grave where Loves dumb orator lyes inshrin'd and Chirurgeons usually the unskilful Plaisterers that make an ill-rais'd cicatrice the swelling monument to departed beauty The feature fretting Pox if it sets but a foot within that paradice of perfections the face it leaves more disfiguring impressions there than a Coridons clouted shoes on a Cedar floor Now to smooth Ladies and polish your skins after such disasters prise the medicines commended to you in this Chapter as rarities they 'le make the hills and dales of uneven faces meet without a miracle levelling them to such a smoothness that little Cupid though blind may sport himself there and never stumble Take mastick two ounces gum arabick one ounce saffron half an ounce turpentine three ounces old sallad oyle two ounces make the mastick and gum arabick into a grosse pouder then put them into the oyles and turpentine distil all together in a glasse Alembick and anoint the face with the water going to bed in the morning wash with warm water wherein the finest flower hath been infused It is exceeding good for any disfiguring scarr that appears after the consolidation of a wound Of the same nature is the next that follows Take oyle of Tartar and the mucilage of Psyllium seeds extracted with rose water of each one ounce ceruse dissolved in oyle of roses as much borace and sal gem of each one dram incorporate them well together and make an oyntment Or Take Tartar well burnt boile eggs hard take out the yolks after you have slit them and fill up the cavities with the burnt tartar put them in a moist place and keep the water that comes from thence as excellent for scars Take litharge of gold two ounces ceruse and salt of each half an ounce vinegar rose and plantane water of each three ounces camphire half a dram mingle and filtre it so keep it for use Or Take wild cucumer roots finely powdred one ounce allum two drams sulphur vive nitre of each one dram incorporate all together with lard well washt use it as an ointment These two are of the same vertue with the former Take oyle of Lillies capons grease oyle of roses of each one ounce and a half wash these well in rose and lilly water then add to them the whites of four or five eggs half boiled in their shells oyl of sweet and bitter almonds of each one ounce incorporate them together in a marble mortar and in the working put in the mucilage of melon seeds litharge of gold and chalk poudred of each two drams make them into an Unguent applied to the face it takes away all those scars the Small Pox too frequently makes there Hares blood if you bath the skin often with it warm fills the cavities with flesh and makes the skin even and plain It is likewise an approved experiment That the water which comes from Sheep or Goats hoofs burnt is very good for the same Or use this following Take Litharge of gold washt nine times in rose water and sifted as often two drams reed roots dried and pounded rice meal powder of burnt bones bean meal of each one dram beat all together very small then sift it through fine tiffiny incorporate it with the mucilage of flax seed fengreek and psyllium extracted in lilly water and so bring it into the form of an Unguent Apply it to the face going to bed on the morrow wash with barly water Bath the places with warm water then strew thereon the cinders of burnt Tartar either alone or with myrrhe Or bath the places with water wherein cinnamon hath a long time boiled then put thereon the powder of litharge it will in short time take away all marks of the Small Pox. Take wheaten starch blancht almonds of each two drams sweet costus gum tragacanth of each half a dram reed roots half an ounce barly meal whole melon seeds beans dryed and pounded three drams saffron one scruple powder and sift the whole mingle them with equal parts of rose water and juice of orange peel make a liniment and with a feather anoint the scars of the pox leaveing it so all night on the morrow wash with the decoction of camomile and mellilot CHAP. X. How to remove spots in what part of the body soever I Have seen faces from whose features beauty her self might have taken copies had not nature studying too much neatnesse plaid the curtezan and spoiled that which was handsome before by two much patching Yet most Ladies never think themselves Venus's for beauty except they have some artificiall mole though such stellae nebulosae ecclipse more then increase the native lustre and especially where nature is too free in her spots they are alway reputed blemishes not ornaments Those then that have beauties characters defac'd with such blots if they have recourse to these following directions shall find themselves quickly freed and their features so ravishing that were it the mode of this age to dedicate shrines to beauty there is noâ—e of them but would have their Altar where the most generous heart should glory to be a sacrifice To take away any spot whatever Bath them for three mornings together with allum dissolved in oile of Tartar wash after with lye and lupine meale Or take two parts of plantaine water and one of rosewater sulphur vive powdred two ounces rock allum beaten small one ounce boile them over the fire till a fifth part be consumed then take it off and stir it well till it be cool afterward strein it through a fine cloth and keep it for use It takes away all kind of spots Take sugar candie white frankincence of each two ounces dissolve them in juice of limmons halfe a pinte boile them gently in a little skillet then anoint the spots with it after they have been washed with barly water Take lye made of Vine ashes juice of coleworts ox-gall of each a pound and a halfe dissolve therein half an ounce of allum and three whole egs beaten wet a cloth in this composition and bath the spots therewith Take turpentine and masticke tutia prepared of each two ounces camphire halfe an ounce steep them three daies in strong vinegar distill them in an alembick and keep the water for use To cleer the skin of black spots Take the distilled waters of dock and melon roots of each one quart ten swallow eggs salt nitre half an ounce white Tartar two ounces pound the nitre and tartar then mix them altogether let them stand 24 hours then distill them in an alembick in B. M. wash the black spots with the water in the morning at night wash them with oile of tartar and sweet almonds mixt together Take mastick powdred sulphur vive of each one ounce bay berries as many steep them in warme water for the space of ten days stirring them carefully once or twice a day then wash the black places with that water Take roots of iris Florent wild cucumers briony of each two pound dittany
