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How to make water for a surfeit
Take a quart of small aquavit & put it into a glasse & put
in good store of poppies cutting away the black ends, & let them
stand in 2 dayes then straine them out, & put in more & some
mary gold flowers & Clove Gilliflowers, & let them stand a week
then take them out & put in more thus do it till you find it strong
of the flowers & high cullored, then take some Gilliflowers
mary gold & poppies 2 or 3 spriggs of sweet margerum &
a Little Root of Angellieo, a good handfull of Raisons stoned
& dates a little lequrish scraped & sliced & half an ounce of [] as much sugar cane as you like, a little
rosasolis, let these stand & a weekthen straine it into a
glasse; you may put fresh aquavila to the flowers hors
& spices, if you please, keep it all the years for your use

Spirit of Caster
Take of callamine 1/4 of [] of nip halfe a handfull as much
dillseed 2 drams of Cloves 2 ounces of orange pill, the whites
being pared of them 2 ounces & a 1/2 of walnut blossomes, a good
handfull of rosemary flowers castoriem one ounce, halfe
a handfull of the topps of sage to every ounce of castorum &
the afore things; put a quart of the best white wine, & to
distill them, this water is good for all troublesomeness of the wind
& fainting or swooning fits, or a weak stomach; women with
child may take it they are troubled with fainting fits. It
revivesthe spirits

Simple Water of poppies

still popies as you do roses so add sugar canes and dates
sliced, this is good for those whose thatt have not good digestion

poppy water

take a quart of the best aquavil, put into a great quart
[] of poppies flowers cleane pickt from the stalkes & blades
cut off; then add to it 2 ounces of sugar candie 1 ounce of dates
sliced; stop it close & let it stand a month or more as you see
good; then staine it put it into a cleane glasse &
stop it up for your use it is good for surfeits & your stomack.