Old English is difficult for me too. I found this translation.
The first recipe sure does make a lot!
To make Mead.
To five quarts of honey, put sixty quarts of water, eighteen races of sliced ginger, and one handful of rosemary; let them boil three hours, and be scummed perpetually; when it is cold put your yeast to it, and it will be fit to bottle in eight or ten days.
2] Or, take four gallons of water, and six pounds of honey, and the whites of three or four eggs; boil it and skim it, and then put two ounces of beaten ginger, and a little lemon peel; let it boil almost half an hour, then strain it, and when cold put to it a little yeast; and when it is white over, tun it up. At three weeks end bottle it up, and in ten days it will be fit to drink.
