Digital Image File Name:
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123235
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Source Call Number:
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V.a.140
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Source Title:
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Receipt book [manuscript].
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Source Created or Published:
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compiled ca. 1600
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Physical Description:
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folio 46 verso || folio 47 recto
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Digital Image Type:
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FSL collection
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Hamnet Catalog Link:
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http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=231384
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Transcription:
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the effect confyrmed by examples I cann witnes that manye by this symple composicion
of eybright and fennell seedes haue found great good for
the sight, not onelye to contynue in good estate, but also
that somme haue founde remedye against the dymnes
and other ympeymentes growinge in their syght I
mett an olde man in Shropeshire called Mr Hoorde
about thage of 84. yeres, who had at that tyme
perfecte sight & did read smale lettres verye well without
spectacles: he tolde me that about thage of xltie
yeres, he fyndinge his sight to decaye, he did vse
eybright in ale for his drynke, and did also eat the
powder thereof in an egge three dayes in a weeke
beinge so taught of his father, whoe by the like order
conntynued his sight in good integrytye to a verye
longe age I haue harde the same confirmed by
manye old men. Rowland Shurlocke an Iryshe
man phisition to Quene Marye, did affyrme for
truethe that a Byshop in Irelande perceyvinge his
sight to wex dymme about his age of fyfty yeres by the
vse of eybright taken in pouder in an egg did lyve to
thage of fouerscore yeres with good integretye of sight.
drinkes more compounded for the sighte./ We doe read of manye drinkes to preserue the sight
compounded not of eybright onelye but of manye
mo good thinges added: so some put to yt sage, some
vervaine, some Celendyne, and fennell seedes, annisse
sedes & the forenamed spices others clecompane rootes
iris, gallingale & Cubebs & in truth all theis are
greatlye Comended to preserue the sight ^and mace very aptlye be put in drinke notwithstan=
dinge for that we are now to delyver a drynke
for the sight which may be pleasinge and allowed
with meate myne opynion is that the same ought
to be made as symple as may be for yf Galen
in his sixth booke de sanitate tenenda doth preferr
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the Composicion of the medycyne termed diatrion pipe= the moste compound not all wayes best
non which hathe fewest symples bycause (as he wrytethe)
that is soonest & with least troble to nature digested sure=
lye the drinckes for the sight which are Compounded with
fewest thinges are most to be Commended especiallye
when we meane to vse the same with meat, as all our
authors doe Councell. wherefore for my parte at this
[present] tyme I will onelye advise to haue for vse
eyther wyne, ale, or bere, accordinge to eche mans
best lykinge made as is before prescrybed with eybright
and fennell seedes, & to dryncke of the same in the
morning or if it so like with meat as other drinke.
It is holden better to drincke ofte & smale draughtes drinke often & smale draughtes
at meat for so meat & drynke will better myngle,
and the meat will lesse swymm in the stomacke which
geveth Cause of manye vapours to the hedd It is
affirmed not good to begynne the meale with drincke
but to eat somewhat before you drinck.
When you dryncke wyne if you meane to allay the/ When to myngle water with wyne
same with water it is best to myngle with the wyne
^fennell water or eybright water, And Montagnana dothe
Counsell to doe the same some reasonable tyme be=
fore you do drynke, & not presently when you drinke
as Comonly men doe.
Bread in our intention is to be made with fyne floure Bread
of Chosen wheat alwaye leavened & salter somwhat
more, then Comon bread, well wrought, thoroughly
baked, nor new nor olde, of aboute a daye or ij old past with fennell seedes
vnleavened bread is not accompted good and the
bredd is the better yf fennell seedes be wrought in
the paste to which purpose some doe cause cakes to
be made of some porcion of the dowe in which they
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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.
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