cleane pound and boile them to a mash in rain water mix it with the oile of tartar and dears suet adding a little camphre and make it into the forme of an unguent Take the kernels of peaches pounded foure ounces goard seed two drams mix and pound them together then presse out the juice or rather oile you shall find it exceeding good for any black and blew bruise Take yellow arsnick sal ammoniacum one scruple and a half mix them with the juice of coriander seed in quantity about three ounces bathe the bruised places with it Aqua vitae heated and applyed to the bruise presently after the stroake with two spunges changing them as fast as they cool will take away all signes of the bruise CHAP. VI. To smooth the face disfigured with wrinckles THE smiling glories of beauties spring are often nipt with an early autumne when sharp sith'd time cuts those flowry graces down and shrouds them in the furrows of a wrinkled face Now to make your verdant features flowrish in spight of envious time or after their decay to smooth the face for a new plantation Take oile of bitter almonds two ounces lilly roots finely powdred one ounce make it into an ointment with the oile of roses and a little wax and so apply it to the faces Take oile of S. Johns wort one ounce oile of mirtle quinces water lillies jesmine mastick of each half an ounce melt all together in an earthen vessel then take it from the fire adding a convenient quantity of rose water then let it cool and use it Take thin shavings of ivory make a decoction thereof in water streine it and keep the thickest to mix with an equall part of incense and mouth glew make it into an unguent annoint the face therewith going to bed in the morning wash with faire warme water Wash the wrinkled places with a decoction made with an equall quantity of bryony roots and figgs Or take incense the scum of silver of each half an ounce white pepper an ounce powder all apart incorporate them with mouth glew make them up into small balâ— dissolve these in rose water make a liniment for the face Take the juice of sweet almonds drawn without fire hony the roots of lillies roasted under the embers and pounded white wax washt with rose water make it into the forme of a salve soake a piece of linnen therein for a cerecloth make a mask of it to lay over the face going to bed Boile pomegranate pils in white wine and whey till the wine be consumed and the whole remain like a liniment Or dry in the Sun wild cucumer bryony roots powder them and often wash the face with the powder steept in wine afterward wash with cold water CHAP. VII How to cure chaps in the Face WHen the injurious violence of wind or weather hath rent your silken Skins if you intend to unite the separating parts you will find these your serviceable cements Take Staggs suet and Goats suet of of each half an ounce burnt borace two drams new wax half an ounce oile of roses two drams make it into an ointment and use it Or else take Capons grease and camfre mix them and anoint the chaps therewith every night in the morning wash with bran and water Some dissolve mouth glew in warme rose water and anoint the face therewith Distil'd oile of turpentine is very good so is fresh butter if you take three ounces of it and mix it with the mucilage of gum tragaganth of fleawort seeds and of quince seeds of each an ounce and a half and so make it into the fashion of an ointment for your use Take kids suet one ounce oile of the whites of eggs of sweet almonds and of prest henbane seeds of each half an ounce goose and hens fat of each as much litharge of silver prepared washt ceruse prepared tuttie red lead of each one dram saffron one scruple camfre halfe a scruple mix them and with a sufficient quantity of white wax make it into an ointment CHAP. VIII Remedies for the Face when it is Burnt or Scalded IF the face that Magazin of Beauty be supprized by catching flames and blown up into blisters your securest way will be to allay the fury of that offensive element thus Take lead burnt and washt two ounces Goats suet white wax of each one ounce and a half turpentine six drams prepared lapis calaminaris washt ceruse of each two drams mirrhe mastick olibanum of each one dram aloes epat camphre nitre of each half a dram mix them and make a plaister To draw out the fire and take away the inflammation take the whites of two eggs oile of roses and rose water of each two ounces work them together and then apply them Or take two raw onions salt Venice sope bole armenick of each an ounce beat them together in a mortar adding by degrees as much oile of roses as as will suffice to make it into an ointment To hinder the rising of blisters and take away paine you may use this Hens dung the whitest and freshest you can get three ounces fresh butter six ounces sage leaves one handfull plantaine leaves two handfuls fry them a while over the fire and annoint the affected part therewith several times a day Or else you may take old lard melt it with rose water then streine it through a clean cloth when it is cold wash it 6 or 7 times in plantane water and to half a pound of this lard add the yelks of 4 eggs if the paine be vehement you may mix a dram of opium with it In case the ulcer be sordid and purulent make application of this Take the inner rind of green elder oile of roses of each half a pound boile them with a gentle fire strein them and adde oile of the yelks of eggs two ounces frankincense two drams tuttie one dram wax enough to make it into an ointment To make the cicatrice smooth and faire wash the ulcer after it is sufficiently cleans'd with plantaine water having first dissolv'd therein a little allum being washt strew thereon some metallique powder either of tuttie ceruse litharge burnt and washt CHAP. IX To beautifie the Face howsoever disfigured THis chapter Ladies makes you a present of universall remedies that will fortifie your faces against any distemper and in spite of al the maladies that beauty is subject too make them matchlesse the only inconvenience that I feare from them is that some of ye when ye look in your glasses may fall in love with your own shadows and so linger away Martyrs to your selves The oile or water of Talque applyed to the face makes it as white as alablafter The manner of preparing it is this Take talque the most tender transparent you can get what quantity you please slit it into thin slices put them into a glass viol for the space of ten or twelve days with the juice of limmons during the frost
dissolve them in rosewater to wash your face withal at night the next morning wash with water of Lillies This Ceruse is exceeding good to take away all stains spots and freckles from the face After the same manner is made the Ceruse of the roots of Briony wild Cucumers Water lillies Thus much concerning the preparation of Ceruses Take litharge of silver and gold of each one dram put them into strong white Wine vinegar adding camfre and allum of each half a scruple musk and cloves to sent the Composition boyle all in a little vinegar then filtre and keep it then boyle a little rock allum in water keep it a part for your use mingle these two waters together and bath the face neck or breasts Take Camfre one dram allum borace two drams oyle of tartar one ounce all being finely poudred boyle them in two quarts of rosewater strein and keep it 'T is excellent to whiten the face neck or breasts Take bitter Almonds peeled one pound and a half the whites of thirty eggs with their shells the tender branch of a fig-tree cut into small bits incorporate them together and distil them in a glass alembick over a gentle fire adde to the water which you draw sugar candy borace and camphre of each one ounce olibanum two ounces pounded all small then still them again and preserve the water that you draw as a secret to beautifie either the face or breasts CHAP. X. How to fasten the Hair and keep it from falling off HAir Ladies is the silken fringe to Beauties bed or if you will the slender sleaves that nature spins for Cupid thereof to weave his heart-surprising