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.
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