The English house-vvife Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banqueting-stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preseruing of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent vses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A worke generally approued, and now the fourth time much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this kingdome. By G.M.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
For the Kings euill.
If a man be troubled with the Kings euill, let him take the red docke and seeth it in wine till it be very ten∣der, then straine it, and so drinke a good draught there∣of, and he shall finde great ease from the same: especi∣ally if he doe continue the vse thereof.
