bag, dissolve
into it while the gelly is warm, then let the gelly cool, and therewith
make a paste of the powders, which being made up into little balls, you
must dry gently by the fire side. Pearl is prepared by dissolving it
with the juyce of Lemons, Amber prepared by beating it to powder; so
also Crabs-eyes and Coral, Harts-horn prepared by burning it in the
fire, and taking the shires of it especially, the pith wholly rejected.

_A Cordial Water of Sir_ Walter Raleigh.

Take a gallon of Strawberries, and put them into a pint of _Aqua vitae_,
let them stand for four or five days, strain them gently out, and
sweeten the water as you please with fine Sugar; or else with perfume.

_The Lady_ Malets _Cordial Water._

Take a pound of fine Sugar beaten and put to it a quart of running
water, pour it three or four times through a bag; then put a pint of
Damask Rose-water, which you must always pour still through the bag,
then four penniworth of Angelica water, four pence in Clove-water, four
pence of Rosa Solis, one pint of Cinnamon-water, or three pints and a
half _Aqua vitae_, as you find it in taste; put all these together three
or four times through the bag or strainer, and then take half an ounce
of good Muskallis and cut them grosly, & put them into a glass, and fill
them with the water, &c.

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_A Sovereign Water of Dr._ Stephens, _which he long times used,
wherewith he did many Cures; he kept secretly till a little before his
death, and then he gave it to the Lord Arch-bishop of_ Canterbury _in
writing, being as followeth_, viz.

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Take a Gallon of good Gascoine Wine, and take Ginger, Gallingale,
Cinamon, Nutmegs, Cloves, Grains, Anniseeds, Fennil-seed, of every of
them a dram, then take Caraway-seed, of red Mints, Roses, Thime,
Pellitory of the Wall, Rosemary, wild Thime, Camomil, the leaves if you
cannot get the flowers, of small Lavander, of each a handful, then bray
the Spices small, and bray the Herbs, and put all into the Wine, and let
it stand for twelve hours, stirring divers times, then still it in a
Limbeck, and keep the first water, for it is best, then put the second
water by it self, for it is good, but not of such vertues, &c.

_The Vertues of this water._

It comforts the Spirits Vital, and helps all inward Diseases that come
of cold, it is good against the shaking of the Palsie; it cures the
contract