macerate it in stagnant not running water for five days, if the weather is dry and the water hot,
Original French: le macerer en Eaue ſtagnãte non courante par cinq iours, ſi le temps eſt ſec, & l’eaue chaulde,
Modern French: le macerer en Eaue stagnante non courante par cinq jours, si le temps est sec, & l’eaue chaulde,
Notes
Le rouissage
Fiber hemp crops are harvested in late summer when they begin to flower, and then the stalks are bundled together and submerged in water to ret.
Loiseau, Léon, “Les chanvriers du Rhin”. G. Lallemamnd, illustrator. L’illustration: journal universel, v. 36, 1860. p. 356. Hathi Trust Digital Library
immersion du chanvre
Hanfwäscherinnen bei Gödöllö : hemp washers at Gödöllö in central Hungary.
Hörmann, Theodor von (1840–1895), Hanfwäscherinnen bei Gödöllö, um 1884. Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum, Linz. Wikimedia
naïser
To steepe, or soake (hempe) in water.
Cotgrave, Randle (–1634?), A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongue. London: Adam Islip, 1611. PBM
eaue chaude
Description du rouissage.
Rabelais, François (ca. 1483–1553), Œuvres complètes. Mireille Huchon, editor. Paris: Gallimard, 1994. p. 502, n. 5.