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Pick them all cleane; take the piths
out of the rootes and wash them very
cleane in Water, then boile them in 3 gallons
of cleane water untill one Gallon be con=
sumed then streine it through an hare
seive and then put the Liquor to the [ttine]
gaind and putt in these drie drugges
Nuttmegs Cinnamon ounce℥ 1 Ginger Pepper
calamus, gallingall Bayberries an half ounce℥ S.B. An=
nisseeds glycoriz and dramsʒ iii french barley
cockfear iii Rainsons of the sonne stoned
damase prunes an[ li. fluid ouncef℥ ] slice thinne
your Nuttmegs Cinnamon, ginger Callamus
Gallingall and Glycoriz. beate or bruise
the pepper Bayberries and Annisseeds, gross=ly
Then boile againe all those druggs in the
said Liquoris untill one third part be
boiled away, then streine it and putt
it in an earthen pipkin fitting for the
Quantity and soo sett itt to the fire againe
and then putt in Ruburbe and againe an ounceʒ i
sene ounceʒ ii let it boile softly 3 or 4 [wames]
then take itt from the fire and let it stand
to keepe in that pipkin and let the Rhubarb
sene, and Agaric, remaine therein and
for your drink is fully made

147
In stead of makeing it this way for the
manner of a purge you must boile the
herbes as you doe hops: for Beer and
when they are coole againe putt in 2
spices, and put them alltogether in a
bagge and let it hang in a vessell of
Beer with a weight in it and after
10 or 12 dayes steeping in the Beer, drink
of itt a good draght in thye Morneing
You must streine your herbes and let
them be cold ere you putt in your spites

For the shakeing of
the hands or heads &c

Take thye pure pure blew flowers of
Lavender Cynamon Nuttmeggs & Cloues
and make them into powder & mixe them
take a Quantity there of euery morneing
in the distilled water of Lavender Itt
putts away the passions of the heart thye
giddiness of the head, & shakeing of thye
Members. A conserue of the flowers work
works thye same effect