true way TAke two pound of the Pulpe of Quinces and as much of peaches and straine it and drie it in a pewter platter vpon a Chafindish of coles then weigh it and take as much suger as it weigheth and boyle it to the height of Manus Christi and then put them together and so fashion it vpon a Pie-plate and dry it in an Ouen with a Chafindish of coales vntill it be thro rough drie and then if it please you you may spot them with Gold To make Past of Violets YOu must take of your Violets which are ready picked bruise them in an Alabaster or marble morter and wring the iuyce from them into a porringer and put as much hard suger in fine powder as that iuyce will couer drie it and then powder it againe and then take as much Gum-tragacant steeped in rose water as wil bring this suger into a perfect past when it is perfect take it vp and print it with your moulds and so drie it in your Stoaue and not by the fire for feare of daunger and when it is drie guild it It is a fine banqueting conceit To make Past of Goos-berries TAke of your Goos-berries and cut them one by one and wring the iuyce from them till you haue gotten so much as you think wil serue your turne boyle your iuyce a little that it may be the thicker then take as much double refined suger as your iuyce will sharpen and dry it as you did for your Violets and being drie beat it very fine and take as much Gum-tragacant steeped in Red rose water as will serue and beate it into perfect past in an Alabaster morter and then take it vp and print it with your moulds vsing it in euery respect as your past of Violets This is excellent good for one that hath a weake stomacke Here beginneth Banqueting conceits as Marmalades Quodiniackes and such like To Make Muskadine Comfits TAke halfe a pound of Muske suger beaten and searsed then take Gum-tragacant steeped in Rose water and two graines of Muske and so beat them in an Alabaster morter till it come to perfect Past then driue it verie thinne with a rowling pinne and then cut it into small pieces like Diamonds some cut with a rowle spoone on the sides being thus cut stoue them and so keepe them all the yeare To make Diacitonium simplex of Quinces TAke of your Quinces and pare them and cut them in pieces and boyle a pound of these pieces in a quart of faire water till they be very soft then let the liquor runne from them then take a pound of Suger-candy and beate it fine and put it into that liquor and let it seeth till you see it stand like Gelly then take it from the fire and put therein foure droppes of oyle of Cynnamon and Nutmegs and then put in fiue and twentie leaues of fine gold and stirre it together and so put it in fine Christall Glasses and keepe it all the yeare To make fine Christ all Gelly TAke a knuckle of veale and foure Calues feete and set them on the fire with a Gallon of faire water and when the flesh is boyled tender take it out then let the liquor stand still vntill it be cold then take away the top and the bottome of that liquor and put the rest into a cleane Pipkin and put into it one pound of clarified suger foure or fiue droppes of oyle of Cynnamon and Nutmegs a graine of Muske and so let it boyle a quarter of an houre leasurely on the sire then let it run through a gelly bagge into a bason with the whites of two egges beaten when it is cold you may cutte it into lumpes with a spoone and so serue three or foure lumpes vpon a plate To make white leach of creame TAke a pint of sweete creame and sixe spoone-fuls of Rose water and two graines of Muske two drops of oyle of Mace or one piece of large Mace and so let it boyle with foure ounces of Isin-glasse then let it run downe through a gelly bagge when it is cold slice it like brawne and so serue it out this is the best way to make leach To make a Walnut that when you cracke it you shall find Biskets and Carrawayes in it or a prettie Pofey written TAke a piece of your Past royall white being beaten with Gum-tragacant and mixed with a little fine searsed Cynnamon which will bring your past into a Wolnut shell colour then driue it thinne and cut it into two pieces and put the one piece into the one half of your mould and the other into the other then put what you please into the nut and close the mould together so make three or foure Walnuts To make Quodiniacke of plums TAke two pound of plummes and put them into a posnet with a pound and halfe of brasill suger clarified with a pint of faire water and let it boyle till the plummes breake then take it off and let your liquid substance run through a strayner and then put it againe into the posnet and so let it boyle till it come to his thicknesse and then print it with you moulds on what fashion you please To make Biskatello TAke two ounces of very fine suger beaten and searsed and put into it halfe a spoon-full of Amidum That is white starch a graine of Muske then beat it into perfect past with Gum-tragacant steeped in Rose water then make it into little prettie loaues the fashion of manchets and so put a wafer in the bottome of euery one of them and bake them in a baking-pan but take heede your pan be not hot and so specke them with gould and so boxe them It is a very fine banqueting conceit To make a speciall sweet water to perfume clothes in the foulding being washed TAke a quart of Dammaske rose water and put it into a glasse put vnto it a handful of Lauender flowers two ounces of Orris a dram of Muske the weight of foure pence of Amber-greece as much ciuet foure drops of oyle of cloues stoppe this close and set it in the Sun a fortnight put one spoonfull of this water into a bason of common water and put it into glasse so sprinkle your clothes therewith in your folding the drugs left in the bottome when the water is spent will make as much more if you keepe them and put fresh Rose water to it To make Mosse powder TAke two pound of Mosse of a sweete Apple-tree gathered betweene the two Lady dayes and infuse it in a quart of Dammaske Rose water foure and twentie houres then take it out and drie it in an Ouen vpon a siues bottome and beat it to powder put vnto it one ounce of Lignum-aloes beaten and searsed two ounces of Orris a dramme of muske halfe a dram of Amber-greece a quarter of a dram of ciuet put all these into a hot morter and pestell and beat them together then searse them through a
course hairen searse and put it into a bagge and lay it amongst your clothes Tr make Aromaticum Lozenges TAke of fine suger halfe a pound boyle it with red Rose water vntill it come to the height of Lozenges and in the cooling put in of the spices of Aromaticum rosarum foure drams with a little Confectio Alchermes and so make them into Lozenges guilding them first and then cut them square with a knife for that purpose and when you guild them if your guilding will not sticke on wet them gently with a little Rose water but not too much in any case To make a Marchpane to yee it and garnish it after the Art of Comfit making TAke two pound of small Almonds blanched and beaten into perfect Past with a pound of suger finely searsed putting in now and then a spoonfull or two of Rose water to keepe it from oyling and when it is beaten to perfect Past rowle it thin and cut it round by a charger then set an edge on it as you doe on a tart then drie it in an Ouen or a backing pan then yee it with Rose water and suger made as thicke as batter for fritters when it is iced garnish it with conceits and sticke long comfits in it and so