44pyoure face with a cloth wet in ye same water, and you
shall find a marvelious effect. probatum est.
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For madnesse
5Cowslip or strawberry water is good for yem to
drink yat feare to be mad to coole and temper ye braine.
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To make a syrop of devills bit for an imp=postume which will not suffer it to break vpward.
Take 2 handfulls of morsus diaboli (1) devills bitt, both
10ye leafe and ye roote and a handfull of scabious, wash yem
cleane and bruise yem, and boyle yem in 2 quarts of water
till a pint and 1/2 yereof be consumed, yen straine it, and
set ye liquore again vpon ye fire, and put yereto 3 quarters
or a pound of sugar and a whole stick of cinamon, yen let
15yem boyle together a quarter of an howre or more and yen
straine it, and coole it and keepe it to youre vse. probatum est.
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The vse of ye foresaid syrop.
Note that this syrop
20is to be drank with ye water of ye same herbe scabious
3 spoonefulls of ye water and /one\ <.> spoonefull of ye
syrop, which will help all impostumes within ye body
as hath bin well proved.
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25A syrop to coole ye heat of ye bloud and liver.
Take ye leaues and flowers of burrage, buglos and violet leaues
mayden haire hartstoung and succory of each a handfull
ye tops of Hysop 1/2 handfull ye rootes of fennell and of parsely
2. and of succory 5 rootes. ye piths plucked out of yese
30as allsoe 6 rootes of morsus diaboli vsed in like sorte,
boyle all yese in 4 pints of water till half be consumed,
and yen straine it, and put yereto as much sugar, as will
make it a syrrop. put yereto allsoe 3 spoonefulls of vinegar
and yen boyle it again a litle. and soe drink yereof morning and
35evening 6 or 7 spoonefulls at a time made bloud warme. probatum est.
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For ye red pimples in ye face.
Take a pint of running water and put yereto a pennyworth
of vnwrought brimstone, and beate it to powder and put
40it into ye water, and soe let it stand 3 or 4 days, and
yen wash youre face softly with ye same water, but in
any case rub it not, and this will help you as hath bin
well proved. probatum est.
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45Secretum mulierum. ad erigendum malricem and attrahendum nimis cadentem.
Take ye leaues of wallnuts and mullin leaues (alias
higraper) and boyle yem in faire water and sit over ye
fume of yem, and lay some of ye said leaues to ye place
as hot as yey can suffer yem. probatum est.