11voften it preserves him in good liking,
and shall make him to seeme young ve=
ry long. it comforts nature marvelously.
with this water an ancient doctor of physick
5preserved his life untill extreme ˄/age\ would
neither suffer him to goe nor stand any
while, and yet continued bedridd 5 years,
when all other pysicians judged he
could not live one yeare. and he con=
10fessed before he dyed that when he
was sick at any time he never used
any other medicine but only this wa=
ter, and after an Archbishop of Canter=
bury used it till he was 110 years old
15and at his death he confessed that
nothing did him soe much good as this
water. Also one mister Rowe serjeant of
the Coyfe used it all his time and
left it in writing at his departing,
20wishing every man to use it. if it
be sett in the sun all the summer it
is the better. /
A Receit to stay A flux of Blood:
Take A pound of resons of the sun, and stone them
25A good Handfull of ffennell rootes, and As much
pasly rootes, A Little handfull of wormwood
tops, the rootes must bee scraped and pycked
but not washed, and then All the A boue sayd herbes
must be shred smale, and steept on day in A quart
30of the best clarrett wine, take out 3 draughts
of this this on for the morning fasting, Another
Last when you goe to bed, the other Att 4 in
the Afternoon, and then put in Another quart
of wine, And soe Again A nother quart, and soe Af
35-ter ward A pynt, and then halfe A pynt, tyll
you see the state of the ingrediants uanished
euery draught must bee steered and strayned