This Book doth treat all of the best waters Artyfycialles/ and the virtues and properties of the same/ moche profitable for the poor sick, set forth, by sir Roger Becon friar.  
  

THe which treatise I have willed to write or a good & a loving zeal pity and compassion of godly disposition would that every person being diseased/ by the grace of god and of such medicines as hereafter in this little treatise more plainly shallbe declared, may the sooner find remedy to be cured and heeled of all bodily infyrmityes and sicknesses trusting than that all those in this wise recovering their health shall purchase such force and strength spiritual that they shall daily augment their merit and virtue to the laud & praise of God, where thorough at their departing their souls may be except to be of the number of those that shallbe saved/ now pray I unto almighty God, that he give me grace well to write and to compile this little treatise, & that it may be executed after a good purpose, and so may appear. And for asmuch that Gold is the most noble metal that is, I shall begin first to advise unto the water of Gold, the which is made after the manner that hereafter followeth.  
¶ In nomine dei Amen.   

TAke wedges of fine gold, well warmed in the Fire, and quench it xlii times within the water of a good well or Fountain. And the water strained and kept cleanly in a viol of glass, & let the diseased person drink it with wine or good ale after as the patient it requireth, the virtue & property of that water of gold is such that it is good unto the people that be hole, and also for them that be sick of the sickness, that men called, cardia pastio, for it exalteth & comforteth the heart marvelously it illumineth the spirits, and consumeth the superfluity, and comforteth the virtue contained in all the membres within forth, & much it availeth unto the flux of the womb, more than the water wherein iron is put, it availeth much unto the leprous, & unto them the which been ill disposed. Men make this water of gold, by science of Arquimie. But I put it not here for that, but that manner of making is moche harder, but I will speak no more of it at this time.   

¶ The water of the Flowers of rosemary.  
This water is of great, & marvelous virtue and hath many great properties in bodies humaines and sicknesses cold? it ratifieth the appetite and recomforteth the spirit and the heat natural, because of her good odour, wherein the soul taketh pleasure and gathereth the virtue of the membres together, it comforteth specially the brain, and all the membres synewed, and if a man wash his face with it, it maketh it fair, & if a man wash his heres it retaineth them and keepeth them from falling and multiplieth them, and the continuance and use of this water preserveth a man from the botch, and from all ill sickness it comforteth the substance of the heart, and also consumeth the phlegm, & melancholy, & maketh youth to purge, & who so shall continue this water withinforth & withoutforth he shallbe preserved long without corruption, and to wash his mouth often with water ratifyeth the teeth and the gums? it healeth the Canker, and of the fystures and ratifyeth the ill wounds and drieth them, it vaileth unto the Cardiacle passion that is to say, trembling of the heart and prohibiteth the vomiting, & it is good unto the flux of the womb & unto those that be benommed, as unto people the which tremble in their body, & unto relexation of worms, & driveth away all venom, as treacle and also aideth unto the mother of the belly of women and them preserveth of their Flowers, and the bain aideth moche to consceyve, and who so baineth him right often in the decocktion of this flower, he reneweth his youth as an aygler that is a thing right secret & right marvelous, & who so shall make it in the manner and fashion the which followeth. Fill ye a great viol or glass of the Flowers of rosemary and stop it above & afterward berry it deep with in the bank of the see, and let it lie thereby half a year in the season & time the whether is most hottest, and abide there the space of a month, and afterward it shall be turned in to water the which water must be strongly strained, & put in to another viol in the son, by the time or space of xl. days, this water shall sprinkle & have the sense as balm, it availeth moche to comfort the heart, and the brain and all the body, 'vaileth again the dibilyte and weakness of the sinews & taketh away the spots of the visage and keepeth the man in good state of youth and availeth against the sickness & tears of the eyes to put within them ii drops at a time, it ratyfyeth the member sleepy & benumbed, and also it healeth of the fistula, & also of the Canker where the other remedies profiteth nothing, and who so should make of the water brenning of wine of the decocktion with these flowers that should be a right excellent thing for the sicknesses abovesaid.   

