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
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
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
space of fiftene daies Afterwarde let it bee distilled in Balâ—eo Marie the maner whereof is described in the first booke and the water that shall issue oute of it put in a violle well stopt in the Sunne the space of fiftene dayes and than shall you haue a water of greate excellencie ☞ The seconde odoriferous water TAke the leaues of Damaske roses the freshe leaues of Gylle flowres of eche of them a pounde the flowres of Rosemarye the flowres of Lauander the flowres of Iasemyn Maioram Sauourye Serpyne or Serpille called wilde Time or running Time which groweth on olde walles ouer welles and pondes and in some places it smelleth like time and in some places lyke to Sauourye it is called in Latyne Serpyllus or Serpillum in Frenche du Serpolet of these three vnces of drie Citron pilles an vnce After this Synamom Bengewine Storax calamita of eche of theÌ„ two dragmes Nutmegges Macaleb of eche of theym a dragme but you muste stampe well the herbes and bray the spyces wel then put all together in a earthen potte leaded and after it hath stande in the Sunne by the space of twoo daies distille it in Balneo Marle And to the water that issueth out putte a scrupule of fine Muske lettinge it stande afterwarde in a violle of glasse well stopped by the space of twentye or thyrtye dayes Then shall you haue a notable water The thyrde sweete water TAke sixe pounde of Damaske rose water a glasse full of Malmsey three pounde of Damaske rose leaues freshe and newe Lauander flowres the flowres of greene Spike of eche of them foure vnces the flowres of Cherfoyle or Cheruille flowres of Iasemine the flowres or blossomes of Olyue trees of eche of them a pounde and a halfe the drie flowres or blossomes of Orenge trees three vnces of the drye pilles of Cytrons foure dragmes cloues a dragme and a halfe Synamom Storax calamita Bengewyne of eche of them two scrupules Nutmegges a scrupule Let al the saied spices fyrst bee well beaten into poulder and then put all together into a violle well stopte by the space of ten daies than after lette all bee dystylled in Balneo marie And to the water that commeth oute adde Muske and Amber of eche of them a scrupule and a halfe You must kepe it in the Sunne and in some neate place ☞ The fourth sweete water TAke Cloues well beaten in poulder twoo dragmes the poulder of Sandalum citrinum and Macaleb of eche of theym a scrupule ten pounde of Damaske rose water the water of the herbe that the Italians call Soltanella fower pounde Lauander water a ponnde Let all this bee lefte together by the space of foure dayes and then put it in a Limbecke and distell it vnto this water that commeth of it lette these spyces folowing bee put well beaten to poulder that is to saye Cloues Synamom Bengewine Storax calamita of eche of them halfe a dragme and then again distill it in Balneo Marie Finallye you shall put to it Muske and Amber in all halfe a scrupule and let the water bee kept in a violle or other vessell of glasse well stopte ☞ The fyfte sweete water TAke fower pounde of Damaske rose water Lauender water Spike water of eche of them thre vnces the water of blossomes of Lymons or Orenges the water of the blossomes Myrtell of a tree blossomes of Iasemin of Maioram of eche of theym halfe a pounde Bengewyne Storax calamita of eche a dragme Muske halfe a scrupule Mengle well all together and keepe it in violles well stopte syxe dayes Then distille it in Balneo Marie and keepe the water in a vessell of glasse by the space of fiftene dayes in the Sunne and afterwarde reserue it for to serue youre tourne when you wyll occupie it ☞ The syxte odoriferous water TAke freshe flowres of Rosemarye twoo pounde Amber a scrupule three pounde of the flowres of Orenges Lemons and Citrons all confusely together whiche the Frenche men call can de naphe leaue all together in some vessell well stoppte tenne dayes Then the water being distilled in Balneo Marie lette it bee kepte in a violle of glasse verie close and stopped ☞ The seuenth sweete water TAke of the foresaied water of Naphe foure pouÌ„d Damaske rose water twoo pounde with halfe a scrupule of Amber All these thinges being wel mixed together and putte in a violle of glasse well stopte leaue theym in the Sunne by the space of a moneth and then keepe theym to occupie at youre pleasure ☞ The eyght odoriferous water TAke fowre pounde of Damaske rose water wyth sixe vnces of Lauender water the flowres of Iasemyn three pounde with half a scrupule of fyne Muske Keepe wel all this together in a vessell wel stopt by the space of tenne dayes and after distill it in Balneo Marie vntil al bee come out Then kepe it in a violle of glasse for youre vse when you shall occupie it and you shall finde it a merueylous water ☞ The nynth sweete water TAke the Pilles of Orenges and of greene Citrons of eche of them halfe an vnce Cloues a scrupule the flowres of Spike newelye gathered sixe vnces All these thinges muste bee mixte together as afore is said with sixe pounde of Damaske rose water and after they haue stande certaine daies in some couered vessell you muste styll theym in Balneo Marie And the water that shall come of it will bee very excellent ☞ The tenth odoriferous water TAke twoo pounde of the leaues of Damaske roses Macaleb halfe a dragme halfe a scrupule of good Amber and hauing first beaten that whiche is needefull sette all vpon hote ymbers twoo or three daies but before you distille it you muste let it steepe ten dayes in ten pounde of the water of Damaske roses and so than distill it in Balneo Marie The water of it muste afterwarde bee kept in the Sunne the space of fiftene daies ☞ Oyle of Orenges verie excellent TAke a pounde of swete Almondes well pilled the flowers of Limons or Orenges asmuche as you will the which you shall deuide into three equall partes After this you shall laye the thirde parte of the same flowers abroade vpon a very white linnen clothe in a sieue strowinge also abroade vpon those flowers halfe of the sayde Almondes the whiche you shall couer with another thirde parte of the sayde flowers And than the rest of the sayde Almondes the which you shall couer finally with the reste of your flowres so that the Almondes may euermore be in y e myddle of the flowres in the said sieue so leaue them together by the space of sixe dayes renewinge and chaunginge euery daye the flowres and than the Almondes This done you shall beate the Almondes in a morter and presse them in a fayre white lynnen cloth in a pressour vntyl there issue out a very cleare oyle whervnto you shall adde a lyttle Ciuet Muske and Bengewine Afterwarde leaue it in the sonne eight dayes
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
in this maner Take Cloues stamped and temper or lay theim in Rose water couer the vessell diligently leauyng them so vntil the water haue taken the vertue of the Cloues put also the Almondes in the said water and leaue them ther vntil they be swollen w t the water And after you haue taken them out and dried them in the Sunne lay them in the water againe to swell and afterwarde let theim drie well as before continuyng thus .v. or .vi. times Then put them in a presse and presse out the oyle whiche you shall kepe in a cleane vessell well stopped In this maner may you make oyle of Muske of Amber of Bengewin of Storax calimita of Aloe of Synamom of Mace and of Nutmegges You may make them also in diuers sortes and put to them Aqua vite ☞ To make an excellent parfume to parfume Chambers garmentes Coueâ—lettes Sheetes and al other thinges belonginge to any Prince TAke pilles of Citrons dried in the shadowe and if you can not get of Cytrons take of Lemons or OreÌ„ges or if you can get none of these take the leaues of Roses eyther greene or dryed accordinge to the season of the yeare and whatsoeuer is of al these thinges abouesaid you must occupy it whole or by small pieces and not in poulder And whan you will make the parfume take of the sayd pieces as much or as many as you wyll and annoyncte them well with Ciuette on euery side after laye them vpon some coles in the middes of the Chamber or some corner as you lyfte this will geue a verye pleasaunte and precious odoure thoroughoute all the Chamber If you will yet make it better you may put with the Ciuette Muske and Ambergrise as muche as you will and if you desire to make it with lesse coste and yet neuerthelesse very good take Rose water of the flowres of Orenges or suche other odoriferous and swete water with Oyle of Iasemin or of Cloues or suche lyke at your pleasure with the whiche you shall temper and stiepe Storax calamita and a little Lignum Aloes yf you haue anye if not you shall do well inough without it adde to it as much Ciuette as you will and make a licoure therof as thick as sauâ—ce wherewith you shall annoynte the Citron or Orenge pilles than laye theim so vpon the coles and it will be an excellente thinge and continue twise as longe as it woulde do if you burned the odours without the pilles and besides that it maketh the parfume to dure longer they make also the composition farre better and perfecter If with the sayde parfume you would parfume lynnen clothes Sheetes or other like thinges make it in this maner Put the lynen and thinges that you wyll haue parfumed in a cofer that hath no chinckes cliftes chappes crestes holes or is broken wherby the smoke may haue issue out You must range and laye your linnen and other thinges on eche syde of the cofer leauinge a place in the myddle to sette a lyttle panne or other vessell with fyre in it and the said pilles to parfume theym you maye also laye clothes vpon the lyâ—de of the cofer This done you must set in the middle the lyttle vessell with coales and aâ—so the pilles and hauinge shutte the cofer you muste let all the parfume burne out not openinge the cofer of longe tyme after And hauinge thus tarâ—ed open the cofer and tourne youre linnen and other thinges to the ende to parfume them on the other side that is not parfumed and put in newe parfume doinge as before you shall finde this of a greate excellencie so that the cofer it selfe shall be so well parfumed with it that all that you putte afterwarde in it shall sauoure of it And if you will you maye also parfume in the sayde cofer other lytle coffers for handkerchers and other thinges as lyttle cusshyâ—s and bagges of Roses whiche are parfumed also with oute syde beynge kepte in the cofers for they geue alwayes an odoure and sauoure to thinges that you put in them ☞ Rounde apples or balles to take ouâ— spottes of oyle 〈◊〉 grease TAke purgine Sope or soft Sope and incorporate it with the asshes of vines finelie sifted as much of the one as of the other than put amonge the saied â–ª poulder Roche Alome burned and the drye leese of â—yne well beaten into poulder incorporate well all together and make therof lyttle round Apples or balles whiche you maye vse to take oute spottes of any garmente ☞ To make a paste for sweete â—eades or Beadestones TAke a pounde and a halfe of blacke earth well beaten into poulder foure vnces of Gomme dragant and laye it a stiepe or temper it in a morter with as muche Rose water as wil couer the earth with the saied Gomme dragant and stampe it well by the space of halfe an houre with these sweete thinges folowinge That is to saye Storax calamita an vnce poulder of Cloues halfe an vnce Labdanum halfe an vnce Synamom halfe an vnce Sandalum Citrinum halfe an vnce beate all into poulder verye finelye and mixe all together with the foresaied paste than take it oute of the morter and braye it wel betwene your handes by the space of halfe an houre And than you maye make thereof Beades or Beadestones ☞ The ende of the seconde booke THE Secretes of the reuerende Master Alexis of Piemount THE THIRD BOKE A goodlie secrete for to condite or confyte Orenges Citrons and all other fruytes in syrop whiche is a notable thinge TAke Cytrons or other fruites and cut them in pieces as you wil taking out of them the iuyce or substaunce that is within them than boyle them in freshe water aboute halfe an houre vntil they be tender and as soft as you wuld haue them And whan you haue taken theÌ„ out cast them in cold water leuing them so vntil night After this you shall set them againe to the fire in other fresh water and do but onely heat it in that water with a small fyre for it must not seeth nor be to hote but let it onely simper a litle you shal continue thus .viij. daies together heatinge them euerye day in hote water and puttinge them agayne at nighte in colde water Some heat the water but once a day to thend not to make the citrons to tender but chaunge the fresh water at night to take out al the bitternes of the pilles the whiche beinge taken away you must take sugre or clarified hony and prepared as we wil declare afterward wherin you must put the citrons hauing first well dried them from the water In winter you must kepe them from y â— frost leauing them two or thre houres in a place mete for the purpose and in Somer you shal leaue them there all a night and a day and a night in honye Than boyle the hony or sugre againe by it self without the Orenges or Citrons by the space of halfe an houre or
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
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
