dish, and being so dryed pull off the out side, and reserving the
inner part, or the seed, or keyes, beat them to fine powder, and
either mix it with good English honey, and so eat of it, first and
last, morning and evening, a pretty deale of it at once, upon the
point of a knife, or else drink of the powder in some posset Ale, or
thin broth. Mares milk, or Asses milk, which is best, being drunk
warm morning and evening, is the most soveraigne Medicine
for it.


_An excellent Medicine for the Cough of the Lungs._

Take _Fennell_ and _Angelica_ of each one handfull, the leaves in
Summer, roots in Winter, sliced figgs twelve, but if the body be
bound, twenty at least, green Licorice if you can, two or three
good sticks scraped and sliced, Anniseed cleaved and bruised, two
good spoonfulls, two or three Parsley roots scraped, and the pith
taken out, and twenty leaves of Foale-foot, boyle all these in
three pints of _Hysop_ water, to a pint and halfe, then straine it out
into a glasse, putting to it as much white _Sugar_-candy as will make
it sweet, drink hereof, being warmed, five spoonfulls at a time,
first in the morning, and last in the evening, taking heed that you
eat nor drink any thing two howres before nor after.

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_Of Violets._