¶ The water of red Roses.  
This water comforteth the heart and all the membres to dissolve, and they well dissolved, it restoreth them and because of her good odour aromatyque, & specially it comforteth the spirits, & the heat natural it prohibiteth the putrefaction in dyssentery and lyentery the which been fluxes of the womb bleeding, it comforteth the virtue retentive and it is good unto the feebleness of the heart and vomiting and again the sweet dyafortique, it maketh sweet and comforteth the gums and maketh to have good odour in the mouth and maketh to have ferme Flesh who so washeth him often with it, and putteth it with in his eyes with a little wine for the mondyfyeth and drieth, it comforteth the humodyte, and moistness superflue of the eyes, and in especial when a man putteth therein a little of thuthie prepared or a little of aloes and fine sugar, yet the said water with Sugar Candye put within the eyes cleanseth and mondifieth the substance without pain.   

¶ The water of betake.  
This hath many great properties for it breaketh the stone in the bledder and in the reins, it mondifyeth the breast and the lights, and healeth of the epilence, and driveth away the venom, & availeth unto the biting of a beast venomous, it availeth unto the strangulyon, and purgeth the phlegm of the stomach downward or by vomiting, and it availeth to the eructation ayger, it provoketh the urine and looseth the womb, it helpeth much the pain of the milt, it comforteth the stomach and aideth unto the dysgestion, & 'vaileth against the increasing of the blood, and against the pain of the Chynke, and of the rains, and also of the bledder & against the cold dropsy, it is good to cleanse the wounds of the heed, & to draw the bones broken out of the wounds, it is good for the pain of the teeth, and for the darkness of the eyes corcosyve, and unto the difficult of children, it keepeth from drunkenness and taketh away the fantasies of the people the which sourdeth of sickness, it is good for the pain of the womb, and for the pain podagre, & taketh away the venom of Dogs enraged, it is good for the pain of the ears, & for people that be deaf in what manner so ever it be, and for running eyes, & for the flux of blood of veins, and unto people the which sithen for the sickness of the stomach for vometing, & for the pain of the stomach and bytyngꝭ, and availeth to drink unto people weary of the fever quarteine, it is good for the paralysye swooning, and trembling of the membres, and availeth moche unto the pain of the womb, and for the swelling.   

¶ The water of plantain  
This water is moche abster, dry and incarnative, and it is very good for wounds corrosives, it is good for the stopping, it is good for the running out of the belly and fleeing of the guts in drinking, it worketh the opilations of the liver & of the milt making clean and killeth the inflammation of the blood and incarneth the Fistules & the other wounds, and preserveth from emoroides and it is good unto the ulceration of the mouth and unto the pain of the teeth unto the biting of a dog & unto the brenning of the Fire, and of hot water for the ulceration of the lights and unto the spitting and unto the fever tarcian.   

¶ The water of lettuce and of endive.  
This water is aparative of veins, and comforteth the liver, and maketh warm, and in especial it is good for the hot Apostumes, and unto flumes & maketh a man to sleep & it is good for the pollution in the night it is good for the jaundice, and unto the opelation of the lungs, and the milk of endive maketh clean the wounds that been in the rains of the back it availeth moche against the colere the which is within the stomach   

¶ The water of Fumetory.  
This water fortifieth the stomach and it mondifieth and provoketh the urine and availeth against the scab and infection, it purgeth the colere and mondyfyeth the blood of the humours adustes.   

¶ The water of balm.  
This water is very good for the stomach cold and moist and aideth unto the digestion and disgesteth the meet, it comforteth the heart and the brain & taketh away the ill thoughts and pouxes the which proceedeth of melancholy and humours adustes and availeth against the biting of a dog and Scorpion, and is good for the ache of the teeth, and suffocation in dreams and unto extortion of the belly, & resolveth the lungs.   

