that curious but difficult part of Chyrurgery illustrated with twenty Figures curiously engraved on Copper-Plates 10. The History of the damnable Life and deserved Death of Dr. John Faustus the famous Conjurer of Germany newly Printed from the Correct Copy from Franckfort in Germany 19. The History of Justin Translated out of the Four and Forty Books of Trogus Pompeius Containing the Affairs of all Ages and Countries both in Peace and War from the beginning of the World to the Time of the Roman Emperours now Reprinted with the Life of Justin and the time when he flourished by Gerard John Vossius Englished by Rob. Codrington Master of Arts. PLAYS The Elder Brother The Reformation Pastor fido Flora's Vagaries Mock-Tempest Unfortunate Mother Charles the Eight King of France The Revenge or Match at Newgate Herod and Mariamne Piso's Conspiracy Imperiale Settle's Notes on Dryden's Plays Art's Treasury or a profitable and pleasing Invitation to the Lovers of Ingenuity contained in many extraordinary Experiments Rarieties new and curious Inventions c. PART I. CHAP. I. The Art and Mystery of dying Silks Stuffs cloth feathers c. In the most curious and delightful Colours with the manner of ordering making and preparing them c. SO pleasing to the Eyes of mankind are the various colours that we daily or frequently behold that they in a manner captivate and detain even the fancy it self with Wonder and Delight Wherefore I have thought it highly convenient amongst the many stupendious Secrets and Curiosities this Book contains as well tending to profit as pleasure if duly practised to place the Art of colouring vulgarly called dying in the beginning as an Introduction to the rest it being much wanted and frequently coveted by publick and private Persons to be known and rightly managed Wherefore for its better Improvement take the following Rules and Directions To colour or dye Wool or Woollen Cloth a curious red Take a considerable quantity of Alum and dissolve it in Water wherein bran has been boiled and strained out putting the Cloth Wool or Yarn to steep in it which being well steeped put it into other clear water heating it over a gentle fire putting thereto greening-Weed two pounds to four gallons of water stirring it about but not suffering it to boil add more a handful of unslaked Lime and as much Wood-Ashes stirring about the materials adding yet a like quantity of Lime Ashes and a pound of the Powder of Log-Wood or red-Wood and the like of Braziel and so in three or four hours time a very fair colour to your satisfaction will be taken To dye Linen Thread or Cloth red c. Take a pound of Sam-fleure and suffer it for the space of twenty four hours to soak in two Gallons of water heating over a gentle fire then add half a pound of the powder of Braziel two Ounces of Vermilion and an Ounce of Alum dissolved in a pint of fair water To dye a clear or pleasant light Red. Take Wheat Bran half a Peck two Ounces of Alum and boil them in four gallons of fair water then through a fine hair fieve strain out the liquid part then dissolve in it half a pound of Alum and the like quantiy of white Tartar and put in the Stuff Cloth c. intended for colouring adding three pound of Madder and perfect the colour at a moderate heat without boiling To dye Silk a Sanguine Colour Take a pound of Alum and two pound of Greening weed bruise them well and pour upon them fair water add then half a pound of Ground-Braziel heat them over the Fire and put the silk in some part of the liquid matter suffering it to seeth therein and so renew it with the remainder till you find your Colour take and having so done three times rinse it in Lee of Oak-bark or Wood ashes and afterward in Water To dye a fair Blue Take white Silk Stuff or Cloth that is white and soak it in water then having wrung the water out add two pound of Woold or Woad a pound of Indico and three ounces of Alum and then gently heat and dissolve them in the water and so dip your materials till you perceive the Colour has taken To dye a purple Colour Take the Silk Stuff or Cloth that has already taken a blue and dip it in Braziel and Alum-water at moderate heats and you will soon perceive your Colour answer your Expectation To dye Carnation Take a dry purper and soak it a night in Man's Urine then take your Cloth that has been soaked in Alum-water and dryed again and put it therein suffer the purper before hand to be twice seethed in fair water then set another Vessel by the Fire and suffer the Cloth to take the dye therein To dye a deep red Carnation Take Linen and woollen white Gall and alum it well and take the herb call'd by the Dutch Foli which is to be found on the banks of Ditches to the quantity of a pound well dryed Indian Lake four ounces Spanish red two ounces make of these and Alum-water a hot Liquor and dip your materials therein at gentle heats three or four times and it will afford a curious Colour To dye silk Quoins a curious red Steep first your Silk in Alum-water giving it a gentle heat adding thereto in the heating Bran-water then take a pound and a half of greening weed and so heat it up and put the Silk therein but let it not seeth then take it out and rinse it in Ley and after that in water adding some Powder of Log-wood and so heating it up a second time the business will be perfected To dye a fair yellow Take the Stalks Leaves and Seeds c. of Wood the roots being cut off and lay them in soak in Ley of wood Ashes for the space of three hours after that seeth them till you think they are sufficiently sodden then put them into hot water and Urine and heat them up indifferent different well straining the liquid part through a sieve adding to every two pounds of woad two pounds of Verdigrease with the Ley already sod stirring and well mixing it together in your Liquor for the space of three hours and so dip into it very hot at three or four times what you intend to colour Another way to dye a curious Purple viz. In case it be silk you intend to dye you must to one pound of it take four ounces of Alum and a gallon of water dissolving the Alum therein o'er a gentle Fire putting then the Silk therein and suffering it to lie for the space of four hours then take of Indian Lake and Indico each a quarter of a pound add likewise a quart of Urine and so heat them up into a dye adding more about a handful of Cochinele A curious green water to make Take half an ounce of Verdigrease bruise it well put thereto the yolk of an Egg and a few blades of Saffron then take of the Leaves of Spurge
at present in relation to Colours for dying Silks cloth c. CHAP. II. The most curious Art and Method of colouring Skins or any peices or parcels of Leather or Bristles as also of gilding Leather with Gold laying with Silver or Lacquering c. To colour Skins green TAke the Leaves of Night-shade bruise them in a Mortar strain out the juice and dissolve in a pint two ounces of Alum add half an ounce of Verdigrease and heat them gently over the Fire and then suffering it to stand for twenty four hours strike over the Skin with it warm and suffering it to dry do it again till it has taken the Colour which will be very lively To colour black Leather after the Order in Germany c. Take of the Bark of Elder two pounds of the filings or rust of Iron the like quantity put to them two Gallons of Rain-water and stop them up close in a Cask or other Vessel and so suffer them to stand for the space of two Months then put to the liquid part a pound of Nut-galls beaten to Powder and a quarter of a pound of Coperas heating them over the Fire and suffering them to stand twenty four hours after and so use them with a brush till the Skin has taken an excellent black To colour white Leather the best way Having hung your Skins in Chalk or Lime-water till they are grown supple that the Hair or Wool may be stripp'd off stretch them on Tenters or by Lines and smooth them over then take your colouring mixed according to the Purport of what you intend they shall take and having first brushed them over with alum-Alum-water very warm give them the Tincture and dry them in the Sun or in some warm house and they will be useful on sundry occasions without any further trouble To make white Leather blue Take the Berries of Elder a quart strain out the juice and boil it with an ounce of the powder of Alum and half an ounce of Indico or smalt blue and brush over the Leather with a fine brush dipped therein three or four times suffering it to dry between whiles and the business will be effected To colour Leather a fair Red. Having rubbed your Leather well with Alum-water or alumed it take stale Urine seeth it and scum it till half be wasted put then to it an ounce of the finest Lake with the like quantity of Braziel in Powder an ounce of Alum and half an ounce of Sal-armoniac mix them well and keep them stirring over a gentle Fire about two hours and so use the liquid part and your expectation will be answered To colour your Leather a curious French yellow Take one part of Chalk and another of Wood-Ashes and make thereof a good Ley then strain out the fine or Liquid matter put it into a Vessel over the Fire and put into it Turmerick in Powder and a little quantity of Saffron and so suffer it to simper till it becomes pretty thick then set it to cooling and as you have occasion use it as before mentioned To colour Spanish Leather c. Take that which the Dutch call Pomplemelch warm it and rub the Leather therewith then take of Venis tot Appelen and having beaten it small put a considerable quantity of fair water to it and let it soften over a gentle Fire then press out the water and so in the liquid part rub or wash the Skin doing it so often and after that take Shooe makers black the sinest and rub over the Skin with it having in the wetting added to it a little Vitriol or Coperas and suffering it to dry take Goose or Hogs-grease in a Woollen Cloth and rub the Skin over for a good space where there is a good Fire to supple it in and then rub it over with your hands till it disappear or instead of Grease Line-seed or train Oil may be used and so in case of any other Colour according as the Colours are designed To dye Bristles a câ—rious râ—d for Brâ—shes Take an ounce of Braziel-Wood in Powder half an ounce of Alum a quarter of an ounce of Vermilion and a pint of Vinegar boil them up to a moderate thickness and dip the Bristles in when it is very hot suffering them to continue or sometime in the Liquor and they will be of a curious Red. To dye Bristles or Feathers a curious green c. Take of Verdigrease an ounce Verditur the like quantity Gum-water a pint mix them well together and dip the Bristles or Feathers they having been first soaked in hot water into the said mixture To dye Bristles or Feathers blue Take an ounce of Indico as much of Bisse as much Alum as a Hazle-nut put them into Gum water and dip the materials into it hot hang them up to dry and clap them well that they may open And so changing the Colours you may in this manner dye the aforesaid materials of any Colour as for black use Log-wood and Galls for Purple Lake and Indico for Carnation Vermilion and Smalt for yellow yellow Berries and Saffion with a little Tartar mingled or dissolved in your Gum-water To dye Ivory Bone or Hern a curious red Take the materials and soften them in water wherein Tartar has been dissolved then take Vermilion and Braziel temper them well in water boil them up in a Liquor and put your Horn Ivory or Bone into it and suffer either of them to be there it being hot for a convenient time and taking them instantly out cast them into cold alum-Alum-water and if they have not taken the Tincture at first use them in the like manner a second time and so proportioning the Colours you may in this manner proceed to make them take what Colour you please To marble Books or Paper the best way Take four ounces of Gum-Arabick dissolve it in two quarts of fair water then provide several Colours mixed with water in pots or shells and with peculiar pencils to every Colour sprinkle them by way of inter-mixture upon the Gum-water which must be in a Trough or some broad Vessel then with a stick curl them and draw them out in streaks to as much variety as may be which done hold your Book or Books close together and only dip the Edges in on the top of the water and Colours very lightly which done take them off and the plain Impression of the Colours in mixture will be upon the Leaves doing as well the ends as the Front of the Book in like manner and in this case you may do paper by dipping it on the flat as also Linen Cloth c. To dye or colour Horse hair or any hair c. Steep the water wherein a small quantity of Turpentine has been boiled for the space of two hours then having prepared your Colours very hot boil the Hair therein and any Colour black excepted will take but that will only take a dark red or dark blue c. And after this manner
