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Take Cortex guasi one pound, Sarsaparilla four ounces, sassa∣••••asse two ounces, Radix Cheni two ounces, Jujubes, Sebestien, four ounces, Raisins of the Sun the stones taken out, one pound, Da∣mask prunes four ounces, Currans four ounces, Maidenhair one ounce, Liquorice four ounces, Ginger one ounce, Juniper berries
two ounces, beat your Cortex, Sarsaperilla, Sassafrass and Radix Cheni into fine powder, and searce them, and infuse them six hours in four quarts of white wine, three quarts of March-beer, and three quarts of ordinary beere, and the liquorice bruised, then seethe them in Balneo Mariae, with all the other parcels put to the rest, and in the top of your lid there must be a hole, and this bag must hang in the pot being close stopped; and in the bag must be Cinna∣mon one graine bruised, Cloves one graine whole, Rubarb three graines whole, musk, civet and ambergreece of each three graines, and when it is halfe boiled in, then you shall adde to it four oun∣ces of China, one ounce of mithridatum letting them seeth one walm and then take it out of the Balneo Mariae, and set it upon hot em∣bers close stopped eight hours, and then strain it, and drink no other but this for six dayes, taking a quarter of a pint at a draught bloud warm, as nature wil beare.
And your diet must be two meals a day, either mutton, chicken, or rabbet rosted dry, and your bread bisket; and after the six dayes you shal take broth made with Mutton, adding these herbs, bur∣rage, maidenhair, harts tongue and liver wort, with Raisins of the Sun the stones taken out, damask prunes, mace and grated bread. And you shal take two spoonfuls of this jelly following; Take a red Cock of a year old, pul him quick, and slit him in the middest, then break the bones of him and wash him clean from his blood, and dry him with a fair cloth; so done, take a handful of nepe, as much of Harts-tongue, a quantity of pennyroyal, halfe a pound of Rai∣sins of the Sunne, half a pound of Currans, two ounces of Ma∣nus Christi, one ounce of Sugar candy, six angels or more, and put these into the Cock, closing the sides together, and after take a pint and a halfe of Muscadine; put in the same with the Cock into a pewter pot, closing the lid that no air go out, and set the same into a brasse pot full of water; and as the water seetheth away, so fil it up, letting the pewter pot stand therein four and twenty houres, then strain it and keep it close, and use it as before.
You must eat roasted Hares farsed with these herbs following, Mercurie with the curled leaf, mugwort and valerian.
Then you must perfume three dayes together with Fran∣kinsence, Bay leaves, Nutmegs, Benjamin, of each a quantity, and muske a graine.
Take three mornings this powder following; the scrapings of Cyprus a dram and a halfe, long pepper, Nutmegs, fine wood of alloe of each of them a scruple, the kidneys of a Hare dried and not burnt, and make them in powder, and drink it three times with Muscadine.
Weare upon your left arme an eagles stone, and lay to the reins of the back the white of an egge, beaten with five or six drops of vi∣neger of Solis.
Take the powder of Cordial Dicalamintum and Diagalanga of each the weight of fourteen pence, Diamosco dulcis the weight of five pence, Aromaticum Rosarum, of each the weight of seven pence, Sugar four ounces; water of Wormwood a quantity; seeth them to a perfect heighth, and so put to your powder when it cooleth, and so gild these Lozenges.