guild it and sure it To make all sorts of banqueting conceits of Marchpane stuffe some like Pyes Birds Baskets and such like and some to print with moulds TAke a pound of Almond past made for the Marchpane and drye it on a Chafindish of coales till you see it waxe white then you may print some with mouldds and make some with hands and so guild them then stoue them and you may keepe them all the yere They bee excellent good to please children To make all kinde of Birds and Beasts to stand on their legges in cast worke TAke Barbary suger clarifie it and boyle it to the height of Manus Christi then poure it into your mouldes they being seasoned as for your Quodiniacke let them stand a quarter of an houre and they will be colde and then you may take them out and guild them To cast all manner of frutage hollow in turnd worke and put them in their colours as Oranges Lymonds and such like TAke your Suger being boyled to the height of Manus Christi and put it into your Alabaster mouldes being made of three pieces turne it round about in your hand while it is hot and when it is colde take it out and put them in their naturall colors To make Prince bisket bread TAke a pound of very fine flower as much suger throughly searsed one ounce of annisseeds cleane pickt take eight egges and a spoonefull of Muskadine and beat all into batter as thicke as for fritters beat it thus in a bowle one houre then put it into your coffins of plate or frames of wood and set in an Ouen and let it remaine there one houre you may slice some of them when they bee a day old and drie them againe vpon a hurdle of wicker you may also take one of your loaues and wash it ouer with the yolke of an egge beaten with a little Rose water and while it is greene cast biskets and carrawaies on it and a little white candy and it will shew as if it did haile on it then spot it with golde and giue to whom you please To make the vsuall bisket solde at Comfitmakers TAke a peeke of flower and foure ounces of corriander seede one ounce of anniseed take three egges three spoonefulls of ale yeast and as much warme water as will make it as thicke as past for Manchets make it in a long roule and bake it in an Ouen one houre and when it is a day olde pare it and slice it suger it with searsed suger and put it againe into the Ouen and when it is drie take it out and new suger it againe and so box it and keepe it To make an especiall sweet Powder for sweet bagges TAke of the purest orris one pound of red and dammaske rose leaues of each two ounces of Cloues three drammes corriander feed one dram Ciprus and Callamus of each halfe an ounce Benzoin and Storax of each three drammes beat them all saue the Benzoin and the Storax and pouder them by themselues mixe it with the rest of the powder then take of Muske and Ciuet of each twenty graines Amber-greece ten graines mixe these with a little of the foresaid powder with a warme pestle and so by little and little you may mixe it with all the rest and so with Rose leaues dried you may put it vp into your sweete bagges and so keepe them seauen yeares To make an excellent Marmelate which was giuen Queene Mary for a New-yeares gift TAke a pound and halfe of Suger boyle it with a pintos faire water till it come to the height of Manus Christi then take three or foure small Quinces one good Orang pill both very well preserued and finely beaten three ounces of Almonds blanched and beaten by themselues Eringus roots preserued two ounces and a halfe stirre these with the suger till it will not sticke and then at the last put in of Muske and Amber dissolued in rose water of each foure graines of Cynamon Ginger Cloues and Mace of each three drammes of oyle of Cynnamon two droppes this being done put it into your Marme late boxes and so present it to whom you please To make another sort of Marmelate very comfortable and restoratiue for any Lord or Lady whatsoeuer TAke of the purest greene Ginger sixe drammes of Eringus and Saterion rootes of each an ounce and a halfe beate these very finely and draw them with a siluer spoone thorow a haire searse take of nut kirnells and almonds blaunched of each an ounce Cockes stones halfe an ounce all steeped in hony twelue houres and then boyled in milke and beaten and mixed with the rest then pouder the seedes of redde nettles of rocket of each one dramme Plantane seeds halfe a dramme of the belly and backe of a fish called Scincus marinus three drammes of Diasaterion foure ounces of Cantarides adde a dram beate these very finely and with the other powder mixe it and so with a pound of fine suger dissolued in rose water and boyled to suger againe mingle the powder and all the rest of the things putting in of leafe golde sixe leaues of pearle prepared two drammes oyle of Cynnamon fixe drops and being thus done and well dryed put it vp in your Marmelate boxes and guild it and so vse it at your pleasure To make a blaunch for any Ladies face TAke of white Tarter two drams Camphire one dramme Coperas halfe a dramme the whites of foure egges iuyce of two Lymonds oyle of tarter foure ounces Plantane water as much white Mercuri a pennyworth bitter almonds two ounces all must be powred and mixed with the oyle and water and then boyled vpon a gentle fire and straine it and so
keepe it The partie must rub her face with a scarlet cloth and then ouer night wash her with it and in the morning wash it off with bran and white wine To make printed Quodiniacke of Quinces a rubye colour TAke two pound of Quinces pared cut in smal pieces and put them into a posnet with three pints of faire water and so let them boyle till they be tender then put into them a pound of suger and let it boyle till the fruit fall to the bottome of the pan let the liquor runne through a strayner into a bason and put it into a faire posnet and let it boyle till it come to his colour and thicknesse then print it with your moulds you shall know when it is ready to print by rowling a little vpon the backe of a spoone and if you see it will stand and not runne downe print it in like sort you may make your Quodiniacke of Pippins your Pippins will hold all the yeare To make Quodiniackes of Raspises or English Coriants Take Raspises ripe and well coloured and put them in a dish and put them iiiij spoonfulls of rose water mix them together with the backe of a spoone then wring the lyquid substance through a linnen cloth season it by your mouth with suger till it be sweete ynough then boyle it on a chafindish of coales in a dish till it be reddy to print then print it in your moulds and box it and so keepe them Here endeth the conceits of Banqueting Your mouldes must lie in water one night before you vse them and an houre before you print with them take them out of the water CORDIAL VVaters Aqua Coelestis TAke of Cynnamon six ounces Cloues one dram Nutmegs one dram and a halfe of Ginger two drammes and halfe of Gallingale one dram and halfe Cubebs two drammes Callamus rootes one dram all brusen and kepe in a paper then take of Bettony and sage flowers of each a handfull Maxioram Penneryall of each halfe a handfull brused likewise then take of these pouders of Aromaticum Rosarum three drammes Diambrae Diamargariton frigidum Diamoscum dulce of each a dram and halfe you must put all these into a gallon of spirit of wine and steepe them three dayes and three nights shaking them well euery day and then distill it in your Limbeck and when it is destilled you must hang