the Ouen and taken in the weight of a French crowne with white Wine halfe a quarter of an houre before the fit Furthermore the Liniment made with Mithridate or the oyle of Scorpions applyed to the ridge of the backes soles of the feet palmes of the hands brow and temples some small time before the fit The verie same vertue hath the oyles of Bâ—yes mixed with Aqua vitae Some townesmen doe vse this superstitious rite against such manner of agues that is to say they eat nine dayes together being fasting the leaues of Sage the first day nine the second eight and so consequently they diminish euerie day a leafe vntill the last of the said nine dayes and the confident persuasion that they haue of this medicine doth cure them Some find it verie singular in a Quartane Ague after purging to drinke white wine wherein there hath beene Sage steeped all night if you eat before the fit a head of Garlicke pilled you shall scape the fit of shiuering cold if you drinke one or two ounces of the iuices of the root of Elder stamped and strained some small time before the fit and take the same againe two or three times you shall lose your ague The distilled water of the roots of Sea-Holly or else take a dramme of Myrrhe in powder and drinke it with Malmesey an houre before the fit The distilled water or decoction of Carduâ— Benedictus and taken before the fit Pills made of Myrrhe and of Treacle as big as a â—ich pease taken an houre before the fit For the Thirst of an Ague let him roll to and fro vpon his tongue the three-cornered stone found in the heads of Carpes or the leaues of round Sorrell or a piece of Siluer or Gold or a Snayle stone or a piece of Crystall oftentimes dipt in water or the leaues of Purslâ—ne or of Houseleeke or the husked seeds of Cucumbers For a Tertian Ague steepe in white Wine the bruised root of hearbe Patience for the space of three or foure houres afterward straine it and reserue about a pretie draught to giue the sicke to drinke an houre or two before his fit or else doe the like with the rootes of Plantaine steept in equall quantitie of Wine and Water or take a pretie draught of the iuice of Plantaine or of Purâ—lane or of Pimpernell and drinke them a verie little while before the fit or else drinke with Wine euerie day six leaues of Cinquefoile that is to say three in the morning and three at the euening or the iuice of Smallage of Sage and good strong Vineger of euerie one an ounce three houres before the fit The most soueraigne remedie that some men doe find for it is to drinke fasting fiue houres before the fit two ounces of the iuice of Pomegranats and presently after to lay to the wrists temples and soles of the feet small pills of the bignesse of a Pease made of an ounce of the oyntment of Populeon and two drammes of Spiders webs and there to leaue them vntill such time as that the houre and feare of the fit be past or else a Cataplasme made of Sage Rue Greeke Nettle gathered before Sunne-rise of each a handfull Salt and Soot the quantitie of a Walnut it being all stamped with vineger and applyed to the pulset an houre before the fit Some doe greatly approue of a Liniment of Earthwormes boyled with Goose grease to rub the brow and temples of the sicke partie withall before the fit or else to carrie about his necke the hornes of a swift Hart which is a singular remedie For a Quotidian it is good to drinke somewhat before the fit the iuice drawne out of Betonie and Plantaine or to drinke euerie morning a reasonable draught of the decoction made of the root of Smallage Parsley Radishes Sperage leaues of Betonie and Spleenwort red cich Pease and the middle riâ—de of Elder or to steepe in white wine the roots of Danewort and to drinke a small draught thereof an houre before the fit but after that hee must take heed of sleeping or let him drinke euerie day with Wine two leaues of Cinquefoile one in the morning and another at euening as also let him apply vnto his pulses the Cataplasme that wee haue set downe for the Quartane Ague To take away the paine of the Head comming of great heat namely such as befalleth Mowers during the Summer time there must be applyed vpon the browes slices of Gourds or Linnen Clothes dipped in Rose water or the iuice of Plantaine Nightshade Lettuce Purcelane and Vineger of white Wine or let her beat two whites of egges with Rose water and with Flaxe make a Frontlet or stampe bitter Almonds with Veruaine water and apply them vnto the browes or to wash the head in warme water in which hath beene boyled the leaues of Vines and Willowes the flowers of Water-Lillies and Roses and with the same water to wash the feet and legges and if in case the paine be so great as that there is feare that hee should loose his wits let there be applyed vpon the crowne of his head browes and temples a Cataplasme made of the white of an egge Bole-armoniacke Crabbes throughly boyled and Poppie seed with the water of Betonie and Vineger If the Head complaine it selfe of too much Drinke there may be made a Frontlet with wild Time Maiden haire and Roses or receiue and take the fume of the decoction of Coleworts or by and by after the head beginneth to be ill to eat one or two short-started Apples or some bitter Almonds or else to drinke of the shauings of Harts-horne with Fountaine or Riuer water or if you see that your stomacke be not sicke thou mayst take of the haire of the Beast that hath made thee ill and drinke off a good glasse of Wine If the Head become sicke of some great Cold apply and lay to the Head a bag full of Branne Millet and rubbed Salt or of Sage Marierome Betonie Tyme Annise-seed Fennell-seed Bay-berries and Iuniper-berries as hot as you can endure them or else chafe the temples with the iuice of Nightshade oyle of Roses and Vineger To cure the Frensie that commeth of a hot cause you must apply vpon the head of the patient the lungs of a Sheepe newly killed or the whole Gather or some Henne or Pigeon slit along the backe and applyed vnto the same place or rub his browes and all his head ouer with oyle of Roses Vineger and Populeon or with the iuice of Nightshade oyle of Roses and Vineger To awake those which are giuen to sleepe too soundly it is good to make a Frontlet of Sauorie boyled in Vineger or to make a perfume for the patients nosthrils with strong Vineger or seed of Rue or Nigella or feathers of a Partridge or of old Shooe soles or of the hoofes of an Asse or of mans haire or else to apply vpon the browes a Cataplasme of
Mithridate and vpon the right arme the head of a Bat. To cause them to sleepe which cannot well slumber it is good to make a Frontlet with the seed of Poppie Henbane Lettuce and the iuice of Nightshade or the milke of a woman giuing a girle sucke or with the leaues of ground yuâ—e stamped with the white of an egge or put vnder the pillow a Mandrake apple or the greene leaues of Henbane and rub the soles of the feet with the greaâ—e of a Dormouse For the swimming in the Head there is commonly vsed the conserue of the flowers of Betonie or Aqua vitae or the confection called Electuarium Anacardinum To preserue such from the Apoplexie as are subiect vnto it let them drinke in Winter a good spoonefull of Aqua vitae well sugred and let them eat a bit of White bread by and by after or in stead of Aqua vitae let them drinke the Claret water which I will set downe hereafter or of the water of the root of the wild Vine or of the powder of the root thereof continually for the space of a yeare For the Palsie rub the place afflicted with the oyle of Foxes Bayes and Castoreum mixing therewith a little Aqua vitae vse likewise oftentimes the water of Cinnamon and of S. Iohns wort or the conserues of Sage Rosemarie Cowslips Baulâ—â—e and Mithridate make him drie Bathes with the decoction of Lauander Coastmarie Danewort Sage and Marierome To preserue one from the Falling sicknesse otherwise called S. Iohns disease it is a soueraigne thing to drinke for the space of nine dayes a little draught of the iuice of the hearbe Paralysis or Cowsâ—â—ps or of the distilled water of the Linden tree or of Coriander or to vse euerie morning for the space of fortie dayes a powder made of the seed of Pionie and Missletoe of the Oake or of the skull of a Man and more specially of that part of the skull which is neerest vnto the seame of the crowne with neat Wine or with the decoction of Pionie as also to hang about his necke the Missletoe of the Oake or some piece of a mans skull or of the root or seed of male Pionie or of the stone that is found in Swallowes neasts or to weare about his necke or vpon one of his fingers some ring wherein shal be set the bone of the foot of the Oxe called Elam or Alce and that so as that the bone may touch the flesh or bare skin you shall deliuer them that are in that fit if you tickle them and pinch their great toe or rub their lips with mans bloud To take away the rednesse of the Face it is good to wash the face with the decoction of the chaffe of Barley and Oates and to foment it afterward with the iuice of Citrons or else take foure ounces of Peach kernels two ounces of the husked seedes of Gourds bruise them and presse them out strongly to the end they may yeeld their oyle rub or touch with this liquor the pimples or red places To take away the spots of the Face make a composition of the flower of Lupines Goats gall iuice of Limons and verie white Allome touch the spotted places with this oyntment or else make an oyntment with the oyle of bitter Almonds Honey Ireos and Waxe or else rub your face with the bloud of a Cocke Henne or Pigeon or foment it with the water of the flowers of Beanes Orenges or Mulberries For the Kings euill take Leekes with the leaues and roots of the hearbe Patience presse out about some pound of the iuice thereof in which you shall dissolue an ounce of Pellitorie powdred and a scruple of Viridis aeris mixe all verie well together and herewithall you shall daily foment the said disease Hang about your necke the roots of water Betonie and the lesser Plantaine If you cut the foot of a great Witwall or Toad when the Moone is declining and beginneth to ioyne it selfe to the Sunne and that you apply it round about his neck which hath the Kings euill you shall find it verie soueraigne for the said disease The dung of a Cow or Oxe heated vnder the ashes betwixt Vine or Colewort leaues and mingled with Vineger hath a propertie to bring the swelling to ripenesse Or else vse this remedie which is alwayes readie singular good and well approued Take a sufficient quantitie of Nicotiana stampe it in a verie cleane Mortar and apply both the iuice and drossie parts thereof vnto the said tumour together and doe this nine or tenne times The Rheume falling downe vpon the eyes is stayed by a Cataplasme applyed to the browes made of the muscillage of shell-Snailes and corporated with the flower of Frankincense and Aloes well stirred together vntill that the whole become to the thicknesse of Honey For a weake Sight take Fennell Veruaine Clarey Rue Eye-bright and Roses of each a like and distill them all in a Limbecke of this water distilled put three or foure drops in your eyes morning and euening Also the water of young Pies distilled in a Furnace is verie good in like manner the water of rotten Apples putting two or three drops thereof into them It is good for the same disease to take the vapour of the decoction of Fennell Eye-bright and Rue to drinke euerie morning a small draught of Eye-bright wine or to prepare a powder with dried Eye-bright and Sugar to take thereof euerie morning the weight of a French crowne two or three houres before meat There is a stone found within the gall of an Oxe which put into the nosthrils doth maruellously cleare the sight â—o doth the wine made of the root of Maiden haire if it be oft vsed in the morning For the paine of the Eyes it is good to make the decoction of Camomile Melilot and the seed of Fennell in water and white Wine and dipping a foure-fold Linnen Cloth therein and after wringing it well to apply the same oftentimes to the eye or else to lay vpon it womans milke and the white of an egge well beat together The rednesse of the Eyes is amended by the applying of Linnen Clothes or Plegets of Flaxe moistened in the whites of egges well beat together with Rose or Plantaine water or else boyle a sowre and sharpe Apple take the pulpe thereof and mix it with Nurce milke afterward make a little Liniment to be applyed to the red eye-lids In the meane time you may apply to the temples a frontlet made with Prouence Roses or conserue of Roses and other astringent things to the end that the â—heâ—me falling from the braine may be stayed seeing it is the cause of such rednesse Other cause small thinne and daintie slices of Veale or of the necke of an Oxe newly killed to be steeped in womans milke and lay them vpon the eyes laying againe aboue them stupes of Flaxe Some cause little children to
