Glasse-bottles couered with fiâ—e Mats and well stopped The counterfeit water of Orange flowers Take the buds of red Roses the most double that can be found but take their yellow from them make a bed thereof in the Stillitorie and aboue it another bed of the flowers of Lillies afterward againe another of Roses and then another of the flowers of Lauander and then another bed of Roses againe and betwixt euerie one of these beds cast and sow some bruised Cloues and in the middest of all make a little pit in which you shall put certaine graines of Muske or Ciuet or Ambergreece or some sort of perfume afterward distill them all at a little fire Reserue the water in little bottles couered with fine Mats and well stopped A sweet smelling water Take Marierome Thyme Lauander Rosemarie small Penyryall red Roses flowers of Violets Gilloflowers Sauorie and pilles of Oranges steepe them all in white Wine so much as will swimme aboue the said hearbeâ—â— afterward distill them in a Stillitorie twice or thrice keepe the water in bottles well stopped and the drosse or residence to make perfumes CHAP. LXXI The fashion of distilling water for Fukes NOw albeit that a good Farmers wife must not be too bufie with Fukes and such things as are for the decking and painting of the bodie because her care must wholly be imployed in the keeping and encrease of her household-stuffe notwithstanding I would not haue her ignorant of the manner of distilling of waters for Fukes not that shee should make vse of them for her selfe but that shee may make some profit and benefit by the sale thereof vnto great Lords and Ladies and other persons that may attend to be curious and paint vp themselues Now all such waters in generall serue for three purposes The one is to smooth and keepe neat the skinne as well of the face as of the other parts of the bodie The other is to colour the haire of the head and beard and the third to make white the teeth Some of these are simple as the water of the flowers of Beanes of Strawberries the water of the Vine of Goats milke of Asses milke of whites of egges of the flowers of Lillies of Dragons and of Calues feet others are compounded of maine ingredients as you shall know by the briefe collection that wee shall make of them Water of Strawberries Take ripe Strawberries set them to putrifie some certaine time in an earthen vessell putting thereto a little salt or sugar and afterward distill them This water will cleaâ—se away the spots of the face and the spots of the eies caused either of hot or cold humours it will be more effectuall if you infuse the Strawberries in Aqua-vitae before that you doe distill them Water of Beane-flowers Take the flowers of
such like pulse doe swell vp the bellie and beget grosse and melancholike bloud CHAP. XXII Of Pastrie or baked meates WEe haue spoken of the making differences and profite of bread which may be made of any manner of graine corne or pulse now vve will say somewhat of the skill to make Cakes Cheese-cakes Flawnes 〈◊〉 and other baked meats the which we desire to be in our housewife that now and then she may take occasion at sometimes of the yeare to present her Master and Mistresse with one dish or other as also be able to serue and set before her family somwhat extraordinarie at feast times to cheere them vp withall Such baked meates are of diuers sorts according to the matter whereof they are made the manner of their baking their shape and fashion the time when they are to be in vse and the countrie wherein they are made The matter is as it were the ground-worke of all sorts of baked meates and that is the flower of Wheate meale forced through a Bolter or fine Searce whereunto many other things being added doe cause a varietie of baked meates That it is so some make Wafers of the flower of Wheate meale verie well soked in water and tempered a long time therwith vntill it come to a certaine thicknesse mixing therewith a little salt finely powdred and after causing the same to bee baked betwixt two irons made hote first with a reasonable gentle fire and 〈◊〉 annointed with the oile of Nuts these kindes of Wafers a man may see made in many places openly and abroad vpon festiuall and solemne feast dayes 〈◊〉 may bee made a tenderer and more delicate kinde of Wafers in soaking the 〈◊〉 of the Wheate meale in white wine and water mixt together and throughly laboured and wrought putting thereto afterward the yolkes of Egges a little Sugar and 〈…〉 so baking all together betweene two irons hauing within them many raced châ—â—kered draughts after the manner of small squares after that the said irons haue beene annointed with fresh Butter or Oile oliue This sort of Wafers is wont to bee set on Tables at the second courses in solemne banquets That which the Parisians do call Mestâ—er is made of the same flower of Wheat meale tempered vvith vvater and vvhite vvine putting thereto a little sugar and