nets if once it fails that amorous god looses a considerable part of his artillery and after never acts but weakly for ye So that it concerns ye who triumph over intangled Captiveâ— to tender its preservation You may keep that you already have a fast Friend to you thus Take myrtle berries gals emblick myrobalans of each a like quantity boil them in oyle of roses It is a Receipt as old as Galen but as good as most if it doth not succeed use the next Take myrrhe pine bark myrtle leaves maiden hair pound them together very well then adde a double quantity of labdanum pounded put all into white Wine and oyle of Radish seed anoint the head very well with it going to bed next morning wash it with this bath Sorrel leaves maiden hair emblick myrobalans boyle them in water and adde a little pounded myrrhe it very much fastens the hair Or else Take the leaves of Willow Plantane rock Allum boyle them in water adding a little poudred Tutty and Myrrhe make a bath and wash therewith Take the juyce of the youngest Myrtle leaves two ounces juyce of wild Olives four ounces red Roses dryed two ounces Roman Wormwood two drams boyle all these in a quart of white Wine till half be consumed then strein it and adde a little poudred labdanum and use it to wash the head The golden water drawn from hony in a glasse still is much commended Or take the leaves and roots of vervaine put them into oile of green grapes set them in the sun many daies then streine it and keep it for your use Take an equall quantity of labdanum wormwood juniper berries nigella seeds vervaine bind them up in a linnen cloth and macerate them five daies in oile there is nothing better to fasten the haire or to make haire grow CHAP. XI Remedies for the want of haire how to make it grow on any bald place or there where it never came before IF some disaster Ladies have trod too hard on your heads kild those pleasant plants that use to flourish there you may againe attire them with their native beauty and repaire all former ruines thus Take marsh mallow seed boile it in sallet oile ' til it become thick with this oile anoint the head 6 or 7 times in an houre going to bed when that is done take what quantitie you please of the same seed boile it wel with water and wash the head therewith it makes the haire come exceeding thick the same effects hath this which follows Boile in white wine oile of mastick tree mirtle and labdanum of each two ounces maiden haire macerated two days in the same wine four ounces set them over the fire til the wine be evaporated after apply it as an ointment to the head Nigella romana burnt incorporated with hony Bees and Wasps burnt and incorporated with oile gals and the ashes of hasel nuts mixt with hony the kernels of peaches pounded and boiled in vinegar the cinders of cantharides southernwhod maidenhaire lilly roots mixt with bears greace are exceeding good for those that have but thin haire Take Euphorbium laurell berries rocket seed of each two drams sulphur vive white hellebore burnt of each halfe a scruple make a linement with wax dissolv'd in oile of laurel if applyed it will soon supply you with haire If you would cause haire to grow on any bald place do thus Pound elme roots boile them in water til there remaine a slimy scum on top gather that for your use then rub the bald place with a cloth til it look red and after anoint it with that scum Or take pumice stone beaten exceeding fine rub the skin therewith so long as you can endure it then bath it with vinegar mixt with an equall quantity of nitre sal armoniack sulphur vive your own experience will approve it Take barly bread and salt role them up in parchment burne them in a crucible and reduce them to a pouder which make into an ointment with bears grease It is a secret of nature Or take cantharides fling away the head and feet rub them on the bald place and so leave them blisters will rise first and then haire CHAP. XII How to take away haire and keep it from growing againe WHen the Lillies and Roses of your Faces Elysium are oretopt by the hastie growth of superfluous excrescencies you may secure the glorious hue of your beauties pride and eradicate those aspiring weeds that disturb you by taking Quicke lime four ounces auripigmentum one ounce and a half Florentine iris root one ounce sulphur nitre of each half an ounce lye made with the ashes of bean stalks one quart mix all together and boile it so long in a glaz'd earthen pot till putting a pen therein all the feathers peel off then add half an ounce of the oile of spike or any other perfume and from what part of the body soever you are minded to take away the haire anoint it with this unguent and in a quarter of an hour you shall find the effects but remember when the haire fals away to anoint with oile of roses Take Orpiment and quick lime of each an ounce and a half the seeds of fleawort and henbane of each half an ounce sublimate two drams ivie gum one dram and a half opium one
scruple pound all small and steep them in as much common lye as may cover them four fingers then boile them as the former Take quick lime half a pound steep it in common lye or urine adde to it half an ounce of orpiment boile it to the consistence of a sirrup As for the use of the foregoing medicines you are to foment the place with warme water a little before you apply them a quarter of an hour after wash with hot water and when the haire is taken away anoint the place with some cooling oile as oleum rosat oile of henbane the ointment of Rhasis camphorated After that the haire is taken from any part if you would keep it from growing againe take the gall of a Hedghog the ashes of muscle shels burnt mix them with bats blood and use it as an ointment Or else bats blood the juice of ivy and radish roots goats gall mix and use them or take opium and henbane finely beaten mix them with vinegar so anoint therewith any of these will keep the haire from ever growing the same effects have these following Take the blood of Frogs terra sigillata sumach roses of each as much as shall be sufficient beat them together and steep them in the juice of nightshade for four twenty hours then distil them wash with the water the depilated places Take ivie gum emmets eggs orpiment colophonie of each one ounce leeches burnt half an ounce grind and mingle them with frogs blood and make an ointment Take juice of henbane sanguis draconis gum arab frankincense of each three drams juice of nightshade as much as will suffice to make it into an ointment CHAP. XIII How to make the haire Curle TWining curls are now much the mode and none thought paragons for Beauty save those whose gracefull locks do reach the breasts and make spectators think those ivory globes of Venus are upheld by the freindly aid of their crispie twirls If any affect the fashion they may serve themselves with these directions so advantagiously that none shall desire to be free that may have the glory to be fetter'd with their curled haire Take gall nutts filings of steel cipresse leaves quince seeds as much as you please quick lime half as much as either of the first steep them in water wherein rye hath been boiled let it stand one day then boile it to the thickness of hony anoint the haire therewith and curle it up going to bed Boile salt in water gather the scum thereof mix it with myrrhe it is marvelous in curling the haire