Take three ounces of hartshorn, shaved and boiled in borage water, or succory water, rose, or lettuce water; or three pints of any of these waters boiled to a jelly, and put the jelly and hartshorn both into the still; and add a pint more of these waters when you put it in to the still; take the roots of ellicampane, gentian, cyprus-roots, of each an ounce; of blessed thistle, call'd carduus, and angelica, of each an ounce; of sorrel roots two ounces; of balm, of sweet marjoram, of burnet, of each half an handful; lily-convally flowers, borage blossoms, rosemary and marigold flowers, of each two ounces; of citron-rinds, carduus seeds and citron seeds, of alkermes-berries and cochineal, of each of these an ounce.
Prepare all these Simples thus.
Let the flowers be gathered as they come in season, and put them in glasses with a large mouth, and put with them as much good sack as will cover them, and tie up the glasses close with bladders wet in the sack, with a cork and leather tied upon it close; adding more flowers and sack as occasion is; and when one glass is full, take another, till you have your quantity of flowers to distil; put cochineal into a pint bottle, with half a pint of sack, and tie it up close with a bladder under the cork, and another on the top wet in sack, tied up close with brown thread; and then cover it up close with leather, and bury it standing upright in a bed of hot horse-dung for nine or ten days; look at it, and if dissolved, take it out of the dung, but don't open it till you distil; slice all the roses, beat the seeds and the alkermes berries, and put them into another glass; amongst all, put no more sack than is necessary; and when you intend to distil, take a pound of the best Venice treacle, and dissolve it in six pints of the best white wine, and three of red rose-water, and put all the ingredients into a bason, and stir them all together, and distil them in a glass still, (balnea Mariae) don't open the ingredients till the same day you distil.