The seconde part of the Secretes of Master Alexis of Piemont by hym collected out of diuers excellent authours, and newly translated out of Frenche into Englishe, with a generall table, of all the matters conteined in the saied boke. By William Warde.

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Title: The seconde part of the Secretes of Master Alexis of Piemont by hym collected out of diuers excellent authours, and newly translated out of Frenche into Englishe, with a generall table, of all the matters conteined in the saied boke. By William Warde.
Author: Ruscelli, Girolamo, d. ca. 1565.
Publication: Imprinted at London :: By Ihon Kyngston: for Nicholas Englande,; Anno domini. M.D.lx. [1560]
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Subject terms: Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.; Recipes -- Early works to 1800.
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To make very good Aqua vite.

TAke Wine that is not to olde, that is to safe of a yeare or somwhat more or lesse, and let it be very good, hauing a good odour: and distille it in a vessel of glasse hauing a long necke about sixe foote long, with a very small and slowe fier, and take it vp togither whiles it commeth furth fast, that is to saye, whan one droppe tarrieth not for another, and it shalbe very good and pleasant, for there shalbe nothing els but onely the parte of the Wine very sub∣tile and fine, true it is that it shal not be very hote, nor burne so muche as other Aqua vites doe.