THE MYSTERYES OF NATVRE AND ART (continued 3)

To make green Ink.

Take greene bice and grinde it with gum water, and if you will have it a sadder green, put a little saffron to the grinding.

To make blew Ink.

Take fine flower, and grinde it with a little chalk, and allum, and then put it in a violl.

For an Ague.

Take a handfull of hartstong that groweth in the field, and a handfull of bay salt, and beat them both together in a morter, and lay this to both the wrists.

A water good against the plangs, or to be given after a surfet.

Take red Sage, Celendine, Rosemary, Hearbegrace, Wormwood, Mugwort, Pimpernell, Dragons, Scabious, Egrimony, Rosa solis, and Balme, of each a handfull, or like quantity by weight; wash and shake them in a cloth; then shred and put them into a gallon of white wine, with a quarter of an ounce of Gentian roots, and as much of Angelica roots; let it stand two dayes and two nights close covered, and then distill it at your pleasure, and stop the glasse very close in which you keep the same.

To avoyd urine that stopped with the stone.

Take as much black sope as a walnut, temper it with eight or ten leaves of English saffron, spread it upon a round leather as big as the palme of your hand, and cover the navell of your belly therewithall, and it shall cause you to make water.

For the stone and strangury.

Take the filmes that is within the mawes of geese, and let them bee purely dried, and then make powder thereof, and drink it with stale ale, and it will help him with Gods grace. Proved.

For scald heads.

Take green Coperas, and mingle it with creame till it bee turned yellow, and let it stand three or foure dayes: then take primrose roots, leaves and all, with May butter, and beat the roots and leaves in the butter, and boyle them together with a little beere and butter, and let it touch no salt.

To cure an old Vlcer.

Take a quart of the strongest Ale that is to be gotten, or brewed, halfe a pint of raw honey, two ounces of roch allum beaten, halfe a pint of Sallet oyle, and the quantitie of a Tennis ball of common washing Sope, one ounce of stone pitch beaten; one ounce of Rosin beaten, two ounces of yellow waxe: boyle all these together, and straine them through a thin linnen cloth; and this will cure any old Vlcer.

A Water to cleanse, and mundifie old rotten sores and ulcers.

Take a wine pint of stilled water of Planten, as much white wine; put therein two ounces of Roch allum, a dramme of Verdigrease, a dramme of Mercurie sublimed: boyle all these together, and keepe them in a thicke glasse being stoped with waxe very close that the strength go not out; this will cleanse and mundifie old sores: It will also heale a Fistula if you use a siering, so that the water may come to the bottome of the sore.

The Medicine of medicines proved for the Stone.

Take a quantity of eg-shels, wash them cleane; those are the best whereout chickens are come; dry them very dry in an oven, or betweene two tile stones; then make powder thereof, searce it, and mingle it with sugar, or powder of licoras to give it taste, and let him use it as often as hee needeth, morning and evening, either with Rhenish wine, white wine, or stale ale, a spoonfull of the powder at a time, and use to make water in a cleane bason, and so you shall see the deliverance hereof.

A precious water for the sight.

Take Smallage, Fennell, Rew, Verveine, Egrimony, Daffadill, Pimpernell, and Sage, and still them with breast milk together with five drams of frankincense, and drop of it in your eyes each night: often proved.

For the Fluxe to stay it.

Take the yolke of an Egge, and beat it, then mixe with it one grated Nutmegge, and lay it on an hot tyle stone to bake, and eate thereof fasting, and before Supper, and after meales, and it will stay it. Often proved to be excellent.

A good Powder for the Gout.

Take fine Ginger the weight of two groats, and Enula campane-roots dryed, the weight of foure groats, of Liquorish the weight of eight groats, of Sugar-candy three ounces; beat all these into a powder, searce them fine, and then mingle them together, and drinke thereof morning and evening, and all times of the day. Approved.

A speciall Medicine for the Collicke.