put it in vre as we wil shewe you And after that you haue poured the Aqua vite out of all the saied glasses ye shall put in other freshe and set them well stopped in the Sonne and in the night in the aire as is afore saied Then put them all together with the other in the said vessell of glasse and put again in euery violle other Aqua vite and doe as before and thus must ye doe eight or tenne tymes or till you see that the Aqua vite will bee no more coloured or haue taken all the substaunce of the drooges that are in the violles A man can not chaunge the saied Aqua vite to often bicause ye must passe all the saied waters of life through a bath called Balneum Marie as wee will hereafter declare by the whiche ye maie passe as well a greate quantitie as a smalle and by this meane also ye shall lose no parte of the vertue or substaunce of the said thynges hauyng drawen and taken it all with the saied Aqua vite of the whiche ye must first haue made prouision of fower or fiue flagons Then ye must take all the saied Aqua vites beyng put into one vessell and mixte theim well together with the three first violles where the Suger the Manna and the Hōnie with the dewe is and then the violle with the Agarie and three vnces of the saied Aloes prepared and watred After this put all these thinges in a greate violle made of good and thicke glasse to thende it be not in daūger of breakyng in handelyng of it And to be more assured after ye haue well mixed all together ye maie deuide all the substaunces into diuers smalle glasses or violles to passe theim through the saied Balneum Marie at sondry times or at ones in diuers litle fourneises in this mananer You shall set and trimme the violles with strawe or Towe in the bottome of a panne or caudron wherein there must be water and set the saied caudron vpon a furnaise of yearth and this is called stillyng per Balneum Marie Then set vnto the violle his Limbecke with his recipient that the substaunce take no winde or vent then you muste make your fire so that the caudron maie seeth or boyle faire and softly and so shall you distille and make come into the recipient all the Aqua vite as clere as Cristalle the whiche bicause it hath been passed through by distillation diuers tymes will bee better for all thynges then the other and principally to be taken at the mouthe bicause it kepeth parte of the vertue and strengthe of the thynges that it was put into Also you must vnderstande that of the fiue partes onely of all the substaunce whiche shall be in the violle or violles three or fower partes must bee distilled and the rest to remaine in the bottome of the saied violles This doen let the ouen or foruaise and the caudron coole and in vndoyng the Limbecke and the recipient ye shall take awaie the violles kepyng well this distilled water for to serue you as wee haue afore saied and then put all the substaunce whiche remaineth in the said violles not distilled into some other greate and thick violle or glasse wel couered or bound in wicker or osiers stoppyng it well with waxe or bombase and aboue that with a double parechemente and locke it handsomely in some place farre from the Soonne and out of all heate This licoure hath not his like in vertue the whiche takē euery weke ones or twise the quātitie of a sponefull preserueth health driueth awaie all euill complexions from the body maintaineth and strengthneth so the naturall heate and radicall moistnesse and vpholdeth a man in his strengthe and vigoure of the heads and of the witte maketh the visage well coloured the breath swete the bodie yong and lustie that a mā is not able worthely to esteme or iudge the vertue thereof and lesse able to expresse and praise the greate goodnesse of God the creatoure that giueth soche vertue vnto thynges created and openeth the witte and vnderstandyng of man to knowe them and to vse them to the profite and commoditie of his creatures Now the maner how to vse it is this In the Spryng time ye maie take it alone or with a little broth of Veale Pigeons or Chickens or els in Maluoisie or some other good white wine In Sommer ye must take it with water of Buglose or the decoctiō of Borrage Buglose Lettese Succorie Endiue or els some of the said herbes and at all tymes it is good to take of it a sponefull putte into halfe a glasse ful of the milke of a woman new brought a bed of a man child or of a nurrice that giueth a man child sucke or els in Gotes milke And the quantitie oft vsing of it must be obserued accordyng to the persones tyme for vnto a weke and aged man and those that haue been lately sicke or weake of nature ye muste giue it oftener and a greater quātitie then vnto a yong and lustie man Also a man maie take of it oftener and more in Winter then in Sommer Now ye must vnderstande that all the flowers herbes and other thinges rehersed are not foūd together in one time and season wherefore the said licour can not be made at one tyme but beginnyng the firste or seconde weeke of Maie it shall be at the least the ende of September or October before ye can make an ende and therefore you must gather from tyme to tyme eche thing in his season as you maie get them and put them in some vessell euery one by them selues or with the other thynges that thei ought to be ioyned with after the maner aboue saied and vse to dresse and trimme the said thynges accordyng to the tyme that you maie get them in And yet if you can not furnishe your self with al soche thinges as I haue declared take those that you can gette prouided that the reste whiche you can not get bee not of to greate importaunce but it should be more expedient and sure to haue of all seyng there is nothyng of any greate coste or charge or to hard to be gotten Moreouer if you wil haue your matter in good perfection there resteth but to make a naturall dissolutiō of fine gold and when you will take of it take twoo partes of the said licoure one part of the dissolutiō of the gold whiche we will teache you to make hereafter although that in this presente booke wee will make no mention of the perfitest maner of making soche a dissolution whiche we haue gotten by great studie and obseruation and by often expertēce of the thyng that we will doe aswell for not being verie possible to shewe it by writyng without makyng demonstration thereof as for other causes but we wil put here some other maners and waies bothe good true and of soche importaunce that peraduenture better hath not vnto
common salte that is clene white and well beaten mixe well all together and let it seeth faire and softly vntill there remaine no more skum of the Honnie Then take that remaineth in the pot and distill it in a vrinall of glasse makyng but a smalle fire at the beginnyng encreasyng it by litle and litle and at the ende greate and sharpe and wheÌ„ all is cooled again open the violle and powre the water out of the recipient into an other violle stoppyng it sure for takyng vente This dooen ye muste breake the vrinall of glasse and take the lies that shall remain in the bottome and put it into a couered pot the whiche pot you muste couer ouer and ouer with claie or morter to the entente it maie the better endure the fire and after put it into some fournesse where glasse is made or into a potters fournesse or Lune kill or some other semblable thing so that it maie be in a greate fire by the space of twoo or three daies And after that the saied substaunce shall be taken out again stampe it well and for a pounde of the same put in fower vnces of Manna and twoo vnces of Suger candie and if there be more or lesse of the substaunce ye must put in a good proportioÌ„ of the Manna and Suger candie in equall quantitie with the substaunce Then put al into an other vrinall of good glasse well claied and powre vpon it the water whiche you kept before in the violle puttyng thereunto twise as moche fine Aqua vite as was in the saied first violle And hauyng trimmed and sette the vrinall of Glasse vpon the fournesse with his limbecke and his recipient and well closyng all the iointes with claie or morter ye shall make the matter distill faire and softly with a smalle fire for it will easely distill when it will distill no more augment your fire so that ye maie distille all that is possible But you must leaue the water with the violle vpon the fournesse without mouyng it any whit vntill you will put it in experience This doen take fine golde foile that is of xxiiij Carates well fined with Antimonium and take of the saied fotle what quantitie ye will in a cup of glasse in minglyng theim well with Honnie or with Iulep roset or Violet as men are wont to dresse it to write withall whereof we will put parfitely all the maners and fasious in the fift boke of this volume And after you haue well vnmixed and purged it from the saied Honnie with hotte water as shall bee saied in the same place you shall put them to stille in a violle of glasse and then hauing taken of the recipiente put the saied water into a long necked glasse well stopped with white waxe hauyng firste put vpon the said gold whiche is in the violle the height of fiue fingers of the saied water and then set to the limbeck with his recipieÌ„t stoppyng well with clate the iointes makyng the water whiche shall be vpoÌ„ the said gold to distill with a small fire not augmenting it at the ende to make all to distill and care not if the gold remain some what moist This doen take awaie the Limbeck froÌ„ the Violle without takyng awaie or vntiyng the recipiente from the said Limbeck not sturryng the water out of the recipient But take some man to helpe you who whiles you take the Limbeck of from the Vrinall shall powre vpon the saied gold the same water that you kept in the violle stopped with white waxe let hym put in as moche as at the firste tyme that is to saie the heighte of fiue fingers then immediatly set the Limbeck vpon the Vrinall again closing well with claie the iointes or sides a newe makyng the distillation as afore and so consequently vntill all the water of the saied violle bee distilled vpon the saied gold And finally ye shall powre the gold out of the violle into a glasse somewhat greate to holde the water that you haue distilled into it at diuers times as we haue said in the Chapiter before then set to the Limbeck with his recipient and see that by the space of .xv. or .xx. daies the water of the bathe be hotte without seethyng so that yet nothing maie distille Then after make the water to seeth and distille all that maie be distilled and in the bottome of the violle the golde will remaine dissolued into a licoure moste precious whiche you must keepe in some litle glasse well stopped And if you will haue it yet finer you maie make it without takyng it out of the said glasse in puttyng to it again the saied water and distillyng it a freshe not kepyng for all that the water from seethyng as you did before but make it seeth and distille all at ones and this distillyng maie you reiterate as ofteÌ„ as you will for the oftener it is distilled the better it is Thus doing ye shall haue a right naturall and perfite potable golde whereof somewhat taken alone euery monethe ones or twise or at the leaste with the saied licoure whereof wee haue spoken in the seconde Chapiter of this booke is verie excellente to preserue a mannes youth and health and to heale in fewe daies any disease rooted in a manne and thought incurable The saied gold will be also good and profitable for diuers other operations effectes as good wittes diligent searchers of the secretes of nature maie easely iudge In this same maner obseruyng all thynges diligently a man maie make of sâ—iluer beaten into foile to haue likewise a potable sâ—iluer of a meruellous vertue yet not soche as the golde And I assure you that I sawe aboue .v. yeres ago an Englishe man haue a water made of siluer paraduenture trimmed dressed after an other sort accordyng to diuers differeÌ„t waies teÌ„ding notwithstandyng all to one ende with the whiche water the saied Englishe man did many thinges estemed as miraculous in healing many painfull diseases and infirmities of maÌ„ ¶ To heale an excrescens or growyng vp of the fleshe within the yarde of a man albeit it were rooted in of a long tyme. TAke the lies of Honie distilled or if you caÌ„ not haue soche take Honie and burne it in a pot and put the blacke leefe that shal remain in the bottome into an other pot or into an iroÌ„ pan set it to burne or calcine in a vernishers fournesse or soche other in a great fire by the space of .iij. or .iiij. daies wherof ye shal haue a substaunce as yelowe as gold the whiche will be excellent to laie vpon all manner of woundes for it eateth awaie the euill fleshe mondifieth and healeth the good without pain or grief whiche maketh to be moche better for all woundes then is the Precipitatum that the Syrurgens comonly vse Take then of this pouder an vnce of Dogges turdes .ij. vnces leese of wine halfe a dragme whiche is the halfe of
wood very cleane and putte it so stamped in a violle or glasse and then powre to it as muche white wine as will couer it all ouer and adde to it of good oyle olyue aboute the height of two fyngers leauyng it so in the saide glasse wel stopped and after that ye must gather the said herbe with his blossomes vpon S. Ihons day in the mornyng after the sonne is rysen and puttyng the blossomes a part ye must stampe wel the herbe with the stalkes and after ye haue cut it very small take it out of the morter and stampe it in the same morter also a litle the floures or blossoms whiche you kepte a parte and mingle them with theyr herbe whiche was stamped before But the blossomes muste wey foure times or very nigh as muche as al the herbe that ye gathered in the moneth of Maye and before S. Ihons day and was putte in the saide violle or glasse with the wine and oyle olyue You muste after this mingle al these things together and put them in some violle or glasse or els in some pan of earth very cleane with the said wine and oyle olyue and put to it againe other wine and oyle vntil al bee couered as before and then set al this in the Sonne in some vessell well stopped And twelue or fiftene daies after when the seede of S. Ihons wort shalbe ripe you must gather of it in the morning after the Sonne is vp and stampe it well and so mingle it with the saide herbe and blossomes but you must put no wine to it sauynge onely the oyle oliue And the saied seede muste in quantitie wey as much as the fourth or thirde parte of the sayd herbe before the wyne bee putte to it also the oyle must bee of suche quantitie as maye be aboue all the substaunces a good handfull or twoo After this set a caudron of water on the fier with hey or strawe in the bottom and put the saied violle into it so that it bee not in daunger of breakyng when the water beginneth to seeth This maner of setting the violles or glasses in a caudron of boylyng water is called of our moderne Philisophers Balneum Marie and it is dressed and trimmed in thys sorte as well for to distill with a Lymbecke as for to make putrefaction euaporation or dissolution of the whiche thinges we wyll speake afterwarde when we comme to the matter of distyllyng Then muste you make the water in the saide caudron to seeth with the substaunce whiche is in it by the space of thre or foure houres according to the quantitie of the said substaunces vntyl the wine or at the least the most part of it be dronke and consumed which ye shal know in this maner Take a litle of the substaunce on the ende of a sticke and caste it in the fier and if it burne withoute anye noyse it is a signe that there is no moore wyne left The sayde violle muste bee vncouered whyle the water boyleth because the wyne maye euaporate and breathe out And if the sayde substaunce bee so great in the violle that it passe fyue or syxe pounde ye shal put to it these thinges folowing accordyng to the weyght and measure that we wyl shewe you and kepe alwais good proporcion accordinge