The King of Frances Balsom | ||||
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Take sagge and rue of each a pound, the youngest | ||||
bay leavs and wormwood half a pound a peece, do | ||||
not wash them but cutt and picke them small and | ||||
beat them small in a morter, take 3 pound of sheeps | ||||
suett hott from the sheep mince it and brake it | ||||
with your hearbs untill it be of a couler then put | ||||
all into a bowle with a pottle* of the best Sallet* Oile | ||||
worke altogether till it become all a like then put it | ||||
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then put it into a faire pane* and seeth** it on a soft | ||||
fier and put into it when it is half sodden 2 ounces | ||||
of the oyle of spicke* and when it is soden straine | ||||
it through a fine canvise into a gally pott* stoopped | ||||
close with leather and parchment, in the boyling | ||||
take heed of burning it, and for feare thereof | ||||
put 3 drops of it into a saucer and when it is | ||||
very greene it is enough. | ||||
The vertus of this oyntment | ||||
it is good for the stone if you rube the | ||||
small of the backe well wth it, half a pease | ||||
bigness therof forst*[*] into your ears it healpeth | ||||
the paines therof and stope them wth black woll | ||||
it is good for any Ache and for bruses, fellons | ||||
scabs anguish swellings wounds streching of | ||||
the sinowes and vaines Crampe, Siatica | ||||
burning scalding stifle* or straine in man | ||||
or beast, if is made in May it lasteth many | ||||
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Transcribed by JW and LF