boiling it all betwixt two irons after the manner vvhich you vsed in making of Waâ—ers but that it must not be altogether so thicke The kinde of Wafers called Oublies are made vvith Honey in stead of Sugar Singing breads are made after the manner of Oublies sane only that the meale whereof they are kneaden is not mingled vvith Honey Sugar or any manner of Leauen whatsoeuer Estriez and Bridaueaux and such other daintie baked things are made of the same stuffe and after the same manner that fine Wafers are before described Marchpanes are made of verie little flower but with addition of greater quantitie of Filberds Pine Nuts Pistaces Almonds and rosed Sugar and they are the most vvholsome delicate and pleasant tarts of all the rest The Poplins are made of the same flower kneaden with milke yolkes of egges fresh butter The leaued cakes take not so much flower and they are made vvithout milke Tarts are made after diuers fashions and according to the time some with fruits that is to say Apples Peares Cherries and Plumbs especially in Sommer others with Gooseberries kernels of Crabs and Straw-berries in the beginning of Sommer The Italians do make Tarts of hearbes as Scariole Lettuse Blites Sorrell Bâ—glosse and other hearbs chopt small and finely tempered together The greatest part doe make them with Cheese or Creame and many of all these things mixt together Iâ— so be that the Tarts be of diuers matter and colour that is to say of Plums Cherries Gooseberries Cheese or Creame Some make with Butter Cheese and yolkes of Egges diuers sorts of Cakes Flammickes Cheese-cakes Talmouses and little Lenten loaues Wigges are made with paste of flower of meale and fresh butter Fritters and other such sweet conceits accustomed to be in request vpon great daies and before Lent are made of the flower of meale kneaden with the yolkes of Egges and Milke and fried in a Skillet with fresh Butter To conclude looke how many countries so many fashions of paste workes in all which notwithstanding this is for the most part common namely that they vse not any Leauen in any of them all but onely the rising of Beere and that because Leauen made of paste would make them too sowre or inâ—ect them vvich some other taste too vnpleasant and vnbeseeming baked meate and hinder the whole and intire incorporating of things mingled amongst the meale whereof it is made Yet all this formerly spoken of doth not so truely belong to the Pastrie as to the Confectionarie or Closet of sweet meats tarts only excepted yet in as much as they are principall ornaments to the housewife they are not meet here to be omitted To come then to the true Pastrie which is the making of those pastes vvhich are meet for the lapping in or containing of all manner of baked meates whether it be flesh fish rootes hearbes fruits or other composition whatsoeuer you shall vnderstand that they are of foure kinds the first for the preseruation or long keeping of meats whose proper and true-natures are to be eaten colde as Venison of all kindes Kiddes Beefe Veale Mutton Lambe Turkeyes Gamons of Bakon or any great or daintie fowle the second for the containing of loose bodies at Dousets Custards Tarts Cheese-cakes and such like the third for the receiuing of fine daintie and tender bodies as Chuets Vmbles Chickens Calues feete or any other good thing which is to be eaten hote and the last is that vvhich is called puâ—t paste being of all other the most daintâ—est and pleasantest in taste and may be imployed to any vse that any of the former vvill serue for according to the fancie and skill of the Cooke or the taste of him that is Master of the Familie To speake then first of that paste vvhich is for the preseruation of meaâ—s or to keepe them longest cold in good and vvholsome temper it is euer best to be made of Rie flower finely boulted and kneaden vvith hote vvater and barrelled butter yet in such sort that the paste may be somewhat stiffe and â—ough and thereby verie apt to rise vvithout cracking or breaking vvhich is the greatest danger belonging to this kind of past and the coffins raised hereof must be very thicke and substantiall for thereby they preserue their inmeats a great deale the better and they must also aboue all things be exceedingly well bakt because any doughinesse or rawnesse in the crust soone putrifyeth that which is baked within it these paâ—â—es may also for shew or feasts though worse in regard of continuance be made of wheat meale finely boulted and then it would haue much more butter than the rie paste and be