halfe an ouce of yellow Sanders and twentie graines of Muske and amber in it To make Cynnamon water TAke one pound of the best Cynnamon you can get bruse it well and put it into a gallon of the best sacke and infuse it three daies and three nights and then distill it as your Aqua coelestis To make Doctor Steeuens water Take of Rose leaues one dram Borage Buglosse violets and rosmarie flowers of each a dram and halfe Spiknard a dramme Cinnamon two ounces Ginger one ounce Cloues Nutmegs of each halfe an ounce Cirdamons a dram and halfe Gallingale two drams Cubebs a dram Pepper three drams Aniseeds Carraway seeds and Fennill of each an ounce Lignum Alloes halfe a dram Corall and Pearle in fine pouder of each one dram bruse these and put them in a pottle of Aquavitae and a quart of Sack vsing it in euery respect as your Aqua coelestis To make Baume water TAke Baume drie three ounces time Peneryall of each an ounce Cynnamon foure ounces a dramme of Cardomons Grames halfe an ounce sweet Fennil seeds one ounce Nutmegs Ginger of each a dram Galingale one ounce Caliamus and Cyprus Cubebs and Pepper of each two drammes of Caper rootes half a dram of Diptamus one dram bruise these things and put them to a pottle of sacke steepe them xxiiij houres and then vse it as the former waters Angellica water TAke Cardus dry a handful Angelica roots three ounces of Mirh one dram Nutmegs halfe an ounce Cynamon ginger of each foure ounce Saffron one dram halfe Cardamons Cubebs Galingale Pepper of each a quarter of an ounce Mace two drams Graines one dram Lignum Aloes Spicknard Iuncus odoratus of each a dram Sage Borage Buglosse Violets and Rosemary flowers of each halfe a handfull bruise these and steepe them in a pottle of sacke xij hours distil it as the rest Rosa Solis TAke Liquerish eight ounces Aniseed Caraway of each an ounce Raysons stoned Dates of each three ounces Nutmegs ginger Cynamon Mace of each halfe an ounce Gallingale a quarter of an ounce Cubebs one dram Figs two ounces Suger foure ounces bruse these and destill it with a gallon of Aqua vitae as the rest but when it is distilled you must coulour it with the herbe Rosa Solis or else Alkanet roote Wormwoode water Take of Wormwoode two ounces and halfe Sage Betony and Rue of each halfe a handfull Rosemary tops a handfull Cinnamon 3. ounces Nutmegs halfe an ounce Cloues and Mace of each halfe a dram Ginger an ounce Gallingall Cubebs and Spicknard of each a dram and halfe of Scordium halfe a handfull bruse these and put them into a pottle of Sacke and a pinte of Aqua vitae and steep them foure and twentie houres and distill them as the the rest ⧠Here beginneth Consarues To make Marmelade of Quinces TAke your Quinces and boyle them tender then pare them and cut them to the coare then draw the pulpe That is the Quince through a haire searse and weigh it to euery pound of pulpe take a pound of clarified suger and boyle them together till they come to a perfect colour putting to them in the boyling a little oyle of Cynamon and when it is boyled ynough that it will not sticke to the panne put it into your Marmelade boxes But your conserue must not be boyled so high in any case for then it will not bee so good To make conserue of red and damaske Roses TAke of the purest and best coloured buddes you can get and clip off the whites from them and to euery pound of leaues you must take three pound of Barbarie sugar and beat them together till they be very fine and then with a wodden spatter take it vp and set it on the fire till it be through hot and then presently put it vp and it will be of an excellent colour To make Conserue of Violets TAke of your Violet flowers and picke off all the blew flowers and keepe them and weigh them and take to euery ounce of flowers three ounces of refined suger and beat them in a alabaster morter till they be very fine and then take them vp and put them into an earthen Pipkin and set them vpon the fire vntill such time as they be thorough hotte and then take them off and put them vp and keep them To make pectorall rowles for the Cough TAke liquorish pouder finely searsed one ounce of the spices of Diatragacanthum frigidum ij drams of Gum-arabecke and Tragarant in fine powder of each a drum white starch halfe
a dram Aniseeds in fine pouder one ounce mingle with the rest then take of suger sixe ounces of Pennits an ounce and halfe Suger-candy one ounce powdred mingled with the former powder then take Gum-tragacant steeped in Rose water and bear it into past and so make it into long rowles and so drie them and keepe them To make Conserue of Borage flowers TAke of your Borage flowers well colored and picke the blacks from them then weigh them to euery ounce of flowers you must take three ounces of suger and beat them together in an Alabaster morter with a wooden pestle vntill they be verie fine so that you cannot discerne any suger in Iumps then take them out and put the conserue into a pipkin and heat it through hot and hauing thus done put them vp keepe them all the yeare To make conserue of Rosemary flowers TAke your Rosemary flowers fresh and good and picke them from the greene tuske weigh them and take to euery ounce of flowers three ounces of Suger-candy and beate them very fine vsing them in euery respect as you did your other Conserues To make Conserue of Buglosse flowers TAke your buglosse flowers and picke them as you did your borage flowers and then weigh them and to euery ounce of flowers you must take two ounces of hard sugar and an ounce of sugar Candie and beate them together till they be exceeding fine and then set them one the fire to dissolue the sugar and when it is dissolued and the conserue hot put it vp and keepe it all the yeare To make a Pomaunder TAke of Beazou in one dram and halfe of storax halfe a dram of Lignum aloes in fine powder halfe a scruple of Labdanum halfe an ounce powder all these very fine and searse them through laune and then take of muske a dram Amber greese ten graines Ciuet ten graines and dissolue them in a hot morter with a little rose water and so make them into a pomander putting into it six graines of Ciuet. To make Consaure of Barberies TAke of your Barberies which are very red and ripe and picke them from the stalks and then wash them and put vnto them a prettie deale of faire water and set them on the fire in an earthen pan and so scald them and being throughly scalded pulpe them thorough a fine searce and to euery pound of pulpe take a pound of pouder suger and boyle them til it be ynough that is till it wil cut like marmelade To make Consarue Cichorie flowers TAke of your Cichory flower new gathered for if you let them lie but one hower or two at the most they will loose their coulour and doe you very little seruice therefore ware them presently and to euery ounce of flowers you must take three ounces of dubble refined suger and beate them together in a morter of Alabaster and a wooden pestle vntil such time as they be thoroughly beaten for the better the flowers and suger be beaten the better will your Conserue be let this alwayes be for a generall rule and being very well brayed you must take them vp and put it into a chafer cleane scoured and set it on the fire til it be throughly hot and then take it off and put it vp â—nd keepe it all the yeare To keepe Cowecumbers in pickle all the yeare TAke foure gallons of Conduit water and put vnto it three quarts of bay salt two handfuls of Sage one handfull of sweete