be but one in a day, and that
so little, that he may rise hungry. Thus he must doe for five
dayes together, but he must first be purged.

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[Illustration: Cowslips]

_Of Cowslips_.

_Oyle of Cowslips._

Oyle of _Cowslips_, if the Nape of the Neck be annointed with it,
is good for the _Palsie_, it comforteth the sinews, the heart and
the head.

_The use of the Oyle of Wormwood, and Oyle
of Mint_.

Oyle of Wormwood is good for straines and bruises, and to comfort
the stomach; it is made of the green Hearb, as are the Oyle
of _Cammomile_, _Rue_, and _Mint_, are made.

Oyle of _Mint_ comforteth the stomack, overlayed or weakned
with Casting, it doth drive back, or dry up Weomend breasts, and
doth keep them from being soare, being therewith annointed.

_Syrupe of Cowslips_.

Instead of running water you must take distilled water of _Cowslips_,
put thereto your _Cowslip_ flowers clean picked, and the
green knobs in the bottome cut off, and therewith boyle up a Syrupe,
as in the Syrupe of _Roses_ is shewed; it is good against the
_Frensie_, comforting and staying the head in all hot _Agues, &c_. It
is good against the _Palsie_, and procures a sick Patient to sleep;
it must be taken in _Almond_-milk, or some other warm thing.

_To keep Cowslips for Salates_.

Take a quart of _White wine_ Vineger, and halfe a quarter of a
pound of fine beaten _Sugar_, and mix them together, then take
your _Cowslips_, pull them out of the podds, and cut off the green
knobs at the lower end, put them into the pot or glasse wherein
you mind to keep them, and well shaking the _Vineger_ and _Sugar_
together in the glasse wherein they were before, powre it upon
the _Cowslips_, and so stirring them morning and evening to make
them settle for three weeks, keep them for your use.

_To Conserve Cowslips_.

Gather your Flowers in the midst of the day when all the dew is
off, then cut off all the white leaving none but the yellow blossome
so picked and cut, before they wither, weigh out ten ounces,
taking to every ten ounces of them, or greater proportion, if
you please, eight ounces of the best refined _Sugar_, in fine powder,
put the _Sugar_ into a pan, and candy it, with as little water as you
can, then taking it off the fire, put in your Flowers by little and
little, never ceasing to stir them till they be dry, and enough;
then put them into glasses, or gally pots, and keep them