night when he goeth to bedde and in the morning when he riseth This ought to be doen from the beginning of the quarter decreasinge of the Moone vnto the ende It is a verye excellent secrete It also happened to me of some men in whome the sayed disease was so olde and so farre gone that this saied remedie coulde not helpe them whome I caused to take with the saied pouder specified as foloweth whiche ought to bee made after this maner Take a certayne litle Serpent called a Slowe wormâ— boyle him in oylâ— Olyue vntill he bee broken and consumed then rubbe the euyll with the sayed oyle and lay pieces of towe vpon it leauing it so three or foure daies and after that make a newe anoynting and laye tow to it againe as before By this saied remedie I healed them perfitlye thankes bee vnto God A heauenlye water which hath many goodly and â—â—table Vertues as we shall shewe you after TAke Cloues Nutmegges Ginger Zeduaria long Pepper rounde Pepper the seede of Ienuper Orenge pilles the blossomes or floures of Sage Basyll Rosemary Maioram rouÌ„d Mint Bay berries PeÌ„nyryall Gentian Calamintha the floures of Elder the flowres of white and redde Roses Spicknarde lignum Aloes wilde Cubebes Cardamomum or graines whiche the Apoticaries call Granum paradisi fine Cynamom Calamum Aromaticum Sticados Chamedrios called in Englishe Germander Camepitheos Melligetta Masticke Ensence of the male kinde Aloe epaticum Anyse seede the seede of Maioram or Maioram gentle drie figges drie Raisins Dates swete Almondes kernelles of a Pyneaple of eche of these an vnce white Honnie sixe vnces Then take Suger waiyng asmuch as all the saied composition and mengle well all together putting also to it Aqua vite waiyng as muche as all the saied substaunce but the saied Aqua vite muste bee distilled fiue times thorow a Limbecke receyuinge alwaies the best and mingle all the saied thinges together in the saied water then put all into a violle well stopped leauing it so the space of two dayes Then afterwarde you shal sette it vpon the fornesse w t his Limbecke and recipient distillinge it with a smale fier wherof wil come a cleare and precious water continue so the fier vntill the water begin to chauÌ„ge his colour and come forth white then chaunge the recipient and receyue the saied white water a part for it is not good but for to blaunche and make white the face and there is neither spotte nor lyntell or anye kinde of redde burgeons in the face of a man the whiche beinge washed with this water by the space of fiftene daies wil not go out and weare away leauinge the face and the skynne white shininge and well sauouringe This is a verie rare kinde of washinge and meete for great ladies and princesses You shall miâ—e the first water whiche is cleare with Aqua vite of like quantitie the whiche is called Mel balsami Nowe hauinge putte and left all these thinges in a violle well stopped the space of two dayes set it to distill with a smal fier then receyue and put the first water by it selfe whiche will distill verye cleare and odoriferous When you see that the water beginneth to come forthe like raine water chaunge your recipient and receyue that same likewise by it selfe vntill you see the thirde water come out whiche will bee of sanguyne colour the whiche you shall powre into a violle and stoppe it well with waxe keepe it diligentlye as a precious thinge for it hath many notable and excellent vertues of the whiche the best bee these that folowe The first is that if you laye a lytle of it vpon a freshe wounde there neede no other medicine to cure it The seconde is it is good for al old woundes against the Canker the wormes and against Nolime tangere and all other diseases growinge ye must weate the soore places with it euerie seconde or thirde daye once and by thys meanes in the space of fyftene or twentie daies he or thei shalbe healed The thirde is that if anye manne haue a Carbuncle or Saynct Antonies disease called commonlye in Italye and in Fraunce S. Antonies fier or other pestilenciall syckenesse and washe the place with the saied water will it kil it within an houre The fourth is it is good against the paine of the eyes so that the eye bee not out or lost if you putte a litle droppe of it into the eye in the morninge and as muche at nighte it will heale the paine in fiftene daies And althoughe it bee somewhat prickyng yet the griefe of it passeth soone away so that it can not in any wise hurte the eyes The fifte is that if any man haue the stone in the raines of his backe and in the bladder drinke three droppes or a dragme of it with a litle white wine he shalbe delyuered therof in few daies The sixte is that it healeth the Emeraudes or Pyles if they bee washed with it euerye daye once The seuenth is that it healeth all maner of disease or pain of the Matrice the colick when a sponeful is dronke of it with the broth of a henne or of cabbeges The eyght is that when a man batheth the shronken and endured synowes of the bodie they stretche and heale in fewe daies The nynth is that it healeth runnyng and watrie eyes when a droppe is put into them in the morning The tenth is that it is verie good to heale all maner of skabbe skurfe and other like thinges washing them with it often times The eleuenth is that if a man put a droppe of it into his eare at night or in the morninge it taketh awaie all the griefe and wormes that engender in the eare The twelfth is that it healeth all venemous bitinge when ye washe the venemous place with it and is farre better for such an accident then the triacle is The thirtenth is that it killeth all wormes in mannes bodie if a man rubbe his nosestrelles or drinke a verie litle of it And finallie it is also verie good for venemous hurtes or woundes and for all woundes incurable It healeth the kinges euill and the disease called the fallinge sickenesse and all other infirmities in the exteriour partes of the bodie and with this water maye a man washe hym selfe or elles drinke it It is also good for euerye colde sickenesse and restoratiue for olde folkes or those that are consumed and debilitate with hunger sickenesse or sorow of mind It conserueth the radicall moysture and naturall heate it mainteyneth health and keepeth a man in longe life who so euer vseth it as it oughte to bee vsed Pilles of a Meruelous operation and vertu agaynst the Sciatica which we promised to speake of in the chapiter of the Sciatica TAke â—illes Alephangines of Hermodactil maioris and minoris of eche of them a scrupule which is the thyrde part of a dragme .ij. graynes of salt Gemma dissolue and styrre them with the iuyce of roses and make
saide plaister remouynge and sturryng a litle the oyntment and after hauynge heated it againe by the fyre lay it againe vpon the leg Dooe thus euery thirde or fourth day and you shall see that the plaister shall haue drawen vnto it selfe in a small time a great aquositie of the legge and shall haue taken away the rednesse inflamation and swellinge And if there bee a wounde you shall heale it as we haue aboue sayde A verye sure and perfect remedie agaynst a Sciatica often tymes proued and experimented in diuers partes of the worlde FYrste make this confection that foloweth Take thre pounde of rawe honny and put it in a panne with two glasses full of water and make it seeth or boyle together vntyll you see the skuÌ„me or froth mounte vp the whiche you muste take away Then take the rootes of the herbe called in Latine Acorus and in English Galingale or of the herbe called yelowe Gladen make them cleane cut them in smal pieces and stampe them well Take of these herbes one pounde for the sayde thre poundes of honnye and put them by lytle and lytle into the sayde panne alwaies sturryng them a litle letting them so boyle by the space of a good houre Then put to it also an vnce of fine Synamom wel beaten into pouder take it so from the fier and keepe it in the same panne or in some other vessell Giue vnto the patient of this conserue at night when he goeth to bed about foure or fyue sponefulles and in the mornynge early as muche or more Giue him also thereof before his meales and after the oftner he eateth of it the better he shal be If it be in winter heate it for him a lytle and while he thus vseth it let him alwaies sit vpon his buttockes that is to say vpon the bone or huckle wher the Sciatica is with the plaister declared in the chapter before that is to say of y t Rosen GalbanuÌ„ Masticke the litle beastes called Monkes peason or sowes with the rest there mencioned Then at the ende of ten dayes take it of and laye it other ten dayes vppon his thigh And from thence take it agayne making it cleane mixing and sturring it a newe and laye it vnder the calfe of the legge tenne dayes more and at euerye tyme you shall see that it wyll haue engendred litle puffes or bladers and drawen to it self al the aquositie and watrishnes in suche sorte that it wyll take awaye the griefe and heale it This is a verye rare secrete agaynst suche a disease whiche verye fewe Phisitions colde hitherto fynde certayne remedie for If in case the disease bee olde or hath runne longe giue the pacient sometyme this glister folowyng Take Mallowes Mercurie Fenell greene or drie Wormewode Rue wilde Cucumbers broken as muche of the one as of the other than put to it two handfulles of branne seeth all in common water vntill the thirde parte bee deminished and so let it coole againe After this take a dishe and a halfe full of this decoction three sponefulles of skimmed Honnye oyle of Camemille and oyle of Rue of eche of them an vnce and a halfe mingle all well together and make a Glister of it whiche you shall minister vnto the Pacient in the mornynge and so make him lye vpon that side where the Sciatica is Two dayes after ye shall giue him another Glister after three dayes another and than foure dayes after yet another continuyng so a moneth together If the griefe be so indured and hardened that it wyll not behealed by the aforesaid remedies you maye giue him Pilles the thyrde daye after the fourth daye the fyfte daye and so vnto syxe or seuen tymes But the Pylles wyll profit the Pacient nothing at all vnlesse he abstayne from eatinge salte or sharpe meates and from all sortes of pulse corne as Pease Beanes Tares and Fitches and suche other lykewise from drinking water or white wyne Manye haue been healed onely with the saide plaister not leauinge to dooe their businesse abrode notwithstanding other haue also vsed the conserue But in so manye yeres I haue had but two vpon whom for to take awaye the disease being olde and farre goen I was constrained to vse the sayde Pilles and Glisters whereby they were healed I had also one whiche vsed but only the plaister and the conserue of whom the huckle bone was out of ioynt and hardened and with the saied remedie he was perfitly healed in the space of three skore and tenne daies and the saied bone retourned againe into his former place and state but he tolde me that whilest he vsed the said plaister and conserue a Nonne counseyled him to take from daye to daye foure times the bignesse of a Nutte of Turpentine washed in Borrage water and that he should not tell me of â—t whereby he founde him selfe healed in short time A water for to heale in fiue dayes at the moste all maner of great skabbes as well inwarde as outwarde and is a water cleare and white and is of an odoriferous sauour such as a man may present to a Queene TAke Plantaine water two glassefulles Rose water a glassefull of the water of the floures of Cytrons or Orenges halfe a glasse full or lesse put all thys together in a cleane panne or violle of glasse and put to it an vnce of Sublyme that is to say quicke siluer such as commonly is founde at the Apoticaries it muste bee well beaten to pouder Then let it boyle his bodie as longe as he maie and he shal finde it verie excellent Another remedie against the same disease TAke half a glasse or lesse of the iuice of Barberies whan they be verie redde and ripe and put into it as muche red Corall well beaten in pouder as will lie vpon two grotes and giue the patient drinke therof Another perfect remedie against the same disease and to make a man pisse that hath bene .iiij. or .iiij. daies without makinge water and that in the space of half an hower and will breake the stone within .x. or .xij. daies TAke fine pouder of Virga aurea and put a sponefull of it into a new laied Egge soft roste and giue the patient drinke therof in the morninge at hys breakefast and lette him not eate at the least in foure houres after and than shall he make water in lesse thaÌ„ halfe an hower If ye vse this continuallie the space of x. or .xii. daies as is a foresaid you shall make him pisse out the stone without anie paine or greefe Another remedie agaynst the Stone and payne of the raynes TAke the seedes of blew Violettes or march Violettes the seedes of common Burres with theyr litle poddes and all or ripe Burres a pounde put them to drie in an Ouen for otherwise it wil be a hard thyng to stampe them stamping them afterward with their seedes This doone take a quicke Hare strangle him with a corde to thentent there be none of the bloud
lost put him so whole or in peeces into some vessel feete guttes head and all than put him to burne in an Ouen so that all as wel the bones and the skinne as the flesh bee brought to pouder this dooen ye shall stampe it well and mingle the pouder with the two other pouders aforesaied drie Oken leaues well beaten to pouder .iiij. vnces drie Saxifrage or Sampire halfe a pounde Bay berries .v. vnces Let all these thynges be well beaten in pouder sifted and mixte together Giue of this pouder vnto the pacient as much as wyll lie vpon a grote makynge him to drinke it in the mornyng to his breakefast in white wine and let him doo this often times It is the most exquisite thyng in the worlde as well for the grauell as for the stone but for the grauell you must take lesse and not so ofte as for the Stone The last and the moste excellent remedie of all agaynst the stone be it in the reignes or in the bladder of what qualite or quantite so euer it be IN the moneth of Maie when Oxen go to grasse or be at pasture ye shall take of their dunge not to fresh nor to drie than distille it faire and softlie to thende it smell not of the smoke into some vessell of glasse or earth leaded within of the whiche dunge will come a water without sauour or euill stenche whiche will be verie good to take of all maner of spottes or blemishes in the face if you washe it with it morninge and eueninge You shall keepe the saied water in a Violle wel stopped than take .iij. or .iiij. Radishes such as menne eate in salettes cut them small put them in a Violle and fill vp the violle with wine greeke or good Malmsey or other good white wine lettyng it stand so in the Sunne and in the ayre a daie and a night Than take one parte of that wine two partes of the saied water of the Oxe dunge halfe a parte of the water of Stawberies iij. or .iiij. droppes of the iuice of Limons or Citrons and let there be of all these waters so proportioned together halfe a glasse full or some what more into the which you shall putte a peece of Suger or a litle Honnie roset for the one and the other serue as wel to the sauour as to the profite of the substaunce After this you shal put to it some of the pouder mentioned in the Chapiter before as much as will lie vpon a grote and than giue the patient drinke of it and shortlie after you shall se a wonderfull effectâ— for manie vnto whome I haue giuen of it haue not tarried half an hower but they haue pissed in the whiche pisse they haue founde so manie litle stones that all together came to the bignesse of a Walnutte and of others vnto the quantite of a hasel Nutte in vsinge often the saied remedie they haue finally bene perfectly healed I caused once a gentilman of Millan to take of it by the space of .xii. daies whome the Phisitions estemed as dead would haue cut him but in the space of the saied .xij. daies I made come out of him so many stones that all together came to the quantite of an Egge I made him make his water thorow a linnen cloth laied ouer an Vrinall to the intente to take vp the stones together and the thirde mornynge he woulde take the glasse a litle more than halfe full and shortlie after beyng about to make water he began to crie out for the great paine he felte in his yarde after this payne was paste lookyng in the linnen cloth he founde a stone as longe and as bigge as a Bene somwhat pointed at one of the sides which paraduenture in passyng thorow his yard caused him to haue all that payne Now although that manie as well of olde time as now of late daies haue written diuers and sondrie remedies against the saied disease yet was there neuer founde a surer truer or presenter remedie than this The saied water and the pouder may be kept longe but you must at euerie time renew the wine of the saied Radish and the iuice of the Limon or Citron for in the space of two daies the wine chieflie giueth such a sent that a man maie skant endure it For him that spittetâ— bloud by hauing some veyne of his breast broken TAke Myse dunge beaten in pouder as muche as will lie vpon a grote and put it into half a glasse full of the iuice of Plantain with a litle Suger and so giue the patient drinke therof in the mornynge before his breakefast and at night before he go to bed Continuyng this same you shall make him whole and sounde Agaynst the greefe in the Lunges and spittinge of bloud a thyng experimented TAke an herbe called Farfara or Tussilago of the Apoticaries Vngula caballina Coltes foote in English the Frenche men call it pate de lion Incorporate it wel with the larde of a Hogge chopped and a new laied Egge boyle all together in a panne and giue the patient of it to eate doyng this .ix. mornynges and you shall se a meruelous thynge This is also very good to make a man fatte Agaynst the paine of tâ—e flankes of the reynes and all other greefes TAke three quarters of an vnce of Storaâ— liquidâ— Capons grease or Hennes grease the grease of a Goose the grease of a Ducke of eche of theim .v. dragmes of oyle reset .iiii. dragmes of redde War .ii. dragmes and a halfe of Butter half a dragme melt the greases the oyle and the Butter altogether power them together and mingle them Than hauyng put to it the Storaâ— spredde it vpon a linnen cloth and so laie it hote vpon the place of the greefe and you shal incontinent se him whole ¶ Agaynst the stinkinge of the breath TAke Rosemarie leaues with the blossomes if you can get them and seeth them in white wine with a litle Myrrhe Sinamom and Bengewin and takyng of the saied wine often times in your mouth you shall finde a maruelous effect ¶ Agaynst the bytyng of a madde dogge and the rage or madnesse that foloweth the man after he is bitten TAke the blossomes or flowers of wilde Thisltes dried in the shadow and beaten into pouder giue him drinke of the same pouder in white Wine halfe a Walnut shell full and in thrise takynge it be shall be healed A thynge founde true by experience To take a waie the dead flesh that commeth or groweth in the nose TAke the iuice of Leekes that haue not bene twise planted and adde to it a litle greene wax and make an oyntement therof puttyng to it a litle of the fine pouder of the leese of wine and put often times of this oyntment in the nose of the pacient and you shall se a meruelous thyng For one which with falling from some high place feareth to haue some thinge broken in his body TAke halfe a glassefull of oyle Oliue and
then cut it very small put it in an earthen panne leaded full of whyte cleare Vinagre with a dragme of Campher stamped Boyle this together by the space of twoo or thre Pater noster and after strayne the grease with the foresaied thinges thorowe a whyte linnen clothe than lette the grease coole vntill it bee harde againe and if there bee anye ordure or fylthe at the bottome you muste take it away After this take twoo vnces of the oyle of Tartare and put it in some vessell vpon the coales vntill it come together and hauing set it in a moyste place by the space of a daye and a night put to it an vnce of Borar well wasshed than stampe and mixe all well together adding to it an vnce and a halfe of Ceruse wasshed and hauing put all in a new carthen panne leaded set it on a small fier styrryng it alwaies well together vntyl all the saied thinges be wel incorporated together and after that you haue layed it vpon your face laye on also a redde coloure made wyth the grayne whereof Scarlate is died called in Latyne Coccum and wyth Brassel for it shalbe better than with Brasyll alone ☞ To make a redde colour for the face TAke redde Sandall fynely stamped and strong vinagre twyse distylled than put into it as much Sandall as you wyll and let it boyle faire and softly put to it also a lytle roche Alom stamped and you shal haue a very perfite redde If you wyll make it odoriferous and sauour well put a lytle Muske to it or els Ciuet or some other odoriferous thing what you lyst ☞ To make the face fayre TAke Beanes and a kynde of a litle grayne called in Latyne Faseoli and Cyche peason and make a poulder thereof which you shall stiepe and temper in luke warme water with the white of an egge and the milk of an asse and than lay it out to drye And after stiepe it in a lyttle water wherewith you shall wasshe youre face and it wyll become fayer cleare and nete ☞ To make the face faire another waye TAke the fresshe blossomes of Beanes and distyll them thorowe a Limbecke and so wasshe youre face with the water that shall come of them ☞ To make the face fayre TAke the flowres of Rosemary and boyle them in white wine than washe youre face with it and vse of it for to drinke and so shall you make youre face verie faire and also your breath sweete ☞ To take out spottes or redde pimples out of a mans face and to make the skinne very faire TAke a litle roche Alome and breake it a sonder into small pieces than take the white of an egge newely layed euen at that instant the whiche you shall set to the fyre in a lytle panne leaded with the roche Alome and leaue it so vntyl you see that it beginneth to boyle mingle it alwaies with a lytle sticke And when it is waxen hard annoynet well al yourface with it three or foure daies and it wil make your face fairer A thinge founde trew by experience ☞ To make a water that maketh the face white TAke Lytarge Syluer sublymed the value of a grote and put it into some vessel w t strong white vinagre than boyle it vntyll it bee deminished the heyght of two fyngers lette it stande and rest than straine it and kepe it Also milke and the iuyce of Orenges mixed with the oyle of wyne lees is verie good ☞ Another maner to make the face fayre TAke the gall of a Hare of a Cocke or Henne and of Eeles temper them with Honnye and putte them so into a vessell of brasse well stopped for to annoynt your face with whan you lyste but take heede it touche not your eyes for it would inflame them and make them looke redde and so hurt you ☞ To take of spottes lyntelles or redde pymples out of the face TAke greene Lisardes quicke and boile them in oyle vntyll the thyrde parte bee consumed Strayne this and put to it white ware and than make thereof an oyntment wherwith you shall often times annoint your face To take of a ringe worme or tetter that renneth all ouer a mannes face called in Frenche Le feu volant TAke the rootes of Laâ—athum acutum called Sorel as wel wylde as of the garden wash them wel and mondifie them and cutte them in small pieces the whiche you shall stiepe in strong whyte vynagre and leaue them in it two dayes two nights Afterwarde rubbe the place of the sore with it three or foure times a day and at night with the sayd pieces of the sorell retes letting them stiepe alwaies after in the sayde Vynagre and you shall be cured To dryue a way life TAke encens and the larde of a barrowe Hogge properly called barrowes grease Boyle them together in an earthen panne or potte leaded and with this ointment rubbe or annoynte the place where the life be To make a water that taketh of all stayninge dying and spottes from the handes of artificers that gette them by workinge and maketh them very white and fayre It is also good for them that be sunne burned TAke the iuyce of a Lemon with a litle baye salte and washe your handes with it â–ª and let them drye of them selues washe them agayne and you shall finde all the spottes and stayninges gone It is also very good against the scurfe or scabbes To make a water that maketh the fleshe and skinne of a man or woman very fayer and will be kept like a precious baulme TAke a yonge crow euen out of the nest if you maye get one so if not take him as yonge as you maye to whome by the space of .xl. dayes ye shall geue none other meate but the yelkes of harde egges Than kyll him and flawe him breakinge the fleshe into smal pieces than take leaues of a myrtle tree and lay one ranck of them and another of the little pieces of the crowe in some great violl of glasse powdered and strowed ouer with the poulder of Talchum stamped with the oyle of swete Almondes and put in as muche of it as your discretion shal iudge for a great quantitie will do no hurt to it And if there remayne yet anye pieces of the sayde crowe make therof another ranck adding therto some myrtle leaues and than of the Talchum and the sayde glasse must be large wyde and lowe Finally you shall poure vpon it thre or foure vnces of the oyle of Myrrhe dressed with egges as is declared in this booke Than set the saied violl or glasse vnder the Limbeck stopping well the sides and ioyntes that it take no vent and likewise the recipient and geue it at the beginning a small fyre for the space of foure or fiue houres so that al these thinges may be dissolued and as it were breake and corrupt amonge them selues than make the fyre greater and greater and at the ende very great for the space of an