Marioram and foure handfulls of Dill let these boyle til it come to three gallons and then take it off and when it is almost cold put in a hundreth of Cowcumbers into that liquor into a butter barrel keepe them al the yeare but looke that alwaies the herbs lie vpon them and thus done it will be a most excellent sallet with oyle vineger and pepper An exceeding fine pill vsed for the goute TAke of Aloes two ounces Mastick three drammes Agricke halfe an ounce Ginger halfe a dramme let these be poudred very fine then take of the extraction of Rhubarbe three drammes and with white wine let them be incorporated into a masse of pills adding vnto them a droppe of oyle of cloues and as much or Nutmegges A Medecine for the Goute TAke of the slippes of starres to the number of foure and then take to euery stippe foure snayles and put them into an earthen pot sprinckle foure or fiue handfuls of salt vpon them and then put to them Sage Rue Wormewood and Hyssope of each foure handfuls and so distill them and when you haue distilled them put to them a quart of wine Vineger wherein an ounce of white Mercury is dissolued and so bath the place infected with the goute and it will ease them presently To make Syproupe of Pomcitrons TAke of Pomicitrons and cut them in halfes and iuyce them but beware you writing them not too hard least it be slimie and then take to euery pint of iuyce three quarters of a pound of refined suger and boyle it in an earthen pipkin till it come to the height of a Syrupe and take heed in any case that you boyle it not on too hot a fire least it burne and then when it is boyled ynough put it vp and keepe it all the yeare To make Syrupe of Violets TAke your Violets and pick the flowers and weigh them and then put them into a quart of water and steepe them vpon hot embers vntill such time as the flowers be turned white and the water as blew as any violet then take to that quart of infusion and take foure pound of clarified Suger boyle it till it come to a syrupe scumming them and boyling them vpon a gentle fire least it turne his colour and being boyled put the Syrupe vp and keepe it To make Syrupe of Liquorish TAke your Liquorish eight ounces and scrape it verie cleane and briuse it verie well and mayden haire one ounce Any feede and Fennell seede of each halfe an ounce steepe these in foure pintes of raine water halfe a day and then boyle it to a quart then take a pound and a halfe of clarified suger and boyle it with that liquor till it come to a Syrupe and then put it vp and keepe it To make Syrupe of Hore-hound TAke of Hor-hound two handfuls of Coults foote a handful of time peneriall and Calamint of each two drams of Liquorish one ounce and a halfe of figges and raysons of the sunne of each two ounces Pionye kernels a quarter of an ounce Aniseeds and Fennell seeds of each a quarter of an ounce boyle these in a gallon of faire water till it come to a pottell or three pintes and then straine it and take three pound of Suger and three egges and clarifie that liquor and so boyle it to a Syrupe and so keepe it all the yeare To make Syrape of Mayden haire TAke of Maiden heare sixe ounces of Liquorish one ounce scraped and sliced steepe these
and so spread it vpon a linnen cloth and put it to your legge where the heat is and change it twice a day and by Gods helpe it will heale you in three or foure dressings A dyet drinke for the consumption TAke a gallon of running water measured by ale measure and put thereto an ounce of Cynamon an ounce of cloues and an ounce of mace a dramme and a halfe of Acter rootes and boyle it vntill it come to three quartes let this be your onely drinke till you do mende A medicine for the headache TAke a handfull of Rosemary and two handfull of Bettony and a spoonefull of hony and seeth them al in Malmesey and wash your head therewith Another for the head ach TAke fiue nutmegges and grate them and seeth them in malmesey till they be thicke and make a plaster thereof and lay it to your temples For winde and shootings in your head TAke Egremony and Cynamond and bay them and put them in ale and lay it to the temples of the head and if the paine remoue lay it where the paine remoueth Another for the head ache TAke a handfull of Camomill a handfull of penneryall a handful of sage a handfull of wheate branne chop them altogether smal and boile them in a pinte of sharpe vineger till they be thicke and thereof make a playster and lay it to the temples of the head as hotte as you may suffer it and it shall by Gods helpe doe you good Another for the same TAke a piece of raw beefe and lay on the nape of your necke and shift it euery night when you goe to bedde and vse this as often as you see good proued Another for the same TAke an ounce of oyle of Roses two ounces of white Vineger iiij ounces of plantane water mixe these together and wette a linnen cloth in it and lay it to the temples A medicine for Megram in the head TAke Housleeke and Garden wormes the greater part being Housleeke stampe them together and put thereto fine flower and make a playster in a fine cloth and lay it to the forehead and temples Another for the same TAke musterd seede and temper it with vyneger and make an oyntment therefore and lay it to the temples in a plaster and an other in the nape of the necke behind where it is not sore and it will auoyd and shortlie be hoale A medicine to keepe vp the pallat of ones mouth TAke a peece of wheaten leuen and Commen seede beaten in a morter a quantitie of bay salt and redde Rose vyneger and redde Rose water put them into a bag of cloth and lay it to the mould of the head To dry vp Rume in the head TAke a quantity of dried rose leues the flower of Camamell Bassell Margerum all dried a quantitie of Cloues and mace grose bruised a nutmeg and a quantitie of dill seed all quilt in a cap. A Poultis to coole any place either face or any where els that is red and full of heat pimples TAke housleeke mallowes pursaline water roses called numium beate all these and take the iuyce of them and put a little oyle of Roses to them and wash the place with it or stamp the hearbes till they be thicke like pappe then seeth it with a little rose oyle and waxe and then you may lay it on as a plaster Against red pimples of the face TAke an ounce of camphire as much of brimstone beaten mirh frankincense of each foure drammes of rose water a pound put al these in a glasse and set it in the sunne ten daies and then lay it on the places Another TAke the distilled water of ashe tree tamaredes oft eaten wine of strauberries layd vpon the face Another TAke the distilled water of mulline and a little champhire mixed together and layd to the face A medicine for them that are deafe so that they haue heard before TAke iuyce of bittanie womans milke that hath a man child mingle them together and dip a peece of black wooll into it and put a peece of it into your care for the space of ten or a leuen dayes or more if it happen that this will not take away the deafnes then take the milke of a cowe and seeth it with oatemeale and iuice of bittany and lay it plaister wise ouer the eares night and day for a long time To make an oyntment for a red face TAke halfe an ounce of Camphire and two drammes of Sulpher vinum and an ounce of Deeres suet melt the suet and the camphire together then put in the Brimstone fine ground in a morter when the other is almost cold and set them no more ouer the fire after the Brimstone is put in