A thinge of great excellencie The ende of the fourth booke THE Secretes of the reuerende Master Alexis of Piemount THE FIFTE BOOKE ☞ To make perfyt Asure such as commeth from beyond the seas TAke fyrste a pounde of Lapis Lasuli spotted like Marble and somewhat of the colloure of Asure with some veynes of Golde or greene of the whiche you shall make this profe folowynge Take a little piece of it and put it vpon hote coales blowinge it with a payre of bellowes the space of an houre than let it coole agayne and touche it with your hande if it breake and vndoe lyke earth it is nothinge worth but if it abyde fyrme and harde together and keepe his colour of Asure it is good Than take a pounde of the same and breake it into small pieces whiche you shall melte in the fyre the space of a good houre blowinge it continuallye This doen take good Vyneygre distilled in some kynde of vessell wherein you shall quenche the sayed pieces and let them drye than take water made as foloweth Take a panne leaded and putte in it a quarte of cleere water and a lytle rawe whyte honnye Boyle it and skymme it well vntyll there be no more skumme and so let it coole Than take of Dragons bloude wel stamped the quantitie of a Walnutte and wette it lyttle and little with the sayed water and it beynge wel dipt strayne it thorowe a linnen cloth into some vessell leaded And you muste note that the water may not be to rodde nor to cleere but betwene both that is to saye betwene cleere and redde to the ende that the Asure may take a Violette coloure After this braye well the sayde Lapis lasuli so molten and burned with the sayed water as vermilleon is commonly brayed by the space of an hour or more thā assemble it together in a glasse or some other vessell leaded ample and large drying it in the shadowe and not in the Sunne for it would lose his colour And whan it is drye beate it well to poulder and keepe it in some cleane lynen cloth wel 〈◊〉 than make this past folowinge Take two vnces of the cosin or gomme of a white pine tree two vnces of Pigraeca two vnces of Mastick two vnces of y e oyle of line two vnces of Turpentine two vnces of newe Ware stampe well that must be stamped and cutte the Ware into small pieces than put all in a newe panne and boyle it till it come to his perfection whiche maye be knowen by castinge a droppe of it into cold water and if in takinge it with your wette hande it cleaue not to your hande it is parfecte and therfore you shal straine it thorowe some cleane cloth into a vessell full of colde water but this must you do while it is yet hote for if it be cold it will not straine and leaue it so longe in the water vntyll it be harde than take it and set it to drye Nowe whan you will incorporate it with the poulder do thus Cut the sayde confection in smal pieces which you shall put into some kettle tinned within and set it so on the fyre and whan it beginneth to bubble vp put to it an vnce of the oyle of bytter Almondes lettyng it so boyl the space of two Miserere and in the meane time make ready your poulder of Lapis lasuli in a vessel with some little sticke made for the purpose than take the kettle and poure it by little and lyttle into the vessell vpon the sayed poulder not ceassinge to sturre it alwayes with the lyttle sticke vntill it be all well incorporated with the sayd poulder of Lapis lasuli This doen let it cole than annoinct your handes with oyle Oliue and take the sayd substaunce and tosse it vp and downe with youre handes to thende to incorporate it well together And after you haue broughte it to the fourme and fashion of breade or paste put it in a vessell leaded and keepe it so the space of tenne dayes at the leaste And whan you will take out of it the Asure make fyrst cleare lie with the asshes of vynes of the whiche you shall set a kettle full to the fyre seethinge it as hote as you may endure your hande in it than after putte the saied confection or paste in a vessell leaded and adde to it as muche of the saied lie as you shall thinke good Than styre the saied substaunce fayre and softlye vntyll you see the Asure come out and whan you see it issued out poure the saied lie with the Asure into a vessell leaded of the which vesselles you must haue a good nomber than put to it againe of the other hote lie doinge as before puttinge it afterward againe into another vessell and do thus vntill there be no more Asure And here you muste note that of a pounde of Lapis lasuli if it be fine there is loste but an vnce and is had oute of it in the whole eleuen vnces that is to say fiue vnces of good and fine three vnces of a mean sorte and three vnces of courser The fine is worth at the leaste twoo crownes and a halfe the vnce the meane a crowne an vnce and the other halfe a crowne Nowe after you haue gotten out all the Asure loke well whiche is like the one the other for to put eche of them by them selues into three partes as we haue saied Than washe it wel with fayre and cleere lye pouringe it out of one vessell into another vntil it be come to a good colour and purified from all ordure and fylth And whan you thinke it is cleane inough drie itin the shadowe in a chaumber and whan it is drie take a glassefull of fine Aqua vite and stiepe in it a little good brasill than trimme and dresse your Asure with the same Aqua vite and let it drie continuinge so the space of three dayes vntil the Asure be participant and haue taken parte of suche lycoure and than it shall be of an excellent fyne coloure Keepe eche sort by it selfe in bagges of leather well sowed and bounde ☞ To make a fyne confection of graine called Laeca of grayne TAke a pounde of the shearinge of scarlette and put it in a newe panne full of lie that is not to stronge and boyle it vntyll the lie take the coulour of it This doen take a bagge large and wyde aboue and narrowe poincted beneth whereinto you shall powre the sayed shearing of scarlette and the lye setting a vessell vnderneth than wringe and presse the bagge harde that all the substaunce and all the coloure may straine and dreane out after that washe the shearinge and the bagge in the vessel where the colour is And if you thinke that the shearinge hath yet more colour in it boyle it againe with other lie ordring it as before This done you shall heate the sayed couloured lye vpon the fire but let it not boile and you must haue ready
the Suger and other thinges in the glasses and kepe it well couered Then take the Iuice of all these thinges followyng of redde Roses or incarnate of Succorie of Endiue of Fumiterie of Buglosse of Borage of Mallowes of Hoppes of the leaues and flowers of Marche violettes of eche of these iuices a like quaÌ„titie then mixe them wel together That doen take a pound or two of Aloes EpaticaÌ„ or as moche as you wil for the more there is the better it shall be bicause that thesaid Aloe beyng sosteeped watered and prepared as we will she we you is a verie exquisite familiare medecine to kepe in a house and take of it by litle lumpes or pilles ones in the weke when a man goeth to bed for it kepeth the body from putrifaction and from all euill humours and is very profitable and good against the ache or paine in the ioinctes and also for the Frenche Pockes as herafter we will declare orderly Take of the saied Aloe of the best and the freshest soche a quantitie as you will and put it in a cup of glasse or cleane platter as is aboue said and set it in a windowe or some other place in the Sonne watryng or stepyng it in thesaid iuices mingled together giuing it therof as often as shalbe sufficient to make it moist and to make of it as it were athicke sirop Then couer the cup with a clene linen clothe or paper to kepe it onely from the duste and leaue it so in the Sonne And when it is almoste waxen drie embibe or water it again as before and let it stand in the Sonne This shall you doe so often vntill you haue made it soke and drinke vp as moche iuice as the weight of halfe the Aloe onely that is to saie if the Aloe weighe twoo pound make it drinke vp at diuers times one pouÌ„d of thesaid iuices This doen take these thinges followeyng Turbit halfe and vnce fine Sinamom Spica Nardi Fole foote alias Astrabacca Squinantum Carpobalsamum Xilobalsamum Lignum Aloes Bdellium Mirrhe Mastic of eche of them an vnce with halfe an vnce of Safron All these thynges beyng well beaten into pouder and put into a cleane panne you shall poure into theim so moche common water that it surmounte thesaied matieres a good hande breadth lettyng theim boile with a a small fire the space of an hower or more After this you shall straine the saied decoction and by litle and litle water from tyme to tyme the said Aloe in the Sonne as you haue afore doen and this you shall doe so long vntill the Aloe haue dronke vp all the decoction This doen take it out of the Sonne and it shall be a precious thing to kepe in your house as we haue all ready declared whiche also maintaineth the body in health kepeth the heade cleane and causeth to haue a good colour and a quicke and liuely spirite to them that vse of it He that is not of abilitie to make this mixtion in the maner aboue said maie make it in this wise Kepe diligently the saied Aloe in litle disshes of woode to make this that wee will speake of here followyng Take Aqua vite not to fine nor of the first stillyng but stilled twise or thrise at the moste And putte in diuers litle violles of glasse the one bigger then the other all these thynges followyng well beaten into pouder at the lest those that maie be beaten puttyng also in eche of theim asmoche of the Aqua vite as shall bee three fingers aboue them in the Violles doyng as hereafter foloweth Take an vnce of smalle fine Perles well wasshed three or fower tymes in cleare water and then beyng dried and laied in the iuice of Lemons or CytroÌ„s well strained leaue theim so by the space of three daies and so put the saied perles that thei maie be with thesaid iuice remaining in the glasse putting to them Rose water three fingers high or aboue the perles as is afore meÌ„tioned Then take an vnce of fine read Corall and put it likewise in the Iuice of Lemons or Citrons vsyng it in al poinctes like as ye did the perles puttyng it in a glasse by it self with Rose water with fower vnces of blew Vâ—triol well burned in a close pot This doen take the flowers tender stalkes of Rosemarie of Burrage of Buglosse of Sage of Selandine of Isope of Scabiose of Rue of sainct Ihons worte of Primroses together with all the tender leaues of the saied herbes and then stampe them slightly in a morter of stone or wood and put them altogether into one glasse or into diuers with as moche Aqua vite as will be aboue them three or fower fingers as we haue saied of the other thinges and let them frande so in the glasse wel stopped with ware or bombase Take after this halfe an vnce of Saffron well beaten into pouder and put it in a glasse by it self with Rose water after the maner of the other thynges then put to it fower vnces of Triacle with Rose water in an other glasse after the foresaied maner and take one vnce of fine Cinamom a quarter of an Vnce of Cloues an Vnce of Lignum Aloe an vnce of Anise seede and vnce of Fenell seede halfe an vnce of Smallage seede fiue or sixe vnces of Ieniper berries halfe an vnce of Cheruell seede of the seede and bark of a Cedartree of eche of them twoo vnces halfe an vnce of Myrrhe a quarter of an vnce of Storax or Styrax Liquida an Vnce of Bengewine an vnce of Sandali of all sortes of Mirabolanes of eche of theÌ„ three vnces of Pine apple kernelles mondified three vnces of yelowe Ambre whiche the Apoticaries call Carabe twoo vnces thre vnces of white Dittanie grene or drie the eight parte or as litle as you will of an vnce of Muske Let all these thynges hee well stamped and mixed together and putte in a glasse with their Aqua vite as is saied of the other You must then stoppe well all the saied violles or glasses or other vesselles with waxe or bombase and with parechement ouer it and so set them a daie in the Sonne and the night followyng in the aire abrode The morowe after take some great vessell of glasse as thicke as you can get hauyng no couer bicause you maie alwaies loke into it and thereinto you shall powre faire softly the Rose water that is in all the glasses eche of them beyng coloured with their substaunce in soche maner that no part of the substaunces whiche are in the bottome be mixte with it And after hauing put al the saied Aqua vite into the said vessell as is aboue said ye shal set it in some place where as no Soonne can in any wise come vnto it But beware that the three first glasses that is to saie with the Suger the MaÌ„na and the Honie in the dewe ought neuer to be set in the Sonne but must be kept vntil you
theight part of an vnce fine suger◠a dragme roche Alume burned a dragme of Nill a dragme let all these thynges bee well beaten to pouder and sifted through a fine seeue then take grene leaues of an Oliue tree and beate them in a morter of stone moisting them a litle with white wine the whiche being well stamped ye must strain in a presse or betwene .ij. trāchours for to get out the Iuice and putte to it as moche Plantaine Iuice then set it to the fire in a litle potte and afterward put in it by litle and litle the saied pouder minglyng altogether continually And laste of all ye muste adde vnto it a litle grene waxe and a verie litle Honie rosat that it maie be a liquide ointemente and so keepe it This ointemente is very precious to consume all maner of ercrescence or growyng vp of fleshe in any tender place of the body as in the secrete members or in the nose whereunto a man dare not applicque any strong or smartyng thyng Now when ye muste vse it for the carnosite within a mannes yarde you shall take firste of all a Squirte and fill it with white wine wherein drie Roses and Plantaine leaues haue been sodden and boiled wherewith also ye shall mix a litle womans milke or the milke of a Gote then washe well the mannes yarde within with this Squirte After this take a litle waxe candell somwhat long and of soche greatnesse as it maie enter into his yarde at the poincte whereof ye shall put a litle of the saied ointemente warming it a litle and thrust it as farre into his yarde as you can vntil you feele the Carnosite and leaue the said ointmente within the yarde a litle while then take it out again and doe thus mornyng and euenyng liyng a bedde his bealie vpward when ye shall put in the candell with the ointement and you shall see a meruellous effecte for it shall heale hym throughly in fewe daies without any daunger To heale all maner of inflamatiō and euill disposition of the liuer and by this same secrete haue been healed certain persones whiche had their faces as it were Leparie greate swollen legges their handes inflambed and rough within side TAke flower or Amilum made of Barley whiche ye shall easily finde at the Apoticaries and seeth it halfe an houre in common water then straine it and put it in an other newe pot that is clene and not puttyng to it a fewe Mallowes Succorie Hoppes Endiue and Burrage and seeth all these together vntill it bee dissolued and adde to it an vnce of Sandal and then straine all and take in a linnen clothe as moche Cassia extracta as will goe in to twoo Nuttes and put it within the saied linen clothe with the Cassia while the water be hote pressyng it so harde betwene your twoo fingers that all the substaunce of it maie goe into the saied water then putte it to the Suger or Penides as moche as you will Of this drinke whiche is of a very amiable sauoure ye must take from daie to daie a litle glasse ful in the mornyng liyng in your bed with your brest vpward then laiyng some linen clothe vpon your stomack slepe if you can and take of it also after you be vp and haue dooen your necessaries the whiche doyng you shal finde your self very well healed in fewe daies But here note that this must be doen in Sommer and not in Winter and he that hath his stomack very cold maie weare before his brest some pece of Scarlat or other clothe and sometyme annointe his stomacke with an oile made for the weakenesse of it the perfecte composition whereof we will put hereafter To heale the Emorhodes or Piles in a nighte a rare secrete and verie excellente TAke the leaues of grene Elder and boyle theim in water vntill thei be dissolued Then take a piece of redde cloth a litle bigger then the palme of your hand and stretche it a long vpō your palme Now must the pacient be in his bed with his bealy douneward bicause ye must laie the said leaues vpon the Emorhodes hot as thei wer taken out of the caudron hauyng laied vpon them before a litle oile Oliue Then take an other litle piece of cloth with other leaues and take awaie the first continuyng thus and chaungyng alwaies the leaues if not all the night at the least as long as ye maie and also in the meane time ye must let the patient slepe as moche as he will who in the mornyng shall finde hym self as lustie and as well disposed as if he had neuer had the disease A singuler ointment whiche healeth all burnynges with fire not leauyng any cicatrice or skarre where it hath been TAke the white of twoo Egges twoo vnces of Tutia Alexandrina twoo vnces of quicke Lime wasshed in .ix. waters an Vnce of new Waxe with as moche Oyle Rosatte as shall suffice and make thereof an ointmente whiche ye shall finde verie good for this that we haue spoken of A perfecte and proued remedie for them that bee weake of stomacke and can not keepe their meate without vomityng it vp again HAuyng taken twoo pounde of redde waxe and made prouision of a dishefull of oile oliue take peces of Alablaster and heate thē in the fire and then quenche theim in the saied Oile heate them again and quenche them as before and so three or fower times This doen beate the Alablaster to pouder and mixe it with the said ware and oile wherein it was quenched then put all to distill through a croke necked violle like a Bagge pipe claied rounde about sauyng the bottome whiche distillers beyonde sea doe vse the Frenche men cal Retorte or Cornue and make soche a fire as the Oile maie distille w t al the rest y t possible maie be distilled and then keepe it puttyng to it halfe an vnce of Mirrhe beaten in pouder And when you will put it in effecte ye must take a litle pan of Brasse or Iron and hauyng the toppes and leaues of Worme woode whiche is a bitter herbe put them in the saied Oile and seeth or frie all together then take it hote as it is and rubbe the patientes breast with it vp to the throte doyng thus alwaies at night when he is in his bedde and it shall make his stomacke strong He must vse in his meate as moche Rosemarie as he can bee it rawe or otherwise and specially in his drinke He must vse likewise the moste excellente Aqua vite whereof we will speake hereafter An excellente remedie wherewith a woman of .xxxvi. yeres was healed that had so marred her stomacke that in the space of twoo yeres and an balfe she was neuer naturally purged douneward and as sone as she had eatē any thing she vomited it vp againe so that she became yelowe and as drie as a sticke A Monke of the order of saincte Augustine a man of greate knowledge and full of meruelous