importaunce when they sawe the vertue and operation of it Nowe if you will make a white poulder more noble and more profitable for the teeth and gommes take small pearles stamped a lytle or elles whole and putte them in a dyshe or in a wyde glasse than take the iuyce of lemons or orenges strayned thorough a linen cloth at the leaste sixe or seuen times and poure it vppon the saied Pearles vntill it couer them ouer three or foure fingers high and you shal see that in shorte space it wil beginne to boyle and than couer it with some paper or linnen cloth leauinge it so three or foure dayes and at the ende you shall finde the sayed pearles dissolued and molten in the iayde iuyce and tourned into a paste as white as snowe marye there will be a little yellowe skinne vppon it engendred of the sayed suyce This doen take cleere well water or the water of Lentiscus distilled and poure it vpon the sayed paste three or four fingers heighte aboue Than take a little forke or the steale of a syluer spone or some thinne sticke and styre the paste well aboute in the sayed water lettinge it so stande and finallye caste oute the water and if you see yet anye of the yellowe remayne vpon the saied paste washe it againe as before and couer it with a paper lettinge it so drye of it selfe in the sunne After this you shall take three partes of the saied paste or whyte poulder foure partes of white Pommeise stone as is aforesayed two partes of white Bengewine one parte of Roche Alome well burned one parte of white Corall halfe a parte of white yuorye halfe a parte of Aleblaster verie white Breake and bruse all these well vpon a table of marble or in a syluer cuppe puttinge to it some siluer foile and thus shall you haue a very whyte and excellente substaunce or matter to make your teeth as white as snowe And if you will you waye put it to keepe in a conserue with the syrope of Ceder or honny Roset or otherwise as you will Also if you will make the saied poulder verye redde dresse it onelye with the Lacca of graine and a lyttle redde corall Nowe because that in stampinge it will waxe somewhat white put to it a little Boale Armonicke with a little of the iuyce of Dragons bloude and also golde foile You maye gâ—ue to all these saied poulders what odoure and sauour you will but vnto the white poulder you may put no Musk nor Amber nor any other suche drooges for it woulde take awaye the whitenesse but you maye putte it well ynoughe in a lyttle bagge amonge Muske or other odours ☞ A distilled water excellente for to make the teethe white immediatelye and to preserue theym wonderfully TAke a pounde of the firste water distilled of honny the whiche is white than put it in a violl with an vnce of commune white salte halfe a pounde of raw roche Alome an vnce of Salte Peter halfe a pouÌ„de of y e water of the leaues of Lentiscus two vnces of Mastick the heighte of twoo fingers of Vynaigre in a glasse and as muche white wine Distil all these thinges with a small fire that they smell not of the smoke nor any burninge continuinge youre distillation in suche sorte that you be at the leaste foure and twenty houres in distillinge the whole or elles you may make it distill in Balnee marie whiche is the sureste of all Nowe you muste continue youre distillation so long vntill there bee a moyst substaunce to come forth and into the water that distilleth out you shall put a litle poulder of fine Synamom a litle Lignum Aloes and Boale Armonicke for to geue it a redde colour whiche many men like well also for to geue it a strength and odour you shal put in rawe honny makinge it dissolue in the heate of the Sunne for it is a thing good for the gummes and geueth a good fauour to the water Keepe this well as an excellent thing and it were for a queene And when you wyll occupie of it washe well your mouth fyrst and wipe youre teeth with a little piece of white linnen clothe and than pike them wyth a tooth piker made of the woode Lentiscus or some other thinge wette in the saied water or with a lyttle clothe rubbe them a lyttle and incontinent you shall perceyue and feele it fasten and bynde youre gommes and comforte your teeth making them faire and white And he that loueth better the white then the redde let him put no Synamom Boale armonicke nor Lignum Aloes into it after it is distilled but let hym put it in to destill with the other thinges puttinge of eche of them as muche as there is of Masticke and it shal be euen as excellent and as white as otherwyse ☞ Three aduertisementes or lessons of importaunce to kepe the teeth white and vncorrupt and also a swete breathe THe first is he that vseth not to wasshe well hys mouth euer when he hath eaten his meales shal I haue alwayes yelowe teeth a stinking breath The seconde is he that slepeth with his mouth close hath likewise an euyll breath and foule teeth The thirde is that for to maintayne and kepe the teeth faire and white and a sweete breath when a man is layed is his hedde and when he waketh in the mornyng it is good to purge well the breaste and throte spitting out all that is gathered together that nyghte which also is good for the stomacke and heade And hauing your teeth and breath warme take a lynnen cloth or the corner of the shete and rubbe youre teeth well within and withoute to take awaye the fumositie of the meate and the yelownesse of the teeth gathered together in the night for it is that that maketh youre teeth yelowe and gommes redde and corrupteth your breath This is a verie necessarye thing to be knowen and oughte well to be obserued It is also good to eate euery mornynge some graynes of Masticke †A decoction to washe and scoure the mouth to fasten lose teeth to consolidate and make sounde the gommes and to make the fleshe grow agayne if it were decayed or fallen awaye TAke halfe a glassefull of Vynaigre and as muche water of Lentiscus of Rosemarye Myrrhe Mastick Boale Armenicke the moisture that distilleth out of Dragons bloude Roche Alome burned of eche of theim an vnce â—ine Synamom halfe an vnce well riuer or fountaine water three glassefulles mingle all well together and let it boyle with a small fyre addinge to it halfe a pounde of honny takinge awaye the scumme of it than put in a little Bengewine And whan it hath boyled a quarter of an houre take it from the fyre and keepe it in a cleane vyole and washe your teeth often times withall as wel before as after meat and holdinge it a while in your mouth it is verye good for the heade and maketh a sweete breath
A thinge of great excellencie The ende of the fourth booke THE Secretes of the reuerende Master Alexis of Piemount THE FIFTE BOOKE ☞ To make perfyt Asure such as commeth from beyond the seas TAke fyrste a pounde of Lapis Lasuli spotted like Marble and somewhat of the colloure of Asure with some veynes of Golde or greene of the whiche you shall make this profe folowynge Take a little piece of it and put it vpon hote coales blowinge it with a payre of bellowes the space of an houre than let it coole agayne and touche it with your hande if it breake and vndoe lyke earth it is nothinge worth but if it abyde fyrme and harde together and keepe his colour of Asure it is good Than take a pounde of the same and breake it into small pieces whiche you shall melte in the fyre the space of a good houre blowinge it continuallye This doen take good Vyneygre distilled in some kynde of vessell wherein you shall quenche the sayed pieces and let them drye than take water made as foloweth Take a panne leaded and putte in it a quarte of cleere water and a lytle rawe whyte honnye Boyle it and skymme it well vntyll there be no more skumme and so let it coole Than take of Dragons bloude wel stamped the quantitie of a Walnutte and wette it lyttle and little with the sayed water and it beynge wel dipt strayne it thorowe a linnen cloth into some vessell leaded And you muste note that the water may not be to rodde nor to cleere but betwene both that is to saye betwene cleere and redde to the ende that the Asure may take a Violette coloure After this braye well the sayde Lapis lasuli so molten and burned with the sayed water as vermilleon is commonly brayed by the space of an hour or more thā assemble it together in a glasse or some other vessell leaded ample and large drying it in the shadowe and not in the Sunne for it would lose his colour And whan it is drye beate it well to poulder and keepe it in some cleane lynen cloth wel 〈◊〉 than make this past folowinge Take two vnces of the cosin or gomme of a white pine tree two vnces of Pigraeca two vnces of Mastick two vnces of y e oyle of line two vnces of Turpentine two vnces of newe Ware stampe well that must be stamped and cutte the Ware into small pieces than put all in a newe panne and boyle it till it come to his perfection whiche maye be knowen by castinge a droppe of it into cold water and if in takinge it with your wette hande it cleaue not to your hande it is parfecte and therfore you shal straine it thorowe some cleane cloth into a vessell full of colde water but this must you do while it is yet hote for if it be cold it will not straine and leaue it so longe in the water vntyll it be harde than take it and set it to drye Nowe whan you will incorporate it with the poulder do thus Cut the sayde confection in smal pieces which you shall put into some kettle tinned within and set it so on the fyre and whan it beginneth to bubble vp put to it an vnce of the oyle of bytter Almondes lettyng it so boyl the space of two Miserere and in the meane time make ready your poulder of Lapis lasuli in a vessel with some little sticke made for the purpose than take the kettle and poure it by little and lyttle into the vessell vpon the sayed poulder not ceassinge to sturre it alwayes with the lyttle sticke vntill it be all well incorporated with the sayd poulder of Lapis lasuli This doen let it cole than annoinct your handes with oyle Oliue and take the sayd substaunce and tosse it vp and downe with youre handes to thende to incorporate it well together And after you haue broughte it to the fourme and fashion of breade or paste put it in a vessell leaded and keepe it so the space of tenne dayes at the leaste And whan you will take out of it the Asure make fyrst cleare lie with the asshes of vynes of the whiche you shall set a kettle full to the fyre seethinge it as hote as you may endure your hande in it than after putte the saied confection or paste in a vessell leaded and adde to it as muche of the saied lie as you shall thinke good Than styre the saied substaunce fayre and softlye vntyll you see the Asure come out and whan you see it issued out poure the saied lie with the Asure into a vessell leaded of the which vesselles you must haue a good nomber than put to it againe of the other hote lie doinge as before puttinge it afterward againe into another vessell and do thus vntill there be no more Asure And here you muste note that of a pounde of Lapis lasuli if it be fine there is loste but an vnce and is had oute of it in the whole eleuen vnces that is to say fiue vnces of good and fine three vnces of a mean sorte and three vnces of courser The fine is worth at the leaste twoo crownes and a halfe the vnce the meane a crowne an vnce and the other halfe a crowne Nowe after you haue gotten out all the Asure loke well whiche is like the one the other for to put eche of them by them selues into three partes as we haue saied Than washe it wel with fayre and cleere lye pouringe it out of one vessell into another vntil it be come to a good colour and purified from all ordure and fylth And whan you thinke it is cleane inough drie itin the shadowe in a chaumber and whan it is drie take a glassefull of fine Aqua vite and stiepe in it a little good brasill than trimme and dresse your Asure with the same Aqua vite and let it drie continuinge so the space of three dayes vntil the Asure be participant and haue taken parte of suche lycoure and than it shall be of an excellent fyne coloure Keepe eche sort by it selfe in bagges of leather well sowed and bounde ☞ To make a fyne confection of graine called Laeca of grayne TAke a pounde of the shearinge of scarlette and put it in a newe panne full of lie that is not to stronge and boyle it vntyll the lie take the coulour of it This doen take a bagge large and wyde aboue and narrowe poincted beneth whereinto you shall powre the sayed shearing of scarlette and the lye setting a vessell vnderneth than wringe and presse the bagge harde that all the substaunce and all the coloure may straine and dreane out after that washe the shearinge and the bagge in the vessel where the colour is And if you thinke that the shearinge hath yet more colour in it boyle it againe with other lie ordring it as before This done you shall heate the sayed couloured lye vpon the fire but let it not boile and you must haue ready
water and styrre it well than let it repose halfe an houre After this strayne the water and you shall finde the golde in the bottome of the cuppe the whiche you maye drie at youre pleasure Whan you wyll putte it in 〈◊〉 stiepe and temper it with Gommed water also you must kepe it well couered that it take no fylth This is the beste waye that is to make brayed or powâ—â—ed Golde ☞ Another waye with Purpurine TAke Purpurine which you shall fynde to be sold or that you haue made youre selfe in the manner aforesayde than put it in a dysh with pysse or lie and dippe it well with your fingar little and lyttle afterwarde fyll the dyshe with pysse or lie and let all setle downe into the bottome This doen styrre it agayne chaunging often the sayd lie vntill all be as you would haue it and finelye beynge broken and pounned and that the last pysse or lye be as cleare as whan you dydde put it in and after you haue strained it oute you shall put to it a lyttle Saffron and temper it with Gommed water Than maye you wryte paynt or do any thinge elles with it ¶ To make a grounde to gylt vpon with burnished golde TAke Gipsum the quantitie of a Walnut Boale Armenicke the byggenesse of a Beane Aloehepaticke Sugre candy of eche of theim the quantitie of a Beane stampe them by them selues and puttinge the one vpon the other you shall put to it laste of all a little Ciuette or honny ☞ To laye or settle golde with a single grounde TAke fine Gipsum Aloe Epaticum Boale Armenick of eche like quantitie and temper it with the whites of new layd egges which you haue strained thorow a linen cloth if your ground be to stronge you maye temper it with water †Another waye to laye on golde TAke Gommed water and with the same onely put golde and the sayed grounde will be good vpon parchemente or vppon skinnes the lyke maye you make with the whites of newe layed Egges and with the milke of figges alone To make colours of all kynde of metalles TAke Cristall or paragon stone and braye it well with the white of an Egge and than write with it and whan it is drye rubbe the writynge with golde or any other metall and you shall haue the same coloure that the metall is of To laye golde on a blacke bottome or grounde TAke the smoke of a Lampe and powne or braye it well with the Oyle of line or of Walnuttes And whan you will laye the golde vpon the sayd ground se that it be neither to moist nor to drye ☞ To make letters of the colour of golde without golde TAke an vnce of Orpimente and an vnce of fyne Cristall and braye theim eche one by him selfe than mingle theim together with the whites of Egges and wryte with it †To make syluer letters without syluer TAke an vnce of Tynne two vnces of quicke syluer and melte theim together than braye theim with Gommed water and write with it †To make greene letters TAke the iuyce of Rue Verdegrise and Saffronâ— braye them well all together and wryte therewith with Gommed water To make white letters in a blacke feilde TAke the pure mylke of a fygge tree in a glasse and set it in the sunne the space of halfe an hour than alaye it or temper it with Gommed water whan you will occupie it And whan you haue written with it blacke the paper with incke as muche as you wyll if the paper be greate and whan it is drye rubbe it well with a linnen cloth Than the letters that you made with the mylke of the fygge tree will go of all to gether and the paper wyll remayne written white because it was kept and preserued by the same mylk from the yncke where the letters were The lyke maye you make with the yelke of an Egge tempered in water with the whiche you maye wryte also And whan the writinge is drye rubbe wel the paper ouer with incke as before And whan it is drye rubbe the sayde letter made with the yelke of the Egge with some lynnen cloth or knyfe and they will goo of and leaue a whyte space whereby you shall haue fayre white letters in a blacke paper To make a greene colour for to write and paynt withall TAke greene byse and stiepe it alone in Vynaigre and passe it thorowe a linnen cloth and braye it well vpon a Porphire stone with cleare water and put to it in brayinge it a little honny and lette it dâ—e well than braye it againe wel with Gommed water and it will be perfecte ☞ To trimme and dresse Asure AZure is brayed with hony as greene but ye nede not purge it otherwise temper it with y e whites of Egges beaten or with the water of glewe and not of Gomme The water of glewe is made with parchement glew cleare and mollified and strained as Gomme is ☞ To dresse or trimme Cinabrium for to wryte or paynt with BRay well the Cinabrium vppon a Porphyre stone with cleare condite water than let it drie and putte it in an ynckehorne or glasse but it is better in an inckhorne in winter After this poure pisse into it minglinge it well together and leauinge it so vntyll nyght vntyll all the Cinabrium be gone to the bottome than chaunge the pysse and do as before leauinge it so vntyll the nexte morninge chaunginge so the vrine or pysse foure or fyue dayes vntyl al be wel purged Than take the white of an Egge well beaten vntyll it be brought into cleare water whiche you shal poure vpon the Cinabrium so that it be more than a fingar aboue it After mixe well al together with some sticke of a Walnutte tree or elles with some little bone than lette the Cinabrium descende downe to the bottome and do with this as before with the pysse the space of two or three dayes and this will take awaye all the sauoure of the pisse This doen ye shal put another whyte of an Egge and mingle all well together and than it will be perfyt you must kepe it well stopped At euerye time that you will occupie of it styrre it well and whan the white of the Egge is so dressed as is declared it neuer corrupteth ☞ A grounde to laye golde vpon anye mettall or yron TAke Vernix liquida a pounde Turpentine Oyle of lyne of eche of theym an vnce myre well all together and it is made ☞ To gylte the edges of bookes TAke the quantitie of a Walnut of Boale Armenicke the byggenesse of a Cyche pease of Sugre Candye braye them drye the one with the other and putte to it a little of the white of an Egge well beaten than mingle well all together This doen take the booke that you will gylte whiche muste be wel bound well glewed euen cutte and well polished set him fast in the presse and that as euen and as righte as you can possible Then
