Another Plague-water. #2

Ingredients

• Rue, Agrimony, Wormwood, Celandine, Sage, Balm, Mugwort, Dragons, Pimpernel, Marigold, Fetherfew, Burnet, Sorrel, Scabious, Wood-betony, brown May-weed, Mints, Avence, Tormentil, Carduus Benedictus — like weight of all
• Elecampane-roots scraped and sliced small (but half as much as of the rest)
• Rosemary, twice as much as of any of the rest
• Angelica if you will
• the best White-wine, no more than will cover the herbs well

Method

1. Take Rue, Agrimony, Wormwood, Celandine, Sage, Balm, Mugwort, Dragons, Pimpernel, Marigold, Fetherfew, Burnet, Sorrel, and Elecampane-roots scraped and sliced small, Scabious, Wood-betony, brown May-weed, Mints, Avence, Tormentil, Carduus Benedictus, and Rosemary as much as any thing else, and Angelica if you will.
2. You must have like weight of all them, except Rosemary aforesaid, which you must have twice as much of as of any of the rest; then mingle them all together and shred them very small;
3. then steep them in the best White-wine you can get three days and three nights, stirring them once or twice a day, putting no more Wine then will cover the herbs well;
4. then still it in a common still, and take not too much of the first water, and but a little of the second, according as you feel the strength, else it will be sour.
5. There must be but half to much Elecampane as of the rest.

Notes

• Warns that over-drawing the still turns the water sour.