The closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight opened

Sage-flowers, Agrimony, Betony,and Thyme, ana, one handful. When it hath taken the strength of the herbs, strain it through a hair-sieve, and let it cool twenty hours. Then to three Gallons of the clear part of this decoction, put one Gallon of honey, and mingle it very well with your hand, till it bear an Egg the breadth of a groat. Then boil it and skim it as long as any scum will rise. Afterwards let it cool twenty four hours. Then put to it a small quantity of Ale-barm, and skim the thin-barm that doth rise on it, morning and evening, with a feather, during four days. And so put it up into your vessel, and hang in it a thin linnen bag with two Ounces of good White-ginger bruised therein : And stop it up close for a quarter of a year. Then you may drink it. ANOTHER Take a quart of honey to a Gallon of water ; set the Kettle over the fire, and stir it now and then, that the honey may melt ; let it boil an hour ; you must boil in it, a Sprig or two of Winter-savory, as much of Sweet-marjoram ; put it into tubs ready scalded, till the next day towards evening. Then tun it up into your vessel, let it work for three days ; after which hang a bag in the barrel with what quantity of Mace and sliced Nutmeg you please. To make it stronger then this, 'tis but adding more hony, to make it bear an Egg the breadth of a six pence, or something more. You may bottle it out after a month, when you please. This is the way, which is used in Sussex by those who are accounted to make it best. ANOTHER RECEIPT Take to every Gallon of Fountain-water a good quart of honey. Set the water on the fire, till it be pretty warm ; then take it off, and put it in your honey, and stir it till it be dissolved. Then put into every three Gallons, two handfuls of Thyme : two goodhandfuls of Strawberry-leaves, one handful of Organ ; one handful of Fennel-roots, the heart being taken out, and one handful of Parsley-roots the heart taken out : But as for the herbs, it must be according to the constitution of them, for whom the Mead is intended. Then set the Herbs in it on the fire, to boil for half an hour, still skimming it, as the scum riseth ; it must boil but half an hour ; then take it off the fire, and presently strain it from the herbs, and let it stand till it be fully cold ; then pour it softly off the bottom, and put it in a vessel fit for it, and put a small quantity of barm in it, and mingle it with it, and when it hath wrought up, which will be in three or four days, skim off that barm, and set on fresh : but the second barm must not be mingled with the Meath, but onely poured on the top of it. Take an Ounce of Nutmeg sliced : one Ounce of Ginger sliced : one Ounce of Cinnamon cut in pieces, and boil them a pretty while in a quart of White- wine or Sack : when this is very cold, strain it, and put the spices in a Canvas-bag to hang in your Meath, and pour in the Wine it was boiled in. This Meath will be drinkable, when it is a fortnight or three weeks old. TO MAKE METHEGLIN THAT LOOKS LIKE WHlTE-WlNE