with Colours cold or but like-warm you may dye the feathers upon the backs of Poultry wild fowl hair on Dogs Horses or the like in as much varieties as your Fancy can suggest Another fair red for Skins c. Wet your Skins or Fells in Alum water in which has been dissolved a like quantity of Salt with half as much Lime when being again stretched and dryed take the last of Brewers drink a quart put into it an ounce of Braziel powder a quarter of an ounce of Vermilion and an ounce of Alum-powder thicken them over a gentle Fire by continual stirring and so with a brush or Cloth rub over the Skins at an evenness not laying it thicker on one place than another and so do three times successively suffering them only to dry the mean while and your expectation will be answered To dye Skins a crimson Colour c. Scrape hard soap three ounces and dissolve it in fair water add to that three ounces of Alum boil â—hem over a gentle Fire till the water grow clammy or a little inclining to thickish then put in a few grains of Cochinele half an ounce of Lake two ounces of red lead and a quarter of an ounce of Vermilion and a small piece of Indico mix them well by stirring together and keep them upon a gentle Fire till they are about the thickness of the white of an Egg then having first rubbed your Skin over with Alum-water and suffered it to dry apply this colour as has been directed in the former To colour Skins a light blue or Turkey Colour Take Smalt two ounces red wine a quarter of a pint Alum two ounces Vinegar half a Pint and white starch half an ounce put them over a gentle Fire not suffering them to become over thick and then soaking the Skins with Alum-water and suffering them to dry as usually add to this colouring half a pint of Gum-water tolerably thick and lay it on glazing it over when dry with a polisher To colour a light green Take the Herb called Horse Tail bruise it and add to the juice a small quantity of Verd-grease Alum and Coperas and over a gentle Fire make it into a colour which will prove very pleasant and delightful To dress or cover Leather with Silver or Gold. Take that which is called brown red and grind or move it on a stone with a muller adding water and chalk the latter being dissolved and with it rub or lightly dawb the Skins over till they look a little whitish and then before they are quite dry lay on your Leaf-Silver or Gold placing the Leaves a little over each other that no Intermission be found and when they have well closed with the Leather and are sufficiently dried on rub them over with a polisher made of smooth Ivory or of a Horses Fore-tooth and you will perceive it very splendid Another way of gilding Leather more lasting than the former viz. Take Gleer made or consisting of the whites of Eggs or you may for want of the former make Gum-water and with a brush run over the Leather with either of them which done lay on your Gold or Silver and burnish it over as the former To make Leather shine without any Gold c. Take whites of Eggs Gum-water and powder of Antimony mix them well together by beating and having your Skins well dried lay the mixture on them and do it often till the Leather be quite hid which done let the mixtures dry and then burnish them over and for want of Antimony you may use black Lead CHAP. III. How to recover faded Colours in Cloth or Silk to take Spots Stains Pitch Tar Rosin Grease Wax Oil c. out of Silks Stuffs Woollen or Linen to preserve them from Damage of Worms Moths c. and other matters c. To make Cloth that has lost its Colour recover it and look fresh and bright TAke of unquenched Lime two ounces of the Ashes of the Bark of Oak the like quantity and put them into a quart of fair water mixing them well and suffering a settlement for the space of an hour drawing off the clear part and therewith wash or carry over with a hard brush the Cloth and by twice or thrice carrying it over it will look fair and bright To wash Scarlet that is soiled or greasie Take two ounces of white Tartar beat it finely and heat it over a Fire in a pint of fair water till it be thoroughly dissolved and very hot then suffering it to cool a little take an indifferent hard brush and dip into it rubbing it â—ightly over with the same and by so doing in a short time it will return to its first Estate and Colour To restore Silks of any Colour in the like nature as the former Take an ounce of unslaked Lime and the like quantity of the Ashes of Vine Branches and as much of Oak-Bark mix them well together in fair water and make a kind of a Ley with them over a gentle Fire which being setled take the clear part and with a brush or spunge rub over the faded part and it will in a short time restore it To make a Soap to take Grease Spots or Stains out of Cloth Stuffs Silks c. Take a pound of Roch-Alum burn it well and beat it into Powder add to it the powder of the roots of Florence-flame an herb so called about half a pound and to these add a new laid Egg and two pound and a half of Cake Soap make them up with fair water into round balls and when you are desirous to take out any Spot or Stain wash well the place first with warm water and then lay a laying of this Soap upon it for three or four hours and then wash it off with other warm water and in often so doing they will disappear An other excellent and approved way Take Wood Sorrel and distil it in an Alimbeck with Fumitory and wash the damaged place therewith and it will in frequently so doing restore it A way to take Spots out of Linen or Woolen if coloured Take of the juice of a Limon two spoonfulls one Spoon full of the Juice of an Onion and warm them over the Fire and with them often wash the Spots and they will no more appear How to make a good Ley to take out Spots and Stains viz Put into three pints of Water half a pound of Soap-boilers Ashes and suffer them with daily stirring to remain in it for the space of four days then pour off the clear water then mix it as you see convenient with Fullers Earth and lay it hot on the place and it will with often using effect your desire A very good way to take Spots of Oil out of Cloth. Take Oil of Tartar and mixing it with the powder of a burnt bone apply it to the spot and hold over or upon it a spoon wherein is a live coal and the heat thereof will attract the grease and render
half a handful bruise them with a quarter of a pint of Vinegar straining the liquid part through a cloth and mingle it with the materials before mentioned so thin that it may take either in dying or painting To make a black water to dye Silk Cloth c. Take half a pound of Nut-galls add to them a pottle of water and an ounce of Lamb-black with a handful of the rust or filings of Iron heat them up adding half a pound of coperas seeth them to a half Consumption adding then a pint of Gum-water and so set it by for your use c. and it will prove excellent good the longer it is kept it being the better To dye Linen or Silk a Rose red Take to every four yards and a half a pound of Nut-galls and seeth them in fair water unbrused for the space of two hours when pouring out the liquid part into another Vessel or Fatt put your Linen c. into it and suffer it to soak for the space of four hours then wring it dry and heat it again in Alum and fair water adding half a pound of Braziel powder and a pound of Greening-weed and so by gentle heats make up your colour to the heighth To dye a fair green Take Bran-water and Alum a Gallon of the former to a pound of the latter and seeth them up till the Alum is dissolved then for about a quarter of an hour let your Silk or Cloth lie therein then take more Bran-water and a few handfuls of woad and put it therein till it become a dark yellow then add Verdigrease and Indico of each half a pound or more or less of the one or the other as you would have it lighter or darker To dye a good black Take two pounds of Galls and half a pound of Coperas seeth them in water over a gentle Fire putting your Silk Stuff or Cloth therein and stirring it about then hang it to dry and prepare your dye in this manner viz. Take a large Fatt and put therein three or four handfuls of Rye Meal and half so much of swarf of the Grind-stone or Smiths water with two handfulls of elder bark and the like quantity of the rust of Iron and having suffered it to stand for the space of three days heat it up and put your materials therein c. To make a thick water to work on yellow Silk the best way Take two quarts of the best Varnish add to it an ounce of the Flower of Sulphur half an ounce of Camphire then seeth it a while and suffer it to cool straining it through a Cloth to take away the grosser part and when you use it let it be mixed with a small quantity of Gum-Arabick water To make a curious red Water Take two quarts of fair water four ounces of Gum-Arabick a pound of faucet Woad seeth them together till half be consumed and then taking it off put into the remainder half an ounce of Spanish green and about thirty grains of Cochinele and so use it as you see convenient To make a curious blue Water for Silks Stuffs or Woollen Take three parts of Soap boilers Ashes and one part of unquenched Lime make of them a Ley and suffer it well to settle then add to the thinner part taken off a pound of Boloemen stirring them well together over a gentle fire adding a pound of Woad and half a pound of Indico dipping what you intend to colour therein when it is very hot To work on yellow Silk white grey or Azure Colour Take a pottle of fair water and a fourth part of Gum-Arabick and half a pottle of faucet Woad an ounce of Arshick and the like quantity of Turmerick ground small and seeth them over a gentle Fire putting a small quantity of Grains therein and so apply it to your use as you see convenient To make a red Water for white Silk or Wool green yellow Violet or Azure Take two quarts of running water and an ounce of Braziel heat them up till half be conlumed then take it off the Fire and put in an ounce of Grains and a quarter of an ounce of Gum Arabick with a quarter of a pound of Alum Powder and suffering it to stand all night in the Morning you may use it To make grey Florey Take Florey and soak it twenty four hours at the end of which wring it through a Cloth then take the Ashes of the Vine and make a Ley with them and spread the Florey for the space of two hours upon a Table and having put the Ley into three Vessels take the Florey and put it into one of the said Vessels and so shift it to the rest putting before you dip your Linen c. Vinegar to it and your Colour will be good To dye Linen with Crampmede Use in this a pound of Crampmede to three Ells of Linen and put it to a gallon and a half of water or so proportionable to the quantity and warm it over the Fire till it appears ready to seeth then add to it two ounces of Galls and so put your Linen into it and as often as you take it out which must be frequent wring it when having a pot of fair water ready heated with Alum dissolved in it put the Linen well wrung into it and so rub it over at the taking out and dry it but if you would have it the darker Colour then is it requisite to have a Ley made with Lime-Stones or unslaked Chalk c. To dye Velvet or other things requiring it the most curious of Blacks Take of Galls two pound Coperas half a pound Smiths water a Gâ—llon the powder of burnt Ivory an ounce and of Oak bark and Shooe-makers black ground to powder the like quantity and two gallons of fair water mix them well together and suffer them to stand in the Sun or some other warm place for the space of thirty days with often stirring about then put your materials therein and as often as you diâ— hang them to dry and your expectation will be answered To make Bran water much used in dying c. Take half a peck of Wheat Bran and two gallons of fair water set them on the Fire giving them a gentle heat which being done put half a pound of Alum powder into it and suffer it to stand a week or more with sometimes stirring it about before you use it To dye Wooll or woollen Yarn Take four pound of Wooll or yarn two pound of Woad putting the Woad into a Kettle to two gallons of water then throw in two handfuls of Wood-Ashes and when it seetheth put your Wool or Yarn into it and let it remain there about half an hour at what time take it out and wring it and put it in again and let it seeth as long as before and then if it be before a brown blue it will be a dark green or if it was white it will be a yellowish colour And thus much
