hite wine_ vineger, boyle therein of _Woodbine_
leaves, _Sage_, and _Plantaine_ of each one handfull, of white _Coperas_,
one pound, of _Allum_ as much as an Egge; when it is boyled to
halfe a pint, straine out the liquor, and therewith wash the soare as
hard as you can suffer it.

_To make a Water for all Wounds and Cankers_.

Take a handfull of red _Sage_ leaves, a handfull of _Selandine_, as
much _Woodbine_ leaves, then take a gallon of Conduict water, and
put the hearbs in it, and let them boyle to a pottell, and then
strayning the Hearbs through a strainer, take the liquor and set
it over the fire againe, and take a pint of English _Honey_, a good
handfull of _Roche Allum_, as much of white _Copperas_ tinne beaten,
a penny worth of _Graines_ bruised, and let them boyle all together
three or four warms, and then let the scum be taken off with a feather,
and when it is cold put it in an earthen pot or bottell, so as
it may be kept close; and for an old Wound take of the thinnest,
and for a green Wound, of the thickest, and having dressed them
with this Water, cover the soare either with _Veale_, or _Mutton_, and
skin it with _Dock_ leaves.

_For a Swelling that cometh suddenly in mans
Limbs._

Take _Harts_ tongue, _Cherfoyle_, and cut them small, and then take
dreggs of _Ale_, and _Wheat_ Branne, and _Sheeps_ tallow molten, and
doe all in a pot, and seeth them till they be thick, and then make
a Plaister, and lay it to the swelling.

* * * * *

_Of Apricocks_.

_To dry Apricocks_.

Take them when they be ripe, stone them, and pare off their
rindes very thin, then take halfe as much _Sugar_ as they weigh,
finely beaten, and lay them with that _Sugar_ into a silver or earthen
dish, laying first a lay of _Sugar_, and then of Fruit, and let them
stand so all night, and in the morning the _Sugar_ will be all melted,
then put them into a Skillet, and boyle them apace, scumming
them well, and as soon as they grow tender take them off from the
fire, and let them stand two dayes in the Syrupe, then take them
out, and lay them on a fine plate, and so dry them in a Stove.

[Illustration: Aprecocks]

_Clear Cakes of Quinces, or Apricocks._

Take of the best _Sugar_ finely beaten and searced, one pound, to
a pound of _Quinces_, or _Apricocks_, set your _Sugar_ upon a chafin-dish
of coales, and dry it above halfe an houre, then cooling it, stir into
it a little _Musk_