79v another purging Ale to be taken in the spring, take of þe roots of monks Ruberbe and red madder of each halfe a ponde, sena 4. ounces, Anneseed and Licoraish of each 2. ounces, scabious and 5Agrimony of each on handfull, slice þe roots of þe ruberb, bruise þe Anneseeds, and Licorish, breake þe herbs with your hands, and put them into a stone pot called a steene, with 4. gallons of strong Ale to steepe 3. days, and then drinke it as your 10ordenary drinke for 3. weeks together þe longer you drinke it þe beter, prouiding on under another but if you put it into a wooden uessell and put all þe ingredians in a bagge this is þe best way. reathen then /in\ a steen, you must keepe a good diet, when you 15take this medisen, the uertues of this drinke, it cureth all dropsies Iandice all maner of itch or breaking out of þe whole body, it purgeth þe blood preuaileth against þe green sicknes, and all apilations 20or stopings, maketh yong madens Looke fair and well collered, and bringeth down þe terms, þe seeds of this rubd ruberbe, mixt with þe seeds of sorrell, in red wine, it cureth þe bloody flux, and is uery restringent,