with a pensill geue him a wype ouer with the white of an Egge well beaten and let it drye than geue him also another with the sayd composition And whan it is well dryed scrape it and pollish it wel Last of all when you will laye on the Golde wette the sayde edges with a little cleare water with a pensill and than incontinent put on the golde leaues cutte in that biggenesse they ought to be and whan it is drye pollyshe it with a dogges tothe This doen you maye make what worke you will vpon it ☞ To kepe whites of egges as longe as a man will without corruptinge and without putting Arsenick to it A secrete not muche knowen TAke the whites of Egges not breakinge them in any wise and put to them as muche white Vynaygre as shall suffise that is to saye a reasonable quantitie leaue it so the space of twoo dayes than passe it thorow some linnen cloth without breakinge or beatynge the white of the Egges leauinge it so the space of eight dayes than strayne it agayne and put it in a violle well stopped for to occupy whan you haue nede †The maner howe to make the grounde or foundation for Indicum TAke Gomme Armoniacke three partes Gomme Arabick one parte Serapinum a fourth part stiepe these in Vynaygre vntyll they be very softe than mixe them well and straine them thorow a linen cloth and it wyll be verye good to occupye whan you haue neede Another perfyt grounde for the same thinge TAke Gomme Armoniack an vnce Gomme Arabicke thre vnces and stiepe it in Vyneaygre the space of a daye and a nighte than take the biggenesse of a Walnutte of good yellowe Honnye and a Garlyke heade well pilled and made cleane and well stamped Boyle all these thinges together in stronge Vynaigre puttinge to it a little Aloe Epatic and lette it boyle a good while than straine it thorow a linen cloth and wringe out well all the substaunce of it And if you thinke it be liquide or soft or to cleare boile it agayne vntill you thinke it is thicke inoughe than kepe it in a glasse or vessell of earth leaded or of bone Whan you wil gilt any thinge anoint it fyrst with this composition with a pensill and rub it wel so that the ingraâ—ing be not filled leaue it so as long as you wil than whaÌ„ you will lay on the leaues of gold blowe a little youre breath vpon the saied foundation or ground and set on the saied leaues of gold disposing and orderinge theim as is requisite pressing them wel downe with a pensil or with a little wol or bombase and than shal you haue a very excellente giltyng ☞ A goodlye waye howe to make Golde and Syluer in poulder a thinge easye to be done and there wyll come of it an excellent coloure This is a verye rare secrete whiche hath not bene vsed nor knowen vntyll this present TAke leaues of golde a crowne weighte or as muche as you will and set it to the fyre in some little cleane pan or pipkin and in another vessell you shall put foure times as muche in weighte of quicke siluer a good waye of from the fyre so that it may but onely warme a litle for otherwise it mighte vanishe awaye Let not the leaues of golde take so muche heate that thei melt but let them waxe almost redde This doen take them from the fyre and the quicke syluer lykewise whiche you shall poure hote vpon the leaues of golde and incontinent mingle them well together with a litle stick the space of a Paternoster and poure it afterwarde into a dyshe full of cleere water and you shall haue a dowe of the saied golde and quicke syluer but the coloure of the golde will be so darkened and obscure that a man shall perceaue and see nothinge at all And this is the dowe that the Goldsmythes call Amalgama and the learned men Malagma whiche is a Greke word and being corrupted of the Arabians was chaunged into Amalgama Also you may make this colde in brayinge the leaues a good whyle with the quicke syluer vppon a Porphyre stone vntyll all be mixed and ioyned together And braying it also with stronge Vinagre or the iuyce of Lemons it will soner be made and wyl incorporate and come together the better than muste you wasshe it wise or thrise with cleare water Nowe how soeuer you haue made this dowe or Amalgama you must strain it thoroughe a lynnen cloth fyne and thicke to the intente that a parte of the quicke syluer maye go thorow or elles straine it thorough a wylde goates skynne or a lambes skinne whiche is farre better and presse it harde to thintente there may come out as much quicke syluer as is possible Than take that remayneth in the cloth or skynne and put to it halfe as much fayre quick Brymstone citrine Fyrste stampe well the Brymstone and mingle it with the saied paste or dowe and beynge so myngled sette it on the fyre in a dysshe or yron ladâ—e leauinge it so vntyll all the Brymstone be burned and all the rest yellowe Than let it cole and put it in a dish washynge it so often with cleare water tyll you haue a fayre colour of Golde Than kepe it in some glasse or earthen vessell leaded as you do the other punned and brayed Golde and whan you will put it in experience stiepe it in Rose water or other wherin you shal haue mollified or dissolued some cleare gomme Arabicke Than dresse and order it to write or paynte with and you shall haue an excellent thinge Whan you haue written or painted beynge once drye you maye burnishe it with a dogges toeth whiche you can not do to the other brayed or punned golde that Scriueners and Painters nowe a dayes do vse This secrete hath bene practised of the olde and auncient writers as we see in some of theyr bokes But nowe you must vse the practise to burnish it layinge a white paper vpon the gold and rubbinge fyrste vpon the saied paper with the dogges toeth And if you thinke that it is not yet burnished ynoughe you maye burnishe it once agayne with the toeth vpon the Golde without the paper betwixt ☞ To make a verye fayre Vernix to vernishe the saied golde and all other workemanshippe TAke Bengewine and bray it the beste you can betwixt two papers than put it in some violle and poure vpon it good Aqua vite that it be aboue the Bengewyne three or foure fingars hygh and leaue it so a day or twaine than put to it for halfe a violle of suche Aqua vite fine or sixe blades of Saffron slenderly stamped or elles whole This doen straine it and with a pensill Vernishe therewith anye thynge gylted that you will which wil become bright and fayer dryenge it selfe immediatelye and will continue many yeares Nowe if you will dresse Syluer in suche a manner do euen with the siluer leaues as you did
with the Golde if not in steede of Brimstone you shall take white commun salte then dresse the Vernish in the foresaied manner puttinge to it the Almonde or Bengewine that is to saye the white that is founde in the middes of Bengewine and put in no Saffron at all And the saied Vernishe of Bengewine and Aquavite without any other thinge is very good to vernish all thinges as well painted as not painted and also to make tables and coffers of Walnutte tree and Nebene to glister and shine and of all other thinges Lykewise workes of Copper gilted and not gylted for it maketh bright preserueth aydeth the colour and drieth incontinent without takinge any dust or fylth but that you may make it clene with a linnen cloth or with a foxes taile whiche is better as if it were not vernished at al. To bray or break golde or syluer easely after the comes maner that the best workmasters do vse TAke what golde leaues you will and incorporate them wel in a cuppe of glasse with Iulep roset stir ringe it well with your middle finger little and little And when all is incorporated together braye it well vpon a Porphyre stone than poure by little and lyttle clere water vpon the said stone mixing it alwais After strain the said gold Iulep into a dish or cup of glasse and washe well the stone that there remaine nothinge Than stirre all with your finger in the saied dishe and let it so repose after poure the water out and putte in other freshe cleere and warme and washe it so vntyll all the Iulep be washed and clensed oute and that the water putting it in your mouth be in no wise sweete than let it drie This dâ—en you shall put it in a cuppe of cleane glasse and rake out a fewe hote embers a good way from the fyre that the glasse breake not wherevpon you shall set the saied cuppe vntyll the gold waxe very hote and be retourned to his naturall colour Finally temper it with goâ—med water for to put it in experience To make a lycoure that maketh a golden coloure without golde TAke the iuyce of Saffron flowres whan thei are freshe vpon the plante and if you can get none take Saffron dried wel made in poulder and put to it as muche yellowe and glisteringe Orpiment that is scaly and not earthy than with the gall of a Hare or of a Pike whiche is better braye them well together This doen put them in some violle vnder a donghyll certayne daies then take it out and keepe it and whan you will wryte with this licoure you shall haue a fayre coloure of Golde †Another licour of the colour of Golde for to wryte and to gylte yron woode glasse bone and other lyke thynges TAke an egge layed the same day that you begin to make this the whiche egge you shall open at one ende and take out all the white than take two partes of quicke syluer and one parte of salte armoniack that is cleane and well beaten and of these two thinges you shall put as much vpon the yelk of the egge that remaineth in the shell as will fyll it vp againe than mingle well all together with a lyttle sticke After stoppe the sayed egge with the piece that you tooke of closinge it well with a piece of waxe that nothing may enter into it nor any thinge issue oute Than laye it vnder horse donge right vp the open end vpwarde this doen take another halfe egge shell and make as it were a couer or a cappe vpon the sayed broken ende coueringe it with dunge and leaue it so the space of twenty or fiue and twentye dayes and so shall you haue a very fayre coloure of gold for to write and to do what you wyll withall And if the sayed substance be to harde or to thicke you may breake it or temper it with gommed water ☞ Another goodly licour to make a golden coloure with little cost and is a thinge easye to be doen. TAke the pilles of Citrons or Orenges very yelow and cleere theÌ„ well of the white that is within syde than stampe them well in a morter of stone or woode well made cleane and take good yellowe Brimstone cleare and bryght and well beaten in poulder whiche you shall mingle with the saied pilles stamped stampinge well all together This doen you shall putte all this into a violle and kepe it in a depe sellar or caue or in some moyst place by the space of .viii. or .x. days Finallye you shall heate it agayne by the fyre and then write or paint with it and you shal finde it a very excellent coloure of Golde ☞ To make yncke or a colour to wryte with in a verye good perfection TAke good Galles and breake theim in three or foure pieces that is to say stampe them slightly and put them in a fryinge panne or some other yron panne with a litle Oyle frieng them a litle then take a pounde of them and put it in some vessel leaded pouringe into it as muche white wine as wyll couer it ouer more then a good hand breadth After take a pounde of Gomme Arabick well stamped and eyghte vnces of Vitriole well made in poulder myxe all well together and set it in the sunne certaine dayes stering it as often as you may then boyle it a litle if you se that you haue neede and after straine it and it will be perfecte And vpon the lees that shall remayne in the bottome you maye poure other wine and boyle it a little and strain it You may put wine vpon the same lees as often as you will that is to say vntil you se y t the wine whiche you put in will staine or be coloured no more Then mingle al the saied wine wherunto you shal put other gâ—â—â—â—s gomme and vitriole as at the beginning theÌ„ keping it in the Sunne you shal haue a better inck then the fyrste and do so euery day for the oftener you do it the better you shall haue it and with lesse coste And if you finde it to thicke or that it be not flowinge ynough put to it a lyttle cleare lie whiche will make it liquide and thinne inoughe If it be to clere adde to it a little gomme Arabick The galles must be smal curled and massiue within if they be good The good vitriolle is always within of a colour like vnto the elemeÌ„t The best gomme is cleere and brittle that in stamping it it becommeth poulder easely without cleaning together A good waye and maner howe to make incke for to carry about a man in a drie poulder whiche whan he wil write with he must temper with a little wyne water or vynaiger or with some other licour and than he may incontinent put it in experience Vvyth the said poulder all other incke maye be amended be it neuer so euill TAke Peche or Abricot stones with their kurnels swete Almondes or bitter 〈◊〉 that thei
space of a nighte In the morninge you shall take a linnen cloth cleane and drye wherwith you shall rubbe of softlye and finelye the saied poulder and the paper wil remaine exceding white for to wryte vpon agayne as well as before and better And if al be not well rubbed of at the fyrst time you may do it once againe and you shall not fayle To make a kinde of vernish but much fayrer and better than that whiche Scriuenars do vse and is of lesse cost and stinketh not as other vernish doeth THe Vernishe whiche Scriueners commonlye vse is nothinge elles but the gomme of Ieniper made in poulder and of the same is liquide vernishe made in boylinge the saied gomme in the Oyle of line and of this poulder do Scriueners vse to cause that the incke runne not abroade and that the letter be the fairer and cleaner Now for to make a poulder of like effecte and verye fayre with lesse coste and without any euil sauour take Egge shelles what quantitie you wil taking away the little skinne within side and whan you haue grossely stamped theim put theim in a panns that will endure the fyre coueringe it with some couer then set it in some glasiers or potters furneis or in a bricke tyle or lyme makers kylle leauing it there vntyll all the shelles be come into a verye white poulder whiche is called Egge lyme syfte it and kepe it And whan you will occupie it caste a little of it vpon the paper or parchement and spreade the poulder well vpon it rubbing it wel with a Hares fote or otherwise then takinge awaye that is to much write vpon it and you shall finde it of better effecte then the vernix Whan the writinge is drye if you will take awaye the saied poulder yea the common vernishe for feare leaste men shoulde white theyr handes rubbe the paper or parchement with crommes of white breade for it wyll drawe to it selfe and take awaye all the vernishe or poulder that is vpon it ☞ To make incke to rule paper for to write by wherâ— of the writinge being drie the liues maye so be â–ª taken out that it shall seeme ye haue written without lines TAke Paragon stone stampe and bray it wel then take the bygnesse of a little nutte of the fayreste tartre or lees of white wine calcined and burned settinge it to stiepe and dissolue in a dyshful of clere water and than straine it oute And with this water you shall temper the blacke poulder of the Paragon stone vntill it become like incke with the whiche you shall rule your paper or parchement and wryte vpon those lines what you will with common inck And whan the writinge is drye for to take out the saied lynes you shal take harde crommes of white breade and rubbe youre paper ouer with them and the lines that you haue ruled wyll go out as cleane as thoughe there had neuer bene line at all This is a goodly secrete and very rare * The ende of the fyfte booke THE Secretes of the reuerende Master Alexis of Piemount THE SIXTE BOOKE ☞ To sublime Quicke Syluer that is to saye to make common sublyme that Goldsmithes Alebemistes and Gentil wemen do vse and that men vse in many thinges concerninge Phisycke TAke a pounde of Quicke Syluer and put it in some vessell of wood with a little Vynaygre and Salte Peter than braye it and mortifie it well with a wodden pestell Than take halfe a pounde of commen salt foure vnces of Salt Peter and let all this be well brayed and put vpon the Quicke Syluer in the same vessell of woode styringe well all together puttinge to it twoo pounde of Roche Alome burned Incorporate well all this together and put it in a violle or some potte luted and clayed a finger higher then the substaunce within is Then put it and dispone it in a panne or scillet vpon sisted ashes than set the saied panne on the furnes settinge the Limbecke vpon the violle or potte luted and then the recipient to receaue that distelleth out as men do in all maner of distillations Make to it at the fyrste a slowe fyre vntyll all the moysture be drawen out whiche you shall take out of the recipient and kepe well for it will be good for many thinges and specially for to mortifie other Quicke Syluer to make other sublime This doen make your fyer greater and continue it so vntyll you see Mercury or Quicke Syluer to be sublimed thorowly whyte that is to saye that it be rysen aboue al the substance and made as it were a white cake And if you will make it higher that is to say vnto the necke and brimme of the violle or pot then take a sheete of paper and wrappe it rounde about the violle or potte that is to saye aboute the body of it that is vncouered aboue the furneis then encrease your fyre and make it greater and this white cake wyll rise by little and little and will cleaue to the brimme of the pot remaininge there lyke a little beâ—â—e of white sublime then let it coole Than take of the recipient and lyfte vp the Limbecke makinge the pot cleane without side to the intent that whan you break it there fal no filth among the saied sublyme This done breake the violle or potte and in takinge of the sublime you must kepe it from the smoke and in this sorte you may make a loafe or cake of a hundred or two hundred pounde or as muche as you wyll kepinge alwaies the proportion of the quantitie of the thinges accordinge to the weighte here aboue written The lees that remayneth in the bottome of the sayd potte or violl may be stamped and dissolued in boilinge water and than straine it and lette it seeth and than drie thorowlye there will remaine in the bottome a salte whiche will be of the nature of the Salt Peter of the common salte and of the Alome that you did put in And the sayde salte will be very good to make other newe sublime with other Quick Siluer and vinaiger or elles in steade of Vynaigre you maye take the foresaid water that distilleth in the sublimation and so shal you make it very perfitte And you muste note that the saied sublime made with Roche Alome is better for gentilwomen that wil paint their faces with sublime But I counsaile theim that in steade of sublime they vse some of the waters that I haue spoken of in the bookes before For Goldesmithes Alkemistes and for manye thinges required in Phisicke it is better to put in rawe Vitriole in steade of burned Alome but this is very euil and hurtful for gentlewemen for the mooste part of them that make sublime make it with Vitriole partly because it is made with lesse cost and partly because it is profitabler for many thinges theÌ„ made with Alome whiche is almdost for nothinge but for gentlewemen There be some naughty personnes that putte Arsenic Cristallyne to distille
they be very white and vse theÌ„ in all thinges as you didde the mutton bones and than keepe it as afore Fynallye there is also earth made of the ashes of Vynes of strawe of burned paper of horse dunge dryed and burned of bricke stamped of Boale or of redde earthe or other lyke thinges that remayne in the fyre without meltinge wherein men printe verye well all maner of metall the whiche also neither breake cleaue in sonder nor chappe as is aforesayed ☞ A goodlye waye and maner howe to make all these earthes verye fyne and small and almooste impalpable TAke whiche of these foresaied earthes you will or anye other and after you haue well stamped it and syfted it drye it in a kettle by the fyre or in a fryenge panne or other vessell vntyll it be verye whoate than take it frome the fyre and stampe it well as before with water or Vynaigre heate it agayne and braye it stylle with water or Vynaygre and neuer drye doyng so fiue or sixe times Fynallye you shall putte it in a vessell of white earthe well leaded and powre into it as muche cleare water as wyll surmounte it foure fyngars high than styrre it with a lyttle cleane sticke and lette it reste the space of an Aue Maria. Afterwarde poure the sayed water finely and wisely into some other vessell that is cleane And vpon the sayed earth that remayneth in the fyrste vessell you shall powre other water and styre it as before than powre the same with the other fyrste powred out and thus do so often vntil that with the water you haue poured out all the finest and smalleste parte of the same earth And if there remaine yet in the firste vessell anye parte of grosse earth braye it a new and than put it with the other This doen you shall let all the same fyne and small earth whiche you poured into the other vessell go downe to the bottome and than powre oute fayer and softely the water and let the poulder dry that remayneth in the bottome the whiche afterwarde you shall braye well once agayne and passe it thorow a fyne sieue or sarce of Silke if you thinke good and you shall haue a poulder suche as there is not the like whiche you muste keepe as the other before in leather bagges or in boxes of woode well stopped pastynge or glewing the sides to the intente that the poulder flie not awaye for it is a substaunce almoost as fyne and as subtyle as the ayre ☞ To make a water called Magistra wherewith the sayed earthes to make mouldes is tempered and moysted agayne at euery castinge and foundinge TO cause that the sayed earth be faste and firme and that beinge fashioned and drye it maye holde together and not fal agayne into poulder you muste make this water whiche is called la Magistra whiche is a worde not knowen frome whence it is deducted as the Philosophers haue forged and geuen names to certayne waters accordinge to the effecte that they serue for as they haue doen of this water And it seemeth that they meante by this the same thinge that we vnderstande by the meane or waye or suche a thinge that is a meane or way to kepe together or to dissolue or to do some like thinge thus it is made They take common salt the whiche they wrappe in a linnen cloth wette in water or other licour and being so lapped vp it is layde in the middle of the embers in a furneis or in some other lyke place to the intente that with aâ—payre of bellowes they maye geue it alwayes a greate fyre or elles thei put it in some croset or other small vessell iuted and clayed blowing it wel the space of an houre than they let it coole And he that will not blowe it alwayes as is aforesayde let hym laye it in the middes of hote coales and yet couer it well with fyre and whan it is coole agayne be must stampe it and put it in a pot well leaded and put to it as muche water as wyll couer it foure or sixe fingars high than muste he set it on the fyre and styrringe it he shall make all the saied salte to dissolue This doen it must coole agayne and he strained or passed thoroughe a felte twise and this is done for to moist or baine the sayed earthes and to make them holde together as we will declare afterwarde Also you maye make this Magistra with the whites of Egges beaten with a sticke of a figge tree vntil they be conuerted and tourned in a froth or scumme then let them rest the space of a nighte and in the morninge poure oute the water that is founde vnder the froth With this water is the saied earth moysted and hayned and it appeareth that it is better then other for it maketh it faster and firmer and cleaner nor cleaueth so sone vnto the thinges caste in the mouldes therefore some put a little of this water of whites of Egges with the other Magistra made of salte Other put to it a lyttle water of Gomme Arabick addinge in all thinges iudgement experience and industry ☞ To make Lutum sapientiae verye parfytie TAke of the beste white potters earth that you can get for in one place there is better than in another that is to saye of that whiche can best endure the fyre as suche as they make pottes of in Padua and likewise in Germany for it is of such perfection that the pottes whiche be made of it and wherin they dresse their meate may also serue to found metalles in Take then of the beste and specially if it must serue for a thinge that hath neede to be longe vppon a great fyre otherwise take suche as you can get There is founde of it that is of a graye colour as the common sorte is and also there is white that men vse in some place of Vicence whiche is like loaues of Gipsum or plaister and is called of the Italians Florette de Chio. We here in Englande vppon the vse thereof maye geue it what name we wyll Potters vse of it in Venise for to white the dishes and other thinges before they vernish or pollish them There is also founde of it that is redde as in Apulia where there is greate quantitie and that they call Boale and is the very same that some Apoticaries do sell for Boale Armenick and the Venitians vse of it for to paynt redde the forefrontes of their houses with lime bricke and Vermillion coueringe it afterwarde with Oyle of line This redde earth is the fattest and the clammiest of all the rest and therefore it cleaueth soonest by the fyre if it be not tempered with some other substaunce And because that all the sayed earthes be to fatte the one more than the other therefore men put to them some leane substaunce Nowe if you take of that of ashe colour whiche is most commen and the lest fatty you may compose and make it in
