A Copie of Doctor Steevens water. #1

Ingredients

• a gallon of Gascoigne wine
• Ginger, Galingale, Camamill, Cinamon, Graines, Cloves, Mace, anyseedes, Fennell seedes, Carraway seedes, of every of them one dramme (that is two pence halpenny waight)
• Suger minced
• red Roses, Time, Pellitorie of the wall, Wilde Margerum, Peniryall, Penimountain, wilde Time, Lavender, avens, of every of them one handfull

Method

1. Take a gallon of Gascoigne wine, then take Ginger, Galingale, Camamill, Cinamon, Graines, Cloves, Mace, anyseedes, Fennell seedes, Carraway seedes, of every of them one dramme, that is two pence halpenny waight, then take Suger minced, red Roses, Time, Pellitorie of the wall, Wilde Margerum, Peniryall, Penimountain, wilde Time, Lavender, avens, of every of them one handfull,
2. then beate the spice small, and bruse the hearbes, and put all to the wine, and let it stand twelve houres, stirring of it divers times
3. then still it in a Limbecke, and keepe the first pinte of water by it selfe, so it is best, then will come a second water, which is not so good as the first.
4. The vertue of this water is this: It comforteth the spirites, and preserveth greatlye the youth of man, and helpeth inwardes diseases comming of colde, against the shaking of the Palsey, it cureth the contraction of sinewes... And who so useth this water now and then and not too often, it preserveth him a good liking, and shall make him seem yong very long.

Notes

• Caryl elides a long list of virtues in the original.