Delightes for ladies to adorne their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories with beauties, banquets, perfumes and waters.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1611?

25. To drawe both good Rosewater, and oyle of Roses together.

AFter you haue digested your Rose leaues by the speace of 3. moneths, sicut ante, num. 13. eyther in barrels or hookers, then distill thē with faire water in a limbeck, draw so long as you finde anie ex∣cellent smell of the Rose, then di∣uide the fatty oile that fleeteth on the top of the Rose water, and so you haue both excellent oile of Roses, and also good Rosewater togither, and you shall also haue more water then by the ordinarie Page  [unnumbered]way, and this Rosewater exten∣deth farther in physicall composi∣tions, and the other serueth best for perfumes and casting bottles. You may also distill the oyle of Linum Rhodtum this way, sauing that you shall not neede to mace∣rate the same aboue 24 houres in your water or menstruum before you distill: this oyle hath a most pleasing smell in a manner equall with the oyle of Roses.