Some to make their haire curle wind it up going to bed upon a hot Tabacco pipe or iron Others dissolve gum arabick or mouth glew in water moistning the haire with it afterward they let it dry Some instead thereof use the white of an egge or else beare or ale But to give you farther better directions first rub the haire well with lye or urine that so it may be washt very clean then take 20 oak gals maiden haire two ounces and as much salt water boiled to the consistence of hony worke them all well together and for two days anoint the haire therewith on the third wash it with this following Bath Boile firn roots beet leaves of each a like quantity so long in water till a third part of the water be consum'd then take it from the fire put in a little gum arabick and when it is cool use it Take oile of fenugreek oile of white henbane mix therewith mirrh and gum arabick and use it for an ointment Or take beets and mirtle a like quantity dry them in the shade powder them then mingle one ounce of the powder with two ounces of oile olive and use it as the other Take mallow roots seeds of flax and psyllium boile them a long time together strein it and wash the haire therewith Or make lye with oake ashes boile therein nutgals roots of dane wort maiden haire afterwards dissolve therein a little litharge bole armeniake gum dragant wash the haire with it when it is dryed in anoint with oile of mirtle CHAP. XIV To make the Haire Lank and flag THE bushie forrest of the head is sometimes labarinth'd with mazie and rude maeanders while the locks themselves retreat in such recoiling twirls as if they rook the breasts for a paire of snowie mountaines and were afraid their tender tops should touch them they may be forc'd to extend themselves to a pleasing length if you follow these prescriptions Take oile of lillies oile of roses of each one ounce oile of violets two ounces green marsh mallows finely beaten three ounces boile them altogether anoint the haire throughly therewith combing it afterward very well Take borage mallows beat them small and work them well together with common oile let them stand together in a warme place a day a night next morning put them in an alimbeck distil them ore a gentle fire the water that you draw from them keeps the haire from frisling and makes it flag and smooth Take oile of roses four ounces worke it well together in a great bottle with an equall quantity of faire spring water then anoint the haire twice a day therewith CHAP. XV. To lengthen the Haire HAire though an excrement is yet carefully cherisht as a plant of value for most fancye it to be the microcosmical flax whereof Cupid twists his bow-strings To see it I confesse in the female sex of a more then usual length is a pleasing spectacle and if therebe any Lady that desire it she may by these means efffect her wishes Use first this unguent take a wild gourd hollow it within fill it with oile of laurel orpiment henbane leaves boile it over the fire and anoint therewith then use once a week this bath following Take agrimony elm bark vervaine boile all in a sufficient quantity of water till the third part of the water be consum'd and wash therewith while it is warme Take the hardest and stiffest hony boile it for some while over the fire into three pound of this hony while it is over the fire breake 20 eggs take them out when they are hard and put in so many more at last take onely the yolks of the eggs and beat them with the hony into a past then put them into an alembick and with a gentle heat draw from thence a liquor to wash the haire withall if you would increase its length Take lavender white saunders cardamoms costus of each one ounce in the spring time steep all these for 24 houres in a pint and a half of the best white wine then set it on the fire that you may receive the vapour of the decoction up into the haire afterward wash the head with it Take old white lard three pound mince and beat it small till it come to a past then distill it in a limbick and keep the water that arises from it to anoint the haire it will make
half an ounce make a mass with the Decoction of Nutgalls and Walnut shells oyle of Camomile two ounces Or Take litharge of gold two ounces ashes of calcined Tartar half an ounce quick Lime an ounce and a half dissolve all in mans urine till it come to be as thick as an ointment then use it for the hair Take Privet and Vitriol what quantity you please put them in oyl set it over the fire till it begin to boyle anoint the hair therewith having a care that it doth not touch the skin for 't will make it very black Dogs urine kept in glasse four or five dayes if you anoint your hair therewith will dye it of dark black colour Take Litharge of Silver quick Lime burnt Lead crude Antimony of each one ounce pound and infuse them in the distilled water of Walnuts Or Take Sulphur Vitriol Nutgals quick Lime Litharge of each two drams pouder them fine and incorporate them with running water to make a mass wherewith rub the hair going to bed in the morning wash it off with warm water and white wine CHAP. XIX How to cleanse the Hair of Scurffe or Dandruffe DAndruffe or Scurffe is a mealy dust that over-clouds the hair of the Head Brows and Beard It proceeds from corrupted serous humors which by reason of their acrimony corrode the cuticle from the subjacent skin and fret it into little pieces like bran Those who are subject to this distemper if they would ease themselves must use this method If the body abound with ill humors first purge it with some convenient medicine afterward wash the head or other part affected with this Lye Take the ashes of the roots of Beets and Coleworts make a lixivium therewith wherein boyl Lupins and Beans a sufficient quantity then strein the Decoction and add a sixth part of Honey When the Head hath been well washt with this dry it carefully with a warm course cloth then anoint it with this Unguent Take bitter Almonds lightly heated in an oven old Walnuts of each six ounces Sulphur half an ounce Vitriol two drams Honey of Squills two ounces the dregs of old Wine three ounces make it into a Liniment for your use with red Wax Take the ashes of Figtree boyl them in water and vinegar till the third part be consumed then adde Lupines and Beans boyle them again till a third part be consumed take it from the fire strein and use it Or boyle the roots of wild Cucumers in vinegar to the consistence of honey anoint the Head with it all over Take Ox gall and salt temper them with the juyce of Beets anoint therewith two or three dayes Then wash with this following Lye Take the strongest vinegar and fair water two pound set it over the fire and when it begins to boyle put in a little Salt and flowers of Camomile wash the head often therewith Take oyle of Rue one pound Sope one ounce Salt finely beaten half an ounce work them together into one mass then wash with this following Boyle Beets Fengreek Briony roots Bean meale in fair spring water set all together over the fire till half be boyled away then take it off and when it is coole use it to bath the head withal CHAP. XX. How to beautifie the Forehead THE Forehead is the Ivory throne where Beauty sits in state it must therefore be smooth and raised to a decent height for if it be too low 't is much beneath the grandure of her commanding majesty and if furrowed with wrinkles it will