the Suger and other thinges in the glasses and kepe it well couered Then take the Iuice of all these thinges followyng of redde Roses or incarnate of Succorie of Endiue of Fumiterie of Buglosse of Borage of Mallowes of Hoppes of the leaues and flowers of Marche violettes of eche of these iuices a like quaÌ„titie then mixe them wel together That doen take a pound or two of Aloes EpaticaÌ„ or as moche as you wil for the more there is the better it shall be bicause that thesaid Aloe beyng sosteeped watered and prepared as we will she we you is a verie exquisite familiare medecine to kepe in a house and take of it by litle lumpes or pilles ones in the weke when a man goeth to bed for it kepeth the body from putrifaction and from all euill humours and is very profitable and good against the ache or paine in the ioinctes and also for the Frenche Pockes as herafter we will declare orderly Take of the saied Aloe of the best and the freshest soche a quantitie as you will and put it in a cup of glasse or cleane platter as is aboue said and set it in a windowe or some other place in the Sonne watryng or stepyng it in thesaid iuices mingled together giuing it therof as often as shalbe sufficient to make it moist and to make of it as it were athicke sirop Then couer the cup with a clene linen clothe or paper to kepe it onely from the duste and leaue it so in the Sonne And when it is almoste waxen drie embibe or water it again as before and let it stand in the Sonne This shall you doe so often vntill you haue made it soke and drinke vp as moche iuice as the weight of halfe the Aloe onely that is to saie if the Aloe weighe twoo pound make it drinke vp at diuers times one pouÌ„d of thesaid iuices This doen take these thinges followeyng Turbit halfe and vnce fine Sinamom Spica Nardi Fole foote alias Astrabacca Squinantum Carpobalsamum Xilobalsamum Lignum Aloes Bdellium Mirrhe Mastic of eche of them an vnce with halfe an vnce of Safron All these thynges beyng well beaten into pouder and put into a cleane panne you shall poure into theim so moche common water that it surmounte thesaied matieres a good hande breadth lettyng theim boile with a a small fire the space of an hower or more After this you shall straine the saied decoction and by litle and litle water from tyme to tyme the said Aloe in the Sonne as you haue afore doen and this you shall doe so long vntill the Aloe haue dronke vp all the decoction This doen take it out of the Sonne and it shall be a precious thing to kepe in your house as we haue all ready declared whiche also maintaineth the body in health kepeth the heade cleane and causeth to haue a good colour and a quicke and liuely spirite to them that vse of it He that is not of abilitie to make this mixtion in the maner aboue said maie make it in this wise Kepe diligently the saied Aloe in litle disshes of woode to make this that wee will speake of here followyng Take Aqua vite not to fine nor of the first stillyng but stilled twise or thrise at the moste And putte in diuers litle violles of glasse the one bigger then the other all these thynges followyng well beaten into pouder at the lest those that maie be beaten puttyng also in eche of theim asmoche of the Aqua vite as shall bee three fingers aboue them in the Violles doyng as hereafter foloweth Take an vnce of smalle fine Perles well wasshed three or fower tymes in cleare water and then beyng dried and laied in the iuice of Lemons or CytroÌ„s well strained leaue theim so by the space of three daies and so put the saied perles that thei maie be with thesaid iuice remaining in the glasse putting to them Rose water three fingers high or aboue the perles as is afore meÌ„tioned Then take an vnce of fine read Corall and put it likewise in the Iuice of Lemons or Citrons vsyng it in al poinctes like as ye did the perles puttyng it in a glasse by it self with Rose water with fower vnces of blew Vâ—triol well burned in a close pot This doen take the flowers tender stalkes of Rosemarie of Burrage of Buglosse of Sage of Selandine of Isope of Scabiose of Rue of sainct Ihons worte of Primroses together with all the tender leaues of the saied herbes and then stampe them slightly in a morter of stone or wood and put them altogether into one glasse or into diuers with as moche Aqua vite as will be aboue them three or fower fingers as we haue saied of the other thinges and let them frande so in the glasse wel stopped with ware or bombase Take after this halfe an vnce of Saffron well beaten into pouder and put it in a glasse by it self with Rose water after the maner of the other thynges then put to it fower vnces of Triacle with Rose water in an other glasse after the foresaied maner and take one vnce of fine Cinamom a quarter of an Vnce of Cloues an Vnce of Lignum Aloe an vnce of Anise seede and vnce of Fenell seede halfe an vnce of Smallage seede fiue or sixe vnces of Ieniper berries halfe an vnce of Cheruell seede of the seede and bark of a Cedartree of eche of them twoo vnces halfe an vnce of Myrrhe a quarter of an vnce of Storax or Styrax Liquida an Vnce of Bengewine an vnce of Sandali of all sortes of Mirabolanes of eche of theÌ„ three vnces of Pine apple kernelles mondified three vnces of yelowe Ambre whiche the Apoticaries call Carabe twoo vnces thre vnces of white Dittanie grene or drie the eight parte or as litle as you will of an vnce of Muske Let all these thynges hee well stamped and mixed together and putte in a glasse with their Aqua vite as is saied of the other You must then stoppe well all the saied violles or glasses or other vesselles with waxe or bombase and with parechement ouer it and so set them a daie in the Sonne and the night followyng in the aire abrode The morowe after take some great vessell of glasse as thicke as you can get hauyng no couer bicause you maie alwaies loke into it and thereinto you shall powre faire softly the Rose water that is in all the glasses eche of them beyng coloured with their substaunce in soche maner that no part of the substaunces whiche are in the bottome be mixte with it And after hauing put al the saied Aqua vite into the said vessell as is aboue said ye shal set it in some place where as no Soonne can in any wise come vnto it But beware that the three first glasses that is to saie with the Suger the MaÌ„na and the Honie in the dewe ought neuer to be set in the Sonne but must be kept vntil you
put into it pouder of the seede of Cresses the quantitie of halfe a Walnut shelfull than giue it the patient to drinke at once or at twise It shalbe good to let hym bloud immediatlie after he is fallen or as soone as is possible and as soone as he is let bloud giue him thys drinke And he that cannot drinke the oyle let him take the pouder with wine If you cannot get the seedes of Cresses giue him of the pouder of Mene of the which there is alwaies inough found at y â— Apoticaries if he be brused or hurt outwardlie annoynt the sore place with oyle Roset and than lay vpon it the leaues of Myrnis and of dried Roses and so shall you heale him parfitlie A verie good and easie remedie against the disease called the Kinges euill TAke the herbe called Farfara Fole foote in English well stamped with his rootes and beynge myngled with the flower of the seede of Line or Flaâ—e and the grease of a Barrow make therof a plaister and laie it vpon the sore changyng it twise a daie and all the sores of the disease shall bee resolued into sweate After thei be healed washe often the place with white wine by the space of .x. or .xv. daies Another remedie against the same disease TAke the stones of a horse and put them in a Fier pan among the embers and coles leauyng them there vntill they may be beaten into pouder than giue the patiente drinke of the saied pouder in white wyne the quantite of two pennie weight continuyng this the space of .xxi. daies by this meanes you shall make him cast out at his mouth all the ordure and filth of the euill and shall heale him thorowly To know whether a woman shall euer conceiue or not TAke of the ruen of a Hare and hauing frayed and consumed it in hote water giue it the woman to drinke in the mornyng at her breakfast than let her stande in a hote bathe and if there come a greefe or payne in her bellie she maie conceiue if not she shall neuer conceyue A verie rare remedie for to take the kernels out of a mannes throte in fiftie daies at the fâ—rthest TAke the rootes of Walwort well washed and boyled in white wine and take also these thinges folowyng Sponge burned half a pound two hundred cornes of Peper Al these thynges beyng well beaten into pouder boyle them in the saied wine with the Walwort rootes and hauinge sodden them wel poure out the wine and kepe it in a viol wel stopped in some moyst place than giue the patient of this wine to drinke three times a day at euerie time a glasseful that is to say mornyng noone and night And while he vseth this he must eate no other breade but Barley breade and drinke his wyne without water He must also abstayne from eatyng any maner herbes Fysh Garlick Beetes or other such like Thys maner of regiment ought a man to begyn at the full moone continuyng vntill the ende of the same and after vntill the quarter encreasynge of the nexte Moone that is to saie .xlv. daies and without doubt the patient shal be healed Another remedie easier to be made TAke drie Camomill redact into pouder mengled with Honnie then take in the mornyng a sponefull of it into your mouth and as muche at night lettyng it go downe of it selfe vse this continually vntill you be healed vse good gouernemeÌ„t as is afore sayde A thinge proued and experimented to be verie traâ— against the same disease TAke Polipodium whiche is an herbe like vnto Ferne growyng vpon the stumpe or stocke of a Chestnut tree if you can get of it if not take of the other and beate it into pouder giue the patient drinke thereof with wine or Honnie twyse a daie at eche time as muche as will lie vpon a grote continue this by the space of .xxi. daies beginnynge at the quarter decreasyng of the Moone and keepynge alwaies good diet as is aboue said he shall be whole To make the skinne stretch and returne agayne into his place after the kernell is healed TAke the knoppes that remaine on the Rose stalke after the Roses be fallen of whiche be like beadestones facioned like an Egge with the seede that is in them Alom of the â—ocke the flower or blosome of a Pome granade of eche of these a like quantitie Seeth them in white Vinaigre vntill half be consumed put to it also half as much as al the rest of Ros syriacus or Rhus Which the Apoticaries call Sumach or Sunach stamped boyle all agayne vntill all the Vinaigre be almoste wholy consumed And of that which remayneth annoynt the place rounde aboute and by that meanes ye shall cause the skinne to stretche and come to his place as it was before A verie exquisite remedie agaynst the disease called in Latyne Augina and in Greeke Synanche whiche is an inflamation of the Muscle of the inner Gargill the French men call it Squinancie in English Quinsey TAke the water of Scabiose a pounde of Aqua vite an vnce mengle them together and laye it vpon the soore or griefe and you shall finde the Pacient whole in three houres Another agaynst the same disease TAke Swallowes bake them in an ouen beate theÌ„ to pouder and laye them vpon the griefe thorowe the mouth if it be possible if not you shall entermingle it with Honnye roset and a litle Flower or Meale of Amylum then put it in his mouth letting it goe downe of it selfe and you shall see a merueylous thinge Another agaynst the same sickenesse TAke oyle of Romaine vitriolle and put two or three droppes of it in white wine with the which you shall gargle or washe your mouth and throte often tymes A verye good remedye agaynst the kinges euyll TAke Ceruse or white Leade well stamped foure vnces oyle Olyue eyght vnces let this boyle together fiue or sixe houres styrring it continually and when it is waxen or become verye blacke it is sodden ynough then spreade it vpon a lynnen cloth and laye it vnto the place of the soore yf the soores be broken they will be healed incontinent if not they wyll resolue and leuse and shortly heale thorowly To heale the same disease by a substance taken at the mouthe DResse a Henne as it were to eate so that she bee boyled in a great potte or caudron with a greate deale of water without Salt letting it boyle vntyll all the bones bee seperated from the fleshe then take the saied bones and drie them in an ouen or at the fier so that they bee not burned or waxe blacke after this beate them well to pouder and take of the seede of Sesamum beaten well likewise into pouder mengle it with the pouder of the Hennes bones as muche of the one as of the other And so take a sponefull of the two pouders and mingle it with Honnye causing the Pacient to eate of it at
and watred with rose water than dried and finallye made in to rounde balles the whiche the parfumers do braye and without any more parfuminge them in a sieue they adde vnto it Bengewyne Muske and Ciuette more or lesse accordynge as they wyll make it good ☞ Vvhite musked Sope. TAke Sope scraped or grated as much as you will the whiche when ye haue well stieped and tempe red in rose water leaue it eight dais in the sunne Than you shall adde to it an vnce of the water or milk of Macaleb twelue graines of Muske and sixe graines of Ciuet and reducinge all the whole into the fourme and maner of harde past you shall make therof very excellent balles Another kinde of odoriferous white Sope. TAke Venise Sope of the eldest you can finde the whiche you shall cutte or scrape with a knife and sette it three dayes in the Sonne And after hauinge well brayed it you shal dissolue it in a vessell leaded within with a pounde of good rose water lettinge it boyle with a small fire than you shall put to it of the roote of Iris called Ireos beaten into poulder .iiij. vnces Amylum sixe vnces whyte Sandale two vnces Storax liquida an vnce Oyle of Spike an vnce and sturringe it alwayes with a sticke ye shall afterwarde let it coole againe And finally make balles of it euen as you wil. ☞ To make Damaskine sope musked TAke a pounde of the best Sope you can gette and after hauing grated or skraped it verie smal take fine Synamom Nutmegges Storax calamita of eche of them an vnce lignum Aloes two dragmes Bengewine perfite and thorowlye made two vnces the poulder of Viollettes an vnce Hauing beaten well to poulder all these foresaied thinges you shal adde vnto them a dragme of the poulder of Cypres a lytle Muske and Ciuet then steepe and temper it in Rose water and after leaue it fourtie daies in the Sunne in mouing and sturring it often times Than make balles of it or lytle rounde loues the whiche you muste keepe in boxes of woode with cotton wolle or bombase ☞ To get out the milke of Macaleb BYcause the vse of the mylke of Macaleb hath been putte in manye compositions as we haue saied we will teache you the maner howe to get it out which shall be this Take the Macaleb whiche are litle soote and odoriferous graynes so called the whiche you shall stampe in a morter with Rose water or some other sweete water vntill they bee lyke a sauce and hauing put them in a poke of linnen clothe you shall presse the milke out of theim in a pressoure or betwene two lytle bourdes Then braye agayne with the sayed water that whiche shall remaine in the poke and presse it a newe vntill there issue no moore milke But here I muste aduertise you that this milke continueth not aboue two or three dayes therefore you must immediatlye put it in effect and occupie it ☞ Poulder of Ciuet verye exquisite TAke Sngre candye what quantitie you list and put it in a brasen morter and after you haue wel beaten it adde to it as muche Ciuet as you wyll and make thereof poulder the whiche you muste keepe alwayes close ☞ A priucipall poulder TAke Damaskene Roses Cipre Alexandrin Sandalum citrinum of eche of theym an vnce Iris halfe an vnce lignum Aloes Calamus aromaticus Galanga Bengewine of eche of theym a grayne and a quarter you shall make of all thys a verie fyne poulder and incorporate it well keepynge in a violle well stopped ☞ A white odoriferous poulder TAke Iris electe three vnces white Sandall twoo vnces Damaske roses Lignum Aloes Bengewyn Cypre alexandrine of eche of theym twoo vnces Muske foure graynes Ciuet three graynes beate theym a parte and sifte theym then incorporate them together in the same brasen morter that you dyd beate them in and keepe the poulder of them in a violle well stopped ☞ A redde poulder TAke Damaske roses twoo vnces Sandalium citrinum an vnce lignum Aloes Cypre alexandryn of eche of them a grayne and halfe a quarter Iris halfe a grayne or more Cloues a scrupule fine Muske three graynes Ciuet two graines Amber twoo graines Bray theim and mixe them together and so keepe them ☞ A blacke poulder TAke Cipri Alexandrini lignum Aloes of eche of theym halfe an vnce Sandali citrini Damaske roses labdaniterreni of eche of theim a quarter Cloues a grayne and a lytle more Muske thre graines Cyuet twoo graynes beate theym in poulder and kepe theym ☞ Poulder of Cypre verye exquisite TAke a pounde of the mosse of an Oke and washe it well in faier water vntill the water remayne cleare then laye it abrode vpon a table in the Sunne vntill it bee dried after sprinkle or water it with rose water and hauinge it lefte it so couered in a dishe or platter you shall laye it a brode agayne in a verie hote Sunne when it is drie ynough to beate beate it in poulder and sifte it finelye almoste all You shall sprinkele or water this poulder with Muske rose water and laye it abroade vppon a greate sarce tourned downewarde good and thicke and some what course vnder the whiche sarce you shall make a perfume as foloweth couexinge it with a clothe whiche bee thus Bengewine two graynes and a quarter Labdani half a graine and more Storax calamita twoo carrettes lignum Aloes halfe a grayne and more fine Muske half a grain Beate all these thinges grosselye and after mixe them together then put by lytle and lytle the poulder vnder the sarce in some potte sharde with a litle fier in it and caste it in as you woulde dooe Frankencese staiyng at euerie time vntill the first parte first cast in bee consumed Nowe all the saied perfume beinge dooen if you will make the saied poulder verie fine and exquisite vnto euerye vnce adde these thinges folowinge Bengewine a carret Muske foure graines Ciuet twoo graines beate these by theym selues verie small and fyne and mingle them with the saied vnce of poulder so that all maye bee well incorporated together than keepe it well for it is notable and singuler ☞ Another waye to make it verie perfecte TAke the recente and fresshe dunge of an Oxe and drie it in the Sunne or in an ouen then beate it and sifte it sprinkle it well after with Rose water and leauing it so in a vessel the space of a daye drie it agayne in the Sunne And when it is drie bathe it againe with Rose water and drie it againe and dooe so three or foure times The last time you shall water it or bathe it somewhat more then the other times because it maye cleaue to the bottome of the vessell whiche muste bee well leaded within and verie cleane after this you shall remoue and sturre it well and perfume it with some perfume that the other foresayed poulder was perfumed with Then hauinge perfumed it diuers times you shall lette it drie in the
the oyles reasonablie neither to muche nor to lyttle but with discretion accordinge to the quantitie of the Sope. ☞ Sope rosat TAke freshe and recent roses wel stamped and incorporated them with the said Sope as before the whiche you maye also dode at youre pleasure of all other sortes of flowres ☞ VVhite Sope of a good sauour and odour HAuing cutte after the maner of Damasco in small pieces the oldest Sope that is possible to bee founde you shall laye it abrode vpon a table in a place where it maye drie than hauinge lefte it there the space of eyght and or .x. dayes you must after warde stampe it lightlye or slenderlye and make therof poulder and the same being sifted you shal adde to it foure vnces of Ireos vppon tenne pounde of the sayed poulder white Sandall three vnces two vnces of Macaleb an vnce of the meale or flowre of Amylum and all well beaten into poulder you shall mixe it with tenne pounde of the poulder of the aforesaide Sope then all beinge ioyned together you shall putte it in a morter with an vnce of Storax liquida and a walnut shelfull of the oyle of Spike and hauinge well stamped it altogether it shall bee made Then afterwarde make balles or square â—akes of it as you wyll with the meale or flowre of Amylum then drie in the shadowe and keepe them for it is a thinge verie excellent ☞ Perfect sope TAke syxe graynes of Muske tempered and steeped in good Rose water foure graines of Ciuet reduced and beaten into poulder and mingle them with the saied Sope but the tempered or steeped Muske muste bee hote and by this meanes you shall haue a verie perfect Sope. VVhole and massy blacke sope TAke tenne pounde of the saied poulder of Sope well sifted cloues foure vnces of good Mace twoo vnces damaske Macaleb Cyperus whiche the Apoticaries call Iuncus odoratus Sandali Citrini Storax liquida of eche of theym an vnce sweete oyle as muche as shall suffise and hauing stamped that whiche oughte to bee stamped make of it as is aboue saied But if you will haue it more singuler putte to it Muske tempered in Rose water as afore with a lytle Ciuet after incorporate well all together and make thereof balles or square cakes or hartes or suche other formes as you luste to muke youre selfe then dry them in the shadowe and so shall you finde them of a singuler good odour and sauour ☞ Damaske parfume TAke fyne Muske foure gaynes Cyuet two graynes Ambergris fine Sugre of eche of them foure graynes Bengewine a grayne of fatte Storax calamita three graines lignum Aloes twoo graines beate them well into poulder and putte all together in a litle parfuminge panne powre into it as muche Rose water or the water of the flowres of Orenges Citrons and Lemons all together as will bee twoo fingers highe aboue the other drooges in makinge vnder it a small fier that it maye not boyle and when the water is consumed you shall powre in other and hauing continued thus doinge a certaine number of daies you shall haue an excellent Sope. ☞ Another parfume of Damaske TAke Storax calamita foure vnces Bengewyne foure vnces Labdanum lignum Aloes Synamon of eche of theym an vnce Sperma Ceti a dragme Muske foure scrupules cloues a dragme Rose water eyght vnces stampe them and putte them in the parfuming panne ☞ An excellent pomander TAke .xvi. or .xx. Pepins or other swete melow apples y â— which beinge pared and cut in quarters you shall adde to euerye quarter fowre or sixe Cloues then put them in some vessell of earthe well leaded within with as muche Rose water as wyll couer them ouer Then couer them with a trenchour or some other cleane thinge lettinge them so stande one whole daye And after powre them all in some newe vessell well leaded putting to it foure pounde of freshe hogges suet well taken from the fleshe and skynne cut verie small and well chopped with a knife make vrder it a small fier that it burne not than in straining it out you shall make it droppe into some vessell of freshe and cleare water and so purifie the grease thre or foure daies keping it in the same vessell and chaunginge often times a daye the saied water for the oftener you chaunge it the better you shall purge the grease Than take out the saied seyme the apples and the rose water together and take the fatte oute of the vessell dreaninge it well and adding to it Spikenarde with twoo vnces of Cloues an vnce of Synamom a quarter of sandalum citrinum an vnce of Bengewyne and as muche of storax calamita Braye all these kindes together and put it in a fine linnen clothe in maner of litle purses but let the cloth bee some what large and binde it wel that the sayd kinds scatter not abrode among the grease Then make it boyle with a litle fier far of from the flame or leyt or set before it some tyle or bricke letting it boyle so faire and softlye foure or sixe houres vntill all the rose water bee vanished awaye whiche may be proued in this maner Put a lytle sticke downe to the bottom of the vessell and plucke it oute agayne quickelye and put it in the fier and if it burne without anye noyse it is a token that there is no moore water but tarte vntyll it bee all well consumed sturringe it sometime to the entent it burne not to or smell of the burning Beware also of the smoke for if it take once y â— sauour of it you can neuer get it out when all is wel sodden take eyghte vnces of white Waxe and put it in the saied vessell mixinge all together and let it so melt with the saied substaunces the whiche you must nowe and then sturre This dooen take it from the fier letting it stande and rest a quarter of an houre that is to saie vntill the grosse substaunce bee descended to the bottome then powre it faier and softlye thorowe twoo newe course linnen clothes into a vessell well leaded within wherein muste bee twoo dishefull of Rose water but take heere of pressinge it so that the lees come not oute into the same vessell but into another for it woulde be somewhat red Let it so coole vntill the next morninge and whan it is solide harde and massy denide it into foure partes and put it into a round vessell leaded styrringe it well with a pestle addinge to it by lytle and litle good and fyne Muskte rose water and so styrre it vntyll it be well incorporated Nowe if in case you se that it doth not well incorporate together set it a lytle vpon the fyre and whan it is hote powre rose water vpon it sturringe it well about vntill it waxe verye fine and thinne but take good hede to the fyre And so kepe it in newe and cleane vessels Another Pomaunder TAke Pippins or other like melowe Apples and laye them
