both within and without Inwardly as it is suckt into the lungs those panting bellows so naturally contrived to keep the bosie furnace of the heart boiling then it communicates its qualities to the very fountain of life next to the blood and so universally to the whole body Outwardly as it beats continually upon the superficiall skin and causes roughnesse chaps and sundry other accidents according to its severall constitution So that great care is to be taken to preserve the body from the impressions of an ill disposed aire whether too moist or too dry too hot or too cold For an aire too moist will soon wash off natures paint and if ladies live too long in foggs it is the readie way to staine their damask skins The lillies and roses of the cheeks will fade rather then flowrish if too much water'd and Venus her self though borne in Neptunes watery pallace would never be nurst there fearing the tender plants of beauty would never thrive in that liquid soile Wherefore I can scarce approve the practice of some Ladies who to allay the petty exorbitancie of a ruddie colour in the evenings wherein damp mists and dews fall expose their naked breasts and faces to Cynthia's moistening rays as if the moon because pale her self would make them so or her spitting in the face were to scoure it Certainly beauty never consents that Laundresse should whiten her livery who uses no other sope then her own foggie excrements Such practises I confesse since they occasion rheums catarrhs and distillations may make the face white or pallid but never faire or handsome So on the contrarie an aire too dry doth so wrinkle and chap the skin our native shirt that nature or art can scarce ever work it with a beautiful embroidery Next a bleake and piercing aire is a mortall enemy to a lovely complexion it makes the skin rough constipates the pores and hinders the exhalation of the excrements and these lying betwixt the skin and the flesh do exceedingly vitiate the complexion making it livid and dull So that those Ladies are to be reproved that goe with their breasts bare and naked in the midst of frost and snow Those swelling mounts where Cupid makes his nest should have a warmer covering then a snowie fleece for feare those milkie fountaines may be curdled with a chilly cold and he forc'd to shift for fairer lodgings Neither is the contrary extream of heat lesse prejudiciall to a faire and tender skin it tempts the blood to the externall parts and there tanns it into a wainscot hew Be carefull Ladies then not to expose your beauty to a parching heat for feare you soon bewaile your rash attempt in the sable vaile of a sootie skin Therefore if it be in your power to choose an aire to better your complexions make choice of a seat somewhat raised that it be not exposed to the inconveniences of fogs and mists which too frequently pester the lower habitations let it be sheltered round with pleasant woods and groves which may fence you from the blew impressions of a pinching Boreas and in the Summer secure you that Sol with his amorous beames shall not kiss your beauty away But in this election of aires regard is to be had to the constitution of the person for those whose cheeks are tinctur'd with a deeper blush ought to choose a cooler and those whose lillie features seem wan and pallid a hotter place yet with this caution that they expose themselves to no heat or cold but what is moderate for extremity of cold too violently repels the blood inward and excesse of heat draws it too much out In the next place moderation either in sleeping or waking conduces much to the preservation of a comely face Excessive sleep makes the body dull and heavie the colour pale swarthie and livid for it is easie toâ— know Morpheus's sluggish votaries by those sullied impressions his leaden heels leave in their fleshie robes So on the other side watching over much spends the spirits exceedingly dries the moisture of the body and if you make it a frequent custome to extend it to unusuall periods it will scarce leave ye Ladies blood enough to crimson your cheeks with a vermilion blush for the losse of your beauty What hath been said of sleeping and watching may rationally be interpreted of repose and exercise for repose is but a waking sleep and exercise a more active watching If any love their ease too much they soon contract the rust of idlenesse which will surely ironmould the finest skin and they that exercise immoderately quickly were out beauties silken livery and when once ye come Ladies to weare deformities home spun garments you are quite broke for beauties for none will think you worth the looking after and your whole stock of features will hardly procure any to lend you an eye How much evacuation or retention of the excrements either promote or hinder a good complexion you will easily imagine if you consider that the reaking entrails are the bodies sinke which if it be not duely cleans'd and scour'd affects the face with such noisome exhalations that the squeamish Queen of love will never be wonne upon to make it her court of residence The perturbations and unruly possions of the mind do offer greater violence to the features then any thing else their impetuous motions raise an earthquake in the lesser world which ruines the stately structure of Cupids palace Griefe is the moth of Beauty it frets out the characters of natures fairest Orthography wearing off those ruddie and carnation flourishes which her skilfull pencill drew it makes the face a discolourable blank and renders those who over much indulge it so wannish