Patience or Monkes 〈◊〉 Scabiâ—â—◠〈…〉 〈…〉 〈◊〉 The properties of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Bugle Lyons-paw Great Comfrey Gout Rupturâ— Self-heale Water Germander The vertues of Germander Fole-foot Carline thistle Hundred headed thistle Eringium Sea-Holly Beares-breech Diuels bit Cinquefoile Tormentill Perwincle Bistort Pionie Paules Betonie Gromell Saint Iohns wort The Balme Ground-pine Agriâ—â—â—ie White 〈◊〉 Mercurie The vertues of Mercurie Milfoile Danewort Orpin Goats-beard Ground-Iuie Hounds-tongue Adders-tongue Goose-grasse Of corne-Corne-rose or wild Poppie Bastard Dittanie Knot-grasse Salomons-seale Great and small Dragons Stinging and dead Nettle Dead Nettle 〈◊〉 in boyling of flesh Stauesacre Plantaine Horse-taile Pellitorie of the wall Shepheards powch Sow-bread The vertues Crowfoot Pettie-whin Dittanie Germander Ruptureâ—wort Mouse-â—are Dogs-grasse Water betonie Palma christi Fernâ— The vertues Hearbe Two-pence Fleawort or Fleaâ—ane Iâ—â—itorie Ground-swell Aristâ—lâ—chie or birth-wort Centaurie Woodbind or â—â—nie-suckles Pimpernell Backwheat or binacorne The vertues of Buckwheat The compounding of the water of Burckwheat An ointment of Bucke-wheat Nicotiana the chiefâ— of Physicke hearbes Why it was called Nicotiana The hearbe of Queene-mother The hearbe of the Great Priour Tabacco The Holie hearbe Mansâ—eur Nicot Embassador for the King in Portugall A matter of experience in the 〈◊〉 of a Noli me tangere Prooâ—e of it in wounds The Embassadors hearbe Proofe for Ring wormes Proofe for the Kings euill Madame of Montigny dead of a Noli me tangere in her breasts How Nicotiana was 〈◊〉 brought into France The distilled wateâ— o◠〈◊〉 â— good for a short breath The figure of Nicotiana The stalke Leaues Branches Flower Seed Roots Smell 〈◊〉 or tâ—st Temperatiue How to refresh and cheerâ— vp Nicotiana To waâ—er Nicotiana How to handle Nicâ—tiana in Winter To sâ—w Nicotiana The way to remoue Nicotiana At what time Nicotiâ—ana must 〈◊〉 The lâ—aues of Nicotiana are the best part of the same Ache of the head armes and lâ—ggâ—â— A weake stomach not able to digest Difficultie of breathing An old cough and causeth to spit out grosse and slimie humours The spleene â—â—opt and hard Paine of the stomach Colicke Paime of the matrix 〈◊〉 To kill the 〈◊〉 Swellings Rheumes Cold impoâ—â—umes Vâ—ers of the nose Greene wounds Wherefore the dried 〈…〉 Nicotiana are good To drie Nicotiana The droâ—sie The suffocation of the mother Head-ach Swâ—uning The fume of Nicotiana asswageth hunger and thirst That Nicotiana doth not make drunke Diuination by Nicotiana Mad night-shade Anise-seed Turneps What is meant by Maries-bath The second oyntment An excellent Balme made of Nicotiana Female Petum growth of the seed of the male Female Petum as not Priapeia The vertues of female Petum The leaues of female Petum for the bloudie flux The reason why it is so called Rhamindicke The markes of Mechoacan To chuse the best Mechoacan The vertues of Mâ—choacan Mechoacan is not fit for cholericke diseases The preparing of Mechoacan for to vse The infusion of Mechoacan Marchpanes of Mechoacan Pilles of Mechoacan The commodities of the vse of Mechoacan That the bodie and humours must be prepared before the taking of Mechoacan The day of the taking of it The day after the taking of it Costiuenesse Symptomes happening vpon the vse of Mechoacan Hearbes of the East Hearbes of the West Hearbes of the North. Hearbes of the South The Flower Garden The alleys of the Garden March Violets The vertues of Violets A blow on the head White yellow and red Gillo-flowres Daisies Kings-â—uill Palsey â—owt Purple Veluet flower The white flowers of women Canterburiâ—-bells The vertues Prouence purple and Indian Gillo-flowers To make Gillo-flowers to smell like Cloues Gillo-flowers of Prouence Purple Gillo-flowres Indian Gillo-flowres The Indian gillo-flower doth cause the headeth and an ill vnwholesome ayre Wild Gillâ—-flowers Dame Violets Goats-beard Marians Violets Lillie 〈◊〉 Water lillie Hyacynth Narâ—yssus carneflag or 〈◊〉 The vertues of Corneflag Sciâ—tica Vlcers Dropsie Lillies Lillies of 〈◊〉 colours Purple coloured Lillies Lillies in flower at divers and sâ—uerall times The vertues of Lillies 〈◊〉 Water of Lillie Burning of sâ—aldings Asmooth and glistering â—ew Small Paunces Flower of the night Tulipan The Mortagon of Constantinople 〈…〉 Crowne Emperiall Basill Basill neuer 〈◊〉 better tâ—hen it is cursed Hatâ—ed betwixt Amber and Basill The smelling of basill doth cause great paine and Scorpions in the head M. I. Houâ—ier To be deliuered of child-birth without paine Rue The bewraier of women Rue thriuing best when it iâ— most cursâ—d Rue and Hemlocke are enemies Mithridates 〈◊〉 opiate for the Plague Râ—e â—n enemie to vâ—nimes and poysons Rne â—n enemie to cats and fulmers That rue should not come neerâ— to the nose For a 〈◊〉 or Plague 〈◊〉 Mints The vertues of Miâ—ts Wormes The curding of Milke To keepe cheesâ— Calamint Thyâ—â— Goodly Thyme The vertues of Thyme Winter Sauâ—rie Organie The vertues of Organie Hyssope The vertues of Hyssope 〈…〉 The vertues of Sâ—â—â—rie The drowâ—â—â— disease Coriander The vertues of Câ—riander Digestion Windinesse To keepe flesh It prouoketh the termes Wormes Wild fire Sage The vertues of Sage Weakenesse of the sinewes The trembling of the parts To cleanse the stomacke Oake of Ierusaleâ— The 〈◊〉 Horehound 〈◊〉 The vertues of Wormewood A weake stomacke Iaundise Dropsie Wormes To make the haire blacke 〈◊〉 and his vertuâ—â— The Plague Poyson Shiuerings of Agues Wormes Rosemarie The vertâ—es of Rosemâ—riâ— An euill ayre Heâ—daâ—h Iaundise Weake sinewes Iesamine 〈…〉 Mountaine Thyme Headach To kill Serpents 〈…〉 Dâ—fficultie or painfull making of water Penyryall To prouoke womens termes To kill 〈◊〉 The Sciatica Dill. Belchings Gripes Difficultie of making water Annise A stinking breath A faire face Bishops-weed Caraway Cummin Windinesse Gripes Difficultie in making water Drie blowes Fennell Sweet Fâ—â—nell Cleare sight wâ—â—dinesse Abâ—undance of milke Marierome To pâ—rge the braâ—e Dropsie Mugwort The vertues The Matrix out of order and 〈◊〉 After-birth Paines of the Matrix Tansie Wormes Stone Grauell Fetherfew Nept or Cats-mint Conception French Lauander Lauander Weake sinewes Palsies Conuulsions Apoplexies All-good otherwise Claâ—y Cheerefulnesse To cleare the sight Nigella Balme Cheerefulnesse To keepe beâ—s from flying from their hiues To dâ—iue them from them Camomile To mollifie 〈◊〉 resolue â—erifie Meâ—â—â—ot Apples of loâ—e Mandrakes The vertues Golden-apples The preseruing of the root of Elecampane Conserue of Elecampane roots Preserâ—â—s and conserues of Gentian Pioniâ— Corne-flag wild Vine Parsâ—â—ps Turneps 〈◊〉 The difference betwixt 〈◊〉 and conseruing The preseruing of Purslaine The preserue of Asparagus Harts-horne Trick-madame c. The preâ—â—â—uing of Lettuces What is meant by the word preserue The preseruing of hearbes and flowers 〈…〉 Conserue of Roseâ— Conserue of drie Roses Conserue of Violets Conserue of drie 〈◊〉 The making of Mustard Mustard of Anion Mustard of Dijon Preseruing of Cucumbers The preseruing of Gourds How to keepe Onions The Cypresse tree The vertues The Rose-tree planted and remoued The Rose-tree sowne Seeds of Roses Vâ—rie sweet smelling Roses Early hastie and timely Roses Fresh Roses To make carnation Roses white Box-tree Bees-bane
that it may take the Easterne Equinoctiall and not lose the rising of the Sunne in March and October or rather in September If there be euer a Hill build vpon the edge thereof making choise to haue your lights towards the East but if you be in a cold Countrey open your lights also on the South side and little or nothing towards the North if it be not in your Barnes where you put your Corne or such other things as are subiect to the Weasell and other vermine Ouer-against the North you shall procure some row or tuft of Trees for to be a marke vnto you of your place and defence also for the same against the Northerne windes in the Winter time But if you be in a hote countrey you must set your said tuft of Trees on the South side against such windes and heat of Sunne as come from thence and boldly open your lights especially in the said Barnes which lie on the North side Make good choice of the best parts of your Grounds to be most fit for Fruits Corne and Medowes and plant your Vineyard to haue the South open vpon it You shall make also certaine crosse Barnes with their counter-windowes in the place towards the South to open them in the time of a Northerne wind Such places are found in Countries full of Mountaines which doe greatly desire the East and yet notwithstanding would therewithall take part of the South which is so needfull for them In this and such like places Wells are in greater request and much more necessarie than in valleyes and plaine grounds and that wee may find out the place where it is best to make them wee must chuse the Easterne side at the beginning of the descent somewhat therewithall bending towards the North but wee may not haue any thing to doe with the Westerne side and yet somewhat better toward the South where hauing ouer night digged the earth in diuers places the quantitie of three feet ouer and fiue in depth and after returning in the morning at the Sunne-rise you must make triall how it soundeth being strucken with the end of a Holly staffe armed at the said end with some round peece of Iron or Latten after the manner of the end of a Shepheards staffe without the Crooke and there by the iudgement of the eare to obserue and marke how it soundeth vnderneath as whether it sound like a Mortar or like fat Earth Potters clay or some other that is very hard or like a Glasse halfe broken or else like a very deepe Pit that toucheth the Quarrie or Veine lying vnderneath and this is the best way to iudge and make triall Or otherwise in the moneth of August or September at such time as the Earth is verie drie a little before the Sunne rise you must lye downe flat vpon the ground hauing your face toward the East and chuse out that place where you shall espie a vapour to rise vp out of the Earth after the manner of little Clouds for this is a token of a proud or plentifull store of water Or else to make a shorter triall to make deepe trenches of foure foot within the ground and therein to put sponges or fleeces of Wooll verie drie and cleane couering them with boughs of Trees or leaues of Hearbes then after some time to take them out of the Earth and they being wet and moist doe argue abundance of water according to the qualitie of moisture which they haue within them whereas if on the contrarie they be drie when they be taken vp it argueth that there is no water to be come by Diuers there be that gather figures of the springing vp of water in place where by their seeing of small clouds and vapours rising from thence into the ayre in drie faire and calme seasons But howsoever it is not conuenient to content ones selfe with the bare viewing of the hearbes which grow thereupon without hauing first made some triall for vnder Crowfoot Folefoot Plantaine Dogtooth Cinquefoile Milfoile and three-leaued Grasse Water is not farre to seeke but it is naught worth if one digge not verie deepe as is to be seene at Bagnolet Belle-Ville vpon the Sand and other places of Liury Vnder Veruaine is oftentimes found good Water and deepe according to the nature of the ground and withall if the head doe spring from grounds apt to boyle as red Sand or gray Rocke and not from those sides which by and by are dried vp Aboue all to the end we may have Wells containing water of a good rellish and such as will neuer drie vp we must make choice of a sâ—â—die blacke grauelly or clayish ground or such a one as is full of pebbles and especially that which is mixed of pebbles and sand together but neuer of that water which floweth from Fullers clay mire mudde or springeth from the grounds where Sallowes Roses Reeds and other such Plants which are engendred of a watrie humour doe grow for although that such places doe yeeld great store of water notwithstanding that water is naught worth and will easily be dried vp Wherefore as much as lyeth in you procure that your Wells be farre off from such ditches as wherein they lay the dung of Stables Cattell or Swine-coats to rot or any other place which may annoy in regard of the pissing of beasts if they be not well digged and made verie deepe True it is that Wells will be a great dealâ— the better if they consist of a high rising water and not such a one as lyeth deepe in the earth For howsoeuer that such Wells be lesse hot in Winter and in Summer lesse cold yet notwithstanding it shall be infinitely better because it hath more helpe of the Sunne and Aire which are the two things which doe greatly amend and make better the water and if necessitie force the water to lye so deepe and low wee must seeke to helpe the inconuenience by drawing but a little and oft for the iumbling and stirring of the water will rectifie it and amongst other things you must haue speciall care not to keepe it couered Fountaines in like manner rising from such places of Mountaines are had in request as well for the profit of the water which is a great deale better and more pleasant than that drawne out of Wells as also for the beautifying of the Country Farme And for to find their Head or Spring wee must vse the like meanes as wee haue layd downe for the finding of Wells excepted that wee must make chiefe choice of such as breake forth vpon the North at the bottome of high and great Mountains hauing hollow places and compassed about with plaines for in such plaine grounds the water gathereth it selfe together and distilleth through the earth Now this kind of prouision of water is when you desire it in great aboundance but if you stand vpon and desire the best and most excellent water you must make choice of
faithfull or that she her selfe be present with them Let her compell her sonnes to be formost at worke and let her shew them the example of their father that this may be as a double spurre vnto the men seruants Let her not endure them to vtter or speake any vnchast word oath or blasphemie in her house and let her cause Tale-bearers to be silent and not to trouble themselues with other folkes matters Let her keepe close vp her Stubble and lopping of Trees for fuell for the Ouen Let her not suffer the stalkes of her Beanes Peason Fetches Thistles Danewort the refuse of pressed things and other vnprofitable hearbes to be lost for in winter they being burnt into ashes will affoord prouision to lay Bucks withall or else be sold by little and little vnto the Towne Let her giue good account vnto the Mistresse or Lord of the Egges and young ones as well of Birds as of other Beasts Let her be skilfull in naturall Physicke for the benefite of her owne folke and others when they shall fall out to be ill and so in like manner in things good for Kine Swine and Fowles for to haue a Physition alwayes when there is not verie vrgent occasion and great necessitie is not for the profit of the house Let her keepe all them of her house in friendly good will one toward another not suffering them to beare malice one against another Let her gouerne her Bread so well as that no one be suffered to vse it otherwise than in temperate sort and in the time of Dearth let her cause to be ground amongst her Corne Beanes Pease Fetches or Sarrasins Corne in some small quantitie for this mingling of these flowers raiseth the paste maketh the Bread light and to be of a greater bulke At the same time she shall reserue the drosse of the Grapes shee presseth affoording them some little corner for the imploying of them in the deâ—raying of some part of charge for the seruants Drinke that so the Wine may serue for her husband and extraordinarie commers But the naturall remedies which shee shall acquaint her selfe withall for the succour of her folke in their sicknesses may be those or such as those are which I shall set downe by writing in manner of a Countrie Dispensatorie leauing the other more exquisite Remedies to bee vsed by the professed Physitions of the great Townes and Cities CHAP. XII The Remedies which a good Huswife must be acquainted withall for to helpe her people when they be sicke FIrst for the Plague shee shall make a distilled water of the hearbe called Regina prati after that shee hath caused the same to be steept in white Wine or else shee shall cause to lye to steepe in the iuice of Citrons a peece of Gold or the powder or leaues thereof for the space of 24 houres and afterward mixe that iuice with white Wine and the powder or decoction of the root of Angelica and so giue it to drinke to the infected Or else let her take two old Walnuts one Figge tenne leaues of Rue one graine of Salt powne and temper them altogether and rost them vnder the ashes and afterward being sprinkled with Wine let her giue them to be eaten Or else let her take one head of Garlicke twentie leaues of Rue as many of Clarey and powne them