Medicines for the Throat. For the dry Cough

Take half a pound of Licoras, and scrape it clean, and bruise it well, and put it into an earthen Pot, and put thereto three quarts of fine Wort, and one Ounce of Sugar, of Ginger beaten two drams, and a Pint of Clarified Honey, and seeth all these together, till half be wasted, and then strain it through a Cloth into a clean Vessell, and let the sick drink thereof first, and last, at Evening hot, and Morning cold.