then put them into warm water, put yeſt or barm to them, and cover them warm, & let them work three dayes as doth Beer, then diſtill them and they will yeeld their Spirit eaſily.
Take the whole Hearb with flowers, and roots, make it very clean: then bruiſe it in a Stone Morter, put it into a large Glaſs veſſell, ſo that two parts of three may be empty: then cover it exceeding cloſe, and let it ſtand in putrefaction in a moderate heat the ſpace of half a year, and it will be all turned into a water.
Take the foregoing water, and diſtill it in a gourd Glaſs (the joints being well cloſed) in aſhes, and there will come forth a Water and an Oil, and in the upper part of the veſſell will hang a volatile Salt. The Oil ſeparate from the Water, and keep by it ſelf; with the water purifie the volatile Salt by diſſolving, filtring, and coagulating. The Salt being thus purified imbibe with the ſaid Oil, untill it will imbibe no more, digeſt them well together for a month in a Veſſell hermetically ſealed. And by this means you ſhall have a moſt ſubtill eſſence, which being held over a gentle heat will fly up into the Glaſs, and repreſent the perfect Idea of that Vegetable whereof it is the eſſence.
When thou haſt made the water, and Oil of any Vegetable, firſt calcine (i) burn to aſhes the remainder of the Hearb; with the Aſhes make a Lye by pouring its own water thereon; when thou haft drawn out all the ſtrength of the Aſhes, then take all the Lye, being firſt filtred and vapour it away, and at the bottome thou ſhalt find a black Salt: which thou muſt take and