ye may put in stede of it y â— oyntment called Dialtea which is found coÌ„monly at the Apoticaries And when ye wil boyle the dog in the kettle it shalbe good to put to it thre torteses that liue on the lande and not on the water and so shall the said oyntment be very excellent for the goute A certein man of mine acquaintaunce of the age of thirtie yeres vexed with the gout whome I made take of this oyle and anoynt himself a litle in the place of the griefe and about it putting to it two partes of oyle rosat one part of oyle violet two partes of the said oyle of the dogge told me that he had found a merueylous ease and helpe by it And the said griefe returning againe foure times at sondrie times yet anoyntinge himselfe therewith thre times as is aforesayde the paine came vnto hym no moore in the space of three yeares that wee were in Rome together whiche was the yere 1514. And thys man was called Diego a Portugall and dwelte at the mount Iordan Sith that tyme being gone to Venise and from thence into Leuaunt I haue heard nothynge of hym To make an oyntment the most excellent in the worlde whose vertues are infinite as we will declare afterwarde VVhiche Princes ought to commaunde to be made and kept in their coÌ„mon wealthes and that it should be made in the presence of Phisitions as Triacle is made or at the least euerie man ought to haue it in his house and speciallie bycause a man may make a great quantite of it and the lenger it is kept the better it waxeth TAke first oyle Roset the oyls of Violettes the Oyle of Neuuphar oyle of Spick oyle of the herbe called Costum commonlie called Cocus or herba marie the oyle of Bay oile of Nutmegges the oyle of the blossomes of Iasemin of eche of them a pounde The oyle of Nutmegges and of Sinamom is made in seething Nutmegges or Sinamon wel stamped in oyle Oliue And in the like maner ye may make the oyle or decoction of Xilobalsamum of Carpobalsamum of lignum Aloe of Mirrhe of Frankensence of the guÌ„me of Iuie of Masticke and of Cloues and it shall suffise onely to put in the oyle of these said spices half as much as eche of the other mounteth vnto that is to say half a pound Likewise must ye make oyle of Campher but ye muste not seeth it but onely warme the oyle Oliue in a litle pan and poure it so vpon the Campher a good way of from the fire than must you soubdaynlie couer it for the Campher is so fine and delicate that it would incontinent breath out and vanish away and therefore dothe the Campher cleaue vnto the lidde and sides of the pan bicause it cannot get out You must put onlie halfe an vnce of Campher for euerie two or three pounde of the whole quantite of the other oyles together than adde to it a pounde of the oyle of Turpentine made by distillation and three vnces of the oyle of Storar liquida after this put all these oyles so mingled together into a great cawdron or kettell tinned within which muste be high and narrow to the ende that all the thynges that ye will put in maie afterwarde be well couered with the saied oyles And the sayde cawdron ought to haue a couer that maie close him well and iustly than set it vpon a small fire and put in three of these blacke Vipers iij. Todes .x. of these litle beastes called in latine Tarantulae or Stelliones which be like vnto Lisardes hauinge spottes on their backes like Starres and .l. Scorpions And if ye can get anie other venimous beastes put them in quicke if not at the first time at the least at euerie time whan ye can haue them and after you haue well couered and closed the cawdron giue it but a light fire the space of .v. or .vi. daies It shall be good to set the saied cawdron in maner of a Fornayse as it were to make Salt peter or as Sope cawdrons be set than after by the space of a day make the fire a litle greater vntill all the venimous beastes be broken into pieces and almost consumed in the sayd oyle wherinto it should be good to haue put first a pot of good white Wine Than hauing taken the cawdron from the fire and taken all the sayde beastes presse them or wringe them hard in some canuesse or linnen cloth weatâ— with white Wine Than take the oyle of Saincte Ihons wort compounde as we haue before declared halfe as muche as all the oyle of the sayde beastes and the thyrd part of the oyle of the redde dogge mingle all well together and put to it the blossomes of Selandine the blossomes of Sainct Ihons worte suche a quantite as you will puttinge also to it a handefull of white salte the iuice of Taxus barbatus and of white DictamuÌ„ at your discretion the iuice of Crispina rubra if ye can gette it This Crispina rubra is a herbe like vnto a Thistle and is taken of Ioannis Agricola to be the brier called Respis but it hath leaues lâ—sser and tenderer than a Thistle and is eaten almost in euerie place in Italie in Salades And there it is called in some places Cardonello and in Venise Sigone The red Crispin is in al poinctes like vnto the white and greene and differeth in nothynge but in colour it is a verie precious herbe I saw once a man that clefte a yonge Kiddes head almost a sunder and after layde to it onely the iuice of the sayde redde Crispin and ioyned the head together and bounde it with a bande and in two daies the Kidde was healed as sounde as he was before Also it is verie good in the time of a Plage or pestilence as wee will afterwarde declare Than if you can get of the iuice of the saied Crispina or Cardonello ye shall put a pound of it with the said oyles and as much of the iuice of Carduus benedictus a pounde of the flouers or blossomes of the said Carduus benedictus an vnce of LignuÌ„ Aloe in pouder and an vnce of Saffran Set all these thinges well mixed together in the Sunne all the whole Sommer time in diuers vessels of glasse or of earth leaded within wel couered with paper or linen clothe And keepe it as a precious thyng whose vertues to expresse it is impossible The saied oyle is excellent good principallie for all maner of contractions and shrinkinges of the members of a mans bodie and of woundes as well olde as fresshe against Fistules Cankers and the disease called in latin Struma whiche is a swelling in the throte of gathered matter and bloud whiche wee call in English the Kinges euil or the Quinses whan the place of the sore is rubbed with it or when Towe weate in the sayde oyle is laied vnto it and beginnyng in the first quarter of the wane or decreasynge of the Moone with the grace of
wil drawe to it self all the venim and poyson of the plague or soore so that in shorte time he shall be cured A remedye oftentymes proued †A very good remedy agaynst the markes of the plage commonly called Goddes markes TAke freshe and greene Rhaponticum which is the herbe and rote called the more and great Centorie it is named of Pliny as Ruellius writeth Rhacoma the rotes of the herbe called Sanguinaria Dactilon of some Dens canis of Dioscorides Coronopus that is to saye crowes fote Some take it to be Dandelion The rootes of Turmentylle white Dictanium of eche of these an vnce stampe all well and put it in a pot or vyole with well riuer or cunduyte water at your discretion rather to muche then to litle vntyll it passe halfe a handfull aboue the other thinges in the potte or more then let it boyle with a lytle cleare and flaminge fire without smoke vntil it be diminished of the third part than straine it out softly and it will be of the colour of wine kepe it in some vessell of glasse and whan necessitie requyreth you may geue the patient a glassefull of it in the morninge and as muche at night two houres before supper and it must be very hote than couer him well in his bedde and make hym sweate Whan the markes come forth he shall become like a lazar or leper and shall be shortly cured †Agaynst the mortalitie of the pestilence a verye perfyt remedie TAke Gentian Seduaria rootes of Turmentille of eche of them two vnces redde Sandale whit and recent Dictanium hartes horne burned white pearles Bole armenick rounde Aristolochia of eche of theim an vnce Campher halfe an vnce white Sugre two vnces of all these thinges well beaten to poulder you shal take at euery time a dragme with thre vnces of endiue water or sorell water myre the water and the poulder with the bignesse of a Walnutte of fine Triacle You must ministre this medicine before the sicknesse hathe continued with the person twelue houres for it is than surer If in case after the twelue houres it worke not so well as you woulde haue it yet muste you haue a good hope And if the patient be yet in the age of infancy you shall geue him halfe a dragme of it with an vnce and a halfe of one of the sayd waters and with a like quantitie of Triacle The sayde drinke is not soluble or laxatiue nor causeth no greif to him but onelye killeth the poyson If any man had dronken or eaten anye poison this is a verye good medecine for him it is also good agaynst a hote feuer or ague Note also that if it be possible the patient muste be let bloude before he take the sayde medecine if not let it be done afterwarde that is to say on the same syde that he fealeth the greif ☞ To make litle rounde apples or balles agaynst the plage TAke Laudanum halfe an vnce Storax calamita an vnce Olambre diamusci of eche of theym halfe a dragme Campher two graynes Cloues fiftene graines Nutmegges Mace of eche of them halfe an eyghte parte damaskine Rose a scrupule Synamom halfe a dragme Spicknarde fiftene graynes Muske Câ—uet of eche of them eyghte graynes fine Uiolettes halfe a dragme lignum Aloes foure graines Calami aromaetici the bignesse of a Beane fine Amber foure graines Myrre the bignesse of a Beane Stampe firste the Laudenum with a hote pestell than stampe well the Storax calaminta and all the other thinges eche one by it selfe and than mixe all together and stampe it still with a hote pestell addinge to it at euerye time Storax liquida and Rose water vntill all the saied thinges bee well incorporated and than make youre rounde apples or balles An oyntment to kill the plage TAke Sope makers water and boyle it vntill it waxe or become as it were an oyntment than take of the woode of Willowe or Beeche and burne it after quenche the coles in vinagre and drie them in the shadowe in suche sorte that a man maye stampe and sift them Take also quicke lime at youre discretion and mingle it with the saied Sope water then take the same pouder vntill you haue ynough and halfe an vnce of freshe and sweete Hogges grease or seyme mixe all together after this dooen take of lytle greene wormes shininge with a glosse like golde bred in the toppe of Asshes or Oliues called in Latyne Cantharidae or Cantharides halfe a dragme beate theym into pouder and mixe theym together with the rest making an oyntment somewhat harde leaue it so in some vessell well closed and stopped and if there arise anye oyle vpon it take it of fayre and softlye A verie perfite oyle against the plage and all poyson TAke oyle of the eldest you can finde and boyle it the space of an houre for euery pouÌ„d of the said oyle put in .l. scorpioÌ„s or as many as you can get put all this in a pot vncouered the which pot you shall set in a kettle or caudron of boylinge water vntill the thirde part of the oyle or somewhat lesse bee consumed Than take oute the Scorpions and powre the oyle thorowe a canuesse into another potte or violle well stopped whiche you shall sette in the Sunne the space of two or three monethes if it bee not in Sommer set it vpon hete asshes by the space of three or foure dayes sit vppon the botche or soore or the place of the plage and holde her so a good while Then you shall see that the saied Henne will haue drawen all or at the least some the poyson and infection and that shortlye after she will die It shall be good to dooe this with twoo or three or moe Hennes immediatlye one after another the whiche will drawe all the venom oute of the soore This doen annoynt the place with good Triacle and let not in the meane time to vse other remedies by the mouth whereof we haue spoken here before that is to saye the Yuy or Baye berryes or some other remedie that you finde must redie If the soore bee so harde that it will not breake you maye vse the foresaied remedies to make it breake to the intent that all the venom may comme out and voyde from the heart ☞ An aduertisement and warnynge of greate importauuce to preserue a mannes selfe in tyme of pestylence BEcause the euyll humours that be in mannes bodye do easelye receiue the corruption infection of the ayer it is good to kepe the stomacke and the head cleane purged not to ouerlade it with eatinge and drinkinge but to absteine froÌ„ grosse meates to purge him selfe as ofte as is possible with some gentill and familier purgation as Cassia pilles as the pilles of Masticke of Aloe or of other suche like thinges and aboue all to vse often of the leese of wyne called Tartre whiche you must beate well in poulder and stiepe it with hote water than straine it or dreane it
in some vessell well stopped Oyle of Iasemine and of violettes TAke sweete Almondes well pilled and brayed the flowers of Iasemyn as much as you wil and layeng them ranke vpon ranke you shal leaue them in some moyste place ten dayes together or more than take them awaye and presse out the oyle in a pressoure the vertue of the which oyle serueth for diuers thinges In the like maner maye you haue oyle of Violetes and other flowres Oyle of Nutmegges very parfyt TAke Nutmegges of the best you can finde and accordinge to the quantitie of the oyle that you wyll haue and hauinge cut them in small pieces you shall put to them as much Malmsey as will couer them ouer in some vessell of glasse or other leauinge theim so the space of three dayes Than take them out and set them to drye in some cleane place by the space of two dayes Finally heate them at the fyre sprinklinge them with rose water Than presse theim as is before mentioned in a pressour and you shal haue out of them an excellente oyle good for manye thinges whiche must be kept in some cleane vessell well stopte Oyle of Bengewyne very excellent TAke sixe vnces of Bengewyne wel beaten into poulder the which you shal let dissolue a whole day in oyle of Tartre and Rose water of eche a pounde and than with a close pipe ye shall distill it thorowe a Limbecke and so keepe it as a thynge moost excellent Oyle of Storax very excellent IN like maner is made oyle of Storax Take Storax liquida what quantitie you wyl and put it in Rose water two or thre dayes theÌ„ dystill it as the Bengewin was in the maner abouesayde Fyrste there issueth oute water and then a very excellent and precious oyle Oyle of Myrrhe good for them that haue their flesshe full of humours and carraine leane for to make it tractable quicke naturall and stronge TAke Egges harde rosted and cut theim in the middes take awaye the yelke and fyll them vp with Myrrhe beaten into poulder and put theÌ„ in some moiste place where the sayde Myrrhe may dissolue into oyle by little and little This oyle maketh not onely the face or other partes of the body softe and tractable but also taketh awaye all Cycatrices and skarres The maner to make that oyles shall neuer waxe mouldy nor putrifie TAke for euery pounde of oyle two graynes of salte one graine of the filing of copper or brasse as much roche Alom as salte and boyle all the sayd thinges a letle together in Balneo marie than straine it out and let it stande eyght dayes in the Sonne And than kepe such oyle as longe as you will and feare not for it will neuer diminishe putrifye nor corrupt †Poulder of Iris. TAke Iris electe what quantitie you will and after you haue wel beaten it into poulder stiepe it and temper it also well with Rose water and laye it than abrode vpon a sieue couered This done take Storax calamita and Bengewyn of eche of theim halfe an vnce beate them well into poulder and make therof an infusion into a glasse of Rose water hauynge poured it vnder the said sieue wel couered rounde about ye shal afterward seeth it vpon the embers And so the Iris waxinge cleane and dry receiueth the parfume of the other substaunces This poulder will be excellent to geue an odoure vnto clothes or garmentes all other thinges Poulder of Violettes TAke Iris knoppes of Roses of eche a pound pilles of Cytrons drye .iiii. vnces Gylleflowers Sandalum citrinum drye Lauender Coliander of eche of them two vnces Nutmigges an vnce Maioram dryed Storax calamita of eche of them an vnce and a halfe Bengewyn electe sixe vnces Beate to poulder and sift finelye all the sayde thinges and the poulder shal be made the whiche you shall kepe in a viole of glasse well stopt that it take no vent A whyte poulder to put in litle bagges TAke Saudalum Citrinum a quarter of an vnce poulder of the best Bengewin that may be gotten Iris of eche of them an vnce and boile them in Rose water inough than take burned Alom and well sifted twelue vnces let it lye in the sayde water and make pilles or litle balles flatte at both endes of the biggenesse of peason or biggar the whiche you shall drye in the shadowe and afterwarde beate theim in to poulder and syft them again and than it is made But if you will haue it musked take Ambre and Musk eche of them xxiiii graines Ciâ—et .xviij. graines mixing al this together fil w e it lyttle bagges of linen cloth Taffeta or other sylk the which you maye laye among clothes or other garmentes a thinge verye excellente Poulder of Cypres TAke a litle herbe that groweth and is found vpon the stocke or stumpe of Walnuttes or Okes whiche is lyke little heare and muste be gathered in Ianuarye and Februarye when the wether is drye drye it and than washe it with fayre riuer or well water and drie it ones agayne in the shadowe and hauing washed it so three or foure times you shall put it in rose water by the space of an houre After beat it into poulder verye small and syfte it but the sieue whereon you must strowe the sayde poulder must be alwayes syrynkled a litle with rose water coueringe it well to thintent it take no maner of vent And after this you must parfume it with these thinges folowing that is to say with Bengewyn Storax calamita of ech of them two vnces of the swete parfume called Thymiama a dramme Lauander half a dragme LignuÌ„ Aloe a quarter of an vnce Beat eche thing by it self grossely than mingle them together and deuide them into four partes wherof one part must be set vpoÌ„ the furnis in a vessel within y e sieue leuing it ther til it be al consumed do so w t all the .iiii. parts vntyl al the pouder of y e sayd parfume be burned But you muste take heede that the panne dysh or other vessell wherein the saide poulders shall be put for to be brent be set vnder the sieue wher your poulder is and that the sieue be well couered that nothinge vent out so that the poulder in the sieue may receiue all the sayde parfume Than after take an vnce of the sayd poulder and intermire with it by lytle and litle sixe graynes of Cyuet and. xxvi graines of fine Muske wel beaten together in poulder This poulder must be kept in a viole or other vessell of glasse very close to thentent it take no vent and muste also be set in a drie place This is the most excellent poulder that a man can make It is very true that out of Cipres and the east partes men bringe to Venise certaine rounde balles of a yelowe coloure whiche they call Butri of an Ile nigh vnto Candy called Butra and say that it is Oxe dunge taken vp in Maye and diuers times sprinkled
