Take a gallon of good Canary Wine, Ginger, Galingale, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Graines, Cloves, Anniseeds, Fennell seed, a Dram Sage, Mints, red Roses, Time, Pellitory, Rosemary, wild Time, Camomile, Lavender, of each one handful, then bruise the spices and the herbs small, and put all into the Wine, and let it stand twelve hours, stirring it divers times, then fill it in a Lymbeck according to the art, and the first water is of more strength than the second, and both be the better by the standing in the Sun.
The virtues hereof
It is to comfort the spirits vitally, helps to the inward diseases of cold, the Palsy, the contraction of Sinews, the conception of Women, killeth the Worms within the body, cureth the Cough, Toothach, cold Dropsy, comforteth the Stomach, beliketh the stone in the Bladder, and in the veins of the Back, staieth a stinking breath. Whosoever useth this water ever anon, and not too often, it preserveth him in good liking, and maketh him from young very long: with this Doctor Stephens preserved his own life, until that extreme Age, that he could neither go nor ride, and kept him five years, when other Physicians judged it impossible for him to live one year.
To make Cinnamon Water
Take Rhenish [Rhenith] wine a quart, and Spanish wine a pint, Rosewater [Rolewater] a pint and a half, Cinnamon bruised [bruiled] a pound and a half; let it stand and steep [let them lie infused] the space of four and twenty hours, then distill it, and being close stopped and luted [sealed], then with a soft [fire] fire distill the same softly in a Limbeck [alembic] of Glass, and receive the first water by itself.
Also, if you be so disposed to make the same water weaker, take three pints of Rosewater, and a pint and a half of Rhenish wine, and so distill the same, and you shall have, to the quality of the stuff, the quantity of the water, which is three pints; but the first water is the best, and so reserve it to your use, both morning and evening.
To make Cinnamon Water another way
Take three quarts of Muscadine [Muskadine], and a pound of Cinnamon, and half a pint of good Rosewater, and so let them lie infused the space of four and twenty hours, and distill it as aforesaid, and you shall receive to the quantity, as to the quality, but the first pint is the best, and the chiefest of all the other, as is manifest by practice.
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