hen boil for an hour, continually skiming it; then put it into an
earthen or woodden vessel, and when it is little more then Blood-warm, set
it with Ale-yest, and so let it stand twelve hours; then take off the Yest,
and Bottle it. Put in it Limon-peel and Cloves, or what best pleaseth your
taste of Herbs or Spices. Eringo-roots put into it, when it is a boiling,
maketh it much better. So do Clove-gilly-flowers; a quantity of which make
the Meath look like Claret-wine. I observe that Meath requireth some strong
Herbs to make it quick and smart upon the Palate; as Rose-mary, Bay-leaves,
Sage, Thyme, Marjoram, Winter-savory, and such like, which would be too
strong and bitter in Ale or Beer.

TO MAKE WHITE MEATH

Take Rose-mary, Thyme, Sweet-bryar, Peny-royal, and Bays, Water-cresses,
Agrimony, Marsh-mallows, leaves and flowers: Liver-wort, Wood-betony,
Eye-bright, Scabious, of each alike quantity; of the bark of Ash-tree, of
Eringo-roots-green, of each a proportion to the herbs; of wild Angelica,
Ribwort, Sanicle, Roman-worm-wood, of each a proportion, which is, to every
handful of the Herbs above named, a sixteenth part of a handful of these
latter; steep them a night and a day, in a woodden boul of water covered;
the next day boil them very well in another water, till the colour be very
high; Then take another quantity of water, and boil the herbs in it, till
it look green, and so let it boil three or four times, or as long as the
liquor looketh any thing green; then let it stand with these herbs in it a
day and a night.

To every Gallon of this water, put a quart of pure clear honey, the Liquor
being first strained from the herbs. Your Liquor if it be strong enough
will bear an Egg, the breadth of a three pence above water. When you have
put the honey into the Liquor, you must work and Labour it together a
whole day, until the honey be consumed. Then let it stand a whole night
again a clearing. Then put it into a kettle, and let it boil a quarter of
an hour, with the whites and shells of six Eggs; Then strain it clean, and
so let it stand a cooling. Then put it into a barrel, and take Cloves,
Mace, Cinamon, Nutmegs, and beat them together: put them into a linnen bag,
hang it with a thread into the barrel. If you would have it work, that you
may drink of it presently, take the whites of two or three Eggs, a spoonful
of barm, a spoonful of wheat-flower; beat all these together: Let it work,
before you stop it up. The