Image 036, second book, folio 19b, receipts 6 to 9.
| The seconde booke.* | ||||
| Take the blood of a drake, of a ducke, of a goose, & the blood of a kid, of the | ||||
| iuice*of wilde rewe, of fennell, dyll, naven** 3 ? , the rootes of Gentium | ||||
| tryfoyle, squintum, frankencense, & dry roses 3 ?, white pepper,* long | ||||
| pepper, costvalerian, annis, & cynamon 3 ?, myrrhe, spikenarde * 6 ?, | ||||
| benison*, Asarabacca, amoniacum j ounce, 3 ? of mace, agricke 2 ?, | ||||
| of the seede of balme j scruple, j dramme of flowerdeluce*, saffron and | ||||
| masticke j ?, of sticados * j ? : make fine powder of all these, & put | ||||
| to all these as much honye, as of the other: & make a mixtion | ||||
| 7. An other composition wch ye sayd Mithridates * used. | ||||
| Take storax catamita j ? , a dramme of cloves, spikenarde,* ye wood of | ||||
| balme, orobus, lovage, ye gumme targatum, masticke, galbaum, sandricke,* | ||||
| the sweete of Aspalatus*, of the otters stones, which the apothecaries call | ||||
| castoreum*, the gumme of ive, Edelium, terafeminamelilotum, ye gumme of | ||||
| lady opoponax, anemoniarum, unsleaked brimstone, licoris, saltpeter,* | ||||
| hypoticis*, acalia, germander, St Johns worte, Suthenwood, pyonye, | ||||
| hysop, orgamum, olycampana, the leaves of saven, ye leaves of ye Baye * | ||||
| tree, aristolorhia longe, the flowers of Lime, wormeseede, rosemarye,* | ||||
| centorye, the lesse shot [??] holm*, ye flowers of the wilde pomegarnet, the | ||||
| seedes of radish, the seedes of balme, the seeds of Annis, get henbane, | ||||
| fennell, cardemoneum*, silvermontan**, white mustard seede, parsely seed, | ||||
| white poppye, smallage, yellowe carrets, clarye, longe pepper, bassell,* | ||||
| amoneum of each one ownce, gladean* , ye common Bosswins**, nuts, capers, | ||||
| the flowers of Tutsan *, 2 lb of the iuice of balme, the iuice of ye mirrhe | ||||
| tree, cinamon, saffron, costquinatum, ginger,* solemu Judicum**, And in ye | ||||
| steade of cloves or spikenarde, turpentine washed fine, frankencense,* | ||||
| Cassiafestula, agaricke, Spica Romana, flowerdeluce, Asarabacca, Dittan,* | ||||
| horehounde, ye inner rine of colloquintida, sticados, mugworte, pellitorye* | ||||
| of Spayne, grounde pinne, blacke pepper, white pepper,sweete dew* | ||||
| cresses, synkefoyle, of each one ownce, of bay berries one scruple,* | ||||
| 6 gallons of strong olde wine, & one ownce of honye. | ||||
| 8. A confection of suger, & veneger. | ||||
| Take maydenheare, harte tongue, liverworte, violett, fennell, knee holme,* | ||||
| spinage, stichworte, * of each a small quantitye, make it of this fashion, | ||||
| lay your hearbes & rootes in the iuice* of pomegranets, by the space of 3 | ||||
| dayes, upon the 4 day boyle them a litle, & strayne them well, afterward | ||||
| put thereunto as much sugar as will suffice, then seeth them till they | ||||
| shall be thicke. | ||||
| 9. The oyle of the sweete almondes. | ||||
| Take almondes & blanch them, take away allso ye inner rinde, then stampe | ||||
| them & presse them so that the oyle may issue forth & if you seethe it | ||||
| agayne in a vessell set it in an other by ye space of an howre, then presse | ||||
| it, & it will |
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Transcribed by LF and JW