the spot invisible To take Pitch Tar Rosâ—n or Bees wax out of any Stuff Silk or Cloth. Take Oil of Turpentine warm it a little and apply it to the place suffering it to soak in for the space of an hour and then gently rub it and you will perceive the Rosin c. losened and instantly to crumble away A Soap water to take out any manner of spots how to make it Boil Straw-berries or the Leaves thereof in a quart of fair water and a pint of Vinegar then add two pounds of Casteel Soap and half a pound of Chalk finely scraped boil them till the moisture is consumed and when you have Occasion wet the place with sharp Vinegar and rub it over with this Soap drying it afterward against a Fire or in the Sun. A speedy way to take all manner of Spots or Stains out of Scarlet or out of Velvet of what Colour soever not changing it Take Soap-wort an herb so called strain out the Juice it being bruised add to the Juice a small quantity of black Soap if the Scarlet be â—â—t dyed in clear grain and these being made â—â—in wash the place with the liquid part sufâ—â—ring it to dry between whiles and by this means in a day or two you will perceive the Spots to disappear To take Iron Moulds or Stains out of Linen Take the Juice of a Limon warm it with a little Powder of Alum dissolved in it wet it and as it is wet dry it with a spoon wherein is a live coal and so continue to do for the space of two hours and the Spot or Iron-mould in a washing or two will disappear This likewise will take out Spots of Ink c. To take out oily Spots out of parchment or oily Paper the manner Take the Powder of burnt Bone finely fifted â—nd place between two boards pressing it hard â—ome of the powder on either side the Spot and â—n two days it will be quite vanished An excellent way to take Spots or Stains out of Linen viz. Take fair water and dissolve it in Bay-salt â—nd steep the Linen therein then take juice of â—â—rrel and sharp Vinegar and â—ub the Spot with them suffering it likewise to soak in and in so often doing it will disappear To take away Ink-Stains Stains with Fruit c. Take the powder of Alum half an ounce the juice of Housleek or Sengreen two ounces and apply them the Alum being dissolved very hot and the business will be effected Instructions how to keep Silks from staining in the washing Heat rain-water and when it is very hot put into it casteel Soap dissolve it well then suffer it to be almost cold after which sprinkle in a small quantity of fulling Earth and so scowre out your Silks then suffer them not to lie on heaps but spread them and clap them between clean dry Cloaths and they will be fresh and fair Directions to keep Linen layed up without using from Damage for many Years Having washed and well dried your Lineâ— the Sun fold it up and scatter in the foldinâ— the Powder of Cedar wood or Cedar smaâ—â— ground having first perfumed your Chest wiâ—â— storax by which means not only dampness 〈◊〉 prevented but Worms or Moths c. Further Directions to keep Woollen or Linen sweet and pleasant as likewise from being damaged by Moths Worms c. Take Orange Peels dry them in an Oven and beat them to Powder add to that Powder of Elicampane roots the Powder of Arras and that of Juniper and air your Cloaths when you lay them up over a Fire wherein Bay-leaves are cast and burnt A pleasant water to preserve Linen or any other thing a long time gâ—ving it moreover a curious scent Take of Spike flowers two pound Costmary one pound Balm an handful penny-royal as much Mace two ounces Arras Powder an ounce soak these in White-wine and distil them and sprinkle your Cloaths in a fair day suffering them afterward to dry and then lay them up A good way to wash any Linen or Woollen inter woven with Gold or Silver and not to impair it Dip the part you design to favour in Urine and Alum and suffer it well to be soaked then soap the rest but not that place and having washed it hang it to dry in the shade and your expectation will be answered To remove stains occasioned by Wine or Vinegar Take new Milk and steep the thing stained therein a night then take Runnet and apply to the Stain rubbing it in and by so doing twice or thrice you will find it fair as at first To make Linen that is turned yellow very white Heat Milk over the Fire and add to a Gallon a pound of Cake soap scraped in so that it may dissolve and when the Cloaths have boiled therein take them out and clap them into a Lather of hot water and wash them out speedily To whiten Cloth the best way Take your Cloth and buck it well then spread it upon the Grass and sprinkle it with Alum-water suffering it to continue abroad for three or four days then buck it again with Soap and fullers Earth and use it as before and so it will be both thick and white CHAP. IV. Directions to scowre Silver and gold Lace make Plate bright and look like new take Spots and Stains out of it to diaper Linen whiten Ivory make Cement for broken Glasses c. Perfumes of divers kinds Musk-balls and many other things and matters c. To scowre Silver and Gold Lace and to restore it to its first Lustre as also Imboss or Imbroidâ—ry TAke the Lace and lay it as smooth as may be upon a dry Woollen Cloth then burn Alum and beat it to Powder sifting it afterward through a very fine fieve then with a brush rub it gently over the Lace and by so doing and often turning it the business will come to Perfection And thus To scowre and take Stains out of any Silver Plate c. Steep you Plate in Soap-leys for the space of four hours then run it over with whiting wet with Vinegar so that it may stick thick upon it and dry it by a Fire after which rub off the whiting and pass it over with dry bran and the Spots will not only disappear but it will look exceeding bright To boil up Plate that it may look like new Take of unslaked Lime a pound of Alum the like quantity Aqua vitae and Vinegar of each a pint and of Beer grounds two quarts boil the Pâ—ate in these and they will set a curious gloss upon it To make any Linen at the first appearance look like Diaper Take it when new washed spread it upon a Table somewhat damp and sprinkle it over with a brush dipped in Alum and rose-Rose-water in form and manner as best shall suit with your fancy To whiten any piece of Ivory that is turned yellow as also Bone c. Take a pound of Quick-lime beat small and place it
Asphaltum one part of Mastick and one part of clarified Rosin but all but the Wax putting that into a new glazed Pipkin or Pan and let it boil over a gentle Fire at what time put the other Ingredients to it which being melted pour it out into fair cold water keeping back the dregs and when it is cold work it into a ball tie it then in a rag so close that no dregs may come through and use it upon your Copper as you have occasion In preparing your Copper observe that it be well polished not lying higher in one place than another nor no where uneven and if you espy and specks or disorders in it coal it over with a well burnt Char-coal and fair water and set it aslope to dry which done scrape some very dry Chalk or Whitening upon it and rub it over with a woollen rag not touching the Face of the Plate with your finger till the ground be laid which must be done in this manner viz. Put lighted Small coal into a Chafing-dish and lay the Plate on the wrong side over it that a gentle breathing of heat may come through then take your ground in the rag and rub iâ— gently up and down the Copper till it coming through the covering by reason of the heat may sufficiently cover the Plate not too thick nor too thin and then whilst it is warm take a Duck's Feather and smooth it to an exact evenness but beware the Copper be not too hot for if it smoak the moisture of the ground is gone and then in etching it will crack and fly up and when it is according to your mind suffer the Plate to cool then grind a piece of white Lead in Gum-water not very stiff and make thâ— white of convenient stiffness to wash over thâ— first ground of the Plate with a brush dippeâ— therein till you perceive it every way smooth going over it with another brush of soft Furs and so let it dry The ground thus laid take your draught after which you are to work and scrape on the back-side of it some red Chalk moving it all over and scrape over that some Small coal very fine suffering it to mingle with the Chalk and then with a Pencil or Hand-brush rub it up and down till it be smooth and even and so place your design upon the Plate and with a blunt Needle or Steel Point draw over the out-stroaks and then you must have several Needles according to the smallness and largeness of your stroaks in the Copy and with them in a â—in Pencil frame or stick according as bluntness or sharpness requires take out all the black stroaks pressing so hard that the needles may pass through the ground and make some small Impression on the Copper ever observing when â—ou lay by your Plate to wrap it up in a Paper 〈◊〉 prevent scratches or the Air spoiling the Ground wiping away as you work the Ground â—â—e needles brake up with a light Pencil not suffering the ground to lye too long on the Plate before you finish for the Air drawing out the noisture of the ground the Etching will appear â—road and deep working of black and unseemly 〈◊〉 when sometimes you suppose it eaten sufficiently you will find it defective in many places â—â—d in frosty weather you must wrap the plate as well in a blanket as in a Paper for if the frost take the Copper the ground will start from it and so the Aqua-fortis will spread under it and keep no certain form Having observed these directions take green Wax and melt it in a new Pan or Pipkin and with a Pencil cover the edges of the Copper and stick the Wax round about like a Wall to keep in the Aqua-fortis that done which being firmly stuck on take the third part of an ounce of Aqua-fortis and break it with other Water of the same kind that has been once or twice used taking at least two parts of the old to one part of new and in case you have no old Aqua-fortis then instead of it use strong white-wine Vinegar as a mixture and for such Figures or things as you would have lye fine and sweet you must pour out your Aqua-fortis into some Earthen Vessel and then wash of what remains with fair water and suffer it to dry then melt Candle-grease with a little ground and with a Pencil cover the Places you would have lyâ— faint then pour on again your Aqua-fortis and so continue to do as often as you can coâ—ceive it convenient then melt off the ground over a gentle Fire and with a clean rag wipe it off and you will have the perfect impression of the Copy on the Plate which you may work of at the rowling Press to serve your occasions and thus you may do upon any metal the wateâ— will take c. From etching I proceed to the Art of engraving and he that would be expert herein musâ— have a regard to true drawing wherefore I would advise the unskilful well to consider what I