altogether with white Wine and a little Aqua vitae afterward let her straine them out and giue the partie to drinke thereof a good draught The water of Naphe drunke to the quantitie of six ounces causeth the malignitie of the Plague to breake forth by Sweats the iuice of Marigolds Scabious and of the flowers of Betonie doe the like Apply vpon the swelling a loafe very hot or a Henne â—ut through the middest or a white Onion made hollow on the root side and filled vp againe with good strong Treacle or Mithridate softened with the iuice of Citrons it hauing all this within it and being well stopped must be rosted vnder the ashes till it be rotten after that powne it well in a Mortar and apply it or else if it be strained the iuice drunke and the drossie part applyed to the place you shall perceiue the like effect For a continuall Feauer which is otherwise called the hot Disease shee shall apply vpon either wrest of both the armes the iuice of the stinging Nettle mixed with the oyntment of Poplar buds or two springs of new-layed Egges Soot taken off from the Hub of the Chimney and well beaten togethâ—â— and mixt with salt and strong vineger let her bind the whole vnto the parties wrests with a Linnen Cloth or else in place of this shee shall take away the heart of an Onion and fill it with Mithridate and apply it fast bound vpon the wrest of the right arme or else shee shall take the heart of a water-Frog and apply it vpon the heart or backe bone of the sicke partie or else she shall apply vpon the region of the Liuer or vnto the soles of the seet quicke Tenches Many for this cause doe stampe the small Sorrell and make a drinke for the great heat thereof as also make a Cataplasme thereof to apply to the wrests of the sicke partie Others doe the like with the water which they straine out of a great Citrull Others cause to steepe in water the whole seed of Flea-wort for the space of a night and minister of this water with a little Sugar to the sicke partie to drinke For a Quartane Ague take of small Sage or for want of it the other Hysope Wormewood Parsley Mints Mugwort white spotted Trefoile stampe them all together with the spring of an Egge and the grossest Soot that you shall find cleaâ—ing to the Chimney and of the strongest vineger that may be found infuse them altogether and make thereof Cataplaâ—mes fit to be applyed to the wrests of the hands To the same purpose steepe the crummes of two white Loaues as they come from the Ouen in a quart of Vineger afterward distill the same by a Lâ—â—becke and giue thereof a small draught to the sicke partie to drinke about some two houres before the fit come Some hold it also for a singular remedie to take the iuice of the female white Mulleine before it put forth his stalke pressed or drawne forth with white Wine and drunke a small space before the fit The like effect hath the iuice of Folefoot the decoction of the leaues and rootes of Veruaine boyled in white Wine the decoction of Calaminâ— Peniryall Organie Burrage Buglosse Languede-boeuf the rind of the root of Tamariske Ash-tree Betonâ—e Tyme Agrimonie and the roots of Sperage all boyled in white Wine the iuice of Wormewood and Rue powred from their feelings and drunke before the fit the iuice of Plantaine drunke with honied water Some doe make great account of the powder of the root of Asarum otherwise called Cabaret dryed in the Sunne or in
with water or the dung of Hennes drunke with Hypocras made of honey and wine or a Clister made of Brine or the heart of a Larke swallowed downe while it is fresh and new or the said heart of a Larke fastened to the thigh As concerning outward remedies some approue greatly to take the skin of a sheepe all new or the kell of the intrailes of a sheepe newly killed to apply it vnto the bellie or to make a bag of Millet Branne Wheat and Salt fried together to lap vpon the bellie A Cataplasme made of Wolues dung is also profitable against the Collicke the same dung drunke with a little wine doth verie much good the bones found in the dung of a Wolfe powned small and drunke with wine haue the like qualitie Some say that if you take ashes comming verie hot from vnder the coales of fire and put the said ashes in a dish or pot and afterward poure thereon a good glasâ—e of Claret wine and afterward couer the said dish with ashes with a linnen cloth foure double and apply it vnto the bellie you shall find release and mitigation of your paine For the â—uâ—orall â—lux of the Bellie it is good to drinke milke wherein hath beene quenched a gad of Steele or of yron or milke boyled with a halfe quantitie of water and that vnto the consumption of the water or hee shall take of a Stags pizzle with Cesâ—â—rue water to vse Rice parched to take a dramme of Masticke powdred with the yolke of an egge to make a Cataplasme with the flower of Wheat to apply all ouer the Nauell but it must be wrought with red Wine and after baked in the Ouen For the bloudie Flux giue to drinke with red wine the bloud of a Hare dried and made in powder or the powder of mens bones or else gather the dung of a dogge which for three dayes hath fed vpon nothing but bones and this you must drie to make into powder of 〈◊〉 powder giue vnto him that is troubled with such Flux twice a day in milke wherein you shall haue quenched manie stones of the Riuer verie throughly heated in a verie hot fire continue this two or three dayes or else giue to drinke the distilled water of the great Burre oâ— the decoction of shepheards Purse or the distilled water of Woodbâ—nd or else giue to drinke the seed of Plantaine in powder or the distilled water of the first buds of the Oake or the powder of Snayles burnt with the powder of Brier-berries and a little white Pepper and Galls or of the Harts and Goats horne burned or rather of the pizzle of a Haâ—t prepared as wee haue taught here aboue in setting downe the remedies for the Pleurisie For to stay the flux of Bloud drinke a reasonable draught of the iuice or decoction of dead Nettle make Clysters with the 〈◊〉 of Plantaâ—ne and Horse-taile vse the broth of Coleworts â—odden vâ—rie tender the iuice of Pomegrants and the substance it selfe Sallads of Plantaine and Sorrell chaw oftentimes some Rubarbe To loosen the Bellie â—ou must eat sweet Cherries or Peaâ—hes Figges or Mulberries fasting to sâ—p the first broths of Coleworts of Beets of Mallowes or Lettuces or of Cich-pease without salt to apply vnto the stomacke a Cataplasme made with Honey the gall of a Bull and the roet of Sow-bread or the leaues of Apples of coloquâ—â—tida to take a Suppositorie made of fat Bacon or the stalke of a Mallow or Beet To kill the wormes of little children it is good to cause them to vse preserued Rubarbe or the câ—nserue of Peach flowers to drinke the distilled water of Gentian or the â—â—ce of Câ—trons the iuice of Mints or Basill of Purcelane Rue or Wormwood or else to cause them to swallow with a verie small draught of Wormewood wine of the powder made of Wormes first dried and after burned on a fire-pan red hot and make it into verâ—e â—ine powder or of the powder of blessed Thistle or of Coralline the weight of a French crowne also to apply vnto the Nauell a cataplasme made of Wormewood Tansie and an Oxe gall and all this must be done toward the later end of the Moone To stay the excessiue paine of outward Hemorrhoids you must make a Liniment of oyle of Roses waâ—â—ed in the water of Violets fresh Butter oyle of Linseed the yolke of an egge and a little waxe or else to make a little cataplasme with the crums of a white loafe sleept in Cowes milke adding thereto two yolkes of egges a little Saffron and a little Populeon There may also a little Liniment be made with fresh butter and the powder of Corke-tree burned In the paine of the Hemorrhoids therâ— is nothing more singular than the perfume made of shauings of Iuorie To stay the excessiue flux of the Hemorrhoids it is a most singular remedie to drinke a dramme of red Corall or of the scumme of yron with the water of Plantain and also to make a fomentation of the decoction of white Henbane or in place of this a Cataplasme made of the powder of burnt Paper or of the shauings of Lead or of Bole Armoniack with the white of an egge or of three Oyster shells finely poudred either raw or burnt and mixt with a little fresh butter For the stone in the Reines you must drinke often of the iuice or water of the bodie of the Beech tree which water must be gathered in the Spring time in as much as then the bodie or the rinde thereof being 〈◊〉 or cut to the qâ—â—cke doth yeeld a great quantitie of water verie singular for this purpose The fruit of the Eglantinâ— preserued before it be ripe after the manner of Marmalate with Sugar hauing first taken the kernels from within taken fasting to the end of the last quarter and first daies of the Moone following in drinking somewhat more than a reasonable draught of white wine or of the water of wild Tansie or such other is verie excellent therefore He must also drinke very oft with white wine the pouder of the pâ—lling of Rest-harrow or Buck-thorne or of the gumme which groweth round about the riâ—des of Vines or of the seed of Goose-grasâ—e finely powdred or to drinke the distilled water of Radish roots and Nettle roots with a little Sugar or the water of Broome or of Dogs-grasse or of wild Tansie the water or iuice of Radish wherein is dissolued the powder of egge-shels burnt or of the stones of Medlars or of the eye of a Partridge or of the braine of a Pie or of the inward skin of thâ—â— stomacke of a Henne or Câ—pon Euerie man prayseth this decoction whereof Aetius maketh mention in his chapter of Sea-Holly Take the roots of Sea-Holly the pith taken out and make them verie cleane steepe them eight houres in Fountaine water after that to boyle them till the halfe of the water be consumed in the end of the boyling cast
into the pot Licorice bruised let this decoction coole at leisure And as for outward meanes it is good to apply a Cataplasme made of Pellitorie of the wall vnto the reines or else a Cataplasme made of the root of Cypres and the leaues of Bell-flower boyled in wine The best and most soueraigne of all the rest is to prepare a Bath wherein haue boyled the leaues of water-Paâ—sley Mallowes Holihocks March Violets Pellitorie flowers of Broome and Camomill and within the Bath vpon the reines a bagge full of Branne and water-Parsley For the Collick caused of Grauell cause to boyle the leaues and flowers of Camomill in an equall quantitie of water and white wine to the wasting of the third part drinke the decoction warme suddenly the paine will be appeased For the difficultie of Vrine drinke the iuice of Winter Cherries or the decoction of Radish roots in white wine or the decoction of hearbe Patience or of the Thistle said to haue an hundred heads or of Bell-flower or of the white prickly Thistle or of Sperage or of Dogs-grasse or of Rest harrow also apply vpon the yard or secret parts a Cataplasme or Liniment of Fleawort Some hold it for a great secret to drinke white wine wherein hath beene brayed Sowes found in caues and hollow places or to make powder of the said Sowes dryed and so to giue the same to drinke in white wine Others doe greatly esteeme the distilled water of the pillings of the root of Rest-harrow first steeped in Malmesey For the stone in the Bladder it is a singular thing to drinke the iuice of Limons with white wine or to make a powder of the stones of Medlars first washed in white wine and after dryed of Broome-seed Burnet-seed and of the seed of Sperage Holihockes Saxifrage Melons Pompions Citruls and of the hearbe good against pearles and to vse these with white wine There is an hearbe growing at the new Towne LeGuyard called in French Crespinette by those that dwell thereabouts and of this the young Ladie of Villeneufue sister to the late deceased Monsieur Cardinall of Bellay caused to be distilled a Water which is singular against the difficultie of Vrine and the stone in the Bladder as I my selfe haue proued diuers times Some hold it also for a singular remedie to make a powder of the stones of Sponges or of the stone which is found in the head of Cray-fishes or of the shells of small Nuts or of the gumme of Cherrie trees and to take it with white Wine or the iuice of Radishes Or else the distilled water of the stalkes of Beanes red Cich-pease and the seed of Holihock The which followeth of Glasse is a great secret which being burned and quenched seuen times in the water of Saxifrage and afterward made into a verie fine powder and giuen with white wine vnto the partie troubled with grauell doth breake the stone in them in any part of the bodie Another secret is that of the shells of egges which haue brought forth Chickens being brayed brewed and drunke with white wine which breaketh the stone as well of the Reines as of the Bladder For all such persons as pisse in their bed whiles they be asleepe and cannot hold their vrine there is nothing better than to eat oftentimes the lungs of a young Kid rosted or to drinke with wine the powder of the braines or stones of a Hare as also the powder of a Cowes bladder or of a Hogs Sheepe or Goats bladder or the powder made of the roots of Bistort or of Tormentill with the iuice of Plantaine or with the milke of Sheepe or the ashes of the flesh of an Hedgehog For the burning of the Vrine let be taken of shell-Snayles and whites of egges of each a pound of the great and small cold feeds of each halfe an ounce halâ—e a pound of the water of Lettuce foure ounces of good Cassia three ounces of Venice Turpentine powne that which may be powned and let it all stand to mix together for the space of a night afterward distill them in a Limbecke in Mariâ—s bath let this water settle some time before that you vse it giue thereof halfe an ounce euerie morning with a dramme of Saccharum Rosatum continue the vse thereof as long as you are able To make a woman fruitfull which is barren let her drinke foure dayes after the purging of her naturall course the iuice of Sage with a verie little salt and let her continue and goe ouer this course diuers times To stay the excessiue flux of the flowers of Women they must drinke with the iuice of Plantaine the powder of the Cuttle bone or the bone of a Sheepes foot burned or the shells which Pilgrims bring home after their pilgrimage to S. Iames or of Corall or of Harts horne or of the shells of burnt egges or of twelue red graines of the seed of Pionie or to swallow with the yolke of an egge the powder of Tezill or the scumme of yron first dipt in vineger and after made into fine powder And as for outward meanes it is good to apply vnto the Nauell shell-Snayles well brayed or the red in the void space of the Nut burnt and powdred and mingled with wine Make a Cataplasme of Soot or of the scraping got from vnder the bottome of a Caulâ—rton mingle it with the white of an egge or the iuice of dead Nettle or white Mulâ—â—â—ne and apply it vnto the loynes and bottome of the belly Or to fill a bag sufficient full of grosâ—e salt to dip in fresh water newly drawne out of the Well and to apply it to the hollow of the Reines Some make great account of Cherry-tree gumme infused in the iuice of Plantaine and cast into the priuie parts with small Siâ—ings 〈◊〉 to apply to the breasts the leaues of Celandine For the white termes of Women after that the bodie is purged it is good to drinke with the iuice of Plantaine or the water of Purcelane the powder of Amber of Corall or of Bole Armoniake or of Terra sigillata or of Steele prepared or of Sponge burnt in a pot or of the Sea-Snayle first burnt and afterward washt in wine And as for outward meanes there must be made a Lee with ashes of Oake wood or of the Figge-tree or of the Osier in which there must be boyled the rind of Pomegranats Gâ—â—â—s pieces of Corke leaues and roots of Bisâ—ort and of Peruincle beyond-sea Roses with a verâ—e small quantitie of Allome and Salt and of this to make a fomentation or a halfe bath For to cause women to haue their termes they must drinke euerie morning two ounces of the water of Mugwort or of the decoction of Dogs-grasse Cich-pease the seed of common or Romane Nigella of the root of Smallage Cinnamon and Saffron the roots of Radish of the Tasell in which one may dissolue as much Mirrhe as the quantitie of a Beane The iuice
