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eth fresh, flowereth and mantleth exceedingly ; it 

 drinketh not newish at all ; it is an excellent drink for 

 a consumption, to be drunk either alone, or carded 

 with some other beer. It quencheth thirst, and 

 hath no whit of windiness. Note, that it is not pos 

 sible, that meat and bread, either in broths, or 

 taken with drink, as is used, should get forth into 

 the veins and outward parts, so finely and easily, as 

 when it is thus incorporate, and made almost a 

 chylus aforehand. 



47. Trial would be made of the like brew with 

 potatoe roots, or burr roots, or the pith of artichokes, 

 which are nourishing meats : it may be tried also 

 with other flesh; as pheasant, partridge, young 

 pork, pig, venison, especially of young deer, &c. 



48. A mortress made with the brawn of capons, 

 stamped and strained, and mingled, after it is made, 

 with like quantity, at the least, of almond butter, is 

 an excellent meat to nourish those that are weak ; 

 better than blanckmanger, or jelly : and so is the cul- 

 lice of cocks, boiled thick with the like mixture 

 of almond butter ; for the mortress or cullice, of it 

 self, is more savoury and strong, and not so fit for 

 nourishing of weak bodies ; but the almonds, that 

 are not of so high a taste as flesh, do excellently 

 qualify it. 



49. Indian maiz hath, of certain, an excellent 

 spirit of nourishment; but it must be throughly 

 boiled, and made into a maiz-cream like a barley- 

 cream. I judge the same of rice, made into a cream ; 

 for rice is in Turkey, and other countries of the east, 



