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cause_n	cold_a	hot_a	moist_a	1,558	5	9.6254	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46696	Artificiall embellishments, or Arts best directions how to preserve beauty or procure it.	Jeamson, Thomas, d. 1674.	1665 (1665)	Wing J503; ESTC R17155	74,151	210

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 to● 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

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