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Pottle boyle with it liquerice scraped cleane and bruised
lbss. seeth them together till the halfe bee consumed then
streine it and sett it in the sunne till it waxe somewhat
dry then role them up in smale balls and when you haue neede
hould them in your mouth till they melt one after another
and this will clense the lungs./
A spetiall good medicine for lyms that be are
venomed
Cause to bee made 2 earthen potts in this forme following
the first of 2 gallons full of holes both bottome sides and couer
the other pott must bee soe bigge as you may sett the other pott
within it, this must bee very well beaded within and well neated
soe as it drinke now liquor your first pott must have 3 feete to
to stand vpon of 2 inches longe, then gather in June or July, the
leaues blossomes and seeds of cheekweede bruise them smale all
together and put them into your first pott soe many as it will
hould and in the midst of the herbs, put 3 oxe galls and to euery
gall 2 cloues then couer that pott and put it into the other and lett
that alsoe bee close couered as you can, sett it in the ground where
it may stand dry and there let it stand 40 daies then take
it out and you shall haue a very spetiall oyntment with which
annoynt the patients lyms, and they shalbe restored with gods help:/
For the timpany or dropsie./
Take greene broome and burne it to ashes till you haue a quarte
take this quarte of ashes and sugar lbj: Cynamon and ginger
of each ℥j ʒ j. Nutmegs 2, Beate them all very smale and put your
ashes and them together in an Ipocrasse bagge, then put to it
a pottle of white wine and lett it runne through the bagg 3 or 4
times, till it bee very cleere; drinke thereof and this shall keepe
you by gods grace./
For an ill humour in a sore legge or elswhere in the body
Take ragwort stampe it and streine it with oyle beere or ale and giue
him to drinke morneing and euening thrice and lett him leaue
3 times and dresse the sor [wi]th some salue to heale it

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A good aquavite./
Take a pott full of good cleere red wine and put therein powder of
Canell cloues ginger pellitorie negmeg nutmegs, galingale, spicknard
Maces, cubebs graines of paradise long peper and blacke, caroway,
Ciromontane, cumin, fennell seede smallage parsley, sauge mints
rew, Calamint, horshound of each a like quantitie a drame more
or lesse all these distill in a stillitory with a soft fire and looke
that it bee close and well stoped that noe ayre goe out lett
the fire bee of cole, reforme your water out of a limbeoke in a vessell
of glasse this is not much inferior to balme naturall./
Aqua mirabilis et pretiosa./
Take galingale cloues cubebes, ginger cardamom, maces nutmegs
Melilote of each ℥j of the iuyce of celondine ℥viij mingle all these
made in powder with the said iuyce with a pint of aquavite
and 3 pints of white wine put all these together in a stillitory
of glasse and lett it stand soe all night on the morrow distill it
with an easie fire as canbee./
This water is of secrett nature it clenseth the lungs without
any greevance and the same lungs being wounded or perrished
it mightilie helpeth and comforteth, it suffereth not the blood to
putrifie, but the same it multiplieth in greate quantitie that
almost there needeth not any blood letting, it suffereth not the
blood to bee brent nor yett melancholly or flegme to abounde
or to have domination aboue nature this water expelleth winde
mightilie and profitteth the stomacke marvelouslie it prefereth
youth longe in his estate and engendereth a good collour in the
visage, it preserveth memory, it destroyeth the palsie being
giuen to one ready to sie one spoonefull releiveth him againe
of all water artificiall there is noe better In summer vse
once a weeke fasting the quantitie of a spoone full and in
winter 2 spoone full.