have laid down of that kind and so provide himself with materials for the performance of this curious Art. In the first place be sure to choose a good Oil stone free from pin-holes or flaws not too hard nor too soft and therefore the better to furnish your self aright you must consult in what the stress of your business will lie for if you intend Picture or Letter work accounted more curious than Marks or Arms used by Gold-smiths and Pewterers you must have your Gravers accordingly shaped and tempered for Gold-smiths c. Gravers are frequently crooked the better to come at hollow places c. but for Copper or any Plate that may be easily come at the strait Gravers are ever held the best and if you suspect their goodness try whether or not they are file proof and if so they will fit your purpose though at first by reason of their temper they may appear brittle and sometimes break short yet being ground out they will still grow better and better and come in a little time to an excellent temper As for the forms of Gravers as to their use the square one makes a broad shadow stroak or hatch and that which is form Lozenge a narrow deep one the one being appropriated to large and the other to fine stroaks yet if your work be curious a middle size between these will the better accomodate you which will render your stroaks or hatches more graceful and yet carry with them sufficient force and vigor In case of whetting your Gravers which is frequently required pour a little fine Olive Oil upon your stone and laying that side which you intend shall cut the Copper flat upon it whet it very flat and even and to that purpose carry your hand very steady continuing an equal strength and placing your fore finger firm upon the contrary side so that you may have more power to guide it with exactness then turn the unwhetted
for Walls and Conduits use a mixture of white and black as likewise for other materials but if a Brick-house use red Lead and white and where the Houses stand thick together there use sundry Colours suitable to the occasion Tâ— cleanse old Pictures and render them fair and pleasing Take Wood-Ashes the whitest that may be had sift them through a fine lawn sieve and with a Spunge and fair water wash the Picture gently over not rubbing it hard least you impair the shadows which being done and the Picture dry take distilled Varnish and rub it thin and gently over and it will create a lasting freshness or for want of this you may do it with the whites of Eggs exceeding well beaten or with Gum-water But note the Pictures to be thus used must be such as are laid in Water-Colour Oil. CHAP. XIV Instructions for restoring Tapestry Hangings Carpets or Turky Chairs that are faded or decayed to their lively Colour to prepare Flock Cloth for Hangings Spanish white Size Alum water and Gum-arabick water how to make them as also to thicken Cloth for Screens c. To refresh Hangings or Tapestry Carpets or Chairs BEat the dust out of them in a dry day as clean as may be then rub them over well with a dry brush and make a good Ladder of â—asteel or Cake Sope and rub them well over with a hard brush then take fair water and with it wash off the froth and make a water with Alum and wash them over with it and you will find when dry most of the Colours restored in a short time and those that are yet too faint you must touch up with a Pencil dipped in suitable Colours and indeed you may run over the whole piece in the same manner with water Colours mixed with weak Gum-water and it will cause it if well done to look at a distance like new To make Flock Cloth Hangings c. To do this take a course Canvas spread it even upon a Flour or Table then take flocks or shreads of Woollen grind them as small as dust and having sized over your Cloth with a good strong size sift whilst it is wet the flocks on through a sieve very fine and having done it even in all places run a rowler of wood or Iron over the piece to press them down close and so suffer them to dry in the shade lest the Sun or Fire parch and make them crack and when dry brush them lightly over with Alum-water and so draw your design with black Lead red Lead Charâ—coal black or any other Colour you fancy and it will at a distance look like Tapestry and be very lasting in a room where no great Fires are made How to thicken Linen Cloth for Screens Bed-teasters and the like Grind whiting with size and to prevent its cracking add a little Honey to it then take a soft and smooth brush and lay it upon the Cloth and so do two or three times suffering it the mean while to dry between layings on and for the last laying smooth it over with Spanish white laid with Line-seed Oil the Oil being first heated and mixed with a small quantity of the Litharge of Gold the better to endure the weather and so it will be lasting Spanish white how to make it Take fine Chalk with a tenth part of Alum grind them with fair water till very soft and then bring them to a thickness and make them up into Balls lay them to dry leasurely and then heat them well in the Fire and so use them To make a very good Size useful upon sundry Occasions c. Take glue a pound steep it in four gallons of water till it be dissolved then take a pound of the shreds or cuttings of Gloves or other the like Leather and boil them in the water wherein the glue has been dissolved over a gentle Fire till it feel very clammy between your fingers and when that is done strain the liquid part through a sieve and keep it for your use To make Alum water the best way Take a pound of Alum bruise it and put it into two gallons of water adding a small piece of Gum arabick and having scumed it after a gentle heating from the froth or scurf strain the water and keep it for your use and especially to wash over printed Pictures lightly before you paint or colour them by which means they being afterward suffered to dry the Colour will be prevented from sinking or soaking in unseemly To make Gum-arabick water for all Occasions Take of the transparent or white Gum two ounces half an ounce of Alum and two quarts of Spring water dissolve the former in the latter over a gentle Fire scum it and take away the dross and so use it with Colours or in making Ink or the like and if you perceive it too strong you must put more water but if too weak then more Gum taking out the dross as before And thus much may suffice for the first part of this Book and past all peradventure prove useful to the Reader and Practitioner in such a manner that I can scarcely believe he ever will or at least will never have cause to repent of or repine at the cost and labour so necessary a Treatise fill'd with so much variety puts him to The End of the First Part. Art's Treasury or a profitable and pleasing Invitation to the Lovers of Ingenuity contained in many rare and extraordinary Experiments and Inventions c. CHAP. I. Metals and Minerals their Quality and Generation from what they proceed and how produc'd the â—rt of transmuting and making artificial Metals or Minerals with other material matters IN case of Minerals and all things inanimate concenter'd or contained in the Bowels of the Earth it is convenient to reduce them to four kinds of Mixtures viz. Metals Stones Earth or Juices Nature producing them with mixture and participation of each oâ—her and here by Earth I mean the simple Element only of which as the Philosophers affirm all sublunary Bodies are compounded and though the Earth according to the situations of Countries and differences of Climes differs in Scent Colour and Taste yet that proceeds from a mixture of some other part or effect of the former the pure Elementary Earth being in all places one and the same in which and by the operation of heat and moisture the others are generated and as there are more or less of these the Metals are finer or courser But to come nearer to our purpose Gold is found in Grains or Sand and Silver in veins and sometimes twisted and wreathed like the branches of a Vine and at other times these Metals are found in stones with whose hardness they have incorporated themselves and being broken are with fining materials extracted As for Gold it is the most perfect of all inanimate bodies and has its Generation as I have said from heat and moisture in the Original but of Parts so well contracted
be somewhat cool and it will be very flexible Instructions to harden soft Iron Take the concoction of Vervein Housleek Juice the juice of Hore hound Radish or Rue dissolve in them some Alum-powder and the business will be effected if you anoint your Metal when hot with the liquid part To harden all manner of Iron Tools or Instruments Take the Leaves or juice of Pentefole or five leaved Grass the juice of a Limon or White-wine Vinegar and dip the pieces of Metal or Tools in it when hot and do so often and you will find the advantage To make Iron as hard as Steel Take the juice of Roman Nigrel and Mouse-ear herbs so called and strike over the Metal being hot and by this means Tools may be made of it that will cut Iron To harden Metal so that it shall not crack nor flaw c. Take Oil of Spike and Mutton Suet and dawb over the Metal hot then plunge it suddenly in cold water and the business will be effected To harden Augres Files Chizels Mattocks c. for use Take the Juice of Radish or Cole-worts mix it with Ley made of Soap-ashes heat it over the Fire and when your Tools are well heated or red hot in the Fire quench them in it To make Tools so hard that they will cut Iron Copper c. Take Salt Peter and Copperas strew them in Powder upon the Tools when red hot and then quench them in the destilled water of Shell-snails and your expectation will be answered To colour or varnish Tin Copper or the like metals Take half a pint of Line-seed Oil warm it over the Fire and scum it then put therein bruised Amber and Aloepaticum of each a quarter of an ounce and suffer them to boil up to the thickness of an Ointment after that set them in a close earthen Vessel under ground for the space of four days and when you use it strike over your Metal with a brush or Pencil it being at the same time hot over a pan of Small-coal and it will be of a curious Amber or golden Colour The manner of gilding upon Metals viz. Take Wine-stone Verdigrease and Sal-armoniack seeth them in White-wine with some common Salt strike over the Metal indifferent warm with the liquid part and suffering it to dry a little take Water or Leaf Gold and lay it on which by the Virtue of the washing will stick fast so that with a burnisher of Ivory you may finish it in its proper Luster How to make a water for the gilding Metals Take three pints of Spring water two pound of Roch Alum an ounce of Roman Vitriol and as much Verdigrease and Orpiment boil and deum them and then put in water of Tartar and Bay Salt of each two ounces and when â—he Ingredients are well dissolved and come to a â—hickness strike over your Metal therewith dry â—t against the Fire and burnish it How to gild Iron or Steel with Quick-silver and Gold Foil Take Vitriol and Sal-armoniack of each an ounce and of Alum two ounces beat them fine and boil them to a thickness in fair water add a dram of Verdigrease and half an ounce of Sublimatum and sperce over your Metal with it when having mixed your Gold and Quicksilver together lay them on with a Leather Spatula as smooth and even as may be then suffer the Varnish to take it and burnish it over To make Iron or the like a curious blue or Steel Colour Burnish your Metal to a brightness and take Cows-hools burn them and hold the Metal over the smother or smoak of it and it will answer the end designed c. To make Copper c. a Silver Colour Take Bay-salt Alum and Wine-stone grinâ— them to Powder adding in your grinding some leaves of Silver and put them into an eartheâ— pot close stopped with your Copper amongst it and then taking it out ruâ— it over with some 〈◊〉 the Powder and burnish it A very good way to burnish Iron or other Metals Take of Aloepaticum Citrinum and Amber each an ounce make them into Powder and place them over a gentle Fire in a well glazed pot and when you perceive