put her too much in mind of humane frailty to let her take a pleasing recreation there To make the Forehead high eradicate the hairs which incroach too much upon its boâ—nds thus Take as much Mastick as you shall have occasion to use steep it in warm water till it be so soft that you can spread it upon a filler then bind that fillet to the Forchead all night and in the morning twitch it off So you may take hair from any part of the body And when they are thus pul'd away that they grow not again use these medicines Take a pretty quantity of Henbane seed wrap it in a Colewort lease and roast it under the cinders then beat it in a mortar and press out the liquor adde to it a little Orpiment poudred and make thereof a Liniment to apply to the part Or else Take the gall of an Eele mix it with oyle of Roses or the blood of a Bat and use it Or Take quick Lime Lizards dung boyl them in an equal quantity of vinegar and oyle of Henbane till the vinegar be consumed make it into an Unguent for your use To smooth and pollish the Forehead when it is wrinkled Take the shavings of Hartshorn boyl them in water till there come a kind of oyliness on top with the scum of the water and Bean meal make a paste which you must make into small balls Keep the water wherein you did boyl the Hartshorn and when you have occasion to use it dissolve so many little balls in a small quantity of the water as will make it into the thickness of a Cearcloth apply it to the Forehead all night and in the morning when you take it off wash with warm water Use this method often Or else Take your whitest Mutton suet wash it half a score times in cold water mix it with the froth of whites of eggs made in a mortar beating them together with a Pestle and a little butter then add a little Mastick and Frankincense beaten to pouder and anoint the face often therewith CHAP. XXI How to beautifie and adorne the Brows THe two Brows are Cupids groves of pleasure where he shelters himself from the too violent heat of the inflaming eyes Or rather as a controuling Intelligence made superintendant to the Chrystal Sphares below him he keeps his residence there that he might with the more facility direct their beamy influencies when and whither he pleases You may Ladies by these means make them beautiful If the hairs on the brows grow too thick or irregular you may pull them up by the rootr with a pair of mullets and afterward use those means which we have formerly described to keep the hair from growing If the brows themselves fall too low over the eyes You must work a little Mastick together with the joyce of Coleworts and going to bed put the brow up into its place and apply the Mastick to it all night in form of a Plaister When the hair sheds from the brows the use of those things is good which we have already given you to fasten the hair Or else Take the small filings of Lead and incorporate them with Goose grease to anoint the brows withal Or if ye please Take black Henbane seed two drams Maiden hair one dram unguentum irinum three spoonfuls bruise what is to be bruised afterward make it up with oyle into the form of an Unguent to anoint the brows withal after
sometime been dried on wash with rose water Or often bath the face with rose water camphorated It is exceeding good to prevent those inconveniencies which may happen from the use of such things as too much dry and parch the face Slice four oranges and as many limmons take white sugar and rock allum of each one ounce infuse them three or four hours in a quart of milk then distil them in B. M. and wet some fine cloth in the water to lay over the face when you go to bed Or take Goats milk one quart juyce of citrons one pint white wine vinegar half a pint the flowers of beans water lillies fumitory of each three handfuls the whites of half a dozen eggs camphire two drams distil and use them as the other Oyle of myrrhe is singular good to preserve the beauty if when you go to bed you wash your face with the distilled water of bean flowers and afterwards anoint it with that oyle It is thus prepared Take new laid eggs and boyl them hard slit them and take out the yolks then fill them up with poudred myrrhe close them together lay them in a moist cool place and the myrrhe will dissolve into a water which is the oyle After the same manner you may prepare oyle of Tartar if you calcine and put it into the eggs it is an exceeding good Cosmetick Take Unguentum Citrinum three ounces sperma coeti an ounce and a half salt of Ceruse half an ounce oyle of eggs as much mash them together and make a liniment To make salt of Ceruse you must pouder the ceruse very fine and mix it with some distilled vinegar so that to one ounce of ceruse there may be four ounces of vinegar let it infuse three or four dayes then draw it off by filtration and and set that which is drawn off over the fire in an earthen pot well glaz'd and dried till it become a salt as they make their cauteries Take prepared snails that is drawn out of their shels and washt so long in salt and water till they loose their slime then pound them and lay one bed of them in the bottom of an Alembicke and on them make an other bed of sal gem allum frankincense borace camphire of each pounded two drams then poure on so much juice of limmons as may cover them two fingers so let them macerate 5 or 6 hours together and then distill them in Bal. Maris Take twelve limons as many hen egs halfe a pound of turpentine well washt put the turpentine in the bottome of the alembick boile the egs hard and distill all in B. M. this water is excellent to whiten the skin and change the complexion if you wash wish spring watar and dry the face and after wash with this without wiping This bath is very good Take two handfulls of sage leaves the like quantity of lavender flowers and roses a little salt boile them in spring water and therewith bath your body remembring that you are never to bath after meals for it will occasion many infirmities bath therefore two or three hours before dinner it will cleare the skin revives the spirits and strengthens the body the same effects hath this following Take rose water vineger salt boile all together in faire water take thereof a pint mix some bran with it and wash the body all over with it let it dry on then wash it off nothing can be better to mundifie the body Some Ladies delight much in sweet baths therefore into half a pint of water they put 5 or 6 drops of oile of spickenard some beside this adde musk amber civet lignum aloes benjamin storax myrrh cloves roses limmon and orange flowers rosemary lavender mint penny-royall But your chymicall extracts far excell all these if you mix but halfe a dozen drops with your bath such are the oile of oranges cloves mace nutmegs and the like When your bath is provided remember if you prise your health or beauty that it be not too hot for then it scorcheth the skin and makes it rough and causes very many untoward infirmities Thus much for the meanes to gaine a good complexion I come in the next place to give some speciall remedies how to correct the more particular vices of an ill complexion as a pale and swarthy colour a rough harsh grosse or sluttish skin sweat spots itch scab leprosie scurf and the like CHAP. IV. How to beautifie a white and pallid complexion Such colours when they annoy the complexion principally proceed from