done kepe it in a Horne or vessell of glasse well closed ☞ A parfume for a Chaumber very excellent TAke Storax Calamita Bengewine Ligni Aloes of eche of them an vnce coales of Willow well beaten into poulder .v. vnces These thinges mixed with Aquauite as much as will suffise to make paste make therof litle cakes or other formes what you wil and so kepe them And whan you will vse or occupie of it put it into the fire for in consumyng litle and litle it will make a singuler good odour in the place where you burne it Sope of Naples TAke Deares grease or the Tallow of a Cowe or yonge Calfe or of a Kidde a pounde put it in a vessell of earth well leaded and after you haue well strayned it put vpon it with discretion to much nor to litle of Sope makers lie the first best and strongest of three sortes that they vse called the maister lie and kepe the saied grease in the heate of the Sunne miâ—ynge it well there and like wise in the night abrode in the ayer but take hede that there come no water to it Whan you se that it is somewhat drie put to it againe as muche as shall neede of the seconde and thirde lie mixed together which Sope makers vse Rubbe a litle vpon your hand beyng cleane and if it make a frothe it is a token it is made Parfume for a Lampe TAke Ligni Aloes a quarter Begewine an vnce Storax calamita half an vnce Muske a scruple Ambergreese halfe a scruple Rose water inoughe You shall putte all these thynges well beaten to poulder into the Lampe A shorte parfume TAke a glassefull of Rose water Clones well beaten in poulder a penny weight than take the fire panne and make it redde hote in the fire and put theron of the saied Rose water with thesayd poulder of Cloues making it so confume by litle and litle but the rose water must bee muskt and so you shal make a parfume of excellent good odour ☞ An odoriferous parfume for chambers TAke Thymiama a pounde Storax liquida twoo vnces Storax calamita three vnces Labdanum an vnce coales of Willowe and Tracagantum asmuche as you wyll but stiepe or temper the poulder of the coales and the Tracagantum with rose water and let it lie so three daies a stiepe in the same water and then make therof paste ☞ A verie good parfume for to trimme gloues wyth litle cost and yet will continue longe FIrst let the gloues bec greate and of good thicke leather to the which you shall gyue a little Ciuet all alonge the seames Than washe them in rose water twise or thryse pressing theym harde this doen take twoo partes of rose water one parte of the water of the blossoms of Mirtell tree mingle them together addinge to it two partes of the water of the flowres of Orenges Lemons Citrons called of the FreÌ„chmen can de nafe and washe them so long therwith that they sauour no moore of the leather then laye theym in a platter and leaue them there couered with the saied water pouldered ouer with the poulder of Cypres by the space of a day or twaine This dooen take them out and presse them a litle and so drie them in the shadowe When they bee half drie geue them a litle Ciuet in this wise put asmuche Ciuet as you shall thinke good in a dishe with a litle oyle of Iasemyne that is not olde the whiche you shall make to dissolue before the fier than annoynt therewith the gloues within side and rub them wel betwene your handes chafing them at the fier vntil you thinke that the ciuet be perced and gone thorow them and leaue them so a while Then after rub them wel with a clothe to the ende the Ciuet maye perce the better and the gloues waxe soft then draw and stretch them out abrode leauing them so the space of a dai and when you shall thinke they be humyde and moyste enlarge them and blowe them and puffe them vp leaue them so vntil thei bee halfe dried Than take good parfume to burne holde them ouer the smoke of the saied parfume to the eude that it maye perce and go into the inner partes of the gloues and parfume them within side This shall you dooe thrise a daye the space of .xx. daies weating them at eche time with a litle parfumed water wrappinge them with some white linen cloth than take Muske and Amber as much as you wyl and put it in a tinne platter with oyle of Iasemine or Bengewine or some other oyle let them well dissolue at the fier with a litle perfumed water than annoynte them with a pensell on the out side and not within annoynt also the seames with Ciuet and lay them certein daies among dried roses Finally lay them for the space of .iij. or .iiij. daies betwene two matresses than wil they bee excellent as if it were to present an emperour withall ☞ A verye exquisite Ciuet to parfume gloues and to annoynt a mans handes with TAke three pounde of white wine the tallowe or grease of a Gote shepe or Kidde a pound boyle all together with a small fier vpon the embres or coales in a couered panne than take them from the fier and when it is coole againe putte them in a platter with cleare water and washe them well fiue or sixe tymes and put them againe in cleare water all a night This dooen take a pounde of rose water twoo pound of white wine with this boile the grease vpon the coales with a smal fier vntil one half be consumed than take swete Nauewes rost them vnder the ashes but burne them not And for eche pound of grease take halfe a pound of the inner white of the saied Nauewes and boyle it in rose water the space of halfe an houre than strayne it and put it into a morter with oyle of Iasemin or of Citrons or such like or els with a litle CaÌ„pher After this you shall take a dishe or the bottome or foote of a glasse wet within with Rosewater wherin you shall make the forme and facion of the Ciuette addyng to it first of all three vnces of Ceruse well beaten in poulder for euery pounde of tallow or grease and it will be an excellent and princely thing Oyle of Roses and floures very parfit TAke the seede of Millons well mundified and staÌ„ped and laye them by rankes or by beddes with the flowres of Roses by the space of .viii. daies then take a litle linnen bagge wette in Rose water or in the water of other flowres in the whiche bagge you shall put the seede and hauyng well bounde it put it in a pressour and presse oute the oyle whiche will be very precious and the which you must kepe alwaies close Oyle of Cloues very noble TAke Almondes mondified and made cleane with a knife and broken in pieces stiepe or temper theym in Rose water than dresse them
all bee turned into the forme of paste Than take it oute of the laied morter and bray it vpon the poulder of sugre as it were meale or flowre vntill all bee like soft paste to the ende you may turne it and facion it which way you wil. Whan you haue brought your paste to this forme spreade it abrode with Sinamom vpon greate or small leaues as you shal thinke it good and so shal you forme and make what things you wil as is aforesaied With suche fine knackes as maye serue a table taking heede that there stand no hote thing nigh vnto it At the ende of the banket they may eate al and breake the platters dishes glasses cuppes and all thinges for this paste is verie delicate and saueurous If you will make a thing of moore finesse than this make a tarte of Almondes stamped with sugre and rose water of like sorte that march paines be made of This shall you laye betwene twoo pastes of suche vesselles or fruites or some other thing as you thinke good ☞ To make a confection of Melons or Pompones TAke what quantitie of Melons you wil and take them before they be ful ripe but let them be good make as many cuttes in thē as they bee marked with quarters on euery side hauing mondified them taken oute their kernelles and pilled of the vtter rine stiepe them in good vinaigre leauinge theim so by the space of ten dayes and whan you haue taken them out take other Vinagre and stiepe them a newe againe other ten dayes remouinge and styrringe theim euerye daye than whan time shall be take them oute and put them in a course linnen cloth driyng and wiping them well Finally set them in the ayer the space of a day and a night than boile them in hony and by the space of ten daies geue them euery daie a little bubbling or boilinge leauing them alwaies in the hony and let them boile at eche time onelye but one wawme Then take the saide pieces put them in what kind of vessell you will and take these spices folowinge the poulder of Cloues of ginger of Nutmegs of Sinamom whereof you shall make spices this done make one bedde or ranke of the pieces of melons another of the spices than take fine white hony and poure it vpon them in the saide vessell ☞ To make Melons and Pompones sweete and verye delicate TAke fine sugre and dissolue it in water than take the seedes of a Melon and cleaue them a litle on the syde that sticketh to the melon and put them in the sugred water addinge to them a lyttle Rose water leaue the sayde seedes so by the space of thre or foure houres and then take them out and you shall see that as soone as the sayde seede is drye it will close vp agayne Plant it and there will come of it suche Melons as the lyke hath not bene seene And if you will geue them the sauoure of Muske put in the sayde water a lyttle Muske and fine Synamom And this may you do also with the seedes of Pompones and Coucombers To confyte orenge pilles whiche may be done at all times of the yeare and chiefly in Maye because than the sayd pilles be greater and thicker TAke thicke Orenge pilles cut in foure or .vi. pieces and sti ep them in water the space of ten or .xii dayes You maie knowe whan they be stieped ynough if you hold them vp in the sunne and se thorow them for than they be stieped inough and if you cannot see thorowe them let them yet stiepe vntill you maye than afterward lay them to drie vpon a table and than betwene two drie linen clothes Moreouer put them in a kettle or vessell leaded adding to it as muche hony as wil halfe couer the saied pilles more or lesse as you shal thinke good Boile them a little styrring them always and than take them from the fire leaste the honye seeth to muche for if it shoulde boile but a litle more then it ought to boile it woulde be thicke and massife Let it than stande rest foure dayes in the said hony stirringe and mengling well euery daye the saide Orenges and hony together For because there is not hony inoughe to couer ouer al the orenge pilles you must styrre them wel oftentimes to thende they may al equally receiue of the honnye This shall you do three times geuinge them one bublinge or boilinge at eche time and so let them rest and stand .iii. daies as we haue saied Finally you shall straine or dreane them from the sayde honye and boile theim in as muche other honnye as you shall thinke will suffice and after you haue let theim boyle the space of a Credo take them from the fire and bestow them in vessels putting to them of the beste spices you can finde as Ginger Cloues and Sinamom mixe all well together and you shall haue made an excellente thinge And note that the hony that shall remayne wil be still good for to dresse and trimme other Orenges or other thinges withall To confyte walnuttes FIrste take Walnuttes whan they be litle greene with the pille or huske and al and make in them .iiii litle holes or mo than stiep them in water .xi. dayes or more or lesse make them cleane and boile theim in hony as the foresayde Orenges but make them seeth foure times as muche And note that the honye is alwayes good but you must oftentimes put in freshe because it consumeth Finally you shall dresse them with spices as the Orenges but putte not manye cloues to them for they will make them to bytter To confyte Gourdes TAke the necke of the Gourde and cut it in longe pieces as you thinke good and powre vpon thē boiling water and do so .xi. morninges but you must haue pilled them finely and taken awaye the inner part that serueth for nothinge This doone seeth them in a kettle vntill they be neither to much nor to litle boyled but euen hole and massiue not broken than drie them vpon a table in the shadowe the space of two dayes and after wipe them cleane piece by piece with a linen cloth do with them as with the Orēges To confite cheries TAke cherries and leaue them a day in the sunne than take out the stones and sette theim in the sunne agayne thre dayes after this seeth theim as we haue sayde of the Orenges but you must leaue them in hony .xv. dayes and by the fyre .iii. dayes so that they may onely be kepte warme to thende they sauoure not of burninge or of the fire And after you haue well mixed and incorporated all you shall putte them in hony with spices Al these confitures may dure many yeares so that you refreshe them with other hony boyled a litle whan they be diminished †To make litle morsels as they vse in Naples an exquisite thinge for they be very sauorous do comforte the stomacke
couer and close vp sure with a lynen cloth and set it to the fier the space of two houres than take it awaye and when it is colde agayne putte it in another vessell and take the white of two egges new layed the same day and beate it well with a litle vergeous and so put it in the vessell with water and leaue all so together the space of .xx. dayes in the Sunne and you shall haue a perfite thing of it ☞ A water to make the skinne white and to take away the sunne burning TAke halfe a potfull of raine water and fill it vp with vergeous than seeth it vntill it bee halfe consumed and in the meane time that it yet boyleth fill it with the iuyce of Lemons When it hath sodden take it from the fier and putte to it the white of .iiii. egges newe layed and well beaten but the foresaied substaunces muste be colde before you put in the saied white of the egges and than is it made ☞ Another water to beautifie the face and to make it appeare of the age of fiftene yeres TAke quicke Brimstone an vnce white ensence of the best .ii. vnces of Myrre twoo vnces of fyne Ambergrise .vi. dragmes beate eche of these drooges by them selues and then mingle them altogether with a pounde of rose water This doen put them to distill and kepe it in a vessel close stopped And when you go to bedde washe your face therewith and leaue it so not wiping it and in the morning washe it againe with well water luke warme and by thys meane shall you mayntayne and keepe the skynne verie delycate fyne and smoth ☞ An easye water for Ladyes and gentil women TAke the whyte of eyghte newe layed egges and beate them vntill they bee conuerted into a cleare water then strayne them and take Alumen catinae or Dessquamatum Boras Campher Alumen zucharinum which is made with Alome relented Rose water and whites of egges into the facion of a Sugre lofe of eche of them an vnce of Vinagre eyght vnces water of beane blossoms twoo vnces Let all these saied thinges be finelye stamped and beaten in a morter and than put all together in a great violle of glasse the whiche beynge well couered you shall leaue in the sunne the space of fiftene dayes styrringe the sayde water twise or thrise a daye and so let it stande and rest This done put it in another violle and washe your selfe with it whan you wil leauinge it so a certaine space vpon your face and than rubbe it with a piece of scarlet The lady or gentlewoman that will vse often times to washe her face with this water yea were she of yeares thre score she shall appeare to be of the age of xv yeare ☞ To make a goodly lustre or beautiflynge of the face good for ladies and dames TAke a greate Lemmon and make a hole in the toppe of him thorough the which hole you shall take out of the substaunce within the bignesse of a Walnutte and fyll it agayne with Sugre Candye with foure or fiue goldfoyle leaues and couer it agayne with the piece that you toke of sowinge it with a needle so that it may remaine fast on Than set the sayde lemon to roste vpon the coales righte vp and after as it shall beginne to roste or boyle tourne it often vntill it hath sweat a good space than take it of And whan you will vse of it putte one of your fingers into the hole that was sowed vp and rubbe youre face with it with some fine linnen clothe and it will proue an exquisite thinge To take out spottes lentilles or pimpels of the face TAke the meale or flowre of a kind of pulse corne called Lupinum which groweth in Italy and Fraunce but here vnneth knowen the freshe and recente gall of a goate the iuyce of a lemon Alome sucharine incorporate well all together in maner of an oynctmente and rubbe at night the place with it where the spottes or burgeons be and you shalbe incontinent cured of them This is well experimented and proued ☞ A very good way how to geue a lustre or shew to all distilled water TAke litle greene pine Apples well mondified cut them in litle rounde and flatte pieces whiche you shall stiepe three dayes in cowe milke chaunging the milke once a day but it were better in goates milk at the ende of thre dayes distille them with these poulders folowing Poulder of glasse foure vnces pieces of redde corall two vnces Suger Candy four vnces roch Alome .i. vnce quicke siluer mortified with spittle an vnce and a halfe .xij. new laide egges broken with their shelles and all Turpentine washed in ix waters four vnces Snailes such as carry no shelles on their backes and if you can not get such take those that cary shelles All these thinges well stamped eche one by him selfe mingle them together and than make in the Limbeck a rowe or bedde of them than a bedde of the poulders and one of Turpentine and so another of the snayles and thus one vpon another vntill the Limbecke be ful than cast vpon it a glassefull of good white wine and make vnto it a temperat fyre Thus shall you haue such a water as you wuld desyre the which you shal kepe in a flagon of glasse for it is very good to make white and to beautifie the flesh and to take away the wrinckles of the face A thinge proued To make a water of whyte Melons that maketh a fair skinne TAke white Melons well made cleane of theyr pilles and cut them in pieces a fyngar thick leauing all the middes alone than take these thinges folowinge Succharyne Alome four vnces quicke syluer broken or mortified an vnce Roch Alom burned an vnce Turpentine washed a pound .xij. new layde Egges stamped with shelles and all white Snailes cut in pieces as many as you will Suger iiii vnces with a glassefull of goates milke and one of white wine than fyll the Limbecke with the saied thinges layeng rancke vpon ranck as we haue said of the other water before Giue it than a litle fire and kepe the water in a viole whiche will be excellente to washe youre faâ—e with After this maner is made y e water of Auguria of the blossomes of beanes of mallowes and of the blossomes of Tansey or wild vine other such like things To make a very good water of Gourdes as well garden Gourdes as wilde TAke Gourdes and plucke of their vtter pille or barke cut them into little round wheeles than put to them sixe vnces of succarine Alome an vnce of Alom sciffilae or plumae the value of a peny of Myrrhe halfe a pounde of Turpentine wasshed foure newe laide egges stamped and well beaten together sixe Lemons cut in trenches Snailes as many as you will a glasse of white wine Beate into poulder that whiche ought to be beaten and mixe well all together makinge the first ranke of Suger the
seconde of poulder and the thirde of Snayles than put the wine the Lemons and the egges vpon all the reste and so distill it with a small fire and the water that commeth of it must be kept .viii. or .xv. dayes in the sunne in a viol A man may make the lyke also of Gourdes that growe nigh vnto the sea ☞ An oyntment for the face whiche beinge kepte on or vsed continually the space of eighte dayes altereth the skinne and reneweth it finely TAke four newe laide egges and lay them eyghte dayes together in stronge Vinaigre so that they become tender and soft that you may take of the shelles After this take oute the yelkes finelye that you breake them not and put them in an earthen dishe leaded This done take the value of a peny of white Turpentine well wasshed the value of a halfe peny of sugre Candy and twise as muche of the paste of Borar Campher Verdegrise Roche Alome of eche of them sixe deniers All these thinges well beaten to poulder take .ii. quarters of quick siluer mortified w t spettle or the iuyce of lemons oyle of wine leese called Tartarum .iiii. vnces a white onyon which you shall boyle in white wine straine thorowe a strainer and mingle al this with the yelkes of the egges incorporatinge and beatinge all well together with the iuyce of two lemmons And at night whan you goe to bed laye the sayde composition vpon your face necke and breaste lettinge it so drye of it selfe Nowe you must styrre it well at euery time you will occupie it and you maye not take it to sone from your face for than you shall marre the skinne but you must let it lie on the space of eight dayes And although you would thinke the sayed composition burned or flawed of the skinne of your face you may not for all that take it of but let it worke his operation and at thende of eight dayes take it of in this maner folowing Take wheate bran mallowes leaues of Marche violettes Beane poddes crommes of breade and a good quantitie of rawe honny and boyle al these thinges together vntill it be all softe than powre it in to some potte and let it coole vntill suche tyme as you maye endure the smoke therof holdinge youre face ouer the potte Also couer well your heade your breaste and other places where you haue laide the saide past and holde your face so ouer the smoke of the pot vntil the sweate drop down by al your face And whaÌ„ you perceiue your self to swet take a litle of the said water put crommes of bread in to it and whan you haue well swete take of the breade crommes rubbe with them al about wher the composition is laide for there the skin wil be very tender and therfore must you rubbe hard vntil your face be cleane of the said past or composition than immediatly washe your face with cleane water and wipe it drie again After this you must take some distilled water wherein is no stronge substaunce and bath your face with all fiue or six times If in case there remaine behind anye of the saied past in any place of your body rubbe it well with the said crommes of bread or some linen cloth wete or dieped in such distilled water and you shall incontinent see that that skinne which was rough thicke and rude shalbe chaunged and altered into a fine faire and delycate skynne But beware that in eyght daies after you go not abroade in the open aire or to nygh the fyre lest the new fyne tender and delycate skynne shoulde be burned or take anye hurte This is a goodly secrete ☞ For him that hath naturally a redde face TAke foure vnces of the kernelles of peches twoo vnces of gourdes seedes and make therof an oyle wherwith you shall anoynt his face morning and euening and this will kil and destroy the rednesse A thing founde trew by experience ☞ To make aqua argentata or siluered water which maketh a white ruddie and glistring face and is made like a water and not like an oyntment that the dames of Italy for the most part do vse althoughe that fewe men make it as it ought to bee made TAke .iiii. vnces of Sublimatum and break it in sonder in a morter styrringe it alwaies with one hande When it is broken ynough take .iiii. deniers of quicke siluer and put it in stronge white vinagre the space of viii daies than put it in another vessell with other vinagre and boyle it a litle This doen take the quicke syluer out of the vinagre and lay it in a dishe taking the crome of a lofe which you shall cromme with the sayed quicke siluer styrring wel altogether vntill the quicke siluer be faire and cleare than blow in it and the bread will flie away than shall you put this quicke siluer so purged with the sublimat in mixing and styrrynge it wel with one hand so it wil become white as snowe than take hote boylinge water and powre it into the saied morter which must also be hote and styrre it well and mixe all together and so let it stand and rest After this take diligently the water away which wil be very good for scabbes or skurfe powre to it other sethinge water wasâ—he it well as before foure or fiue tymes This dooen take .xii. or rv Perles and a Carlyn or twoo of golde broken in sonder or elles a lytle Campher a lytle Boras a lytle Talchum if you haue any All these thinges shall you breake and bruse in sunder with one hande in a morter and so leaue it fourtye daies in the Sunne sturring it euery daye with youre hande the space of halfe an houre After the saied fourtie daies take foure newe layed egges the whiche beinge a lytle heated by the fier you shall brake and hauyng taken the whites of them you shall put them into the saied morter mingling well all together and so shall you dooe this water folowing Take litle ripe Lemons and take of the outwarde yelowe pille than cut them in small pieces wyth .xii. newe layed egges beatynge the yelke the white and the shelles together than adding to it twoo vnces of Turpentyne you shal put al into a Limbecke making to it a litle fier wherof you shall haue about a glasful of water with the which water you shal temper your siluered water in the morter than kepe it in a violle close stopped in a cole place And so it will bee an excellent thinge and it were to geue a queene And when you wyll occupie of it lette your face fyrst bee cleane and than laie to the saied water as muche as you shall by youre discretion thynke sufficient lettinge it drie of it selfe ☞ To make an oyâ—tment for the face TAke three vnces of the fatte caule of a fatte lambe the whiche you shall put into freshe water chaunging it euery day fiftie times seuen or eyghte daies together
