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To Make Ipocrist

Take to a quart of whie wine half an ounce of
Cynnamon bruise it a little & stepp it in a little of
your whitewine the space of 2 hours take 2 Almonds
& bruise them a little, & when you lett it run through your
bagg, put in your Almonds & soe let it runn till it be
cleare & if your please, you may hang a little bagg of
Musk in it, you must use your [wd?] Ipocrist in every
respect like this but put no Almonds in it;

To Make Perfumes

Take 3 ounces & a half of Benjamin & lay it a-
night in Rose=water then beat it fine, & take a pint
of Damaske Roses, the whites being taken away then beate
them, then take the Benjamin & put to them & beate them both toge=
ther, till it comes to a Paist, then mingle it with halfe a
quarter o an ounce of Musk, finely beaten, put to it a
quarter of an ounce of Civet & mold them with an ounce
of white sugar=candt searched, & make them up in little cakes
& lay them on a paist board, that hath no savour there on come

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sfemet

From this page I learned that Benjamin is benzoin, a balsamic resin, which smells like vanilla.