These being laid on all night will take away the heate and the pimples Another for the same TAKe as much Mercury sublimate as a Beane and twise as much Allom and put them in a quart of faire water and boyle them together with two or three cornes of bay salt and bath your face there with often in a day with the same cold and open the pimples with your fingars before you wash For a sore mouth TAke a quart of white wine and a quart of water and a pinte of wine vineger and a good quantitie of red sage two penyworth of mercury and halfe an ounce of roch Allom and a quantitie of Rosemary and a greater quantitie of woodbine leaues and iij. spoonfulls of hony seeth them together and wash your mouth therwith A water for a Canker and sore mouth TAke rosemary crops Sage Singfield woodbine leaues Allom liue hony or pure hony boyled in spring water halfe a handfull of each of the foresaid hearbes boiled in three pints of water til they be boiled a third part away keepe it in a glasse stopped and wash your mouth with it For a canker and sâ—arnes in the mouth TAke two ounces of fine coperes beaten into pouder halfe a pint of faire water and let the same coperes be distilled or steeped two dayes and two nights then straine the same softly through a linnen cloth then take a spoonefull thereof and wash your mouth throat with it soâ—tly blood warme but drâ—nke none of it this medicine will not continue good aboue foureteen daies therefore you must make it fresh as occasion serues you must take it morning and euenning A medicine for the mother in a womans side that ryseth TAke Aqua-composita and beate bay berries in powder and put it into the aqua-composita and put a spoonful or two in a draught of beere or ale and so drinke it A medicine for the pricking of a nedle or thorne in the ioynt TAke faire boulted flower of wheate and temper it with wine white or redde and a little oyle oliue and a few rose leaues and seeth them together till it be plaister thicke and lay it to so hotte as you can suffer It will draw foorth the nedle and ease the Ache. A medicine for a
foure and twentie houres in foure pintes of Conduit water and then boyle them to quart and then take two pound of clarified Suger and boyle it with that liquor vpon a gentle fire vpon Charcoales vntill it come to a Syrupe scumming it very often that it may be the clearer for the clearer it is the better it is and being boyled ynough put it vp To make Syrupe of Hyssop TAke of Hyssop one handfull of Figges Raysins Dates of each an ounce of Calamint halfe a handfull of French barley one ounce boyle these in three pintes of water to a quart and then straine it and then clarifie it with the whites of two egs and two pound of Suger and so boyle them to a Syrupe and being boyled ynough keepe them all the ye are To keepe Cherries all the yeare to haue them at Christmasse TAke of your fairest Cherries you can get but be sure that they bee not bruised and take them and rub them with a linnen clothe and put them into a Barrell of hay and lay them in rancks first laying hay in the bottome and then Cherries and then hay againe and then stoppe them vp close that no ayre may come neere them and lay them vnder a fetherbed where one lyeth continually for the warmer they are the better yet neere no fire and thus doing you may haue Cherries at any time of the yere To make a Syrupe of Mulberries TAke your Mulberries which are very ripe presse out the iuyce from them thorough a linnen cloth betweene two stickes and then to euery pint of iuyce take a pound of suger and boyle it to the height of a Syrup and then keepe it all the yeare long and if it waxe any thing thinner a moneth after you put it vp boyle it againe and then put it vp To make Syrupe of Lymonds TAke your Lymonds and cut them in halfes and betwixt your fingers iuyce them and the liquor that runnes from them wil be very cleare then take to a pint of iuyce a pound and a quarter of hard suger which is very white and boyle it to a Syrupe and it will keepe excellent well To make Syrupe of Roses sollitiue TAke of Dammaske Roses and pull them then take a gallon of water and when the water is hot put a good many Damaske Rose leaues and take them out when they looke white and doe so ten times and then the water will looke red and then to euery pinte of that liquor put a white of an egge and a pound of suger and clarifie it and boyle it to a Syrupe and keepe it all the yeare the thicker the Syrupe is the better it will keepe To make Syrupe of drie Roses TAke of red Roses dried foure ounces infuse them in a quart of faire water vpon hot embers till the roses haue lost their colour then take a pound and a halfe of Suger and clarifie your Liquor and Suger with two egges and then boyle it to the height of a Syrupe but take heed in any case that you set not your Syrupe vpon too hot a fire for then it will loose his colour and bee worth naught A Medicine to giue a woman in trauel to make her haue throwes TAke Coral amber date stones Pearle Piony seedes Saffron Commine beate all these in powder and put it into Malmesey and take Vnicornes home and put it into a spoone with a little Malmesey and giue it to her and presently let her drinke a draught of the Malmesey with the powders aforesaid warming of it a little A Medicine for the falling downe of the matrisse to the bearing place TAke Chicke-weede and seeth it in an earthen pot then lay of it vpon a peece of scarlet as hot as the partie may suffer it let her take it to the priuie place and as one plaster coooleth so lay another and vse it Another for to be taken to the Nauell and to the backe right against the Nauell for the same TAke a redde Onyon and roast it very tender then take of Allysander seedes and bruise them in a wooden dish and mingle the Onyon and the bruised seedes together and lay it vpon a peece of linnen cloth so lay it to the Nauell a little warme rowle that on and let it lie on xxiiij houres then change it and take a new one till it be whole It is good for the Midwife to hold muske belowe tyed in a little Lawne to draw downe the Child Take Torch-wort and lay a leafe of it to the Crowne of a womans head warme to stay other flowers A Medicine for a woman after burden if neede be to bring it downe TAke Sowtherwood and wash it cleane and stampe it and straine it in strong Ale and giue it her to drinke warme To stop the Whites in women FRy Hemlock in fresh swines grease lay it as hotte as shee may suffe it to the secret place For a Teter TAke Oates and seeth them in water and where the Teter is hold ouer the reeke thereof as hot as may be laying a cloth ouer it to keepe in the reeke so that the cloth doe not touch the Teter vse this fiue times morning and euening To make a Seare-cloth for an Ache that is nextly come TAke Boares grease Camphire and waxe and boyle them altogether and so make a Seare-cloth thereof and lay it to the griefe For a Felon or an Andcome TAke Hearbe-grace rustie Bacon sower leauen and Snayles that be with shel on their backes taking them out of their shels and beate all these together lay it to the greefe For to heale any if they be scalded with hot liquor TAke Alehose and Auens Sheepe suet and Sheeps dunge and Goose dung and when you haue washed the hearbes breake them altogether a little and so frie them together and then straine it make plasters thereof and lay it to the griefe warme it a little when you lay it too laying new plasters to it twise a day you may take the iuyce of Houseleeke and Sallet oyle and water and beat them together and wash the grease before you vse this plaster A Medicine for the Whites TAke a quart of new milke of a red Cow x. spoonfuls of red Rose water a Pomgarnet pill beaten and a little Cynamon beaten and seeth it halfe away sweeten it with suger and drinke a draught morning and euening two Whites of egs beaten A Medicine for them that are giuen to bleeding MAke a posset take of the curd and take Liuer-wort and beat it and put the iuyce thereof into the Posset drinke and drinke it morning and euening warme For the heate in the Kidneys TAke Houseleeke and Plantine and not wash them but wipe them with a cloth and beate them and straine them and put to the iuyce thereof red Rose water and wine Vineger and womans mâ—lke and take the hearbs and put them into clothes and tye the clothes with thread like a couple of balles and you must when you