shaued or scrap 〈…〉 a linnen cloth in manner of a Cataplasme and apply it vnto the pained 〈◊〉 Otherwise take the roots and leaues of Danewort the leaues of Scabious 〈◊〉 Coâ—â—frey and wild Sage boyle all together in wine after let it passe 〈…〉 put thereto oyle of Spike Aqua vitae and the oyle of Neats 〈…〉 take a very fat Goose puld and the garbage taken cleane out after 〈◊〉 her with 〈◊〉 that are well liking and chopped verie small with common 〈◊〉 and roasted at a small fire and looke what droppeth forth let be reserued for 〈◊〉 for the grieued place Some likewise apply for the paines of the ioints 〈◊〉 whelpes vpon the pained places Galen saith That hee was wont to softer 〈◊〉 such hardnesse as is wont to happen about the knees by applying vnto 〈…〉 Cheese all mouldie stamped with the broth wherein a salt Gammon of 〈◊〉 hath been boyled To take away the Swellings procured of Wind you must take fried salt and 〈◊〉 it betwixt two Linnens vpon the Swelling or apply a Cataplasme made of the 〈◊〉 of white Wine the branne of 〈◊〉 and new Oxe dung For such Swellings as are 〈◊〉 make a Cataplasme with the leaues and flowers of Violets flowers of Heâ—â—ane leaues of Nightshade flowers of Camomill and Meliloâ—e all boyled in wine and water strayned through a Searce and applyed vnto the aking place Or else draw the iuice of Houseleeke with a little red Wine and the flower of Barley make an emplayster for the place The dung of Goâ—â—â— hath power to wast spend and consume the hard Swellings how hardly soeuer resolued and wasted especially the old hard Swellings about the Knees mingling the same with Barley flower and water and vineger in forme of a Cataplasme To ripen an Impostume apply vnto it the dung of Goslings which haue 〈◊〉 kept from meat three whole dayes together and after fed with the gobbers of a fresh Eâ—â—e It is good also to apply raw Wheat champed or chawed a long time A Cataplasme made of the leaues and roots of Mallowes Holihocks Onions Lillies crumâ— of white bread all â—od together and after strayned through a Colander adding thereto the volke of an Egge and a little Saffâ—on It is true that if the Aâ—ostâ—me be very cold there may be added to the decoction of the Cataplasme abouesaid the roots of Elacampane Danewort Lilâ—â—es and Brionie flowers of Camomill and Melilot Oâ—ons and Wheat Leauens To ripen a Naile otherwise called a Felloâ— or Cats-haire take raw Wheat a long time chawed or the flower of Wheat the yolke of an Egge Honey and Hogges grease after heat them all together and make a plaister to lay to the sore or else lay vpon it Sheepes dung steept in vineger if in 〈◊〉 you mind to soften and resolue it For Tetters you must vse the iuice of Purcelane Celandine Plantain Nightshaâ—â—eâ— and Limons and if this medicine appeare not to be strong ynough it will be good to mixe some red Tartar amongst and with this composition to rub the spotted places Otherwise infuse for the space of a whole day in strong white vineger the rooâ— of hearbe Patience cut into shiuers rub the place where the Tetter is with one of the shiuers three or foure times a day Or else boyle tenne graines of Sublimate and halfe a dramme of Aloes in equall quantitie of Plantaine and Nightshade water vnto the consumption of the one halfe Or else steepe the powder of a Slaâ—e in very good vineger with salt and rub the place Otherwise take the gumme of Cherrie trâ—e a verie little Brimstone with twice so much salt as Brimstone steepe all together in the strongest vineger you can get and with this composition rub the spotted places Or else rub the place with your fasting spettle or with the guâ—â—â— that groweth about the Vine but before this you must rub them with Salt Nitre or else with the hearbe Nicotiana applying both drosse and iuice together vnto the place To take away the markes and pits of the small pocks take an ounce of Oyle or of the flowers of S. Iohns wort halfe an ounce of Venice Turpentine as much of Sperma coeti melt it all vpon the fire in a dish of earth well glased when it beginneth to boyle and to swell vpward take it from the fire and let it coole rub and chafe the places of blacke spots with this oyntment and continue it so long as till the pits be filled vp For Vlcers and Apostemes which happen about the Nailes lay vpon the soare a little worme which is found in the head of the Tasell when it is drie For hard Swellings take Mallowes Holyhocks the roots of Lillies Pellitorie the leaues of white Mullein seed of Line and Holyhocks flowers of Camomill and Melilot let all be boyled in equall portions of water wine and vineger after passe them through a Colander adding thereto the flower of Barley and Beanes the powder of Camomill and Roses Hennes grease and fresh and new Butter make a playster to lay to the soare Likewise it shall be good to lay hot thereunto a Cataplasme made of the drosse of Bee-hiues dissolued in white wine and fried in a Frying panne For such at are fallen from on high giue the weight of halfe a French crowne of this powder with good wine Mummia Tormentill Rhaponticke Sperma coeti of each a dramme or else giue the weight of a French crowne of the powder of the seed of Garden-Cresses of Mummia of the seed of Houseleeke prepared and Sugar Candie For a greene wound you must take Garden Baulme the great and small Comfrey and a little salt poune them all together and apply them vpon the wound It is good also to drop into the wound the iuice of Nicotian or for the more profitable vse thereof to apply both the drosse as also the iuice thereof stamped and to bind vp the wound by and by and assure your selfe that within three dayes it will be recouered Otherwise take the Elme apples the flowers of S. Iohns wort and of Rosemarie the knops or buttons of Roses put all together in a glasse-bottle full of oyle Oliue stop the bottle diligently and set it to the Sunne so long as till all be so farre consumed as that it may seeme to be rotten afterward let it runne through a linnen cloth diuers times and then keepe it in a violl to drop into wounds The readiest and most soueraigne remedie is the iuice of Nicotiana and the drosse or substance likewise and also the oyntment made thereof which wee will handle hereafter viz. in the seuentie six chapter of the second Booke This oyntment is very singular Take Veruaine Agrimoniâ— Beâ—onie and Pimpernell of each a handfull wash them diligently and being washed swing them well stampe them together in a mortar being stamped put them in an earthen vessell well glased with seuen pints of white wine to boyle till halfe
of it be consumed the vessell in the meane time being close couered and the fire burning cleare and softly after draw the vessell somewhat further from the fire and let it coole vnto the next morning then straine it out a little warme the grosser parts that it may so be forced through some hairie strainer and adde thereto of white Pitch melted by it selfe and also strained through a hairie strainer a pound halfe a pound of white Waxe in graines Masticke and Turpentine of each one ounce make thereof an oyntment of good consistence Likewise there is nothing more singular than to take of Greeke Pitch Brimstone and Olibanum equall parts to bray them together with the whites of egges and after you haue stanched and wiped away the bloud in handsome sort to ioyne and bring together the edges of the wound and to apply it thereto with a linnen cloth and a Cataplasme afterward to bind and roll it vp with double linnen clothes and so to leaue it for certaine dayes or else boyle the leaues of Carduus Benedictus and flower of Wheat in Wine vnto the forme of an Oyntment wash the Vlcers twice a day with Wine afterward lay thereunto this Oyntment Or else wash the wound with the decoction of Dent de lion more easily thus Take the dyrt which you find vnder Buckets Troughes or such like and apply it vnto the cut it closeth it vp incontinently For all wounds as well old as new vlcers and whatsoeuer cuts in the flesh take the leaues of Plantaine Spearewort or small Plantaine Mallowes All-good of each a handfull French Sage about foure and twentie leaues let all the foresaid hearbes be well picked washed and after stamped verie well all together this done take five quarts of old Swines greaâ—e put thereinto a hot pestill and cause it to melt then boyle it with the said hearbes and when you see that the liquor of the hearbes iâ— consumed you shall straine it and put thereunto as much Frankincense as a Nut greene Waxe and Perrosine of each as much as two Nuts melt them that so they may all be brought vnto the forme of an oyntment of which you shall make vse for all sorts of wounds Otherwise take Brimstone most â—inely powdred and searced put it in a Glasse-vessell and powre thereupon so much oyle Oliue as will doe more then couer it by foure or fiue singers set it out vnto all the heat of the Sunne you can for the space of tenne daies and stirring it about manie times with a Spatull of cleane and faire wood and keeping the said vessell close shut continually to the end there may not any dyrt fall thereinto At the end of the tenne dayes emptie out all the oyle by leaning the glasse softly to the one side seeing it hath extracted all the substance or essence of the Brimstone into another Glasse-bottell by the helpe of a funnell and let not any of the drosse or residence goe in withall after which you shall stop the bottell verie carefully and at such times as you would vse it you shall dip Lint white linnen Cloth Cotton or blacke Wooll in it and apply it vnto the parts that are hurt whether by Vlcers or Cuts as also vnto Impostumes and that so long as vntill they be cured You may powre in oyle againe the second time vpon the residence left after the oyle powred out as beforesaid and doe as was done before Make account of these two later Remedies as of those which will not faile you For the Boyle called Anthrax Carbunculus and other such pestilent tumours see that you apply vnto them Rue bruiâ—ed and mixt with verie strong Leauen Figges Cantharides Onions of the Land and Sea vnquencht Lime Sope gumme Ammoniacke and a little Treacle for this emplaster draweth forth such kind of tumours Or else take a Toad drie her either in the Sunne or in the Ouen make her into powder and put of this powder vpon the Carbuncle it will draw forth all the venome Or else apply vnto the Carbuncle a Frog aliue and if she die then another and doâ— this so oft as vntill that one doe liue and so you shall draw out all the venome For vlcers comming of the Pocks and such other maligne ones take tenne pints of water quench therein hot yrons so long as till the tenne pints become but fiue and in these fiue pints infuse for the space of foure and twentie houres a pound of vnquencht Lime after that straine the water when it is strained dissolue therein fifteene graines of Verdegrease and as much of Vitrioll and twentie graines of Camphire this water is singular to mundifie cleanse and drie vp Vlcers Otherwise set to boyle in a new earthen vessell verie cleare water when it beginneth to boyle put into it by and by vnsleckt Lime and presently thereupon powre it out into another vessell all new let it rest there so long as vntill after it be scummed it become cleare the Lime falling to the bottome of the vessell in manner of pap in the end you shall gather the water swimming aloft by leaning the vessell and letting the Lime abide vnstirred in the bottome and this water thus gathered shall be reserued in a cleane violl or other vessell well stopped that so it may serue for your vse in which being warme dip a linnen cloth and apply it in stead of an emplaister vnto the Vlcer and renew it oft To draw out miraculously a Pellet make a tent of a Quince and for want of it of Marmalate of Quinces onely without any addition of Spices or other things annoint it with the oyle of egges and put it into the wound or hole made by the shot of the Pistoll For inward wounds in which there can no tents be put there must be drunke oftentimes the decoction of Auens and the outward wounds washt or else take Mugwort great and small Comfrey whole Betonie Agrimonie the roots of Rubia otherwise called the Diers hearbe the roots of small Plantaine otherwise called Carpenters hearbe Sage the leaues of Brambles Parsley pricking Nettle Marigolds Sanicle Bugula Mouse-eare Burnet Dendelion Plantaine the crops of Hempe female Ferne Buglosse Gentian Veruaine Birds â—oong ground Iuie water Germander Catmint hearbe Robert Cinquefoile Tansie all the Capillar hearbes of each one halfe handfull Damaske Raiâ—ins their stones taken out Licorice the seed and flowers of S. Iohns wort the seed of blessed Thistle of each an ounce the three cordiall flowers of each foure ounces all these being thus carefully pickt and made cleane let be brayed verie throughly after strained through a hairen strainer with one pint of white wine you must cause him which iâ— thrust through to drinke of this drinke a little draught fasting or one houre before he eat and as much before his supper If these iuices displease thee in stead of braying bruising or stamping of the things aforesaid you may make a decoction in common water adding in
