Take sage rosemary bittony flowers of each half a handfull burrage and
burglass flowers and flowers of lilly of the valley of each a handfull
steep these in spirit of wine muskadine or aquavite each one in their
seasons till all may be had then put to them balme motherwort sage
leaves, leaves of orange trees and the flowers if to be gott of each
one ounce put them into the rest and as many Lavender flowers stript
from the stalks as will fill a gallon glass steep all these 6 weeks
or 2 months then distill them in a Limbeck then put into y^e water
citheron peels dry’d & piony seeds of each 6 drams of cinnamon half
an ounce nutmegs and mace cardimums cubibs and yellow sanders of each
half an ounce lignum alloes one dram make all these into powder and put
them into the distilled water and put to them Jubebs new and good half
a pound, the stones taken out & cut small close the vessel very well
with a double bladder let them disgest 6 weeks then strain these hard
with a press & filterate the liquor and put thereunto prepared perl
Smaragdis musk saffron of each 10 grains of ambergrease one scruple red
roses well dry’d red and yellow sanders of each 1 ounce hang these in a
sarsnet bag in y^e water stop it close.