the oyles reasonablie neither to muche nor to lyttle but with discretion accordinge to the quantitie of the Sope. ☞ Sope rosat TAke freshe and recent roses wel stamped and incorporated them with the said Sope as before the whiche you maye also dode at youre pleasure of all other sortes of flowres ☞ VVhite Sope of a good sauour and odour HAuing cutte after the maner of Damasco in small pieces the oldest Sope that is possible to bee founde you shall laye it abrode vpon a table in a place where it maye drie than hauinge lefte it there the space of eyght and or .x. dayes you must after warde stampe it lightlye or slenderlye and make therof poulder and the same being sifted you shal adde to it foure vnces of Ireos vppon tenne pounde of the sayed poulder white Sandall three vnces two vnces of Macaleb an vnce of the meale or flowre of Amylum and all well beaten into poulder you shall mixe it with tenne pounde of the poulder of the aforesaide Sope then all beinge ioyned together you shall putte it in a morter with an vnce of Storax liquida and a walnut shelfull of the oyle of Spike and hauinge well stamped it altogether it shall bee made Then afterwarde make balles or square â—akes of it as you wyll with the meale or flowre of Amylum then drie in the shadowe and keepe them for it is a thinge verie excellent ☞ Perfect sope TAke syxe graynes of Muske tempered and steeped in good Rose water foure graines of Ciuet reduced and beaten into poulder and mingle them with the saied Sope but the tempered or steeped Muske muste bee hote and by this meanes you shall haue a verie perfect Sope. VVhole and massy blacke sope TAke tenne pounde of the saied poulder of Sope well sifted cloues foure vnces of good Mace twoo vnces damaske Macaleb Cyperus whiche the Apoticaries call Iuncus odoratus Sandali Citrini Storax liquida of eche of theym an vnce sweete oyle as muche as shall suffise and hauing stamped that whiche oughte to bee stamped make of it as is aboue saied But if you will haue it more singuler putte to it Muske tempered in Rose water as afore with a lytle Ciuet after incorporate well all together and make thereof balles or square cakes or hartes or suche other formes as you luste to muke youre selfe then dry them in the shadowe and so shall you finde them of a singuler good odour and sauour ☞ Damaske parfume TAke fyne Muske foure gaynes Cyuet two graynes Ambergris fine Sugre of eche of them foure graynes Bengewine a grayne of fatte Storax calamita three graines lignum Aloes twoo graines beate them well into poulder and putte all together in a litle parfuminge panne powre into it as muche Rose water or the water of the flowres of Orenges Citrons and Lemons all together as will bee twoo fingers highe aboue the other drooges in makinge vnder it a small fier that it maye not boyle and when the water is consumed you shall powre in other and hauing continued thus doinge a certaine number of daies you shall haue an excellent Sope. ☞ Another parfume of Damaske TAke Storax calamita foure vnces Bengewyne foure vnces Labdanum lignum Aloes Synamon of eche of theym an vnce Sperma Ceti a dragme Muske foure scrupules cloues a dragme Rose water eyght vnces stampe them and putte them in the parfuming panne ☞ An excellent pomander TAke .xvi. or .xx. Pepins or other swete melow apples y â— which beinge pared and cut in quarters you shall adde to euerye quarter fowre or sixe Cloues then put them in some vessell of earthe well leaded within with as muche Rose water as wyll couer them ouer Then couer them with a trenchour or some other cleane thinge lettinge them so stande one whole daye And after powre them all in some newe vessell well leaded putting to it foure pounde of freshe hogges suet well taken from the fleshe and skynne cut verie small and well chopped with a knife make vrder it a small fier that it burne not than in straining it out you shall make it droppe into some vessell of freshe and cleare water and so purifie the grease thre or foure daies keping it in the same vessell and chaunginge often times a daye the saied water for the oftener you chaunge it the better you shall purge the grease Than take out the saied seyme the apples and the rose water together and take the fatte oute of the vessell dreaninge it well and adding to it Spikenarde with twoo vnces of Cloues an vnce of Synamom a quarter of sandalum citrinum an vnce of Bengewyne and as muche of storax calamita Braye all these kindes together and put it in a fine linnen clothe in maner of litle purses but let the cloth bee some what large and binde it wel that the sayd kinds scatter not abrode among the grease Then make it boyle with a litle fier far of from the flame or leyt or set before it some tyle or bricke letting it boyle so faire and softlye foure or sixe houres vntill all the rose water bee vanished awaye whiche may be proued in this maner Put a lytle sticke downe to the bottom of the vessell and plucke it oute agayne quickelye and put it in the fier and if it burne without anye noyse it is a token that there is no moore water but tarte vntyll it bee all well consumed sturringe it sometime to the entent it burne not to or smell of the burning Beware also of the smoke for if it take once y â— sauour of it you can neuer get it out when all is wel sodden take eyghte vnces of white Waxe and put it in the saied vessell mixinge all together and let it so melt with the saied substaunces the whiche you must nowe and then sturre This dooen take it from the fier letting it stande and rest a quarter of an houre that is to saie vntill the grosse substaunce bee descended to the bottome then powre it faier and softlye thorowe twoo newe course linnen clothes into a vessell well leaded within wherein muste bee twoo dishefull of Rose water but take heere of pressinge it so that the lees come not oute into the same vessell but into another for it woulde be somewhat red Let it so coole vntill the next morninge and whan it is solide harde and massy denide it into foure partes and put it into a round vessell leaded styrringe it well with a pestle addinge to it by lytle and litle good and fyne Muskte rose water and so styrre it vntyll it be well incorporated Nowe if in case you se that it doth not well incorporate together set it a lytle vpon the fyre and whan it is hote powre rose water vpon it sturringe it well about vntill it waxe verye fine and thinne but take good hede to the fyre And so kepe it in newe and cleane vessels Another Pomaunder TAke Pippins or other like melowe Apples and laye them
vpon a tyle for to bake in an Ouen thē take out the core and the kernels and make them cleane within brayenge and breakinge the reste and straine it thorough a fyne canuesse or straynour This done take as much fat or grease of a kidde as you haue Apples and straine it likewise boylinge it all together in a newe vessell well leaded vntill the rose water be consumed than adde to it Muske Cloues Nutmegges and such like substaunces of a reasonable quantitie according to your discretion prouided alwayes that they be well brayed and broken in pieces as is aboue saied and boyle them in the like maner aforesaied then strain them and kepe them Another Pomaunder TAke fresh barowes grease put it in a new vessel with rose water vnderneth whiles it melteth in the same you shal take out that which is melted to thend it smell not of the fyre than put it in cold water the space of .x. daies raising and lifting it vp euery day .ix. or .x. times styrring it at eche time chaunginge alwayes the water Than take of the saied Apples purifie them cleane of their kernels cuttinge them in quarters not pared this doen laye them three daies to stiepe in Muskt rose water take also fiftene Cloues stieped a daye in colde water often tymes renewed and putting them after in a fine linnen cloth boilinge them in rose water with a small fire the space of an houre than hauinge well scommed away all the ordure and filthe put in thre vnces of white Waxe and make it seeth a little and after straine it into a newe vessell well leaded leauing it so all a night This done you shal take out al the white Pomaunder and because there wil remaine a litle ordure in the bottom you shal put it in morter with rose water styrre it the more you do seuer it a sonder in styrringe it and put rose water to it the more shall you fine it but you must se that the morter be cleane Than take the tallowe or greace of a younge barrowe and stiepe it in colde water leauinge it so the space of foure daies but you muste often chaunge the water and purifie the saied greace well of all the little skinnes that is in it veynes and gristels Take likewise twenty of the foresaied Apples and for eche Apple put in thre or foure Cloues and hauing deuided the Apples in four quarters cores and all stampe them a lytle Than take the sayd tallowe or greace and put it in fine rose water vntyll the sayde water be consumed and after you haue boiled it fayre and softly put in the saied Apples stamped and make them boile adding to it a litle fine Synamom Spiknard Nutmegs and other spices such as you thinke good And whan it hath boiled inough straine it thorow a linen cloth into some cleane vessell It shuld be wel done to put to it a litle calues tallow wel purified in the maner aforesaied And whan it is sodden and strained mixe all togethers and put it in a cleane vessel it is a very exquisite thing Excellent Ipocras TAke an vnce of Synamom of Ginger .ii. dragms Melligetta thre dragmes Cloues two deniers Nutmegges Galanga of eche of them a denier stampe all and put it in a ielley bagge or strainer than take a pint of the best redde or white wine you can get or a pint of good Malmesey or other stronge wine mixe well all togethers than take a pounde of Sugre fined and hauinge stamped it put it into the other wyne and so poure it vpon the strainoure wherin you dyd put the sayd wine with the spices than hauinge taken it oute you muste poure it on agayne so often vntyll it become as cleare as it was before styrringe it sometime in the strayner or bagge and here note that this is to make but a flagon full Wherefore if you will haue more you muste take a greater quantitie of the sayd thinges And for to make it verye excellente you maye bynde a lyttle Muske in a fine linnen clothe at the ende of the strayner so that all the substaunce maye passe ouer and vpon it the which by that meane wil receiue the odour and sent of the sayde Muske ☞ To make litle cusshins of parfumed Roses TAke buddes of redde Roses their heades and toppes cut awaye drie theim in the shadowe vpon a table or a linnen cloth water sprinkle the said buddes with Rose water and let theim drie doing this fiue or sixe times turning them alwais to thende they waxe not vinewed or mouldy than take the poulder of Cipre Muske and Amber made into poulder accordinge as you would make them excellent for the more you put in of it the better they shall be put to it also Lignum Aloes well beaten in poulder Let the said poulder be put with the buddes wete w t rose water Muskt mixing wel the buddes together with the poulder to thend that al may be well incorporated so shall you leaue them so al a night couering them w t some linnen cloth or Taffeta that the Muske may not breath or rise out The whiche thinge done take finallye lyttle bagges of Taffeta of what bignesse you wil and according to the quantitie of the buddes that you would put amonge all the poulder Than close vp the bagges and for to stoppe vp the seames you must haue your mixtion of Muske Amber and Ciuette made as it were to ceare with wherewith you shall rubbe all a longe the seames to stoppe the holes made with the needle in sowynge You maye also sowe some ribande of golde or sylke or of what you will ouer the saied seames These be the best that a man can make and as I haue sayed the more Musk Amber Ciuet and Aloe you put in the better they will be If you will make theim with lesse coste take suche buddes as are spoken of before prepared and ordered in the same sort and in steede of Muske and Amber put in the poulder of Cloues Synamom Irios and a litle Mace obseruinge suche a maner of parfuminge the buddes as before Matches or litle lightes of a very good odour TAke of Campher an vnce of white encens twoo vnces beate them into poulder and make thereof litle rounde Apples or balles with a litle waxe than put them in a vessell with rose water and lyghte them with a candell and they wyll geue a fayre lyghte and a very good sauour A composition of Muske Ciuet and Ambergrise TAke a dragme and a half of good Amber and bray it vppon a Porphyre stone with oyle of Iasemin fyrst alone and than a litle with Muske as much as shall suffise This doen adde to it Damaske roses and Bengewin of ethe of them an vnce Irios a dragme and a halfe All these thinges beaten in poulder and strayned or syfted you shall braye with a dragme of Ciuette vntil they be brought into the fourme and maner of an oynctment This
done kepe it in a Horne or vessell of glasse well closed ☞ A parfume for a Chaumber very excellent TAke Storax Calamita Bengewine Ligni Aloes of eche of them an vnce coales of Willow well beaten into poulder .v. vnces These thinges mixed with Aquauite as much as will suffise to make paste make therof litle cakes or other formes what you wil and so kepe them And whan you will vse or occupie of it put it into the fire for in consumyng litle and litle it will make a singuler good odour in the place where you burne it Sope of Naples TAke Deares grease or the Tallow of a Cowe or yonge Calfe or of a Kidde a pounde put it in a vessell of earth well leaded and after you haue well strayned it put vpon it with discretion to much nor to litle of Sope makers lie the first best and strongest of three sortes that they vse called the maister lie and kepe the saied grease in the heate of the Sunne miâ—ynge it well there and like wise in the night abrode in the ayer but take hede that there come no water to it Whan you se that it is somewhat drie put to it againe as muche as shall neede of the seconde and thirde lie mixed together which Sope makers vse Rubbe a litle vpon your hand beyng cleane and if it make a frothe it is a token it is made Parfume for a Lampe TAke Ligni Aloes a quarter Begewine an vnce Storax calamita half an vnce Muske a scruple Ambergreese halfe a scruple Rose water inoughe You shall putte all these thynges well beaten to poulder into the Lampe A shorte parfume TAke a glassefull of Rose water Clones well beaten in poulder a penny weight than take the fire panne and make it redde hote in the fire and put theron of the saied Rose water with thesayd poulder of Cloues making it so confume by litle and litle but the rose water must bee muskt and so you shal make a parfume of excellent good odour ☞ An odoriferous parfume for chambers TAke Thymiama a pounde Storax liquida twoo vnces Storax calamita three vnces Labdanum an vnce coales of Willowe and Tracagantum asmuche as you wyll but stiepe or temper the poulder of the coales and the Tracagantum with rose water and let it lie so three daies a stiepe in the same water and then make therof paste ☞ A verie good parfume for to trimme gloues wyth litle cost and yet will continue longe FIrst let the gloues bec greate and of good thicke leather to the which you shall gyue a little Ciuet all alonge the seames Than washe them in rose water twise or thryse pressing theym harde this doen take twoo partes of rose water one parte of the water of the blossoms of Mirtell tree mingle them together addinge to it two partes of the water of the flowres of Orenges Lemons Citrons called of the FreÌ„chmen can de nafe and washe them so long therwith that they sauour no moore of the leather then laye theym in a platter and leaue them there couered with the saied water pouldered ouer with the poulder of Cypres by the space of a day or twaine This dooen take them out and presse them a litle and so drie them in the shadowe When they bee half drie geue them a litle Ciuet in this wise put asmuche Ciuet as you shall thinke good in a dishe with a litle oyle of Iasemyne that is not olde the whiche you shall make to dissolue before the fier than annoynt therewith the gloues within side and rub them wel betwene your handes chafing them at the fier vntil you thinke that the ciuet be perced and gone thorow them and leaue them so a while Then after rub them wel with a clothe to the ende the Ciuet maye perce the better and the gloues waxe soft then draw and stretch them out abrode leauing them so the space of a dai and when you shall thinke they be humyde and moyste enlarge them and blowe them and puffe them vp leaue them so vntil thei bee halfe dried Than take good parfume to burne holde them ouer the smoke of the saied parfume to the eude that it maye perce and go into the inner partes of the gloues and parfume them within side This shall you dooe thrise a daye the space of .xx. daies weating them at eche time with a litle parfumed water wrappinge them with some white linen cloth than take Muske and Amber as much as you wyl and put it in a tinne platter with oyle of Iasemine or Bengewine or some other oyle let them well dissolue at the fier with a litle perfumed water than annoynte them with a pensell on the out side and not within annoynt also the seames with Ciuet and lay them certein daies among dried roses Finally lay them for the space of .iij. or .iiij. daies betwene two matresses than wil they bee excellent as if it were to present an emperour withall ☞ A verye exquisite Ciuet to parfume gloues and to annoynt a mans handes with TAke three pounde of white wine the tallowe or grease of a Gote shepe or Kidde a pound boyle all together with a small fier vpon the embres or coales in a couered panne than take them from the fier and when it is coole againe putte them in a platter with cleare water and washe them well fiue or sixe tymes and put them againe in cleare water all a night This dooen take a pounde of rose water twoo pound of white wine with this boile the grease vpon the coales with a smal fier vntil one half be consumed than take swete Nauewes rost them vnder the ashes but burne them not And for eche pound of grease take halfe a pound of the inner white of the saied Nauewes and boyle it in rose water the space of halfe an houre than strayne it and put it into a morter with oyle of Iasemin or of Citrons or such like or els with a litle CaÌ„pher After this you shall take a dishe or the bottome or foote of a glasse wet within with Rosewater wherin you shall make the forme and facion of the Ciuette addyng to it first of all three vnces of Ceruse well beaten in poulder for euery pounde of tallow or grease and it will be an excellent and princely thing Oyle of Roses and floures very parfit TAke the seede of Millons well mundified and staÌ„ped and laye them by rankes or by beddes with the flowres of Roses by the space of .viii. daies then take a litle linnen bagge wette in Rose water or in the water of other flowres in the whiche bagge you shall put the seede and hauyng well bounde it put it in a pressour and presse oute the oyle whiche will be very precious and the which you must kepe alwaies close Oyle of Cloues very noble TAke Almondes mondified and made cleane with a knife and broken in pieces stiepe or temper theym in Rose water than dresse them
