To make a black Salve.
Take Rosemary, Thime, Lavender, Dil, Balme, Brooklime, Yar∣••ow, Lovage, Smallage, Vervain, Camomile, Orpine, Plantane, Nightyard, alias St. Johns wort, Herb Robert, Adders tongue, Polipodie, aliàs ferne growing on an Oake; Woodbine, Daisies and Comfry, of each a handful; beat all these together small, and put in a quart of Verjuice or more if need be, strain these together and take the juice thereof, then take two pound of new wax, one pound of Colophony, a pint of oyl olive, one pound of pitch, one pound of May butter, and seeth all these together till all be melted, and it must be well stirred upon the fire for running over, till it be thick and melted all, then take a gallon of running water, and put the water into a clean vessel, and after take a yard of linnen cloth called minster of the strongest for a strainer, and two persons to hold the strayner over the water, and an other with a ladle to take the salve with the other things together sodden, and straine all into the water, then let it be cold, then take it up, and make thereof round balls, as you thinke best, and chafe your hands with May butter, and worke them.