For the Eyes. To make a precious water for sore Eyes, that be fair to look on, and yet cannot see with them

Take Smallage, and red Fennell, Rue, Betany, Vervain, Pimpernell, Eyebright, Sage, and Salendine, of every one of these a quartern, and wash them clean, and stamp them in a very fair vessell, and take the powder of fifteen Peppercorns, and a pint of good white Wine, and three spoonfulls of good live Honey, and fifteen spoonfulls of the water of a man-child that is very young, then put all these together, and let it boil over the fire a little, and then strain it through a clean cloth, and keep it in a vessell or glasse well stopped, and when you will occupie it, put some of it into your Eyes with a feather, and if it dry away in the glasse, then put a little white Wine to it, and this is good for all sore Eyes; if thy Eyes be never so sore, in fifteen dayes it will heal thee. Probatum est.

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