it melted put to it a quantity of scalding Oil and when the mixture is well made let it cool and so your Metal being glowing hot lay a little piece upon it and rub it over To make a good solder for Iron or any hard Metal being cold Take of Sal-Armoniack two ounces two ounces of common Salt the like quantity of Wine-stone in Powder six ounces of thick ground Glass two ounces of Clock-spike bruise and mingle them wall together and so put them into a linen Cloth and suffer the Cloth to be laid a finger thick with soft Clay encompassing it on the out-side and put them inâ—o a well glazed earthen pot with a lid or cover and put that into another larger not of Earth well covered and suffer 〈◊〉 to stand over a gentle Fire that the heat may eâ—creasie by degrees to all be red hot and râ—â—â— then suffer it to cool and break it small and grind it to Powder Then in case of soldering make your Iron c. fast and the joints close laid lay a paper under them and upon it some of the Powder as also between the Joints then wrap it round with Clay except the upper part which you must leave open to solder at then take the Powder of Burras and put it into Wine or Aqua-vitae and suffer it to dissolve when dipping a feather therein strike over the upper part of the Joints and it will begin to smoak and hiss the which ended you may uncase it and find it perfectly soldered A way to solder warm or rather hot on Iron Steel c. Take Gum-water beat it up with green herbs of any kind till it become a Paste or of that thickness and strike it on your Metal or lay it on the Joint rubbing Soap over at what time heat it and it will prove a good Cement c. To solder on copper c. Take of Copperas an ounce half an ounce of Orpiment or white Arsnick dividing it into two parts and then make your Copperas run with Fire then add one part of the Arsenick or Orpiment and after you have spread it thin on a fine stone add the other part then beat it into Powder and use it as the solder for Iron c. To solder Latten a Metal or mixture of Metals so called Take a File and make the parts to be joined very smooth then put them together and being hot scrape your Powder of Burras and keep it close till cool and the Joints will be fastened or fixed To varnish like Gold on Tin Silver or Copper c. Take an earthen Pot well glazed with a close Lid to shut in and put into it six ounces or half a pint of Lin-seed Oil an Ounce of Aloe-paticum and the same quantity of Mastick make them into a fine Powder
Ingredients in Vinegar and Water but the Ink will not prove as the former To make red Ink. Take the Powder of Braziel an ounce white Lead and Alum of each two drams Gum arabick a dram put these into a pint of Urine and stopped close in a bottle and often shake them together and the business will be effected Another way for red Ink. Take of Gum arabick half an ounce Vermilion an ounce and a half Lake a quarter of an ounce and Vinegar indifferent strong a quart mix them well together over a gentle Fire and then suffer them to stand a while shaking the Vessel when you come to use it To make white Ink to write on Black Paper or the like As in case of Consolatory Letters to those whose Friends are deceased Take an ounce of chalk as much Quick-lime and a quarter of an ounce of Egg-shell with half an ounce of burnt Ising-glass grind them well together and put them into Gum water of any kind to a thickness of writing and the Ink by Candle-light especially will appear like Silver To make Ink for the conveniency of Carriage in Powder c. Take Lamp-black half an ounce the Powder of Galls an ounce Vitriol or Copper as half an ounce Gum-arabick a quarter of an ounce Ivory black a quarter of an ounce make them into balls with water adding if they stick not well together more Gum and when you have occasion to use it scrape a little into a small quantity of Wine Water and Vinegar and stir it about and it will be exceeding black Ink immediately and so you may be always provided with it without fear of spilling or want of it in places of travelling where there is none to be had and instead of Lamp-black you may use burnt Cherry-stones ground to Powder To make a red Ink to carry to any Place as the former Take the Powder of Braziel finely ground or heaten one ounce mix with it the juice of Mulberries or Black berries or for want of them water wherein a little Lake has been dissolved add Gum-arabick half an ounce to two ounces of the Powder wet them to a thickness and making them up in Balls use them as the former To make green Ink. Take the filing of Copper an ounce Verditer half an ounce Gâ—m-arabick half an ounce and Vinegar half a pint put them together in a stove or warm Oven and suffer them to stand three or four days then stir them together and use the liquid part To make Ink that will make an Impression as that of Printers c. Take of Lamp black an ounce or for want of it Shooe-makers black half an ounce of Vitriol an ounce of fine ground Char-coal to these add a quart of Line-seed Oil boil them up with stirring over a gentle Fire till they become of a sufficient thickness then take out the substance and move it upon a stone or on an Ink-block with your Muller till it is very fine and so it will take the Impression as of Letters c. in the nature of Prints or Pictures c. Red Ink of the foregoing kind Is made with Vermilion and Line-seed Oil well tempered upon a stone with a Muller To write Letters invisible but by Fire You must take the Juice of Limon and Onion temper them well together and let your Paper be very dry then write what you think convenient and send it to the Party you design who knowing the Mystery before-hand shall no sooner hold it to the Fire but those Letters which were blank before will fairly appear To make Letters appear by water Take welld ried Paper and having dissolved a quantity of Alum in Gum-water write thereon and suffering the writing to dry dip the whole Paper under water and the Letters will appear so much whiter than the rest that they may be plainly distinguished and read To make Letters that cannot be seen or read but by reading them through the Paper c. Take white Lead finely ground with very weak Gum-water and with it as thin as the temperature of Ink write upon exceeding white Paper not very thick and by that means when it is dry it cannot be discerned from the Paper but by looking at a light placed on the other side of the Paper and then the Letters will plainly appear by denying your Eyes to penetrate them though the Paper be transparent CHAP. V. Directions for cleansing colouring Gloves and perfuming them the way to scour Ribbands without much impairing the Colour the Method of washing starching c. Silks as Lute-string Lawns Tiffanies Sarcenets c. with other matters of Curiosity Foul Gloves to cleanse without wetting TAke your Gloves and lay them upon a clean board and make a mixture of Fulling-earth and Powder of Alum very dry and pass them over on every side with an indifferent stiff brush then sweep of that and sprinkle them with dried bran and whiting a considerable time and so dust them well the which if they be not extraordinary greasie will render them clean as at first but if they be greasy you must take out the grease with crumbs of toasted bread and powder of burnt bone then pass them over with a woollen cloth dipp'd in Fulling earth or Alum-powder and so you may cleanse them without wetting which many times shrinks and spoils them To colour Gloves Take your Colours suitable to your intention if dark take Spanish brown and black Earth if lighter yellow Oker and whiting and so of the rest mix them with a moderate size and daub the Gloves over with the Colour wet and so suffer them to hang till they dry by degrees then beat out the superfluity of the Colour and smooth them over with a stretching or sleeking stick reducing them to their proper shape To make an excellent Perfume for Gloves Take Amber-grease a dram Civet the like quantity Orange flower-Butter a quarter of an ounce and with these well mixed and ordered daub them over gently with fine Cotton-wool and so press the Perfume into them Another good Persume on the like Occasion Take of Damask or Rose-scent half an ounce the Spirit of Cloves and Mace of each a dram Frankincense a quarter of an ounce mix them together and lay them in Papers between your Gloves and being hard pressed the Gloves will take the scent in twenty four hours and hardly lose it afterward To cleanse cast Bibbands c. Take your Ribbands and smooth them out having sprinkled them a little before with fair water then lay them on a Carpet or clean Cloth at full breadth and having made a thin Ladder of Casteel soap go over them gently with a brush or fine woollen Cloth then having in readiness water wherein a little Alum and white Tartar has been dissolved go over them till you see them clean and so they will not only be clean but the Colour will be fixed from further fading if you suffer them to dry in the shade and then smooth
bruised to powder put to it a considerable quantity of spring-Spring-water and so being boiled up over a quick fire put in the Plate and let it continue for a considerable time To soften Gold or Silver Take sublimate Mercury Sal-Armoniack of each a like quantity and when the Metal of either sort is melted put a small quantity of the phwder into it and so suffer it to operate thereon if Gold put more if Silver less To soften Bone or Ivory Take Bone or Ivory that is hollow and take the Juyces of Alexand. Milfoyl Radish roots Hore-hound and sharp Wine-vinegar and fill the cavity after which lay it near a gentle fire that the heat may infuse and in suffering it so to do in a little time it will mollifie the hard quality Experiments of other Natures viz. How to keep Grapes fresh al the year Cather the Grapes in a fair day when no wet or moisture is upon them cleanse them from those that are any ways perished and let them steep a while in white Muscadine a little warm after which dry them and stop them up in new earthen bottles setting them in a cool place free from the Sun or too much Air and they keep without perishing To make Mellons Cucumbers or such-like Fruit ripen by Art. Boil Wheat bran in Water and a little fine Mould and water the roots of the Plants with it morning and evening setting them in hot beds and covering them from cold and blasts with pots glasses c. To make Trees bear Fruits of any Colour Bore a hole in the body of the Tree at such time as the Sap begins to rise and plug it up close and you will perceive what liquid Colour you put in the same will tincture the Fruit and give it a participation of its hue To kill or drive away Fleas or Buggs Take the Juyce of Rue and the Gall of an Ox mix them together and anoint the post and frame therewith and strow in the Mat Powder of Southern-wood and Wormwood To make one that is very boarse or speaks inwardly have a very clear Voice Take the Flowers of Elder dry them in the Sun and so order it that without taking wet they may be beaten to powder which done keep the Powder in a glass and when you would use it put as much as will lie upon a six-pence into a glass of Wine pretty warm and drink it off To make Letters that will soon vanish Take Aqua-vitae dissolve a little Camphire in it and put to them the Ashes of burnt Straw well mingled or tempered together which for a time will produce a fair Writing but at your pleasure you may wipe it off the Paper or Tablet nor will it be long ere it decays of it self To renew Letters decayed Boil a few Galls in Wine and wipe over the faint Letters with a Spunge dipped in the Juyce and they will appear fresh and in full lustre as when written To renew the Marks in â—nives that are in a manner worn Polish them well with Powder of Emeril and Oyl after that cleanse them with chalk to a brightness then wet the Blades in Lime Juycâ— and Tanners water made with Vitriol and they will cause the marks to appear exact and fair and this way you may damask them How to Grave a Porphory-Marble without an Iron tool Take a small quantity of sublimate Mercury a like quantity of Sal-Armoniacum