to the quantitie of the weyghte of the water whiche shalbe moore or lesse then fyue pounde Fyrst take quicke brymstone or els when it is made into long canes or stickes half a poūd commune white salte eyght vnces of smallage a dishfull wel washed fyrst in water and then in honnye rosat or other honny so that it bee sodden and skymmed foure vnces ten vnces of Turpentyne washed once or twise in well ryuer or conduite water of the iuyce of Taxus barbatus of the iuyce of white or blacke Dictamum of eche of them foure vnces of Saffron thre vnces rootes of Dictamum rootes of Gentian the rootes of Imperatoria the rootes of the herbe called Crocodilium or Carlina the rootes of Valerian and the rootes of Selandyne of eche of them two vnces And if the sayd rootes be greene you muste stampe them wel if they bee drie ye must beate them into pouder an vnce of myrre two vnces of redde ware two vnces of fyne Triacle an vnce of the seedes of a Cedar tree thre vnces of yuy seede thorowe rype foure vnces of the seede of a Bay tree thorowe rype syxe vnces of aqua vitae an vnce of Synamom half an vnce of lignum Aloe Let all these be well stamped and put in a violle or vrinall with the saide herbe blossomes and oyle ye muste stoppe well the saide violle that the substaunce haue no maner vent or euaporation Then make a fier vnder the caudron so that the water maie be hotte without seething and keepe it so the space of two or thre dayes and the longer the better If in cace the fier go out in the night there is no greate daunger ye maie make it againe in the morning but you must kepe it so much the longer Hauing then taken the violle out of the caudron and left it in the Sonne all the rest of the Somer kepe it in your house well couered and the older suche oyle wareth the better it will bee But it shalbe good to put to it euerye yeare newe iuyce of the saide herbe S. Ihons wort and of the blossomes and seede well stamped and that the saide blossomes herbe or seedes bee sodden by the space of foure or sixe houres in oyle oliue and then muste you powre all the oyle with the substaunce into some vessell and presse well all the blossomes and the herbe and cast them away and put in other and yf ye shoulde dooe so euerie yeare the oyle woulde not be the worse but rather better If al these foresaid things can not be gotten in one season or time it is no matter for a man maye put them in as he findeth them and if ye can not get them all ye may put in theim that ye can finde or get The vertues of this excellent oile are infinite of the which we will speake onely of the chiefest those that haue been proued by experience as wel of vs as of other in our presence and by our appoyntment and orderinge First it hath as muche or more vertue then the true and right baulme and it is good for all colde griefes as well within as without the bodie for the Sciatica and colde goute in heating it and rubbing the place withal for a quartayne tertian or quotidian ague when a man anointeth the raines of the backe an houre before the ague come Also it healeth meruelous well Colicam passionem when a man rubbeth or anoynteth warmely his brest or stomacke withall and when it is put in glisters with other substaunces as we will declare in the chapter of the Colicke passion And if ye anoynt the place about the priuie membres of a man or woman it will 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
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
Ouen or otherwyse and than well stamped Butter Hogges suet Leuen cowe mylke and a lytle Saffron Make of all this an oyntmente and laye it vpon the sore puttynge fyrst a lytle Saffron in poulder vpon the very place where you wyll haue it breake and vpon that the playster leauinge it so vntyll nyght and chaunge it mornynge and euenyng so shall you make it soone rype and breake then dresse it with oyle roset and yelkes of egges one whole daye after that purge awaye the ordure and fylth with some drawynge oyntment Fynally you shall laye to it the oyntment of Aloe and Tutia or some consolidatiue or healyng oyntmentes ☞ To resolue a felon Cattes beare byle or botche at the beginninge TAke the rootes of wilde or marshe Mallowes called of the Apoticaries Bismalua or Maluauiscus mūdified and made cleane and cut in smale pieces well stamped in a morter of stone Than take some great potte or caudron that holdeth sixe or seuen great violles filled with water boile in it these things folowinge Lickerous Isope greene or drie Sage Rosemary Carduus benedictus figges drie Raisins Amylum of Barley or Barley flower of eche of these thynges at youre discretion and as muche of the one as of the other and adde to it more a handfull of Succorie wyth hys rootes lette all thys seeth in the sayde caudron or kettle the space of an houre or a houre and a halfe and then lette it coole againe so that you maye well endure your hande in it Than take oute all the said substaunces and putte them in a cleane canuesse and wring out all the substaunce into the saied water in the kettell put in it also two or three pounde of the said rootes of Maluauiscus stamped as before then set it to boyle and seeth againe three howres or more take it from the fier and doe as you did at the first time but if it had so muche sodden that all the rootes were broken and consumed it shoulde not neede to haue strayned or wronge theim thorowe a canuesse This doen take the decoction of it and set in a potte vpon the fier with as muche Honnie or litle lesse leauing it to boile so faire and softlye taking away the skomme that shall come of the Honnye After it hath thus boyled a good space adde to it an vnce or as muche as you wyll of Sinamon and a quarter of an vnce or more of Bengewine stamped a litle Muske then take it immediatly from the fier and couer it to the entent it take no vent specially if you haue putte in the muske whiche would elles vanishe awaye with the smoke wherefore you maye putte in the Muske when the water is luke warme after it is taken of So shall you haue an excellent conserue to vse and occupie all the winter as well at night as in the morning and at all times when you list but you muste at euerye time you take warme it againe and take thereof .ij. or .iij. sponefulles at a time And if you wil haue it thicker put to it pouder of suger or Penides if you wil haue it clearer ye must put to it a litle more of the firste decoction whiche we haue spoken of This secret is of suche excellencie that if a man vse of it in the winter as afore is saied it is not possible for him to bee vexed or turmented with the cogh rumes murres catarres or anye other like disease A goodlye and pleasaunt secrete to beale the cogh in rubbynge the soles of the feete and is a thing verye easye and certayne TAke two or three Garlike heades well mundified and made cleane stampe them well than put to them hogges suet and stampe them well a newe and at nighte when you gooe to bedde warme well the soles of youre feete and annoynt them well with the saied confection and then warme them again as hote as you maye endure rubbing them well a pretie space and being a bedde lette your feete bee bounde with some warme linnen clothe and rubbe also the small of your legges with the saied oyntment by thys meane you shall bee healed in three nightes were the cogh neuer so vehement If you wyll at youre meales vse of the saied decoction in youre wine or otherwise you shall finde your selfe wel at ease in your stomacke and head and shall the better driue away your cogh and all other euill dispositions of the bodie A verye goodly and easye remedie to heale in a daie or twaine all maner of inueterate and olde woundes wherein is growen dead and superfluous fleshe and woundes that can not bee cured by anye other medycynes TAke three vnces of Turpentine firste washed in commune water and then in Rose or Plantaine water and the yolke of an egge an vnce a glasse full of the saied wine but you must haue taken firste a Walnutte a Figge and twoo or three litle braunches of Rue If you dooe this in the morninge you shall bee assured for that daye An oyntment to make an apostume breake and the soore of the plage to fall of TAke a quarte and a halfe of common oyle and sette it on the fyre in some vessell then putte to it foure vnces of Ceruse or white leade well stamped litarge of siluer verie fine and thinne three vnces common Waxe four vnces and leaue it so long vpon the fyre vntill you maye spreade it with youre finger vpon a marble stone This doen take it from the fier and powre a litle vinagre vpon it but you muste holde it farre of to the intent it leape not in youre face than make of this oyntment a plaister as greate as all the soore and make a hole in the middes of it as bigge as a peny after this make a litle plaister of some oyntment that mortifieth of the bignes of y ◠said hole than make another plaister of the same bignes the which you shal laie vpon the soore so that the plaister with the mortifiyng oyntment bee betwene bothe and leaue it vpon the soore the space of .xxiiij. houres than chaunge onely the middle plaister that is to saie he that mortifieth and put another in his place the which you shal also let lie foure and twenty houres and before that the plaister bee laied rounde aboute and stretched annoynt the place verie thicke with freshe Hogges suet or Hennes grease to mollifie it and so you shall make it harde in the middle and rounde aboute you shall make a circle of tender fleshe in suche sorte that the soore wyll breake oute and come forth And the eyght and fourty houres once passed after you haue taken of the plaister lay vpon it another plaister made with freshe Hogges grease and immediatlye will fal of from it a dead fleshe in maner of a rounde pommell and there will remayne a hole the whiche you must heale with some oyntmente or elles with Diaculum magnum when the fleshe beginneth to growe laye to it
burned Alom by the space of foure and twenty houres and then the saied oyntment vpon it †Another remedy agaynst the plage TAke the toppe of Rue a garlyke heade or halfe a quarter of a Walnutte and a corne of salte eate this euery morninge continuing so a moneth together and be merry and iocunde This receipt is also good agaynst wormes †Another very good remedy against the plage TAke Aqua vite the water of wyld perceley called in Greke Mellissophyllon Melyphyllon and Melinon and in latin Apiastrum and Plantayne water of eche of them a pounde and whan you will vse of it whiche you ought to do daylye you shall take as muche of thone as of thother so that all together mount to the quantitie of two fingers hygh in a glasse than drinke it so shall you be preserued and saulfe from the plague This water is also good for fistules and woundes and is well tryed and experimented Another perfecte recept agaynst the plague TAke a violle or some other glasse and fyll it vnto the thyrde part full with fyne tryacle and one thyrdendeale or thyrde parte with Aqua vite and the other thyrde part with the vryne of a yonge man childe that is a vyrgyne and helthfull myxe all well together and giue the pacient drinke therof three morninges that is to saye euery morning a glassefull This hath ben proued in Venyse the yeare 1504. ¶ Another agaynst the plague AS sone as the person fealeth him selfe infected let hym take the best Triacle he canne finde and after hauinge swallowed downe a parte of it let him take of the same the bygnesse of a Chestnut and lay it vpon the sore that beginneth to rise rubbinge it well rounde about with the said Triakle Incontinent after this you muste take a Pygeon and cut him in the middes quick fethers and all lay him to the sore warme as he is and let him lie on it vntill that parte of the Pigeon be waxen and become grene and the Triacle redde then take it of and you shall see that out of the Pigeon will come a greene water whiche is all the venim that was in it Ye must afterward cure the place with this plaister folowinge Take two partes of freshe Barrowe grease and one parte of wormewood well stamped and laye it vpon the sore ☞ A thing oftentimes proued and experimented against the plague TAke Mastic two vnces Euphorbium an vnce Spicknarde .v. vnces beate this into poulder and geue it the patient to drinke If he be vnder .x. yeares of age geue him a scrupule of it If he be of yeares frome x. to .xx. halfe a dragme but if he be aboue .xx. yeares olde ye shall geue him a dragme than take the herbe called in Greke Pentaphilon in latine Quinquefolium and in Englishe Cinkfoile and wrappe it like a round apple in a piece of linnen cloth layenge it so vnder whote imbers by the space of fowre Miserere and after hauing taken it out againe cut it in three pieces in the myddle and laye it vpon the sore or griefe which you shal cause to cease immediately †A preseruatiue agaynste the plague oftentymes proued IN a daungerous time take .iij. little braunches of Rue a Walnutte and a figge eate all this and you shall be safe Another TAke the dunge or excremente of a yonge boye betwene ten and .xij. yeares of age and drie it and after beat it into poulder This done put of it at the most two sponefulles in a glasse of white wine and geue it the pacient to drinke at the leaste sixe houres after the greife taketh him and the sooner the better This hath ben founde true in many men †Another TAke the iuyce of a white Onyon Hony Vynaigre the iuyce of Rue and of Saint Iohns wort of eche of them a like quantitie mixe all together and geue the patient to drinke thereof two thirdendeales of a glassefull but let him haue it whote and before the sixt houre after the paine shall haue taken him This done make him sweate as much as he may in his bedde This hath ben founde of great perfection and experimented vpon diuers men †In a suspecte tyme of a plage TAke Pulliole or Peniroyall in latin Pulegium with Sugre roset and make an electuary the which you shall vse and eate in a suspect time of a plague at your breakefast the quantitie or bygnes of a Chestnut this haue men proued and founde good ☞ Another well tried and proued agaynste the pestilence TAke Walnuttes when they be grene tender and good to make 〈◊〉 or preserues put theim in Vynaigre 〈◊〉 of .viij. dayes than take them oute againe 〈…〉 theim in pieces puttynge theim so into a 〈…〉 Vinaigre and stille the water of 〈…〉 you shall geue the patient drinke euer 〈…〉 a glassefull and whan he hath dronke it let him sweate well in his bedde †A very perfyte secrete against the plague TAke an vnce of Aloe EpaticuÌ„ halfe an vnce of Myrrhe halfe an vnce of Saffron beate into poulder and sifte the Aloe and the Myrrhe together than beate the Saffron in poulder stiepe and soke it or washe it with white wyne very stronge so that it be like a sauce than put the other poulders to it and mixe well altogether yf nede be you maye put more wine to it so much that of all may be made as it were a lumpe and so pilles And if you wil make it very stronge for euery vnce put to it halfe an vnce of Diagridrum and halfe an vnce of Camphyre Maister Frauncesse Albert toke three eight partes of the sayde Pilles without Diagridium sokynge and steepinge them in good wine and gaue them to the patient as sone as he coulde and so made him sweate muche in his bedde for by sweatinge the venom dydde resolue †Another very good secrete TAke the flowers or blossomes of Walnuttes and drye them in the shadowe and whan the Nuttes be in season to confict you shall cut part of them into small pieces the whiche you shall put in stronge Vynaigre by the space of three dayes than take thâ—im oute and mengle them with the sayde flowers distilling them thorowe a Limbecke of glasse or of earth leaded within kepe this water diligentlye and whan anye man feeleth him selfe taken or infected with the plage geue him of it as sone as is possible two vnces and a halfe or thre vnces and you shall dryue awaye the disease by the course of the belly or by vomitynge or elles wyl make the sore or botch to come forth the whiche you shal make rype and breake as we haue afore declared ☞ To make a carbuncle and al other botches apostumes and plague soores to breake a present remedye and very easy to make TAke Baye Salte well beaten into poulder and sifted incorporate it with the yelke of â—an Egge and laye it vpon the carbuncle or sore and be assured that with the grace of God it