Take Horehound halfe an handfull, of Sage, and Hysope of either as much, twelve leaves of Betony, of Centaury sixe crops, one Alexander-root, foure penie weight of Enula-campana roots powdered, Spikenard of Spaine one penie worth; seethe all these in three quarts of fine wort to a pottle, and draw it through a linnen cloth, and take three spoonfuls at once morning and evening.

To take away rednesse of burning of the Eyes.

Take the white of an Egge, and beat it very well with a spoonfull or two of red Rose-water, then put thereto the pap of a rosted apple, mingle them well together, and spread it upon a little Flaxe; so lay it on the eye, binding it on with a linnen cloth.

For the Rheume in the Eyes.

Take the white of an Egge, and so much Bolearmoniacke as will thicken it, and spread it on a round plaister of sheeps leather, and lay it on the temples on that side the Rheume is.

The Oyntment for the same.

Take Lapis Tutiæ and burne it in a fire-shovell of quicke coales, quench it in a poringer of womans milke, do so halfe a score times, then grinde it in a cleane morter till it be very fine powder, then mingle it with fresh Barrows grease till it looke russet: anoint your eyes with a little of it when you go to bed.

For Deafenesse.

Take Rew, and rub it betweene the palmes of your hands untill it be so brused that you may make thereof a tent; then dip it in sweet sallet oyle, and put in each eare one, so that you may pull them forth againe. This doe for seven or eight dayes, and change the tent every day.

Another.

Take a quarter of a pinte of Angelica water, of Cardus Benedictus water, and of white wine, of either a like quantity: mingle them together, dividing the same into two equall parts; drink it in two severall mornings: then the next night after the taking of the second draught of water, take the fish of an oyster, and put it into a fayre linnen cloth, and stop the same into the eare that is thickest of hearing, and lie on that side as long as you can: in the morning pick that eare as cleane as you can, and after that take a draught of the best ale you can get, with a toast of houshold bread toasted very dry, a reasonable quantity of nutmegs; use the same every morning for five or six dayes, fasting after the taking hereof two houres, every time you take it.

For the cough of the lungs.

Take two handfuls of Rosemary, and strip it of the stalk, one of Hissop, and seethe them in a pottle of running water, till it come to a quart, and then put a quarter of a pound of fine sugar, and let it seethe a little, and scum it, drink it morning and evening.

A present remedie for all manner aches, and bruises in the Bones.

Take a good quantitie of Wallwort, and a certaine quantity of Balme, and Smallach, and stamp them, and take a pound of May Butter, and temper them very well together, then make them into round bals, and let them lye for the space of eight dayes after, and then stampe them again as you did before; then take it, and fry it, and straine it, and put it into an earthen pot: This will helpe the bruise, be it never so blacke.

For burning, or scalding.

To take out the fire, beat onyons very small, and binde them to the place. To heale it, take halfe a pound of sheeps suet, as much sheeps dung, a quarter of a pound of the inner rinde of an Elder tree, and a little Housleeke: fry them altogether, and straine it, and use it as a plaister, or make a serecloth of it, and apply it to the grieved part.

For Burstnesse of old, or young.

Take nine red Snailes, lay them betweene two tyles of clay, so that they creepe not nor slide away, and bake them in the hot embers, or in an oven, till they may be powdered, then take the powder of one of the Snailes, and put it in white wine, and let the patient drinke it in the morning at his rising, and fast two houres after, and drinke these nine Snailes in eighteene dayes, that is, every other day one. And if the sicknesse be so old that it will not heale in eighteene dayes, begin againe, and drinke other nine Snailes, and he shall be whole. Probatum est.

A Salve for all sores.

Take a pound of sheepes-tallow, and a pound of Turpentine, and a pound of Virgin waxe, a pint of Sallet oyle, a quarter of a pound of Rosin: take also Bugle, Smallach, and Plantaine halfe the quantitie of the other, or so much as will make a pint just: boyle all these together upon a soft fire of coales, alwayes stirring it till a third part be consumed; then take it from the fire, and straine it through a new canvas cloth into an earthen pot.

For Bleeding.