with as much Verdigrease destil them in a Retort of Glass calcine a small weight of Tin and Fire-stone and some Sal-Gem destilling them over three times in sharp Vinegar and so making a ground of Wax Rosin and Turpentine lay it on the stone as in the case of Etching and when you have drawn with an Iron point what you intend pour on the water and suffer it to continue till it has corroded the stone according to what you drew upon it How to make Water rise by heat c. Let there be a Vessel above either of Brass Clay or Tin and a pipe in the middle of it that may descend into the Water below so fastned that it takes not Air then let the Vessel above be made hot and it will by means of the Air 's being rarefied by the heat attract the water to it CHAP. XI Another Miscellany of rare and eurious Experiments useful profitable and altogether pleasant c. To cause Water contrary to the nature thereof to ascend PRepare a Bason with a pint of Water in it or thereabouts then take an earthen Pot or Jug with a round belly fitted for this service and light a piece of Paper cast it into the Jug flaming then turn quickly the mouth of the Jug downward and set it on the midst of the Bason of water it will suck up all the water if it be not more than it can receive and contain within the belly thereof To carry a Jug or earthen Pot sticking without any thing unto the palm of the hand Take a piece of Paper set it on fire and cast it flaming into the mouth of the Jug presently clap the palm of your hand on the mouth of the said Jug or Pot not hollow but plain and smooth the Jug will not fall from your hand but you may walk many paces and carry the same sticking unto the palm of your hand unless by violence you pluck it away To break a Stick placed upon the brims of two Glasses and not break the Glasses Place the Glasses on a smooth stone of an equal height and put the stick upon them then take a battoon or cudgel and therewith strike upon the midst of the stick perpendicularly or downright so may you break the stick and not hurt the Glasses To take the impression of any Seal Melt a little Brimstone casting in some Ceruse or white Lead put this mixture on the Seal strengthening it with a small piece of Paper a little bigger than the impression is being cold take it off and you will find the print of the Seal thereon How to write a Letter secretly that cannot easily be discovered or suspected 1. Write your mind at large on one side of the Paper with common Ink and on the other side with milk that which you would have secret and when you would make the same legible hold that side which is written with Ink to the fire and the milky Letters will shew blewish on the other side 2. Rule two Papers of one bigness with lines of an equal distance make the one full of Glass windows through which you must write your mind upon the second Paper then fill up the spaces with other words at your pleasure but if all were made to hang together in good sence it would carry the less suspicion Each friend must have one of these cut Papers to read all such Letters for without the Paper it will trouble a good Decypherer to read the Letter Of the Dyal upon the Fingers and the Hand Is not a commodity very agreeable when
Pear-tree rendering it by plaining as smooth and level as a piece of Paper which done having a dâ—aught of your design you must rub the Wood gently over with a ground of paste made of the finest flower and then fix your draught or copy upon it when suffering it to dry rub the back side of the paper which must be uppermost with your wet finger till you crumble it off so thin that the Print plainly appears upon the Wood as if it had been pa nted or drawn thereon with a pâ—n or pencil Having thus prepared your Wood if it be small fasten it up with coins that it move not unless there be occasion or as the stroaks require and then having a fine small knife in the nature of a Pen-knife but much less and thinner especially for the fine stroaks cut out all the white stroaks and ground and suffer the black ones to stand sharpening the fine stroaks and bringing them to an edge that they may not print black or dull and above all be sure to do it with so light and curious a hand that you break none of them for if so you much deface and injure the Work they not being to be repaired and further observe to leave a good foundation to the stroaks though never so fine at the top least by the force of the Press they break in working You may have your Pattern or Advice if it be new drawn upon the Wood with black orred Lead though the former way is the securest from being rubbed out or injured c. To write or gild with Gold and Silvâ—r an easec and curious method c. If you would have fair Letters appear in Gold or Silver take Gum-armoniack and grind it with a little juice of Garlick and put thereto a few drops of the weak water of Gum-arabick and so make it to the thickness of Ink that you may conveniently write with it and so write or draw what you think convenient and suffer it to dry a little but not too much lest it take not the Gold or Silver nor too little lest it drown them Then lay your Gold or Silver in Leaf upon a Leather Cushion being a piece of Calves skin stuffed with the â—ough side outwards and so with a sharp knife cut it into what proportion you will suitable to what you have written and taking it up with a loose piece of Cotton Wool on which you have breathed cover with it the place intended pressing it down hard and where the Gum-water is it will take it then brush away with other Cotton what it has not taken and being dry burnish it with a piece of polished Ivory and it will appear very splendid To write or gild with liquid Gold or Silver c. Take shell Gold which is made of the raggid edges or câ—ttings of Leaf Gold and when you are desirous to use it put in a little fair water tempering it up with a clean Pencil and lay it on with a Pen or Pencil in what form you please either by way of writing or gilding and when it is dry rub it over with a Dog 's Call's or Horse's Fore-tooth and it will be very shining and pleasant And of this as of the former you may lay on more or less either foâ— the gilding Pâ—cture Frames Coaches Rooms or the like As for lacquering it only consists of carrying a Pencil dipped in rectified Spirits over Leaf Silver which changes it to a gold Colour How to prepare Colours to colour printed Pictures and thereby render them beautiful For a curious Violet Colour take Turnsole being a dye infused into a piece of a linen rag heat it in Vinegar and it will give you the Colour desired after which dissolve in it some Gum-arabick and use it as you see occasion For a curious yellow take Gum-booge and dissolve it in fair Spring water over a gentle fire To make a transparent red take Braziel grind it and heat it over a Fire with small Beer and Vinegar put in a little Powder of Alum and Gum-arabick and suffer it to boil till it taste strong c. For a transparent purple Colour grind Logwood and boil it in all respects as the former For a curious blue take fine Litmos and cut it into small peices lay it for the space of twenty four hours in a weak Lake gum-Gum-water to make which you have been before directed and it will answer your expectations To make a curious green take the juice of rue and a little Verdigrease For a light green take Sap green flower de Biss or tawny green and steep them in fair water To shadow greens sleep Indico and yellow Berries To shadow blues take Litmos and Indico steeping them in the Lees of Sope ashes and use them with Gum water To make a good brown take Ceruse red Lead Pink and English Oker mixing them with Gum-water For an Orange Colour take red Lead and yellow Berries and mix them with Gum-water For a curious flesh Colour take white Lead red Lead and Lake with Gum-water To make a Colour for precious stones take Verdigrease and Varnish for an Emrald Florence Lake for a Ruby and Ultramarine for Sapphire How to colour Map and what is to be observed therein In this case as well as in other printed Pictures is no more than to set them out in their proper Colours which you must accordingly consider as the nature of the thing requires it being impossible to direct in particulars however observe that water must be a faint blue Sky somewhat deeper Trees green Houses in Maps are usually red and ways yellow and green And to these and the rest suit any water Colour you think suitable mentioned in this Book Colouring for Landskips and building at large very proper In Landskips for the saddost Hills use burnt Umber for the lightest put some yellow to it and for other Hills lay Copper green thickened on the Fire or in the Sun and for those further off mix with it some yellow Berries and let the fourth part be done with green Verditer and the furthest and faintest Places with blue Bise for the lightest places use white and shadow it with blue as for the High ways do them with white and red Lead using for Variety yellow Oker shadowing it with burnt Umber and it may likewise be used for sandy Rocks and Hills and as for other Rocks you may lay them with several Colours but at a distance they must appear blue as in the Air as for the water do it with black Verditer and white shadowed with green and with blue Verditer when the banks cast a green shadow upon the water but when the water is dark in the shadows shadow it with Indico blue Verditer and green c. How to colour Building c. In colouring Buildings you must use much variety the better to set them off yet not so as they may appear extravagantly adorned or contrary to the use of this kind but
BRuise to Powder a handful of Galls half an ounce of Vitriol and the like quantity of Gum-Arabick and Gum-Sandrick mingle them finely sisted together and when you have occasion to write rub over your Paper with a little of it laid upon Cotton-Wool and then having sufficiently smoothed it take water and write upon the said Paper when suffering it to dry it will take a black impression occasioned by the Powder as if it had been written with Ink. Another curious Powder Ink fit for Travellers c. or the London Powder-Ink Take ten ounces of Nut-Galls bruise them well three ounces of Roman Vitriol Gum-Arabick and Roch-Alum of each an ounce make them into fine powder sift and dry them at which time put the Powder up in close Boxes or Papers and when you have occasion to use it put a little quantity into a good quantity of water and shake it well about and it will instantly change the colour of the water and at length become good Ink that is in less than two hours space by which means any person without giving himself considerable trouble of carriage may be furnished at all times Another curious Powder of the like efficacy how to make and lately known by the white Powder-Ink so much coveted of late c. Take Gum-Sandâ—ick two ounces beat it well to Powder and sift it through a fine sieve and as much of Chalcanthâ— so called by the Latins of which you may furnish your self at the Druggists mix them well beaten and pulverized and a quarter of an ounce of this or little more will turn a pint of Water or Vinegar into a curious writing Ink in a very short time Mathoilus 's Direction for making a curious and lasting Ink c. Take five ounces of Galls well bruised Roman Vitriol three ounces Gum-Arabick two ounces Bay-falt a drachm or instead of it a quantity of Alum mix them well together in a new glaz'd earthen pot and pour upon the mixture White-wine very strong and hot about five pints and suffer it the weather being hot to stand in the Sun for the space of fisteen days or it may be done in a stove Oven or in the Chimney-corner frequently stirring it about and so pouring out the dross an excellent Ink will be had not subject to change by time nor alter its colour Two excellent ways of speedily making Ink c. 1. Take Vitriol and Gum-Arabick of each an ounce of Galls well broken a like quantity of sharp Wine or Wine-Vinegar ten ounces and suffer them to stand together for an hour sometimes shaking them they will turn the liquid part exceeding black and render it fit for your use 