hour letting it after cole And if the fire haue ben great ynough the water will be yelowe and somwhat redde the whiche water you shall put into another lyke glasse great according to the quaÌ„titie of the said water putting to it half a pound of rosemary blossoms halfe a glassefull of Aqua vite setting al to distill agayne w t the limbeck and recipient as before you must put in the recipieÌ„t or at the beke of the limbeck some fine litle cloth wherin must be white Bengewin stamped betwene ij papers as wel as you can Whan this water shalbe distilled it will be very cleare fayre which you shal kepe in a viol wel stopped with waxe and cered cloth to the ende it take no vent and you may neither kepe it in the sunne nor in any hote place This will be a noble and precious water whiche hath not the like in the worlde for to make the skin fayre and to preserue it The maner how to vse it is this Fyrste you must washe youre face well with cleare water distilled and than rub well both face breast and other places of youre body where you list with a piece of scarlet weted in the sayd water and lie downe vpon your bedde holding a litle while the piece of wet scarlet vpon your face and thus maye you do euery .viii. or euery .xv. daies once or elles euery moneth or euery two moneths In the mean time you may vse some other water as the water of Beane blossomes of gourdes of melons of onyons of white flourdelice of the rote of the herbe called in latin Dracontium or more comonly Serpentaria in englishe dragons and of other like but you must take hede that you put in it no sublime nor Ceruse in any wise Thus shal you haue a water of a merueilous vertu to make your skinne and fleshe fayre and naturall and to conserue and keepe it longe yonge gaye freshe and nete ☞ A verye goodlie water to washe the face necke and the breast whereof a man maye make a greate quantitie for the more there is of it the better it is It maketh the skinne and fleshe of the face fayer not burtinge or destroyinge the teeth and shall seme that the face is nothinge at all holpen with any coloure but that it is euen so by nature TAke two fatte Pigcons two pounde of Veale seedes of Spurge pilled thre vnces of Pine apple kernelles sweete Almondes bytter Almondes the rootes of white and yelowe floure delice Beanes broken in pieces and moâ—dified the gall of an Oxe the roote of Dragons the roote of a litle yonge Ashe or romon Diptum a litle lemon the yelow pill taken away cut in pieces the cromme of a white lofe wet in milke gomme dragant stieped in wine gomme Armoniac slieped in Vinaigre and let there be of all these thinges a reasonable quantitie Than put therevnto flowres or blossoms of Ligustrum which is a tre hauing leaues like an oliue tre but they be broder and softer more grene of colour whiche doth beare white flowers and swete wherof is made an oyle called Oleum ciprinum And this free doth growe in watrie places as Willowes and salowes do and beareth a blacke fruite like vnto an elder free and distill all these with a small fyre hauing bound or tied a litle linen cloth with Musk and white Benge wyne at the becke of the Limbecke than kepe the water in a glasse well stopped for it will be very excellente to make a white and naturall skinne or fleshe without hurtinge the teeth or any other thinge ☞ To make a very excellente redde colour for the face whiche is naturall and continueth longe vpon the face makinge it alwayes gayer and fairer TAke the whites of .xxv. harde Egges and put a glassefull of the mylke of greene figges among them if you can get none of it take lytle figges that be not rype and cutte them in smal pieces whiche you shall mingle with the sayd egges and than distill them and the water that shall come thereof maketh of it selfe the flesshe white but if you will make it redde take for euery glassefull of the saied water two vnces of Alome Scissilae or plumae beaten in poulder half an vnce of the grayne called in latine Coccum wherwith scarlet is died and two vnces of the graynes that men vse to die Crâ—mson â—ilke with Let all this he putte in a viole well stopped that it take no vent then set the vyole in a kettle of bote water not boylinge hote by the space of eyghte dayes This done straine oute well the substaunce of the sayde coloures and take the water so coloured and died and putte to it as muche more of the same Alome and graynes as before and set it agayne altogether in hote water by the space of eyght dayes than strayne oute the water and adde to it the thyrde time some Alom and graines with a litle gomme Arabick that is to say for euery glassefull of water half an vnce of gomme setting it againe in hote water eyghte dayes as before and after you haue taken it oute strayne it and you shall haue the fairest redde that is possible to wishe for Than weate some lytle piece of Scarlate or Crymson sylke in it and rubbe youre face therewith so longe vntill the fleshe beginne to waxe somewhat chafed and the redde well perced thorowe You maye also adde to it what odoure or sauoure you will And if you will not set the violle in hote water as is aforesaied set it before a lytle fyre not sufferynge it to seeth and that for the space of a daye or moore than strayne it and you shall see all thinges come to passe as I haue saied ☞ Another kinde of redde verye good for the face easier to make and with lesse coste TAke twoo vnces of fisshe glewe verie cleare and stiepe it in white wine the space of fyue or syxe dayes vntill it bee very softe than take Brassell that is good and of a good colour well scraped or cut in small pieces than stiepe it in well water so that the water bee aboue it moore than a hande breadeth and a halfe this dooen boyle it together with a small fyre assaiyng euermore the colour vpon a paper vntyll it be to your fantasie And before you take it from the fyre put to it for euery glassefull of the saied colour an vnce of rawe roche Alome beaten in poulder and Gomme arabicke as muche as three or foure beanes Than take it frome the fyre and keepe it in a vâ—olle close stopped so shall you haue an erquisite thing Women of base degree are wont to seeth onely the Brasyll in wyne or water putting to it a litle roche Alome and Gomme letting it hoyle vntill the colour be to their mynde Other take redde Sandall or Saunders the whiche they put in wine or at the least in Aqua vite and not boyle it at all
whiche in operation belongynge to metall serueth for many thinges as we will after declare But this will not serue any thyng at all for to make heare white notwithstandinge you muste kepe it by it selfe Than take the reste and the blacke substaunce and yellowe and all that you finde in the bottome and on the sides of the sayde panne All the which thinges because they wyll incontinent waxe moyst you shall stampe grossely and quicklye addinge to it for euery pounde an vnce of Vitrioli rubified or made redde as we wyll shewe you hereafter This doone putte all these thynges together in lye not to stronge and lette it stiepe vntyll it becomme as it were a saulce putting to it two vnces of the oyle of yelkes of Egges yf you haue anye if not take Oyle Olyue Nowe you muste keepe this licoure thicke as it is in some vessell vntyll it be harde and you shall fynde it alwaies good Whan you wyll put it in effect take common lie and put into it two or thre vnces of rawe Roche Alome stamped and washe youre heade with it as you are wont to dooe And after you haue washed it without dryinge it anye otherwise than of it selfe annointe all youre heare with the saied lycoure heated and beinge thus annoyncted wrappe them in a hote linnen clothe resting your selfe a while This doen you shall take of the sayed annoinctynge wasshynge youre heade with hote lye vsinge and dressinge the Sope as you shall thinke good And finallie wasshe youre heade and heare againe with a little warme white wine and wrappe them with a hote linnen clothe or drie theim in the Sunne or by the fire as you will and laste of all you shall annointe youre selfe with oure saied oile or with the Oyle of Iasemin or some other odoriferous and swete Oyle which may conserue the heares that they break not and may geue them a lustre to make them glister and shine vsing this maner of annoynctinge euerie .xv. dayes or euerye moneth as you liste youre selfe By this meane you shall haue faier heare and glisteringe like golde But remember to vse in al thinges a discretion and diligence at the fyrste whan you vse any receipte as for an example in this confection you muste take heede that the lie be not to stronge leaste with the saied oynctment whiche I tell you is very stronge it eate and consume your heare Also you muste well consider the quantitie and howe longe it muste lye on youre heade before you wasshe it awaie as is declared and soo accordinge to the experience that you shall haue in the effecte you shall vse and gouerne youre selfe in all thinges for there is no rule so certaine but leaueth alwaies some place for the discretion diligence and Iudgemente of the personne that will followe it and putte it in vre or effecte An oyntment to make the heares fall from anye place of the body TAke the whites of three newe laied egges well beaten eight vnces of quick lime an vnce of orpiment and the whole beinge beaten in poulder let it be put among the whites of the egges and adde to it after a litle lie so much that it may make it a licour thicke like saulce Than with a pensill or some other thinge annoint the place frome the whiche you will haue the heares fall and leaue the oinctmente so vpon it the space of a quarter of an houre or a little more than washe the place with warme water and all the heare will fall of or if not you muste annoincte it againe and hauinge staied a while washe it as before and the heares will fall of without doubt Finallie you muste annoint the saied place with oyle Roset or with the oyle of Violettes and the skinne will remayne very faier and without hurt ☞ An oyle or licoure to make the heare fall of and may be kepte as longe as a manne wyll It is also good for all occasions TAke an vnce of Soda whiche is asshes made of grasse whereof glassemakers doo vse to make their Cristall ten vnces of quicke lime eyghte vnces of Orpimente and make thereof a fine poulder whiche you shall putte in a panne with as muche sweete and cleere lie as will be aboue the poulder a handefull than boyle it together a good houre and after hauinge lette it stande by the space of xxiiii houres you muste straine it and take three vnces of it and put therto an vnce of oyle Oliue and let it boile together vntill the water be consumed and vanished awaie which you shal knowe castinge a droppe or two into the fire with a little sticke and if it make no noise it is a signe there is no more water lefte If you will make it odoriserous swete put to it Muske or Ciuet so kepe it and whan you wil make the heares to fal of wash first the place wel with hote water thā annoinct it w t the said oyle and leaue it so a certaine space and than wasshe it againe with hote water and all the heare will fall away Finallye annointe the place with oyle Roset or violet oyle An aduertisement or lesson for them that will make the heare fall of FIrste you muste note that the heare will not fall awaye but whan the mone decreaseth that is to say in the quarter of the wane and it is far better to make them fall of with the oinctmente or with oyle than to plucke them out with a payre of pincers as some gentle wemen do vse in Fraunce because it doth violence vnto the flesh moueth the bloud and enlargeth the pores and also maketh the heare to growe againe greater Therefore in all sortes it is good to annoint by and by the place with some coolinge or refreshing oyle as oyle roset or of Violettes Likewise you muste vnderstande that oftentimes the oynctment beinge mixed with Orpiment burneth the skinne and that commeth by the naughty or to stronge composition of it or whan a man letteth it drye to longe vpon the place or without fyrste wasshinge the place with hote water or whan a man annoincteth not the place by and by after the heares be fallen as we haue sayde before To cause that the heare shall growe no more or to make them come out thynne and fyne lyke the fyrst soft heare or mosynes of the face A Man can scant fynd a remedy that the hear growe no more because that manye whan they will do it they make certaine oyntementes very colde and drye wherwith they anoincte the place a good while not doinge any good at al by reason of the power of nature which hath alwayes his course and casteth oute her superfluities with the heare Therfore they burne the skin and do but marre it wherfore you must note that they must make them fall of in the laste quarter of the wane of the Moone and then incontinent annoyncte the place with oyle rosat or of Violettes this dooen the heare groweth agayne weaker
vpon the fyre some cleane pan with cleane water into the whiche beinge hote you shall put .v. vnces of Roche Alome beaten to poulder And as sone as you see it dissolue take a bagge like vnto the fyrste and whan the coloure is hote take it from the fyre and put into it Alome and caste all so together into the bagge settynge vnder it some vessell leaded and loke yf vnderneth the coloure come out redde than take hote water and poure it into the bagge with all the reste that was strained out of it into the saied vessell vnder the bagge and poure that so often whiche shall straine and renne out vnderneth vntill the licour that shall issue oute be no more redde but cleere as lye hauinge thus strained all the water the coloure will remaine in the bagge which you shal vndoe and seuer a sonder with a sclyse of wood putting it downe to the bottome of the bagge and bringe it al into a masse or lumpe or into little tablettes or into what fourme you will and than drie it vpon a newe cleane pauinge tyle in the shadow within your house or elles abroade where no sunne shineth And so shall you haue an excellent thinge of it To dye bones into a greene colour TAke a panne full of cleare water and put into it a good greate piece of quicke lyme leauinge it so the space of a daye The next daye morninge mingle it well together with a sticke and so let it reste and at none styrre it agayne and likewise at night The nexte morninge folowinge you shall straine it cleane oute and kepe it in the meane time haue the bones that you will die in a readinesse and boile them well in other common water wherein Roche Alome hath ben dissolued and whan it hath boyled a good space you shall take them out and let them drie than scrape them wel with a knife and put them into the sayde lime water and addinge to it some Verdegrise you shall let them seeth well and than take them out And after you haue wyped and dried them do with them what ye will for thei will be very fayre And in stede of the saied lyme water you may vse pisse whiche wyll be of the like operation Another maner howe to die bones or Iuorye into the coloure of an Emeraude TAke Aqua fortis separatiua and put therin to fret and dissolue as muche copper or brasse as the water is hable with her force to dissolue and leuse this doen put in what peece of woorke you will beynge fyrste cutte in the fourme that you will haue it as beftes for kniues penkniues ynckhornes images or anye other thinge to youre fantasie leaue them in it the space of a night and thei shall be of the colour of an Emerande Nowe if in steede of copper or brasse you didde put in Syluer it woulde be the better ☞ To die bones redde blewe or of anye coloure you wyll FIrste boyle your bones in Alome water than take quicke lyme water or pisse and in this water or pysse you shall put Brasyll Azur or an herbe called Rubâ—a which the Apoticaries call Rubramaior and Rubra tinctorum or Rubea tinctorum wherewith they coloure wolle or skinnes in Englishe Chickweede or what other colour you wyll and than seeth your bones or Iuozie therein and they wyll take suche coloure as you put in †A very goodlie secrete to dye or colour woode of what colour a man will which some Ioyners do vse that make tables and other thinges of diuers colours and do esteme it amonge them selues to be of suche excellencie that one brother will not teache it another TAke early in the morninge newe and freshe horse donge made that night and take of the moysteste ye can gette with the strawe or lytter and al and laye vpon some little stickes layde a crosse one ouerthwart another and set some vessell vnderneth for to receaue that shall droppe or fall from the sayde donge And yf you can not haue inough in one morninge doe the like two or three times or as ofte as you wyll than whan you haue wel dreamed out the water of this dong you shall put into euery pot of the sayed water the bignesse of a beane of Roche Alome and as much gomme Arabick Than stiepe what colour you will in it vsing dyuers vessels if you will haue diuers colours and put in what pieces of wood you will holdinge them at the fyre or in the Sunne and at eche tyme plucke out some pieces and laye them apart leauinge the other in for the lenger ye let them lie in the water the more wyll the colour alter And in this manner you shall haue a greate quantitie of diuers colours the one cleerer the other darker and maye vse it to youre commoditie so what vse you list for they shall be coloured both within and withoute so that they will neuer lose theyr colour neither by water or any other thinge ☞ To counterfeyte the blacke woode called Hebenus or Hebenum and to make it as fayre as the naturall Hebene which groweth no where but in India ALl kynde of woode that is lyke vnto this Hebene may be dyed black but the hardest and the massiuest as boxe and other lyke are meetest for it and will be bryghter and aboue all the wood of a Mulbery tree as well the white as the blacke is the beste to be couloured albeit the blacke be muche more for the purpose Take than the saied wood and let it lye the space of three dayes in Alome water either in the Sunne or a pretye waye of frome the fyre vntill the water waxe somewhat warme than take oyle Oliue or Oyle of lyne seede and put it in a little panne wherein is the bygnesse of a nutte of Romaine Vitriole and as much Brymstone This doen seeth your woode in the sayde Oile a certaine space and so shal you haue a thinge very darke of colour And the lenger you let it boile the blacker it will waxe but to much boylinge burneth it and maketh it bryttle therfore both in thone and other you must be circumspecte and vse discretion To die skynnes blewe or of the colour of Asure HAuinge fyrst well washed the skinne and than wronge him take the berries of walwort and elder berries and seeth them in water wherein Roche Alome was dissolued passe him once thorowe this water let him drie than passe him again thorow the same water and being wiped and dried againe wash him with cleere water than scrape out that water with the back of a knife once again passe it ouer w t the same colour and let it dry so shal it be of a very blew or Asur colour To die skinnes in chickweede called in latin Rubra maiore or Rubra tinctorum into a redde colour HAuing anoincted washed wronge layd abroad the skin as is aforesaied wete it with water that white wine lees and baye salt hath ben
