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from sweet herbs, grasse or corne : straine your dew, and 

 expose it to the Sun in glasses covered with papers or parch- 

 ments prickt full of holes ; straine it often, continuing it in 

 the Sun, and in an hot place, till the same grow white and 

 cleare, which will require the best part of the Summer. 



.Some commend May -dew, gathered from Fennel 1 and 

 Celandine to be most excellent for sore eyes : and some com- 

 mend the same (prepared as before) above Rose-water for 

 preserving of fruits, flowers, etc. Ibid. 



A DELICATE WASHING-BALL. Take three ounces of orace, 

 halfe an ounce of Cypres, two ounces of Calamus Aromaticus, 

 one ounce of Rose leaves, two ounces of Lavender flowers : 

 beat all these together in a mortar, searcing them thorow a 

 fine Scarce, then scrape some Castill sope, and dissolve it 

 with some Rose-water, then incorporate all your powders 

 therewith, by labouring of them well in a mortar. Ibid. 



A SCOTTISH HAND WATER. Put Thyme, Lavender and 

 Rosemary confusedly together, then make a lay of thicke 

 wine Lees in the bottom of a stone pot, upon which make 

 another lay of the said hearbs, and then a lay of Lees, and 

 then so forward : lute the pot well, bury it in the ground for 

 six weeks; distil it. A little thereof put into a bason of 

 common water maketh very sweete washing water. Ibid. 



AN EXCELLENT DAMASK POWDER. You may take of 

 Rose leaves four ounces, cloves one ounce, lignum Rhodium 

 two ounces, Storax one ounce and a halfe, Muske and Civet 

 of each ten grains ; beat and incorporate them well together. 

 Ibid. 



JESEMAIN WATER. Take two handfuls of Jeseme flowers 

 and put them into a flagon or earthen pot, put to them about 

 a quart of fair water and a quarter of a pound of Sugar, let 

 this stand and steep about half an hour, then take your water 

 and flowers and pour them out of one vessel into another 

 till such time as the water hath taken the sent and tast of 

 the flowers, then set it in a cool place a cooling and you will 



