Escape, and Other Essays
Title: Escape and Other Essays Author: Arthur Christopher Benson Release Date: November, 2003 [Etext #4652] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on February 20, 2002] Edition: 10 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII The Project Gutenberg Etext of Escape and Other Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson ******This file should be named eoess10.txt or eoess10.zip****** Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, eoess11.txt VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, eoess10a.txt
_An approved Medicine for the running of the
Reines._
Make _Almond_ Milke of _Plantine_ water, or else boyle _Plantine_
in the liquor whereof you make your _Almond_ Milk, take a quart of
it, and put thereto three spoonfulls of _Lentive farine_, and three
spoonfulls of _Cinamon_ water, take of this at six in the morning, a
good draught, two hours before dinner another, at four of the
clock in the afternoon, a third, and two hours after supper a
fourth; and twice or thrice between meals, eat a spoonfull of
Conserve of Red _Roses_ at a time.
_Oyle of Almonds_.
Take _Almonds_, blanch them, and put them into a pot, and set
that pot in another pot of water that boyleth, and the steam of
the seething pot will arise and enter into the pot with the _Almonds_,
and that will become Oyle when they are stamped and wringed
through a cloath. Thus they make Oyle of the kernels of _Filberts,
Walnuts,_ &c.
_A Barley Cream to procure sleep, or Almond Milke._
Title: Escape and Other Essays Author: Arthur Christopher Benson Release Date: November, 2003 [Etext #4652] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on February 20, 2002] Edition: 10 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII The Project Gutenberg Etext of Escape and Other Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson ******This file should be named eoess10.txt or eoess10.zip****** Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, eoess11.txt VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, eoess10a.txt