and bruised, of eche thrée handfuls: these dystill in a Lymbecke with a soft fire: of this water vse twyse or thryse in a wéeke, vn∣to the quantitie of halfe, or one ounce at a time.A water helping the frensynesse or madnesse, which is a pre∣cious secrete, and prooued in the cure of madnesse, and the Me∣lancholie frensinesse, borrowed out of an auncient written booke: Take of the flowers of Rosemarie, of Borage, and of the rootes of Buglosse, of eche a lyke, of Saffron one dram, of the Quince or Quinces fower ounces, of the best whyte wyne well digested, and cleare, twoo pyntes, these after the myxing, let so stande for a naturall daye, after burie the glasse bodie in horse dung for fif∣téene dayes, which drawne forth, dystill according to Arte, twoo or thrée times ouer: This water (sayeth the Authour) kéepe as the apple of your eye, for it is very precious: in that I haue (sayth the Author) experienced the same in all Melancholie sickenesses, very effectuously, and in the payne and trembling of the heart: the quantitie to be ministred at one time, is a dramme.Another whytening water, causing or procuring a whyte co∣lour: Take of the redde Honie twoo pounds, of gumme Arabeck twoo ounces, these diligently myxed togither, dystill according to Arte in a glasse body with a soft fire. The first water which com∣meth, serueth vnto the cléering and whytening of the face: the seconde and thirde lycour togither, procureth yelowe heare.An odoriferous water, not dystilled, out of Alexander Benedict. Allachalach, as the Arabians wryte, and it is a certayne com∣pounde, of the iuice of the leaues of the Myrtels, of Rosewater and Saunders, and a little of vinegar, and the water of Alkalef, or of the iuice of the fruites well smelling, and of such lyke lycour myxed, and put into a glasse with a narrowe mouth, and after the well labouring of these myxed, shall a pleasant smell ascende to the nose, comforting the heade and spirites.An odoriferous or fragrant water, yet in taste in a maner vn∣sauerie, but in sauour and smell excellent, and a droppe rubbed on the ende of the nose, séemeth to be as a procurer of sléepe in a maner: out of Georg. Sighart: Take Assa dulcis, and of Styrax calaminta, of eche one ounce, of Lignum aloes, halfe an ounce, of Cloues, of the cytrine Saunders, and of the ryndes of the Cy∣trone,
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