boiled in and than wring him Take than creuises or crabbe shelles be they of the sea or of the riuer burned into ashes the whiche you shall temper with the said water of the lees and salt and rubbe well the skinne therwith than washe him well with cleere water and wringe hym This done take ruddle tempered in water of lees and rubbe the skinne well ouer and ouer with it and than with the foresayde ashes wasshinge and wringinge it thre times Finallye after you haue wasshed him and wronge him if you thinke it be not well ynoughe you shall geue him one dienge with Brasyll The paste or masse of Rubra tinctorum must be made with water that lees or tartre hath bene boiled in and the sayed water must be luke warme whan you make the paste of ruddle than leaue it so the space of a night After this put vpon the sayd Rubra tinctorum a lyttle Alome dragges or lees or Alome catinum stieped in water You maye also adde to it the colour of the shearing of scarlet whiche hath bene taken oute boylinge in lye whiche is a goodly secrete To die skinnes Greene. ANnoint the skinne and wash him well with cold water and than in hote water and so wipe drie him This doen take of the graines wherw t men the sappe the decoction wherof shall be put in thende of this boke with them of all other necessary thinges and the sayde graynes or berries muste be verye rype than put them in cleare water couered a fingar heigth put therein also Roche Alome and geue theim onelye one wawlme on the fyre This doen strayne them out into some vessell than take the skinne and folde him in the middle rubbinge him well on both sydes with the said sodden graines or berries whiche remaine in the pan and after with rawe Alome poulder This doen take the ashes of shepes donge burned and wete it with the saied coloure that you strained into the sayde vessell and rubbe the skinne wel on euery side than cleere him againe of the saied graines and washe him with cleere water and set him to drie withoute wipinge him Fynally cast on him two glassefulles of the sayde coloure and it will be a perfecte greene Another waye to dye skinnes greene LEtte the skinne be annoincted well wasshed wronge and stretched oute as before than take of the same graines and berries ye toke before which you shall stampe and seeth in Roche Alome water and geue the skynne twoo wypes ouer with this coloure and so let it dry After this you shal geue him one dying or colouringe of yellowe made with the graynes or berries of Nerprum sodden in water and Alome and a lyttle Saffron and you shall haue an excellent greene †To die the sayde skinnes greene another waye TAke the skinne being annoincted wasshed and spredde abroade dye and coloure him with the coloure made of sap greene and put to it a few asshes wette in water and so rubbe the skinne all about And whan you haue washed and wyped hym againe geue him one wype ouer with and Indian coloure sodden in Roche Alome And whan it is drye lay on it of the foresayde yellow and you shall haue a fayre and liuely greene ☞ Another waye to dye skinnes of Asure coloure and fayre TAke the skinnes of blacke grapes and rubbe well your leather with all vntill it waxe somewhat blewe and alsoo rubbe it well with the poulder of Indicum then washe it drye and polyshe it Than stiepe the Indicum in thicke redde wyne and whan the skynne is washed annoinct him with it and you shall haue a fayre skinne asured blewe ¶ Another maner to dye skinnes Greene. TAke rype elder berries and the berries of walwort and of sappe greene and this well stamped you shall put to it Roche Alome as muche as you shall thinke good but rather to muche than to little than take the lye and put into it the saied berries of sappe greene and seeth them one waulme This doen put in the berries of the walwort or elder and make them seeth also one waulme than take them from the fyre and let them coole and after rubbe the skinnes with theim Finallye ye shall cast vpon them the ashes of sheepes donge rubbinge them well with it After this geue theim the couloured water that the saied graines or berries were sodden in than take of the water with a curryers knyfe and let them drye And yf you nede to geue theim more coloure than you maye put in more Indicum boyled and it wyll be the better ☞ To die neates leather into a greene colour as well in galle as in leaues POlyshe well the leather with a pommeyse stone annointe it well with oyle and washe it than take an vnce or two of galles stamped and put it in hote water leauing it so an hour than straine it thorow a linen cloth and put the leather into the same water rubbinge it well with your handes and leaue it so the space of an houre and hauinge taken it out wring it and stretch it abroad tight it Than take the graines or berries of Nerprum gathered in Iuly whan thei be yet greene drie them and stampe them well adding therto for euery skinne two vnces of Roche Alom beaten in poulder and mingled with the poulder of y ◠saied berries or graines Than powre vpon the sayd poulder boylinge water and let it coole this doen poure of the sayd water with the said graines vpon the skinne rubbinge it well ouer with the palme of youre hande than stiep the ashes of goates donge in the water of the said graines and with the same water rubbe likewise the skin well with youre hande after this washe him and scrape out the water with a tanners paring knife than tight him out and take other ripe gaines of sap grene and set them to seeth hole in water with Roch Alom and afterwarde let them coole Than take of the sayde sodden berries or graines and rub the skin with theim with your handes and put of the ashes vpon it which you shall stiep in the same greene water that the sayed berries were sodden in Finallye you shall wasshe the skin and take out the water with a scraping knife thā you shall geue it a course ouer of the saied grene water with a brush or clout meet for such a purpose And than lay him to drie and trim him and you shall haue a fair grene If you will haue the coloure darcker or sadder whan you set the said graines to seeth with the Alom you shall put to it a little Indicum well brayed And you must note that the water must be hote whan you stiepe the ashes in it with the water of the graines of Nerprū ¶ To die skines greene with the flowres of Ireos TAke the fresshe flowres of Raphanitis or Ireos and stampe them well than take the drie graines or berries of Nerprum and with them stampe roche Alome a
reasonable quantitie whereof a greate deale can do no hurte put to it a little raine water and mingle all this with the foresayd flowres stamped Kepe this colour in some clene vessel and than take the skinnes being annointed and washed as is aforsaid and put to them the graines of sap grene with the ponlder in the same maner that we haue spoken of the other washe them and scrape of the water with a knife and so let them drye and geue them one wipe ouer finely with the sayed colour that you kept let them drie again then dresse them according to the science and you shal haue fair leather †To die bones in a turkishe or redde colour ALl kinde of bones may well be died and coloured but hartes horne is farre better then anye other Take than what bone you will shape him into what forme you please and pullish him and then boyle him in Roche Alome water a good while letting him afterward drie than take good grene and stiep it in goates pisse and put it in some copper or brasen vessell well couered and hide it vnder a dongehil the space of .xv. or xx dayes and then shall you finde it verye fayre You may make the like also with the brine of a man in stede of the goates pysse And for to make it redde put in Cinabrium or Brasyll in steade of greene but than you must put it in some vessell of wood or glasse and not of copper nor brasse To die hogges brystels and other things for to make rubbers and brusshes FIrste wash well the brystels thē take water wherin Roche Alom hath ben boyled and put the sayd bristels therin and let them lye vntill they take a coloure somewhat yellow than take Chickeweede well stamped and put it in Vyneaygre Afterwarde sette a kettle with cleere water on the fyre wherinto you shal caste the saied Chickeweede with the Vyneaygre and all and whan it beginneth to boyle cast in the brystels and let them seeth but a very lyttle whyle than take of the kettle from the fyre and let it coole and so shall you haue your bristels of an excellent good colour ☞ To dye the saied bristels yellowe greene or blewe or any other colour FIrste you must wasshe them and let theym boyle in Alome water as the other before than take Ligustrum and saffron if you will haue them yellowe Indicum or the iuyce of elder berries or walwort or els of the flowers of Ireos if you will haue them blew If you wil haue them greene take paynters greene and dresse them as is aboue saied assayinge sometime if the coloure please you And by this meanes you maye dye theim what colour you liste ☞ To make a purple whiche is a coloure wherewith men vse to make a coloure lyke golde for to paynte and wryte with MElt a pounde of fine tinne and melted as it is take it from the fire and put into it viij or ten vnces of quicke Siluer mingle well all together vntil it be like as it were dow than take a pounde of Brimstone and a pounde of Armoniacke salte well brayed Incorporate all this with the sayde dowe of the Tinne and Quicke Syluer and braye them well together in a morter or other vessell of wood or stone and not of Brasse Than put al this composition into some violl which muste be well luted or clayed about the mouth or so emplaistred that the clayinge or lutinge be higher than the violle a finger height or twayne Than afterwarde set it so vpon the fourneis makinge to it a slowe fyre at the first and after a little bygger and so you shal maynteyne it styrringe at tymes with a little sticke that whiche is in the glasse And whan you see that it wil make a yellow colour take it from the fyre and let it coole and so shall you haue a very fayre purple coloure lyke the colour of golde Afterwarde braye it with lie and washe it with pisse or lie addinge to it a little Saffron and stiepe it with gommed water as you shall see hereafter moore playnely ☞ To make Lacca of Brasyll TAke twoo pailes full of stronge lie and put in it a pounde of the shearing of sine scarlette and let it boyle vntill the saied shearinge be all together dissolued and consumed into water than after poure it into some vessell of wood or stone and caste into it by little and little a pounde of Roch Alom minglinge it well with a sclyser of wood and poure also to it by little and little two payles full of colde water And after put it in a straininge bagge and lette it dreane and trickle out then put that remayneth in the bagge into some vessell of glasse This doen you shall set on the fyre a pounde of Verzine or Brasill cutte in pieces into a payle full of lye and let it seeth vntill it be diminished the thicknes of a finger than straine it in another bagge and let the water that commeth oute be set againe on the fyre with an vnce of gomme Arabick made in poulder and let it seeth vntyll it be diminished halfe a singer then powre it vpon the sayed composition that you did put into the vessel of glasse minglinge well all together with a wodden sclyser than put it in a bagge and strame it well The dowe of Verzine wil remayne in the bagge whereof you may make rounde apples or balles and drye them in the shadowe and it will be parfite ☞ To make white tables to wryte in with the poynt of a wyre suche as come out of Germany TAke plaister called Gipsum cribled and sifted and stiepe it and temper it with hartes glue or other and geue your parchment leafe one touch with it and whan it is dry scrape it that it may be euen and bryght and couer it ouer againe with the sayed plaister called Gypsum and scrape it as before than take Ceruse well brayed and sifted and stiepe it with the Oyle of line seed sodden Annoint your tables with this mixtion and let it drye in the shadowe the space of fiue or sixe dayes This doen take a cloute or linnen cloth wete in water wherewith you shall flicke and make smoeth the saied tables but the cloth muste fyrste be wronge hard and the water pressed oute then leaue it so the space of .xv. or .xx. dayes vntill it be thorowe drye than applie it to your vse ☞ To make roset or ruddle TAke an vnce of Brasill broken small a quarter of an vnce of Ceruse and a quarter of an vnce of Roche Alome mixe all these thinges well together and stampe them well than poure pysse vpon them vntil they be al couered with it leauinge it so the space of iii. dayes and mixing it iii. or iiii times a day Afterward straine it thorowe a linnen cloth and put it in a pan not leaded or in a morter of white stone and let it drie in a place where
there commeth neyther Sunne nor day lyght than scrape the saied roset and kepe it and whan you will write withall stiepe it in gommed water ☞ To gylt ouer parchement leather or other such work which men vse in steade of hanginges or tapistry TAke thre pounde of the Oyle of lyne Vernix Pixgraeca of eche a pound halfe an vnce of Saffron poulder Boyle all this in a panne leaded so muche and soo longe that puttinge into it a hennes feather and taking it by and by out agayne it seeme as it were burned Than take it from the fyre and take a pound of Aloe epaticum of the best well made in poulder and caste it in by little and little styrringe it incontinent well together with a stronge sticke for otherwise it woulde swell and ryse vp a lofte And yf in case for al the styrringe it rise vp take it of the fyre and let it stande a while and than set it en the fyre agayne makinge it boyle a new styrring it alwayes diligently And whan all is well incorporated together take it froÌ„ the fyre and let it rest a while than straine it thorowe a linnen cloth into some other vessell wherein you will kepe it and it is made Nowe if in steade of Saffron ye did put to it of the yellowe seed which is in the flowres of Lillies you shall make it muche better and fairer Whan you will gylte the parchemente you shall geue it a grounde or situation with the white of an Egge or Gomme wherevpon you shall laye siluer or tinne leaues but it shall not be so fayre with the leaues of tinne as with syluer Than lay the sayde Vernix hote vpon the parchement or leather siluered and you shall see immediately a coloure of golde very fayre Lette it drye wel in the Sunne and print it than paynt it with what colour you wyll ☞ To dye Crimson sylke FIrste cutte in sâ—nder or scrape harde Sope small and melte it in common water than take your sylke in a lynnen bagge or of fyne canuesse and thynne and put it into a kettle with the sayde water Sope. Let it bosle halfe an howre slyrringe it that it cleaue not to the kettle then take it out and washe it in salt water and after in fresh water Take also for euery pounde of Silke a pounde or more of Roche Alome alayde in colde water and see there be water ynough into the whiche you shall put the sayde sylke withoute any bagge and without settinge it on the fyre leauing it so the space of eyghte houres than take it oute and washe it in freshe water and after in salte water then agayne in freshe water and let it not drye but putte it wete as it is in a kettle with the Crimsen well stamped and systed that is to saye three vnces for euerye pounde of sylke If you will haue the sylke of a higher colour take foure vnces of it and boyle it in as muche water as will couer the sylke and that the water be aboue it foure or fiue fyngers high and for eche pounde of the sayde Crimsen you shall putte in three vnces of small galles of Istria well beaten into poulder or in stede of them you may put in halfe an vnce of Arsenick Cristaline for euery pounde whiche wyl make the colour fayrer but it is daungerous because of the smoke and all incenueniences that maye happen where suche water maye fall And whan it beginneth to boyle put into it your Sylke prepared and ordered as is aforesayed and let it boyle a quarter of an houre Finallye take it of and lette it drye in the shadowe and you shal haue an excellent thinge To prepare and trymme Brasyll for to make of it four diuers colours PVt Brasyll in as muche cleare water as ye will and seeth it vntill it be diminished of the thyrde parte or at the leaste vntyll the colour please you that is to saye that it be very redde then deuide this colour into iiii partes and if of one of the partes you will make roset put nothing to it for the colour will be suche of it selfe If you will make the other part blewe put to a lyttle Lime water and you shall haue very fayre blew mary the Brasyll muste be luke warme If you will make it Violet put lye to it but if tawny you shall putte to it Alumen fecis ☞ To make roset of Brasyll another waye TAke a potte of water and put in it the byggenesse of a Walnutte of vnsleaked Lyme leauinge it so the space of a nighte then take as muche Brasyll brused and broken as will fyll the vessell that you wyll boyle it in halfe full than poure into it the sayed water with the Lyme wel strained and lette it so stiepe in the sayed water the space of foure howres makinge it afterwarde boyle vntyl it be come to halfe than howe downe faire and softly the vessell that you boiled it in and drawe oute the coloure into some other cleane vessell puttynge to it the quantite of a Cyche Pease of Roche Alome well brayed and putte it in whan it is verye hote than shall you haue a goodly thinge to do withall what you will If you wyll wryte with it adde to it a little Comme water If you wyll make it Blewe putte to it three vnces of Lye more or lesse into a vessell and you shall haue a very sayre blewe ☞ To make beyonde sea Asure without Lapis Laâ—uli TAke an vnce of Siluer calcined or burned with Aqua fortis and an vnce and a halfe of salt Armoniack mixe all well together with vynayger and lette it clarifie a lyttle If the Vynayger be more than the sayd thinges take away that is to much and put the rest in a vessell well leaded and well stopte that the substaunce haue no vente oute leauinge it so xxv dayes and at the ende you shall finde verye fayre Asure ☞ To make a grene colour to write or paynt with TAke Verdegrise Litarge Quicke Syluer and braye all this together with the pisse of a younge chylde and than write or painte with it and you shall see an excellent colour as it were an Emeraulde ☞ To braye fyne golde wherewith a man maye write or paynt with a pensyll TAke golde leaues beaten and foure droppes of hony mixe it wel together and put it in a glasse And whan you wyll occupie it stiepe and temper it in Gommed water and it will be good ☞ The same another waye TAke as muche as you will of the leaues of golde or syluer beaten and laye it abroade in a large cuppe or glasse as euen as you can and wette it with cleare water than braye it with your fingar wetinge sometyme your fyngar but spreade it not to muche abroade in brayinge it and continue thus doynge vntill it be well broken puttinge vnto it alwayes water And whan you thinke it is broken and brayed ynoughe fill the cuppe with cleane freshe