fayer and softely out Afterwarde drie it thorowly as men do white salt than kepe the same poulder and put thre vnces of it with a pounde of sugre roset and in the morninge take a good sponefull thereof vntill there be an vnce or more and do this from day to daye for it will kepe your body cleane and purged and he that can not do it with Sugre roset let him take the leese stamped and stiepe or wasshe it in the broth of fleshe or of colewortes sturringe it vntill al be leused and vndone that may be leused then let it stand a while and after powre softely the broth into a dishe cast awaye the substances that go to the bottome and drinke the broath do this euery daye at the houres of your meales or at the least euerie seconde daye or whan you shall thinke good It shalbe good also to eate in youre pottage thinges that purge the bloude as Buglasse Borrage Succorie Let tyse and suche lyke and aboue all not to kepe your stomack ouer charged nor to emptie and in the morninge betime to take some of the foresaied preseruatiues as the poulder that was experimented in England as we haue recited or suche other like Than .ii. or iii. houres before dyner to take some of the sayde other preseruatiues as the Rue with a figge and with the Walnutte whiche is a thinge very good or some of the sayd confections or a piece of the pille of a Cytron conficte or a sponefull of the iuyce of Citrons dressed as we wyll declare hereafter and to vse of it at meales in maner of a saulce and after meales to vse of the seede of Citrons confict in Sugre as they make the Coriander and Almondes whiche is a thinge verye good agaynst all maner of venim and poysen And lykewise at your meales to eate the white and the inne side of a Cytron with a litle sugre if you wyll and to eate it with flesh or bread as men eate lemons in the morninge at none and at night when you go to bedde It shuld be also very good to bath and washe youre handes youre temples youre poulses and poure nose with Vinaygre roset or with other wherevnto you muste put a lytle Campher rose water Lignum Aloes Xilobalsamum if you can gette it if not a lytle Sinamom in steede of it It is good alwaies to kepe suche maner of Vinaigre beside you in some viole for to vse of it whan time shall require for it is a very good preseruatiue and if you can not haue the Vinaygre compounde as is sayde vse Vynaygre of common wyne Also it shall be good to cary about you some parfume or good odour either in your gloues shurte handkercher cappe bearde or to hange it aboute your necke or otherwise Your house oughte to be kepte as cleane and as nete as is possible not sauoringe of pysse nor other ordure ye ought to kepe it shut washinge often the gutters and priuies Ye muste also kepe as fewe foule and stincking clothes in your house as is possible Riche men ought oftentimes to parfume theyr houses with some notable parfume wherof we will put in the booke folowing a good nombre Poore men may make prouision of leaues and of the woode of a Baye tree of Rose mary Ienepar Cypres and to vse it as often as they may burninge it in the myddes of theyr chamber or house and principally at night and in the morninge Likewise of Orenge and lemmon pilles or other swete smellinge thinges Storax calamita and Labdanum be good chepe and are very good for this purpose As concerninge the disposition of courage and minde ye must consider that sorowe sadnesse or melancolie corrupte the bloude and other humours weaken the hearte and depraue hurte nature therefore ought a man to auoide them as much as is possible Also if a man be to merrye oriocunde it dilateth and enlargeth the pores and passages of the seede of man and the harte so that he is the more enclined to receiue the euyll ayer and venim whiche are thinges ▪ that penetrate and pearce sore Also a man must beware of drinkinge to muche wine for it maketh merry and chereth a man out of measure Now because that in time of a pestilence euery man is afraid so that he thinketh that a man can not ketch the disease in being to merry onles it be so that he be dronke as is sayd but contrarye in beinge to sadde or sorowfull for sorow sadnesse come of them selues not sought after Therfore it is good to vse temperance and moderatiō walkinge and recreating him selfe honestly not vsing to muche carnall companie or copulation And aboue all a man muste haue alwayes a sure hope and confidence in God euer to hee readye and disposed to dye when it shall please him to call vs not estemynge so muche this mundaine life or fearinge so muche death whiche is none other thinge than an issue or departinge oute of this life full of calamities and an entring into an eternal life replenished with all ioye solace and pleasure ☞ To dresse and order the Iuyce of Cytrons for to vse of it as is afore sayde TAke the Iuyce of Citrons as muche as you wyl and put it in a panne leaded within in than adde to it twoo vnces of skimmed Honnye for euerye pounde of the saied Iuyce a lytle Sugre after your discretion a litle Synamom in poulder Let thys boyle a verie litle while together and than keepe it and take of it before youre meale and at youre meales in steede of sauce whiche is a verye good remedie as well for to preserue a man agaynst the infection of the ayre as to driue it awaye after he isfected with it It is also a very good medicine for to take as soone as a man doubteth to haue receyued some poyson into his bodie ¶ The ende of the fyrste booke take Muske Amber and Ciuet as muche as ye will in a vessell suche as parfumours vse and put to it iii. or iiii droppes of fayre water after this tempre it with a lyttle rose water vntyll it be lyke tender and softe past than set the vessell for to parfume and smoke vppon the fyre lyke as men parfume chambers and se that all the fume and smoke he receyued thorowe the sayd nuttes This done you shal take out of it the oyle which wil be very excellent as well to vse alone by it selfe as to parfume gloues and all other thynges ☞ To make an odoriferous and sweete water verye good TAke twelue pounde of Damaske rose water Lauander water Cloues Synamom of eche of them a dragme Mace great Cardamomum Muske Amber of eche of them halfe a scruple drie Pylles of Citrons Sandalum citrinum Ireos of eche of them halfe a dragme Bengewin Storax calamita of eche a scrupule and of all this make a composition the which you shall put in a vessell of glasse well stopped leauinge it so by the
saied vessell takinge heede also that it take no vent And after it is wel dried stampe it and sift it a newe agayne and then keepe it in some violle and if you wyll make it verie fine take an vnce of the saied poulder three graines of fyne Muske foure graines and a halfe of Bengewine twoo graines of Cyuet braye and incorporate all well together and keepe it ☞ A sweete and odoriferous poulder verie excellent to laye in chestes and cofers TAke the buddes of Roses as many as you wyll and drie them in the shadow than set theim abroade whan the sonne is most hotest in a clene vessell puttinge to theim suche a quantitie of Rose water as will beare them vp and sturrynge them well leaue them in the Sunne couered with a linnen cloth vntyll it be hote And whan they be drye haue dronke vp all the rose water take for euerye pounde of Roses ten graines of Muske and a quarter of fine violettes beaten smal into poulder in puttinge to them by litle and litle of the sayde poulder and mixinge well all together vntill they beginne to be incorporated but before you put in the saide poulder dreane and powre out the water of the sayd vessel that there remayne not a droppe in the bottome This done laye the sayd roses abroade in a basen of copper or of brasse whiche is better and let the sayde basin be plaine and euen not inbossed and set them in the Sunne when it shyneth most hotest coueringe them ouer so that neuerthelesse they may drie than make a poulder of them and kepe it And if you wil geue a swete odour or sauour vnto your garmentes take the said Roses so dried before you beat them in poulder and put thē in some lytle linen bagge very fine the whiche you may laye in youre coffers or where your apparell lyeth An odoriferous and swete poulder TAke the buddes of redde Roses and braie them in a morter as thoughe you woulde haue the iuyce out of them than set them in a hote Sunne sprin klinge them with Rose water and so water them and drie them againe oftentimes and than make of them a poulder the whiche you shal parfume with the poulder of Cypre as the other aforesayd and kepe it in a vyole Oyle of Bengewyne TAke Bengewine as much as you will and lay it vnder a dungehill in a violle or glasse well stopped so that it take no vente by the space of fiftene or twentye dayes Than strayne it and kepe it in a viole for it is a singuler and deintie oyle A very good and odoriferous poulder to carrye aboute a man or to lay in coffers TAke fourtene vnces of roses newly dried fine cloues twoo dragmes the seede of Spyke a dragme Storax halfe an vnce fine Synamom halfe a dragme Braye them and kepe them in a violle well stopped you maye also put to them if you wil two graynes of fyne Musk Ligni Aloes halfe a dragme Balles agaynst the pestilence or plage whiche also geue an adour vnto all thinges TAke Storax one part Ladani one parte cloues halfe a parte Campher at your discretion but lesse then of anye of the other substaunces of Spikenarde a good quantite and of Nutmegges also of all this make paste with Rose water in the whiche you shal tēper Gomme dragant and Gomme Arabike sturringe and brusyng them well Of this past you shall make balles to holde in your handes and to smell to A princely licour TAke Muske Ambergrise Ciuette of eche of theim foure graynes braye all together and incorporate it with a lytle oyle of swete Almondes and make therof a licoure whiche you shall kepe in a bessell of yuorye well stopped and vse of it as you vse Ciuet. Liquide and softe Sope of Naples TAke stronge lie with two partes of the asshes of the wood of the tree called in latine Cerrus which is a kind of tre like to a poplar hauing a streight longe stem bearinge a kinde of maste roughe withoute like a Chestin and one parte of quicke time and make it so stronge that it may beare a newe laide egge swimminge betwene two waters Take eighte potfulles of this lie very hote a potfull of deeres grease or suet well strained cleane mingle them and set theim on the fyre but see that they seeth not Put all in a greate vessell leaded within hauinge a large bottome leauinge it in Sommer in the Sunne and styrringe it foure or fyue times a daye with a sticke and note that you muste set it in the day time in the sunne and the night time in the ayre abroade so that it raine not continuinge thus the space of eight daies Let it ware as firme and as harde as you will so that it remain neuerthelesse in the forme of past and the older it is the better it wil be Than afterwarde take of this masse or past as much as you wil and put it in a vessell leaded styrringe it well with a sticke and adde to the same as muche fine Muskte Rose water as you will kepe it eyghte dayes in the Sonne styrringe it from time to time as is aforesaide and if it waxe to harde put Rose water to it in such quantitie that it be neither to harde nor to soft and fill as manye litle boxes with all as you will To make the sayde Sope musked TAke fine Muske as muche as you liste beate it well in a brasen morter putting to it Rose water somewhat warme and hauinge mixed them well together put them in the vessell where youre Sope is mengling them well together and let them stande a while and than fill litle boxes with it at your pleasure A very excellent paste and swete made with Muske whiche eaten causeth a swete breath TAke Gomme dragant stieped and tempered in Rose water vntill it be soft white make therof as it were paste take of it the bygnesse of a Hasel nut bray it in a brasen morter puttinge to it a little poulder of good Sugre and halfe a graine of fine Muske stieped and tempered in Rose water mixe all well together And if you wil haue it better put to it more Muske and Sugre and than as muche Mace beaten in poulder as will lye vpon a pennye and mixe it agayne well together than put to it a little of the meale or flower of Amylum beaten into poulder but it were better to putte in redde Sandal wel broken in sonder indifferently and to put it in by litle and lytle so muche that a man maye make of it conuenient paste the whiche you shall cutte after your fantasye and drye it in the shadowe And yf you will haue it of diuers coloures adde to it suche coloures well grounde as you please Prouided that they be colours wherein there is no poyson or daunger you may also gylte or couer with syluer the sayde pieces as men do confitures and they wyll be verye good and of the best