¶ The water of Elder.  
The water of the leaves, flowers and roots of elder altogether comforteth the heart of the man, and marvelously it mondifieth & maketh clean the blood and taketh away the melancholy, and it healeth the brain the which is infect of humours melancolyes, & it endureth and healeth the fools enraged in the continuance & it is good to hele the scab and of the lepre.   

¶ The water of Elder and of Buglose.  
The water of Elder and of buglose made by equal parties is much marvelous unto people melancholious and unto people the which hath trembling of the heart and the brenning of the geder, it taketh away the heaviness and giveth gladness and maketh the man to be of good reason & of good understanding, but in this cause he should put the flowers of buglose and of elder, and red roses, mingled together, as much of the one as of the other.   

¶ The water of Garlic.  
This water openeth the oppilations of the liver, and of the milt, and of the rains, and preserveth the man from the passion colleryke and ventouse it taketh away the blaking of the stomach and ratifyeth the digestion, it increaseth the deed unto norysshes, and taketh away the pain of the reins, caused of Uentosytie, and purgeth the gravel, and maketh the pain suddenly to cease, and it maketh good colour unto those that doth use it.   

¶ The water of red sods called Archangel mountain.  
This water hath many great properties to provoke the man, and to mondifie and make clean the reins and the bladder of the gravel, and it availeth unto the ulcerations of the reins, unto people the which piss blood.   

¶ The water of hearts tongue cycore endive, all together by equal portions with the root of peccylle.  
This water is much marvelous unto the opelation of the liver, and of the milt, and healeth the iaunders when a man will drink of it, him behoveth to put thereto of fine sugar and it may be drunk with wine at his repasts, and it is proved.   

¶ The water of Fenell.  
The water of Fenell is given unto the obscurity and darkness of the eyes unto the dropsy, and unto the lytarge, and it availeth against venom, & purgeth the reins and the bladder of gravel, it provoketh the man and maketh the flourꝭ come unto the woman, it subtilieth the fat humours, & provoketh the deed unto women, and unto man the sperm, and also it taketh away the will to vomit, and helpeth the stomach.   

¶ The water of Cuffrurie mountain.  
This water is marvelous good, to comfort the sight and to recover it if it be possible and in especial unto people flumatyques, & unto aged people, the which it shall compose together with Ueruene, rue, Roses, and Celydoyne. This shallbe a right marvelous good water, to conserve to comfort, and to repair the sight.   

¶ The water of Hyssop dry.  
The water of Hyssop dry maketh clean the reins, and the breast, and the longs of the matter gross Fleumatyque, and vystose is much good unto the cough the which proceedeth of the coldness, and of moistness, it clarifieth the voice, and availeth moche unto those the which falleth of the falling evil, and it is called in latin aperylentia.   

¶ The water of horuid.  
This water healeth of the strangury, and profiteth moche for to gendre, and multiply the people.   

¶ The water of sauge.  
This water is good unto all sicknesses cold, of the sinews, as been the Palsy, the trembling of the members swoluning, epilensye and such like sicknesses, & it is good unto the Revolution of the gums, and of the pain of the teeth, and when they chellen, and it is good unto the sickness of the stomach cold, and unto the mother of the womb, as is suffocation of the mother, and also this water may be used within forth in drinking, & without forth in washing & by other manners the which been after the discretion of him, or of her, the which doth use it.   

¶ The water of the roots and leaves of Bresyll and of fire.  
This water looseth the womb and openeth the opilations of the milt and healeth the dropsy, yposarque and taketh away the swelling of the feet.   