and pale that they seem but walking shrouds to carry themselves to their own shadie sepulchers Anger is beauties burning feaver which fieres the furnace of the heart with too scortching flames that bake the exteriour features into a brownbread swarthinesse and it would be strange should such course fare ever feast spectators eyes Feare congeals the blood and baths the body in a chilly sweat which often enlivens the haire to an active though frightfull erection but never clears the skin nay it does your beautie more mischiefe then if you should intoxicate your selves with Circe's bewitching potion for the worst this could do would be to make ye handsome beasts but feare causes a more frightfull metamorphosis and makes ye foule deformed women Lastly melancholy is a sullen humoursome spirit that raises tempests in the very center of the body which overcloud the face with griefe and wrinkle the forehead before Thirty it makes that Ladie whom it once overcomes to be out of love with the whole world and beauty to be out of love with her while she thinks her selfe weary of other mens eyes other men finding little worth their sight are as weary of viewing her they soon perceive that beauty transplanting her maiden lillies and ruddie roses to some more courted
presents an inventory of of its best directions so often prov'd that I presume any course skin'd Ladie who will be so much her own friend to use them may soon be freed from doing pennance in natures sackcloth Take peeld Almonds six pound mastick prepard ceruse and gum dragant of each four ounces the whites of 4 eggs pound all together very carefully let it stand 5 or 6 days pounding it every day once then put them in a presse and keep the oile that comes forth to anoint the skin withall Take hempseed pound it small moisten it with a little aqua vitae then heat it in a frying pan made very clean so hot that you cant endure to touch afterward put it into a bag and presse it the oile that comes from it is exceeding good for the roughnesse of the skin Anoint any part that is too rough with oile of rape seed or bitter almonds or oile of wheat Or take sweet almonds cleansed and peeled foure pound moisten them with the spirit of wine rose water mixt together of each one ounce beat them together and fry them when they begin to smoke put them in a bag so presse them and there will come forth an oile very cleare which you must put into a pot of raine water and beat it together til it become exceeding white then keep it as a rare secret to smooth and pollish the skin CHAP. VI. How to cleans the sweatie and sluttish Complexion THE microcosme through the sordid sluttishnesse of some is often drownd in a nastie deluge of sweat out a designe perhaps to take Cupid captive and birdlime his wings with such clammie excrements but if they have no other tempting bait then the greasie pomatum which their own ill stuff'd bodies supply them with I am afraid though being blind he cannot see them he 'l smell them a mile off and so keep his distance They would doe much better to break off this petty plot upon Cupid and scour their bodies well with these abstersives Take bryony roots half a handfull serpentary the lesse or friars Coule pellitory of the wall elecampane of each three ounces whole beanes rice white vetches French barly of each two ounces and a half flowers of camomile melilot of each one handfull Boile all these together in raine water receive the fume up in the face If you would have it for your whole body double the quantities boile them powre them forth into a bath set a stoole in the bath cast a sheet over you and so receive the vapoure Vnguentum Citrinum is of great efficacy to help this distemper if you adde thereto a little sublimate carefully prepared or a little white hellebore finely powdred The fumes of the decoction of the shavings of Guajacum is exceeding good Take bean meale white vetches sweet almonds blanched gum dragant bryony roots of each half an ounce pound them a part then mix them and incorporate them with whites of egs make them up into little balls When you have occasion to use them dissolve them in barly water and bath the skin therewith going to bed next day wash with water wherein the finest flower hath been steept Take the roots of serpentary sliced dry them in the sun powder and sift them next incorporate them with rose water into a past dry them againe in the sun and powder them then adde a third part of ceruse prepared so as is directed in the 2. part c. 1. then worke all together with rose water dry them in the sun and at last bring it with beating it in a morter to a very fine powder When you would use it mix it with the juice of limmons and so make it into a liniment for a sweatie part Take barly half ripe two pound goats milke three pints the whites of a dozen eggs mix and distil them in balneo maris then use it Or take sifted bran the best leaven two pound as much vinegar as shall be requisite the whites of eight eggs mingle them and make it into a paste then distil it in B. M. Take thirty Snails prepared a quart of Goats milk hogs suet three ounces camfre poudred two drams beat them together and distil them in an Alembick The sluttishness and sweat of the skin may proceed either from an external cause as negligence to wipe and cleanse the face from that filth and ordure which may be ingendred by the aire or any other accident and then there needs no more to beautifie it than a constant washing and rubbing it Or from an internal as fuliginous vapours dâ—â—ain'd betwixt the Cutis and Epidermis by