Take a pint of white wine and a pint of sack to these following
herbs scabious cardus bittony egremony of each a little handfull and
tormentil roots you may add any cordial flowers rosemary or what you
please Shread your herbs and Steep them till the vertue of the herbs be
soaked into the wine then take half a pound of Bole-Armeniack in fine
powder and 2 ounces and a half and a dram of the black tips of crabs
claws in powder and an ounce of hearts horn in fine powder and mingle
all your powders and put them into a deep earthen Bason as the former
and moisten them every day with your liquor seting it in the Sun and
when you put in the last wine liquor often Stiring it every day at last
add to it half of metriedate half an ounce of Diascordium half an ounce
of Venice treacle and a dram of saffron finely powdered and mingle it
all very well together then make it up into little balls throughly
drying them Keeping them so for your use. give of this as the former to
a man as much as will lay on a shilling to a woman as much as will lay
on a Sixpence to a child as much as will lay on a groat, ’tis good for
any weakness, heaviness at heart, or to cause sleep weomen in child bed
or as the former.