¶ The water strong is in latin inchium.  
This water strong is of right great and marvelous virtue, excellently above all the other. For it killeth the worms & dissolveth the work, consumeth the rotten humours within the body, in the places and conduits secrets, and because of some virtue written, it comforteth where been the rotonesses, and it is opening and comforting the stomach, and it cleanseth the ordures, and openeth the opilations of the milt and of the liver, and it availeth to recover the speech, and against the venom, it comforteth the sight, warmeth the stomach, and refresheth the liver it provoketh the urine, and the flowers unto women, and resisteth unto the venom of oputhe bayci, and of iusquiavim, and of all other of this nature, and it is good unto people death wounded when the surgiens' washeth their wounds they keep it for enfestring and engendering of ill flesh it availeth against the epydymye, & against airs pestilencial it taketh away the will to vomit, and availeth unto swellings, and pains of the membres, and unto the palsy, & taketh away the fleelling from the tongue, and delivereth in making gargarism.   

¶ The water of Quyns apples and of red Roses.  
This water drunk with good red wine comforteth the stomach affirmeth the womb.   

¶ The water of Malous.  
This water of cold and moist, & maketh soft the womb and is alteratyve of these opostumes hot, and it maketh soft the durter, it provoketh the flux unto women.   

¶ The water of scabious.  
This water is consumptyve and dissolutyve, & is good unto the scab, or breaking out, or lepre, and serpigine impectigne, and unto the dreadful & unto the amoureus.   

¶ The water of Saxifrage.  
This water breaketh the stone in the reins and in the bledder, and provoketh the urine, and is good unto pensiveness and thought.   

¶ The water of mints.  
This water is much consumptyve dyssolutyve, and comfortative, & availeth moche against the opilations of the liver, and of the milt, and of the conduits of the urine, and unto the stinking of the mouth, and of the gums and pricketh the appetite to eat & to vomit and is good unto the failing of the heart, it mondyfyeth the mother of the womb, & it dissolveth the milk quailed in the breasts, it availeth against the venon and sleyth the worms, and is good against the cough, the muries cold and tenme cold, it provoketh the urine, and prohibiteth the cold of ●●entes drouken one hour before with good treacle.   

¶ The water of Radesshe.  
This water is subtylatyve, appertyve, abstersive mondyfycatyve, and provocative of the urine, and availeth against the storgyne, ympectygive, and taketh away the humour from the membres, modyfyed of the breast, and maketh clear the voice and subtyleth the gross humours the which been in the breast, and in the longs, it is good unto the biting of the Scorpion, and slayeth the Scorpions and availeth unto Fever quartain and unto the dropsy, and unto the jaundice, it breaketh the stone, and availeth against the biting venomous, resolveth the humours, the which been in the corner of the eye, and taketh away the pympylles from the bysage, it resolveth les quantity and the syvelling of the milt, it provoketh the flowers unto women, and is good unto them the which hath eaten fruits venomous.   

The water of purslane.  
This water is vyscose and contractyve of the flux of the belly, it taketh away the stinging of the teeth and availeth unto the stinking blood, & apostumes hoot, and unto the burning of the stomach, and upon the calefation of the liver, and of the alteration of the guts, and unto the flux of the mother, it weketh the sight and lettings above the head, and prohibyteth the frenasye.   

The water of howsleke.  
This water is much cold and repercustive of apostumes hot of abulatyves, it suageth the pain of the podagre hot, & availeth moche unto the brenning of fire with oil rosat, and unto the pain of the heed and slayeth the nyttes, and is much good unto the flux of the womb and unto the ulcerations of the guts, & prohibiteth the frenasye.   

¶ The water of Bursa pastoris.  
This water is stytyque, and repercusyve, and availeth moche unto apostumes hot at the beginning, it consolydeth, and incarneth the wounds fresh and bleeding, and it availeth moche unto the pain of the ears, and drieth the filth of the ears, and availeth moche unto the ulcerations of the guts, and unto the flux of the neze, & to the flux of blood of what place soever it springeth out it prohibiteth the frenasye.   

¶ The water of the flourdelyce and of the leaves.  
This water is much aftersi●e, and much mondificatyve, and availeth moche unto serpygne, and ympertygyne melled with honey, and it maketh the visage fair and clear, and hands in washing them, it maketh also the visage moche roddy, and taketh away the spots from the visage, it provoketh the fleures unto the women, and taketh away the hardness of the mother from the belly, it incarneth the wounds that been rot and availeth unto the brenning of the fire, and biting venomous.   

