Image 259, seventh book, Folio 137a, one unnumbered receipt
| An excelent receite learned .fo. 137 | ||||
| of Sergent Church to make | ||||
| a fatt man or woman leane | ||||
| aproved by many of good | ||||
| fashon | ||||
| Take 2 ounces of very good lofe sugger and beat | ||||
| it to fine powder then take an ounce of brim- | ||||
| stone and beate it to fine powder and searse* | ||||
| it through Cobweblane* then mingle the su- | ||||
| ger and brimston well together then take the | ||||
| yolke of an new layd egge and beat it well | ||||
| watter and when it is well beten* then | ||||
| take as much of the powder as will ly | ||||
| on a halfe crown peece of silver and |
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| mingle it with the egge and let the fat | ||||
| man or woman drinke it for 20ti* days | ||||
| together and take coltsfoot leavs* and | ||||
| and put as much of that powder into | ||||
| a draught of posset drinke as will lye | ||||
| on a sixpence and mingle it with the | ||||
| posset drinke and so drinke it at night | ||||
| when you goe to bed probatum est* | ||||
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