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V.a.140
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Receipt book [manuscript].
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Receipt book [manuscript].
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compiled ca. 1600
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folio 12 verso || folio 13 recto
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Transcription:
*To cause meruelous Dreames.
Take the bloode of a Lapwink and rubbe your
temples with it and so goe to your bedde & yow shall
see merueilous thinges in your sleepe. or els if
yow [take] eate at night a little of the herbe called
Henban, and yow shall see in the night goodlye
thinges in your Dreame.
* To make a Candell that can
not be put out.
Take virgine waxe, & Brimstone well purged,
asmuch much of the one, as of the other, and melte it together
and make therof a candell, the which will neuer be put
out vntill it be burned and consumed to the ende.
* To make that your children shall haue no
payne or greefe on ther teeth
Take an olde Cocke and cut of his combe, &
take of the blud that commeth of it and rubbe
the gummes with it, and they shall neuer feele payne.
* ffor to make a cleere voyce
Take the floures of an Elder tree and Drye
them in the sunne, but take heade they take no
moisture or wette, then make a pouder of them, and
Drincke of it with white wine euerye morninge fastinge.
* for one that hath his light
troubled.
Take the lunges or lightes of a Barrow hogge with all
the appurtenances and seeth it in water, and when
it is sodden let him holde his eies ouer the smoke
of it, & in three or foure [Dayes] times Doynge he shall be
cured of that trouble yt.
24.
folio 13 recto
13
* for one that is broke
Take of the roote of Bugle or Cumferey and put of it
into the breade that he eateth euery daye, and let him eate
euerye daye of the sayde roote, ether rawe or rost, and it
shallbe a very [health] healthfull for his Desease.
* for one that hath his coddes
swollen.
Take Rue and stampe it, & laye it vpon his coddes, &
immediatly they will aswage ther swellinge, which thinge is
sufficiently proued.
* Agaynst the Plage
Take iij vnces of the licour of the inward rine of an Ashe
tree and still it with iij vnces of white [winde] wine, & geue the
pacient Drinke of it euerye iij houres, & within xxiiij houres
he shall be cured.
* To make womens milke
encrease.
Take fenell seede and seeth it in barley water,
& geue the woman Drinke of it, & her milke shall
encrease abundantlye.
* A preseruation in time of Pestilence or
Plage, and against all venim or poison, &
bitinge of a madde dogge.
If yow eate before your meales, a walnutt or tow,
tow drie figges, & some leaues of Gardine Rue, with a corne
of salt, it will be a good preseruatiue in the time of the Plage,
& agaynst all poison. And the same beinge stamped & laye
to the bitiinge of a madd Dogge it healeth it, so doe
Nutmegges allso worke the like effecte.
25
Take the bloode of a Lapwink and rubbe your
temples with it and so goe to your bedde & yow shall
see merueilous thinges in your sleepe. or els if
yow [take] eate at night a little of the herbe called
Henban, and yow shall see in the night goodlye
thinges in your Dreame.
* To make a Candell that can
not be put out.
Take virgine waxe, & Brimstone well purged,
asmuch much of the one, as of the other, and melte it together
and make therof a candell, the which will neuer be put
out vntill it be burned and consumed to the ende.
* To make that your children shall haue no
payne or greefe on ther teeth
Take an olde Cocke and cut of his combe, &
take of the blud that commeth of it and rubbe
the gummes with it, and they shall neuer feele payne.
* ffor to make a cleere voyce
Take the floures of an Elder tree and Drye
them in the sunne, but take heade they take no
moisture or wette, then make a pouder of them, and
Drincke of it with white wine euerye morninge fastinge.
* for one that hath his light
troubled.
Take the lunges or lightes of a Barrow hogge with all
the appurtenances and seeth it in water, and when
it is sodden let him holde his eies ouer the smoke
of it, & in three or foure [Dayes] times Doynge he shall be
cured of that trouble yt.