¶ The water of lilies.  
This water erevoketh the sleep and consumeth the shakynges, and dybylytie of the membres, and wasteth, and taketh away the pollutions noctournes, and is good for the cough, and weeping eyes, it maketh soft the womb and availeth unto the Flux of the womb ancyan, and unto the ulcerations of the guts, it resolveth the Apostumes of the milt and availeth moche unto nosu●● whyghte.   

This is all one.  
This water is dyssolutyve, and subtylatyve, and availeth moche unto the scalle and scab of the head, and keepeth thee hairs from falling, it maketh clean the breast, and the lights, from great humours, and breaketh the stone, and is good for the jaundice, and it dissolveth the estrophules and maketh clean the stomach, and guts of the superfluities, & colerykes.   

The water for the Gout.  
Take the flesh of a fox, and cut it right small, & distil it in a stylletory, and rub ye the sick body there with, for it is a sovereign remedy.   

The water of the grain of Geneper.  
This water is much subtylatyve apertive, and mondyfycative, and availeth moche to make clean the ulcers sordibus, it provoketh the urine, and the fleures unto women, & maketh the enfante deed within the womb of the mother, to avoid out and chaseth away the venom, and the beast venomous, bayneth them in the decocktion of the seed of broom it availeth moche unto the pain of the mother of the womb and atrition of worms.   

¶ For to please, and for to make these women to seem more fairer, & younger unto their husbands, and for to keep them from going in to fornication, and advoutre, it is suffered to use of some waters the which maketh the visage fair and white, and of these waters, I shall put here the which been called simples and of other composed and made.  
These simple waters been of the ●●oures of be●es, waters of the seed of melos, waters of the flower of elder, water of the flower delice, water of the rote of Yris, & of Dragontyne and of the rote of sygilon salmonis.  
¶ Thus endeth these waters.   

¶ The Table of this present Book.  
The Prologue. 
primo.  In nomme dei. Amen. 
two.  ¶ The water of the flowers of Roosemarye. 
iii.  ¶ The water of red rooses. 
iiii.  ¶ The water of betake. 
v.  ¶ The water of plantain. 
vi.  ¶ The water of lettuce & endive. 
seven.  ¶ The water of Fumetory. 
viii.  ¶ The water of Balm. 
ix.  ¶ The water of Elder. 
x.  ¶ The water of elder & buglose. 
xi.  ¶ The water of Garlic. 
xii.  ¶ The water of red sods called archangel mountain. 
xiii.  ¶ The water of hearts tongue cycore endive all together by equal portions with the rote of percylle. 
xiiii.  ¶ The water of Fenell. 
xv.  The uva. of cuffrurie mountain. 
xvi.  ¶ The water of Hyssop dry. 
xvii.  ¶ The water of Horuid. 
xviii.  ¶ The water of Sauge. 
nineteen.  ¶ The water of the roots and leaves of Bresyll and offyrre. 
xx.  ¶ The water strong is in latin inchium. 
xxi.  ¶ The water of Quyns' Apples and of red Rooses. 
xxij.  ¶ The water of Malous. 
xxiii.  ¶ The water of scabyoule. 
xxiiii.  ¶ The water of Saxifrage. 
xxv.  ¶ The water of Mints. 
xxvi.  ¶ The water of Radesshe. 
xxvii.  ¶ The water of purslane. 
xxviii.  ¶ The water of howselyke. 
xxix.  ¶ The water of bursa pastorꝭ. 
thirty.  ¶ The water of the flourdelyce. 
xxxi.  ¶ The water of lilies. 
xxxii.  ¶ The water for the gout. 
xxxiii.  ¶ The water of the grain of Geneper. 
xxxiiii.   
¶ Thus endeth the xxxiiii. water's Artificials.   

¶ Imprinted by me Robert ●●●●r