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A84280 An excellent receipt to make a compleat common-wealth-oleo, or (if you please) a new senate fitted to the English-man's palate Prynne, William, 1600-1669, attributed name. 1659 (1659) Wing E3833B; Wing P3951_CANCELLED; ESTC R21293 1,441 1

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AN EXCELLENT RECEIPT To make a Compleat Common-Wealth-Oleo OR if you please A NEW SENATE Fitted to the English-Man's Palate Recipe HAlfe a dozen Turks with Turbants on their heads and Cimitars by their sides all well purg'd of dross and impurities by Moonlight one hundred Jews circumcised secundum artem fourty Arabians stuck with spices of all kinds ten New-England men fifty Pyrats eight Excise-men nineteen Geneva-men three Jesuits thirty Quakers one and fifty Anabaptists lantch't in fair river water threescore Independents a quarter of a pound of John Lilburn's bones beaten into fine powder and sear'd the better to unite with the rest whereunto adde an ounce of Oyle of Saint-John's-Wort a drachme of the scrapings of the Divell 's cloven foot five spoon-fulls of the marrow of old Oliver's nose half a Committee-man two Gallons of Aquafortis seventy Scot's haslets together with a Kilderkinfull of Hugh Peter's sighs and tears evaporated into water in an Alembiqu ' made of an Organ-pipe you may throw in if you see cause a barrell or two of Gunpowder the whitest is best a firebrand lighted at both ends and one grain of Quicksilver and to keep all from blowing up twenty or thirty Redcoats according to discretion and lastly for the better relishing of the Oleo a Pispot full of Alderman Atkins's perfume you need not trouble your selfe to go to the Apothecaries for it the best is sold by Tom Turd about Pancridg Church fields to all these add but one scruple of Eternity to make it last for ever Put all these materials together into a great Mortar made of all the Bells in England Scotland and Ireland beat them well together till they become incorporated into a strong body then set them over a gentle fire till they become just Lukewarm and no more take it off from the fire let it coole and keep it for use The Vertues 'T is excellent good to purge the Nation to skin and bones It agree's very well with the Common-wealth's men's appetite but rises in the Cavaliers stomack for which cause they and the Presbyterians had best refrain it The Spaniard would like it well if he might have a finger in the dish the Frenchman would love it beyond his nicest Kiékshawes 'T is good against poverty An excellent Restorative for broken fortunes It forces men out of Gaoles to preferments But you must know that 't is also very dangerous for some constitutions for it makes some peoples heads fall off from their shoulders others dye upon a Gibbet and sends many an one a pickpack to the Divell upon which consideration I have thought fit to set down a necessary preparatory or course of physick which every man ought to run who intends to be rightly qualified that he may feed sweetly on it find it concoct rightly and turn to his proper nourishment the onely use it was intended for The Method to be us'd by our Patient First you must abstain from reading Divinity books and hearing sermons three years when you have done so you must go to Rome and take Orders there when you return you must shift your cloathes to the very skin and put on any habit you please but a Papist's then you must preach one twelve-moneth which being duely observed take but the quantity of an Hasle-nut of the following Pill for a fortnight together without intermission and you are right Recipe The Pill Of Hypocrisy 5 scruples self-denying one drachme ½ of Impudence 9 ounces Religion q. s. powder of a sear'd Conscience 7 lb water of Orphan's tears 1 Rundlet full Church-lands as much as you can get for that 's a scarce Commodity and almost all bought up 3 lb ¼ of the rust of a weathercock ℥ of Atheisme to role up the Pill to make it go down with the lesse obstruction Make all but the last drugg into a masse take of it as I said before the proportion of an Hasle nut every morning next your heart for the space of time above mentioned and you may partake freely of the Oleo and yow l find your self after a little use fit to make an ingredient in such another when that 's spent Probatum erit