as in other cold Countries and such whereas the Vine could not grow they haue either still continued their drinking of vvater or fetched and procured vvine from other places or else haue prepared some other kind of drinke comming neere in some measure vnto vvine vvhich by the delicatenesse thereof might reioyce the heart and gratifie the tast Whereupon some in stead of vvater haue taken vp the vse of Wine and others of Beere and Ale some of Cyder and Perrie and others of all sorts some of honied vvater or vvater sweetened vvith sugar and others of other drinkes pressed and strained out from fruits or the decoctions of rootes All France Italie Sicilie Spaine and all other Countries which are farre off from the North doe content themselues with vvine the Nation of the Turkes excepted vvho being incensed either by the superstition of Mahumet or stirred up thereunto by the ancient custome of Turks do vtterly abhorre vvine and vse in stead thereof honied water England Scotland Dalmatia Polonia Sarmatia and other Northren Countries doe vse partly vvine as procuring the same from other places and partly Beere in such sort as that by how much the Countries are the colder by so much the more they are giuen and addicted to vvine and drunkennes vvitnesse hereof is not onely Germanie but also Frizeland Dalmatia and Flanders the inhabitants of which countries doe not onely striue who shall drinke most and extoll drunkennesse vnto the skies but also doe scoffe at sobrietie and so highly disdaine such people as striue to liue soberly and temperately as that they think them the most vnworthie of their alliance and companie And yet notwithstanding that so many sorts of drinks be growne in request in stead of water in many countries wine seemeth to me to beare the bell as being the most pleasant delightsome and excellent drink that can be found or thought vpon What is meant by wines THe iuice then of the grape which either runneth from the grape being full ripe or is pressed out with feet or the presse before it be boiled is called new or sweet wine but after that it hath boiled and thereby cast forth all his scumme and dregges it is properly called wine Wherefore this boiling or working by which in fine it is fined and setled from all his excrements is not any manner of putrifaction but rather an effect of naturall heat engendred and naturally rooted in the same for whereas the iuice newly drawne out of the grape doth containe in it many excrements and those diuers in nature which the naturall heat thereof cannot without great strife enforcement and contending concoct and ouercome it is necessarie that in this contention it should worke out a heat boyling and verie great perturbation by reason of the struglings of the two contrarie heats that is to say the naturall which doth concoct the crude and raw matter of the new wine and by that meanes separateth the excrementous parts from it and on the other side the strange and accidentall heat which is kindled and raised in the crude and raw parts of the new wine which encountring the naturall heat no otherwise than is done in the crises of sharpe sicknesses at such time as naturall heat doth concoct the crude and raw matter of the disease and attempteth to make separation of the noysome and annoying matter many disturbances shakings heats and other grieuous symptomes doe fiercely assaile the partie vntill such time as naturall heat hauing ouercome proceed to the separating of the good and naturall humors from the excrementous ones and expell those which were the cause of the maladie And euen so it falleth out in the boiling or working of new wines wherein the accidentall heat is ouercome by the heat of nature without any worke of putrifacation the heterogene and vnnaturall matter being separated from the homogene and naturall the vnprofitable and excrementous humour consumed and the flatulent or windie parts thereof discussed and to be briefe all the profitable iuice is in such sort concocted and digested as that that which before was crude flatulent and hard to be digested is become gentle tractable fauourable and verie agreeable for mens vse as though it were quite changed and altered from his nature Of new pressed wine is made the wine called Cute in Latine Sapa and it is by boiling the new pressed wine so long as till that there remaine but one of three parts Of new pressed wine is also made another Cute called of the Latines Defrutum and this is by boiling of the new wine onely so long as till the halfe part be consumed and the rest become of the thicknesse of honey Sometimes there is a wine made called Passum and it is when the grapes haue endured the heat a long time vpon the Vine The inuenters and first finders out of wine SVch as haue written in Hebrew as also the Scripture it selfe doth testifie that Noe was the first author of wine Nicander Colophonius saith in his verses that wine was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greeke of the name of a man which was called Oenus and first pressed out the new liquor out of the grape into his drinking cup. Others write that Icarus was the first inuenter thereof and that verie shortly after his inuention he had condigne punishment therefore as being slaine of the dressers of his vineyards they