ill humours which abound in the body are expelled forth to the externall superficies of the skin wherefore those that desire to correct any vitious colour that offends their bodies must in the first place by some purgation evacuate that humour whereto their distemper ows its originall Now the palenesse of the complexion in women is principally occasioned by obstructions of the spleen and liver which cause in them a suppression of their monthly purgations which cause being by an orderly course of physick removed the body must be replenisht by a good and commendable dyet If this doe not recover their decaying beauty they may proceed to externall applications and to make their cheeks and lips ruddie and lively with good success use these things following Dissolve the shavings of Brasil and Orkanet in allum water wherewith after you have sufficiently cleansed the face with water of lillies or bean flowers bath the cheeks and lips letting it dry on Or else bath the cheeks lips or any other part that is too pale and white with allum water wherein a pciee of red turnsoile hath been often steeped or rub those parts with a peece of shipskin coloured red To chafe the parts often with the hand or a course cloth makes them look red and lively for such frictions draw the blood and spirits outward Or in case of necessity use Pomatum and Vermilion made of cinnaberis Or Take red Saunders bruise and steep it for 3 dayes in Aqua Vitae then boile it for an hour over a gentle sire adding a little allum and gum arabick than strein it and bath the parts therewith Take rock allum unc 1. boile it in a pinte of running water when it is dissolved take it off from the fire let it cool then adde to it Vermilion finely powdred one ounce boile them againe to a consumption of half streine the decoction and keep it for your use Take Brasil one ounce Cloves halfe a score grains of Paradise two scruples boile them with a pint of rectified Aqua vitae in a covered vessel use it when it is cold CHAP. V. To smooth a rough and uneven Skin THe skin is the bodies native shirt which if it be of a courser thread it is some of Natures homespun houswifry carelesly hudled up when she was in hast to finish a finer peece To smooth such rugged canvas and bring it to a pleasing evennesse that may vie with the polisht Alablaster art here
amber dissolved in rose-water Take the flower of rice half a pound dissolve it in as much milke as is sufficient adde thereto the flesh of a young Capon boild tender sweet almonds 24. beat them well in a morter then mix them with the milke and rice streine all through a course cloth putting thereto what quantity of sugar you please Boile all over a soft fire till it coagulate into the forme of a gelly when it begins to cool adde of amber and muske dissolv'd in rose water as much as will give it a gratefull odour often take a small quantity of it If one part fall away and be are no proportion to the rest of the body you may bring it to even terms thus Take oile of Foxes an ounce and a halfe oile of lillies the greace of Capons and Geese of each two ounces greek pitch pine rosin and turpentine of each two ounces boile all these together in an earthen glazed vessell adding oile of elder one ounce then take it from the fire and adde new wax as much as will suffice to make it into a stiffe cerecloth when it is almost cold spread it upon a strong cloth as much as will wrap up the member then apply it and leave it on all night if you find any inconvenience in it use this following bath Boile in claret wine halfe a handfull of roses wormwood stoechas calamint squinanth rosemary sage cammomile of each one handful let a third part of the wine be consum'd while it is warme bath the place where the cerecloth was applyed this bath doth draw nourishment to the part and strengthens its retentive virtue Thus much of what concernes the beautifying of the body in generall PART II. Of the Head Necke and Breasts YE that intend Ladies to subdue hearts and command with soveraignty in the mint-house of others Affections must be carefull to keep in tune the harmony of these parts remembring that they were intended for beauties glorious Frontispiece to allure Spectators eyes and with a Phoebeau lustre make them its obsequious Heliotropes By what means you are to preserve their splendor you may be instructed in this Second Part. Where you shall learn how to give the Face such a commanding Beauty that all who view it shall yield obedience and none rebel but those who cannot see how your Eyes may be made Cupids chrystal burning glasses to kindle devotion in your Captives hearts and your bushy Hair Venus's Grove in whose twyning Maeanders a pleasing imprisonment shall breed a dislike of former Freedom In a wotd how to advance your Features to such a pitch of dazeling glory that shall make Beauty it self out of countenance and put Cupid hardly to it among so many fair ones to know his Mother CHAP. I. To cure Redness and fiery Pimples in the Face AN inundation of crimson'd blood often drowns the flowry Elysium of a charming face disfigoring it with such a flaming hue as if the juycie god had made it his vineyard and planted it with rubie Grapes To abate the fury of such high colours and fright them into a pleasing paleness call to your assistance the following Receipts As to the general cure you are to abstain from wine except it be very well qualified as also from all meats which heat the blood as those which are sharp or spicy or are easie to be corrupted in the stomack as milk cheese c. use in your broths lettuce spinage purslain sorrel and the like Blood-letting is exceeding good chiefly in the median vein in both the arms some dayes being interposed then in the vein of the forehead afterwards in the neck apply cupping-glasses to the shoulders and neck especially under the chin and sometimes to the thighs and leggs you may also apply leeches to the cheeks and chin to evacuate the blood that is amassed under the skin For more particular remedies if the malady be inveterate begin with Emolients digestives and things that do attenuate not only to rarifie the skin but also to subtilize the humor For if at first you use cold things and repercussives you will condense the skin through which the humors ought to exhale and impact the humor into the substance of the flesh and make it the more contumacious to be dissolved whereby the complexion is made more black and swarthy Prepare then a Decoction of figgs raisins of the Sun washed and ston'd oatmeal soap french barley the leaves of pellitory of the wall camomil mallows violets receive the fume of this Decoction up into the face covering the face and neck with a napkin to keep the fume from dissipating continue this three or four times that the face may be supple and the skin fitted to receive the vertue of your medicines the better Instead of this Decoction you may spread on the visage the warm blood of a pigeon pullet or capon drawn newly from under their wings let the blood lay on all night in the morning wash it off with warm water or the decoction of soap oatmeal or the like Or else in the place of these remedies Take fresh flesh of a neck of beef veal or mutton cut two or three thin slices lay them on the red places and change them often or else they will stink And in case you have no fresh flesh you may take slices of stale