hour letting it after cole And if the fire haue ben great ynough the water will be yelowe and somwhat redde the whiche water you shall put into another lyke glasse great according to the quaÌ„titie of the said water putting to it half a pound of rosemary blossoms halfe a glassefull of Aqua vite setting al to distill agayne w t the limbeck and recipient as before you must put in the recipieÌ„t or at the beke of the limbeck some fine litle cloth wherin must be white Bengewin stamped betwene ij papers as wel as you can Whan this water shalbe distilled it will be very cleare fayre which you shal kepe in a viol wel stopped with waxe and cered cloth to the ende it take no vent and you may neither kepe it in the sunne nor in any hote place This will be a noble and precious water whiche hath not the like in the worlde for to make the skin fayre and to preserue it The maner how to vse it is this Fyrste you must washe youre face well with cleare water distilled and than rub well both face breast and other places of youre body where you list with a piece of scarlet weted in the sayd water and lie downe vpon your bedde holding a litle while the piece of wet scarlet vpon your face and thus maye you do euery .viii. or euery .xv. daies once or elles euery moneth or euery two moneths In the mean time you may vse some other water as the water of Beane blossomes of gourdes of melons of onyons of white flourdelice of the rote of the herbe called in latin Dracontium or more comonly Serpentaria in englishe dragons and of other like but you must take hede that you put in it no sublime nor Ceruse in any wise Thus shal you haue a water of a merueilous vertu to make your skinne and fleshe fayre and naturall and to conserue and keepe it longe yonge gaye freshe and nete ☞ A verye goodlie water to washe the face necke and the breast whereof a man maye make a greate quantitie for the more there is of it the better it is It maketh the skinne and fleshe of the face fayer not burtinge or destroyinge the teeth and shall seme that the face is nothinge at all holpen with any coloure but that it is euen so by nature TAke two fatte Pigcons two pounde of Veale seedes of Spurge pilled thre vnces of Pine apple kernelles sweete Almondes bytter Almondes the rootes of white and yelowe floure delice Beanes broken in pieces and moâ—dified the gall of an Oxe the roote of Dragons the roote of a litle yonge Ashe or romon Diptum a litle lemon the yelow pill taken away cut in pieces the cromme of a white lofe wet in milke gomme dragant stieped in wine gomme Armoniac slieped in Vinaigre and let there be of all these thinges a reasonable quantitie Than put therevnto flowres or blossoms of Ligustrum which is a tre hauing leaues like an oliue tre but they be broder and softer more grene of colour whiche doth beare white flowers and swete wherof is made an oyle called Oleum ciprinum And this free doth growe in watrie places as Willowes and salowes do and beareth a blacke fruite like vnto an elder free and distill all these with a small fyre hauing bound or tied a litle linen cloth with Musk and white Benge wyne at the becke of the Limbecke than kepe the water in a glasse well stopped for it will be very excellente to make a white and naturall skinne or fleshe without hurtinge the teeth or any other thinge ☞ To make a very excellente redde colour for the face whiche is naturall and continueth longe vpon the face makinge it alwayes gayer and fairer TAke the whites of .xxv. harde Egges and put a glassefull of the mylke of greene figges among them if you can get none of it take lytle figges that be not rype and cutte them in smal pieces whiche you shall mingle with the sayd egges and than distill them and the water that shall come thereof maketh of it selfe the flesshe white but if you will make it redde take for euery glassefull of the saied water two vnces of Alome Scissilae or plumae beaten in poulder half an vnce of the grayne called in latine Coccum wherwith scarlet is died and two vnces of the graynes that men vse to die Crâ—mson â—ilke with Let all this he putte in a viole well stopped that it take no vent then set the vyole in a kettle of bote water not boylinge hote by the space of eyghte dayes This done straine oute well the substaunce of the sayde coloures and take the water so coloured and died and putte to it as muche more of the same Alome and graynes as before and set it agayne altogether in hote water by the space of eyght dayes than strayne oute the water and adde to it the thyrde time some Alom and graines with a litle gomme Arabick that is to say for euery glassefull of water half an vnce of gomme setting it againe in hote water eyghte dayes as before and after you haue taken it oute strayne it and you shall haue the fairest redde that is possible to wishe for Than weate some lytle piece of Scarlate or Crymson sylke in it and rubbe youre face therewith so longe vntill the fleshe beginne to waxe somewhat chafed and the redde well perced thorowe You maye also adde to it what odoure or sauoure you will And if you will not set the violle in hote water as is aforesaied set it before a lytle fyre not sufferynge it to seeth and that for the space of a daye or moore than strayne it and you shall see all thinges come to passe as I haue saied ☞ Another kinde of redde verye good for the face easier to make and with lesse coste TAke twoo vnces of fisshe glewe verie cleare and stiepe it in white wine the space of fyue or syxe dayes vntill it bee very softe than take Brassell that is good and of a good colour well scraped or cut in small pieces than stiepe it in well water so that the water bee aboue it moore than a hande breadeth and a halfe this dooen boyle it together with a small fyre assaiyng euermore the colour vpon a paper vntyll it be to your fantasie And before you take it from the fyre put to it for euery glassefull of the saied colour an vnce of rawe roche Alome beaten in poulder and Gomme arabicke as muche as three or foure beanes Than take it frome the fyre and keepe it in a vâ—olle close stopped so shall you haue an erquisite thing Women of base degree are wont to seeth onely the Brasyll in wyne or water putting to it a litle roche Alome and Gomme letting it hoyle vntill the colour be to their mynde Other take redde Sandall or Saunders the whiche they put in wine or at the least in Aqua vite and not boyle it at all
but keepe it so the space of a night Than in tourninge the water they put moore Sandall to it and a lytle moore Alome accordynge as they lyke the coloure ☞ An excellent white aboue all other TAke brayed Talchum and burned tinne beaten in to poulder with a wodden pestell than washe them and mingle them together and put them in some maner of platter or other great and large vessell couered with suche another and so set it in a glassemakers fornayse the space of three or foure dayes And hauing taken it out it will bee as white as snowe Than braye it finely with the water of yonge fygges or with the milke of greene fygges or with distilled vynagre or some other suche sharpe and clammy thyng ☞ To make heare as yelow as golde TAke the ryne or the scrapynges of Rubarbe stiepe it in white wyne or in cleare lye and after you haue washed your head with it you shall weate your heares with a sponge or some other cloth and lette them drye by the fyre or in the Sunne After this weate them and drye them agayne for the oftener you dooe it the fairer they wyll bee without hurting your head anye thyng at all ☞ To make lye to washe the head whiche besyde that it comforth the braine and the memorie maketh the heare long faire and yelow like golde TAke lye that is not to strong but as women commōly make it to wassh their heades and make as muche of it in a kettle as wyll serue you ten washinges putting to it this folowing The pilles of ten Orenges or of sweete Lemons if you haue anye yf not take sowre ones the pilles of Cytrons as manye as you can gette bee they greene or drie it is all one the blossoms of Camomell Baye leaues a handfull of the herbe called Maiden heare halfe a handfull of Agrimoyne twoo or three handefulles of Barley strawe chopped in pieces halfe a dishefull of a kynde of pulse corne called in Latyne Lupinus and in Frenche Lupius hauing one stalke the leafe in fyue deuisions the cod creauesyd aboute hauynge in it fyue or syre graynes harde broade and redde they bee commonlye in Fraunce and in Italye but here in Englande vnneth knowen and therefore they haue no Englishe name they must bee dried a dishefull of Fennygreeke halfe a pounde of wine lies or twoo or three disshfulles of Brome blossomes whereof it is good alwayes to haue some drie in your house to make suche thinges withal Put all this that I haue named in a great vessell with the saied lie leauing it alwayes so to take thereof and occupie when you will And the lenger the saied lye shall be compounde with the foresaied thinges the better it will bee The saied composition will bee good for fyue or syxe monethes or moore and you maye renewe it at your pleasure But when you wyll put it in vse take it handsomely and cleanely vp without touching in any wise the saied drooges put in it and in heatinge it agayne you maye put in it a lytle Myrre and a lytle Synamom and thus shall you make it verye good as well for the health of the head and eyesyghte as for to beautifie and make the heare faire ☞ Lye to make heare blacke TAke Gomme lye and boyle it with a handfull of the leaues of Beete three or foure handfuls of Sage leaues eyther greene or drie and as muche Myrre as you wyll with Baye leaues and a fewe leaues or outwarde pille of a Walnut But when you wyll vse of those lyes that make yelowe or blacke rubbe not youre face or youre necke with it least they become blacke or yelowe although they dye not the skinne so soone as they dooe the heare And after hauing thus washed youre heare you muste washe your face with common lye or cleare water or elles with white wine ☞ An oyle for to annoynt the heare which maketh it yelowe lyke golde long and glystryng lyke burnyshed golde TAke a glassefull of the oyle of Sesamum whiche is a white graine growynge in India whereof oyle is made whiche is called oleum Sesaminum if you can get of it if not take oyle Olyue not greene but verye yelowe and cleare where vnto you shall put three vnces of drie brome blossomes well mundified from the verdure and greenesse that is in them and from the white that you shal find wythin than stampe them so grosely adding thervnto an vnce of the yelowe that is in the middle of white flowre delices and a quarter of an vnce of Curcuma and the sixte part of an vnce of Saffron w t a litle Synamom Bengewine Muske and Ciuet if you wyll All these thinges will giue a good sauour helpe the colour and comfort the head you must put all together into one vessell or violle wherein muste bee oyle which you shall kepe in the Sunne all the Sommer and so take of it at euery time a litle for your face and the older it waxeth the better it will bee Also you maye at the ende putte the oyle agayne vpon the saied drooges into the vessell for they will continue still good together manye yeres or elles you maye chaunge those substaunces accordynge as you see neede It shall bee also very good to anoynt with this oyle the kombe that women kembe them selues with in the Sunne or elles laye some linnen cloth hote vpon their head and let it so lye without putting any other thing to it This is a thing very rare and excellent for a queene for to dooe thus there can not bee founde a better ☞ A very goodly way or maner howe to make yelowe aberne heare without standinge long or nothing at all in the Sunne a rare and a verie excellent secrete TAke halfe a pounde of Antimonium halfe a pounde of wine leese nine vnces of salt Peter al these thinges beinge finely brayed and incorporated take an earthen pot or panne and put it in the middle of a fire that the fire maye be both aboue it and vnderneth it vntyll it be redde hote than caste in the sayde poulders by little and lyttle with a spone tarryinge a little space betwene euery sponefull castinge in vntill the fyrst be all burned and continue so castinge in one sponefull after another vntill all be in But this muste be doone in a chymney or in an open place because there wyll ryse suche aboundaunce of smoke that it is not possible for you to endure it than hauynge letten it coole breake the sayde panne and in the bottome you shall fynde as it were a maner of a thicke cake or browne lofe Than breake the sayde matter and substaunce in dyuers pieces vpon the grounde or in some cleane place and you shall fynde in the middle certayne little graynes like vnto fine siluer but they be brittle and easy to be broken And this is it that the searchers oute of the secretes of nature do call the kinge or chiefe of Antimonium
vpon the fyre some cleane pan with cleane water into the whiche beinge hote you shall put .v. vnces of Roche Alome beaten to poulder And as sone as you see it dissolue take a bagge like vnto the fyrste and whan the coloure is hote take it from the fyre and put into it Alome and caste all so together into the bagge settynge vnder it some vessell leaded and loke yf vnderneth the coloure come out redde than take hote water and poure it into the bagge with all the reste that was strained out of it into the saied vessell vnder the bagge and poure that so often whiche shall straine and renne out vnderneth vntill the licour that shall issue oute be no more redde but cleere as lye hauinge thus strained all the water the coloure will remaine in the bagge which you shal vndoe and seuer a sonder with a sclyse of wood putting it downe to the bottome of the bagge and bringe it al into a masse or lumpe or into little tablettes or into what fourme you will and than drie it vpon a newe cleane pauinge tyle in the shadow within your house or elles abroade where no sunne shineth And so shall you haue an excellent thinge of it To dye bones into a greene colour TAke a panne full of cleare water and put into it a good greate piece of quicke lyme leauinge it so the space of a daye The next daye morninge mingle it well together with a sticke and so let it reste and at none styrre it agayne and likewise at night The nexte morninge folowinge you shall straine it cleane oute and kepe it in the meane time haue the bones that you will die in a readinesse and boile them well in other common water wherein Roche Alome hath ben dissolued and whan it hath boyled a good space you shall take them out and let them drie than scrape them wel with a knife and put them into the sayde lime water and addinge to it some Verdegrise you shall let them seeth well and than take them out And after you haue wyped and dried them do with them what ye will for thei will be very fayre And in stede of the saied lyme water you may vse pisse whiche wyll be of the like operation Another maner howe to die bones or Iuorye into the coloure of an Emeraude TAke Aqua fortis separatiua and put therin to fret and dissolue as muche copper or brasse as the water is hable with her force to dissolue and leuse this doen put in what peece of woorke you will beynge fyrste cutte in the fourme that you will haue it as beftes for kniues penkniues ynckhornes images or anye other thinge to youre fantasie leaue them in it the space of a night and thei shall be of the colour of an Emerande Nowe if in steede of copper or brasse you didde put in Syluer it woulde be the better ☞ To die bones redde blewe or of anye coloure you wyll FIrste boyle your bones in Alome water than take quicke lyme water or pisse and in this water or pysse you shall put Brasyll Azur or an herbe called Rubâ—a which the Apoticaries call Rubramaior and Rubra tinctorum or Rubea tinctorum wherewith they coloure wolle or skinnes in Englishe Chickweede or what other colour you wyll and than seeth your bones or Iuozie therein and they wyll take suche coloure as you put in †A very goodlie secrete to dye or colour woode of what colour a man will which some Ioyners do vse that make tables and other thinges of diuers colours and do esteme it amonge them selues to be of suche excellencie that one brother will not teache it another TAke early in the morninge newe and freshe horse donge made that night and take of the moysteste ye can gette with the strawe or lytter and al and laye vpon some little stickes layde a crosse one ouerthwart another and set some vessell vnderneth for to receaue that shall droppe or fall from the sayde donge And yf you can not haue inough in one morninge doe the like two or three times or as ofte as you wyll than whan you haue wel dreamed out the water of this dong you shall put into euery pot of the sayed water the bignesse of a beane of Roche Alome and as much gomme Arabick Than stiepe what colour you will in it vsing dyuers vessels if you will haue diuers colours and put in what pieces of wood you will holdinge them at the fyre or in the Sunne and at eche tyme plucke out some pieces and laye them apart leauinge the other in for the lenger ye let them lie in the water the more wyll the colour alter And in this manner you shall haue a greate quantitie of diuers colours the one cleerer the other darker and maye vse it to youre commoditie so what vse you list for they shall be coloured both within and withoute so that they will neuer lose theyr colour neither by water or any other thinge ☞ To counterfeyte the blacke woode called Hebenus or Hebenum and to make it as fayre as the naturall Hebene which groweth no where but in India ALl kynde of woode that is lyke vnto this Hebene may be dyed black but the hardest and the massiuest as boxe and other lyke are meetest for it and will be bryghter and aboue all the wood of a Mulbery tree as well the white as the blacke is the beste to be couloured albeit the blacke be muche more for the purpose Take than the saied wood and let it lye the space of three dayes in Alome water either in the Sunne or a pretye waye of frome the fyre vntill the water waxe somewhat warme than take oyle Oliue or Oyle of lyne seede and put it in a little panne wherein is the bygnesse of a nutte of Romaine Vitriole and as much Brymstone This doen seeth your woode in the sayde Oile a certaine space and so shal you haue a thinge very darke of colour And the lenger you let it boile the blacker it will waxe but to much boylinge burneth it and maketh it bryttle therfore both in thone and other you must be circumspecte and vse discretion To die skynnes blewe or of the colour of Asure HAuinge fyrst well washed the skinne and than wronge him take the berries of walwort and elder berries and seeth them in water wherein Roche Alome was dissolued passe him once thorowe this water let him drie than passe him again thorow the same water and being wiped and dried againe wash him with cleere water than scrape out that water with the back of a knife once again passe it ouer w t the same colour and let it dry so shal it be of a very blew or Asur colour To die skinnes in chickweede called in latin Rubra maiore or Rubra tinctorum into a redde colour HAuing anoincted washed wronge layd abroad the skin as is aforesaied wete it with water that white wine lees and baye salt hath ben