a little while take it from the fire and paint the yron with all than hauinge set it in the fyre to heate burnishe it and it is doen. †The lyke another waye TAke Oyle of line foure vnces Tartre or wyne lees two vnces the yelkes of egges hard rosted and stamped two vnces Aleo cicotrinum an vnce Saffron a quarter of a dragme Boile all these thinges together in a new earthen potte a good space and if the oyle of line couer not all the saied substaunces put in more water vntil there be sufficient then anoint your yron with this mixtion hauing fyrst burnished it and so shall you make it of the colour of golde ☞ To gylte yron with golde foile and water or elles with golde mixte with Quicke Syluer as goldsmythes are wont to gilte siluer TAke Romayne vitriole an vnce roche Alome two vnces salte Armoniack an vnce all these thinges beyng well beaten in poulder and boiled in common water take your yron wel burnished and wette it with the sayed water rubbinge it well than lay on your goldefoyle and let it drye by the fyre This doen burnishe it with stone Hematite as men are wont to do and it wyll be verye fayre If you will gilt with golde mixt with quicke syluer as goldesmithes vse to gilte syluer you shall adde to the saied water a dragme or Verdigreese half an vnce of Sublimatum and let it boyle al together than put your yron to boyle in the saied water but if it be so greate that it can not go in rubbe it with the saied boylinge water and heate it that it maye receiue the Amalgama of the quicke syluer and the gold the which Amalgama we haue taughte you to make in the fift boke in the chapiter of minglinge or mixinge golde And whan you haue heated the yron gylt it with the same golde so mixed with the quicke syluer and smoke or fume it at the fyre with a lampe or with Brimstone as goldsmithes commonly do or rather with waxe wherof we wil hereafter shew you a very good maner and waye and better then that is vsed in Germany or in any place where it hath hitherto ben vsed ¶ To die or coloure into the colour of brasse or also to gylte Syluer whiche sheweth better and continueth longer IT is a thinge most certaine that gold set vpon white yron or syluer sheweth not so fayre as vpon brasse for as sone as it beginneth to weare a litle men may see the whitenesse of the yron or syluer whiche is not so soone secne vpon anye redde coloure Therefore many practiciens whan they wyll gylte anye woode or other thinge laye the bottome or grounde not of redde as the most part do but of yelow to the intente that the golde shall not so soone appeare worne as vpon the redde and more vpon the white The sayed yellow can not be laide vpon yron or syluer but leauing all this aside whan you will gilt syluer or geue a colour of brasse vnto yron you shall do after this maner Take verdet or Verdegrise Vitriol of Almain and salt Armoniacke at your discretion but let the Vitriole be of a greater quantitie than the other thinges put all this well beaten in poulder into stronge Vinaiger letting it boile halfe an houre And when you haue taken it from the fyre while the substaunces be yet boilinge you shall put in your yron that you will coloure coueringe well the pot with his couer and with cloth vpon it that it vent not out and so let it coole and you shall haue your yron well coloured of a brasen coloure and thus maye you gilte it with quicke syluer as yf it were brasse Esteme this as a goodly secrete and also profitable ☞ A water or colour to laye vnder Diamondes as well true as counterfeite that is to saye made of white Saphyres as we wyll declare afterwarde TAke the smoke of a candell gathered together in the bottome of a basen and make it into a dowe with a little oyle of Masticke than putte the saied mixtion vnder the Diamonde in the ringe where you wyll set it ☞ To counterfayte a Diamonde with a white Saphyre THis secrete is knowen well ynough of the Iewellars that vse almoost all one maner indifferent good but we after we haue described theyr fashion will shewe you a way far better They take a Saphire of a good white coloure and set it in the fire in a goldsmithes croset amonge the fylinge of yron or of golde thinking because it is of great value that it is better for such a purpose but yet the fylinge of yron is a great deale better They let this fylinge or rubbysh of yron become almost redde without meltinge it and cast theyr Saphire into it leauing it therein a prety while And after they haue taken it out if the white colour like a Diamond do not like them they cast it in agayne and so often tyll they se it be to their fantasie than they set it in a ringe and colour it as before Nowe here foloweth another waye a great deale better Take white smalte well beaten in poulder and mingle it with the sayed filinge of Golde or yron but so that there be as muche smalte as filinge then take a little other smalte withoute fylynge and make it into dowe with your spettle and in this dowe wrappe your Saphire and let it dry well at the fyre This doen tye it at the ende of a small and fine wyer and leaue the other ende so longe that you maye plucke it out whan you will Afterwarde couer it with the said filinges and leaue it so on the fyre a certaine space vntyll the filinge be very hote as is aforesayd but so that in no case it melt than plucke out once youre Saphire to se if the colour please you if not put him in agayne vntill it be fayre to your minde ☞ To ingrosse thinne Ballesses to set in ringes IF you haue Ballesses as thinne as paper dresse them of what greatnes or largenesse you wyll and take a piece of fine Cristall coloured lyke a Balles then take a great graine of Mastick the whiche you shall sticke vpon the pointe of a knife and heate it well agayne the fyre and sodaynlye it wil caste out a little droppe like the teare of a mans eye hauing a lustre like a pearle with the whiche droppe glewe on the saied Balles vpon the Cristall and feare not that it will gather to a lumpe or hinder the colour Then pollishe it and geue it a lustre and so set it in golde and it will be very fayer and seeme to be veryly a Balles ☞ To make Rubies of twoo pieces and Emeraudes as they make them at Mylan TAke the drop or teare of Masticke wherof we haue spoken in the Chapiter before and if you will make Emeraudes you shall coloure it with Spanish grene tempered and mingled with Oyle puttinge to it a little waxe if neede be and
if it be to thicke temper it with water But if you will make Rubies take Gomme Arabicke Alom succarine rawe Roche Alome as much of the one as of the other and let it boyle all together in common water than put into the sayd water some Brasill cutte small and let it seeth puttinge to it some Alome Catine so called because it is boyled in a caudron of the whiche the more there is the darcker it will be then take the droppe of Masticke abouesaid and colour it with the saied redde This doen take two pieces of Cristal dressed and trimmed with the whele of what fashion and greatnes you will so that the piece whiche you will laye vppermoste be not so greate as the other vnderneth that is to saye the one dressed vpon the other as the nayle vpon the finger iust on euery side After this lay that vnderneth vpon a little fire pan or some other instrumente of yron on the coales that the saied Cristall may be verye hote and than touche it vpon with the saied redde droppe or teare whiche you shall take vppon the ende of a sticke but it must be so hote that it may droppe downe the better and whan you see that the sayde piece of Cristall is coloured ynoughe you shall take the other lesser piece that muste be set aboue whiche lykewise must be hote and set it vpon the saied droppe and it wyll conglutinat◠and glew together the two pieces of Cristal without causinge any thicknesse or let vnto the lustre of the Rubie the whiche will be cleare and brighte on euerye syde Afterward set it in your ringe settinge to the Ruby the redde leafe and the grene to the Emerauldes as we will teach you hereafter how to make the said leaues for all kinde of stones as well fine as artificiall †To make a paste or dowe for precious stones as Emerauldes Rubies Saphyrs and such like which be but of one piece well coloured within and without TAke potters lead burned iii. vnces and put it in as much water as will couer it a finger or two highe then stirre it with your finger letting it go down to the bottome Afterward poure out the water whiche wyll serue for to wette within side the earthen pot leaded to thintent that the matter cleaue not to the sydes of it wherin you put all the substaunce Than take other .iij vnces of Vermillion dried and mingle it with the sayd leade then an vnce of Cristall calcined and burned or elles of a Calcidoine stone with .xiiij. or .xvj. carattes at the moost of Rubricke or sparkes of Copper All these thinges well stamped and mingled together you shall put in a pot of earth leaded well wette within with the said water of the lead then couer it and set it in a glasse makers furneis by the space of thre or foure dayes and you shall haue a very fayre paste or dowe the which you may cause to be dressed with the wheele as you wil. At Venise men bye the stone for a grote or sixe pence at the moost And for to make yellow stones you shal put to it the rust or rubbishe of yron And to make Rubies put to it Cynople or redde leade and in those that be of colours you shall folowe the order that we wyl teach you hereafter †To make Emerauldes and other stones or Iewelles TAke Sal alcali and dissolue it in water distillinge it thorough a felt and drye it then dissolue it agayne and drie it so three times afterward beat it into poulder then take fine Cristall and cause an Apoticarye to stampe and sift it for you as they do Cristall prepared Then take two vnces and a halfe of the saied Cristal of Sal alcali two vnces Spanish grene an vnce fyrste tempered and stieped in Vinaygre and than strained The sayd thre poulders you shal put in a vessell as in a newe earthen pot leaded the whiche pot you shall lute and clay ouer and couer it that it take no vent then leaue it so clayed and luted the space of three dayes the longar the better vntill all be thorowe drye Afterwarde you shall putte it in a potters furneis the space of .xxiiij. houres Then take the sayde composition and dresse it as men do fyne stones and you shall haue them excellent And if you wyll haue Rubies put Cinople to it in steade of Spanishe greene If you wyll haue Saphirs put to it Lapis Lasuli But if you wil haue Iacinthes you muste put in Corall in steade of greene Verderame as is before sayed †To calcine or burne Crystall and the calcidoyne stone to put in the saied mixtions of precious stones TAke Tartre calcined and burned an vnce and dissolue it in a dishe full of cleare water then strayne it out and take the pieces of Cristall or Calcidoin stone and heate them vpon the fyre in an yron ladle or fyre panne than quenche them in the water that is in the dyshe take theim oute and heate theim agayne and quenche theim as before in the same water doinge so syxe or seuen tymes and they shall be verye well calcined and burned Then beat them fynely into poulder and put it into the sayd mixtion Neuertheles remēber that if you wil make Emerauldes you must beat y e said substaunces to poulder in a brafen morter but if you will make Rubies or other you muste stampe theim in an yron morter and beware that they touche not the brasse ☞ A water to harden the saied stones BEcause that all the saied artificiall stones are commonlye bryttle for to harden them do as foloweth Take little pieces of Calamita and calcine them as you didde the Cristall then beate them into poulder and putte it in a moyste place vntill it be turned and dissolued into water with y e whiche you shal knede Vitriole Almaine or Romayne raw without making it redde then make thereof a softe paste or dow or elles a syroppe whiche you shall still in a glasse or Viol with a croked necke or in an vrinal and with the water that commeth of it you shall knede barly flower makinge a harde past in the whiche you shall wrappe your masse of stones made as is before said or the stones self whan they be dressed and fashioned with the whele then put them so wrapped in the same paste into an ouen with a bache of breade and take them out with the breade And whan you haue taken of the paste you shall finde your stones harde as if they were naturall If you se it be neede you may couer theim with the sayd paste and bake them againe in the ouen and than shall you haue them parfite and harde ☞ To calcine fyne syluer SEinge that we are entered into the matter of calcininge we will shewe you the calcination of fine syluer and than of Talcum as we haue promised before There be diuers wayes of calcininge syluer wherof we wil put here three of the
best Take fine syluer beaten very fine and thinne then cut it in pieces as bigge as a Spanishe ryall or more or lesse for it maketh no great matter then take a croset or an erthen potte and lay in the bottome of it a rancke of common salte not white nor prepared or trimmed to eate but euen as it cometh out of the salines or salt panne and it must be stamped very small Vpon this salt you shall laye likewise a rancke of the sayd pieces of syluer and then another of salte and another of siluer and so consequently as longe as your syluer lasteth in such sorte that the last rancke may be of salte and that good and thicke then couer all this with a paper lutinge and clayinge well the croset or little earthen potte and leauinge a little hole in the coueringe the biggenesse of a goose quill And whan it is drie couer it ouer and rounde aboute with coales and embers and leaue it in suche a fyre at the least three or foure houres then hauing taken it out and all beyng coole open the croset and take out the pieces of Syluer one after another makinge theim cleane that the salte stick not vpon them And if you perceiue that they be so brittle that you may break them with your finger like a crust of bread it is done made if not put them again into the croset or pot setting them in the fyre as before And to make it perfitly you ought to do this thre tymes or more This doen make your siluer into poulder and wash it in a dishfull of hote water let it sincke to the bottom After straine out the water so handsomly that you lose no part of y e said poulder or to auoid al daūgers passe it thorow a felt this doen put other hote water to it straine it out as before so often tyll you may know by the tast of the water that al the salt is purged away Than shal your syluer be well calcined diminished of the weight dried and become frō his nature into a massif part and somwhat like vnto gold Thus wil it serue you for diuers thinges if you can dresse it wel The like is done with Talcum in steade of common salt but than you nede not wasshe it in hote water Some calcyne it with salte or Talcum twelue or .xv. times and more to the intent to haue it more massiue and sounder and more commodious to take colour It maye be also doen in this manner that is to saye to melte the syluer in a Goldsmithes meltinge pot and for euerye vnce of the same to put in a pound or more of Brimstone stamped and that little and little True it is that so it wyll consume more than by the salte or Talcum but it shall be farre better if the Brimstone be fyrst purged in stronge lye that is to saye made with stronge ashes and quicke lime or such lyke thinges Nowe let vs come to the other maners of calcininge syluer ☞ The second maner of Calcininge syluer TAke Aqua fortis seperatiua made with Salt peter and Alome as we haue before declared then take fine siluer fyled or pollished or beaten into leaues or made in small pieces or graines that is to saye of the sayd syluer one parte and of aqua fortis thre partes and haue the saied water in a violl then put in the saied syluer and you shall se it will incontinent beginne to boyle and that the bottome of the viol will be hote if the water be good Let it so boyle vntyll it boyle nor eate no more holdinge styl the violl in your hande or settinge it in some place farre from the fyre But if the water be not stronge you must set it a lyttle to the fyre holdinge styll the violl in youre hande vpon the embers or elles you may set it vpon a fewe asshes or vpon some little furneis And whan it hath lefte boylinge and eaten all the syluer you shall se the water waxe greene so that there shall remaine no syluer in the bottome if that the water were well calcined and burned for than it would make as it were white lyme at the bottome or if there were any golde in the syluer it would make it descende to the bottome in little round pieces like pearles or like sande Nowe after that the sayd syluer is dissolued and eaten of the sayd aqua fortis you shall take another violl bigger or an vrinal or earthen pot half full or more of well or riuer water wherinto you haue dissolued and haue in a readines a good handfull of common white salte then let the saied water be strayned two or three tymes This doen you shal poure the aqua fortis whiche dissolued the syluer into the salte water leauing it so the space of .iiij. or six houres then shal you finde at the bottome as it were a bedde of herbes or greene rushes whiche shall be the syluer dissolued and the salt aqua fortis and also a part of the common salt that you did put in Afterwarde distill the said water by a felt and take the syluer that is so discended to the bottome and put it in a croset coueringe it well to thintent there fall no ordure nor fylth into it than bury and couer it ouer and ouer in hote burninge embers coueringe it wel also with fyre that it may burne the space of .iij. houres or more Finally let it coole wel agayne and poure the siluer oute of the croset into a dishefull of hote water stirring it a little together with your fingar and than let it rest and after poure out fayr and softly the said water and put in other doing as before vntill the water waxe no more salt This doen let the syluer drye whiche shall be very well calcined for to serue your turne in any thinge that you will ☞ The thirde maner of calcining syluer YOu shal mixe together into dowe or paste called Amalgama one part of siluer leaues with thre or four partes of quick siluer as we haue declared in the fift boke in the chapter of the maner how to bray gold then bray this Amalgama or paste with comon salt and set it to the fyre vntill the quick syluer be vanished awaye afterward wash it with hote water so much and so often that the water be no more salt then shall you haue your syluer calcined After this if you thinke good you maye braye it againe with other salt without other quick siluer and then put it to the fire in a croset three or foure houres and washe it againe as is aforesayde To calcine Talcum quickly out of hande BEcause that Talcum is a thing of so great importaunce and so muche desyred of all good wittes menne haue founde diuers wayes to calcine it the whiche teache vs that we must put to it twise as much salt peter as common salte or rawe Tartre with the Talcum and then put all