put them on the coals and so apply them warm to the redness The next morning wash the face with fine rags dipt in the forementioned decoction When you find that those remedies do something mitigate the fiery colour of your face and asswage the pimples you may proceed to other medicines that have vertue to repercuss the thin and subtle blood and bind the skin that it may not be so apt to receive such noxious vapours nor long retain them Such are these that follow Take a pint of rose water put it into a glasse and steep therein camphire and sulphure finely powdred of each one ounce myrrhe and frankincense of each half an ounce set it in the sun twelve or fifteen dayes Often wash the face with water Take Brimstone one ounce ceruse washed two drams juyce of limmons half a pint juyce of onyons two ounces cuttle bones and camphire of each one dram pound what is to be pounded and incorporate your pouders with your juyces anoint the face therewith going to bed in the morning wash it off with the decoction of bran Take the roots of the greater and lesser serpentary of each one ounce bruise them boile them with as much water of plantane roses water lillies and vinegar as will suffice to bring them to a mash then beat them in a mortar with oyle of roses two ounces adding the finest pouder of burnt oyster shells one dram and a half camfre one scruple Venetian ceruse two drams salt powdred brimstone of each one dram juyce of citrons one ounce make all these into a Liniment for your use Take litharge of gold sulphure viue of each
the hair of a faire length soft Take willow peel wormwood and southernwood dryed roses of each two ounces steep them in a quart of faire water for a night or two then set it over the fire till a third part of the water be evaporated keep it and often wash the haire with it Take the ashes of maidenhaire politrik reed roots flax seed make a lye of all these ashes wherein dissolve a little myrrhe adding thereto a third part of whitewine and then use it CHAP. XVI To soften the Haire when too harsh and stiffe THE Haire on some hangs like thatch on a country Cottage and serves more for use then ornament to secure them from the impetuous injuries of wind and weather rather then with its soft and tender sleaves to delight admiring eyes Such stiff bristles are usual attendants to churlish Corydons who are represented by nothing better then the parallel emblem of surly swine Those then who desire a more graceful covering and and would alter the harsh conceit that others are apt to entertaine of their hoggish natures may to their great advantage use these directions Take the roots of galingale fig leaves camomile melilot mirtle berries what quantity you please make thereof a decoction wherein dissolve salt nitre and rock allum of each two drams adding the like quantity of pumice stones and cuttle bones set all over a gentle fire and while it is warme bath the head therewith before the fire or else in the Sun Take the roots of white and black hellebore briony birthwort round and long wake Robin dry and then powder them afterward rub the haire well therewith Or else make a lye of vine twig ashes wherein boile the meale of beans vetches barly and lupines streine the lye and adde thereto a little white wine then use it Take Emets eggs henbane seed rock allum psyllium and opium of each a like quantity boile them in distilled water of vinegar bathe the haire wel therewith when you have done this make this pouder Take salt Nitre four ounces Pumice stone poudred two ounces Lilly roots and Cuttle bone of each two drams beat them all very fine and rub the hair with it After you have done this use again the former Decoction Take white Saunders and Rhodium of each two ounces Myrrhe and white Amber of each two drams Gentian roots one dram pouder these and use it If it be for any person of quality you may adde two or three grains of Musk. This Pouder is excellent good for the hair CHAP. XVII Remedies for the Hair when it splits VVHen Nature hath spun the slender hair to its utmost length if it be not carefully kept 't will be fray'd and ravel'd at ends by sundry accidents which seem to envy that work they cannot better Your best provision against such injuries are these When you go to bed Take Oyle and Water a like quantity put them into a bottle and incorporate them well together anoint the hair well with it going to bed next morning wash it with this following Take marsh mallows fleabane willow bark boyle them in spring water and use it to wash the head This will keep the hair from splitting but if it be split already you must use this Take Myrtle and Willow leaves of each two ounces poudred labdanum six scruples emblick myrobalans poudred half a dram oyle of Myrtle four ounces white wine two ounces boyle all these over a gentle fire to a consumption of the third part then use it to anoint the extremities of the hair therewith Take the juyce of Willow leaves and Myrtle leaves of each one ounce boyle and evaporate half a way after adde poudred labdanum one ounce then mix all with oyle of myrtle keep it for your hair CHAP. XVIII To make the Hair of what colour you please YEllow Hair was much in request among the antients whence the Poet Forma placet nivensque color flavique capilli Yet now this colour is loaded with obloquies for 't is a fancy generally received that the locks can never sparkle with golden flames without except there be some cherishing heat of lust within so that of late Black is more the fashion being lookt upon as a quality congregating not the sight only but hearts and affections too To make the Hair yellow If any Lady be in love with this colour she may order her hair thus Take shavings of Box stechas cedar liquorice roots scraped and bruised coltsfoot roots maiden hair of each two ounces and a little saffron set all these over the fire till two parts of the water be consumed then strein it and wash the hair therewith Or Take rock Allum Sandarach of each three ounces Saffron one ounce Madder four ounces Vine twigge ashes two drams beat the ashes very small with the Madder boyle the mixture in water till half be consumed then take it from the fire and strein it afterward adde the Saffron Sandarack and Allum keep it close in a bottle when you would use it first comb the hair very well then take a spunge and bath it with this Composition When it is dry wash it with water wherein Fengreek Barly Cumin and Soap have been boyled Make Lye with the ashes of Ivy bark wherein boyle over a gentle fire Madder roots Gentian Celendine shaving of Box yellow Saunders Liquorice cleansed from its outward bark of each one ounce Orange peele and the inner rinde of Barberry tree of each half an ounce green Lupines pounded two ounces Broom flowers yellow Stoechas moth Mullein a sufficient quantity of each bath the hair with a spunge dipt in this Decoction then dry it gently in with warm cloaths evening and morning use likewise a Combe steeped in this Decoction it gives a graceful colour to young peoples hair Take the first buds of the black Poplar pound them with fresh butter set them in the Sun for five days then strein them and presse out the butter wash it with lye made of the ashes of Box tree then use it to anoint the hair To make the Hair or Beard black though before grey The hair either of head or beard will be as black as Jet if you Take the shells of green Walnuts bark of Oak roots of each three ounces the oldest and deepest coloured red Wine eight ounces boyle them to the consumption of half then strein the juyce and press it hard whereunto adde one pound and a half of oyle of Myrtle set in six dayes in the Sun in a leaden Mortar and stir it with a leaden Pestle then use it Take burnt Lead three ounces Nutgals Walnut shells of each four ounces terra sigillata the like quantity Roman vitriol six ounces sal gem one ounce and a half Nutmegs Cloves of each one ounce sal amoniac aloes of each half an ounces pouder and steep them three dayes in sharp vinegar then distil it in an Alembick and afterward keep it for use Take quick Lime one ounce of both the litharges