being drunke Whereupon Propertius saith O Icarus th' Athenian clowne Deseruedly thy life throwes downe Athenaeus saith That the Vine was first found neere vnto the Mount Etna and that a dogge passing that way plucked vp a little branch of a Vine tree out of the earth and that Oresteus sonne of Deucalion which raigned in that Countrey caused the same branch to be planted againe vvhereout there sprang manie shoots of Vines vvhich he called Oenus of the name of the dogge which had pluckt the same branch out of the ground vvhereupon also the auncient Greekes called Vines Oenas The Latines say That the Vine is called Vitis quasi vita because that vvine doth quickly restore the vitall spirits being wasted and spent and doth comfort repaire encrease and strengthen the naturall heat that is weakened vvhich is the principall instrument of life insomuch as that by the vse of vvine it is made more freely disposed than it was before to performe all manner of actions requisite for the life of man Old Writers are not of one mind concerning the first originall and inuention of the Vine for euerie one of them almost hath his seuerall opinion But as concerning my selfe I thinke that the Vine was brought forth of the earth as other grasse heaâ—bes and trees were from the beginning of the world and that it brought forth grapes of it selfe without any tilling or dressing and those like vnto them which the wild Vine called of vs Labrusca doth now bring forth but that the first fathers did not so quickly know the vse and profit
for their leane dogs which hunt the hare and you must mingle sometimes amongst these pottage a little brimstone to heat them withall As for your raw flesh meate which amongst huntsmen it called ket if you do not eate it all at a meale you shall preserue it in some cleare running streame by suffering it to lie hid in the water till your next occasion to vse it Oates ground hulls and all and so scalded in hot water is a very good mange or meate for hounds and so is also your mill-dust scalded in the same manner But if your hounds happen to fall weake or sicke or bee ouer hunted then you shall take the bagges and intrailes of sheepe hauing turned the filth and excraments forth and washt the bagges well and also the sheepes pluckes and boyle them in faire water with a good quantiof â—atemeale till the pottage bee thicke and so giue it reasonably warme to the hounds this is a soueraigne good meate and it is very comfortable for weake and sicke dogs of what kind soeuer they bee and bring them into lust and strength sodenly Their kennell must be made in some place standing vpon the East through the midst whereof dotâ—â—un some little riuer or spring The place wherein the dogs shall lie shall be builded with very white wals and floores of boords close ioined for â—eare that spiders fleas wal-lice and such like should breed there He that shall be appointed to keepe them must be gentle mild and courteous louing dogs of his naturall instinct and such a one as will make them cleane and dresse them carefully with wisps of straw and little brushes being readie to giue them some prettie dainties to â—ate and to draw them alongst the greene corne and meadowes as wel to giue them appetite to their meat as also to learne them to run and to cause them to passe through the the flockes of sheepe and other tame cattell that so they may bee accustomed vnto them and be made to know them Iâ— the dogs be sicke you must vse the remedies following for lice â—leas and other vermine wherewith dogs are loden oftentimes especially in the times of great heat you must bath them or at the least wash them and rub them with a wispe with a decoction made of large quantitie with ten good handfulls of wild cresses wild marierome sage rosemarie rue patience and fix handfulls of â—alt all being well boiled together to the consumption of the herbs To driue out wormes you must soke perrosin made into pouder aloes poâ—dred vnquencht lime and liue brimstone made likewise into pouder euen all these in one oxegall and with this liquor rub the place infected with wormes If dogs be bitten of serpents you must cause them to take downe the iuice of the leaues of ash tree incontinently or else a glasse full of the decoction of rue white mullein mints and broome whereunto must be added the weight of a French crown of treacle applying treacle in like manner vnto the bitten place When the dogs are bitten of mad dogs they must forthwith be cast into a vessell of sea water nine times one after another or for lacke of sea water into common water wherein hath bin dissolued foure bushels of salt this will preserue them from going mad And if it happen that you haue not prouided this remedie timely inough but that now the dog is fallen mad to the end that you may keepe the other from the same mischiefe you shall be carefull that the mad dog run not abroad and therefore you shall kill