defend the parts of the bodie from all cold and staruing how great soeuer it might proue to be if so be that you rub the ridge of the backe the soles of the feet and the wrists of the hands therewith Likewise the iuice of this Neule mixt with a little Populeon and applyed vnto the wrists appeaseth the great heat of Agues The leaues beaten and mixed with oyle of Violets and Poppies and applyed vnto the wrists doe alike The vapour of the decoction of Nettle seed doth take away the stuffing of the nosthrils Such as haue the Cough with a great ratling in the throat cannot meet with a better medicine to make them spit out lustily than to take with some pâ—ctorall syrrop or decoction the weight of halfe a French crowne of Nettle seed finely powdred You must furthermore obserue this vertue in Nettles as that if it be put into a pot wherein is flesh boyling it will cause the flesh to be the sooner boyled Stauesacre must be sowne in a place reasonably drie and shadowed The seed chewed and held in the mouth draweth vnto it by his heat great quantitie of moisture stamped and mingled with oyle it driueth vermine out of the head and other parts of the bodie it cureth scuruinesle and itch sleeped in vineger and held in the mouth it assuageth the tooth-ach There is not anie need of great care to be taken in sowing the great small or middle Plantaine for they grow euerie where and yet they must be esteemed by reason of their vertues The iuice of Plantaine leaues or rootes pressed out and 〈◊〉 two houres before the fit to the quantitie of two ounces doth assuage the 〈◊〉 Feauer The leaues of Plantaine stamped with the whites of egges doe 〈◊〉 burnings An emplaister made of the iuice of Plantaine the white of an egge and Bole-Armoniacke and applyed vnto the brewes doth stay the bleeding of the nose Horse-taile as well the great as the small requireth a verie moist ground as neere to some poole or shadowed place The decoction thereof in wine or water doth stanch bleeding and all other fluxes whether it be the bloudie or anie other such The iuice put into the nosthrils doth stay the bleeding of them and with a Pessarie put vp into the necke of the Matrix it stayeth the flux thereof Pellitorie craueth no great care or tillage for it groweth naturally neere vnto walls A Cataplasme made of Pellitorie and the grease of a male or female Goat is a singular remedie for the gowt and slidings or falls The leaues of Pellitorie fried with fresh Butter or Capons grease and laid in forme of a Cataplasme vnto the bellie doth assuage the paine of the Colicke The iuice mingled in like quantitie with white Wine and oyle of sweet Almonds newly drawne doth assuage the paine and torment of the stone A Cataplasme made of greene Pellitorie stamped with crums of Bread and oyle of Lillies Roses or Camomile doth resolue Apostemes happening in the breasts It is good also for mollifying Clysters and Bathes that are deterging Shepheards Powch groweth in all ground but principally vpon the ruines of old walls and neere vnto walls The decoction of this hearbe in raine water with Plantaine and Bole Armoniacke being drunke certaine mornings or taken in Clysters doth stay the bloudie flux and the spitting of bloud A bath prepared with the decoction of the leaues stayeth the excessiue flux of the termes But if you take it and boyle it in red wine with a little Cinnamon and Tanners barke and so giue it the patient to drinke it will stay the most dangerous bloudie flux that can be possible It is verie good also for the same disease if it be giuen in milke The iuice doth heale greene wounds and being dropped into the eares doth drie vp the vlcers of the same The leaues stamped and applyed in forme of a Cataplasme doth kill inflammations and the wild fire The leaues eaten doe stay all sorts of bleeding being put into the nosthrils as also holden in the hand they stay the nose from bleeding Sow-bread desireth a shadowed ground as vnder some tree or bush which must notwithstanding be fat and well tilled to feed the root thereof which is full grosse solide and as it were like vnto the Turnep The Forest of Orleance is well stored and replâ—nished with this hearbe This is a thing to be maruelled at that the iuice of the root of Sow-bread snuffed vp into the nose purgeth the head and the distilled water thereof snuffed vp also into the nosthrils doth presently stay their bleeding The same water drunke to the quantitie of six ounces with an ounce of Sugar doth presently stay the bloud running downe from the breast stomacke or liuer and knitteth together the vessels therein if anie be broken which I my selfe haue proued and tried Two drammes of the iuice drunke with honied water doe loosen the bellie and free the liuer from obstructions as also the spleene in respect whereof it is singular good for the Dropsie and Iaundise but you must mixe with it a little Mallicke or Nutmeg or Rhubarbe for to correct the vehemencie thereof It is incredible what ease the iuice thereof worketh in the Colicke and other such like griping pangs if it be put into Clysters how greatly also it profiteth in Oyntments Liniments and Cataplasmes appointed for the hardnesse and swellings of the spleene and liuer If you infuse the roots chopped small in the oyle of Roses or Camomill or sweet Almonds and afterward boyle them together putting thereto a little wine in the end you shall presse them out This oyle dropped by two or three droppes into the eares doth driue away the noyse and deafenesse of the eares especially if vpon the eares you apply the drosse of these rootes at night at the parties going to bed or else chop small the rootes stampe them with Peaches and bitter Almonds steepe them all in Aqua vitae afterward straine them and drop certaine drops of that which shall be pressed out into the eares this is verie soueraigne for deafenesse and the noyse of the eares Crowfoot although there be six kinds of it yet they all loue a moist and marish ground and whereas the frogges delight to liue which also take pleasure in and 〈◊〉 themselues about this hearbe It is true that some of the sorts doe loue these 〈◊〉 places more than other some for the Crowfoot that hath a double flower not 〈◊〉 yellow but somewhat red and which appeareth onely in Autumne cannot grow in a verie moist place so as it doth in the drie medowes and in places a little 〈◊〉 contrariwise that which beareth a single flower of a yellow and golden colour cannot grow but in some watrie medow-plot and neere vnto standing water The other which beareth a double flower not verie yellow hath a bulbous and whitish root of a sharpe tast This same as well the leaues but
wish amongst the Brambles and Bushes and therefore from hence it may be transplanted and remoued into your Garden for the benefit of your Arbours The root especially the iuice doth mightily loosen the bellie prouoke vrine purge the braine open the spleene and take away the hardnesse thereof applyed in forme of a Pessarie it bringeth downe the termes the after-birth and dead child stamped with salt and applyed it healeth vlcers it cleanseth the skinne and taketh away the red pimples of the face for which purpose also serueth the water thereof which you may gather in the moneth of May out of a pit which you shall make in the head of the root as it standeth in the ground according as we haue alreadie said in the Chapter of Violets going before In a Cataplasme it is singular against the Sciatica as also to take away the haire from some place being mixed and stamped with Bulls bloud it is of maruellous effects in hard and schirrous swellings and cankerouâ— tumours We haue spoken heretofore of cucumbers and gourds and therefore it is not needfull to make any new repetition The ordering of hops is like vnto that of the wild vine for one and the same ground and dressing vvill serue both The flowers crops and juice pressed out doe take away the obstructions of the liuer and spleene and the vse thereof is verie conâ—enient for such as haue the dropsie therewith beere is made as we shall further declare hereafter Maruailous apples are verie fit to ouerspread arbours as well in respect of their beautie as for that they are pliant and winding easily about the poles They would be sowne in the Spring time in a fat and well battilled ground they cannot endure the cold so soone as their fruit is ripe which is in Autumne they drie away by and by wherefore you must sow them where the Sunne hath full power vpon them and water them oft in the time of great heat gathering their fruit in September These apples resemble little lymons as being sharpe pointed at the end 〈◊〉 bellied in the middest rough as wild Cucumbers greene at the beginning but aâ—terward turning red the first that euer brought them into France was Reâ—e du Bellay Bishop of Mans. They haue also beene found in the gardens of the religious of S. Geâ—manes in the fields and in the Temple garden at Paris They are called of the Greekes Gratious apples because of their well pleasing beautie and of the Latines Viticella Momordica and Balsamita this last name was giuen to them by reason of the vertues of Balme which they haue and in French Maruailous apples because of the maruailous vertue that they haue to heale wounds Some take all the seeds 〈◊〉 of the apples putting the said apples into a viole of vnripe oyle oliue or insteed of oyle made of vnripe oliues which is not alwaies readie to be had at Paris some 〈◊〉 common oyle verie well in Rose-water or Common water or plantaine or Mulberie water and doe afterward set the said viole a long time in the Sunne when it 〈…〉 his heat or else they put it in a vessell of hot boyling vvater or else burie it in the earth or in horse dung and this oyle is singular good to assuage inflammations of wounds and of the breasts and hath no lesse vertue than Balme to consolidate 〈◊〉 heale wounds either new or old being a thing tried of many The fruit soaked 〈◊〉 oyle of sweet Almonds or Linseed adding thereto an ounce of liquid vernish 〈◊〉 euerie pound of oyle maketh the oyle verie soueraigne for the paines of the Hâ—â—â—â—rhoides Burnings prickings of the sinews and to take away the skarres of â—oundâ— The leaues dried and made into powder and drunke the quantitie of a spoonefull with the decoction of plantaine doe heale the gripes in the guts the paine of the colicke and the wounds of the guts The oyle wherein this fruit hath beene soaked doth keepe in his place the fundament wont to fall downe in little children if it be often rubbed therewith it maketh barren women fruitfull if after they haue bathed in a bath for the purpose and drunke of the powder of the leaues of this hearbe they annoint their secret parts with this oyle dwelling afterwards with their husbands The maruailous pease are verie rare in this countrie resembling somewhat Winter cherries as hauing their seed inclosed in a little filme or skinne like vnto a â—ich pease in the middest whereof there is the shape as it were of a heart They delight in a very fat moist and well sunned soyle and cannot abide to endure the cold Winter cherries which the Latines call Halicacaâ—um and the Arabians Aâ—â—kengi are delighted in vines wherefore they which would haue it planted in their garden must picke out for it such a soyle as would fit the vine The little 〈◊〉 which is inclosed in the bladder is singular good to prouoke the decayed vrine and to take away the sharpnesâ—e and scalding thereof for the juice thereof mixt with 〈◊〉 creame or milke of white poppie seed or with the decoction of the seed of meloâ—â— or gourds mallows or barly ptisane and drunke doth maruailously mitigate the scalding of the vrine if the root come neere vnto the aspe or lizard it casteth them into a dead sleepe and killeth them the vse of the cherrie is soueraigne against the stone and grauell Likewise for this disease some make a Wine which is called Winter-cherrie wine which is made with the new pressed liquor of good white wine when in hath beene infused a certaine quantitie of these cherries or with a certaine quaâ—titie of these cherries cast with an equall quantitie of white wine grapes all whole into a new vesâ—ell the same vesâ—ell afterward being filled vp with white wine new froâ— the presse being afterward scummed and vsed after the manner of other wines or else this wine may be thus made these cherries are troden amongst ripe grapes and being suffered to worke together certaine daies they are afterward â—unned vp 〈◊〉 vessells and ordered as other wines this wine taken the quantitie of foure 〈…〉 the morning three or foure daies together in the decrease of the Moone cleanseth the reines and purgeth out great quantitie of grauell CHAP. LIIII Of Trees both great and small as well outlandish as of the same Countrie being planted or sowne either vpon beds or in vessells in the Garden THe Bay-tree will grow in all places but it is not as easily preserued and kept in euerie place for it delighteth especially and naturally in a hot or temperate countrie for in a cold it groweth not but by constraine but and if you be disposed to haue it to grow in this cold countrie you 〈◊〉 plant it so vpon the Sunne as that it may thereby shâ—ke off and better passe 〈◊〉 the extremitie of the cold and on the contrarie in a hot countrie you must plant 〈◊〉 so as
