55p<A> sover=aine me=dicine <a>gainst mel=ancholy and <t>o comfort <ye> stomack <in>stead of <a>qua com=posita or rosa solis
Take a pottle of aqua composita and put yereto
a quarte of red rose water, and put yereto as much
liquorish scraped and sliced as you may well hold
5in both youre hands, but if it be english licorish ye
lesse will serue, put yereto as much anniseeds as
you think will suffice to make it tast well yereof
steww all yese in an earthen pot being close couevred
yat noe [...] aire come out at it; stew it with a
10soft fire till to youre judgment. a pint yereof be consu=
=med, yen let it stand and coole, and when it is cold
draine it from ye seed and liquorish, and put it into
a glasse bottle, but crush not out ye liquor, yat
youre water may be as cleare as you can and soe
15keepe it close.
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<A> methe=date against <p>oyson and <ye> pestile=nce which <w>as well <pro>ved vpon Irish <g>entlemen <po>ysoned <wi>th rats=bane cast to milk yey were ready to <b>urst.
Take ye rootes of tormentill 2 drams. of all ye kinds
of saunders of every of yem 1 dram. white dittany new
20gathered and dryed 1 dram. ye top of a harts horne
ye spitrals of precious stones, ye fragments of pearles,
Bole armoniack, and ye round astrolochia of each of yem
1 dram. pimpernell mirh and setwall of each 1 dram
terra lemnia of ye purest 2 drams. ye seeds of citron
25and saffron of each 1 scruple. vnicornes horne and
hiacinth of each 1/2 dram, of pure white sugar 1 pound.
The liquor to make ye electuary is rose water and
burrage water distilled. Boyle youre sugar and waters
to a perfection and in ye cooling put in youre powders fine=
30=ly scarsed and reserue it as a pretious treasure.
This methridate allsoe will driue out ye measells ye
shingles and ye small pox, and defend venome or
poysome from ye vitalls this a present remedy, and allsoe
for ye plaug proved divers times to be exellent and to help
35yose whose sores were gone in, and drane yem out again
and recovered ye parties.