reason of its density This is the more frequent cause and for the more general cure of it the body must throughly be purged of those humors which produce such excrements and for topical applications you are to use such things as are set down in this Chapter Or you may scour and cleanse the body with water wherein fine wheat flower or the crum of white bread hath been infus'd adding to it a small quantity of the juyce of limmons Or with the decoction of mallow roots or lillies As also with the infusion of the roots of briony with the juyce of the roots of sowbread or wild cucumers incorporated with bean meal with the oyle of sulphur or tartar mixt either with clear fountain water or else with any of the former decoctions Thus far concerning the nasty sweat of the skin the next inconvenience that damages the beauty and which we intend to give remedies how to correct are itch and scabs CHAP. VII How to repair the beauty of an itchy or scabby skin I Am afraid Ladies that whilst I prescribe remedies for so loathsome a skin-defiling malady you will think I have forgot ye and am now addressing my self to your kitchin maids I must confesse these fretting exulcerations are more frequently incident to such as are forced to content themselves with courser commons as amongst the fleecy troops those are soonest scabby that feed in unwholsome pasture Yet the highest and best fed are not alwaies exempted from the infection nor are the most delicate Ladies especially if any thing irregular or intemperate wholly secured that they shall be no fuller of ill humors than their skins can hold If ever then your ill disposed humors grow so strong to break their way through the inclosing skin it will do you no harm to have something in readiness that may check their presumption Take Fumitory water an ounce and a half succory water three ounces syrup of fumitory and succory of each one ounce mix altogether and take it for your mornings draught use it for five dayes together then use this excellent medicine Take Sena two drams rhubarb one scruple annis seeds half a scruple white wine half a pint put all into an earthen bottle stopit close and set it over warm embers all night in the morning strain it out and drink it if the stomack be weak
it off with warme water Take what quantity you please of juice of limmons put it into a glasse bottle adde thereto fine sugar and borace pounded set it in the Sun eight days shake it well together once a day after use it Or fill a thick strong glass bottle with rosemary flowers bury it half a yeare in a dunghil having stopt it close in that time the flowers will be turned to water wash the face therewith it is exceeding good against the freckles Take calcin'd tartar one pound mastick one ounce camphre half an ounce incorporate them with the whites of eggs and apply it where it is needfull Beat radish seed and dragon roots together put them in aqua vitae and set them in the Sun eight days together then distil them in a Limbeck and you shall draw a water admirable against all spots in the face Boile litharge in white wine vinegar till half be consumed then streine the vinegar take a little thereof mix it with an equall quantity of oile of tartar it will be as white as milk bath the freckles therewith Wash the face with sope and warme water then moisten the freckles with oile of tartar or oile of allum continue this for some weeks Beate as much sandarack with hony as will make it pretty thick apply it to the freckles keep it on so long till it scorch the skin then dissolve galbanum with a little nitre in vinegar and bath therewith And when any of these medicines offend the skin wash it with warme water or anoint with oile of roses or oile of sweet almonds CHAP. III. To whiten a tan'd visage and to keep the face from Sunburn AMber haird Hyperion spying faces to dawn with a world of dazeling features that might rob him of his Persian votives or withdraw the Heliotrope from its wonted homage to secure his brightnesse from being eclips'd by such teeming beauties clouds them in the shadie covertures of night while he makes day to all the world beside but to make your beams of beauty break through such sable curtaines take these prescriptions following White bryony water two drams rose water one ounce the white of one egge oile of tartar two drams verjuice one ounce mix them and wash the face therewith then dip a linnen cloth in it and lay it to the face all night Mix ceruse with oile of mirtle and white wine bath the face therewith going to bed Or take rose water two ounces womans milke one ounce pounded myrthe two drams the white of an egge beate them together going to bed wash the tann'd places with it Make pomatum with oile of sweet almonds wax and camfre Else take the roots of Sowbread scrape them presse out the juice boile it to the consistence of hony then use it to anoint the face Or mix the powder of burnt cuttle bones with hony apply it in forme of an unguent to the face To keep the face from Sunburn you had best wash with water drawn from the whites of eggs or juice of soure grapes or annoint the visage with a liniment made of powdred Mastick and oile omphacine Or take goats suet well washed in cleare water beat it in a mortar with rose water strein it through a thick cloth then take oile of sweet almonds one ounce sugar candy two drams camfre half a dram boile them all together stirring them continually that they may be white when it hath boiled a pretty while put it into a glass for your use If you goe abroad in the Sun or Wind anoint the face with it and 