him by and by for it is but all in vaine and altogether impossible to goe about to cure such madnesse the signes of such madnesse are the drawing vp of of his taile at the vpper end hanging the rest straight downe a very blacke mouth without any froth a heauie looke and that aside in ouâ—â—thwart and crosse manner Against the scabs tetters itch and gauls of dogs you must take three pounds of the oile of nuts one pound and a halfe of the oile of oile of lees two pounds of old swines grease three pounds of common honie a pound and a halfe of vineger and make them all boile together to the consumption of the halfe of the vineger putting thereto afterward of perrosin and common pitch of each two pounds and a halfe of new waxe halfe a pound melt altogether casting in thereto afterward the pouders that follow a pound and a halfe of brimstone two pounds of reboiled coperas and twelue ounces of verdegrease making them all vp together in an ointment but they must be washed with water and salt before they be annointed with this ointment For the wormes in dogs you must make a drinke of the decoction wherein haue beene boiled wormewood southrenwood and the shauings of harts-horne or else cause them to swallow downe pils made of harts-horne brimstone aloes and the iuice of wormewood When the dogs are tired rub their feet with this restrictiue made of the yelkes of egs the iuice of pomegranets and soot finely poudred all of it being wel mingled together and left to settle one whole day Dogs are often hurt of wild bores in many parts of their bodies and then according to the places where they are hurt they must bee ordered and looked to with dressing of their wounds If the wound be in his bellie and that the guts comeforth vnhurt you must first put them in againe and then afterward put into the bellie in the place where the hole is a slice of lard and so sow vp the skin aboue but the thred must be knit of a knot and made fast at euerie stitch of the needle and withall cutoff the thred at euery stitch so fastened as much is to bee performed in the wounds that shall be made in other places alwaies obseruing to put some lard into them For wounds which dogs shall receiue the iuice of the leaues of red coleworts is a very souerainge balme being applied presently vnto the wound healing them vp very speedily or else take the iuice of Nicotiana whereof we haue spoken in the second booke Against the canker breeding in the eares of dogs taking a dramme of Sope of oile of Tartar Salarmoniacke Brimstone and Verdegrease incorporated all together with white vineger and strong water and rub the cankered eares therewith nine mornings If the dogs after they haue run in frost after raine and such other bad weather or swum the riuers lakes after the game come to take cold presently as soone as they come to their kennell they must be chafed and dried at a great fire and after that their bellies rubbed and wiped with wispes thereby to wipe away the dirt sticking vnto them Oftentimes in coursing ouer the fields rocks dogs come to haue the skin striken off of their feet for the remedying whereof it will bee good first to wash their feet with
be good regard giuen vnto the outward signes by them to know the mischiefe that lurketh vvithin and that no lesâ—e in the behalfe of birds than generally of all other creatures Wherefore I haue endeuoured my selfe briefely to collect and gather into this Chapter vvhatsoeuer hath beene deliuered scatteringly and diffusedly elsewhere in the touching of the infirmities and diseases that are incident vnto birds and of the knowledge thereof for the benefit and instruction of such as would know the diseases whereunto such birds as they delight in and loue to keepe are subâ—ect Birds therefore are subiect amongst other diseases vnto impostumes vvhich doe happen vnto them and appeare in the head of a yellow colour as great as a Hemp-seed yea sometimes as bigge as a Pease a disease commonly haunting all birds especially those which are of a hot complexion Another kind of disease with which birds are troubled is called the subtle disease Pthisis for the bird that is troubled with this disease swelleâ—h in her bodie as hauing it euerie where beset with veines full of bloud the breast notwithstanding being thin and leane and furthermore the bird so diseased doth nothing but take â—ast away or ouer-turne her meat and Hempe-seed The gowâ— is another sort of disease common vnto birds and vexing them â—ore for when as they are diseased thereof they can neither stirre nor stand because of the paine they doe endure This disease is knowne by the roughnesse of their legges and feet The difficultie of breathing or hard drawing of their breath troubleth them also and it is knowne by their hoarâ—enesâ—e so as that they cannot vtter their tâ—nes or if they doe yet very hâ—rshly and imperfectly or else by their not saying any thing at all You shall