it is done, by adding to the same _Chocolate_ (having
made the _Confection_, as is before set downe) so much _Maiz_, dryed,
and well ground, and taken from the Huske, and then well mingled in
the Morter, with the _Chocolate_, it falls all into flowre, or dust; &
so these things being mingled, as is said before, there riseth the
Scum; and so you take and drink it, as before.

There is another way, which is a shorter and quicker way of making it,
for men of businesse, who cannot stay long about it; and it is more
wholsome; and it is that, which I use. That is, first to set some
water to warm; and while it warms, you throw a Tablet, or some
_Chocolate_, scraped, and mingled with sugar, into a little Cup; and
when the water is hot, you powre the water to the _Chocolate_, and
then dissolve it with the Molinet; and then without taking off the
scum, drink it as is before directed.

_The fourth Part._

There remaines to be handled in the last Point, of the Quantity, which
is to be drunke: at what Time; and by what persons: because if it be
drunk beyond measure, not onely of _Chocolate_, but of all other
drinkes, or meates, though of themselves they are good and wholsome,
they may be hurtfull. And if any finde it Opilative, it comes by the
too much use of it; as when one drinkes over much Wine, in stead of
comforting, and warming himselfe, he breeds, and nourisheth cold
diseases; because Nature cannot overcome it, nor turne so great a
quantity into good nourishment. So he that drinkes much _Chocolate_,
which hath fat parts, cannot make distribution of so great a quantity
to all the parts; and that part which remaines in the slender veines
of the Liver, must needs cause Opilations, and Obstructions.

To avoid this inconvenience; you must onely take five or six ounces,
in the morning, if it be in winter; and if the party who takes it, be
Cholerick, in stead of ordinary water, let him take the distilled
water of Endive. The same reason serves in Summer, for those, who take
it physically, having the Liver hot and obstructed. If his Liver be
cold and obstructed, then to use the water of _Rubarb_. And to
conclude, you may take it till the Moneth of _May_, especially in
temperate dayes. But I doe not approve, that in the Dogdayes it should
be taken in _Spaine_, unlesse it be one, who by custome of taking it,
receives no prejudice by it. And if he be of a hot Constitution, and
that he have neede to take it in that season, le