't will preserve your complexion Take pepper wort roots of basill serpentary the less of each three ounces boile them in a quart of water make a liniment to apply to the face for an houre then take it off and wash with warme water it is exceeding good to cleare the face from Sunburn Briony roots boiled in oile or cuttle bones burnt and mixt with hony if they are applyed have the same effects CHAP. IV. To remove running Tettars or spreading Pustules TEttars which some call Ringworms are the noxious vermine that greatly damage beauties paradise and crap its fairest flowers defacing quite the lillies and roses that use to flourish with a lovely grace in the fruitful soile of a comely cheek To secure your faces flowry Elysium from such wasteful insects Take vinegar of Squills two ounces aloes powdred two drams juyce of dock roots oyle of tartar of each half an ounce incorporate them together in form of an oyntment then apply it Make a Decoction of dock roots mallows fengreek in strong vinegar and use it then apply leeches or make small scarifications that some quantity of blood may issue forth then anoint the place with the oyle of tartar or apply dock roots steept in vinegar Take sublimate prepared three grains put it to half a pint of water put it in a glasse into a boyling pot till the sublimate dissolve Keep the water as a choice experiment for any spreading tettar or pustule Take Tartar two drams burnt allum three drams powder and incorporate them with the whites of eggs for an ointment Or Take sulphur vive two drams and a half nettle seed one dram camfre half a dram fresh butter two ounces make an ointment wash it in rose water then use it Take plantane water two ounces white vitriol two drams and a half burnt allum one dram mix them to bath your tetters or pimples withal Or else Take grains of paradice half a dram cloves gum tragaganth ginger of each half an ounce brimstone six drams reduce all to a fine powder to be workt well together with lard to make an ointment CHAP. V. How to help the Complexion when it is marr'd with blue and congealed blood or black and blue proceeding from a stroak or bruise THere often happens an effusion of the blood betwixt the flesh and the skin where it stayes and is congeal'd to the great disadvantage of the face The cause of this distemper may be either internal as corrupted blood in the body or external as a cold chilling air stroak or fall If the cause be internal powder rubarb steep it some dayes in strong vinegar and bath the face therewith Or chew in the morning fasting cummin or mustard seed or calamus aromaticus and anoint the face with it Turneps boyld in honey aloes mixt with honey or honey incorporated with the ashes of burnt garlick are exceeding good in this case When this blewness of the visage proceeds from cold there is nothing better than to chafe the face often with the hand or a course cloth or else which is more effectual you may use for a Fomentation aqua vitae warm'd If after a fall or bruise the face or any other part remain blewish it will be convenient to discusse the congeal'd blood which may conveniently be done thus Take the roots of marsh mallows of the great and lesser serpentary of white lillies wash them
Elysium intends that face shall lye fallow which melancholy frowns wrinkle into uneven furrows What hath thus particularly been said of some perturbations of the mind may be understood of all in general so that all passions whatever as they are usually call'd the Souls burning feaver because they make it ferment it self into a pernicious excess so may they fitly be named the Beauties wasting consumption since they leave no marks of that excellent comeliness which useth to work astonishment in all beholders but make the former good looks give place to a sallow complexion Lastly Meats and Drinks have a controuling power over the features and proportionable lineaments of a taking face and give great occasions towards the making or marring a beauty For by eating and drinking the humors and more solid parts of the body which are in a successive emanation are nourished and kept in continual repair Certainly if we may believe Physitians the moderate use of healthful dyet corroborates the innate heat makes the external members well coloured and lively to perform those actions for which Nature hath intended them On the contrary an intemperate life abandon'd indifferently to all sorts of meats without distinction either of time or measure stifles the internal heat breeds corrupted blood from whence proceed obstructions of the more noble parts a vitiated mass of malignant humors which cause a discoloured pale and tawny visage stinking breath rotten teeth running eyes and infinite other inconveniencies Wherefore let those that would be beauties favourites not study too much kitchin Philosophy nor busie their thoughts about too stately furnishing their sumptuous Tables let them have a care of making too bold with Wine if Bacchus set the face with his fiery carbuncles and pitch his standard there beauties vermilion Herauldry will soon be expung'd Yet on the other side I would not have any person bring her self down to the lowest Gamut of abstinence for this will spoyl the harmony of a well tun'd face as much as if the guts were screw'd up to an Eâ—la òf intemperance There is but little difference in either extream excessive gluttony makes a Lady such a mountain of greasie mummy that she needs no other pomatum for her bloated checks than the nasty sweat that dribbles from her brow And unusual abstinence makes the body