makinge Another very excellent TAke Gomme Arabike .v. vnces fine Sugre .iiij. vnces Amylum .iij. vnces and for eche vnce of these foresayde thinges .x. graines of fine Musk whiche will mounte in the whole to a hundred and twenty graynes and than it wyll be perfit Dentifrices or rubbers for the teeth of great perfection for to make them cleane TAke poulder of redde Corall .iiii. vnces of the shardes of Galleye pottes two vnces of cuttle bone an vnce of a Pumeyse stone an vnce cloues Synamom and Masticke of eche of them a dragme Perles stamped halfe an vnce Dragons bloud an vnce fine Muske .iii. graynes stampe wel the whole and syft it thorow a sarce than mengle it well together and incorporate it with Gomme dragant tempered and stieped in Rose water make all into dowe or paste and make therof thinges to rubbe your teeth with to make them white wherwith you shall not onely make theim very fayre but also preserue them from putrifaction Oyle of Bengewin odoriferous PVt a pounde of Bengewin well beaten in poulder into some shorte and wyde vessell so that you may put in your hand than put to it two pounde of Rose water and mixe all well together and so couer it with a Limbecke or stillitory of glasse well bounde with a linnen cloth and al the ioynctes and sides well stopt Giue it at the firste a little fyre vntill all the water be drawen out and this is the water that we spake of before and afterwarde encrease your fyre by litle and litle and thē you shal se the oyle come out and incontinent set vnder another cleane recipiente to receiue the oyle and make vnder it a great fyre to the intent that all the oyle may come out the whiche being all distilled there wyl come furth a certayne Gomme like vnto Manna the whiche wyll be verye good to keepe And whan you will make swete or odoriferous water take a violle full of cleane well water and put into it a lytle of the sayd Gomme and it wyll make it smell swete but you muste styrre it well If you will haue it better take Rose water and not well water Oyle of Storax calamita TAke storax calamita as muche as you will with such a quantitie of Rose water as pleaseth you and put it in a large potte not closinge the ioyntes or sydes but let the Limbecke be a litle at one side to the intente it maye take ayre and alter not the fire but kepe it accordinge as you shall se shalbe nedeful And whan the oyle commeth chaunge the recipient and than make a greater fyre and receiue the oyle and kepe it for it is a singuler and deynty thinge To make oyle of Labdanum TAke fine Labdanum and mundifie it wel and do with it as you did with the Bengewine But if you will haue it otherwise you maye take as muche as you will of it and hauinge broken it in small pieces putte it weete into a vessell of brasse puttinge to it a pounde of Rose water and halfe a pounde of the oyle of swete Almondes couer well the vessell with his couer and stoppe it with linnen cloutes plaistered ouer with claye or other matter settynge it so to drye than afterwarde set it vpon a lyttle fyre that it may boyle fayer and softely two or thre houres This done you shall take it from the fyre and let it cole before you vncouer it than take it quickely out and put it in a vyole And to the ende to preserue it the better put to it a lytle roche Alom burned or elles a lytle Ambergryse And when you wyll put it in the vyole you muste put it in as cleare as is possible Oyle of Nutmegges TAke what quantitie of Nutmegges you wyll the whiche well broken into pieces in a morter you shall putte it in a large or wyde vessell powrynge vpon them a little Aqua vite so that the Nutmegges maye be thoroughlye wette Let them stande so two or thre dayes in styrringe them sometyme and turninge them vpsyde downe and see that the sayde vessell be well stopped then adde to it as muche Rose water as will be aboue the Nutmegges two or three fingers highe and couer them with the Limbecke closinge it well Distill them at the firste with a small fyre vntyll all the water be come out than chaunge the recipient and augment the fyre so muche till you cause the oyle to distille out and whan you see that all is almost come furth make your fire very great and kepe the said oyle in a violle Another maner TAke a pounde of Nutmegges the whiche beynge well broken in pieces you must put in a new vessell of earth well leaded within than powre vpō them Malmesey or some other wine vntill they be all couered and that the wine be aboue the Nuttes twoo fingers high After this you shall put to it at the leaste two pounde of freshe butter and mingle all together stoppinge or coueringe well the vessell and leaue it in the heate of the Sunne in some panne or in some other hote place by the space of four or fiue dayes than boile it vpon the hote coles with a small fyre vntyll the wine be consumed than powre it thorowe a newe course linnen cloth before it be coole This done set the oyle certaine dayes in the Sunne in a violle of glasse vntyll the thicke substaunce be descended to the bottome Finally powre it so agayne thorough a newe course lynnen clothe and putte it in another vyolle and soe kepe it A very exquisyte sope made of diuers thinges TAke Aluminis catini thre vnces quicke lyme one part stronge lye that will beare an egge swimminge betwene two waters thre pottels a pot of commun oyle mengle all well together puttinge to it the white of an Egge well beaten and a dysshefull of the meale or floure of Amylum and an vnce of Romayne Vitrioll or redde leade well beaten into poulder and mixe it continuallye for the space of three houres then lette it stande by the space of a daye and it will bee righte and perfite Finallye take it oute and cutte it in pieces after sette it to drie twoo daies in the wynde but not in the sunne Occupie alwaies of this sope when you will washe youre head for it is verie holsome and maketh faier heare ☞ Sope with Cyuet. TAke of the saied Sope as muche as you wyll and set it a while in the Sunne in Rose water putting to it the poulder of Cyuette and mixinge it well And if you adde to it also Muske it will bee the better so that the Muske haue been before steeped and tempered in rose water ☞ Sope with diuers sweete and excellent oyles TAke of the foresaied Sope whiche hath stande a while in the Sunne in Rose water and put to it a lytle of the oyle of Bengewine or of some other odoriferous oyle and mixe it well but you muste putte in of
vpon a tyle for to bake in an Ouen thē take out the core and the kernels and make them cleane within brayenge and breakinge the reste and straine it thorough a fyne canuesse or straynour This done take as much fat or grease of a kidde as you haue Apples and straine it likewise boylinge it all together in a newe vessell well leaded vntill the rose water be consumed than adde to it Muske Cloues Nutmegges and such like substaunces of a reasonable quantitie according to your discretion prouided alwayes that they be well brayed and broken in pieces as is aboue saied and boyle them in the like maner aforesaied then strain them and kepe them Another Pomaunder TAke fresh barowes grease put it in a new vessel with rose water vnderneth whiles it melteth in the same you shal take out that which is melted to thend it smell not of the fyre than put it in cold water the space of .x. daies raising and lifting it vp euery day .ix. or .x. times styrring it at eche time chaunginge alwayes the water Than take of the saied Apples purifie them cleane of their kernels cuttinge them in quarters not pared this doen laye them three daies to stiepe in Muskt rose water take also fiftene Cloues stieped a daye in colde water often tymes renewed and putting them after in a fine linnen cloth boilinge them in rose water with a small fire the space of an houre than hauinge well scommed away all the ordure and filthe put in thre vnces of white Waxe and make it seeth a little and after straine it into a newe vessell well leaded leauing it so all a night This done you shal take out al the white Pomaunder and because there wil remaine a litle ordure in the bottom you shal put it in morter with rose water styrre it the more you do seuer it a sonder in styrringe it and put rose water to it the more shall you fine it but you must se that the morter be cleane Than take the tallowe or greace of a younge barrowe and stiepe it in colde water leauinge it so the space of foure daies but you muste often chaunge the water and purifie the saied greace well of all the little skinnes that is in it veynes and gristels Take likewise twenty of the foresaied Apples and for eche Apple put in thre or foure Cloues and hauing deuided the Apples in four quarters cores and all stampe them a lytle Than take the sayd tallowe or greace and put it in fine rose water vntyll the sayde water be consumed and after you haue boiled it fayre and softly put in the saied Apples stamped and make them boile adding to it a litle fine Synamom Spiknard Nutmegs and other spices such as you thinke good And whan it hath boiled inough straine it thorow a linen cloth into some cleane vessell It shuld be wel done to put to it a litle calues tallow wel purified in the maner aforesaied And whan it is sodden and strained mixe all togethers and put it in a cleane vessel it is a very exquisite thing Excellent Ipocras TAke an vnce of Synamom of Ginger .ii. dragms Melligetta thre dragmes Cloues two deniers Nutmegges Galanga of eche of them a denier stampe all and put it in a ielley bagge or strainer than take a pint of the best redde or white wine you can get or a pint of good Malmesey or other stronge wine mixe well all togethers than take a pounde of Sugre fined and hauinge stamped it put it into the other wyne and so poure it vpon the strainoure wherin you dyd put the sayd wine with the spices than hauinge taken it oute you muste poure it on agayne so often vntyll it become as cleare as it was before styrringe it sometime in the strayner or bagge and here note that this is to make but a flagon full Wherefore if you will haue more you muste take a greater quantitie of the sayd thinges And for to make it verye excellente you maye bynde a lyttle Muske in a fine linnen clothe at the ende of the strayner so that all the substaunce maye passe ouer and vpon it the which by that meane wil receiue the odour and sent of the sayde Muske ☞ To make litle cusshins of parfumed Roses TAke buddes of redde Roses their heades and toppes cut awaye drie theim in the shadowe vpon a table or a linnen cloth water sprinkle the said buddes with Rose water and let theim drie doing this fiue or sixe times turning them alwais to thende they waxe not vinewed or mouldy than take the poulder of Cipre Muske and Amber made into poulder accordinge as you would make them excellent for the more you put in of it the better they shall be put to it also Lignum Aloes well beaten in poulder Let the said poulder be put with the buddes wete w t rose water Muskt mixing wel the buddes together with the poulder to thend that al may be well incorporated so shall you leaue them so al a night couering them w t some linnen cloth or Taffeta that the Muske may not breath or rise out The whiche thinge done take finallye lyttle bagges of Taffeta of what bignesse you wil and according to the quantitie of the buddes that you would put amonge all the poulder Than close vp the bagges and for to stoppe vp the seames you must haue your mixtion of Muske Amber and Ciuette made as it were to ceare with wherewith you shall rubbe all a longe the seames to stoppe the holes made with the needle in sowynge You maye also sowe some ribande of golde or sylke or of what you will ouer the saied seames These be the best that a man can make and as I haue sayed the more Musk Amber Ciuet and Aloe you put in the better they will be If you will make theim with lesse coste take suche buddes as are spoken of before prepared and ordered in the same sort and in steede of Muske and Amber put in the poulder of Cloues Synamom Irios and a litle Mace obseruinge suche a maner of parfuminge the buddes as before Matches or litle lightes of a very good odour TAke of Campher an vnce of white encens twoo vnces beate them into poulder and make thereof litle rounde Apples or balles with a litle waxe than put them in a vessell with rose water and lyghte them with a candell and they wyll geue a fayre lyghte and a very good sauour A composition of Muske Ciuet and Ambergrise TAke a dragme and a half of good Amber and bray it vppon a Porphyre stone with oyle of Iasemin fyrst alone and than a litle with Muske as much as shall suffise This doen adde to it Damaske roses and Bengewin of ethe of them an vnce Irios a dragme and a halfe All these thinges beaten in poulder and strayned or syfted you shall braye with a dragme of Ciuette vntil they be brought into the fourme and maner of an oynctment This