salue and you must dresse it twice in the Winter dayes and thrice in the Summer dayes The Copie of Doctor Stephens water TAke a gallon of the best Gascoine wine then take Ginger Gallingall Cynnamon Nutmeegs Graines Cloues Aniseeds Fennell seeds Garaway seeds of euery of them a dram weight then take wilde Time Hisope Lauender Sage mynts red Roses garden Time Pellitorie of the wale and Rosmarie of euery of them one good handful bray the hearbs very small and stamppe the spices all together very small put all together into the wine and close it fast twelue houres and stirre it diuers times then still it in a Limbecke and keepe the first water for it is the best and then keepe the second for it is good but not so good as the first E. C. A dram weight of the seede of Colembyn brused with halfe a peny weight of Safron drunken with wine is good for the Ianders then goe to bed and prouoke sweat the flowers distilled is good for the same purpose and against swondings Pymypinell THis herbe is good against the pestilence to bee taken fasting in a morning and good against the stone the rootes sodden condited in suger may profit them that haue cold stomacks and are troubled with two much fleame the Collicke and stone this roote any way taken is good against poyson Mouseare is hot and drie some vse to giue the iuyce of this common Mouseare to hinder the colde of a quartan Ague some vse togather the roots in May and drie it and giue it to them that bee broken it is good for the bloody flix the great scouring of the Mother for wormes both outward and inward common flixes for vomitting of choller and spitting of blood and brusting and specially for breaking of the braine panne The Iuyce of Coste-mary drunken killeth both small and great wormes in the belly it is good for a colde Mother it strengthneth the stomacke whether it be drunken or laid to and stayeth vomiting the herbe of his nature whether it be strawed or else perfume be made thereof driueth away Serpents and it is good against their poysons and it helpeth and strengthneth the head To take out the heat of a burne TAke the fatte of hogges guts and Sheepes tirdles and boyle them and put them in a pot and this will heale the partie and take out the fire and will keepe good a hole yeare this hath beene prooued To take the heat out of the face TAke running water and elder flowers Plantane white Daysie rootes and herbe Robert put them in the running water and wash your face morning and euening therewith A Medicine for a canker in ones mouth prooued TAke running water a handfull of wood binde leaues a handfull of Bramble leaues a handfull of Collumbind leaues a little Rosemary and boyle them together vntill halfe the water be wasted then put two or three spoonfuls of hony and a piece of roch Allom three or foure spoonfuls of wine vineger and wash your mouth with the sodden hearbs therof three or foure times euery day The Diet drinke FIrst buy a diet pot of the common sorte such a one as will cost eight pence or tenne pence then put into it halfe a pound of Liquorish scraped and bruised halfe a pound of Aniseedes bruised three quarters of a pound of Lignum vitae bought at the Turners and one ounce of the barke of the same wood which is to be bought at the Apothecaries halfe a pound of Raysons of the Sunne the stones taken out a good handfull of Scabias an ounce of Chiny two ounces of Salyprilla a quantity of white wine then fill vp your potte with faire water sauing a pint then couer your potte with his couer and close it round about the brimme with past then set it on a soft fire of coales and let it boyle three houres till the fourth part bee wasted then strayne it and let it settle and then put the cleerest into bottles and drinke it Morning and Euening a good draught and so vse fourteene or fifteene dayes If you put a little of the wood into the fire and there fry out of it like oyle then you shall be sure it is good For the head ach TAke two handfuls of Veruine Betonie Camamill rootes Letcie Checmete of each sort two handfuls dride Roses put them to powder of Nutmegs boyle this in white wine take out the hearbs then and frie them in oyle oliue and straine them in a cloth and make an oyntment therof and therwith anoint the head To make the rhume medicine TAke fiue quarts of Hyssop water it must bee stilled when the Hysop beareth flowers and one pound of English Liquorish cleane scraped and cut in litle pieces bruise them then put it to the water and boyle them till halfe bee consumed away then straine it in shallow pans set it in the sun stir it now and then and somtimes set it ouer the fire vntil you see it wax blacke but do not boyle it and it will wax stife with standing in the Sunne that you may make it in little cakes A salue for a cut TAke sixe ounces of Deere suet foure ounces of Wax foure ounces of Rosin and stampe and straine Velerian and take the iuyce as much as you think wil make the saule looke greene and boyle them together till it come to a salue A medicine for the stopping of the liuer very good for them that haue the Ianders TAke Parsley rootes Fenell roots Asperigon roots Kneeham roots Succory rootes of each the weight of halfe a crowne in siluer of Docke roots the weight of xij pence a little Liquorish halfe a handful of Raysons of the sun stoned boyle this in three pintes of water vnto a quart and make Almond milke with the liquor and take two partes of sweete Almonds and one parte of bitter sweeten it with Suger or els with syrupe of Sucory and drink a draught three morninges togethere fasting three houres after it vse this euery moneth you may put in Batly husked Saxifrage Maiden-haire Liuerwoort For the Wormes THe powder of Coralina to the weight of three pence in siluer giuen in the water of Couchgrasse A Medicine for a quartan or a tertian Ague TAke the herbes and rootes called Harts-horne Plantan and Orpine and beat them with a little white wine and a little bay salt and so lay it on a cloth vpon your wrist but bee sure it lie on the pluces on both armes changing it euery twentie foure houres but be sure that you lay it two houres before the fit cōmeth and hang nine rootes of the Harts-horne about your necke in a silke bag so that it may lie vpon the hollow of your stomacke and let it hang till your Ague be gone you must not wash neither herbes nor rootes and you may take the roots whē you cannot get the herbs and vse them so For the Canker in the mouth or rawnesse or in the lower parte of
