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To make good red water for any old wound or sore leg. My Lady Pagets water.

Take Bole Armoniack four ounces, Comfry one ounce, white co∣peras four ounces, boil your coperas and comfry together in a little black pot, until they become water, stirring them together til they be hard in seething; beat them in a mortar, then beat your Bole Armoni∣ack to powder by it self, & mingle them together, & keep your powder in a bladder: when you need to occupie the water, take a pottle of run∣ning water, and set it on the fire until it begin to seeth; take it from the fire, and take three spoonfuls of the powder, and put it into the water, and then put alltogether into a glass, and let it rest until it be clear in the uppermost part of the glass; then take the cleerest of the water and wash the sore therewith warm, and lay a linnen cloth four times double wet in the water upon the sore, and bind it fast with a roller and keep it warm. Do this evening and morning until it be whole; for it is an approved medicine; although the sore seem worse after the first dressing, fear it not, for it is a very good approved medicine.