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A receipte of excelente vertue and
of greate [effecte] to purge melanchollic beinge used
att the springe and falle:/ videlicett./ september,/and
Februarie is a monthe goode for then beginnethe the boddie
to bee open./ butt provided yow doe eepe youre selfe verie
warme, butt the cheefeste fime is in the beginninge of maye:
yow maye for that itt worketh so finelye and gentlye . goe
anye woheare aborad as thoughe yow had taken no suche
medcine att all./ ytt never offendeth nature nether makethe
the boddie sicke:/ In maye is the weather open and warme
and so consequentlye humors in the boddye: are more disolved
and so move apflie to be ciected or caste. owt by phissickes
healpe: which in more colde seasons are conieled togeather
and as ytt were frosen up in the boddie:/ These thinges muste
be begoone when the siyg signe is in virgo: Itt is verie
good and muche proffiteth to take two dayes togeather
before yow drinke this dvinke: to take in the moreninge
fastinge two ounces of Sirrope of Roses laxative: and
sirrope of violettes iningled togeather: for the prepare the
humoyvs readdie
Take three quartes of the beste white wine and putt to it
videlicett./ cene fowre ounces./ putt it into the wine
as you buie ytt./ Epithimiwn onee ounce./ polipodium
one ounce./ brouse or slitte the Epithimum and polipodium
in a morter./ ginger beaten into powdere./ demi ounce./