it were better to beat them downe with poles whiles they be greene and not to tarrie till they fall to the ground for those will not keepe aboue fifteene daies if they be not presently dried in the smoake The manner of keeping Chesnuts is to couer them with common Nuts for the common Nut hath power to drie and inuade the excrementous moisture of all things whereunto it is applyed or else to gather them reasonably ripe in the decrease of the Moone and to put them in a coole place in sand or in some vessell but let in stand continually in the coole and so well stopt as that no ayre may get in for otherwise they will be spoyled and rotten in a short time The fairest best fed and most pleasant Chesnut of all others is that which groweth in the Countrey of Lyonnoise and are called great Chesnuts of Lyons or else I know not as yet from whence they haue taken their name But howsoeuer it is besides the profit of the nourishment and sustenance which the Chesnut yeeldeth the Chesnut-tree is of great vse to make Vessels of as Caske to put wine and other drinkes into to build Bridges withall as also Conduit-pipes Pillars and infinite other things about Buildings Engines props for Vines Pales and Railes for Parkes Gardens and other such places The leaues of the Chesnut-tree after they be fallen are gathered vp before anie raine come to touch them and serueth for litter for Cattell which being thus turned into dung serueth to manure withall Many vse them to fill featherbed-ticks withall and call them mockingly by the nick-name of Parliament-beds because the leaues make a noise when you lye downe vpon them when you rise vp from them or when you moue your selfe anie manner of way to or fro The ashes of the wood of Chesnut-tree is not good to make lee of because it spottâ—â—h and staineth the Linnen so mightily as that such staines will neuer be got out Chesnuts with vineger and barly flower applyed in manner of a Cataplasme vnto womens breasts which are hard doe make the same soft stamped with salt and honâ—y they are applyed vnto the bitings of mad dogges the rinds or skinnes thereof are put manie times in lees which are made to colour the haire yellow their red inward rind which lyeth next vnto the white kernell being drunke the weight of two drammes stayeth all manner of fluxes of the belly and of bloud as also the whites of women with equall quantitie of Iuorie Chesnuts in as much as they be wiâ—die they prouoke men to lust being eaten excessiuely they cause the head-ach they swell and harden the belly and are of hard digestion such as are roasted vnder ashes are lesse hurtfull than the raw or boyled ones especially if they be eaten with pepper per and salt or sugar CHAP. XXXVII Of the Pine-tree THe Pine-tree craueth a sandie light and stonie ground and therefore it groweth willingly in out-cast and contemned plots such as there are manie of by the coasts of the maine Sea It is planted in the moneth of October and Nouember and it is not to be translated till after that it hath beene three years planted and then it must be seated in a well digged place and in an earth well manured with Horse dung This tree hath a nature contrarie vnto the Walnut-tree because it causeth to thriue and prosper whatsoeuer is set vnder the shadow of it againe it is not so combersome as to keepe away the Sunne and the wind from the things that ioyne next vnto it or vnder it The Pine kernes for to be kept must be put in new pots full of earth together with their shells Such as haue weake lungs or are growne leane by some long sicknesse must goe a taking of ayre into the Forests where there are good store of Pines because such ayre is verie profitable for them Their kernels steeped in warme water to take away their oylie qualitie and sharpnesse being often eaten doe cure the ach of the 〈◊〉 the ach of the backe the palsie benummednesse trembling of the parts weaknesse of the lungs shortnesse of breath vlcers of the lungs vlcers of the reines and of the bladder the scalding of the vrine and make fat such as are leane and wasted 〈◊〉 vp lust in such as languish and are weake vnto the workâ— of venerie They cure the gnawings of thâ— stomacke taken with water of Plantaine or iuice of Purcelane The new Nuts of the Pine-tree distilled in a Limbecke make a singular water to take away the wrinckles of the face and to stay the excessiue great growth of womeâ—â— breasts if you apply a Linnen cloth steeped in this water vpto them Set in the second Booke CHAP. XXXVIII Of the Plum-tree AS for the Plum-tree it is a common and ordinarie tree agreeing with 〈◊〉 Countries of whatsoeuer conditions howbeit the Damaske Plum-tree is more cheerefull and pleaseth it selfe better in a drie Countrie and hot aire than it doth elsewhere The Plum-tree will grow easily and encreâ—se infinitely for and if it be once brought into a plot of ground in a short time it â—eiseth it selfe vpon the whole place and if it be planted on the one side of a wall it will leape within a short time after vpto the other side of it and so placeth the wall in the midst It desireth not to be dunged because the dung maketh the fruit to mould or rot and easily to fall downe but it would be oft digged at the foot round about as fâ—rre as the compasse of his roots stretcheth and watred in drie weather It growth vpon a stone buried a foot deepe in the earth that is fat and that in Nouember or Februarie hauing sleept the said stone for three daies space before you sow or set it in lee or longer in a composition of Cinnamon water if you would haue it to yeeld anie aromaticall smell or else of a meere plant hauing a root in a pit a little digged because it graspeth not much ground with his foot but yet it must be good and light and easie to be pierced round about for the affoording of an easie and plentifull seat vnto it It groweth also in prosperous sort if it be grafted after the Scuti hâ—on-like fashion either vpon it selfe or vpon the sweet Cherrie or else in the cleft and that besides the two former vpon the Apple-tree Almond-tree Peach-tree and Ceruise-tree of all which sorts of grafts that is the best which is vpon it selfe or vpon the sweet Cherrie-tree for all the rest are but meanes to cause the Plum to degenerate from his nature and to become bastardly as well in their shape as in their tast The fittest time to graft them is in Februarie or in March and then rather in the stocke than in the barke There is a certaine kind of scab which doth take hold of it and that either by letting the gumme to stand and hang
mornings Water of horse-taile Take horse-taile plantaine red roses Winter-cherrie-berries rootes of holihockes and scraped licorice of each an ounce of bole-armoniacke halfe an ounce of the seed of gourds and cucumbers of each three drams of the seede of white poppie six drams of the seed of quinces halfe an ounce Infuse them all in vvhay made of goats milke the space of two daies afterward distill the vvater which will serue for the vlcers of the reines and bladder if there be foure ounces of â—â—taken vvarme in the morning Water of corneflag Take equall parts of corneflag hyssope and southernewood stampe them throughly and leaue them so a certaine time afterward distill them this vvater prouoketh womens termes and killeth wormes in young children Burnet-water Take the seed of burnet parsley smallage the leaues and rootes of clotburre and smallage of euerie one equally stampe all together after put thereto of draggons bloud an ounce and a little good vinegar â—et all to infuse together a certaine time afterward distill it this vvater hath a meruailous vertue against the stone and grauell A singular vvater for the grauell vvhich the deceased Monsieur de Tillet had great vse of vvith happie succesâ—e Take the rootes of parsley and fennell made verie cleane and the vvooddie part taken out of each â—oure handfulls boyle them in twelue pintes of riuer water vvhen they are halfe boyled put thereto of the tender buds of Mallows holihockes violets and sea-weed of each foure handfulls boyle all together to the consumption of the halfe after straine them through a white napkin distill them putting thereunto two pound of Venice turpentine A singular water for the eyes Take celandine veruaine betonie eye-bright rue and fennell all new and fresh of each two handfulls stampe them together sprinkling them with halfe a pound of white Wine presse out the juice and afterward infuse in the same pepper and ginger made in powder of each halfe an ounce of saffron three drams of myrrhe aloes and sarcocol of each one ounce of verie good honie a pound distill them all in a glasse stillitorie at a small fire and keepe the water for the spots of the eyes Take foure ounces of the pills of Oranges dried in the shadow of the Sunne sixe dayes nutmegs and cloues made into powder either of them by themselues of each foure ounces infuse the said aromaticall powders in a glasse viole with rosewater the space of seuenteene dayes in the Sunne after cast vpon the said powders the rindes of oranges vvhich you shall let steepe there a certaine space of time Afterward take of new red roses gathered two daies before a pound of the roote of cypeâ—us halfe a pound of the leaues of rosemarie hysâ—op balme roses of the bush of each two handfulls of bay-leaues a handfull lay them all to drie in the Sunne for two houres after infuse them in rose-water the space of three houres this done put them all into a Still after this manner In the bottome of the Still make a bed of one pound of new red roses then next a bed of aromaticall powders and the rindes of oranges in the third place a bed of Violet flowers and in the fourth place the last and fourth bed of the afore named hearbes distill them all in Maries-bath with a gentle fire Adde vnto the distilled water two pound of rose-water or thereabout so that it may be in proportion equall to the third or fourth part of the water drawne out by distillation This vvater taken in the morning the weight of a dramme keepeth the bodie sound lustie and reneweth youth It is singular for the paine of the head tteeth bellie gripings palsie conâ—ulsions apoplexie faintings and other such cold diseases This is the vvater that is so much esteemed in the courts of kings and princes and amongst the great and renowned ladies An Allome-water Take Verjuice the juice of Plantaine and Purslaine of each a pound seuen whites of egges ten ounces of Roch-allome mingle them together and distill them Otherwise take plantaine purslaine sorrell gourds nightshade and verjuice of each a handfull poune them grosly mixe therewith ten or twelue whites of egges put them all in a glasse stillitorie to distill mingling amongst them halfe a pound of Allome as you lay bed vpon bed this water is good for caâ—kers for the rednesse of the face and for vlcers applying linnen clothes thereunto that haue beene wet therein You may likewise distill purging waters in infusing purgatiue medicines both simple and compound seeing that they be as new as may be and that in Aqua-vitae wine milke whay distilled waters or conuenient decoctions and such waters vvill haue the like vertues as the purging medicines haue thus you may distill Catholicum Diaphoenicon confectio Hamech and Electuarium de â—ucco rosarâ—m Thus you may distill rhubarbe agaricke hellebor scammonie and such other purgatiues that are sound and new The maner of distilling rhubarbe may be this take a quantitie of new and greene Rhubarbe vvhether it be a pound or halfe a pound more or lesse make it â—â—to small pieces or make it into grosse powder and vpon it cast of the iuice of Borage and Buglosse of each two pound for one of Rubarbe infuse them all together for the space of foure and twentie houres vpon hot ashes then distill them in a Stillitorie in Maries bath This distilling of purgatiue Medicines is for such kind of people as are verie delicate and cannot abide the smell of the purging medicine to be ministred otherwise vnto them CHAP. LXX Of sweet Waters particularly described SWeet Waters serue to wash the hands face haire of the head and beard as also to make Linnens Garments Gloues and such other things to smell sweet Water of Lauander Take the flowers of Lauander new or drie beâ—prinkle or infuse them in Rose-water Wine or Aqua-vitae afterward distill them The water will be sweeter if you drie the flowers in the Sunne in a Glasse-violl close stopped and cast vpon them afterward some white Wine And if in the time of want and lacke of distilled water you would haue a water presently made which should resemble the smell of the water of Lauander cast a drop or two of the Oyle of Spike into a good sufficient quantitie of pure water and swill them well together in a bottle or Glasse-violl with a narrow necke This water though it be not distilled yet it ceaseth not to haue the sweet smelling sent and sauour that the distilled hath Water of Cloues Take halfe an ounce of Cloues well bruised set them to infuse in a pound and a halfe of Rose-water the space of foure and twentie houres after distill them in Maries bath The water of sweet Smells Take Basill Mints Marierome rootes of Corneflag Hyssope Sauorie Sage Balme Lauander and Rosemarie of each a handfull of Cloues Cinnamome and Nâ—tmegs of each halfe an
also must be separated from the single to the end that they may make the fairer silke and especially there must choice be made of such people as are the best workefolkes both â—or to know the silke as also to draw it out with such discretion as that there may â—come the most profit of it When the Wormes shall be out of their huskes then you must make choice of the best for encrease and breeding those which are the grossest and blackest are the strongest and affoord better egges than anie of the oâ—her You must likewise take more females than males and for the knowing of â—he one from the other the eyes of these creatures doe sufficiently testifie thereof â—or the females haue thinner eyes and not altogether so blacke as the males They must also be put asunder and white Linnen clothes spread or rather leaues of Paper vpon little Tables for to receiue their egges The Paper is more naturall â—nd commodious than the Linnen because it may be the better raked ouer with 〈◊〉 knife to draw together the egges thereupon without making of anie spoyle 〈◊〉 all As concerning the diseases whereunto these little creatures be subiect When they haue not beene so carefully looked vnto as they should to be kept cleane when the â—â—old Northerne wind or the hot Southerne Sunne hath molested them as also when â—hey haue eaten too much then they become sicke wherefore you must keepe â—hem cleanely stop the windowes and holes by which the cold windes doe enter and get in and carrie coales of fire that doe not smoake into their lodging setting thereupon Frankincense or Sawsages cut in slices for they so loue this smell as thaâ— it presently cureth them as also besprinkle them with a little Malmesey or Aqua-vitae If they haue beene troubled with too great heat of the South Sunne there must be sprinkled vpon them rose-Rose-water If they haue ouer-eaten themselues the contrarie diet will cure them as the keeping of them three or foure daies without eating anie thing If there be anie of them that are spotted with anie duskish blewish or yellowish colour and that there appeare withall vpon their bellies a certainâ— humour that doth wet them they must be speedily taken from out of the companie of the rest and carried out and in the morning before the Sunne rise set the whole and sound in the ayre for some small time and afterward put them in their places againe and then it will be good to sprinkle them with good and strong vineger and to annoint them with Wormewood or Sothernewood and also to giue them ayre making them likewise to feele the force of the Sunne prouided that the beames thereof doe not â—ouch them and you must looke also that the windowes bee so placed as thaâ— the morning ayre may season and send his breath throughout the whole house The end of the third Booke THE FOVRTH BOOKE OF THE COVNTRIE HOVSE That there are two sorts of Medowes CHAP. I. Of Medowes and their difference IN our former Treatise wee haue runne through those things which belong vnto the husbanding and ordering of Gardens and Orchards and now it requireth that wee speake of Medow Grounds vvhereupon consisteth the greatest meanes of feeding and bringing vp of Cattell to the end wee may perfect and accomplish our fore-appointed purpose The thing therefore called in our French tongue Prâ— may seeme to be borrowed from the old word Prat and both of them to signifie and point out a thing that is readie and prest to doe the Master of the Farme and Farmer seruice without putting him to anie paines in respect of the labouring or husbanding of them but this must be vnderstood of Medowes hauing their prey and maintenance about them namely such as are those which are fed and watered with the Marne on the one side and the Riuer Aube on the other which is about some hundred and fiftie leagues of square Countrey as