within ten or twelve days it
will be ready to drink.

Some, when they take their Bees, put the honey-combs into fair-water, and
make it so strong of the honey that it will bear an Egg; and then boil it
with some Spice, and put it into a barrel: but I think it not so good, as
that which is made of pure honey.

THE EARL OF DENBIGH'S METHEGLIN

Take twenty Gallons of Spring-water; boil it a quarter of an hour, and let
it stand, until it be all most cold; then beat in so much honey, as will
make it so strong as to bear an Egg, so that on the Top, you may see the
breadth of a hasel-nut swimming above; The next day boil it up with six
small handfuls of Rosemary; a pound and a half of Ginger, being scraped and
bruised; then take the whites of twenty Eggs shells and all; beat them very
well, and put them in to clarifie it; skim it very clean, then take it off
the fire and strain: But put the Rosemary and Ginger in again: then let it
remain till it be all most cold: then Tun it up, and take some
New-ale-yest; the whites of two Eggs, a spoonful of flower, and beat them
well together, and put them into the barrel; when it hath wrought very
well, stop it very close for three weeks or a month: then bottle it, and a
week after you may drink it.

TO MAKE MEATH

Take to every Gallon of water, a quart of honey, and set it over a clear
fire, and when it is ready to boil, skim it very clear. Then take two
handfulls of Sweet-marjoram, as much Rose-mary, and as much Baulm: and two
handful of Fennel-roots, as much of Parsley-roots, and as many
Esparages-roots: slice them in the middle, and take out the pith, wash and
scrape them very clean, and put them with your herbs into your Liquor. Then
take two Ounces of Ginger, one Ounce of Nutmegs, half an Ounce of Mace:
bruise them and put them in: and let it boil till it be so strong that it
will bear an Egg: then let it cool: and being cold, put in 3 or 4 spoon
fulls of New-ale yest: and so skim it well, and put it into a Runlet, and
it will work like Ale: and having done working, stop it up close, as you do
New-beer: and lay salt upon it.

TO MAKE METHEGLIN

Take four Gallons of running water, and boil it a quarter of an hour, and
put it in an earthen vessel, and let it stand all night. The next day take
only the water, and leave the settling at the bottom: so put the honey in a
thin bag, and work it in the water, till all the honey is dissolved. Take
to four Gallons of water, one