4.  In 20 Gallons of boiled and settled water, boil a quarter of an hour ten handfuls of sweet bryar-leaves, and as many of Cowslips.  Then let it cool and settle in wood, and take the clear; and to every four Gallons of Liquor, put one of honey, dissolving it as the others formerly set down.  Boil it, till no more scum rise, and that a fourth part be consumed.  Then clarifie it with whites of Eggs and their shells, and make it work with yest.  After sufficient working Tun it up, hanging it in a bag with Ginger, Cloves, Cinamon and Limon-peel.  Stop it very close, and after two or three moneths, draw it into bottles.

MY LADY MORICES MEATH

Boil first your water with your herbs.  Those she likes best, are, Angelica, Balm, Borage, and a little Rosemary (not half so much as of any of the rest) a handful of all together, to two or 3 Gallons of water.  After about half an hours boiling, let the water run through a strainer (to sever the herbs from it) into Woodden or earthen vessels, and let it cool and settle.  To three parts of the clear, put one or more of honey, and boil it till it bear an Egge, leaving as broad as a shilling out of the water, skiming it very well.  Then power it out into vessels, as before; and next day, when it is almost quite cold, power it into a Sack-cask, wherein you have first put a little fresh Ale-yest, about two spoonfuls to ten Gallons.  Hang it in a bag with a little sliced Ginger, but almost a Porengerfull of Cloves.  Cover the bung lightly, till it have done working; then stop it up close.  You may tap and draw it a year or two after.  It is excellent good.

MY LADY MORICE HER SISTER MAKES HER’S THUS: 

Dissolve your honey in the water till it bear an Egge higher or lower, according to the strength you will have it of.  Then put into it some Sea-wormwood and a little Rosemary, and a little Sage; about too good handfuls of all together, to ten Gallons.  When it hath boiled enough to take the vertue of the herbs, skim them out, and strew a handful or two of fine Wheat-flower upon the boyling Liquor.

This will draw all the dregs to it, and swim at the top, so that you may skim all off together.  And this she holdeth the best way of clarifying the Liquor, and making it look pale.  Then pour it into vessels as above to cool.  Let it stand three days; then Tun it up into a Sack cask without yest or Spice, and keep it stopped till it work.  Then let it be open, till it have done working, filling it up still with other honey-drink.  Then stop it up close for a year or two.  You may at first stop it so, that the strong working may throw out the stopple, and yet keep it close, till it work strongly.  She saith, that such a small proportion of wormwood giveth it a fine quick tast, and a pale colour with an eye of green.  The wormwood must not be so much, as to discern any the least bitterness in the