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water_n	half_a	ounce_n	pound_n	16,501	5	9.1854	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52897	A new book of knowledge treating of things, whereof some are profitable, some precious, and some pleasant and delightful. I. How to write secretly. II. To write your name on a knife. III. To make bone or wood red for ever. IV. To make ink. V. To catch fowls. VI. To keep cloaths from moths. VII. To make the Q. of Hungary's water. VIII. To fatten fowl. IX. To make cock-ale. 10. To make lucatellus balsam. XI. To cure corns. XII. To pickle french beans, &c. XIII. To take fish. XIV. To take moles. XV. To take spots out of linnen, XVI. To make the balsam sold by mountebanks. XVII. To make pouder-ink in an instant. XVIII. To make pomatum and wash-balls. XIX. To make aqua mirabilis. XX. To make Dr. Stephen's water. With divers other notable things.		1697 (1697)	Wing N585; ESTC R217444	7,252	13

them stand a Week and then ●raw off the clearest with Molosses and keep it in another Vessel and put in some Dates Raisins stoned ●eep it close from the Air. To make pleasant Mead. Put a Quart of Honey to a Gallon of Water with about Ten Sprigs of sweet Marjoram and half so many Tops of Bays boil all these well together and when it is cold Bottle it up and in Ten days it will be ready to drink To get Ink-Spots out of Linnen Lay it in Urine immediately after the Ink has dropped on it and there let it lye all night and the next day wash it out again and in so doing two or three times you will find the Spots and Stains quite out To 〈◊〉 Parsly spring up in few hours Steep the ●ee●● in sweet Milk and strew your Bed you mean to Sow with unquench'd Lime three times then sow your Seed and strew once more of your Lime upon it and upon that Earth well prepared then Water it well and you may according to disc●●tion enjoy your expectation To make a Pouder that will make Ink in an instant Take Galls and Copperas of each a like quant●●● beat it to Pouder and put it in Water and on a ●●●den it will be good Ink. Likewise if you strew●●● the same Pouder on white Paper and write the●●●● with Water the Letters will presently appear bl●●●● To make that Famous Balsam sold by the Mountebanks 〈◊〉 most parts of England exactly set down for the 〈◊〉 of the Country as followeth Take Linseed Oil 5 Quarts 2 pound of Oil of Turpentine 1 pound of Sallet-Oil 5 pound of Ro●●● 2 pound of common Turpentine 2 pound of Be●● Wax 1 ounce Ship-Pitch 4 ounces Storax Liqu●● 1 ounce Galbanum 1 ounce Amoniacum Bdellium Sa●●penum of each half an ounce 4 ounces Oil of Sp●●● half an ounce Natural Balsam Burgundy Pitch a●● Frankincense of each two ounces dissolve yo●● Gums in Vinegar then melt them gently together and it is done The true and genuine Receipt for making the Queen of Hungarys Water Take four pound of Rosemary Flowers gather 〈◊〉 in a fair Morning two or three hours after Sun-risin●● and picked from all the green part put them into Cucurbite and pour upon them three Quarts of Spirit of Wine well Rectified press down the Flowe● into the said Spirit and then cover the Cucurbite with its Head and Alembick lute well all the Ju●●ctu●e with Paste and Paper then place it in a Sa●●● bath and lute a Receiver to it then leave it so 〈◊〉 the next morning Then Distill it with ●o modera●●● a 〈◊〉 that whilst the Spirit Distille● 〈◊〉 Head m●●● no● be so much as warm Or 〈◊〉 the Distillation you may cover the Head with a Linnen Clo●●● doubled several times and dipped in cold Water 〈◊〉 and dip again and cool the Head several times Continue the Distillation until you have drawn about three Quarts of Spirit which will be very pure and charged with the best and volatil Substance of the Flower then take out all the fire and let the Bath cool unlute the Vessels and put the Spirit into a Bottle well stopped then strain and press out the Liquor that remains in the Cucurbite and clarify it Then put into the Cucurbit again and Distill it until it remaineth in the bottom of the consistence near as thick as Honey or a thick Syrup which put into a Pipkin well glaz'd and boil it over a gentle fire to the thickness of an ordinary Extract put the last Spirit into a Bottle by it self Elixir Salutis rightly prepared as followeth Take of Anniseeds Coriander-seeds Parsly-seeds sweet Fennel-seeds of each 2 ounces 2 ounces of Spanish Liquorice 2 ounces Senna 2 ounces Rhubarb Elecampane 2 ounces Guaiacum 2 ounces Saffron 6 penny worth Raisins of the Sun stoned 1 pound mix all these together put them into 3 Quarts of the smallest Aqua Vitae in a Stone or Glass Bottle Let it stand and insuse 14 days at least but the longer the better near the Fire that it may receive some warmth for it will infuse the better and sooner Then pour off your Liquor into a Vessel and take your Druggs and press them as dry as you can and put the Liquor you squeeze out to the other and so Bottle it up for use To make Wash-Balls Take Storax of both kinds Benjamin Calamus Aromaticus Labdanum of each alike bray them to Pouder with Cloves and Orrice beat them all with a sufficient quantity of Soap till it be stiff then work it like Paste and make round Balls thereof To Pickle French-Beans String your Beans boil them tender take them off let them stand till they are cold put them into Pickle of Beer Vinegar Salt Cloves and Mace with a little Ginger To make Aqua Mirabilis Take Cloves Cubebs Cardamums Galanga Nutmegs Mace Ginger of each a dram half a pound o● Juice of Celandine a pint of Spirit of Wine 3 pints o● White-wine infuse them 24 hours and draw off ●● Quart with an Alembick Dr. Stephen's Water Take of Cinamon Ginger Galanga Cloves Nutmegs Grains of Paradise Seeds of Amse Fennel● Caraways of each a dram Herb of Time Mother● of Time Mint Sage Penny-royal Pellitory of the Wall Rosemary Flowers of Red-Roses Camomil Origanum Lavender of each a handful infuse the● 12 pints of Gascoign Wine then with an Alembi● draw away 3 pints of the Strong To make Pomatum Take fresh Hogs-Suet cleansed from the Films and washt in White-wine one pound and as much Sheeps Suet washt in White-wine then take about 16 Pomwater Apples cleansed and boiled in Rose-water● add to these Rose-wood Sasaffras Roots of Orrice Florentine of each six Drams of Benzoin Storax Calamita half an ounce of each and so make it into an Ointment To take FISH Take Assa Fatida Milk Honey Wheat-flower and make an Ointment and anoint the Bait and Hook An Ointment to kill the ITCH Take a pennyworth of Black Soap and a penny-worth of Boars-grease beat them together in Water and anoint therewith when it itcheth For a Scald-Head Take Primrose-leaves stamp them and lay to it For a Ring-worm Take Mustard and Honey and anoint the place three days FINIS