dry in the Sun that you may bring them into a pouder Afterward Take one pound of this pouder iris root and Saunders poudred of each four ounces starch six ounces beat them altogether in a mortar adding liquid storax and oyl of benjamin what quantity you please anoint the hands with this Composition and it will marvelously whiten smooth and sent them Take half a pound of Figs as many Raisins of the Sun ston'd and a like quantity of bitter Almonds beat them all severally in a mortar as small as you can then mix them together adding two Limmons par'd and minc'd and two good handfuls of Bean meal boyle all these in a pinte of white Wine vinegar stirring them continually when it hath boyled so long that it sticks no more to the Posnet then put it forth into a gally pot and keep it use some quantity of it to scour your hands every time you wash Take Labdanum four ounces Styrax calam three ounces Benjamin two ounces put them into a brazen mortar heated work them together with a hot Pestle till they are pretty soft adde poudred Soap two pound then strew thereon liquid Storax two ounces make it into a Composition with a little Rosewater and keep it to scour your hands Take Starch meale of Beans Lupins Rice iris roots of each four ounces pouder them very small searce them and then mix them together when you wash your hands take a little of this pouder and moisten to rub them withal If you like an Ointment do thus Take oyle of sweet Almonds four ounces take a little white Wax and put to it boyl it over the fire adde one dram of Camfre and make it into an Unguent it will both keep the hands from sun-burn and make them exceeding white When the milky whiteness of the hands is eclyps'd by the azure veins that swell too big chaff them well with water wherin allum hath been dissolved then wash them in warm water presently after annoint them with an unguent made of Ceruse Take wax an ounce and a halfe turpentine three ounces frankincense fenugreek mastick of each two ounces a half three graines of musk dissolve the wax and turpentine in a new pipkin then add half a pound of common oile when it begins to boyl strew in the masâ—ick frankincense senugreek all being powdred incorporate them together and make an ointment CHAP. IV. For the Hands when they are swoln and look red or blew with cold IF your hands like the flowry fields dismantle themselves of their richest livery at the approach of the crabbed winter laying aside their youthful lovelinesse do shelter themselves under some more serious colour that may better suit with the humour of that grave decrepit season Ye may I adies reapparell them with their native whiteness by the help of these directions following Often bath your hands in wine wherein you have boiled nettles rosemary time rue penny royall the frequent use of this decoction will keep them from swelling As soon as they begin to swell and rise into knobs apply a repercussive plaister made of barly meale and juice of limmons or take litharge oile of roses and vinegar work them wel together into a liniment to anoint the affected places If the swellings do not yeild to these medicines Take the yolks of five eggs calcine them and mix them well with barrows grease anoint the hands well therewith going to bed draw on a paire of smooth gloves and so lye all night Take turpentine mix it with half its quantity of salt stir them well together till they are pretty thick then apply it to the swoln hands Take oyl of dil oyl of sweet almonds of each one ounce mucilage of gum tragaganth made with pennyroyal water three drams powdred starch eight drams mix and make them into an ointment it takes away the cold swellings of the hands and reduces them to their former Colour CHAP. V. Remedies for those vices which are incident to the nails THE nails are pearlie helmets wherewith prudent nature hath arm'd the active fingers to which if they are neatly burnisht they give a commanding comliness and may at a pressing exigencie be fit materials to head Cupids piercing shafts their oriental beautie is thus preserved When the nails are spotted remove the spots with these medicaments Incorporate myrrhe with a sufficient quantity of turpentine and apply it Or else take sulphur vive work it together with a convenient quantity of pitch and tarre use it as a plaister you may if you please add a little vinegar Mix flax seed beaten with hony and wax put it to the naile that is spotted If the naile be bruised and becomes black by reason of the blood that congeals underneath apply a cerecloth that is made of capons grease sheeps grease with oile of cammomile or dil afterward to dissolve the setled blood use goats dung tempered with sulphur Or incorporate cummin seed with diachylum ireatum and oile of camomile in forme of an unguent Ducks grease mixt with Euphorbium is singular good to discusse the condensed blood By some mischance or other the top of the finger is oftentimes so bruised that the naile comes off to make it come again foment the part with wine wherein dates have been steeped Take Flaxseed one ounce cardamoms three drams as much hony as will make it into a plaister this will make a naile that is cleft or rotted to come away the same effect hath the juice of stinking orach When the naile by these means is fallen off to make it grow againe you may use that which was before prescribed If the flesh or skin grows too much over the nails milk of spurge dropt thereon is very good Or take salt barly meal and costus poudred mix them with so hony as will make them into a plaister and apply it to the flesh CHAP. VI. Remedies for the galling fretting and sweating of the feet THE Body that fleshie pallace of a deathlesse guest would sink beneath its own magnificence were it not upheld by the feet those beauteous pedestals to the sister columns that more immediately support the structure If they are once fretted or stand on too moist a foundation they may chance to slip and so the whole aedefice of beauty hazard it self by catching a fall Your wisest way will be to secure them thus When the feet are galled take emplastrum diachalcit dissolve it in oile of mirtle and use it to anoint the feet Oile of eggs made by expression or else oyl prest from wheat betwixt two iron plates is very good You may likewise use those things which have been formerly commended to take away chaps Vnguentum album or diapomphol are not applyed without good successe the like might be said of the oile of flax fresh butter the yolk of an egg made into an unguent The feet if they are often subject to troublesome sweatings may thus be ordered bath them in warm water wherein