this daie been found ¶ A potion or drinke to be vsed in steade of Sirop good for men of al ages and complexioÌ„s that will be purged the whiche taken what daie you will driueth a waie the euill humours without mouyng or troublyng the good or doing any burte And is also very good for the great Pockes and all infinnities as well of the stomacke as of the heade and is like wise profitable for them that be in health to take twise in the yere in steade of an ordinary purgation that is to saie in the Spryng tyme and in September TAke Mallowes and boile them in water vntill thei bee softe that thei can almoste bee no softer then strain the decoction and take pouder of Sene and of the barke of Lignum sanctum called Guatac of eche of them seuen vnces well beaten to pouder and clensed or sifted Salt Armoniac twoo dragmes and in the meane tyme set the decoction of the Mallowes vpon the fire with halfe a pound of Honie and let the said decoction be aboute twoo common glasses in quantitie whereunto ye must put halfe a pounde of wine lies and then let it boils faire and softly the space of halfe an houre skimmyng well the Honnie After this ye must straine it and put it hotte as it is into a potte by litle and litle where the foresaied thynges be that is to saie the Sene the Guaiac and Armoniac salte Now in powryng you must alwaies sturre the saied thinges with a Spone or some other thing And then immediatly ye must couer the pot with his couer in shuttyng it close and closyng it vp with claie round aboute the sides so that nothyng maie breath or respire out and so set the pot vpon the fire by the space of twoo Pater nosters and no more Then take it from the fire and wrap it in a pillowe of fethers well warmed by the fire or in a tubbe or barrell full of branne well heated or in some clothe very hote to thende it maie be well nurrished and kept warme and leaue it so by the space of ten or twelue houres Then afterward ye must open the pot and straine the saied substaunce through a strainer or thicke canuesse you must haue ready before halfe a glasse of white wine and in the same three or fower vnces of Rubarbe cut in smalle pieces and that the Rubarbe haue been in it the space of a daie or twoo before the whiche wine ye shall powre into the decoction of the said thinges as sone as it is strained as is aforesaied and put thereunto an vnce of Aloe Epaticum prepared and ordered as is aboue saied or at the lest as the Apoticaries doe sell it and call it Aloe Lotum with the iuice of Roses or other wise the whiche ye muste put in well beaten to pouder with halfe an vnce of Cassia Lignea and kepe all this coÌ„position in a violle or other vessell well couered The maner of receiuyng it is to heate it a litle at the breake of the daie and to take halfe a glasse full or more of it accordyng to the exigent of the sicknesse and the qualitie of the persone hauing taken it he must kepe his bedde a while and slepe if it be possible and then rise and walke aboute the house or els where at his pleasure Neuerthelesse it were better that he kept the house and specially bicause of the mouyng of the body And this maie he vse v.vij.ix or .xj. mornynges for the pluralitie can not hurte Also this potion or drinke is of soche exquisite bouÌ„tie for mannes body that we nede to vse none other maner of purgation or medicine ¶ A verie easie and good remedie for to heale all maner of Pockes whiche is made with litle cost and requireth not that a manne kepe his bedde or his house but maie vse it going in the streetes And it is also verie good for all sortes of grief in the iointes in what part of the bodie so euer it be TAke .iij. poundes of rawe Honie and a pouÌ„d of the Iuice of the flowers of an herbe called Molis or Lung worte whiche hath his leafe somewhat long fatt or full of carnosite and somewhat white his flower Yelowe fassioned like a belle and for lacke of the flowers the Iuice of the herbe then take halfe a pounde of Lignum Sanctum beaten into pouder and hauing let it boile in coÌ„mon water a good while ye must straine it and put the said iuice with the saied Honnie into a pot puttyng to it three vnces of Aloe epaticum ordered as is afore said or as the Apoticaries sell it wasshed with the Iuice of Roses And then vpon the saied Aloe beaten to pouder ye must poure as moche of the saied water wherein the Guaiacum hath boiled as wyll mounte in the potte fower or fine fingers high then adde thereunto twoo vnces of the Vineigre of Squilla and lette it boile faire and softly by the space of halfe an houre or a litle more skummyng well alwaies the Hâ—unie and when it hath almoste boiled inough put vnto it three vnces of fine SinamoÌ„ well beaten into pouder set it again a while vpon the fire then hauyng taken it of and setten it vp to keepe ye muste heate of it in the morning a glasse full and after you haue dronken it eate a litle piece of a Quince or of a fruite called in Latine Sorbum in Frenche Corme or grene Grapes Pome Granade or of some other bindyng thyng what ye will and keepe your bedde sleapyng as long as you will and also after you be risen and haue doen your businesse yea out of the house if it come so to passe But as we haue said to keepe your bedde or house is alwaies the best for you when ye vse Phisicke And this potion or drinke muste you take from daie to daie but if the paine be not to vehement it shall suffice being taken twise in the weeke and this doyng you shall see a wonderfull operation and ye shall not nede to vse Lignum sanctuÌ„ nor any other thing This remedy onely is sufficiente for all menne and hath been proued and experimented diuers tymes and vpon diuers persones ¶ To dissolue and reducte gold into a potable licoure whiche conserueth the youth and health of a manne as well taken by it self as mingled with the foresaied licoure spoken of in the second Chapiter of this presente booke and will heale euery disease that is thought curable in the space of seuen daies at the furthest TAke a glasse full of the Iuice of Limons and heate it ouer the fire vntill it beginne almoste to seeth then take it from the fire and strain it three or fower times through a Linnen clothe and afterwarde distille it through a long gutter of Felte then take twoo pounde of rawe Hoâ—nie and sette it on the fire in a pot mixyng with it the said Iuice of Lemons and adding thereunto halfe a pounde of
in this maner Take Cloues stamped and temper or lay theim in Rose water couer the vessell diligently leauyng them so vntil the water haue taken the vertue of the Cloues put also the Almondes in the said water and leaue them ther vntil they be swollen w t the water And after you haue taken them out and dried them in the Sunne lay them in the water againe to swell and afterwarde let theim drie well as before continuyng thus .v. or .vi. times Then put them in a presse and presse out the oyle whiche you shall kepe in a cleane vessell well stopped In this maner may you make oyle of Muske of Amber of Bengewin of Storax calimita of Aloe of Synamom of Mace and of Nutmegges You may make them also in diuers sortes and put to them Aqua vite ☞ To make an excellent parfume to parfume Chambers garmentes Coueâ—lettes Sheetes and al other thinges belonginge to any Prince TAke pilles of Citrons dried in the shadowe and if you can not get of Cytrons take of Lemons or OreÌ„ges or if you can get none of these take the leaues of Roses eyther greene or dryed accordinge to the season of the yeare and whatsoeuer is of al these thinges abouesaid you must occupy it whole or by small pieces and not in poulder And whan you will make the parfume take of the sayd pieces as much or as many as you wyll and annoyncte them well with Ciuette on euery side after laye them vpon some coles in the middes of the Chamber or some corner as you lyfte this will geue a verye pleasaunte and precious odoure thoroughoute all the Chamber If you will yet make it better you may put with the Ciuette Muske and Ambergrise as muche as you will and if you desire to make it with lesse coste and yet neuerthelesse very good take Rose water of the flowres of Orenges or suche other odoriferous and swete water with Oyle of Iasemin or of Cloues or suche lyke at your pleasure with the whiche you shall temper and stiepe Storax calamita and a little Lignum Aloes yf you haue anye if not you shall do well inough without it adde to it as much Ciuette as you will and make a licoure therof as thick as sauâ—ce wherewith you shall annoynte the Citron or Orenge pilles than laye theim so vpon the coles and it will be an excellente thinge and continue twise as longe as it woulde do if you burned the odours without the pilles and besides that it maketh the parfume to dure longer they make also the composition farre better and perfecter If with the sayde parfume you would parfume lynnen clothes Sheetes or other like thinges make it in this maner Put the lynen and thinges that you wyll haue parfumed in a cofer that hath no chinckes cliftes chappes crestes holes or is broken wherby the smoke may haue issue out You must range and laye your linnen and other thinges on eche syde of the cofer leauinge a place in the myddle to sette a lyttle panne or other vessell with fyre in it and the said pilles to parfume theym you maye also laye clothes vpon the lyâ—de of the cofer This done you must set in the middle the lyttle vessell with coales and aâ—so the pilles and hauinge shutte the cofer you muste let all the parfume burne out not openinge the cofer of longe tyme after And hauinge thus tarâ—ed open the cofer and tourne youre linnen and other thinges to the ende to parfume them on the other side that is not parfumed and put in newe parfume doinge as before you shall finde this of a greate excellencie so that the cofer it selfe shall be so well parfumed with it that all that you putte afterwarde in it shall sauoure of it And if you will you maye also parfume in the sayde cofer other lytle coffers for handkerchers and other thinges as lyttle cusshyâ—s and bagges of Roses whiche are parfumed also with oute syde beynge kepte in the cofers for they geue alwayes an odoure and sauoure to thinges that you put in them ☞ Rounde apples or balles to take ouâ— spottes of oyle 〈◊〉 grease TAke purgine Sope or soft Sope and incorporate it with the asshes of vines finelie sifted as much of the one as of the other than put amonge the saied â–ª poulder Roche Alome burned and the drye leese of â—yne well beaten into poulder incorporate well all together and make therof lyttle round Apples or balles whiche you maye vse to take oute spottes of any garmente ☞ To make a paste for sweete â—eades or Beadestones TAke a pounde and a halfe of blacke earth well beaten into poulder foure vnces of Gomme dragant and laye it a stiepe or temper it in a morter with as muche Rose water as wil couer the earth with the saied Gomme dragant and stampe it well by the space of halfe an houre with these sweete thinges folowinge That is to saye Storax calamita an vnce poulder of Cloues halfe an vnce Labdanum halfe an vnce Synamom halfe an vnce Sandalum Citrinum halfe an vnce beate all into poulder verye finelye and mixe all together with the foresaied paste than take it oute of the morter and braye it wel betwene your handes by the space of halfe an houre And than you maye make thereof Beades or Beadestones ☞ The ende of the seconde booke THE Secretes of the reuerende Master Alexis of Piemount THE THIRD BOKE A goodlie secrete for to condite or confyte Orenges Citrons and all other fruytes in syrop whiche is a notable thinge TAke Cytrons or other fruites and cut them in pieces as you wil taking out of them the iuyce or substaunce that is within them than boyle them in freshe water aboute halfe an houre vntil they be tender and as soft as you wuld haue them And whan you haue taken theÌ„ out cast them in cold water leuing them so vntil night After this you shall set them againe to the fire in other fresh water and do but onely heat it in that water with a small fyre for it must not seeth nor be to hote but let it onely simper a litle you shal continue thus .viij. daies together heatinge them euerye day in hote water and puttinge them agayne at nighte in colde water Some heat the water but once a day to thend not to make the citrons to tender but chaunge the fresh water at night to take out al the bitternes of the pilles the whiche beinge taken away you must take sugre or clarified hony and prepared as we wil declare afterward wherin you must put the citrons hauing first well dried them from the water In winter you must kepe them from y â— frost leauing them two or thre houres in a place mete for the purpose and in Somer you shal leaue them there all a night and a day and a night in honye Than boyle the hony or sugre againe by it self without the Orenges or Citrons by the space of halfe an houre or
then cut it very small put it in an earthen panne leaded full of whyte cleare Vinagre with a dragme of Campher stamped Boyle this together by the space of twoo or thre Pater noster and after strayne the grease with the foresaied thinges thorowe a whyte linnen clothe than lette the grease coole vntill it bee harde againe and if there bee anye ordure or fylthe at the bottome you muste take it away After this take twoo vnces of the oyle of Tartare and put it in some vessell vpon the coales vntill it come together and hauing set it in a moyste place by the space of a daye and a night put to it an vnce of Borar well wasshed than stampe and mixe all well together adding to it an vnce and a halfe of Ceruse wasshed and hauing put all in a new carthen panne leaded set it on a small fier styrryng it alwaies well together vntyl all the saied thinges be wel incorporated together and after that you haue layed it vpon your face laye on also a redde coloure made wyth the grayne whereof Scarlate is died called in Latyne Coccum and wyth Brassel for it shalbe better than with Brasyll alone ☞ To make a redde colour for the face TAke redde Sandall fynely stamped and strong vinagre twyse distylled than put into it as much Sandall as you wyll and let it boyle faire and softly put to it also a lytle roche Alom stamped and you shal haue a very perfite redde If you wyll make it odoriferous and sauour well put a lytle Muske to it or els Ciuet or some other odoriferous thing what you lyst ☞ To make the face fayre TAke Beanes and a kynde of a litle grayne called in Latyne Faseoli and Cyche peason and make a poulder thereof which you shall stiepe and temper in luke warme water with the white of an egge and the milk of an asse and than lay it out to drye And after stiepe it in a lyttle water wherewith you shall wasshe youre face and it wyll become fayer cleare and nete ☞ To make the face faire another waye TAke the fresshe blossomes of Beanes and distyll them thorowe a Limbecke and so wasshe youre face with the water that shall come of them ☞ To make the face fayre TAke the flowres of Rosemary and boyle them in white wine than washe youre face with it and vse of it for to drinke and so shall you make youre face verie faire and also your breath sweete ☞ To take out spottes or redde pimples out of a mans face and to make the skinne very faire TAke a litle roche Alome and breake it a sonder into small pieces than take the white of an egge newely layed euen at that instant the whiche you shall set to the fyre in a lytle panne leaded with the roche Alome and leaue it so vntyl you see that it beginneth to boyle mingle it alwaies with a lytle sticke And when it is waxen hard annoynet well al yourface with it three or foure daies and it wil make your face fairer A thinge founde trew by experience ☞ To make a water that maketh the face white TAke Lytarge Syluer sublymed the value of a grote and put it into some vessel w t strong white vinagre than boyle it vntyll it bee deminished the heyght of two fyngers lette it stande and rest than straine it and kepe it Also milke and the iuyce of Orenges mixed with the oyle of wyne lees is verie good ☞ Another maner to make the face fayre TAke the gall of a Hare of a Cocke or Henne and of Eeles temper them with Honnye and putte them so into a vessell of brasse well stopped for to annoynt your face with whan you lyste but take heede it touche not your eyes for it would inflame them and make them looke redde and so hurt you ☞ To take of spottes lyntelles or redde pymples out of the face TAke greene Lisardes quicke and boile them in oyle vntyll the thyrde parte bee consumed Strayne this and put to it white ware and than make thereof an oyntment wherwith you shall often times annoint your face To take of a ringe worme or tetter that renneth all ouer a mannes face called in Frenche Le feu volant TAke the rootes of Laâ—athum acutum called Sorel as wel wylde as of the garden wash them wel and mondifie them and cutte them in small pieces the whiche you shall stiepe in strong whyte vynagre and leaue them in it two dayes two nights Afterwarde rubbe the place of the sore with it three or foure times a day and at night with the sayd pieces of the sorell retes letting them stiepe alwaies after in the sayde Vynagre and you shall be cured To dryue a way life TAke encens and the larde of a barrowe Hogge properly called barrowes grease Boyle them together in an earthen panne or potte leaded and with this ointment rubbe or annoynte the place where the life be To make a water that taketh of all stayninge dying and spottes from the handes of artificers that gette them by workinge and maketh them very white and fayre It is also good for them that be sunne burned TAke the iuyce of a Lemon with a litle baye salte and washe your handes with it â–ª and let them drye of them selues washe them agayne and you shall finde all the spottes and stayninges gone It is also very good against the scurfe or scabbes To make a water that maketh the fleshe and skinne of a man or woman very fayer and will be kept like a precious baulme TAke a yonge crow euen out of the nest if you maye get one so if not take him as yonge as you maye to whome by the space of .xl. dayes ye shall geue none other meate but the yelkes of harde egges Than kyll him and flawe him breakinge the fleshe into smal pieces than take leaues of a myrtle tree and lay one ranck of them and another of the little pieces of the crowe in some great violl of glasse powdered and strowed ouer with the poulder of Talchum stamped with the oyle of swete Almondes and put in as muche of it as your discretion shal iudge for a great quantitie will do no hurt to it And if there remayne yet anye pieces of the sayde crowe make therof another ranck adding therto some myrtle leaues and than of the Talchum and the sayde glasse must be large wyde and lowe Finally you shall poure vpon it thre or foure vnces of the oyle of Myrrhe dressed with egges as is declared in this booke Than set the saied violl or glasse vnder the Limbeck stopping well the sides and ioyntes that it take no vent and likewise the recipient and geue it at the beginning a small fyre for the space of foure or fiue houres so that al these thinges may be dissolued and as it were breake and corrupt amonge them selues than make the fyre greater and greater and at the ende very great for the space of an
