n afterwards stop it well with clay and salt
tempered together, to keep it moist.

TO MAKE METHEGLIN

If your honey be tryed, take six Gallons of Milk-warm-water, to one of
honey, and stir it well together ever and anon, and so let it stand for a
day and night, or half a day may serve; then boil it with a gentle fire,
for the space of half an hour or thereabouts, and skim it, still as the
skum ariseth. After it is scummed once or twice, you may put in your herbs,
and spice grosly beaten, one half loose; the other in a bag, which
afterwards may be fastned with a string to the tap-hole, as Pepper, Cloves,
Mace, Ginger and the like; when it is thus boiled, let it stand in the
vessel until it be cooled; then Tun it up into your barrel, and let it work
two or three days, or more before you stop the bung-hole; but in putting up
the boiled liquor into the barrel, reserve the thick grounds back, which
will be settled in the pan or kettle.

If you would have it to drink within two or three months, let it be no
stronger then to bear an Egg to the top of the water. If you would have it
keep six months, or longer, before you drink it, let it bear up the Egg the
breadth of two pence above the water. This is the surer way to proportion
your honey then by measure. And the time of the tryal of the strength is,
when you incorporate the honey and water together, before the boiling of
it.

ANOTHER SORT OF MEATH

Take thirty six Gallons of fountain water (first boiled, &c.) and dissolve
twelve Gallons of Honey in it. Keep them boiling an hour and a half after
they begin to boil, skimming well all the while. It will be an hour upon
the fire before it boil. When it is clear and enough boiled, pour it out
into woodden vessels to cool. When you are ready to Tun it, have four
Gallons of Black-currants, bruise them in a stone mortar, that they may the
more easily part with their juyce to the Liquor. Put them and their juyce
into the barrel, and pour the cool Liquor upon them, so as the vessel be
quite full. Cover the bung with a plate of lead lying loose on, that the
working of the Liquor may lift it up, as it needeth to cast out the filth.
And still as it worketh over, fill it up with fresh Liquor, made in the
same proportion of honey and water. A moneth after it works no longer, stop
up the bung very close.

TO MAKE VERY GOOD METHEGLIN

Take of all sorts of herbs, that you think are good and wholesome, as Balm,
Minth, Fennel, Ros