the flowers) Cowslips, Sage-flowers, Agrimony, Betony, and Thyme,
_ana_, one handful. When it hath taken the strength of the herbs, strain it
through a hair-sieve, and let it cool twenty hours. Then to three Gallons
of the clear part of this decoction, put one Gallon of honey, and mingle it
very well with your hand, till it bear an Egg the breadth of a groat. Then
boil it and skim it as long as any scum will rise. Afterwards let it cool
twenty four hours. Then put to it a small quantity of Ale-barm, and skim
the thin-barm that doth rise on it, morning and evening, with a feather,
during four days. And so put it up into your vessel, and hang in it a thin
linnen bag with two Ounces of good White-ginger bruised therein: And stop
it up close for a quarter of a year. Then you may drink it.

ANOTHER

Take a quart of honey to a Gallon of water; set the Kettle over the fire,
and stir it now and then, that the honey may melt; let it boil an hour; you
must boil in it, a Sprig or two of Winter-savory, as much of
Sweet-marjoram; put it into tubs ready scalded, till the next day towards
evening. Then tun it up into your vessel, let it work for three days; after
which hang a bag in the barrel with what quantity of Mace and sliced Nutmeg
you please. To make it stronger then this, 'tis but adding more hony, to
make it bear an Egg the breadth of a six pence, or something more. You may
bottle it out after a month, when you please. This is the way, which is
used in Sussex by those who are accounted to make it best.

ANOTHER RECEIPT

Take to every Gallon of Fountain-water a good quart of honey. Set the water
on the fire, till it be pretty warm; then take it off, and put it in your
honey, and stir it till it be dissolved. Then put into every three Gallons,
two handfuls of Thyme: two good handfuls of Strawberry-leaves, one handful
of Organ; one handful of Fennel-roots, the heart being taken out, and one
handful of Parsley-roots the heart taken out: But as for the herbs, it must
be according to the constitution of them, for whom the Mead is intended.
Then set the Herbs in it on the fire, to boil for half an hour, still
skimming it, as the scum riseth; it must boil but half an hour; then take
it off the fire, and presently strain it from the herbs, and let it stand
till it be fully cold; then pour it softly off the bottom, and put it in a
vessel fit for it, and put a small quantity of barm in it, and mingle it
with it, and when it hath w