also those about the Riuer called Veselle which of all others doth most abound in Medowes It is in like manner in the free and reclaimed grounds from Barle-duâ— to Vitrye in Partois and from Louemont to Vassie in Thierache all along the little Blondelle as also along the great and small Morin in our Country of Beauuoisis Such medow grounds doe not â—eare stormes and tempests as Gardens and other arable grounds doe but with little cost and charges they yeeld their double reuenue and profit euerie yeare the one of Hay the other of Pasture Medowes are of two sorts the one drie the other â—oist The drie craueth not the helpe of anie water to be watered withall except the raine because it is in a fat place and where it hath full store of refreshing â—uice and in such places Hay doth grow of his owne accord and that a great deale better than where it is forced by casting of water vpon it The moist medowes haue also seldome anie need of watering because most commonly they lye alongst the bankes of some great or small Riuers which feedeth and nourisheth them as those which lye here in France by the Riuers of Marne Aube Blondile and Morin and in England by the Riuers of Thames Trent Seauerne Auon Teame Ouze Wye and such like and these medowes are for the most part plaine and leuell grounds because the inundations of these Riuers washing them ouer at least once or twice euerie Winter the Moalâ—s and other silthie vermine which hurt the earth are destroyed and these Medowes are euer more fruitfull and more aboundant in their encrease than the higher Medowes are but the grasse is nothing neere so sweet and so pleasant neither feedeth so soundly nor so suddenly Whence it commeth that the husbandman keepeth his high-land hay for his cattell which are to be sed and his low-ground hay for those which worke CHAP. II. What grounds are good for Medowes and how to make new Medowes THe ground that is fat and full of iuice although it be nothing at all helped either by small Riuer or Brooke is good to bring forth hay so that such place be not exceeding farre from some small Brooke standing water or little Riuer or at the least that it be moist at the bottome and such as wherein if that one make a reasonable deepe ditch he may find good store of water for moisture is one of the nurses of hay Where such â—at and iuiceground is not there may Medow ground be made of what manner of earth soeuer it be whether it be a strong slight or leane earth so that you haue close by it but this one commoditie of a little Brooke to water it and that the field lye somewhat sloping or descending not verie low nor verie flat as wherein the raine water or other of anie small Riuer taking sometimes ouer the same doe not vse to dwell and stand anie long time but passeth and runneth away faire and softly without anie â—arrying Wherefore I agree and must needs confesse
fortie poles nor yet be lesse than thirtie or fiue and twentie and if the inconuenientnesse of the place vvill not suffer you to cast them into squares then make them somewhat more long but yet not exceeding the foresaid fortie poles in length for besides infinite other commodities and pleasures accompanying short fields and such as are not of large reach this is one verie speciall profit namely that oxen and horses doe labour there vvith lesse trauell and vvearisomnesse in as much as they do not onely cheere vp themselues and take their breath being at the end of the furrow but also for that the plow-man cleanseth and freeth his plow of the earth vvherewith it is woont to be laden as then also carrying them about to enter vpon a new furrow cause your ground if possibly it may be to lie leuell and euen for besides the pleasure of seeing from the one end to the other they vvill also be the more easie to be plowed dunged and sowne let them be ditched round about or at the least on the sides as well to draine away raine-vvater or other if any should stand there as for to cut off the trade-waies of passengers Plant not within not about your Corne-grounds any trees for feare of the shadow knowing assuredly that the more that corne is shadowed the further off it is from being comforted and rejoyced by the Sunne as also from hauing the dust which is vvoont to lye much vpon it blowne off by the vvinds and likewise from being deliuered from snow fogges and tempests oâ—tentimes a heauie burthen vpon the backe thereof And yet put case that for your pleasure you vvould plant some trees thereabout then let them be no other but Willowes or such like that may beare no great head to make shadow and therefore let neuer come nie thereto either the poplar or aspe or aller vvhose shadow is not onely daungerous and huâ—tfull vnto the corne ground but vvhich is more vvith their great thicke and great store of roots they draw vnto them the best juice they sucke vp the fat of the earth and so steale away the best from the seed that is sowne And no lesse than these the Ashe is most poysonous vnto Corne-grounds for how farre soeuer his shadow extendeth so farre you shall see the ground euer forbeare to prosper and yet it is not vtterly vnnecessarie to haue trees grow about your Corne-fields for if you plant Fruit trees about them as the Apple Peare Ceruise and such like you shall find the profit many times double the injuries that are reaped from them neither is it forcibly necessarie that your fields should be cast into these small square grounds seeing you may haue them as large as you please according to the quantitie of your Farme or the nature thereof vvhich may as well lye publique and in common amongst your neighbours as priuate and seuerall to your selfe in either of vvhich you may make your lands of what length or bredth you please vvhether acres halfe acres or roods and herein is specially to be noted that you must cast your lands according to the natures of your ground not the prospect of your eye for if your ground be a gentle earth either mixt or vnmixt and lye drie and free all Winter from vvater neither by any meanes is subiect from it owne nature or casualtie to any superfluitie of moisture this ground you may lay leuell smooth and plaine and make it appeare as an entire garden or one land but if it be within any daunger of vvater or subject to a spewing and moist qualitie then you shall lay your lands high raising vp ridges in the middest and â—urrowes of one side and according as the moisture is more or lesse so you shall make the ridges high or low and the descent greater or lesse but if your ground besides the moisture oâ— by meanes of the too much moisture be subject to much binding then you shall make the lands a great deale lesse laying euerie foure or fiue furrowes round like a land and making a hollownesse betweene them so that the earth may be light and drie and this you must doe either vpon leuells or vpon descending and hanging grounds and to conclude the larger your fields are and the drier they are kept the better they will be and the better your corne vvill prosper vpon them CHAP. V. How often your Corne-ground must be â—ared or plowed ouer THat I may therefore briefly declare vnto you the tilling of grounds for graine and pulse vnderstand in generall that the earings of arable grounds are diuers according to the places and situations of the said grounds as vve haue alreadie alledged But howsoeuer the case stand in that poynt and in vvhat plat or peece of ground soeuer you can name them to be it behooueth that at the first earing vvhich is giuen them after they haue rested and laine fallow that you cleanse them vvell from stones all ouer with â—akes and that at the paines or trauell of some young boyes and girles that can doe little or nothing else or otherwise by others for the earth of it owne nature lying vntilled begettâ—h nothing but stones and strong and vnprofitable vveeds as those which are the reliques of the dung now throughly digested and chaunged by a heat exalted vnto the fiâ—th degree And we need not make any doubt of it but that euen good and kind ground when it should not bring forth any thing but mustard-seed couch-grasse pimpernell mercurie thistles of all sorts danewort vvild-fetch red poppie vvild oats veruaine blew bottles ax-fetch or such other like vnprofitable vveeds without forgetting of cockle and darnell and that which is called rest-harrow or at the least some fumitorie and henbane yet it will be doing of some thing more as namely those which grow out of it of themselues as stinking mathweed kexes rupture-wort these be reclaimed grounds and the herbe called Chamepytis as I haue sometimes seene in those countries which properly and truely containe France For the distinguishing of these herbes the thistles shew the heat of the ground as their aromaticall and odoriferous roots may testifie the hemlocke vvild smallage and fumitorie grow of putrefaction the bind-weed both great and small do proceed partly of drinesse partly of the alteration of the humour night-shade the great and small doe spring vp of the cold part of the earth vvhich they draw from the humour thereof mercurie of both sorts eye-bright also of two or three differing flowers the small sorrell red vnderneath and the three sorts of plantaine do hold of cold or temperate ground but the garden and vvater cresses rockets wild mustard-seed as also the two sorts of vvater-parsley haue differing natures and are more hot according to the humoâ—r vvhich chey confesse to participate in respect of their propertie To be short these are certaine dalliances and sports of nature vvhich though she should neuer be
beene of all these seuerall colours onely the white is esteemed the most beautifull and best for the cie the blacke and fallow hardest to â—ndure labour and the dunne and brended best for potchers and night-men who deligh to haue all their pleasures performed in darkenesse Now for the choice of a good Grey-hound there are but two principall things to be obserued that is to sâ—y breed and shape Breed which is euer as touching his 〈◊〉 and generation for if a dog be not wel descended that is to say begot by an ex ellent dog or an excâ—llent bitch there can be little hope of his goodnesse Now in the breeding of Grey-hounds there are diuersities of opinions for some gentlement of the leash dâ—sire a â—ost principall bitch though the dog be but indifferent and suppose that so they shall haue the best whelps supposing according to an old coniecture that a bitch is swifter than a dogge but it is an erronious fancie for the good dogge will euer beate the good bitch and the good bitch will euer beate the bad dogge againe it is most certaine that the dogge hauing aduantage both of length strength and courage hee must consequently haue the aduantage of speed also I doe not denie but that the bitch being much lesse than the dogge as naturally all are may haue some aduantage of nimblenesse and so in turnes slips and wries may get much ground which the dogge commonly looseth but yet notwithstanding when the full account is cast the good dogge will equall all those aduantages and wheresoeuer the course shall stand forth long will beat out the good bitch and make her giue ouer There be other gentlemen of the leash which desire a good dog and respect not though the bitch be but indifferent and this is the better choice yet both defectiue for where there is any imperfection at all there nature can neuer be fully compleate To breed then a good whelpe indeed you must be sure to haue both a perfect good dogge and a perfect good bitch and as neere as you can make choice of that bitch which is most large and deepest chested for from thence springeth both strength and wind For the true shape of a good grey-hound because it is the very face and charracter of goodnesse you shall esteeme that dog which hath a fine long leane snakes head with a cleere bright eie and wide nostrells a round bending necke like a mollard with a loose thropple and a full falling at the setting on of the shoulders he must haue a long broad and a square beame backe with high round â—illets and a broad space hee must bee deepe swine sided with hollow bended ribs and a full brest he mast haue rush growne limbes before and â—ickell houghes behind a fine round full cats foot with strong cleyes and tough soles and an euen growne long rats taile round turning at the lower end from the leash ward and hee must bee full set on betweene the buttockes and lastly hee must haue a very long slender close hid pizell and a round big paire of stones The food which is best for grey-hounds as touching their diet is chippings or houshold bread scalded in beefe broth or other broth that is not too salt and after made white with milke or else the bones of veale which are verie soft and tender or the bones of lambe rabits or other scraps comming from the Farmers table In the time of coursing or at other times if your grey-hound be leane or out of heart the best meaâ—e to raise him is sheepes heads boiled wooll and all in water together with oatemeale and synage succorie langdebeefe and violet leaues chopt verie small together and so boiled to pottage vntill the flesh fall from the bones The best food when a dog is in diet for a course is to make him bread of wheate-meale and oate-meale mixt together and finely bolted and knodden with a little water whites of egges barme licoras and any-seeds and so bakt in good houshold loaues and giuen morning and night with new milke or pottage which are warme If the dogge at any time grow costiue you shall giue him tostes which are made of the same bread or of manchets and steept in sallet oile Grey-hounds when they are for the course must bee walkt forth and ayred both morning and euening exceeding earely as before day in the morning and verâ—e late as about seuen or eight of the clocke at night and when you bring your grey-hound home at night you shall bring him to a faire â—ire and there let him beake and stretch himselfe and doe you ticke him at the least an houre or more before you put him into his kennell You must haue a very great and diligent care that when you course him hee bee exceeding emptie as at least of twelue houres fasting more than for some small sop or bit or two onely to cherish or strengthen Nature A brace of grey-hounds are enough at one time to course either Hare or Bucke withall and two brace are sufficient to course the Stagge or Hind Much more might bee said of the natures of grey-hounds and the manner of ordering and dietting them for the course but this small taste is sufficient both for the farmers vnderstanding and to auoid tediousnesse Now for the hounds whose natures I haue alreadie in patt discribed and which hunt in great numbers or as it were â—lockes together you shall vnderstand that they are of foure sorts and disâ—â—inguished by foure seuerall colours belonging to the foure seuerall sorts of hounds that is to say the white hound the fallow or taund hound the grey-hound and the blacke hound The white are the best for they are of quicke scent swift hot and such as neuer giue ouer for any continuance of heate or breaking off because of the feâ—ting of the horsemen or the cries and noises of men keeping the turnes and crossing better than any other sorts of dogs are more to be trusted notwithstanding they loue to be attended with horsemen and they do feare the water somewhat especially in Winter when the weather is cold Those which are altogether white are the best and likewise those which are red spotted The other which are blacke and dirtie gray spotted drawing neere vnto a changeable colour are but of small value and whereof there are some subiect to haue fat and tender feet The baie coloured ones haue the second place for goodnesse and are of great courage ventring far and of a quicke scent â—inding out verie well the turnes and windings almost of the nature of the white ones saue onely that they doe not indure the heate so well neither yet the treadings of the horsemen and yet notwithstanding they bee more swift and hot and feare neither cold nor water they runne surely and with great boldnesse commonly louing the Stagge more than any other beast but they make no account of hares It is true that they be
