e it will be fit to drink.

Look how much you intend to make, the same quantities must be allowed to
every Gallon of water.

TO MAKE METHEGLIN

Take fair water, and the best honey; beat them well together, but not in a
woodden vessel, for wood drinketh up the honey, put it together in a
Kettle, and try it with a New-laid-egg, which will swim at top, if it be
very strong; but if it bob up and sink again, it will be too weak. Boil it
an hour, and put into it a bundle of herbs, what sort you like best; and a
little bag of Spice, Nutmegs, Ginger, Cloves, Mace and Cinamon; and skim it
well all the while it boileth: when it hath boiled an hour, take it off,
and put it into earthen Pans, and so let it stand till next day. Then pour
off all the clear into a good vessel, that hath had Sack in it, or
White-wine. Hang the bag of Spice in it, and so let it stand very close
stopp'd and well filled for a month, or longer. Then if you desire to drink
it quickly, you may bottle it up. If it be strong of the honey, you may
keep it a year or two. If weak, drink it in two or three months. One quart
of honey, will make one Gallon of water very strong. A sprig or two of
Rose-mary, Thyme and Sweet-marjoram, are the Herbs that should go into it.

TO MAKE SMALL METHEGLIN

Take to every quart of White-honey, six quarts of fair-water. Let it boil,
until a third part be boiled away; skiming it as it riseth: then put into
it a small quantity of Ginger largely sliced; then put it out into earthen
Pans, till it be Luke-warm, and so put it up into an earthen stand, with a
tap in it. Then put to it about half a Porenger-ful of the best Ale-yest,
so beat it well together; Then cover it with a cloth, and it will be twelve
hours before it work; and afterwards let it stand two days, and then draw
it out into stone bottles, and it will be ready to drink in five or six
days after. This proportion of yest (which is about six good spoonfuls) is
enough for three or four Gallons of Liquor. The yest must be of good Ale,
and very new. You may mingle the yest first with a little of the
Luke-warm-Liquor; then beat it, till it be well incorporated, and begins to
work; Then adde a little more Liquor to it, and beat that. Continue so
adding the Liquor by little and little, till a good deal of it be
Incorporated with the yest; then put that to all the rest of the quantity,
and beat it altogether very well; then cover it close, and keep it warm for
two or three