Take a blacke Toade in May, drie it betweene two tile stones, and hang it in Sarcenet about the parties necke.

To procure sleepe.

Take Betony, Roseleaves, Vinegar, Nutmeg, and the crummes of Rye-bread: put this in a cloth warme to the poll of the head.

For the Cough.

Two handfuls of last Saverie, steepe it five dayes in white wine vineger, put into the vineger halfe an ounce of Pepper, at the five dayes end draine out the vineger, and as soone as the bread is drawne, set them in a Pewter dish into the oven, and stop it up, and let them stand all night. In the morning take them out of the Oven and powder them. Take of this powder and drinke it with Sacke, so much of it as will lye on a three-pence.

A Gargill for the Vvula.

Take a pint of good strong Ale, and as much Sacke, and a good quantitie of long pepper, and bruise it grossely, and boyle it from a quart to a pinte, and let the parties gargle their mouthes, and throats as warme as they may suffer it.

If the pallat of the mouth be downe, it will fetch it up.

For Deafnesse very excellent good.

Take the hoofes of the Neats feet after they be sodden, and hold them in a cloth so warme as may be to your eare, divers times together one after another: they will last to be warmed in the same they were sodden in some three or foure dayes without sowring.

FINIS.

Transcriber's note:

Variable capitalisations and hyphenations in the original have been retained.

Unusual and multiple spellings in the original have been retained.

All scribal abbreviations have been expanded.

All instances of 'VV' standing in for 'W' have been changed to 'W.'

First Booke

Title Page:

Comma inserted after 'workes,' "The first of water workes, The"

To The Reader:

'me' changed to 'be,' "hap as hap may be"

How to harden Leather:

'grinstone' changed to 'grindstone,' "under a grindstone, into"

Experiments of forcing water by ayer compressed:

'hol' and 'low' joined, "a round hollow ball"

Experiments of forcing water by Engins:

Full stop added after 'side,' "from it on the side. Having thus"

Experiments of producing sounds by Engins:

'de-' struck from 'de-desired,' "to expresse your desired tune"

Second 'it' struck, "it will play upon the bels"

How to make the double perpendicular glasse:

Second 'the' struck, "it will suck up the water"

How to make the treble perpendicular glasse:

Heading added, "How to make the treble perpendicular glasse."

A Water-clock, or a Glasse shewing the houre of the day:

'K, G, G' changed to 'E, F, G,' "the length of the glasse E, F, G"

Second Booke

A Receipt of a Composition that will kindle with the water:

'limekill' changed to 'limekiln,' "set it in a limekiln"

Second "Another." heading added.

How to make Balloones, also the morter Peece to discharge them:

Full stop and comma exchanged, "with its portfire, O."

How to make Saucissons:

Second 'a' struck, "forme having a hole"

The description and making of three sorts of Fire-lances:

Second 'and' struck, "staffe, and prime it"

How to make Rockets for the water:

Second 'the' struck, "while above the water,"

Third Booke

A Carnation, or Flesh-colour:

'Canation' changed to 'Carnation,' "A Carnation, or Flesh-colour."

A good yellow:

Comma changed to full stop, "with gum-water. Sad it with"

To temper Azure or Bise:

'of' changed to 'or' in heading, "To temper Azure or Bise."

The Booke of Extravagants

To make Iron have the colour of Brasse:

'wherin' changed to 'wherein,' "aqua fortis, wherein the filings"

A good Cement for broken glasses:

Sub-heading 'Another.' italicised.

An excellent oyntment for the Shingles, Morphew, Tetters, and Ringwormes:

'anyont' changed to 'anoynt,' "wherewith anoynt the grieved parts."

To make Almond Butter:

'prettle' changed to 'prettie,' "let it seethe a prettie while:"

To stay the flux:

'cinamom' changed to 'Cinamon,' "or fine flower, suger, and Cinamon"

To make blew Ink:

'Tae' changed to 'Take,' "Take fine flower, and grinde"

For Deafenesse:

Sub-heading 'Another.' added.