2. Take of Galls half an ounce well bruised mingle with it a like quantity of Gum Arabick and of Roman Vitriol eight drachms put these into eight ounces of White wine pretty hot and in as short a time as the former a perfect Ink will be made How to make a Black that will not only serve for Ingrossing but Painting c. Take Copperas half an ounce bruised Galls an ounce Lamp-black an ounce Gum-Arabick half in ounce mix them with a pint of Wine or Vinegar set them over a gentle fire and suffer them to simper till a half part be consumed and what remains will render an excellent thick and black Ink. The famous George Machijus 's Receipt for curious Writing-Ink c. Take of Galls three ounces Râ—man Vitriol two ounces Gum-Arabick half an ounce and having well bruised them infuse the Galls in two quarts of White wine for the space of eight days stirring them well about each day and three days after the putting in the Galls put the Gum in dissolved in a little Wine by it self before it be put in three days after the Galls and the Vitriol as long after that stirring them at sundry times and at the termination of eight days the Ink will come to a full and curious perfection To make a kind of Ink to write obscurely and not to be read unless the Paper whereon the Writing is be held to the Fire Take that which is vulgarly called Sal-Armoniack and Nitre of each half an ounce mingle them with the Juice of Limon over a gentle fire and having refined the liquid part from the dross use it when cold and so holding the Paper when it is written on to the fire the Letters will fairly appear or otherwise it will not c. To take away spots or defects out of Writing either on Paper or Parchment Take Roch-Alum burnt half an ounce as much of the Flour of Brimstone and being finely in Powder wet the Paper a little and put a small quantity of the Powder upon the place rubbing it gently with your finger and the Maculation will disappear And thus much for the Treating of Inks c. wonderful necessary and useful on all occasions and profitable to those that will undertake to make them for Sale. CHAP. IX The Art of making Washes and other Beautifying Materials for taking away Sun-burn Morphew Freckles Roughness of the Skin and restoring a curious Complexion as also Whitening the Teeth Enlivening the Eyes Curling and Colouring the Hair c. A Water to restore a faded Complexion TAke the Flowers of Rosemary Comfrey and Cammomile boil them in White-wine and wash your face and hands therewith mornning and evening To create a very fair Complexion Take two ounces of white Tartar burn or calcine it then quench it in the destilled Water of Roses and wash the face with it To render a fresh and comely Complexion Take an ounce of the Oyl of Sweet Almonds the like quantity of the Oyl of Myrrh bruise in them of the Powder of Gum-Sandrick a grain and with the whole mixture rub and anoint the face To render the Skin clear and of a very fair Complexion Take Bean blossoms and the Water that destilis from the Vine with the Flowers of Fumitory distill them and make a Wash with what proceeds there-from To make the Skin smonth and shining Take of the Marrow of Swines-feet an ounce Oyl of Nutmegs a quarter of an ounce Dears suet half an ounce Oyl of Bay berries two ounces make them into an Oyntment over a gentle fire and anoint the face hands or any part of the body therewith To remove Freckles Tan or Sun-burn Take the Juice of Burdock leaves and Limons of each a like quantity mix them together and add half as much Oyl of Chammomile a little Rye-meal and the Gall of a Cock or Capon make them into an Ointment and anoint the place therewith and in a short time the defect will be removed To remove Pimples or Redness Take an Egg and roast it hard then take out the Yolk at the top and fill it with Copperas and put it close covered in the Embers till the Copperas is melted or become water then pour out the water and bath the face with it but if it be too sharp you may allay it with
one is in the field or in some Village without any other Dyal to see only by the hand what of the clock it is which gives it very near and may be practised by the left hand in this manner Take a straw or like thing of the length of the Index or the second finger hold this straw very right between the thumb and the right finger then stretch forth the hand and turn your back and the palm of your hand towards the Sun so that the shadow of the muscle which is under the thumb touch the line of life which is between the middle of the two other great lines which is seen in the palm of the hand this done the end of the shadow will shew what of the clock it is for at the end of the great finger it is 7 in the morning or 5 in the evening at 〈…〉 of the ring finger it is 8 in the morning 〈…〉 the evening at the end of the little finger or first joynt it is 9 in the morning or 3 in the afternoon 10 and 2 at the second joynt 11 and 1 at the third joynt and mid-day in the line following which comes from the end of the Inder How to make Water boil and sparkle Take a glass near full of Water or other liquor and setting one hand upon the foot of it to hold it fast turn slightly one of the fingers of your other hand upon the brim or edge of the glass having before privately wet your finger and so passing softly on with your finger in pressing a little for then first the glass will begin to make a noise Secondly the parts of the glass will sensibly appear to tremble with notable rarification and condensation Thirdly the Water will shake seem to boil Fourthly it will cast it self out of the glass and leap out by small drops with great astonishment to the standers-by if they be ignorant of the cause of it which is only in the rarification of the parts of the glass occasioned by the motion and pressure of the finger Of the Play at Nine-Pins You will scarce believe that with one Bowl and at one blow playing freely one may strike down all the nine Pins at once yet from Mathematical Principles it is easie to be demonstrated that if the hand of him that plays was so well assured by Experience as Reason induceth one thereto one might at one blow strike down all the nine Pins or at least 7 or 8 or such a number as one pleaseth For they are but 9 in all disposed or placed in a perfect square having three every way Let us suppose then that a good Player beginning to play at 1 somewhat low should so strike it that it should strike down the Pins 2 and 5 and these might in their violence strike down the Pins 3 6 and 9 and the Bowl being in motion may strike down the Pins 4 and 7 which 4 Pin may strike down Pin 8 and so all the nine Pins may be striken down at once Any Numbers under 10 being thought upon to find what Numbers they were Let the first Number be doubled and unto it added 5 and multiply that sum by 5 and add to it 10 and the next number thought upon Multiply the same again by 10 and add to it the next number and so proceed Now if the last sum be told mark if one number was thought upon then substract 35 from it and the first figure in the place of Tens is the Number thought upon If he thought upon two figures then substract 35 also and the 2 also the said 35 from the last sum and the 2 figures that remain are the numbers thought upon If he thought upon 3 figures then substract 350 and then the 3 first figures are the numbers thought upon c. Example If one thought upon these figures 5 7 9 6. Double the first which is 5 and it makes 10 to which add 5 it makes 15 This 15 multiplied by 5 makes 75. To this 75 add 10 it makes 85. To this 85 add the next number viz. 7 it makes 92. This 92 multiplied by 20 makes 920 to which add the next figure viz. 9 it makes 929. This multiplied by 10 makes 9290. To which add 6 being the last number it makes 9296. From which substract 3500 and there resteth 5796 the four numbers thought upon Now because in the figures 9296 the two last numbers are like the two thought upon to avoid suspicion bid him add 12 or any number to it and then it will not be so open As for example the 12 being added to 9296 it makes 9308 from which if you substract 3512 there will remain 5796 the four figures thought upon as before Two persons thinking two numbers the one an even number and the other an odd number to divine and tell who thought the one and who the other Bid the first Man to double his Thought and the second Man to treble his then to add both numbers together Then bid the one of them cast away half which if he can do the total is even otherwise odd 1 Even The Total being Even The first Man thought odd The second Man even 2 Odd. The Total being odd The first Man thought even The second Man thought odd Example 1 Man. 2 Man. Thought 15  24 Doubled is 30 Trebled is 72 30 and 72 added together is 102 The Total is even because half may be cast away The total being even the conclusion is the first Man thought odd and the second Man thought even c. 1 Man. 2 Man. Thought 34. Thought 45 Doubled is 68. Trebled is 135 Add 68 and the Total of both is 203 Cast away half Answer I cannot The Total therefore is odd The Total being odd the Conclusion is the first Man thought Even the second Man thought odd Four Men thinking on four Digit numbers which are from 1 to 9 to tell what the first second third and fourth Man thought This conclusion findeth out any number thought under 10000. Four persons standing in rank admit the first think 8 the second 7 the third 6 and the fourth 5. Let the first Man double the number of his thought and add 5 thereto then multiply the whole by 5 and add 10 to the product noting the Total Bid the second Man demand of the first Man his total number which being given him let him add unto the same his Thought and give the Total to the third Man. Then bid the third Man to affix or set his Thought by the number given him and put it one place towards the right hand and give the total thereof to the fourth Man. Last of all bid the fourth Man set his Thought thereby a place yet to the right hand in the first place and add the number of 25 unto it that done demand of him the total number which being given you substract out of it 3525 the number remaining will discover the four Mens Thoughts The Digit on the left hand sheweth the first Mans Thought the next Digit towards the right hand is for the second Mans Thought the figure in the second place representeth the third Mans Thought and the figure in the first place giveth the fourth Mans Thought Example 1. The first Mans Thought 8 which being doubled is 16 and 5 added thereto is 21 which multiplied by 5 is 105. Whereunto add 10 the whole is 115 2. Secondly let the second Man add in 7 his Thought it stands thus 122 3. Let the third Man set his Thought a place to the right hand thus 122. 6 4. Let the fourth Man place his Thought a place yet to the right hand thus 1226. 5 Also bid him add in 25 and it maketh 12290 Demand the Total it is 12290 Which being given you deduct 3525 The remains will be 8765 Ans The first Man thought 8 the second Man thought 7 the third Man thought 6 the fourth Man 5. Example First Mans Thought 8 Doubled is 16. and 5 added 21. Multiplied by 5 is 105 and 10 added in is 115 Second Mans Thought added in is 7 The total is 122 Third and fourth Mans Thought set thereby 122. 6. 5 25 Added makes 12290 Substract 3525 Particular Thought 8. 7. 6. 5 Of the 4 Men 1. 2. 3. 4 FINIS