â—eaches to keepe long 409 red 363 spiced ones 362 without stones 364 written 363. distilled 465 〈◊〉 â—o haue fruits halfe Peaches and halfe nuts 360 〈◊〉 â—each-apples â—66 and Spanish Peaches 372 〈◊〉 â—â—â—â—ckes are proud lecherous and iealous how they must be fed 81 their roust 17 their flesh better than the Turkies 83 〈…〉 a fish and how to take them 516 〈◊〉 â—are plums how planted 338 〈◊〉 â—â—res how to keepe long 527 earely and late ones 365 how to haue them without stones ibidem of Augusta 362 〈◊〉 â—tre-trees are the most pretious of all others except apple-trees 380 and what earth they loue 381 soften Pearlet 288 Maruellous Peason â—88 Peason â—at the leane ground 563 to cause to be such as will be soone boiled â—94 Pellitorie of the wâ—ll â—09 Water Pepper 169 Penniroyall 248 A Penthouse for plough geare â—18 Percipier â—92 Perrie and how it is made 417 Persâ—ley and his vertues â—81 and why so called ibidem Peruincle 204 Presages of Pestilence 667 Petaâ—ites or Lâ—gwotâ— 20â— Female Petum groweth of the seed of the male 334 and his vertues ibidem The sume of Petum appeaseth hunger and thirst 221 Pharao borne the nineteenth of the Moone a daungerous day 32 Naturall Phisicke must be well knowne to the datie-woman 39 To seperate the Phlegme in artificiall distillation 451 The people of Picardie would be handled very 〈◊〉 23 Pigeons of the doue-house and how they must be fed 86 which be the beast 87. and that they haue young ones thrice a yere 88 comming home late to their cote and â—â—sage of raine 25 Pikes taken in fresh water 507 Pimpernell 212 Pine-trees and Pine-apples and their properties 292 Pine-trees how planted ibidem they craue a sandie and light ground 392 Pionie 204 Pipes for the conueying of water from springs 8 Pistaces brought by Monsieur du Ballay B. of mans 297 298. what carth they craue 339 The Pits called Aronques in Prouence and Langâ—â—docke 6 The Plane-tree 306 Plantane of three sorts and their their temperatures 208 495. a signe that water will bee found there vnder ground 7 To Plant trees to haue exquisite fruits 360. trees and in what season 367. a tree without roots 400. and remoue hearbes 165. and to 〈◊〉 them ibidem Plants and how they must be husbanded whether they be of timber-wood or other 657. of sciences and shoots 341. of stones 338. of vines when and where to be planted 598 599 Tokens foreshewing Plentie 28 29 Ploughs Charrets and Carts 18 Ploughs of diuers sorts according to the countrie and soile 540 The arders of Ploughing before it be sowne 537 Ploughing an art that an householder cannot want 4 Ploughing with oxen is not but of necessitie 90. but it is beâ—â— ibidem To Plough for the second arder and third and so to sow 54â— Laxatiue and sleeping Plums 393 To haue Plums readie at all times 362 Plums of Brignoles 39â— Plum-trees how planted 3â—7 in what places they delight 392 what distance must bee giuen in setting them betweene the one and the other 39â— when they grow vndisposed languishing 393 The people of Poictoâ— giuen to be wilie and watie 49 A Pole of measure 518 Polenta what and how made of old 575 Polygonum 159 Pome-Adams 377 Pomiâ—â—ones what kind of Hawkes 211 Pomegranates how to keepe 408 their nature 304. reâ— ones 365. without kernels 305 Pomegranate trees and their plants 341. where to bee planted and their nature 394. how they must be husbanded and grafted 304. to keepe them that they lose not their flowers 305 Poplar trees in what season planted â—6â— being grafted vpon Mulberrie â—rees they bring forth white Mulberries 363 Popâ—ins 256 Poppies and the properties thereof 189. the kindes thereof ibid. Wild Poppie of two sorts and their vertues 170 Pooles how they must be dressed and kept 508 and the wild sowle haunting the same 506 that are famous ibid. neere to the Farme-house 21 necessarie in drie and scorched places 6 Fish Pooles 514 The Portall on the back-side of the house 18 Preâ—â—â—â— of raine must be knowne to the Farmor 24 Presages of all things that the householder must haue â—ore-knowledge of 26 Preseruing what it is and what the word doth signifie 279 Preseruing of fruit 421 Preserues of diuers sorts 420 of fruits how they must be made 423 and conserue of Gentian 279 To Preserue hearbes of all sorts 279 Princes their pleasure in Summer in wattie places 6 Priuies stinking more than ordinarie a signe of raine 25 Priuet 240 To Propagate foure manner of waies and the time most fit to propagate 343 Prouence how fruitfull 12. the inhabitants of Prouence haughtie and cannot abide to be reproued 23 Pumpâ—â—â—â— 192. their goodnesse and gathering 193. obseruations concerning them 194 Laxatiue Pumpions ibid. Sweet smelling Pumpions 195 Pulse when how and where they must be sowne 570. they must be reaped in the wanâ— of the Moone 31. aduertisements concerning them 569 Purselaâ—e and the vertues thereof 223 Pyes male and female doe sit their egges 86 Pyes distilled 457 The Pyrene mountaines abound with marble 5 Purchase by statute the surest of all others 3 Q QVailes are birds rather of the earth than of the aire they make no nests 85. their feeding ibid. their flesh causeth giddinesse and headach 85. their flesh causeth also falling sicknesse ibidem Quarellous persons not fit to be made farmors 22 Quilles gathered of dead geese not so good as those which are gathered from the liue ones 77 Quinâ—es of diuers sorts 375 made into gellie 420 spoile other fruits growing neere them 408 Quince trees how planted 34â— 376 Quintesâ—nces how they may be extracted 450. 669 R RAdishes contrarie to wine and their other vertues 187 Raine foreshewed by asses 25 Signes of Raine ibidem To Râ—ke lands that are to be sowne 544 Raâ—â— and the marks of a good Ramme 110 Small Rampâ—ons 495 Rauens croking and beating their wings a signe of raine 25 Against field Kaâ—s 508 To hunt water Kats ibidem To cause Rats and Mice to die sodenly 315 Reason must be preferred in all things 15 Rest maketh a man slothfull 150 Rest harrow an enemie to the husbandman 210 Restoratiâ—es of diuers sorts 460 Distilled Restoâ—atiâ—es 459 A diuine Restoratiue 430 Rice in what place it groweth â—1 Riuers bad neighbouâ—â— to dwelling houses 6 Riuers vsing to ouerflow are very hurtfull 5 The Robinet or Robin red brest and the â—â—orie of him 729 Rocket and the vertues thereof 182 Roames to tread and presse grapes in 17 Roats of potherbes 164 Rosemarie 247 Rosemaâ—ie fit to build garden arbours 2â—6 Rosemarie in conserue 280. and distilled 454. 461 Roses of diuers sorts and their temperature 283 in conserue 280 are distilled three waies 454 distilled per descensum 467 water compounded 310. 461 Prouence Roses 283 Rose at bours 282 Rubâ—rbe distilled 462 Rue and its maruellous vertues 243 Lambs Ruâ—net good against all manner of venome 116 Rie and husbanding thereof 548 S
waters distâ—lled in Maries bath to retaine their vertues Waters distilled in the insâ—rument called the Bladder The waters distilled ouer the vapour of boyling water The 〈◊〉 of waters distilled in Mâ—ries bath Chusing of the â—ead Heads of Braâ—â—â— and Copper How to order Glasse-stills For the 〈◊〉 of waterâ—â— Two things to be considered in 〈◊〉 The 〈…〉 What kind of things are infused in wine What matâ—er or things are to be infused 〈◊〉 vinegar or â—ine Infusions in the bloud of Man a Swine or malâ— Goat Infusion must heâ—p or increasâ— the force of the things distilled The addition of salt Putrifaction Furnaces must be set in a place where they may not doâ— or take hurt When we are to stand farre off from the 〈◊〉 and not to come neere them The chusing of Glasse-stilles A gentle fire at the first What quantitie of matter is best to be put in the still To distill in the heat of sand To make a speâ—dier distillation than oâ—diâ—arie Vinegar distilled in that sort To distill one water many times The heat required to the distilling of one thing oâ—â— The extracting of quintessences To seperate the flegme in distilled liquors The time of the flegme his comming forth When the still is in good temper and stilleth not too fast nor too slow To giue a good smell or taste to distilled waters Troubled waters Water of wormwood Water of Winter Cherrieâ— Water of common Walnuts Water of Walnut tree leaues Water of strawberries aâ—ainst veâ—ime spots To procure termes To dry the weeping eye The water of Ash-tree Water of cherrie stones and kernells The falling 〈◊〉 Water of filberds Water of danewort The water of Betonie The water of Gentâ—an The plague The water of pelliâ—â—riâ— Paine of the Teeth Water of eye-bright The water of Nicotian The water of Paules betonie Leprosie Scabs The water of Hyssope The water of turneps Water of Lymons The water of Fenell The water of parsley Water of smallage basile 〈◊〉 buglosse c. The water of cinnamome A bad stomacke 〈…〉 Venime Rosewater Water of orange flowers Water of wild apples The water of elder rosemary and marigolds What is meant by liquor in thâ—â— place Aqua-vitae The bladder still to distill Aqua vitae in Aqua vitae oâ—ten distilled Signes shâ—wing that the Aqua-vitae is sufficiently distilled Aqua-vitae is distilled either of wine or wine 〈◊〉 or beere Vessells for the distilling of Aqua-vitae Vertues of Aqua-vitae Distilled vineger The difference betwixt Aqua-vitae and Vineger in their maner of distilling What vessels Vineger would be distilled in The vertues of distilled Vineger Salted water or Sea water Honey distilled To colour the haire Turpentine distilled The bloud of a male Goat distilled The stone Mans bloud distilled The bloud of a Drake distilled Distilled milke The vertues of distilled milke The milke of a she Goat distilled The distilling of mans dung Deepe vlcers The biting of â— mad dogge To giue a good smell to the distilled water To distill liuing things The water of a storke Water of Swallowes The Water of flesh Water of Egges Restoratiues The diuine restoratiue Another restoratiue Another restoratiue Another restoratiue A restoratiue to be made presently Compound wateâ—s Three sorts of common compound waters Sage water compounded Turnep water compounded Water of angelica compounded Falling sicknes Water of celandine compound Water of the vine compound Rose water compounded It preserueth the sight Eybright water compounded Rosemarie water compounded Fistulaes of the eies Water of trecle Vlcers of the mouth Treacle water Water of cloues Paine of the stomacke and bellie Saxifrage water The Stone Water of Swallowes Horse-taile water Vlcers of the reines Corneflag water Burneâ—-water Stone Grauell A water for the eyes An imperiall water An Allome water Purging waters Catholicum and Diapâ—oenicon distilled Water of Rhubarbe distilled Sweet water Lauander water Water of Cloues The water of sweet smells Rose-water musked Water of Spike Damask water Water of Myrrhe Rose-water sweetned with Muske Water of Oranges Water of Nasse or Orange flowers The counterfeit water of Orange flowers A sweet smelling water A water for Fukes The vses of waters for Fukes Water of Strawberries Water of Beane-flower The water of Dragons Water of Guaiacum The water of Peaches and Willowes Water of whites of egges Water of 〈◊〉 of bread Water of Snailes Water of the whites of egges Water of Calues feet A water making white Water of crums of bread Water of the broth of a Capon Water of Bran. A sweet water Another water A water to paint the face withall Water of Cowes miâ—ke Water of egges A water to colour or paint the face withall The water of Lard Water of Honey Water of Capers A painting and colouring water A water to cleanse the teeth To distill as it is called per ascensum Wha◠〈◊〉 of Oyles are distilled per desceâ—sum Rose-water distilled per descensum The Sea-Onion distilled per descensum To kill Rats and Mice Another manner of distilling waters per descensum and that without heat Water of the yellow parts of Violets To distill by the Filtre Virgins milkâ— Hearbes Seedes Flowers Fruits Spices 〈◊〉 Gummeâ— Beasts or the parts of Beasts Which â—e the distilled Oyles Two sorts of vesselâ— for thâ— distilling of Oyles The head The Gourd and the Head The preparing of the matter No oyle can be drawne in Maries-bath The order that must be kept in distillation The signes of the distillation ended A comparison betwixt thâ— water of the simple and the water vsed in the distilling of the simple To distill already distilled water The continuance of distilled oyles The 〈◊〉 Fruits Spiceâ— and arâ—maticall drugs Oyle of Cinnamome The preparing of wood for to draw oyles 〈◊〉 of The placing of the vessells Oyle of â—uaiacum wood Oyle of Ash-tree wood Two waies to extract oyles out of liquid Gums Oyle of Turpentine Thus 〈◊〉 Oyle oâ— waxe distilled When the distillation is ended Oyle of Waxe Another manner of making oyle of Waxe The 〈◊〉 of the oyle of wax The gathering of the Mulberrie-tree leaues Signes that the wormes would makâ— silkâ— For to know the colour of the silk The choice of the 〈◊〉 The choice of breeding wormes The difference betwixt male and female wormes The diseases of silke-wormes Salt Marshes To make new medow grounds Oates a great breeder of grasse To sow Medowes Geese a greas enemie to good grounds 〈…〉 To gather out the stones To horrow it The manuring of it Bottomes of Hay-mowes Sluces and Draines To sow medowes Sops in wine or Snaile-clauer Cato Palladius Plantaine Wild Carret Wound-wort Germander Small Rampions Wild Saffronâ— Laughing Smallage Great and small water Germander in the Medowes of Cheles Carpenters wâ—rt-â—alme Blessed thistle Pimpernell Saxifrage a great friend to Medowes Sweepings of Hay-barne floores Foddering of great cattell Foddering of Sheepe Commoditie of foddering Mowing of meadowes Best time to cut grasse Wind-rowes Great hay-cockes Sowre and harsh-grasse Choyce and vse of haye Moist-hay Drie-hay Curiositie