softer and finer and slacketh at euery time moore and moore in comming forth But if you will that it neuer growe more vse these remedies folowinge whiche are very good and certaine by experience Take the litle stones of Oliues burned the outwarde coddes of beanes dried the seede of Henbaine Litarge of golde and siluer the shelles of fyshes called in Latyne Tellmae burned and the iuyce of blacke Poppy as much of the one as of the other and halfe as much Orpiment as of one of those thinges All this beyng beaten to poulder boyle it in as muche oyle Oliue rosat as will couer them sixe fingers heyght styrringe it continually by the space of twoo or thre houres than let it coole and straine the saied oyle and so keepe it putting to it the fourth part of the oyle of Selandyne And when the heares bee fallen take a little linnen cloth wette in the said oyle luke warme and lay it vpon the saied place leauinge it so bounde on all a nyght In the morning take of the lynnen cloth and annoynt the place with oyle rosate and at night lay the lynnen cloth on againe wetted as before and this do .vi. or .vii. nightes but let it be in the wane of the Moone And yf you perceyue that the heares grow againe make them fall away agayne at the nexte wane of the Moone doyng in al poyntes as before you shall not oft doe it but you shal make that the heares shall neuer grow more ☞ To make a kinde of cloth or plaister to take the heare from the face necke and handes or from anye parte of the bodye TAke twoo vnces of Turpentyne halfe an vnce of white waxe broken small or some what moore or lesse accordinge as neede shall require Bengewyne Storax calamita at youre discretion Fyrste melte the waxe a lyttle wyth a lyttle fier and than the Bengewyne and Storax after this put in the Turpentyne adding to it a lytle Ceruse well brayed and settinge it to the fyre putte in to it a lyttle Masticke and make thereof a mixion neither to thicke nor to cleare or thinne Than take a piece of linnen clothe of what bygnesse you will and lay it abrode vpon a table spreading afterwarde the saied composition vpon it with a spone or some other thinge as it were in maner of a plaister than let it coole and keepe it so the one vppon the other open without folding vp the lynnen clothe for when the saied mixion is colde it is harde If you will putte it in profe and occupie dooe as foloweth At night when you gooe to bedde washe your face and necke with luke warme water rubbinge it well with a linnen cloth or with your hand and when it is drie or when you haue wiped it take a piece of the saied plaister or cyred clothe and heate it by the fyre vntill the saied mixion bee liquide and softe then immediatly binde it vpon youre face or vppon the place from whence you woulde haue the heare to falle and presse it harde on leauinge it so all night In the morninge go to youre lokinge glasse and pluckynge of one ende of the saied lynnen clothe you shall plucke awaye with it all the heare of your face and so shall you leaue a very faire skinne And if in case there remain yet any of the saied mixion vpon the fleshe wasshe it with hote water and with wheate branne rubbinge it so longe with some piece of lynnen cloth tyl you make it fal of than washe your face with Aqua vite or white wine or with some other distilled water being not to strong but let it be of Melons or gourdes or of such other like and vse afterwarde waters meete for the face as you lyst and thus shall you kepe and maintayne youre face as cleare as glasse ☞ A meruelous secrete whiche the greate lordes of the Moores dooe vse whereby they make that theyr children haue no heare vnder their armes or other place where they wyll And this secrete founde I in Syria the yeare 1521. by the meanes of a lorde of the countrey whose doughter I healed AS soone as the child is borne they make ready by and by a peece of fine golde or a Ducar or els a rynge or some like thinge and kepe it in the fyre vntill it be redde hote not meltyng it than they carry it with a payer of tonges laye it vpon the place where they will no heare shall grow and immediatlie annoynte it with oyle Rosat or the oyle of Violettes than after .xxiiii. houres they do the like agayn and by this meanes there groweth neuer heare in that place I haue often times made the heare fall from yong gentil womens browes and foreheades with this medecine and they haue founde it wonderfull but the golde must be very fine which suffexeth no token marke or skarre to remaine wher the burning was as other metals do I haue kept this secret hidden a longe time â—although that diuers times men would haue giuen me greate giftes yet I would not publish it a broade vntill now that I haue doone it in this present booke ☞ To make a kinde of cloth called cloth of Leuant wherwith women vse to colour their faces TAke the shearynge of skarlate and boyle it in water where quicke Lyme hath bene boyled and after you haue boyled it a good space you shall straine it and take a potful of it and put into it two vnces of Brasill cutte in litle peeces addyng to it an vnce of Roche alume and as muche of Verdigreese and a quarter of an vnce of gumme Arabicke and after you haue well boiled it the space of halfe an houre take a peece of olde linnen clothe of what bignesse you wil and wete it in this decoction or red colour than couer the pan and let the saied mixtion coole by the space of a day after you haue taken it oute drie it in the shadowe and keepe it in some vessell among odoriferous and â—oote thinges for to helpe you ☞ The same another waye TAke a glassefull of Aqua vite a quarter of an vnce of the graine that I spake of before called Coccum halfe an vnce of Brasyll halfe an vnce of gomme armoniacke put all these thinges together in the glasse where the Aqua vite is than stoppe it clase for feare it take vent and the sayed glasse muste bee full After this sette it vpon a small fier makinge it seeth faire and softlye or elles sette it in the Sunne by the space of twoo or three daies This doen strayne it and put in it pieces of olde linnen cloutes as we haue saied before If you thinke in strayninge this water that the coloure is not redde to your minde your maye put in moore of the saied grayne and brasell ☞ To dye a whyte bearde or heare of the heade into a faire blacke TAke good galles of Leuant or suche lyke and frie them in oyle but let them not burne
of the sayed fine earthes wel sifted thorough a fine sarce and whan you haue wel brayed it put it in a platter or great dishe to the intente that in handelinge it there go nothinge out and you shall moiste it little and little with the water called Magistra mixinge it well with your handes and rubbinge it so longe betweene your handes that wringinge it with your fiste it holde and cleaue together but you must note that I speake of moistinge it and not of thorowe wettinge it for it may not wete your hande in pressinge it nor cleaue vnto your hande like past but tha it onely holde together a little more or lesse then drye flower or meale and being so wronge in your hand it may breake in pieces whan you touche it with your fingar And hauinge thus brought it to a fourme lay it handsomely vpon the medals in the fourme or mould with thendes of your fingars and than with your hand wringe it and presse it harde downe not sparinge to presse it well in puttinge vpon it the other little table and pressing it down with your handes as hard as you can yea with all your might Than with a cutting yron with a right and euen edge and with a ruler made iuste and euen by line the saied fourmes with the earth cutting away handsomely the earth that passeth ouer the saied mouldes and so laye them vpon one of the pieces of wolle and then the litle flat table then you shal take with both your handes the two little tables aboue and beneth and holding theim fast together turne handsomly y â— mouldes vpside down and taking of the table you shal se vnder the medals in lyftinge it vp yf there be any earth entred in if ther be you muste take it awaye with the hares fote Then setting the other part of the fourme or mould in his place you shall fill it with the same earth pressinge it well as before and makinge it euen and equall with the yron Afterwarde with the poynt of the yron you shall lifte vp a little at one of the corners halfe the moulde or fourme and take it of fayer and softly with your hand and take out the medalles nimbly touchinge them a litle round about with the point of a small penne or quil if at the first they will not come oute turninge downeward that part of the mould wherin they did sticke whaÌ„ you opened it And if yet they will not come oute strike them a crosse with the point of a knife vntill that turninge downewarde the mouldes they come out And if in case they be not wel printed according to your mind you may put theim agayne into theyr place and presse theim againe and hauinge set on both sides the twoo pieces of wolle and the tables close theim in the presse Fynallye with the saied shaue or sharp yron make the sayed pypes or conduites holowe compassinge theim with your compasse and rule in suche sorte that they come iuste and equally than shall you trimme them so agaynste the fyre for to drye tourning theim sometime vntyll they be well dried Then with a matche or wyke tempered or wette in Oyle and Turpentyne and beinge set on fire smoke it and if there remain any superfluous thinge wipe it away with the hares foot Then ioyne them together agayne and hauing layde to them the wolle and tables wringe them a little in the presse and in the meane time hauing made ready and molten the metall yf it be syluer or white copper it is knowen by the shininge of it and clearnesse in the melting pot and if it be tinne by castinge into it a stone or some paper and that it burne it you shall cast it and the thinge shall go well withoute anye other helpe or ayde for to make it runne sauynge that after the tynne is molten put in a little that is to saye a twentith part of sublimataÌ„ in respecte of the whole quantitie and one â—â—ghte parte of Antimonium for besyde that these thinges make it runne well they harden it and make it sownde well Then the mouldes beynge colde take out handsomelye the medalles and whan you will caste other you muste parfume and smoke the mouldes agayn and then presse them and so cast your thinges as before and do it as often as you thinke good And if you see that the mouldes be not broken and that you will kepe them for another tyme you maye laye them in a drie place and they wyll kepe well Finallye the sayde earth taken oute of the mouldes brayed and sifted will be alwayes better to serue your tourne The medalles so caste are sodden againe afterwarde and waxe white so that they be not of Tynne Also you maye geue to all these medalles what colours you will as we wil declare more at large hereafter ☞ To make a white to blaunche and make white medalles or other thinges newlye molten and also for to renewe medalles of olde syluer TAke the medalles or other thinges newly founded or molten or elles the olde ones that you will renewe and laye theim vppon the coales tourninge theim often vntill they waxe of a graye coloure than rubbe them with a brush of copper wyer puttinge them afterwarde in this white coloure folowinge Take salte water of the sea or common water salted with a handfull of baye salte wherin you shal put the lees of white wine and Roche Alome rawe Boyle all this in a panne leaded and if the worke be of copper made white by anye sophistical substaunce you shall put to it these thinges folowinge that is to saye Syluer heaten or Siluerfoile the weight of a Spanish Reall Sal Armoniacke waying three times as much Salte Peter the weighte of flue Realles All the sayed thinges beynge put in some potte of earth with a couer hauinge aâ—â—ole in the middes set them in the middle of the fyre coueringe it with ashes and coales vp to the necke and leaue it there so vntill all the humoures be breathed out then let all coole againe and beate it into poulder very small This doen take an vnce of this substance or somewhat more or lesse and boile it in the saied white confection of the Salt water onelye halfe a quarter of an howre puttinge in the medalles or other workes Then poure out this water with the medalles into cleere and luke warme water and after rubbe the medalles with the Tartre or lees and other thinges that remayne in the potte and hauinge wasshed theim well with freshe water wype them drie ¶ To gylt yron with water TAke well riuer or conduite water and for thre pounde of the same take two of Roche Alome an vnce of Romaine Vitriolle the weight of a ponny of Verdegrese thre vnces of Sal gemma an vnce of Orpimente and let all botle together and whan you se it boyle put in lees called Tartre and bay salte of eche of them halfe an vnce and whan it hath sodden
but keepe it so the space of a night Than in tourninge the water they put moore Sandall to it and a lytle moore Alome accordynge as they lyke the coloure ☞ An excellent white aboue all other TAke brayed Talchum and burned tinne beaten in to poulder with a wodden pestell than washe them and mingle them together and put them in some maner of platter or other great and large vessell couered with suche another and so set it in a glassemakers fornayse the space of three or foure dayes And hauing taken it out it will bee as white as snowe Than braye it finely with the water of yonge fygges or with the milke of greene fygges or with distilled vynagre or some other suche sharpe and clammy thyng ☞ To make heare as yelow as golde TAke the ryne or the scrapynges of Rubarbe stiepe it in white wyne or in cleare lye and after you haue washed your head with it you shall weate your heares with a sponge or some other cloth and lette them drye by the fyre or in the Sunne After this weate them and drye them agayne for the oftener you dooe it the fairer they wyll bee without hurting your head anye thyng at all ☞ To make lye to washe the head whiche besyde that it comforth the braine and the memorie maketh the heare long faire and yelow like golde TAke lye that is not to strong but as women commōly make it to wassh their heades and make as muche of it in a kettle as wyll serue you ten washinges putting to it this folowing The pilles of ten Orenges or of sweete Lemons if you haue anye yf not take sowre ones the pilles of Cytrons as manye as you can gette bee they greene or drie it is all one the blossoms of Camomell Baye leaues a handfull of the herbe called Maiden heare halfe a handfull of Agrimoyne twoo or three handefulles of Barley strawe chopped in pieces halfe a dishefull of a kynde of pulse corne called in Latyne Lupinus and in Frenche Lupius hauing one stalke the leafe in fyue deuisions the cod creauesyd aboute hauynge in it fyue or syre graynes harde broade and redde they bee commonlye in Fraunce and in Italye but here in Englande vnneth knowen and therefore they haue no Englishe name they must bee dried a dishefull of Fennygreeke halfe a pounde of wine lies or twoo or three disshfulles of Brome blossomes whereof it is good alwayes to haue some drie in your house to make suche thinges withal Put all this that I haue named in a great vessell with the saied lie leauing it alwayes so to take thereof and occupie when you will And the lenger the saied lye shall be compounde with the foresaied thinges the better it will bee The saied composition will bee good for fyue or syxe monethes or moore and you maye renewe it at your pleasure But when you wyll put it in vse take it handsomely and cleanely vp without touching in any wise the saied drooges put in it and in heatinge it agayne you maye put in it a lytle Myrre and a lytle Synamom and thus shall you make it verye good as well for the health of the head and eyesyghte as for to beautifie and make the heare faire ☞ Lye to make heare blacke TAke Gomme lye and boyle it with a handfull of the leaues of Beete three or foure handfuls of Sage leaues eyther greene or drie and as muche Myrre as you wyll with Baye leaues and a fewe leaues or outwarde pille of a Walnut But when you wyll vse of those lyes that make yelowe or blacke rubbe not youre face or youre necke with it least they become blacke or yelowe although they dye not the skinne so soone as they dooe the heare And after hauing thus washed youre heare you muste washe your face with common lye or cleare water or elles with white wine ☞ An oyle for to annoynt the heare which maketh it yelowe lyke golde long and glystryng lyke burnyshed golde TAke a glassefull of the oyle of Sesamum whiche is a white graine growynge in India whereof oyle is made whiche is called oleum Sesaminum if you can get of it if not take oyle Olyue not greene but verye yelowe and cleare where vnto you shall put three vnces of drie brome blossomes well mundified from the verdure and greenesse that is in them and from the white that you shal find wythin than stampe them so grosely adding thervnto an vnce of the yelowe that is in the middle of white flowre delices and a quarter of an vnce of Curcuma and the sixte part of an vnce of Saffron w t a litle Synamom Bengewine Muske and Ciuet if you wyll All these thinges will giue a good sauour helpe the colour and comfort the head you must put all together into one vessell or violle wherein muste bee oyle which you shall kepe in the Sunne all the Sommer and so take of it at euery time a litle for your face and the older it waxeth the better it will bee Also you maye at the ende putte the oyle agayne vpon the saied drooges into the vessell for they will continue still good together manye yeres or elles you maye chaunge those substaunces accordynge as you see neede It shall bee also very good to anoynt with this oyle the kombe that women kembe them selues with in the Sunne or elles laye some linnen cloth hote vpon their head and let it so lye without putting any other thing to it This is a thing very rare and excellent for a queene for to dooe thus there can not bee founde a better ☞ A very goodly way or maner howe to make yelowe aberne heare without standinge long or nothing at all in the Sunne a rare and a verie excellent secrete TAke halfe a pounde of Antimonium halfe a pounde of wine leese nine vnces of salt Peter al these thinges beinge finely brayed and incorporated take an earthen pot or panne and put it in the middle of a fire that the fire maye be both aboue it and vnderneth it vntyll it be redde hote than caste in the sayde poulders by little and lyttle with a spone tarryinge a little space betwene euery sponefull castinge in vntill the fyrst be all burned and continue so castinge in one sponefull after another vntill all be in But this muste be doone in a chymney or in an open place because there wyll ryse suche aboundaunce of smoke that it is not possible for you to endure it than hauynge letten it coole breake the sayde panne and in the bottome you shall fynde as it were a maner of a thicke cake or browne lofe Than breake the sayde matter and substaunce in dyuers pieces vpon the grounde or in some cleane place and you shall fynde in the middle certayne little graynes like vnto fine siluer but they be brittle and easy to be broken And this is it that the searchers oute of the secretes of nature do call the kinge or chiefe of Antimonium