done kepe it in a Horne or vessell of glasse well closed ☞ A parfume for a Chaumber very excellent TAke Storax Calamita Bengewine Ligni Aloes of eche of them an vnce coales of Willow well beaten into poulder .v. vnces These thinges mixed with Aquauite as much as will suffise to make paste make therof litle cakes or other formes what you wil and so kepe them And whan you will vse or occupie of it put it into the fire for in consumyng litle and litle it will make a singuler good odour in the place where you burne it Sope of Naples TAke Deares grease or the Tallow of a Cowe or yonge Calfe or of a Kidde a pounde put it in a vessell of earth well leaded and after you haue well strayned it put vpon it with discretion to much nor to litle of Sope makers lie the first best and strongest of three sortes that they vse called the maister lie and kepe the saied grease in the heate of the Sunne miâ—ynge it well there and like wise in the night abrode in the ayer but take hede that there come no water to it Whan you se that it is somewhat drie put to it againe as muche as shall neede of the seconde and thirde lie mixed together which Sope makers vse Rubbe a litle vpon your hand beyng cleane and if it make a frothe it is a token it is made Parfume for a Lampe TAke Ligni Aloes a quarter Begewine an vnce Storax calamita half an vnce Muske a scruple Ambergreese halfe a scruple Rose water inoughe You shall putte all these thynges well beaten to poulder into the Lampe A shorte parfume TAke a glassefull of Rose water Clones well beaten in poulder a penny weight than take the fire panne and make it redde hote in the fire and put theron of the saied Rose water with thesayd poulder of Cloues making it so confume by litle and litle but the rose water must bee muskt and so you shal make a parfume of excellent good odour ☞ An odoriferous parfume for chambers TAke Thymiama a pounde Storax liquida twoo vnces Storax calamita three vnces Labdanum an vnce coales of Willowe and Tracagantum asmuche as you wyll but stiepe or temper the poulder of the coales and the Tracagantum with rose water and let it lie so three daies a stiepe in the same water and then make therof paste ☞ A verie good parfume for to trimme gloues wyth litle cost and yet will continue longe FIrst let the gloues bec greate and of good thicke leather to the which you shall gyue a little Ciuet all alonge the seames Than washe them in rose water twise or thryse pressing theym harde this doen take twoo partes of rose water one parte of the water of the blossoms of Mirtell tree mingle them together addinge to it two partes of the water of the flowres of Orenges Lemons Citrons called of the FreÌ„chmen can de nafe and washe them so long therwith that they sauour no moore of the leather then laye theym in a platter and leaue them there couered with the saied water pouldered ouer with the poulder of Cypres by the space of a day or twaine This dooen take them out and presse them a litle and so drie them in the shadowe When they bee half drie geue them a litle Ciuet in this wise put asmuche Ciuet as you shall thinke good in a dishe with a litle oyle of Iasemyne that is not olde the whiche you shall make to dissolue before the fier than annoynt therewith the gloues within side and rub them wel betwene your handes chafing them at the fier vntil you thinke that the ciuet be perced and gone thorow them and leaue them so a while Then after rub them wel with a clothe to the ende the Ciuet maye perce the better and the gloues waxe soft then draw and stretch them out abrode leauing them so the space of a dai and when you shall thinke they be humyde and moyste enlarge them and blowe them and puffe them vp leaue them so vntil thei bee halfe dried Than take good parfume to burne holde them ouer the smoke of the saied parfume to the eude that it maye perce and go into the inner partes of the gloues and parfume them within side This shall you dooe thrise a daye the space of .xx. daies weating them at eche time with a litle parfumed water wrappinge them with some white linen cloth than take Muske and Amber as much as you wyl and put it in a tinne platter with oyle of Iasemine or Bengewine or some other oyle let them well dissolue at the fier with a litle perfumed water than annoynte them with a pensell on the out side and not within annoynt also the seames with Ciuet and lay them certein daies among dried roses Finally lay them for the space of .iij. or .iiij. daies betwene two matresses than wil they bee excellent as if it were to present an emperour withall ☞ A verye exquisite Ciuet to parfume gloues and to annoynt a mans handes with TAke three pounde of white wine the tallowe or grease of a Gote shepe or Kidde a pound boyle all together with a small fier vpon the embres or coales in a couered panne than take them from the fier and when it is coole againe putte them in a platter with cleare water and washe them well fiue or sixe tymes and put them againe in cleare water all a night This dooen take a pounde of rose water twoo pound of white wine with this boile the grease vpon the coales with a smal fier vntil one half be consumed than take swete Nauewes rost them vnder the ashes but burne them not And for eche pound of grease take halfe a pound of the inner white of the saied Nauewes and boyle it in rose water the space of halfe an houre than strayne it and put it into a morter with oyle of Iasemin or of Citrons or such like or els with a litle CaÌ„pher After this you shall take a dishe or the bottome or foote of a glasse wet within with Rosewater wherin you shall make the forme and facion of the Ciuette addyng to it first of all three vnces of Ceruse well beaten in poulder for euery pounde of tallow or grease and it will be an excellent and princely thing Oyle of Roses and floures very parfit TAke the seede of Millons well mundified and staÌ„ped and laye them by rankes or by beddes with the flowres of Roses by the space of .viii. daies then take a litle linnen bagge wette in Rose water or in the water of other flowres in the whiche bagge you shall put the seede and hauyng well bounde it put it in a pressour and presse oute the oyle whiche will be very precious and the which you must kepe alwaies close Oyle of Cloues very noble TAke Almondes mondified and made cleane with a knife and broken in pieces stiepe or temper theym in Rose water than dresse them
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
softer and finer and slacketh at euery time moore and moore in comming forth But if you will that it neuer growe more vse these remedies folowinge whiche are very good and certaine by experience Take the litle stones of Oliues burned the outwarde coddes of beanes dried the seede of Henbaine Litarge of golde and siluer the shelles of fyshes called in Latyne Tellmae burned and the iuyce of blacke Poppy as much of the one as of the other and halfe as much Orpiment as of one of those thinges All this beyng beaten to poulder boyle it in as muche oyle Oliue rosat as will couer them sixe fingers heyght styrringe it continually by the space of twoo or thre houres than let it coole and straine the saied oyle and so keepe it putting to it the fourth part of the oyle of Selandyne And when the heares bee fallen take a little linnen cloth wette in the said oyle luke warme and lay it vpon the saied place leauinge it so bounde on all a nyght In the morning take of the lynnen cloth and annoynt the place with oyle rosate and at night lay the lynnen cloth on againe wetted as before and this do .vi. or .vii. nightes but let it be in the wane of the Moone And yf you perceyue that the heares grow againe make them fall away agayne at the nexte wane of the Moone doyng in al poyntes as before you shall not oft doe it but you shal make that the heares shall neuer grow more ☞ To make a kinde of cloth or plaister to take the heare from the face necke and handes or from anye parte of the bodye TAke twoo vnces of Turpentyne halfe an vnce of white waxe broken small or some what moore or lesse accordinge as neede shall require Bengewyne Storax calamita at youre discretion Fyrste melte the waxe a lyttle wyth a lyttle fier and than the Bengewyne and Storax after this put in the Turpentyne adding to it a lytle Ceruse well brayed and settinge it to the fyre putte in to it a lyttle Masticke and make thereof a mixion neither to thicke nor to cleare or thinne Than take a piece of linnen clothe of what bygnesse you will and lay it abrode vpon a table spreading afterwarde the saied composition vpon it with a spone or some other thinge as it were in maner of a plaister than let it coole and keepe it so the one vppon the other open without folding vp the lynnen clothe for when the saied mixion is colde it is harde If you will putte it in profe and occupie dooe as foloweth At night when you gooe to bedde washe your face and necke with luke warme water rubbinge it well with a linnen cloth or with your hand and when it is drie or when you haue wiped it take a piece of the saied plaister or cyred clothe and heate it by the fyre vntill the saied mixion bee liquide and softe then immediatly binde it vpon youre face or vppon the place from whence you woulde haue the heare to falle and presse it harde on leauinge it so all night In the morninge go to youre lokinge glasse and pluckynge of one ende of the saied lynnen clothe you shall plucke awaye with it all the heare of your face and so shall you leaue a very faire skinne And if in case there remain yet any of the saied mixion vpon the fleshe wasshe it with hote water and with wheate branne rubbinge it so longe with some piece of lynnen cloth tyl you make it fal of than washe your face with Aqua vite or white wine or with some other distilled water being not to strong but let it be of Melons or gourdes or of such other like and vse afterwarde waters meete for the face as you lyst and thus shall you kepe and maintayne youre face as cleare as glasse ☞ A meruelous secrete whiche the greate lordes of the Moores dooe vse whereby they make that theyr children haue no heare vnder their armes or other place where they wyll And this secrete founde I in Syria the yeare 1521. by the meanes of a lorde of the countrey whose doughter I healed AS soone as the child is borne they make ready by and by a peece of fine golde or a Ducar or els a rynge or some like thinge and kepe it in the fyre vntill it be redde hote not meltyng it than they carry it with a payer of tonges laye it vpon the place where they will no heare shall grow and immediatlie annoynte it with oyle Rosat or the oyle of Violettes than after .xxiiii. houres they do the like agayn and by this meanes there groweth neuer heare in that place I haue often times made the heare fall from yong gentil womens browes and foreheades with this medecine and they haue founde it wonderfull but the golde must be very fine which suffexeth no token marke or skarre to remaine wher the burning was as other metals do I haue kept this secret hidden a longe time â—although that diuers times men would haue giuen me greate giftes yet I would not publish it a broade vntill now that I haue doone it in this present booke ☞ To make a kinde of cloth called cloth of Leuant wherwith women vse to colour their faces TAke the shearynge of skarlate and boyle it in water where quicke Lyme hath bene boyled and after you haue boyled it a good space you shall straine it and take a potful of it and put into it two vnces of Brasill cutte in litle peeces addyng to it an vnce of Roche alume and as muche of Verdigreese and a quarter of an vnce of gumme Arabicke and after you haue well boiled it the space of halfe an houre take a peece of olde linnen clothe of what bignesse you wil and wete it in this decoction or red colour than couer the pan and let the saied mixtion coole by the space of a day after you haue taken it oute drie it in the shadowe and keepe it in some vessell among odoriferous and â—oote thinges for to helpe you ☞ The same another waye TAke a glassefull of Aqua vite a quarter of an vnce of the graine that I spake of before called Coccum halfe an vnce of Brasyll halfe an vnce of gomme armoniacke put all these thinges together in the glasse where the Aqua vite is than stoppe it clase for feare it take vent and the sayed glasse muste bee full After this sette it vpon a small fier makinge it seeth faire and softlye or elles sette it in the Sunne by the space of twoo or three daies This doen strayne it and put in it pieces of olde linnen cloutes as we haue saied before If you thinke in strayninge this water that the coloure is not redde to your minde your maye put in moore of the saied grayne and brasell ☞ To dye a whyte bearde or heare of the heade into a faire blacke TAke good galles of Leuant or suche lyke and frie them in oyle but let them not burne
than stampe them and sifte them once or twise Take also Ferretum or Spanishe blacke whiche the Frenchmen call Atrament d'Espaigne the whiche likewise you shal stampe and beate well to poulder Than take a panne full of lye and put into it the pylles or rynes of Pomegranades Walnut pilles Pineapples Myrre Sage leaues as muche as you wyll Let all this boyle together vntill it bee broughte vnto the thirde parte You muste haue in it also two partes of galle and one of Ferretum tempering and incorporating all well together vntill the blacke colour content you wherewith you may die your bearde and heare in this maner Washe youre bearde with lye not to stronge least it hurte you and whiles your head or beard is yet hote annoynt it with the saied confection but it must bee luke warme to the entent it maye penetrate and perce the better and so leaue it a certaine space Than wasshe youre heade or bearde fyrst with lie and than with hote water and you shall haue youre heade and bearde sayre and blacke This hurteth not nor smarteth anye thinge at all neyther bringeth anye inconuenience to the heade †A noble and excellent poulder to make cleane the teeth to make them fast and white and to conserue the gommes A better thinge can not be founde and it were to geue or present to a Quene or Princesse TAke Lacca of grain if you can get 〈◊〉 if not take of the graine it selfe that is very good .x. partes seuen partes of barley cakes or breade so burned that they be brought to coales Lignum aloe 〈◊〉 partes fine pommeyse stone scoured and made clene in embers and stieped or tempered in white wine or in Vinaigre eight partes dragons bloud three partes roche Alome burned foure partes honnye burned in a panne vntyll it be fyrste blacke and than yelowe three partes and this may you do of the lees of honnye that remayneth whan it is distilled puttinge it in a panne and settinge it in a glassemakers fournesse the space of a day or two coles of the wood of rosemary three partes fyne Synamom two partes Bengewyne one part Bole Armenick oriental nine partes white wine lees two partes Aleblaster one part small pearles one part the scrapynge of yuorye two partes lyttle Quinces not rype of the byggenesse of a Walnutte or a little more sixe partes Nowe the best be those that be not come to perfection vpon the tree the whiche you muste burne in the fyre euen vnto coales Mastir eighte partes Let all these thinges be well stamped and passed thorough a fine sarce addinge thereto a lyttle Muske and some Golde or Syluer foyle This doone you shall keepe the sayde poulder in some boxe well stopped and so shall you haue a precious thynge And whan you will occupie of it wasshe your mouth well fyrst with cleane water or wine than rubbe your teeth with youre fingar or some lynnen cloth taking of the sayed poulder vpon it and after washe your mouth well Thus ofte doing you shall alwayes haue your teeth very white faste in your head stronge and not hollowe To make a very excellente conserue to scoure the teeth to comforte the gummes and to make a swete and good breath BEcause the vse of the poulder to scoure teeth seemeth lesse commodious than some licoure or conserue which agreeth better with the mouth therefore we will write here a very excellent one whiche hath not his like in the worlde and must be made as foloweth Take one part of syrop roset two partes of the syrop of Myrtell or of the woode called Lentiscus out of the whiche commeth a gomme called Mastir put this together in a cleane panne than put to it of the saied poulder for the teeth whereof we haue spoken in the Chapter before so that al may be brought into softe paste or dowe than set the little pan vpon chafinge dishe wherein must be some hote ashes with a fewe embers or elles at the leaste set it farre from the fyre and make it boile sayre and softly styrringe it alwayes vntyll it be as thicke as honny or thicker than take it frō the fyre and put to some goldfoile and musk