24.
folio 13 recto
13
* for one that is broke
Take of the roote of Bugle or Cumferey and put of it
into the breade that he eateth euery daye, and let him eate
euerye daye of the sayde roote, ether rawe or rost, and it
shallbe a very [health] healthfull for his Desease.
* for one that hath his coddes
swollen.
Take Rue and stampe it, & laye it vpon his coddes, &
immediatly they will aswage ther swellinge, which thinge is
sufficiently proued.
* Agaynst the Plage
Take iij vnces of the licour of the inward rine of an Ashe
tree and still it with iij vnces of white [winde] wine, & geue the
pacient Drinke of it euerye iij houres, & within xxiiij houres
he shall be cured.
* To make womens milke
encrease.
Take fenell seede and seeth it in barley water,
& geue the woman Drinke of it, & her milke shall
encrease abundantlye.
* A preseruation in time of Pestilence or
Plage, and against all venim or poison, &
bitinge of a madde dogge.
If yow eate before your meales, a walnutt or tow,
tow drie figges, & some leaues of Gardine Rue, with a corne
of salt, it will be a good preseruatiue in the time of the Plage,
& agaynst all poison. And the same beinge stamped & laye
to the bitiinge of a madd Dogge it healeth it, so doe
Nutmegges allso worke the like effecte.
25
transcribed_information
*To cause meruelous Dreames.
Take the bloode of a Lapwink and rubbe your
temples with it and so goe to your bedde & yow shall
see merueilous thinges in your sleepe. or els if
yow [take] eate at night a little of the herbe called
Henban, and yow shall see in the night goodlye
thinges in your Dreame.
* To make a Candell that can
not be put out.
Take virgine waxe, & Brimstone well purged,
asmuch much of the one, as of the other, and melte it together
and make therof a candell, the which will neuer be put
out vntill it be burned and consumed to the ende.
* To make that your children shall haue no
payne or greefe on ther teeth
Take an olde Cocke and cut of his combe, &
take of the blud that commeth of it and rubbe
the gummes with it, and they shall neuer feele payne.
* ffor to make a cleere voyce
Take the floures of an Elder tree and Drye
them in the sunne, but take heade they take no
moisture or wette, then make a pouder of them, and
Drincke of it with white wine euerye morninge fastinge.
* for one that hath his light
troubled.
Take the lunges or lightes of a Barrow hogge with all
the appurtenances and seeth it in water, and when
it is sodden let him holde his eies ouer the smoke
of it, & in three or foure [Dayes] times Doynge he shall be
cured of that trouble yt.
24.
folio 13 recto
13
* for one that is broke
Take of the roote of Bugle or Cumferey and put of it
into the breade that he eateth euery daye, and let him eate
euerye daye of the sayde roote, ether rawe or rost, and it
shallbe a very [health] healthfull for his Desease.
* for one that hath his coddes
swollen.
Take Rue and stampe it, & laye it vpon his coddes, &
immediatly they will aswage ther swellinge, which thinge is
sufficiently proued.
* Agaynst the Plage
Take iij vnces of the licour of the inward rine of an Ashe
tree and still it with iij vnces of white [winde] wine, & geue the
pacient Drinke of it euerye iij houres, & within xxiiij houres
he shall be cured.
* To make womens milke
encrease.
Take fenell seede and seeth it in barley water,
& geue the woman Drinke of it, & her milke shall
encrease abundantlye.
* A preseruation in time of Pestilence or
Plage, and against all venim or poison, &
bitinge of a madde dogge.
If yow eate before your meales, a walnutt or tow,
tow drie figges, & some leaues of Gardine Rue, with a corne
of salt, it will be a good preseruatiue in the time of the Plage,
& agaynst all poison. And the same beinge stamped & laye
to the bitiinge of a madd Dogge it healeth it, so doe
Nutmegges allso worke the like effecte.
25
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Transcriptions made by Shakespeare’s World volunteers (shakespearesworld.org), participants in EMROC classes and transcribathons (emroc.hypotheses.org), participants in Folger paleography classes and transcribathons, and Folger docents.