Image 190, sixth book, folio 97b, receipts 72 (contd) to 76
| The Sixthe booke. | ||||
| Take lycoras* a quarter of an ownce, annysseedes* halfe a quarter of an ownce, | ||||
| sugar candye a quarter and an halfe, nutmegges twoe, mace two penyworth, | ||||
| gallingall* a penyworth, setwell* a pennyworth, orrice* one roote, calamus* two | ||||
| rootes, small coriander comfictes* ob, fennell comficts ob, ginger a penyworth, | ||||
| elacampane* so much in quantitye as of the orrice, make this in grosse dregge*. | ||||
| 73. A gellye* for them yt be broughte | ||||
| lowe, and cannot eate meate. | ||||
| Take sixe calves feete, and a knuckle of veale, boyle these in a gallon | ||||
| of water tyll the meate bee sodden* all to pieces, or verye soflye: then | ||||
| take out the meate, and put it in three pintes of red wine, or claret: | ||||
| then cynamon twoe ownces, ginger a quarter of an ownce, and sugar | ||||
| twelve ownces, and let these boyle a litle more, and take it of the fire, | ||||
| and let it runne throughe a wollen clothe, and let it stande tyll it be colde, | ||||
| and you |
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| 74. To make a comfortable syrrop of roses. | ||||
| Take a gallon of fayre water, and put therein a pecke* of damaske rose | ||||
| leaves, and let them stand all nighte therein, and in the morninge wringe | ||||
| the rose leaves out with your handes, and put an other pecke of freshe | ||||
| rose leaves into the same water, and let it stande as longe, and then set | ||||
| it on the fire, roseleaves & all, and let it boyle tyll it be halfe sodden away, | ||||
| and strayne the licor* cleane from the roseleaves into a fayre earthen | ||||
| pot, and put therein three pownde of sugar, then set it on the fire | ||||
| agayne, & let it boyle tyll it come to syrroppe, and if you will make | ||||
| lesse in quantitye, then you must take lesse water, and lesse leaves, & | ||||
| lesse suger, when you doo take of it, take not above fowre or five | ||||
| spoonefulls at the moste, excepte it be to a stronge bodye. | ||||
| 75. To make gratia Dei*. | ||||
| Take the iuice* of betanye*, and the iuice of verven*, and the iuice of pimper- | ||||
| nell*, of each of them one pownde waighte, of perosin* fowre ownces, of | ||||
| frankencens three ownces made in fine powder, a pounde of new waxe, | ||||
| a pownde of rosen*, halfe a pownde of sheepes tallowe* the sweetest that | ||||
| may be gotten, of good bastarde*, or osley* a pinte, and then set them on the | ||||
| fire, and let them boyle softlye tyll it waxe thicke, then take it from ye fire, | ||||
| clense it fayre throughe a clothe, and then set it on the fire agayne, and | ||||
| put therein three ownces of oyle ollyffe*, and let it boyle softlye, ye space | ||||
| of fowre pater noster whiles, and then take it of, & caste |
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| basin tyll it be colde, and then take it forthe, and cut it in pieces, and make | ||||
| rowles* thereof, and put it in leather, or parchment, and so keepe it. | ||||
| 76. An oyntement for ye palsye. | ||||
| Take rosemarye, wormewoode*, sage, cowslips, or primeroses, of each an | ||||
| handfull, and choppe them all all as small as you woulde for a pot, | ||||
| then put |
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Transcribed by KS and GB