what quantitie you will And so shal you haue a singuler thinge for to do this that I haue spoken of An aduertisement or lesson concerning the making of poulders and conserues for the teeth IF you wil make the said thinges as excellent as is possible you must take of the said things as much as you may get or if you cannot haue them al take at the least the most excellent as graine pearles Corall yellowe Amber Lignum aloes Boale Armenick also the coales of Barley Cakes or loues whan they are burned and all the other thinges be very good in it And if you woulds geue it to some greate prince or lorde which had rather haue it of a good colour or would know the thinges in it you may make it as is saied of sewe thinges with goldfoile and Muske And he that wil make it with lesse cost and a greater quantitie may with the thinges mētioned in the chapter with the poulder adde poulder of brickes poulder of marble Creuise or lopsters shelles burned and a little white salte the lees that remaineth in the bottome when men make stronge water called Aqua fortes is also very good eyther by it selfe or mingled with some other thinge and soo shall you haue a greate deale of substaunce with small cost And if a man wil make a conserue of litle charge and without much labour he must take rawe honnye or honny roset and mingle it with the said poulders and so rubbe his teeth therwith with his finger or with a linnen clothe and washe his mouth well after it Doinge this euery eight dayes he shall make his teeth very fayre and white A thinge very good and mete for euery man An excedinge white and good poulder to scoure the teeth whiche is meeter for lordes and great men then anye of the other before FYrst here is to be noted a goodly and notable secrete of great vertue for to scoure and make white teeth whiche is the pommeise stone alone so that it be of that fyne and whyte stone whiche shoemakers doo vse to whiten whyte leather Shoes and well beaten in poulder For in rubbinge youre teeth with the same poulder if scoureth and maketh them cleane and taketh away all the roughnesse of theim as men see by experience that the pommeise stone is vsed to polysshe bones marble and other like thinges I haue sene of my frendes men of great iudgement and knowledge whiche gaue nothinge vnto greate men and Lordes but the sayd poulder whan it is well beaten in poulder a man can not tell what it is also you may geue it a little sauour layinge it amonge bagges of Muske and Amber of whome it taketh an odour and I haue seene men of estimation that helde it for a thinge of greate
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
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
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
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
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
vessell that you can putte no more freshe poulder to it as is sayed This is the sure and perfecte waye and meane howe to make Cinabrium in as greate loaues as you will whiche hytherto hath not bene knowen in Italye You maye do the like in pottes of potters claye white soo that they be well luted and clayed ouer that they maye endure the fyre and not breake ☞ To fyne and renewe Borax BORAX was called of the auncient writers Chrisocolla and was both naturall and artificiall as Plini Dioscorides and other write and men did vse of it in Phisicke and also to sowder Gold and Syluer and other metalles as men vse yet nowe a dayes for the nature of it is to melte and to resolue quickely anye souderynge It is vsed in worke also for to make a bodye that is to saye to gather together the fylynge of Golde and siluer and in all other thinges wherein a man hath neede of a quicke and sodayne foundinge or meltinge Moreouer gentlewemen helpe theim selues also muche with it to make theim fayre for it maketh the skinne very white fine and cleane without daunger of any poyson or of hurtinge the teeth or fleshe The auncient men of olde time had of it grene whereof nowe a dayes is none founde nor yet anye man maketh it Marye we haue that is very white and alsoo somewhat blacke whiche peraduenture a man may say is like theyr grene The white is in little longe pieces with certayne synewes or veines all a longe so like vnto Roche Alome that many are deceiued or deceiue other with it For whan a man setteth the saied Borar vpon the fyre it boyleth and swelleth vp in all poyntes like Alome and so remayneth white and full of hoales lyke a sponge and easy to be broken with your handes euen as Roche Alome burned But subtyle and craftye marchauntes knowe Borax from Alome thre maner of wayes The fyrste is that Alome put in a mans mouth is eygre and sharpe of taste and restraintife but Borax hath no maner of taste but a dead and vnsauery guste as a meane betwene the sauour of Oyle and whaye of Mylke Therefore they that wyl deceaue other and falsifye the true Borax take little pieces of rawe Rocfe Alome and kepe them in Oyle of Almondes in whay or in mylke Some other put to it also honny or sugre for to moderate the eygernesse of the Alome with the swetenesse of it Other there be that melte all the saied thinges on the fyre and than set theim to coole in some colde place vntyl all be waxen into yee or little stones and puttinge to it Salte Peter Sal alcali Tartre Alome de fece and suche lyke thinges and make little stones somewhat lyke vnto Borarx but fyrste they differ in fourme and fashion for the true Borax is alwayes longe in fourme and the stones where Alome is amonge are neuer broughte into anye fourme but into little square stones Furthermore thei differre in the seconde sorte and that is this That Alome beynge burned maketh a greater lumpe then when it is raw but the true Borax is broughte and reduced into a verye small quantitie and this is an euidente signe to knowe it The thyrde whiche is of moost importaunce and the sureste is that the matter wherein the Alome is will not souder in no manner of wise and wyll not melte neither so well as the Borax will I saye it will not melte so well because that where any Salt Peter Tartre and Sal alcali is there the matter will melte at the leaste in some parte for all the saied thinges helpe to the foundinge of metalles The Salte Peter whan there is a good quantitie of it is knowen incontinente vppon the fyre for it maketh the boylinge wateryshe and casteth aboute as it were lyttle sparkes of fyre The other thinges made with the foresayed mixions dyuers tymes in whaye milke or in water and congeled into lyttle pebbles make certayne stones but they be alwayes salte to brighte and to violente to melte for whan a manne wyll souder anye worke of Golde or thinne Syluer with it it causeth the worke to melte together and where as there is Sugre it leaueth the Golde and Syluer spotted Men make other mixtures whiche are verye good for to souder or to melte whiche neuerthelesse are differente frome the Borax in fourme and sauoure of the whiche we wyll make mention hereafter Nowe for to retourne to the true Borax of oure tyme men bringe vs certayne barrels full of a kind of grease ful of certayne litle pebbles which is called the dowe or paste of Borare Vnto this daye menne haue broughte it oute of Alexandria where it was alsoo of olde tyme made and therefore is it that the aunciente Arabian Anthones whiche haue wrytten of thynges concernynge mettalles called the Borax Nitrum Alexandrinum And within these fewe yeares they haue begonne to brynge it frome the Weste partes yet I can not tell whether it be made there or elles paraduenture it be broughte latelye oute of the Indes There was within these fewe yeares soo greate lacke of it in Italye that it was solde at the leaste for a crowne an vnce of that that was made into stones And nowe within this twoo yeare there is come suche hahoundaunce oute of the Weste partes that the pounde is worth but a crowne and a halfe and lesse The waye howe to make it whiche is vsed in the saied West partes is thus In Mines where Golde and Syluer or Copper is gotten is found a kynde of water whiche as I my selfe haue seene and proued by experience is of it selfe verye neete and excellente for to souder or to founde with And also I knowe a place in Germanye where there is a greate veyne of suche water whiche notwithstandinge the paysauntes knowe not of Nowe they take this water with the earth that is vnderneath it or on the sydes and boyle it a certaine tyme and than strayne it and so leauinge it it congeleth into lyttle pebbles euen like vnto Salte Peter And therefore yf a man shoulde keepe theim longe soo thei would not continue but would resolue by litle and litle Also for to make them better and to preserue thē and norishe them in their owne nature and kynde they take the groundes or dregges that is left of the said water earth putting to it barrows grease or the grease of some other beast than they goo to the mine where they make a greate hole in the grounde in the bottome wherof they lay a ranck of the said grease vpon that a rancke of the sayde little pebble stones and than again another of grease and so consequently as much as they wyll but so that the laste rancke be of grease or of the saied dowe or paste and so they leaue it open and vncouered the space of certayne moneths yet many of them do all this within theyr houses in the earth or in great vesselles Than
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
this maner Take of the saied earth foure partes of cloth-makers floxe or shearing one part ashes that haue serued in a buck or other half a part drie horse donge or the donge of an Asse one part If you will make it parfiter put to it a fewe stamped brickes and sparkes of yron let all these thinges be well stamped and sifted that is to saye the earth the ashes the horse donge the brickes and the sparkes of yron than mingle all together and make it into earth and make a bedde thereof vpon the whiche you shall caste by little and little the floxe as equally as you can This doen powre to it water styringe it well fyrste with a sticke and than with a pallet broade at the ende And whan all is well incorporated together as you woulde haue it laye it vppon some great borde and beat it wel and that a good space with some great staffe or other instrument ofyron minglinge and stearinge it well for the lenger you beate it the better it is By this meane you shall haue a verye good claye for to lute or clay and ioyne violles flagons of glasse to still with and bottels of gourdes for stilling and other great thinges as furnesses and suche like as we will declare afterwarde But he that will make it with more ease let him put the earth only the flox and the horse donge with a fewe ashes Some put no horse donge to it and some no floxe according to the purpose that they make it for For to stop and close vp the mouthes of stillinge glasses or violles to thintent they take no vent on the fyre the sayed clay wil be very good neuerthelesse men put to it two partes of quicke lime and the whites of Egges and then it wyl be surer to let nothinge vent out but the glasse it self All kinde of clay or earth would be kept moist and redy dressed for him that will occupy it continually but it muste not be kepte to watery nor yet lefte to drye for than it woulde serue for nothinge seinge that after it is once hardened a man can not dresse it anye more to do any good withal And whan you put water to it it is mollified by little and little aboue and is as it were a sauce but within remayneth harde and if you put to much water to it you marre it vtterlye Therefore whan you see that it beginneth to waxe drye feede it a newe little and little with water styringe it tyll it be well and so shall you make it perfecte †Certayne thinges whiche he that will take in hande any foundinge or castinge of metalles must alwayes haue readye and in ordre BEcause that instrumentes and meanes be those that make all thinges come oute of the workemans hande with a perfection therfore to the intente that whan the tyme is come to beginne a worke you be not vnfurnyshed or sustayne domage for lacke of thinges necessary Fyrst let your coales be of strong woode yonge and drye your crosettes or melting pottes without cleftes or chappes and of graye coloure which commonlie are better than the blacke or white you muste haue a little burde to geue it vent ouer the mouth of the croset whiche is vncouered for certayne causes a cane or reede to blowe awaye the ordure and fylth out of the croset a thinge easier than with a payre of bellowes an yron with a hoke for to take the coales out of the croset or meltinge potte and likewise a payre of tonges a presse of woode to kepe faste and sure the fourmes or mouldes in pouringe in the mettal two little tables or more of walnut tree woode or boxe or of some other harde and massiue woode or elles of copper made very euen and equall on euery side for to tourne the mouldes and to keepe theim steddye two pieces of wolle or more to the intente that if in fasteninge the mouldes in the presse they be not equall and euen with out syde these pieces may fil vp the empty place a compasse and a rule for to parte and deuide the casting holes and pipe wherin the mettal must runne an yron made like a scrapinge knife or rasoure sharpe at the end and edged at the sydes suche as gilters do vse to make euen the castinge holes or pipes of mouldes the which wyll serue to make the breathinge hooles and pipes that the vapoure goeth out at whan the worke is made and hauinge no suche instrument you may make them with a knife as handsomely as you can You must also haue readye a little oyle and turpentine in a dyshe with a litle paper or some piece of linnen cloth to wette in the sayed oyle and turpentine and to burne it for to parfume the fourmes and mouldes whan they be well wiped to the intente the metall maye runne the better And because that sometime such parfume filleth vp the holownesse and engrauing of the worke you must haue a hares foote to wipe awaye the superfluitie of it and also for to swepe together the dust to thintent it fall not whan you will caste anye thinge in the mouldes And than must you haue a brushe or rubber of latin wyer and one of sylke suche as men make cleane combes with for to rubbe and pollishe the worke before it is fourmed and fashioned to the intente to pollishe it and dresse a newe as neede shall be whan the worke is caste ☞ The maner or order that a man ought to kepe whâ—re â—e wyll cast or founde medalles or any other thinge FIrste you shall laye the medalle or other worke that you wyll caste in a dyshe with stronge Vynaigre Salte and burned straw than rubbe it well with your hande vntill it be cleane lykewise with a rubber or brushe This doen washe it in freshe water and wipe it with a linnen cloth After this laye vpon a table of hard wood or of copper well pollyshed half the moulde or fourme that is to say the female And let the myddle parte that is to saye that whiche is ioyned to the other be layed vpwarde vpon the table in whiche thinges thus layed you shall lay youre medalles or the thinge you will fourme or fashion and let it be cleane as we haue saied orderinge it in suche sorte if there be but one that it be iuste and directlye agaynste the conduyte or pype and as lowe in the frame as it maye to the intente that the pipe or cundite may be the longer and that it may haue metall ynough If there be more than one you shal order and set them on the sydes of the fourme or frame and leaue place in the middle for to make the hole or pipe to powre the metall in And yf there be more then two you muste beware that one receaue not the mettall of another but make to euery one his little pipe or condite whiche maye aunswere and come iustly to the pipe or hole in the middle Then take one