like a thin thatch'd Tenement that hath outstood the hopes of having fairer guests than grunting Swine the skin represents some white earth plaistering and the bones so many uneven-laid laths to bear it out Yet is it the practice of many that are neat and well proportioned enough fearing they might grow too big and grosse to meagre themselves by long and tedious fastings and when they eat to châ—se meats of bad concoction as herbs fruits sallads vinegar that so by a hard and course dyet they might become neat and slender when all they do is nothing else but to extenuate and discolour the body by so rude an abstinence It were better if such would follow the counsel of Physitians to eat often and little and that meat of good nourishment to eat only once a day or eating twice to rise from Table only half satisfied and so they might become of a mean and graceful habitude without detriment either to health or beauty I have hitherto spoken of Meats and Drinks that are Alimentary there are yet others that are Medicinal and that equally with these advance the beauty For since it is a thing very difficult if not impossible to live alwayes in such an Air as our temperament and constitution require and that many unwelcome emergencies neither suffer us long to be without care and vexation nor to keep an exact dyet or to take it in such a mediocrity and oppertune time as is requisite to the breeding of good blood since I say it is a thing so troublesome continually to govern our selves by the rules and measure of an exact method it will be expedient to anticipate that alteration or corruption which may happen amongst the humours of the body through excess or any other misdemeanour in our course of life by some means or other which hath power to expel those vitious qualities which may cause an ill complexion that so the colour may be kept cleer and lively the skin smooth and subtle The last means to effect this will be in due time to purge the body with some quick and gentle medicament as Cassia Manna syrup of Violets white Roses or the like if you would clear the body of superfluous humors after too much indulging your pallat you may take half a dram of pillulae Ruffi going to bed and the next day you shall have all the reliques of your late intemperance swept out in three or four stooles Vinegar of Squills if taken in a morning for several times together and you exercise moderately after it beautifies the body with a very fresh and lively colour The same effects have the Trochisks of red Roses if you carry them about you and take now and then one at your pleasure The frequent use of Clysters is not without reason much commended for that they do not only make the body soluble and purge the peccant humors but also divert those fumes and vapors which ascending to the head alter much the beauty of the face Syrup of Fumitory Agrimony Cichorie open obstructions and correct the intemperature of the liver and for this reason are of singular use for clearing the complection It would not be amiss if I here put you in mind to keep the body and all its parts at ease without straitning them or hindring their free motion and repose For to girt the body too close to bind the arms or legs too hard draws the blood too much from the face and makes it descend to the more inferiour parts Your own observation may satisfie you in this particular for you may frequently perceive those persons become pale and loose their complexion who to have a small and slender body girt themselves too close or to have a handsome leg and foot use stockings and shoes much too streight When the humors apt to corrupt are expel'd and the blood purified in the place of the vitious you are to supply the body with good humors by food of light concoction and good nourishment as Ponado's well seasoned Broths and the like But before you eat rise something early and exercise moderately that so you may help Nature to disperse those humors which were heap'd together during sleep and make an equal distribution of the aliment which in the last nights repose hath been digested It is the ill custome of some Ladies that they might meliorate their complexions to take in their beds Broths Asses or Goats milke and after sleep upon it such nourishment although it be good and commendable in it self yet taken in such a sluttish manner instead of breeding good blood is soon corrupted and turn'd into a malignant nature both because the stomach when such meat
is received is not as yet discharged of its excrements and pituitous superfluities and the appetite is not as then excited for that the animal spirits which are the causes of it are yet dull and drowsie Moreover in the morning Nature being careful of its oeconomy is imploy'd to drive outward those humid redundancies which were heaped the night before up in the body but such unreasonable eating diverts Nature from that expulsion and constrains her to retire inward to promote concoction so that being distracted by two such contrary motions she performs neither so as much to farther the bodies health Thus much for that course of life which ought to be observ'd by those who would have their ravishing features penetrate those flinty breasts against which Cupids shafts seem too blunt and dull the next Chapter supplyes you with Remedies which shall so set off the loathsome imperfections of a blear-ey'd and wither'd Maegaera that she shall be taken for some attractive and heart subduing Venus CHAP. III. External means to gain a good Complexion IF in the flowry enamell of Natures garden there be