boiled in and than wring him Take than creuises or crabbe shelles be they of the sea or of the riuer burned into ashes the whiche you shall temper with the said water of the lees and salt and rubbe well the skinne therwith than washe him well with cleere water and wringe hym This done take ruddle tempered in water of lees and rubbe the skinne well ouer and ouer with it and than with the foresayde ashes wasshinge and wringinge it thre times Finallye after you haue wasshed him and wronge him if you thinke it be not well ynoughe you shall geue him one dienge with Brasyll The paste or masse of Rubra tinctorum must be made with water that lees or tartre hath bene boiled in and the sayed water must be luke warme whan you make the paste of ruddle than leaue it so the space of a night After this put vpon the sayd Rubra tinctorum a lyttle Alome dragges or lees or Alome catinum stieped in water You maye also adde to it the colour of the shearing of scarlet whiche hath bene taken oute boylinge in lye whiche is a goodly secrete To die skinnes Greene. ANnoint the skinne and wash him well with cold water and than in hote water and so wipe drie him This doen take of the graines wherw t men the sappe the decoction wherof shall be put in thende of this boke with them of all other necessary thinges and the sayde graynes or berries muste be verye rype than put them in cleare water couered a fingar heigth put therein also Roche Alome and geue theim onelye one wawlme on the fyre This doen strayne them out into some vessell than take the skinne and folde him in the middle rubbinge him well on both sydes with the said sodden graines or berries whiche remaine in the pan and after with rawe Alome poulder This doen take the ashes of shepes donge burned and wete it with the saied coloure that you strained into the sayde vessell and rubbe the skinne wel on euery side than cleere him againe of the saied graines and washe him with cleere water and set him to drie withoute wipinge him Fynally cast on him two glassefulles of the sayde coloure and it will be a perfecte greene Another waye to dye skinnes greene LEtte the skinne be annoincted well wasshed wronge and stretched oute as before than take of the same graines and berries ye toke before which you shall stampe and seeth in Roche Alome water and geue the skynne twoo wypes ouer with this coloure and so let it dry After this you shal geue him one dying or colouringe of yellowe made with the graynes or berries of Nerprum sodden in water and Alome and a lyttle Saffron and you shall haue an excellent greene †To die the sayde skinnes greene another waye TAke the skinne being annoincted wasshed and spredde abroade dye and coloure him with the coloure made of sap greene and put to it a few asshes wette in water and so rubbe the skinne all about And whan you haue washed and wyped hym againe geue him one wype ouer with and Indian coloure sodden in Roche Alome And whan it is drye lay on it of the foresayde yellow and you shall haue a fayre and liuely greene ☞ Another waye to dye skinnes of Asure coloure and fayre TAke the skinnes of blacke grapes and rubbe well your leather with all vntill it waxe somewhat blewe and alsoo rubbe it well with the poulder of Indicum then washe it drye and polyshe it Than stiepe the Indicum in thicke redde wyne and whan the skynne is washed annoinct him with it and you shall haue a fayre skinne asured blewe ¶ Another maner to dye skinnes Greene. TAke rype elder berries and the berries of walwort and of sappe greene and this well stamped you shall put to it Roche Alome as muche as you shall thinke good but rather to muche than to little than take the lye and put into it the saied berries of sappe greene and seeth them one waulme This doen put in the berries of the walwort or elder and make them seeth also one waulme than take them from the fyre and let them coole and after rubbe the skinnes with theim Finallye ye shall cast vpon them the ashes of sheepes donge rubbinge them well with it After this geue theim the couloured water that the saied graines or berries were sodden in than take of the water with a curryers knyfe and let them drye And yf you nede to geue theim more coloure than you maye put in more Indicum boyled and it wyll be the better ☞ To die neates leather into a greene colour as well in galle as in leaues POlyshe well the leather with a pommeyse stone annointe it well with oyle and washe it than take an vnce or two of galles stamped and put it in hote water leauing it so an hour than straine it thorow a linen cloth and put the leather into the same water rubbinge it well with your handes and leaue it so the space of an houre and hauinge taken it out wring it and stretch it abroad tight it Than take the graines or berries of Nerprum gathered in Iuly whan thei be yet greene drie them and stampe them well adding therto for euery skinne two vnces of Roche Alom beaten in poulder and mingled with the poulder of y ◠saied berries or graines Than powre vpon the sayd poulder boylinge water and let it coole this doen poure of the sayd water with the said graines vpon the skinne rubbinge it well ouer with the palme of youre hande than stiep the ashes of goates donge in the water of the said graines and with the same water rubbe likewise the skin well with youre hande after this washe him and scrape out the water with a tanners paring knife than tight him out and take other ripe gaines of sap grene and set them to seeth hole in water with Roch Alom and afterwarde let them coole Than take of the sayde sodden berries or graines and rub the skin with theim with your handes and put of the ashes vpon it which you shall stiep in the same greene water that the sayed berries were sodden in Finallye you shall wasshe the skin and take out the water with a scraping knife thā you shall geue it a course ouer of the saied grene water with a brush or clout meet for such a purpose And than lay him to drie and trim him and you shall haue a fair grene If you will haue the coloure darcker or sadder whan you set the said graines to seeth with the Alom you shall put to it a little Indicum well brayed And you must note that the water must be hote whan you stiepe the ashes in it with the water of the graines of Nerprū ¶ To die skines greene with the flowres of Ireos TAke the fresshe flowres of Raphanitis or Ireos and stampe them well than take the drie graines or berries of Nerprum and with them stampe roche Alome a
reasonable quantitie whereof a greate deale can do no hurte put to it a little raine water and mingle all this with the foresayd flowres stamped Kepe this colour in some clene vessel and than take the skinnes being annointed and washed as is aforsaid and put to them the graines of sap grene with the ponlder in the same maner that we haue spoken of the other washe them and scrape of the water with a knife and so let them drye and geue them one wipe ouer finely with the sayed colour that you kept let them drie again then dresse them according to the science and you shal haue fair leather †To die bones in a turkishe or redde colour ALl kinde of bones may well be died and coloured but hartes horne is farre better then anye other Take than what bone you will shape him into what forme you please and pullish him and then boyle him in Roche Alome water a good while letting him afterward drie than take good grene and stiep it in goates pisse and put it in some copper or brasen vessell well couered and hide it vnder a dongehil the space of .xv. or xx dayes and then shall you finde it verye fayre You may make the like also with the brine of a man in stede of the goates pysse And for to make it redde put in Cinabrium or Brasyll in steade of greene but than you must put it in some vessell of wood or glasse and not of copper nor brasse To die hogges brystels and other things for to make rubbers and brusshes FIrste wash well the brystels thē take water wherin Roche Alom hath ben boyled and put the sayd bristels therin and let them lye vntill they take a coloure somewhat yellow than take Chickeweede well stamped and put it in Vyneaygre Afterwarde sette a kettle with cleere water on the fyre wherinto you shal caste the saied Chickeweede with the Vyneaygre and all and whan it beginneth to boyle cast in the brystels and let them seeth but a very lyttle whyle than take of the kettle from the fyre and let it coole and so shall you haue your bristels of an excellent good colour ☞ To dye the saied bristels yellowe greene or blewe or any other colour FIrste you must wasshe them and let theym boyle in Alome water as the other before than take Ligustrum and saffron if you will haue them yellowe Indicum or the iuyce of elder berries or walwort or els of the flowers of Ireos if you will haue them blew If you wil haue them greene take paynters greene and dresse them as is aboue saied assayinge sometime if the coloure please you And by this meanes you maye dye theim what colour you liste ☞ To make a purple whiche is a coloure wherewith men vse to make a coloure lyke golde for to paynte and wryte with MElt a pounde of fine tinne and melted as it is take it from the fire and put into it viij or ten vnces of quicke Siluer mingle well all together vntil it be like as it were dow than take a pounde of Brimstone and a pounde of Armoniacke salte well brayed Incorporate all this with the sayde dowe of the Tinne and Quicke Syluer and braye them well together in a morter or other vessell of wood or stone and not of Brasse Than put al this composition into some violl which muste be well luted or clayed about the mouth or so emplaistred that the clayinge or lutinge be higher than the violle a finger height or twayne Than afterwarde set it so vpon the fourneis makinge to it a slowe fyre at the first and after a little bygger and so you shal maynteyne it styrringe at tymes with a little sticke that whiche is in the glasse And whan you see that it wil make a yellow colour take it from the fyre and let it coole and so shall you haue a very fayre purple coloure lyke the colour of golde Afterwarde braye it with lie and washe it with pisse or lie addinge to it a little Saffron and stiepe it with gommed water as you shall see hereafter moore playnely ☞ To make Lacca of Brasyll TAke twoo pailes full of stronge lie and put in it a pounde of the shearing of sine scarlette and let it boyle vntill the saied shearinge be all together dissolued and consumed into water than after poure it into some vessell of wood or stone and caste into it by little and little a pounde of Roch Alom minglinge it well with a sclyser of wood and poure also to it by little and little two payles full of colde water And after put it in a straininge bagge and lette it dreane and trickle out then put that remayneth in the bagge into some vessell of glasse This doen you shall set on the fyre a pounde of Verzine or Brasill cutte in pieces into a payle full of lye and let it seeth vntill it be diminished the thicknes of a finger than straine it in another bagge and let the water that commeth oute be set againe on the fyre with an vnce of gomme Arabick made in poulder and let it seeth vntyll it be diminished halfe a singer then powre it vpon the sayed composition that you did put into the vessel of glasse minglinge well all together with a wodden sclyser than put it in a bagge and strame it well The dowe of Verzine wil remayne in the bagge whereof you may make rounde apples or balles and drye them in the shadowe and it will be parfite ☞ To make white tables to wryte in with the poynt of a wyre suche as come out of Germany TAke plaister called Gipsum cribled and sifted and stiepe it and temper it with hartes glue or other and geue your parchment leafe one touch with it and whan it is dry scrape it that it may be euen and bryght and couer it ouer againe with the sayed plaister called Gypsum and scrape it as before than take Ceruse well brayed and sifted and stiepe it with the Oyle of line seed sodden Annoint your tables with this mixtion and let it drye in the shadowe the space of fiue or sixe dayes This doen take a cloute or linnen cloth wete in water wherewith you shall flicke and make smoeth the saied tables but the cloth muste fyrste be wronge hard and the water pressed oute then leaue it so the space of .xv. or .xx. dayes vntill it be thorowe drye than applie it to your vse ☞ To make roset or ruddle TAke an vnce of Brasill broken small a quarter of an vnce of Ceruse and a quarter of an vnce of Roche Alome mixe all these thinges well together and stampe them well than poure pysse vpon them vntil they be al couered with it leauinge it so the space of iii. dayes and mixing it iii. or iiii times a day Afterward straine it thorowe a linnen cloth and put it in a pan not leaded or in a morter of white stone and let it drie in a place where
there commeth neyther Sunne nor day lyght than scrape the saied roset and kepe it and whan you will write withall stiepe it in gommed water ☞ To gylt ouer parchement leather or other such work which men vse in steade of hanginges or tapistry TAke thre pounde of the Oyle of lyne Vernix Pixgraeca of eche a pound halfe an vnce of Saffron poulder Boyle all this in a panne leaded so muche and soo longe that puttinge into it a hennes feather and taking it by and by out agayne it seeme as it were burned Than take it from the fyre and take a pound of Aloe epaticum of the best well made in poulder and caste it in by little and little styrringe it incontinent well together with a stronge sticke for otherwise it woulde swell and ryse vp a lofte And yf in case for al the styrringe it rise vp take it of the fyre and let it stande a while and than set it en the fyre agayne makinge it boyle a new styrring it alwayes diligently And whan all is well incorporated together take it froÌ„ the fyre and let it rest a while than straine it thorowe a linnen cloth into some other vessell wherein you will kepe it and it is made Nowe if in steade of Saffron ye did put to it of the yellowe seed which is in the flowres of Lillies you shall make it muche better and fairer Whan you will gylte the parchemente you shall geue it a grounde or situation with the white of an Egge or Gomme wherevpon you shall laye siluer or tinne leaues but it shall not be so fayre with the leaues of tinne as with syluer Than lay the sayde Vernix hote vpon the parchement or leather siluered and you shall see immediately a coloure of golde very fayre Lette it drye wel in the Sunne and print it than paynt it with what colour you wyll ☞ To dye Crimson sylke FIrste cutte in sâ—nder or scrape harde Sope small and melte it in common water than take your sylke in a lynnen bagge or of fyne canuesse and thynne and put it into a kettle with the sayde water Sope. Let it bosle halfe an howre slyrringe it that it cleaue not to the kettle then take it out and washe it in salt water and after in fresh water Take also for euery pounde of Silke a pounde or more of Roche Alome alayde in colde water and see there be water ynough into the whiche you shall put the sayde sylke withoute any bagge and without settinge it on the fyre leauing it so the space of eyghte houres than take it oute and washe it in freshe water and after in salte water then agayne in freshe water and let it not drye but putte it wete as it is in a kettle with the Crimsen well stamped and systed that is to saye three vnces for euerye pounde of sylke If you will haue the sylke of a higher colour take foure vnces of it and boyle it in as muche water as will couer the sylke and that the water be aboue it foure or fiue fyngers high and for eche pounde of the sayde Crimsen you shall putte in three vnces of small galles of Istria well beaten into poulder or in stede of them you may put in halfe an vnce of Arsenick Cristaline for euery pounde whiche wyl make the colour fayrer but it is daungerous because of the smoke and all incenueniences that maye happen where suche water maye fall And whan it beginneth to boyle put into it your Sylke prepared and ordered as is aforesayed and let it boyle a quarter of an houre Finallye take it of and lette it drye in the shadowe and you shal haue an excellent thinge To prepare and trymme Brasyll for to make of it four diuers colours PVt Brasyll in as muche cleare water as ye will and seeth it vntill it be diminished of the thyrde parte or at the leaste vntyll the colour please you that is to saye that it be very redde then deuide this colour into iiii partes and if of one of the partes you will make roset put nothing to it for the colour will be suche of it selfe If you will make the other part blewe put to a lyttle Lime water and you shall haue very fayre blew mary the Brasyll muste be luke warme If you will make it Violet put lye to it but if tawny you shall putte to it Alumen fecis ☞ To make roset of Brasyll another waye TAke a potte of water and put in it the byggenesse of a Walnutte of vnsleaked Lyme leauinge it so the space of a nighte then take as muche Brasyll brused and broken as will fyll the vessell that you wyll boyle it in halfe full than poure into it the sayed water with the Lyme wel strained and lette it so stiepe in the sayed water the space of foure howres makinge it afterwarde boyle vntyl it be come to halfe than howe downe faire and softly the vessell that you boiled it in and drawe oute the coloure into some other cleane vessell puttynge to it the quantite of a Cyche Pease of Roche Alome well brayed and putte it in whan it is verye hote than shall you haue a goodly thinge to do withall what you will If you wyll wryte with it adde to it a little Comme water If you wyll make it Blewe putte to it three vnces of Lye more or lesse into a vessell and you shall haue a very sayre blewe ☞ To make beyonde sea Asure without Lapis Laâ—uli TAke an vnce of Siluer calcined or burned with Aqua fortis and an vnce and a halfe of salt Armoniack mixe all well together with vynayger and lette it clarifie a lyttle If the Vynayger be more than the sayd thinges take away that is to much and put the rest in a vessell well leaded and well stopte that the substaunce haue no vente oute leauinge it so xxv dayes and at the ende you shall finde verye fayre Asure ☞ To make a grene colour to write or paynt with TAke Verdegrise Litarge Quicke Syluer and braye all this together with the pisse of a younge chylde and than write or painte with it and you shall see an excellent colour as it were an Emeraulde ☞ To braye fyne golde wherewith a man maye write or paynt with a pensyll TAke golde leaues beaten and foure droppes of hony mixe it wel together and put it in a glasse And whan you wyll occupie it stiepe and temper it in Gommed water and it will be good ☞ The same another waye TAke as muche as you will of the leaues of golde or syluer beaten and laye it abroade in a large cuppe or glasse as euen as you can and wette it with cleare water than braye it with your fingar wetinge sometyme your fyngar but spreade it not to muche abroade in brayinge it and continue thus doynge vntill it be well broken puttinge vnto it alwayes water And whan you thinke it is broken and brayed ynoughe fill the cuppe with cleane freshe
haue their shelles harde and that the Almondes be within them And if in case you can gette but the saied stones without theyr kurnels it shall be good ynough but yet not so good as with the kurnels Take then all the said thinges together or those that you can get and burne them vpon the coales and whan they be very redde and ensâ—amed take them out and thus beinge redacte and made into verye blacke coales kepe theim in a panne Take likewise Rosin of a Pine tree and putte it in a panne and make it flame and burne than take another little scillette or elles a lyttle bagge holden open with little stickes layde a crosse ouer it or otherwise as you shall thinke good and hold the mouth of the bagge downewarde ouer the flambe so that the smoke of the saied Rosin maye gather together and sticke rounde aboute the saied panne or bagge and whan al the Rosin to burned and all colde againe cause all the sayd smoke to fall vpon a paper or table or some other thinge and kepe it but if you will not take the paines to make this smoke bye it of them that make printers incke Of this blacke or smoke you shall take one part or what quantitie you will of the coales of the saied stones another part of Vitriole one parte of fried galles as is aforesaied two partes of Gomme Arabicke foure partes Let all these thinges be well stamped sifted and myngled together and then kepe well this poulder in a linnen bagge or of leather for the older it is the better it will be Whan you will occupie it for to make yâ—â—ke thereof take a little of it and temper it with wine water or Vynaigre the whiche beyng put into it warme the yncke shall be the better neuerthelesse beinge put in colde it maketh no great matter and you shall haue immediately very good incke whiche you maye carrye where you will without spillinge or sheadinge If you haue naughty inck put to it a little of the sayd poulder and it will becomme immediately very good black and haue a good glosse †To make a great deale of yncke quickly and with litle coste TAke of the blacke that Curriers or tanners doo black their skins with for you may haue much for moneye than take of a fyshe called a Cuttle whiche costeth almoost nothinge and chieflye in places nighe to the sea side and in eating the saied fishe at diuerse times you maye keepe the galles together Than myngle the saied galles with the Tanners colour and withoute anye other thinge you shall haue a perfit Incke To make it yet better you maye putte to it of the saied poulder made of the coales of Vitriole of Galles and of gomme and the sayd Incke shalbe very good to print in copper putting to it a little vernix a little oyle of line so that it may be liquide and flitting of it selfe for to pearce the better into all manner of engrauinges and that it maye abide well vpon the paper without renninge abroade †To make Printers Incke PRinters Incke is made onelye with the smoke of Rosine as is abouesaid and is tempered with moist Vernish you muste seeth it a little to make it liquide or thicke as you shall neede But in Winter moister then in Somer and alwaies the thicker maketh the letter fayrer blacker clearer and brighter But in what maner so euer it be it muste be euer well mixed with the smoke And to make it liquide as is saied you must put to it more oyle of line or of Walnuttes to the bernyshe If you wyll make it thicker put lesse Oyle and more smoke lettinge it seeth more If you wyll Printe redde in steade of the saied smoke mingle Vermillion well brayed with the sayed Vernishe If you will Printe greene put in green Bice If you wyll make it Blew as men haue done somtime heretofore take Azure of Almaine or of that of glasse whiche is nowe made at Venise doing in all poyntes as we haue spoken of the blacke incke ☞ To make yncke so white that although a man write with it vpon white paper it may easelye and perfytlye be redde A very goodly thinge TAke the shelles of newe layed egges verye white and wel washed then bray them well vpon a cleane marble stone with cleare water Put them in a cleane dysh vntill the poulder descende to the bottome after dreane oute the water lightlie and lette the poulder drie of it selfe or in the sunne and so shall you haue an excellente white that neyther Ceruse nor any other white in the world may be compared vnto it if you dresse and kepe it cleane And whan you will occupie it take gomme Armoniac well washed and mollified of that yellowe skynne that is about it then stiepe It the space of a night in distilled Vynagre and in the morninge you shall finde it dissolued and the Vynagre shall become whiter than milke the whiche you shall strayne thorowe a cleane lynnen cloth and with a little of this white licour you shal temper the saied poulder and than wryte or paynt with it and you shall haue a whyte excellente aboue all other sortes A noble woman of Italye vsed no other thynge to blaunche her face and kepte her self very white with al and yet it appeared not that she vsed any such thing Also the sayd poulder hurteth nothinge at all the face nor the skinne nor yet the teeth as the sublime the Ceruse and other like thinges do whiche gentylwemen ofte vse to theyr great detriment and hurte But if you will vse the saied white made of egge shelles vpon your face you must braye and consume it very fyne and that it haue almoste no palpable substaunce and that it may be penetratiue and pearsinge to thintent it maye continue In the whiche thinge euery man may proue and assaye what his witte is able to do But aboue all thinges whan you will vse it for the face it is necessary that you put to it the thyrd part of calcined and burned Talchum as we will shewe you in the booke folowinge ☞ To make a poulder to take of blottes of yncke fallen vpon the paper or elles the letters and wrytinge from the paper whiche is a rare secrete but yet profytable TAke Ceruse well brayed and make thereof a dowe with the milke of a figge tree then let it drie afterwarde braye it agayne and drye it as before and so seuen tymes then keepe it so in poulder And whan you wil vse it to take out blottes or letters out of paper take a lyttle linnen cloth wette in water pressinge and wringinge the water oute then spreade it abroade vpon the place where you woulde haue it and leaue it therevpon vntill the paper and the incke be moyste with all than take awaye the wette cloth and vpon the blotte or letters that you will haue taken awaye put a little of the said poulder of Ceruse leauinge it so the