you will keepe it in and when it beginneth to be colde then put thereunto foure ounces of venis turpentine and stirre all together vntill it be through cold and keepe it close couered Another THe wine of eyebright is made for the eyes by putting the herbes into the muste vntill it be perfit wine whose vse make the eyes of olde men looke yong for it is hot and drie and the powder of it beaten with the yolke of an egge it worketh the same effect the powder receiued in wine if the wine be too strong put in fenell water or sugar A medicine against the stone in the backe or bladder or for the weakenesse of the backe which is called the running of the raynes TAke venis Turpentine and wash it in rose water either redde or damaske vntill it looke white then diuide it into small balles as you may easily swallow to the full quantitie of thret hasell nuts or there about then rowle them in sugar to make them the more esie to be taken then swallow them in the morning fasting and fast foure hours after them take these three or foure seuerall mornings together and in your water you shall finde much grauell To take away the pocke-holes or any spot in the face TAke white rose water and wette a fine cloth therein and set it al night to freeze and then lay it vpon your face till it be drie also take three poppies the reddest you can get and quarter them taking out the garbitch then still them in a quarte of new milke of a red Cowe and with the water thereof wash your face To make Snow TAke the whites of fiue or sixe egs a handfull of fine sugar and as much rose water and put them in a pottle of cream of the thikest that you can get beat them all together as the snow riseth take it off with a spoone you must beat it with a sticke clouen in foure then must you take a loafe of bread and cut away the crust and set it vpright in a platter then set a faire rosemarie branch in the loafe and cast your snow vpon it with a spoone A medicine for the Piles TAke the hearbe called Torchworte is groweth hie bearing a yellow flower blowing out of the stalke the leaues looke boare Take the iuyce boile it with fresh butter a little while keepe it close and vse it euening and morning If a cowes vdder be stung or bitte with a snake or such ltke Take Lauender and wash it cleane and seeth it in chamber-lye a good while and wash it euening and morning warm you may put a little fresh butter in it and milke out the milke when you doe it A medicine for a cold or burne or a sore approued TAke water-sucke leaues otherwise called Hogwort leaues alliehouse daisies rootes and leaues and all and a little Rosemary and wash them and stampe them and boyle them in creame vntill it is butter then straine them and apply it warme to the burne pricke the water-sucke leaues and lay them vpon it dressing it twice a day or three times if need To heale a sore put Turpentine Rosin wax in it dressing it with linte For the stich TAke stich-wort bay leaues holly without prickles of each a like quantitie the iuyce graines beaten drinke it in ale warme For the swelling TAke the grounds of good Ale glouers shreddes and white bread crumbes and sage boyle them lay it to warme it will swage the swelling and the ache it hath beene proued For the tooth-ache TAke organny that groweth close to the ground that tasteth like aqua-vitae bruise it lay it to the tooth Bursa pastoris will doe the like For a bite or Fellon or sore leg SEeth a pint of ale to two spoonfuls like a syrope pricke a piece of leather with a pin it wil heale it without breaking if it be broken take linte to the whole with some salue let it lie foure twenty houres lay it to cold For the scrathes of a horses leg TAke vineger mustard seede gunpowder boyle them wash it hotte three or foure times proued For the Gowt TAke Mallowes and sengren beate them and boyle them in water then straine them put oate-meale groats soked in vineger and sheepes suet vntryed then boyle it to a poltesse proued For the Ague TAke a red onyon cutte small sixe and fiftie graines of pepper beaten small bind it to the wrist halfe an houre before the sit proued For the Gowt TAke a fat whelpe of a hound scald him like a pigge garbage him in the side take then red nettles stamped with two ounces of brimstone and foure ounces of turpentine foure yolkes of egges stuffe the belly and sow it vp rost it with a soft fire saue the dripping oynt the place it is good for sinewes and crampe it will driue it away for the like effect oyle netles white wine boyle them apply them hotte For the Ciatica TAke the gail of a Bull a quart of wort boile it to a pint thē put in a pinte of vineger frankyncense one ounce in powder of hony halfe a pound of commin halfe a pound in powder boyle it thicke spread it on leather lay it to hot two or three dayes lay a linnen cloth betweene the skin and the plaister the plaister will serue many times proued For the tooth-ach ALlom as big as a walnut garlicke an handfull twentie beanes an handfull of bay salt pepper beate it together lay it to the wrestes twentie foure houres or more For to stoppe the bleding of a wound THe wooll of an incke-horne sanguis draconis boll armonycke and the whites of egs layd on towe For a Consumption either for old folke yong folke or children TAke longwort liuerwort hartes tongue of each an handfull red mints red sag mother of time of each an handfull parsley and fenell rootes the piths out of each halfe an handfull liquorish on ounce annise seedes on ounce sceeney two ounces turbet on ounce tappe dates two ounces synamon on ounce nutmegs two ounces white suger candy soure ounces rubarb on ounce sliced stamppe your spices and your seedes beate your other poite cary stuffe shred your herbs fine boile it in iij. quarts of renish wine to a pottell strain it drink foure times a day a quarter of a pinte at a draught warm put in a peniworth of aqua-vitae as much safron beaten fine after it is boyled if the patient be laxatiue leaue out your rubarb sceeney turbith boile it in wort it is best in wort for children for aged folkes that be weake boyle in the stone of a Bore or a ramme or a horse is best on stone is enough for one time you may take one to purge and another not to purge the second receipt is enough purge first To make one make water TAke the stones and kernels of peaches and medlers beat them fine sift them through a searce put in sugar drinke it in white
a ring worme or Tetter TAke red docke rootes and slitte them and lay them in vineger and so wash the ring worme or tetter A medicine for the stich TAke wheat flower bake a cake and cut it in the midst then strike the dowe sides all ouer with tarre and lay it to the patient as hotte as may be you must lay the one halfe of the cake to the one side of the patiēt the other halfe to the other side A Poultis for all manner of swelling TAke a lapfull of wilde Mallowes and seeth them in running water till they be tender and then swing them and choppe them small then take a penyworth of sweet butter and the crummes of white bread and put the mallowes and all into a quart of milke and seeth it till it be thicke and stirre it well then lay it to the griefe as warme as can be suffered A medicine for the Cough TAke musterd seeds and put it into figs and seeth it in ale drinke it A medicine for the Mother TAke Rosin and beate it very fine and put into sallet oyle and white wine and drinke it and it will doe you good A medicine for the bloodie flixe TAke the pilles of Pomegranut beate them and drinke them with redde wine Morning and Euening blood