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¶ Take red Rose flowers, Cammomile flowers, Lauender flowers, Buglosse flowers, Isope flowers, Rosemary flowers, sage flowers, secados flowers, balme flowers, time & wild time, peniriall, Margerū, winter sauery, pimpernell, S. Iohn woort, Philopendula, eyebright, horehound, dittany, bittany, scabies, turmentill, planten, auence, maidenhaire, mints, rue, sapifrage,
Harts-tung, Ensras, Brasill, Canepithy, Piony, Iuniper ber∣ries, Bay leaues or berries: take of all these flowers a maine handfull if they be gotten, if not, then take thrée gallons of migh∣ty strong Ale, or thrée gallens of Gascoigne wine: then take these spices, Anniséede two pound, Licoris two pound, Fenell séede two vnces, Cinamon two vnces, Caraway seede two vn∣ces, Galingall two vnces, Setwell two vnces, Angelica two vnces, Ciperus two vnces, Ginger, Nutmegs, of each one vnce, Enula campana one vnce, Calamus aromaticus one vnce, Ireus one vnce, Lignum aloes two vnces, Cloues one vnce, Cucubes one vnce, Graines one vnce, long Pepper one vnce, Spignard one vnce, Mace one vnce, Amis amonium one vnce, Suger half a pound, Alkenet two vnces, Olibanum, Mastick, Basill séede, Marierum seed: of all these halfe an vnce, and doo by the draw∣ing of this water of health in all respects as by your Aqua com∣posita, your flowers and hearbs must be dried, and shred on a chopping boord a good handfull of each at the least, and your Ani∣séede must be well beated and dusted, and your Licoris must be scraped and sliced cleane, and then all the rest of your other spi∣ces and seeds must be beaten fine in a brasen morter each to his quantity. Also you may put therto thrée grains of ciuell Musk, for it will make it to drink the more plesanter, and for diuers in∣firmities this water is good, as to breake wind in the belly, for them that cannot relish or disgest their meats, and for diuers o∣ther cold causes, this water will make a man to liue long, and to kéepe and preserue a man long in health, and to make a man to looke young againe.