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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45754	The ladies dictionary, being a general entertainment of the fair-sex a work never attempted before in English.	N. H.; Dunton, John, 1659-1733.	1694 (1694)	Wing H99; ESTC R6632	671,643	762

Extravagant Panatasticks be more moderate in Athens Powders for the Hair Linen and Sweet Bags Powders of this Kind are made several ways and are of Great Efficacy for Ladyes After you have made use of many things if nevertheless you meet with any that defies your Charms and is obstinate do you not despair for we will teach you how you shall tickle his Nose with a Powder and cartously fetch him about with is which will give you so rich a Scent that the Roses and Violets in your Cheeks shall not make you hath so sweet Powder of a curious Scent is made of Florentine Iris 〈◊〉 timely powder'd one pound Benjamin four ounces Cloves the like quantity Starax two ounces powder them all very line use them and well mix them together This you may 〈◊〉 to sent your Hair Powder we had adding about 3 ounces of it to a pound of Starch or Rice Grounds well find and 〈◊〉 Again take Iris Roots fix ounces Red Rose leaves powdered four ounces Cyprus half a ●iachm Marjorum Storax and Cloves of each an ounce Yellow Saunders and Benjamine of each half an ounce Violets 3 drachms Musk a dicham powder these isior Sweet Bags or to lay among Linen very grosly him if let the hair very fine Powder to give the Hands or any part of the body an Excellent odour make in this manner Take the pressings of sweet and bitter Almonds after the oyle is drawn off of either sort four Ounces the flower of French Barly and Luptu of each two Ounces the Roots of Ins an Ounce white Roses dryed Benjamine fix drachms Salt of white Tartar white Chalk powdered sperma 〈◊〉 of each half an Ounce Oyle of 〈◊〉 one Scrupie of cloves and I avender each half of Scrapie mix and make them into a pouder well dryed and if you would have your hands seemed and of a curious white or any other part of the body rub on this pouder and it will effect your desire you may with Rose water make it into a Past let your face and it will beautify it Perfumes to 〈◊〉 Sweet Candles c. Perfumes Ladies of this kind are very greatful to the finelling and more advantageons where Lights are made of them as Sweet Candles c you are indeed very much beholden to ordinary Candles for when the gloomy Night would befriend your Chambermaids and make them seem as handsome as your selves that which discovers the mistake and makes you be preferr'd before them is the Friendly Light those Candles lend They shew the difference between a 〈◊〉 and the Foils that 〈◊〉 attend her but if those common ones are so serviceable to you these will certainly be more for if you can but once procure these Ignes fatui to lead men about you need never fear but to have servants enough dancing after you Perfumes are made sundry ways but the best are these Take Labdanum two drachms styrax Calamint a drachm and an half Benjamine White Amber Red Roses Wood of Aloes Cinamon Cyprius and Cloves of each two Scruples Amber and Musk each five Grains made with Gum Tragacanth into small Cakes the Gum being first dissolved in Spirit of Roses one of which Cakes being cast on the coals scents the Chamber with a very pleasing odoriferous Vapour Again Take dry'd Charcoal made of Willow one ounce Mirrh Wood Storax Aloes Calamint of each one ounce and an half Labdanum an ounce Amber and Musk each seven Grains dissolve half an ounce of Gum Tragacanth in Rose water with a little Spirit of Wine and make them up into Rolls like small Candles which being set a burning will give a pleasing perfume Again Take Benzoin Storax and Calamint each half an ounce Wood of Aloes two drams Zibet not adulterated one drachm Galia Muscata one Scruple Oyl of Roses and of Cloves of each half a Scruple mix them well with Damusk Rose Water and make them into little Bails and they are an Excellent Perfume Perfumes of these sorts add Ladyes the Roses Sweetness to the Lillyes loveliness of your snowy hands Scent then your Gloves with these Perfumes and those that take you by the hand shall find all pleasures grasp'd in an handful wherein all Ravishing Objects are that can convey those charming Delights to the admiring Fancy that pleases the sight and feasts the Feeling with its downy softness and the Smelling with perfume Perfume then of this Kind to make it Take an ounce of the whitest Gum Tragacanth dissolve it in Water then take Musk Amber and dry'd Majoram of each one Scruple boil them gently all together and in the boiling add half a Scruple of Zibet put these into a covered Vessel till they are cold and when you have order'd your Gloves sit for its being laid on chase it into them being cold and smoothing them as well as may be lay them in a convenient place to dry or wash the Gloves you first intend to perfume in White wine then dry them in the shade after that wash them again in a pint of Rose Water scented with Oyl of Jessimine Cloves Nutmegs and Labdanum of each half a Scruple then take Musk Zibet and Ambergreece of each five Grains beat them together in a Mortar with a little oyl of Spike and mucilage of Gum Tragacanth dissolved in Rose Water and chase in this composition the Gloves being well safh'd before a gentlefire By these measures you may make any perfumes most grateful to your scent for the same way they are all ordered of what fort soever that is usually subject to be perfum'd and therefore to go on any further in this matter would be but a Repetition of what has been already said so Ladies we have you Experience shews what has been laid down which we doubt not will answer your Expectations in any persuming of this Kind Pride As for Pride she hath so many feathers added to her wings that she covereth all the earth with her shadow Our men are grown to esseminate and our women so man-like that if it might be I think they would exchange genders What modest eye can with patience behold the immodest gestures and attires of our women No sooner with them is infancy put on but impudency is put on they have turned Nature into Art so that a man can hardly discern a woman from her image Their bodies they pinch in as if they were angry with Nature for casting them in so gross a mould but as for their looser parts them they let loose to prey upon whatsoever their last darting eyes shall seize upon Their breasts they lay to the open view like two fair Apples of which whosoever tasteth shall be sure of the knowledge of evil of good I dare not warrant him Some Gentlewomen have more to do to attend their Beautyes than the Vestal Virgins to maintain their sacred Fires In the morning they study their Glass in the Afternoon they are taken up and down with Visits where you may see they are not wronged