When you haue thus done, then make a gentle fyre at the firste vnder it, but after increase the fire or heate more and more, vntill certaine white smoakes appeare in the head of the glasse bodye, which do you workemanlye coole and turne into water, by the wettyng of lynnen clothes in colde water, and layed on the heade and nose, towarde the receiuer, for that turneth into a water so red as bloud: and being all come, putte it into another glasse, stopping the mouth close, whiche let stande so long, vntil the water become verye cleare, and in coloure to the Rubie. Now being on this wise, distill the same againe in _Balneo Mariæ_, and so often repeate this, vntill you haue distilled it sixe or seauen times ouer, that the coloure be chaunged, and in the ende, to the coloure of golde. Whiche then is moste pleasaunt of sauoure, and so swéete, that nothing maye be compared like to it, in flagrantnesse of smell. The Quintessence doeth dissolue golde, prepareth it apte to be drunke, and any Iewell put into the water, it doth also dissolue the same. Also this is named the Blessed Water, in that giuing to any two or thrée drams to drinke, being at the point of death, doth so sodainely recouer the person againe, as doeth the Quintessence of wine. And washing any grieuous wounde or stripe with the water, doeth in shorte time heale the same. Also this pretious water doth maruellously help the cough, the Rheume, the disease of the Splen, and many other diseases, whiche woulde scarcely be beléeued. The water also ministred daily vnto a person sicke of the Palsey, for the space of .xlvj. daies, he was by the mightie helpe of God, & this miraculous water, throughly healed of the disease. Also this Quintessence doth helpe the falling sicknesse, and preserueth the bodye from putrifying, so that by al those we maye learne, that thys is rather a diuine water from Heauen (and sente from God) to serue vnto all ages. ¶ The manner of drawing and making Waxe of the Honny combes. Cap.xxxiiij.