To deliver the Stone, a Medicine that never fails.
TAke the roots of red Nettles, and wash them clean in many waters, and then bray
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TAke the roots of red Nettles, and wash them clean in many waters, and then bray
them small, and lay them in red Wine twelve hours; then give else sick thereof to drink six spoonfuls of the liquor and let him rest on a bed 3 hours; and then give him twelue spoon∣fuls, and 3 hours after give him twenty spoon∣fuls, and anon he shall make water and deliver the Stone. Or take white Thorn buds in May and distyl them, and take a pinte of the same water, and half a pinte of Malmsey, and boyl it a little at the fire, (but if you put in a little Honey withal it will be the better) and then drink it to bed-ward: Proved by Master GAGE.