any sensitive plant t is beauty for though it may thrive and flourish perhaps in the face that Elysium of delights during the youthfull May of warmer yeares yet even then must it be cherish'd with a tender care for so sensible is it of the softest touch that if the Sun intending to borrow some of its lustre to increase his owne do but gently salute it with its subtle limber rayes it presently shrouds it selfe in a mantle of Jet as if resenting his mildest embraces as a rude indignity it were resolv'd to benight the face in a gloomy coverture in spight of his world of glory So againe if sullen Aeolus come so nere to blow upon it with his chilly breath it presently contracts its expanded roses as if it had rather degenerate into a deformed nature then expose it self to the saucie blasts of that blustring courtier We can't then be too carefull of a flower which is so nice and tender neither can any with discretion blame those Ladies that through an innocent care of enamouring looks use some artificiall waters to preserve and cherish those features which are of themselves too apt to fade and wither I must here yet give them this caution to avoid those things which rather adulterate then adorne the skin such as Spanish white and Mercury the least inconveniences they must exâ—ect from such drugs except prepared by a very skilfull Artist are a wrinkle-furrowed visage stinking breath loose rotten teeth So that it will be more safe and better to use decoctions Pomatums ointments and such like applications as you find described here which are not in the least dangerous and doe exceedingly adorne the beautie As for the use of them before they are applyed the part must be washed with warme water and after with water and sope or some other detersive liquor which may prepare and fit it for the action of the ensuing medicaments Such preparative liquors may be distilled waters of mallows elder beanes water lillies cows milke distilled infusion of white bread decoction of French barly or any thing of the like nature whereof you may have your choice in this Chapter When the part is cleansed apply some of the following Cosmeticks let them lye on all night and in the morning wash with bran and water or else with Violet water The most approved Compositions for the beautifying of the Body are these Take the Roots of Dragonwort Arum or Cuckoe-pintle Briony of each one ounce sweet almonds peel'd half a pound bean bran half an ounce Camphire sal gem sal ammoniac borace rock allum all poudred of each two drams incorporate them together with the whites of eggs and form thereof little balls which dissolve in cold water wash your face therewith going to bed let it lye on till the morning and then wash it off with this water following Take a pottle Pot well glaz'd fill it half full with the roots of white or marsh mallows washed and slic'd adde thereto a pint of white wine a dozen egg shells clean washt and poudred afterwards pour in so much river or spring water as will fill up the Pot boyl all these together to the consumption of a third part and then adde the crum of a penny white loaf and as much as a bean of verdigreese pounded and tyed up in a little bag strain the decoction into a basin and adde to half thereof an ounce of finely poudred sugar moisten a fine white ragg in this water and wash the face therewith without wiping after it Take two white pigeons pull them and cast away the guts head wings and leggs then mince them into small pieces then put them into a glass alembick strowing the bottom with some plantane leaves adde thereto oyle of sweet almonds three ounces butter four ounces a pint of Goats milk the crum of a white loafe borace and sugar candy of each two drams burnt allum and poudred camphire of each three draws the whites of 24 eggs let all these infuse for the space of twelve hours then carfully stop the alembick and distil them in Balneo Mariae put the distilled water into glass viols to settle in a cool celler strein it through a fine cloth and wash your face there with morning and evening it makes the face or any other part exceeding comely and is that pigeon water which hath been so much pris'd by the Court Dames at Paris Take allum sal gem of each one ounce borace and camphire half an ounce oyle of Tartar four ounces beat and work them together then adde a pint of briony water distill them altogether in B.M. the water you draw from them will be of marvellous vertue to beautifie any part and make it of a ruddy complexion Of the same effect is that which follows Take madder frankincense myrrhe oriental saffron mastick of each like quantities bruise them all and steep them in white wine anoint the face therewith going to bed in the morning wash either with cold or warm water it will purple any part with a gallant and pleasing blush Or take fraxinella roots chew them and tye them in a fine ragg and bath the face This following is much commended for making the face white and clear as alablaster Take myrrhe two ounces frankincense half an ounce white ginger three drams cinnamon and sublimate of each two drams camphire one dram whites of three or four eggs put all these together in the belly of a young pullet or capon well wash'd and cleansed add thereto Goats or Asses milk distil all together and you shall have such a water that few things can equal it If you fear it because of the sublimate after you have used it two or three times you may discontinue it and use this following Take the white of an egg beat it together with rose water anoint the face therewith and when it hath