whan they wyll sell it or sende it out of the countrey they take the sayed paste or dowe with the stones and all with a fyre panne or some like thing and fyll barelles and tonnes of it This is the same that commeth vnto vs whiche we call dowe or paste of Borax It is sent also from the countreye where Borax is made or little stones of the sayed paste so renewed and fined as I will shewe you About thyrty yeare ago they sent muche more of this Borax fyned and renewed than they did of the paste because that in Italye they coulde not dresse nor make it nor bringe it into little stones wherefore it was not put in vre but of certayne wemen in distillations for to paint them selues with Since there hath ben one in Venise that began to dresse it and after him a woman whom he had taught These two gat a greate somme of money and the sayd secrete was longe betwene them two onely althoughe it was desyred of euery man longe before Finally it is nowe come so farre forwarde that many men in Venyse can dresse it but one maketh it farre better then another and peraduenture very fewe haue the perfection of dressynge it with suche adnauniage that he loose nothinge of the substaunce and to make as muche of it as is possible perfectly as I will shewe you hereafter folowing Now you muste take fyrst of the sayd paste that is not mouldy vinewed or putrified for than it is a sign that it shoulde be olde and of many yeares and thereby the little stones shoulde be diminished loste or decayed Yet neuerthelesse this is of no great importaunce for it is better to assay with your finger within the past to se yf it be full of the sayed pebbles for the worlde beynge all together geuen to gayne and full of deception and fraude they that make it put sometime very fewe pebbles in the saied grease for to haue more substaunce and besyde this they that bye it to sell agayne take out also a good quantitie of the saied pebbles wherefore it is necessary to be circumspecte to the intente that diligence maye surmounte or at the leaste discouer the gile and deceate Fynallye if you will fine and renewe the sayed Borax from suche paste or dowe do thus Take water luke warme that is to saye for twoo pounde of paste halfe a payle full whiche you shall put into some earthen vessell puttinge the paste into it than with youre hande fraye and styrre it in sonder as you wolde temper leauen for to kneade after this strayne out the saied water well thoroughe a straynoure and take the little stones that remaine in the saied vessell that is to say those that be of the bignesse of a Walnut or beane and put them in a vessell sprinklinge them with Oyle Olyue as thoughe it were a salade but the Oyle must be white and if you haue none good take common oyle and set it in the sunne purginge it well and annointe the saied stones with it minglinge them well together with your hande Afterward put them in a litle bagge and mixe them well together againe as men do confitures this doen putte theim in little boxes and keepe theim and thus shall you haue the best Borax that can be possible If you will renew and multiplie it do thus Take the same water that was strayned out and put it in a kettle vpon a small fyre keepinge the fyre alwayes in one estate than scymme it with an yron ladle and put also with the scumme the ordure and filth that shal be in the bottome but take good heede that in seething it flie not awaye Continue thus dooinge vntyll it be well sodden whiche is knowen thus put a little vpon your nayle and if it renne not it is ynough sodden or els you may proue it vpon a paper as men do Syrops and if it byde still it is sodden or wette a stringe in the sayed water and holde it betwixte youre fingers than plucke it oute by the ende and if you feele it roughe it is sodden Then take the kettle from the fyre and couer it with some couer fytte for it that there fall no ordure or fylth in it this doen burie the kettle in wheate branne and close it well rounde aboute coueringe it with clothes or other thinges so that it be wel stopped You maye bury it or hyde it in a hote dungehyll and leaue it there the space of eight or ten dayes and afterwarde vncouer it and you shall finde cruste vpon it the whiche you shall take and put in on one syde and you shall finde in the sayed kettle as it were little pieces of yce whiche you shall take oute and put in another vessell wasshinge them with cole and freshe water than drye them vpon a table in the shadowe and lette those stones whiche at the firste time remayned in the straynoure be mingled with the saied pieces of yce Than take Alome de fece that is white foure pounde in thre payles full of water three vnces of Salte Peter than boyle this with a small fyre and scymme it as you dyd the other in prouinge it vpon your nayle or vpon paper if it bee sodden as before This doen take it from the fyre and let it rest and whan it is cleare take a litle payle full and a halfe of it and set it on the fyre in another cleane kettle And whan you see that it will boyle put in the sayed cruste and that it be of tenne pounde and make it seeth as the other did essayinge vpon your nayle or paper as you did before Than put it in a little virkin and lay two stickes a crosse with foure cordes wherevnto you shall tie a little leade to the intent they may stretche well and without touchinge the bottome by foure fingers and that to the ende the Borax maye sticke and cleaue to it and than burie it as before This must not be put int the bagge but anoint the same that you finde stickinge vpon the cordes with a feather and the other that remayneth stil in the vessel you shal sprinkle as it were a salade The clere that you shal take out of it must be of the biggenesse of a hasell nut or beane and the other will be lesse you shall put into the water that remaineth whiche water you shall set on the fire makinge it seeth and doinge as before and so continue vntill all the water be conuerted and tourned into Borax so that nothinge be loste And remember at the beginninge whan you dissolue in luke warme water as we haue sayed before to put to it the bignesse of a ciche pease of the ruen of a Hare for that will make all the other partes of the Borax to cleaue and take together ☞ A good and easye waye to make Aqua fortis better then any other TAke Roche Alome and Vitriole or salte peter or elles all three together
of the sayed fine earthes wel sifted thorough a fine sarce and whan you haue wel brayed it put it in a platter or great dishe to the intente that in handelinge it there go nothinge out and you shall moiste it little and little with the water called Magistra mixinge it well with your handes and rubbinge it so longe betweene your handes that wringinge it with your fiste it holde and cleaue together but you must note that I speake of moistinge it and not of thorowe wettinge it for it may not wete your hande in pressinge it nor cleaue vnto your hande like past but tha it onely holde together a little more or lesse then drye flower or meale and being so wronge in your hand it may breake in pieces whan you touche it with your fingar And hauinge thus brought it to a fourme lay it handsomely vpon the medals in the fourme or mould with thendes of your fingars and than with your hand wringe it and presse it harde downe not sparinge to presse it well in puttinge vpon it the other little table and pressing it down with your handes as hard as you can yea with all your might Than with a cutting yron with a right and euen edge and with a ruler made iuste and euen by line the saied fourmes with the earth cutting away handsomely the earth that passeth ouer the saied mouldes and so laye them vpon one of the pieces of wolle and then the litle flat table then you shal take with both your handes the two little tables aboue and beneth and holding theim fast together turne handsomly y â— mouldes vpside down and taking of the table you shal se vnder the medals in lyftinge it vp yf there be any earth entred in if ther be you muste take it awaye with the hares fote Then setting the other part of the fourme or mould in his place you shall fill it with the same earth pressinge it well as before and makinge it euen and equall with the yron Afterwarde with the poynt of the yron you shall lifte vp a little at one of the corners halfe the moulde or fourme and take it of fayer and softly with your hand and take out the medalles nimbly touchinge them a litle round about with the point of a small penne or quil if at the first they will not come oute turninge downeward that part of the mould wherin they did sticke whaÌ„ you opened it And if yet they will not come oute strike them a crosse with the point of a knife vntill that turninge downewarde the mouldes they come out And if in case they be not wel printed according to your mind you may put theim agayne into theyr place and presse theim againe and hauinge set on both sides the twoo pieces of wolle and the tables close theim in the presse Fynallye with the saied shaue or sharp yron make the sayed pypes or conduites holowe compassinge theim with your compasse and rule in suche sorte that they come iuste and equally than shall you trimme them so agaynste the fyre for to drye tourning theim sometime vntyll they be well dried Then with a matche or wyke tempered or wette in Oyle and Turpentyne and beinge set on fire smoke it and if there remain any superfluous thinge wipe it away with the hares foot Then ioyne them together agayne and hauing layde to them the wolle and tables wringe them a little in the presse and in the meane time hauing made ready and molten the metall yf it be syluer or white copper it is knowen by the shininge of it and clearnesse in the melting pot and if it be tinne by castinge into it a stone or some paper and that it burne it you shall cast it and the thinge shall go well withoute anye other helpe or ayde for to make it runne sauynge that after the tynne is molten put in a little that is to saye a twentith part of sublimataÌ„ in respecte of the whole quantitie and one â—â—ghte parte of Antimonium for besyde that these thinges make it runne well they harden it and make it sownde well Then the mouldes beynge colde take out handsomelye the medalles and whan you will caste other you muste parfume and smoke the mouldes agayn and then presse them and so cast your thinges as before and do it as often as you thinke good And if you see that the mouldes be not broken and that you will kepe them for another tyme you maye laye them in a drie place and they wyll kepe well Finallye the sayde earth taken oute of the mouldes brayed and sifted will be alwayes better to serue your tourne The medalles so caste are sodden againe afterwarde and waxe white so that they be not of Tynne Also you maye geue to all these medalles what colours you will as we wil declare more at large hereafter ☞ To make a white to blaunche and make white medalles or other thinges newlye molten and also for to renewe medalles of olde syluer TAke the medalles or other thinges newly founded or molten or elles the olde ones that you will renewe and laye theim vppon the coales tourninge theim often vntill they waxe of a graye coloure than rubbe them with a brush of copper wyer puttinge them afterwarde in this white coloure folowinge Take salte water of the sea or common water salted with a handfull of baye salte wherin you shal put the lees of white wine and Roche Alome rawe Boyle all this in a panne leaded and if the worke be of copper made white by anye sophistical substaunce you shall put to it these thinges folowinge that is to saye Syluer heaten or Siluerfoile the weight of a Spanish Reall Sal Armoniacke waying three times as much Salte Peter the weighte of flue Realles All the sayed thinges beynge put in some potte of earth with a couer hauinge aâ—â—ole in the middes set them in the middle of the fyre coueringe it with ashes and coales vp to the necke and leaue it there so vntill all the humoures be breathed out then let all coole againe and beate it into poulder very small This doen take an vnce of this substance or somewhat more or lesse and boile it in the saied white confection of the Salt water onelye halfe a quarter of an howre puttinge in the medalles or other workes Then poure out this water with the medalles into cleere and luke warme water and after rubbe the medalles with the Tartre or lees and other thinges that remayne in the potte and hauinge wasshed theim well with freshe water wype them drie ¶ To gylt yron with water TAke well riuer or conduite water and for thre pounde of the same take two of Roche Alome an vnce of Romaine Vitriolle the weight of a ponny of Verdegrese thre vnces of Sal gemma an vnce of Orpimente and let all botle together and whan you se it boyle put in lees called Tartre and bay salte of eche of them halfe an vnce and whan it hath sodden
if it be to thicke temper it with water But if you will make Rubies take Gomme Arabicke Alom succarine rawe Roche Alome as much of the one as of the other and let it boyle all together in common water than put into the sayd water some Brasill cutte small and let it seeth puttinge to it some Alome Catine so called because it is boyled in a caudron of the whiche the more there is the darcker it will be then take the droppe of Masticke abouesaid and colour it with the saied redde This doen take two pieces of Cristal dressed and trimmed with the whele of what fashion and greatnes you will so that the piece whiche you will laye vppermoste be not so greate as the other vnderneth that is to saye the one dressed vpon the other as the nayle vpon the finger iust on euery side After this lay that vnderneth vpon a little fire pan or some other instrumente of yron on the coales that the saied Cristall may be verye hote and than touche it vpon with the saied redde droppe or teare whiche you shall take vppon the ende of a sticke but it must be so hote that it may droppe downe the better and whan you see that the sayde piece of Cristall is coloured ynoughe you shall take the other lesser piece that muste be set aboue whiche lykewise must be hote and set it vpon the saied droppe and it wyll conglutinat◠and glew together the two pieces of Cristal without causinge any thicknesse or let vnto the lustre of the Rubie the whiche will be cleare and brighte on euerye syde Afterward set it in your ringe settinge to the Ruby the redde leafe and the grene to the Emerauldes as we will teach you hereafter how to make the said leaues for all kinde of stones as well fine as artificiall †To make a paste or dowe for precious stones as Emerauldes Rubies Saphyrs and such like which be but of one piece well coloured within and without TAke potters lead burned iii. vnces and put it in as much water as will couer it a finger or two highe then stirre it with your finger letting it go down to the bottome Afterward poure out the water whiche wyll serue for to wette within side the earthen pot leaded to thintent that the matter cleaue not to the sydes of it wherin you put all the substaunce Than take other .iij vnces of Vermillion dried and mingle it with the sayd leade then an vnce of Cristall calcined and burned or elles of a Calcidoine stone with .xiiij. or .xvj. carattes at the moost of Rubricke or sparkes of Copper All these thinges well stamped and mingled together you shall put in a pot of earth leaded well wette within with the said water of the lead then couer it and set it in a glasse makers furneis by the space of thre or foure dayes and you shall haue a very fayre paste or dowe the which you may cause to be dressed with the wheele as you wil. At Venise men bye the stone for a grote or sixe pence at the moost And for to make yellow stones you shal put to it the rust or rubbishe of yron And to make Rubies put to it Cynople or redde leade and in those that be of colours you shall folowe the order that we wyl teach you hereafter †To make Emerauldes and other stones or Iewelles TAke Sal alcali and dissolue it in water distillinge it thorough a felt and drye it then dissolue it agayne and drie it so three times afterward beat it into poulder then take fine Cristall and cause an Apoticarye to stampe and sift it for you as they do Cristall prepared Then take two vnces and a halfe of the saied Cristal of Sal alcali two vnces Spanish grene an vnce fyrste tempered and stieped in Vinaygre and than strained The sayd thre poulders you shal put in a vessell as in a newe earthen pot leaded the whiche pot you shall lute and clay ouer and couer it that it take no vent then leaue it so clayed and luted the space of three dayes the longar the better vntill all be thorowe drye Afterwarde you shall putte it in a potters furneis the space of .xxiiij. houres Then take the sayde composition and dresse it as men do fyne stones and you shall haue them excellent And if you wyll haue Rubies put Cinople to it in steade of Spanishe greene If you wyll haue Saphirs put to it Lapis Lasuli But if you wil haue Iacinthes you muste put in Corall in steade of greene Verderame as is before sayed †To calcine or burne Crystall and the calcidoyne stone to put in the saied mixtions of precious stones TAke Tartre calcined and burned an vnce and dissolue it in a dishe full of cleare water then strayne it out and take the pieces of Cristall or Calcidoin stone and heate them vpon the fyre in an yron ladle or fyre panne than quenche them in the water that is in the dyshe take theim oute and heate theim agayne and quenche theim as before in the same water doinge so syxe or seuen tymes and they shall be verye well calcined and burned Then beat them fynely into poulder and put it into the sayd mixtion Neuertheles remēber that if you wil make Emerauldes you must beat y e said substaunces to poulder in a brafen morter but if you will make Rubies or other you muste stampe theim in an yron morter and beware that they touche not the brasse ☞ A water to harden the saied stones BEcause that all the saied artificiall stones are commonlye bryttle for to harden them do as foloweth Take little pieces of Calamita and calcine them as you didde the Cristall then beate them into poulder and putte it in a moyste place vntill it be turned and dissolued into water with y e whiche you shal knede Vitriole Almaine or Romayne raw without making it redde then make thereof a softe paste or dow or elles a syroppe whiche you shall still in a glasse or Viol with a croked necke or in an vrinal and with the water that commeth of it you shall knede barly flower makinge a harde past in the whiche you shall wrappe your masse of stones made as is before said or the stones self whan they be dressed and fashioned with the whele then put them so wrapped in the same paste into an ouen with a bache of breade and take them out with the breade And whan you haue taken of the paste you shall finde your stones harde as if they were naturall If you se it be neede you may couer theim with the sayd paste and bake them againe in the ouen and than shall you haue them parfite and harde ☞ To calcine fyne syluer SEinge that we are entered into the matter of calcininge we will shewe you the calcination of fine syluer and than of Talcum as we haue promised before There be diuers wayes of calcininge syluer wherof we wil put here three of the
heale all maner of inflammation and euill disposition of the liuer and by this secrete been healed certaine persones whiche had their faces as it were Leprie greate swollen legges their handes inflamed and rough within side Idem To heale the Emeraudes or Piles in a nighte a rare secrete and very excellent Folio 9. A singuler oinctmente whiche healeth all burnynges with fire not leauyng cicatrice or skarre where it was Idem A parfite and proued remedie for theim that bee weake of stomacke and can not keepe their meate without vomityng it vp again Idem An excellente remedie wherewith a woman of thirtie and sixe yeres was healed that had so marred her stomacke that in the space of twoo yeres and an halfe she was neuer naturally purged dounewarde and as sone as she had eaten any thing she vomited it vp againe so that she became yellowe and as drie as a sticke Folio 10. Three remedies verie good against the wormes in little children Idem The seconde remedie Idem To thirde remedie Idem To heale children of the Lunatike disease whiche happeneth vnto theim by reason of a worme with twoo heddes that breadeth in their bodies the whiche worme comyng vnto the hart causeth them to haue soche a passion that often times it killeth the. Fo. 11. A remedie for the fallyng sicknes Idem To make oile of Brimstone to heale all maner of Cankers diseases or sores whiche come of a putrified humoure and renne continually commonly called Fistules and also to heale inueterate and olde woundes Idem To take awaie the venime or poison from a wounde made by some poisoned weapon or arrowe Idem Against the bityng of all venemous beastes Idem To drawe an arrowe heade or any other Iron out of a wounde Folio 12. Against a vehement cogh of young children Idem For hym that hath a bunche or knobbe in his heade or that hath his heade swollen with a fall Idem A good remedie for one that is deaffe Idem To heale a woman that hath the Matrice out of her naturall place Folio 13. To make a womaÌ„s Milke to come and encrease Idem A verie good Secrete for the Gommes or Burgeons that remaine of the greate Pockes as well olde as newe Idem An other remedy for the same burgeons of pockes IdeÌ„ A verie easie and parfite remedie for hym that hath any blowe with a Sworde Staffe or stone or other like thyng yea though he were greuously wounded IdeÌ„ A water to heale all maner of woundes in shorte space whiche is a thyng that euery manne ought alwaies to haue in his house for the accidentes and chaunces that maie fall seeyng it is easie to bee made and with little coste and that it is of so merueilous an operation Idem To make oile of Saincte Ihons worte whiche is called in Venise and diuerse other places redde oile and is of soche vertue that a manne can skante expresse it as well to heale woundes as other infinite diseases whereof we will shewe the moste notable and those that we haue founde true by experience Fol. 15. To make oile of a redde Dogge by the meane whereof beside other infinite vertues that it hath I healed a Frier of Saincte Onofres who had by the space of twelue yeres a lame and drie arme withered like a sticke so that nature gaue it no moare nourishemente Folio 17. To make an oinctment the most excellent in the world whose vertues are infinite as we will declare afterwarde whiche princes oughte to commaunde to be made and kepte in their common wealthes and that it shoulde be made in the presence of Phisitions as Triakle is made or at the least euery man oughte to haue it in his house and specially because a man may make a great quantitie of it and the lengar it is kept the better it waxeth Fol. 19. A very true and proued remedye agaynste a quartayne ague Fol. 20. To heale wartes a secrete very excellent and easy to be dooen proued and experimented vppon dyuers personnes Fo. 21 A very profitable and easye remedye to be made against pluresies whiche in two dayes healed a Smith that was almost dead and had not slept in .ii. nightes IdeÌ„ Another secrete or remedy againste the sayd disease of the pluresie Idem Another goodly secret against the same disease Fol. 22. Another against the same disease Idem To make a water good for the brest or stomacke of the whiche men vse to geue them drinke that be tormented or grieued with the stitche in the side or pluretik apostumes the whiche water is of a meruelous good sauoure and mondifieth very well the breaste or stomacke Idem Agaynst all diseases of the mouth palate throte gummes and Iawes Fol. 23. For all woundes or sores of the legges be they recente or olde although the legges were coueerd ouer with them and eaten vnto the bone Idem To heale swollen knees or legges redde and full of humours a secrete meruelous good easye to be made and of litle charge and often times proued Idem A very sure and parfit remedie agaynste a Sciatica oftentimes proued and experimented in dyuers partes of the worlde Fol. 24 A water for to heale in v. dayes at the moost all maner of greate scabbes as well inwarde as outwarde and is a water cleare and white and of an odoriferous sauoure suche as a manne maye presente to a Quene Fol. 25. Against the disease or greâ—f of the flankes and the colick passion experimented and proued diuers times IdeÌ„ Another remedy agaynst the same Fol. 26. Another parfit remedye agaynste the same disease and to make a man pisse that hath ben three or four days without making water and that in the space of half an houre and will breake the stone in ten or twelue dayes Idem Another remedye agaynste the stone and payne of the reynes Idem The laste and moost excellent remedy of al agaynst the stone be it in the reynes or in the bladder of what qualitie or quantitie so euer it be Folio 27. For hym that spitteth bloude by hauing some veyne of his breast broken Idem Agaynst the greif in the lunges and spittinge of bloud a thinge experimented Fol. 28. Agaynst the payne of the flankes of the reynes and all other greifes Idem Against the stinkinge of the breath Idem Agaynst the bytinge of a madde dogge and the rage or maddenesse that foloweth the manne after he is bitten Idem To take awaye the dead fleshe that cometh or groweth in the nose Idem For one which with falling from some high place feareth to haue something broken in his body Idem A very good and easy remedye against the disease called the kinges euyll Idem Another remedy against the same disease Fol. 29. To knowe whether a woman shall euer conceiue or not Idem A very rare remedye for to take the kernelles oute of a mannes throte in fifty dayes at the furthest Idem An other remedie easier to be made Folio 29. A