lay your hand vpon her breast and by that also you shall perceiue it for you shall feele an extraordinarie beating as shewing it selfe to come from some oppression and great difficultie by all which you may gather for certaine that she is infected with this disease Oftentimes it likewise commeth to passe that they crie and cast forth lamentable noises complaining themselues vvhich declareth euidently that they haue the disease called Asthma or shortnesse of breath Birds also oftentimes fall blind vvhich if it be not quickly helped they vvill neuer be cured and this disease is perceiued by the trickling of teares from their eyes and by certaine feathers about their eyes vvhich doe curle and crooke by turning in againe The falling sicknesse is likewise incident vnto birds vvhereof they are scarce euer cured for there is no other remedie for it but to keepe the bird vvhich you bring vp from the Sunne in Summer if she escape the first time you must cut the nailes of her feet and besprinkle her well with good wine purge her oft Some say That birds are subiect to the disease called the Pip vvhich is false for the disease which they call the Pip is not the Pip in effect but another disease which groweth in the bills of birds for which it is good to vse this remedie Take the seed of Melons and steeping them in pure water make them to drinke thereof three or foure daies and perceiuing the bird to grow better you shall giue her a little fine Sugar tempered likewise with sugred water It is hard to know when the bird hath the disease of the rumpe and for my part I cannot tell how to giue you a better signe thereof than her growing melancholike as by surceasing and abstaining to sing The remedie is to cut away halfe of the sharpe point which she hath there for you shall not deuise to do her so great good any other waies This is a griefe which all birds are troubled withall euen those that are kept in the cage Besides the diseases before named birds haue sometimes the flux of the bâ—lly which is known by their making of their dung more thinne and liquid than ordinarily they were wont by the beating of their taile and in that they keepe it close and neere together The remedie is to cut the feathers of their taile and those also which are about the fundament annointing it with a little oyle And in stead of Hempe-seed you shall giue her the seedes of Melons for the space of two daies But and if these be birds which vse not to eate any Hempe-seed but heart or paste deferre not to take it from her and in place thereof to giue her hard rosted egges in such sort as we haue said before CHAP. LXVII Of the diseases that happen particularly to euerie particular sort of birds AS concerning old Nightingales of the cage they are subiect vnto gowts and conuulsions in the breast vnto which diseases the solitarie Sparrow is also subiect besides the falling sicknesse or giddinesse of the head The Linnet is troubled with the subtile or close and secret disease more than any other bird as also with hot apostemes conuulsions and gowts The Finch is wont to haue impostumes and the subtile disease The Siskin on the contrarie is not to subiect vnto diseases both because she is of a better complexion as also of more strength And this is the cause likewise why she seldome times falleth blind The Spinke is more subiect to blindnesse than all the rest and when she is once ouer-runne of this disease she is no more worth any thing for she will euer and anon fall into it againe of set purpose Two only diseases doe voluntarily molest the Goldfinch that is the subtile disease caused through old age and impostumes proceeding of the eating of Hemp-seed The same two diseases we find to befall the Canarie bird of Spaine howbeit the subtile disease is seldome times found to trouble her she is also subiect to the conuulsion and oppression of the breast because of her excessiue naturall heat The Miskin is more subiect vnto the gowt than any bird that is The solitarie Sparrow is haunted with impostumes and melancholie which causeth her often to die The Corydale falleth blind sometimes and sometimes she is troubled with the subtile disease Aâ— it also happeneth vnto the other kind of Lark which hath no crest vpon her head The Calander likewise is subiect vnto the subtile disease apostemes gowts and that which is worse namely to become quickly blind The bird called in Latine Thraupis is likewise very subiect vnto impostumes and oftentimes dieth of fat The strongest and stoutest bird that can be is the Blacke-bird wherein I cannot find any disease to kill her except old age which is the common maladie deuouring all mortall things Fat and impostumes doe sometimes hurt the Throstle as also the disease of the rumpe which is likewise common to all birds that are kept in the cage CHAP. LXVIII Birds are to be purged at what time and how oft in the yere NIghtingales and all other kind of