and put them into the Oil and cover the former pot with a bigger the first having a small hole in the top through both lids the better to stir the materials and having closed the outward pot about with Clay and suffer it to stand over the Fire till it boils up to the hole then cool it and when you would experiment it polish your Metal and strike it over the Metal being indifferently warm and so do it over twice suffering it to dry between either time and the business will be effected To lay Gold on Iron a brief and easie way Take liquid Varnish one pound and of Oil of Lin-seed and Turpentine each an ounce mix them well together over a gentle Fire and lay them as a ground whereon to gild with Leaf Gold c. laying the Varnish very thin and suffering it to dry Another easie way to gild on Metal c. Take of Gum-arabick and Bole-armoniack each an ounce put them into an earthen pot with a good close cover set it over a gentle Fire and when they are warm put in two ounces of Lin-seed Oil and when they come to a Varnish thickness lay them for a ground as the former and on them the Gold c. observing for the better splendor when it is dry to polish it CHAP. III. Valuable Metals their fineness to be known by essay of Coins and how they are to be known in their true Value and what is to be observed in preventing your taking false moneys HAving briefly run over sundry matters relatting to Metals and Minerals I now proceed to come somewhat nearer their true value as by the rules of Art they are laid down by curious Inquirers into those Affairs c. especially as to what relates to Metals used in Vessels of value and current in Coins c. the principal I take to be Gold and Silver the rest being vulgarly known and therefore not requisite to be mentioned in this Place As for the weight used for these fine Metals it is that of Troy consisting of twelve ounces and the ounce of a hundred and fifty Carots and may again for the deciding of lesser values be devided into four hundred and eighty Grains as for the Pound Troy weight of fine God it is worth thirty six pounds and so lessens in proportion of Allay in this manner viz. an ounce of fine Gold is valued at three pounds and that of thirty three keys fine at two pounds seventeen shillings six-pence and so lessening viz. twenty two Keys at two pound fifteen shillings twenty one Keys at two pound twelve Shillings six pence at twenty Keys two pound ten shillings loosing two shillings six peace per ounce as a Key or Carot is wanting in the fineness of twenty four In this case to know the fineness or defect it must to prevent defraud be found out by the allay which upon the touch-stone may be done by way of Essay in this manner viz. take Needles of Gold and Silver and Copper allay suitable to the several allays and suffer these to be of four sorts viz. the first to be of fine Gold and Silver The second of Gold and Copper the third of Gold Silver and Copper And the fourth of Silver and Copper only the first for the trial of Gold and the latter for the trial of Silver making of these mixtures twenty four Needles of sundry finenesses As first of fine Gold of twenty four Carots without Allay The second twenty three Carots of fine Gold and one of Silver The third twenty two Carots of Gold and two of Silver and so proceed to one Carot worse till there remains but one Carot of the fine Gold in mixture with the other Metals specified c. viz. twenty three Carots of Silver and by the same rule proceed to the Gold and Copper and Silver and Copper marking each Needle for the better distinction upon occasion of what fineness it is and by this way you may be satisfied of the fineness of any Ingot or piece of Gold or Silver in Coin or otherways by comparing them on your Touch-stone with the Needle whose allay you already know or trying them till they become equal or alike which when wetted will plainly appear As for the value of Silver that which is fine is accounted five shillings two pence of our Money the ounce though there is some that will fall out in fineness to be worth five and eight pence and the like But these Essays not being to be done by every Person who receives Money I shall by other ways instruct them how they may detect counterfeit Coins Past doubt few that have the handling of Money are ignorant that Coins of all sorts have been counterfeit some by imbasing in mixture others by corrupt Metals and other by way of plating and to know these in case of Guinneas or broad Gold First weigh them and try them by Essay as aforesaid and then if you further suspect them try them by Fire or by Aqua fortis and if they be of base Metal or corrupted with is they will soon grow dim and their Lustre in a small time more and more impair but if you suspect them plated especially Guinneas throw them indifferent hard on the edge and the Imbossment will open and you may discover the shell to rise In case of gilded Shillings though they have the Scepters as Guinneas which some Persons have had the Art to place there with graving Tools yet your best way is to try them by racing with a Pen-knife point in any convenient Place and although they are double gilded the Silver will appear The counterfeit Milled is washed over or plated and to discover this you will find the Letters imperfect or perhaps none upon the edges of Crowns or half Crowns the sound likewise will be flat and dull and the Metal on the outside may be easily raised to discover the defect As for old moneys the worst size is the half Crowns with pieces of Copper plated over and these you may know by their rising in the middle falling hollow Mackle in the stamp or better by raising the thin Plate on the edge and as for smaller money mostly mixed with Silver your touch stone is the best tryer CHAP. IV. Instructions for making black red white green Inks c. for sundry uses as well solid as liquid with that of the late Invention in Powder Directions for mysterious writing and other things c. To make the best common or black Ink. TAke a Gallon of Rain-water or clear Spring or running water and put twelve ounces of Nut galls bruised or broken into it and of Gum-arabick and Copperas of each two ounces suffer it with once a day stirring to stand for the space of twelve days in a warm place and so use it as you have occasion And in this manner you may make a greater or lesser quantity but if you want Ink of this kind for present occasion you may boil your
the water or juice of Celandine and in often using it your Expectations will be answered To remove the Redness in a face c. occasioned by Scalding Blasting c. Take a handful of the Bark of Elder as much Rue and the roots of Scabeous with an ounce of the Flowers of Chammomile bruise them together and boyl them in a pint of Milk half a pint of Olive-Oyl and adding a quarter of a pint of Verjuice till the liquid part become thick as an Oyntment and then strein it out which being cooled anoint the place therewith morning and evening To take away unseemly Warts or Moles not too deep impressed Take Rhubarb a drachm Camphora the like quantity the Oyl of Petrolium half as much and an ounce of the juice of Housleek bruise and beat these in a quarter of a pint of Vinegar over a gentle fire and anoint the place or part therewith and in often so doing you will find your desire effected To make a swarthy Complexion fair and clear Take the Liver of a Goat dry it to powder in a Stove or Oven then steep the Powder in White-wine adding a quarter of a pint of the Juice of Celandine an ounce of Coriander-seeds and as much of Fennel decoct or boyl them over a gentle fire and with the liquid part anoint or bathe the face c. and so continue to do often and it will remove the cholerick humour occasioning swarthiness To brighten and enliven the Eyes Take Vervein Pelitory of the Wall Smalage and Betony with the Flowers of Eye-bright destil them and wash the Eyes with the water morning and evening and it will not only render them bright and clear but give a true prospect and dimension to the decayed sight To make Bloom-water an excellent Beautifier upon all occasions Take the Blossoms of Peaches Baum Lavender Cotton and Rosemary steep them in White-wine and destil them and the Water will prove an excellent Beautifier To make an excellent Pomatum for the hands and face Take Sheeps marrow an ounce Oyl of Sweet Almonds the like quantity the Juyce of Smalage a quarter of a pint Bean flour half an ounce make them up into an Oyntment and anoint the hands and face warm therewith and it will make them plump soft and free them from cracks chops or roughness An excellent Paste for the Hands Take the Flour of sweet Almonds an ounce Rye-meal two ounces white Starch an ounce and Milk half a pint with which make these before-mentioned into a Paste and that Paste into Balls for your use To soften the Skin and render it fresh an Oyl c. Take of the Oyl of Nutmegs an ounce Ambergrease a drachm Oyl of Chammomile an ounce the Juice of Comfrey half a quarter of a pint make them into an Oyl or Oyntment over a gentle fire and supple them into the Skin very hot and in often so doing it will wonderfully beautifie and cause an excellent flavour c. An excellent way to sweeten the Breath Take Sal Armoniack a drachm beaten Ginger two drachms the Spirit of Cloves a drachm Coriander-seeds in fine powder a quarter of an ounce Oyl of Mastick a drachm bruise them together and make them up into a Ball and each morning scrape about the quantity of a large pea into a glass of Wine or Beer and drink it off To make Hair grow Take of the powder of Bithwort-roots a drachm of the Juice of Fennel half an ounce Ivy-berries dried and beaten into powder an ounce the Juice of Housleek half a quarter of a pint and of White-wine a pint boyl these over a gentle fire to a half consumption of the liquid part and wash the place deficient and in a short time if that part be subject to Hair it will cause it to grow and increase To take away Hair. Take the Juyce of Hellebore or Bears-foot half an ounce as much of that of Burdock roots and the roots of Cuckowpintles and anoint the place with it warm and by often so doing the Hair will fall off To make any coloured Hair black or of a dark Colour Take burnt Ivory ground to powder a quarter of an ounce Soulters Ink the like quantity the Juyce of Hemlock a quarter of a pint incorporate them over a gentle fire till the moisture be near consumed then add Black lead powder to dry up the rest and with this rub your Hair or powder it and it will be a curious black as likewise lasting if before you wash your head with White-wine wherein Plantane-roots have been sod To make Hair Curl Take the Powder of Elecampane-roots well dryed and as much of Alum in fine Powder wet your Hair a little with water wherein Raisins have been steeped and so sprinkle on the Powder with a fine Sprinkler that it may be all over then with a pair of Curling-Irons somewhat hot turn it up in ringlets under a Cap c. and so let it dry as likewise continue for the space of a night and next morning comb it out and thâ— Powder that remains will not only fly away bâ—â— the Hair will fall into curious Curls and so continue without any further trouble for a very long time A way speedily to take away the Spots occasioned by the Small-Pox Take half an ounce of Copperas and dissolve it in the Juyce of Limons and anoint the Spots with it when warm and their redness will soon disappear To prevent Pittings When the Distemper begins to appear rub the face over gently with Honey Oyl of Roses and a little Alum dissolved and well mixed together over a moderate fire and in so doing every other day the pits will be prevented if the Party uses no violence to himself by scratching c. To whiten Teeth Take a piece of fine Pumice-stone grind it to powder adding to that powder a little quantity of Alum-powder and by often rubbing the Teeth with it they will if sound be as white as Ivory CHAP. X. Miscellany of rare and curious Secrets not yet toucht upon How to separate Gold and Silver from other Metals TAke Mercury and put it in a Melting or Refining-pot on the fire adding some Varnish-Glass beaten to powder and being finely mixed lay it in powder upon the Metal that is gilded with Gold or Silver and set some hot coals under it and it will take off the gilding and render the Metal as if it had never been gilt and in this case you may save the Gold and Silver if of value by putting to it Quicksilver which will attract it into a body To kill or allay Mercury or Quicksilver Put which of these you design in a Mortar of Iron or Brass adding some Olive-Oyl mix them together as well as may be over a gentle fire adding more when it begins to bubble strong Wine-vinegar and in so using the aforesaid Materials they will become so hard as easily to endure the Hammer To boyl Gold and Silver in the way of Cleansing Take Tartar