^ The Scented (garden $£ 



very thin as much as will lay on half crown, 2 or 3 spoon- 

 fulls will sweeten a bason of water : keep it stop't very- 

 close : it will keep a year or 2. 



The Book of Simples {circa 1650). 



To make a rare Sweet Water. 



Take sweet Marjoram, Lavender, Rosemary, Muscovy, 

 Mandlin, Balm, Thyme, Walnut Leaves, Damask Roses, 

 Pinks, of all a like quantity, enough to fill your Still, 

 then take of the best Orrice Powder, Damask Rose 

 Powder, and Storax, of each two Ounces ; strew one 

 handful or two of your Powders upon the Herbs, then 

 distill them with a soft fire ; tie a little musk in a piece 

 of lawn, and hang it in the Glass wherein it drops, and 

 when it is all drawn out, take your sweet Cakes and mix 

 them with the powders which are left, and lay them 

 among your Clothes, or with sweet Oyls, and burn them 

 for perfume. ^ Queen's Delight (1662). 



To make sweet water of the best kind. 



Take a thousand Damask Roses, two good handfuls 

 of Lavender tops, a three-penny weight of Mace, two 

 ounces of Cloves bruised, a quart of running water : 

 put a little water into the bottom of an earthen pot, and 

 then put in your Roses and Lavender, with the Spices 

 by little and little, and in the putting in, always knead 

 them down with your fist, and so continue it untill you 

 have wrought up all your Roses and Lavender, and in 

 the working put in always a little of your water : then 

 stop your pot close, and let it stand in four dayes, in 

 which time every morning and evening put in your hand 

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