This is that the _Comfet-makers_
use and call _Sucket Candy_.
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_Of Grapes_.
_Syrupe Gresta, or a Syrupe of Unripe Grapes_.
Take a good basket full of unripe _Grapes_, set them three dayes
in a vessel after they be gathered, stamp them, and straine out
the juice out of them, take thereof six quarts, boyle it with a
soft fire till the third part be consumed then four quarts will remaine,
let that run through a woollen bagge, and stand till it be
clear in it selfe, then take of the clearest of it, seven pints, put
thereto five pound of Clarified _Sugar_, boyle them together to the
thicknesse of a Syrupe, and keep it in a glasse; it is good for a
perbreaking stomach, proceeding of Choller, and for a swelling
stomach, it taketh away thirst and drynesse, and chollerick _Agues_,
it is of great comfort to the stomach of Women being with child,
it is a preservative against all manner of Venome, and against the
Pestilence.
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*OF PURGES.*
_A Purge to drive out the French Pox, before
you use the Oyntment._
Take halfe a pint of good _Aqua vitae_, one ounce of _Treacle_ of
_Gene_, one quarter of an ounce of _Spermacaeti_, boyle all these together
on a soft fire halfe a quarter of an hour, and let the Patient
drink this as warme as he can, and lye downe in his bed, and
sweat, and if any of the Disease be in his body, this will bring it
forth, and bring him to an easie loosnesse; this is thought the
best and surest of all other Cures for this infirmity.
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