Take single pinks and take ye leaves out of ye husks and cut y^m
somewhat Long leaving some of ye white to ye leaves then put them into
a flat glass wherein you have mingled half a spoonfull of Aquafortis
with 12 spoonfulls of water and when the leaves have layne in the water
half an hour or more take them out one by one and lay them on a paper
y^e right side down not to touch one another and after an hour or 2
when the water is well dryed up (as it will if the paper be laide on
a woollen cloth) then strow them over with fine dry sand till they be
all cover’d so let them lye a fortnight in a place where the sun comes
in, in which time they will be dry and stiff then take them off the
fire one by one shaking off the sand and wipe them between your fingers
lay them in boxes till the winter each colour by themselves and then
bind them up together by the white part of the leafe that remains till
they be of what bigness you please and so put them into the green husk
which must be kept for them, pickt early in the year they will keep the
better takeing the natural flowers out of them, rowle a little piece of
paper up and fill the husk with it lay them also in sand till they be
dry use no water to them when you put your flowers into the husk fasten
them with a private stick by ye green silk you bind them up withall
with a fine needle at the bottom of the husk. So many severall colours
as you have must be put in severall glasses of water or the colours
will not be perfect, Rose buds are only laid in water 2 or 3 hours
and laid out on a woolen cloth to dry without sand, for marygolds,
primroses, or larke heels or the like are only in sand without water.
Experience must be ye best M^{rs} to teach this art.
208. _An Aprov’d Diet Drink to be taken every Spring and Fall from the
First of September to the 1^{st} of October & from y^e 1^{st} of April
to the Last._
Take 4 gallons of the strongest wort boyle it to 3 gallons tun it up
with good store of barm that it may work well then make a Canvase
bag with a heazel stick thrust through it and so fasten the bag to
the stick that it may not go within 3 inches of the bottom of the
barrell nor float on the top put these following ingredients into the
bag 6 ounces of scena 6 ounces of polipodium of the oake 7 ounces of
bayberrys huld 2 ounces of anyseeds 3 ounces of aishen keys bruised 2
ounces of sarsafrage wood, 2 ounces of saldonella, 2 drams of rubarb,
let all these be grossly powdered except the scena, and when it hath
done workeing stop it up close leaving some barm on the top in 3 or 4
days you may drink of it half a pint in the morning and 3 quarters of a
pint in the evening, drink a draught of brothe an hour before dinner &
when you go to bed keep yourselfe warme dureing the time y^e more you
exercise your body ye more twill work. Probatum est.