Else you will make an Electuary to choke Daws with.

Electuarum Diaspermatum - Fernel.

Take of the Four Greater and Four Lesser Cold Seeds, the seeds of Sparagus, Burnet, Basil, Parsley, the berries of Winter Cherries, of each two drachms; Gromwell (I suppose the seeds), juice of Liquoris, of each three drachms; Cinnamon, Mace, of each one dram; White Sugar dissolved in distilled Water of Marshmallows, eight times their weight.

Make them an Electuary according to art.

It breaks the stone, and provokes urine. 

Men may take half an ounce at a time, and children half so much, in water of any herbs or roots etc., or decoction of them, that break the stone, which the last catalogue in the Book will furnish you with. I delight to have men studious. 

A Pectorial Electuary - August.

Take of the juice of Liquoris, Sweet Almonds, Hazel Nuts, of each half an ounce; Pine Nuts, an ounce; Hyssop, Maidenhair, Orris, Nettle seeds, Round Birthwort, of each a drachm and a half; Black Pepper, the seeds of Watercress, the roots of Elicampane, of each half a drachm; Honey, fourteen ounces.

Make them up into an electuary according to art.

It strengthens the stomach and lungs, and helps the vices thereof. 

Take it with a Liquoris stick. 

Micleta - Nicholaus.

Take of all the Myrobalans, of each two drachms and a half; the seeds of Watercress and Fennel, Cumin, Bishop's Weed, Annis, Caraway, of each one dram and a half.

Let them all be bruised and sprinkled with sharp White Wine Vinegar, then beaten into powder. After, add these things following: Spodium, Pomegranate flowers (Baulaustins), Sumac, Mastic, Gum Arabic, of each one dram and fifteen grains. Let them all be mixed with three times their weight of Syrup of Myrtles boiled to the thickness of Honey (i.e. ten ounces more or less); make them up into an electuary according to art. 

It gently eases the bowels of the wind cholic, wringing of the guts, infirmities of the spleen; it stops fluxes, the haemorrhoids, as also the terms in women. 

Theriaca Diatessaron - Mesue.

Take of Gentian (the roots, I suppose, are intended), Bay Berries, Myrrh, Round Birthwort, of each two ounces; Honey, two pound. 

Mix them together, and make them a electuary according to art.

You must beat them into powder before you mix them with the Honey, else you will make an electuary to choke Daws with. 

This is a gallant electuary, like the author. It wonderfully helps cold infirmities of the brain as convulsions, falling sickness, dead palsies, shaking palsies etc., as also the stomach, as pains there, wind, want of digestion, as also stoppings of the liver, dropsies. It resists the pestilence and poisons, and helps the bitings of venomous beasts.

The dose is from half a drachm to two drams, according to the age and strength of the patient, as also the strength of the diseases. You may take it wither in the morning, or when urgent occasion calls for it. 

Mathiolus his Great Antidote against Poison and Pestilence.

Take of Rhubarb, Rue Pontic, Valerian roots, the roots of Acorus or Calamus, Aromaticus, Cyperus, Cinquefoil, Tormentil, Round Birthwort, Male Peony, Alicampane, Costus, Illyric, Orris, White Chamelion or Avens, of each three drachms; the roots of Galanga, Masterwort, White Dictamni, Angelica, Yarrow, Filipendula or Dropwort, Zedoary, Ginger, of each two drachms; Agric, three drams; Rosemary, Gentian, Devil's Bit, of each two drams and a half; the seeds of Citrons and Agnus, Castus, the berries of Kermes, the seeds of Ash Tree, Sorrel, Wild Parsnips, Navew, Nigella, Peony the Male, Basil, a Hedge Mustard, Treacle Mustard, Fennel, Bishop's Weed, of each two drams; the berries of Bay, Juniper and Ivy, Sarsaparilla, or for want of it the double weight of Cubebs (I think they mean that by Smilex aspera), Cubebs, of each one dram and a half; the leaves of Scordium, Germander, Chamepytis, Centaury the Less, Stoechas, Celtic Spikenard, Calaminth, Rue, Mints, Betony, Vervain, Scabious, Carduus Benedictus, Bawm, of each one drachm and a half; Dittany of Crete, three drams; Marjoram, St John's Wort, Schoenanth, Horehound, Goat's Rue, Savin, Burnet, of each two drachms; Figs, Walnutsm Fistic Nuts, of each three ounces; Emblics, Myrobalans, half an ounce; the flowers of Violets, Borrage, Bugloss, Roses, Lavender, Sage, Rosemary, of each four scruples; Saffron, three drachms; Cassia, Lignea, ten drachms; Cloves, Nutmegs, Mace, of each two drams and a half; Black Pepper, Long Pepper, all the three sorts of Sanders, wood of Aloes, of each one dram and a half; Hart's Horn, half an ounce; Unicorn's Horn, or in its stead Bezoar Stone, one drachm; Bone of a Stag's Heart, Ivory, Stag's Pizzle, Castorium, of each four scruples; Earth of Lemnos, three drams; Opium, one dram and a half; Orient Pearls, Emerald, Jacinth, Red Coral, of each one dram and a half; Camphire, two drams; Gum Arabic, Mastic, Frankincense, Styrax, Turpentine, Sagapenum, Opopanax, Laserpitium or Myrrh, of each two drams and a half; Musk, Ambergris, of each one drachm; Oil of Vitriol, half an ounce; Species cordiales temperarae (see the way to make these in their proper places), Diamargariton, Diamosen, Diambra, Electuarii de Gemmis, Troches of Camphire, of Squils, of each two drams and a half; Troches of Vipers, two ounces; the juice of Sorrel, Sow Thistles, Scordium, Viper's Bugloss (Ecchium), Borrage, Bawm, of each half a pound; Hypocistus, two drams; of the best Treacle and Mithridate, of each six ounces; old Wine, three pound; of the best Sugar or choice Honey (A wise man will take Honey), eight pound six ounces.

These being all chosen and prepared with diligence and art, let them be made into an electuary, just as treacle or Mithridate is. 

The title shows you the scope of the author in compiling it. I believe it is excellent for those uses; I want time to examine what alterations the College has made in it, or whether any or none, for particular virtues (to avoid tautology), I refer you to his Bezoar Water (page 40). 

The dose of this is from a scruple to four scruples, or a dram and a half.

It provokes sweating abundantly, and in this or any other sweating medicine, order your body thus: Take it in bed, and cover yourself warm; in your sweating, drink posset drink as hot as you can. 

If it be for a fever, boil Sorrel and Red Sage in the posset drink; sweat an hour or two, if your strength will bear it, then the chamber being kept very warm, shift yourself all but your head, about which - you cap which you sweat in being kept on - wrap a hot napkin, which will be a means to repel the vapours back.

This I, for present, hold the best method for sweating in fevers and pestilences, in which this electuary is very good.