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