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in water and binde them in a linnen cloath and winde it 

 about thy legges and it shall do thee much good. 



" If thou have a cough drink the water of the leaves 

 boyld in white wine and ye shall be whole. 



" Take the Timber thereof and turn it to Coales and 

 make powder thereof and rubbe thy teeth thereof, and it 

 shall keep thy teeth from all evils. Smell it oft and it shall 

 keep thee youngly. 



" Also if a man have lost his smelling of the ayre that he 

 may not draw his breath, make a fire of the wood and bake 

 his bread therewith, eate it and it shall keepe him well." 



To MAKE ROSEMARY WATER. Take the rosemary and the 

 flowers in the middest of May, before sunne arise, and 

 strippe the leaves and the flowers from the stalke, take four 

 or five elecampane roots and a handful or two of sage, then 

 beate the rosemary, the sage and the rootes together, till 

 they be very small, and take three ounces of cloves, three 

 ounces of mace, one and a half pounds of aniseed and beat 

 these spices every one by itself. Then take all the hearbes 

 and spices and put therein foure or five gallons of good 

 white wine, then put in all these hearbes and spices and 

 wine into an earthen pot, and put the same pot in the 

 ground the space of sixteen days, then take it up and still 

 in a Still with a very soft fire. The Good Housewife's Jewell, 

 1585. 



How TO CANDY ROSEMARY-FLOWERS, ROSE-LEAVES, 

 ROSES, MARIGOLDS, ETC., WITH PRESERVATION OF COLOUR. 

 Dissolve refined or double-refined sugar, or sugar-candy 

 itselfe, in a little Rose-water; boile it to a reasonable 

 height : put in your roots or flowers when your sirup is 

 eyther fully cold, or almost cold : let them rest therein 

 till the sirup have pierced them sufficiently : then take 

 out your flowers with a skimmer, suffering the loose sirup 

 to runne from them so long as it will : boile that sirup 

 a little more, and put in more flowers, as before; divide 

 them also : then boile all the sirup which remaineth, and 

 is not drunke up in the flowers, putting in more sugar if 



