Put these Compounds in a Pot, fill it with White-wine
above the herbs, so let it stand four days. Then still it for your use in a
Limbeck.
ANOTHER PLAGUE-WATER
Take Rue, Agrimony, Wormwood, Celandine, Sage, Balm, Mugwort, Dragons,
Pimpernel, Marygold, Fetherfew, Burnet, Sorrel, and Elicampane-roots
scraped and sliced small. Scabious, Wood-betony, Brown-mayweed, Mints,
Avence, Tormentil, _Carduus benedictus_, and Rosemary as much as of
anything else, and Angelica if you will. You must have like weight of all
them, except Rosemary aforesaid, which you must have twice as much of as of
any of the rest; then mingle them altogether and shred them very small;
then steep them in the best White-wine you can get, three days and three
nights, stirring them once or twice a day, putting no more wine then will
cover the Herbs well; then still it in a Common-still; and take not too
much of the first-water, and but a little of the second, according as you
feel the strength, else it will be sower. There must be but half so much
Elicampane as of the rest.
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