warme and heat a bricke red hotte and lay it vnder a close stoole and cast rosemary and malmesey on it and let the patient sit ouer it A very good medicine for the Piles TAke the hard rowe of redde herring and rost it hard then take the seedes of nettles and beat them together small then beate them with barrowes greace and boyle them together and anoynt the piles therewith then take a chafindish of coales and set it vnder a close stoole and cast a little Frankinsence thereon and let the patient sit ouer it when they bee anoynted with the foresaid ointment A medicine for a burne TAke oyle of Roses and womans milke and put it into the open place and it will heale it Another for the same TAke a linnen cloth cleane washt and burne it and make a powder thereof and take the oyle of egges and anoint the sore then straw the powder thereon A medicine for the dropsie TAke Anny seeds cotiander seeds spignard of spaine vse this in your meate and drinke eight dayes together and it will doe you good A medicine to drie a sore TAke a pot of smiths water a quarterne of roch Allom halfe a pinte of oyle of oliues and put thereto a handfull of sage and boyle them together till they be halfe consumed then vse it to the soare and it will drie it A medicine for an ache that commeth against raigne TAke the hornes of a stag cut them in small peeces and boyle them in water till it bee consumed from a gallon to a quart then poure the water from the bones and it will gellie when it is cold and therewith annoynt the greeued place against the fire euening and morning A medicine for a burne or scald TAke mallowes smaleg and seeth them in water whē they be tender take them forth wring out the water cleane chop them small and set them on a chafindish of coales put to it a little sheepes suet and make of it a salue and lay it to the sore place thicke and lay a cloth vpon it and tye it on A salue for any olde sore TAke the inner rind of an oake that is not very olde and burne it to a coale then quench it and make therof a powder and temper it with the yolke of an egge and make thereof a salue To make a drinke for a burning Ague TAke a quart of running water and halfe a pint of vineger halfe a quarter of a pinte of Rose water a quarter of a pound of Suger and one sticke of Cynamond and boyle them all together let it coole and giue the sicke to drinke A medicine for the heate of the Liuer TAke wort of the first tappe and drinke it euery morning next your heart for a moneth together and it will helpe you A medicine to make a yong Child goe to stoole TAke May butter and chafe the Nauell therewith against the fire then take some blacke wooll that groweth betweene a blacke sheepes legges and dip it in the May butter and drie it then lay it to the Nauell it is good for an olde man also that cannot take no inward medicine An approued medicine for the Nauell when it commeth out with crying TAke waxe which is vsed no other way but to take the hony from it and when you haue an occasion melt some of the waxe in a Saucer and dippe blacke wooll in it and lay it to the Nauell and it will helpe it A medicine for the swelling of a Childs coddes TAke redde rose leaues and bray them and boyle them in red wine an houre then wette a cloth in it and lay it to the childs nauell as hotte as you can suffer it A medicine to staunch the flixe TAke a saucer full of the iuyce of Milfoyle as much of the iuyce of plantine and wheate flower and temper it with the iuyce of the herbs and so make a cake of it and bake it and eate it hotte For to slaunch blood at the nose or at a veyne that is cutte proued TAke feathers burned to powder and lay it vpon the vayne that is cutte and also take a wette cloth and lay it round about the members and wette the cloth three times and lay it to cold euery time and it shall stench wheresoeuer it be proued For to helpe a drunken Man or Woman for euer GIue him a purgation and after that giue him a swallow to drinke in powder for the space of twelue dayes and for a moneths space giue him euery day to eate iiij Almonds with foure leaues of wood beaten you must eate them in the morning next your heart proued For scabbes TAke snayles and pricke them and take the water that commeth out of them anoint the scabs therwith take vine leaues and bind them to the scabs do it euery morning and euening you shal be whole proued To drie Scabbes TAke gumme-arabecke and put it in rose water till it be consumed and wash them therewith proued For the palsey or shaking in the hands TAke Sell and Eysill seeth them together and wash thy handes therewith and eat sage with musterd fasting To restore a man to nature that is in a consumption TAke the oldest Cocke you can get scald him and draw him and cut him all in pieces in a glassen pot and stoppe him as fast as you can and put amongst these pieces cloues mace small reasons and salt then put this glasse into a great potte and let all these seeth together till they be a gelly and then straine it into a cleane vessell and giue it to the sicke first and last blood warme To restore the braine TAke powder of Bittany and vse it in your pottage it will restore the braine and destroy the stone For a perrilous Cough TAke Sage Rue and Commin and stampe them with pepper seeth them together with hony and thereof make an electuary and vse thereof a spoonefull Euening and Morning and by the helpe of God it shall doe you good For them that cannot see and haue red eyes TAke white vineger and rub vpon a whetstone in a faire bason and take as much salt as powder and grinde them well together in a bason and temper them with wine and let it stand a day and a night and put it in a violl of glasse you must take the thinnest that standeth aboue in the bason and put in your glasse and when the patient goeth to bed take a fether and wet therein and anoint your eyes To annoynt the face and to make it white TAke fresh Bacon grease and the whites of egges and stampe them together and a little powder of bayes and annoynt your face therwith and it will make it white For a fayre face proued another way TAke Plantane and white vineger and still them together and wash your face therewith fifteene dayes morning and euening and after this drinke a draught of vineger in the morning once in three dayes To make the face white and faire TAke Rosemary and boyle it in white wine and wash thy face therewith and you shall be faire then take Erigan and stampe it and take the iuyce thereof and put it all together wash thy face therwith prob To helpe the face with red pimples TAke Bay berries and plucke off the huskes and make fine powder thereof and temper it with hony and annoynt thy face therewith sixe times and it will helpe you To draw broken bones foorth of the head TAke Bittany Verueine and Rue and stampe them all together very small and put thereto Rye meale or wheate and the white of an egge and make a plaster and lay it to the head To quench ones thirst TAke the roote of Louege wash it cleane and stampe it and temper it with water and drinke a good draught of it fiue nights together and drinke not in two houres after it For one that speaketh in his sleepe TAke Southernwood and temper it with Wine and let the diseased drinke thereof in the morning and when he goeth to bedde For a woman that hath too much of her flowers TAke the foote of a hare and burne it to powder and drinke thereof with red wine and Cynamond first and last nine dayes and it will helpe her FINIS