a little while take it from the fire and paint the yron with all than hauinge set it in the fyre to heate burnishe it and it is doen. †The lyke another waye TAke Oyle of line foure vnces Tartre or wyne lees two vnces the yelkes of egges hard rosted and stamped two vnces Aleo cicotrinum an vnce Saffron a quarter of a dragme Boile all these thinges together in a new earthen potte a good space and if the oyle of line couer not all the saied substaunces put in more water vntil there be sufficient then anoint your yron with this mixtion hauing fyrst burnished it and so shall you make it of the colour of golde ☞ To gylte yron with golde foile and water or elles with golde mixte with Quicke Syluer as goldsmythes are wont to gilte siluer TAke Romayne vitriole an vnce roche Alome two vnces salte Armoniack an vnce all these thinges beyng well beaten in poulder and boiled in common water take your yron wel burnished and wette it with the sayed water rubbinge it well than lay on your goldefoyle and let it drye by the fyre This doen burnishe it with stone Hematite as men are wont to do and it wyll be verye fayre If you will gilt with golde mixt with quicke syluer as goldesmithes vse to gilte syluer you shall adde to the saied water a dragme or Verdigreese half an vnce of Sublimatum and let it boyle al together than put your yron to boyle in the saied water but if it be so greate that it can not go in rubbe it with the saied boylinge water and heate it that it maye receiue the Amalgama of the quicke syluer and the gold the which Amalgama we haue taughte you to make in the fift boke in the chapiter of minglinge or mixinge golde And whan you haue heated the yron gylt it with the same golde so mixed with the quicke syluer and smoke or fume it at the fyre with a lampe or with Brimstone as goldsmithes commonly do or rather with waxe wherof we wil hereafter shew you a very good maner and waye and better then that is vsed in Germany or in any place where it hath hitherto ben vsed ¶ To die or coloure into the colour of brasse or also to gylte Syluer whiche sheweth better and continueth longer IT is a thinge most certaine that gold set vpon white yron or syluer sheweth not so fayre as vpon brasse for as sone as it beginneth to weare a litle men may see the whitenesse of the yron or syluer whiche is not so soone secne vpon anye redde coloure Therefore many practiciens whan they wyll gylte anye woode or other thinge laye the bottome or grounde not of redde as the most part do but of yelow to the intente that the golde shall not so soone appeare worne as vpon the redde and more vpon the white The sayed yellow can not be laide vpon yron or syluer but leauing all this aside whan you will gilt syluer or geue a colour of brasse vnto yron you shall do after this maner Take verdet or Verdegrise Vitriol of Almain and salt Armoniacke at your discretion but let the Vitriole be of a greater quantitie than the other thinges put all this well beaten in poulder into stronge Vinaiger letting it boile halfe an houre And when you haue taken it from the fyre while the substaunces be yet boilinge you shall put in your yron that you will coloure coueringe well the pot with his couer and with cloth vpon it that it vent not out and so let it coole and you shall haue your yron well coloured of a brasen coloure and thus maye you gilte it with quicke syluer as yf it were brasse Esteme this as a goodly secrete and also profitable ☞ A water or colour to laye vnder Diamondes as well true as counterfeite that is to saye made of white Saphyres as we wyll declare afterwarde TAke the smoke of a candell gathered together in the bottome of a basen and make it into a dowe with a little oyle of Masticke than putte the saied mixtion vnder the Diamonde in the ringe where you wyll set it ☞ To counterfayte a Diamonde with a white Saphyre THis secrete is knowen well ynough of the Iewellars that vse almoost all one maner indifferent good but we after we haue described theyr fashion will shewe you a way far better They take a Saphire of a good white coloure and set it in the fire in a goldsmithes croset amonge the fylinge of yron or of golde thinking because it is of great value that it is better for such a purpose but yet the fylinge of yron is a great deale better They let this fylinge or rubbysh of yron become almost redde without meltinge it and cast theyr Saphire into it leauing it therein a prety while And after they haue taken it out if the white colour like a Diamond do not like them they cast it in agayne and so often tyll they se it be to their fantasie than they set it in a ringe and colour it as before Nowe here foloweth another waye a great deale better Take white smalte well beaten in poulder and mingle it with the sayed filinge of Golde or yron but so that there be as muche smalte as filinge then take a little other smalte withoute fylynge and make it into dowe with your spettle and in this dowe wrappe your Saphire and let it dry well at the fyre This doen tye it at the ende of a small and fine wyer and leaue the other ende so longe that you maye plucke it out whan you will Afterwarde couer it with the said filinges and leaue it so on the fyre a certaine space vntyll the filinge be very hote as is aforesayd but so that in no case it melt than plucke out once youre Saphire to se if the colour please you if not put him in agayne vntill it be fayre to your minde ☞ To ingrosse thinne Ballesses to set in ringes IF you haue Ballesses as thinne as paper dresse them of what greatnes or largenesse you wyll and take a piece of fine Cristall coloured lyke a Balles then take a great graine of Mastick the whiche you shall sticke vpon the pointe of a knife and heate it well agayne the fyre and sodaynlye it wil caste out a little droppe like the teare of a mans eye hauing a lustre like a pearle with the whiche droppe glewe on the saied Balles vpon the Cristall and feare not that it will gather to a lumpe or hinder the colour Then pollishe it and geue it a lustre and so set it in golde and it will be very fayer and seeme to be veryly a Balles ☞ To make Rubies of twoo pieces and Emeraudes as they make them at Mylan TAke the drop or teare of Masticke wherof we haue spoken in the Chapiter before and if you will make Emeraudes you shall coloure it with Spanish grene tempered and mingled with Oyle puttinge to it a little waxe if neede be and
this in a furneis certayne dayes and then to seperate the salte or Tartre with hote water Other heate it vppon the coales and quenche it in pysse and do it often times Other ther be that wrappe it in litle white pieces of wollen cloth and put it in the midees of a great fyre the space of halfe an houre or more and than they finde it thorowly molten and all in a light piece and full of hooles like a sponge not much differing from burned Alome All the whiche wayes to say the trueth are nothing worth nor do not perfectly calcine it where they corrupt the nature of the Tartre and make it become lyke vnto quicke lyme or Alome or elles of little strength Nowe for to calcine it out of hand and perfectly you shal take the Talcum rawe and made into little leaues or stamped as wel as is possible and than put it in a croset or in a fyre pan among the hote coles And whan it is very hote or rather redde hote you shal put to it drop by drop distilled Vineaigre wherein Tartre hath ben dissolued and put therevnto the thirde part of Aqua vite pouring it by little and little vpon the hote lees or Tartre that is to say thre vnces of Vynaigre for euery pound of Talcum then take it from the fire and you shal find it fayr and wel calcined Finally you shal washe it with hote water to thintent to seperate the lees or Tartre from it It is calcined also beinge made in leaues as thin as is possible layinge them by ranckes or beddes with little flat pieces of syluer in a croset luted and clayed than put them in a furneis where glasse or bricke is made by the space of four or fiue dayes The like is doen also with little pieces of Tynne ☞ An excellent and very easy waye to gilte yron copper and syluer to make it seeme lyke massyue golde FIrst if you wil gilt siluer or iron you must geue it the colour of copper as we haue aforesaid than take beaten gold which you shal mixe with quick syluer and make Amalgama or paste thereof as is said before and shal put the said Amalgama in a litle dishe vpon the whiche you shal poure the iuyce of a frute called Cucumis asininus such a quantitie that it maye be aboue the sayd substaunces a fingar high Kepe this gold thus prepared and trimmed and couer it to thintent there fall no filth nor ordure into it which you may vse and occupy whan you wil. Afterward the thinges that you wil gilt must be very cleane and well polished then with a pensell you shall geue them of the said gold so prepared with quick syluer and as it were dissolued rubbynge it well all aboute If you wyll not do so you maye gylte after the common maner of goldsmithes yet notwithstandinge with golde made into Amalgama or mixed as is aforesayed chafinge the worke that you will gylte with Aqua fortis as they do Then make the quicke syluer vanishe away as the goldsmithes of Italy comonly do that is to say with a lampe of line seed Oyle and with Brimstone and make afterwarde a gylt vpon the worke that is lyke Saffron But I counsell you to vse this maner in the chapiter folowinge whiche is partly the same that the goldsmithes do vse in Fraunce and elles where but it is muche amended and this is it ☞ A parfyt maner and waye to gilte and to make the quick syluer to vanish away from the thinge gylted PVt in a pan the rubbish or scumme of copper and the filinge of yron then poure vpon it stronge Vynaigre not distilled as much as wil couer it two or three fingars high Let it boyle so the space of an houre then poure out the said Vineaigre and put in other letting it boile as before and do thus foure or six times Afterward make the sayd Vynaigres put together to euaporate or drye vp or elles make it distill oute for to haue one vynaigre of it whiche will be good for manye thinges This doen you shal put vnto the sayd poulder remaining at the bottome the eight parte of Almayne Vitriole and as muche of Ferrerum of Spaine and the half of an eight parte of salte Armoniacke with a little Brimstone then into a little molten waxe with a little Oyle of line or Oyle Olyue you shal put little and little the saied poulders well mingled together Fynallye take that whiche you haue couered with the saied Amalgama of golde and quick syluer and with a pensyll couer and lay it ouer well with the sayed waxe so mixed than put it so cyred in the middes of hote burninge coales and let it burne and consume all the waxe This doen you shall haue suche a gylt that it shall be like massiue golde And at the ende you may pollish it with brusshes of copper wyre and colde water or you may burnishe it as you wyll The ende of the Secretes of Dom Alexis of Piemount ¶ Here foloweth the Table of all the secretes conteined in this present volume THe maner and secrete to conserue a mans youth and to holde back olde age to maintaine a man always in helth and strength as in the fayrest floure of his yeres Fo. 1 To make a precious licoure of inestimable vertue the whiche taken at the mouth strengtheneth and augmenteth the naturall heate and radicall moisture purifieth the bloud and clenseth the stomacke from all superfluitie of humours and by that meane conserueth the health and youth and prolongeth the life of him that vseth it Folio 1. A potion or drinke to be vsed in stede of Syrop good for men of all ages and complections that will be purged the whiche taken what day you wyll dryueth away the euill humours without mouinge or troublinge the good or doinge any hurt And is also very good for the great pockes and al infirmities as wel of the stomacke as of the heade and is likewyse profitable for them that be in health to take twise in the yeare of an ordinary purgation that is to saye at the Springe and in September Fol. 5. A very easy and good remedy for to heale all manner of pockes whiche is made with little coste and requyreth not that a man kepe his bedde or his house but may vse it goinge in the stretes And it is also verye good for all sortes of greife in the ioynctes in what parte of the body so euer it be Fol. 6. To resolue and reduce golde into a potable licour whiche conserueth the youth and health of a man aswel taken by it selfe as mixed with the foresayde licoure spoken of in the second chapiter of this present boke and wyll heale euery disease that is thought incurable in the space of seuen dayes at the furthest Fol. 6 To heale an excrescence or growyng vp of the fleshe within the yarde of a man albeit it were rooted in of a long tyme. Folio 8. To
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
thyng experimented and proued to bee very true against the same disease Idem To make the skin stretche and retourne again into his place after the kernell is healed Idem A verie exquisite remedie against the disease called in Latine Augina and in Greke Synanche whiche is an inflammation of the Muskle of the inner gargille the Frenche menne call it Squinancie in Englishe Quinsey Folio 30. An other against the same disease Idem An other against the sicknesse Idem A verie good remedie against the kynges euill Idem To heale the same disease by a substaunce taken at the mouthe Idem A heauenly water whiche hath many goodly and notable vertues as we will shewe you after Folio 31. Pilles of a merueilous operation and vertue againste the Sciatica whiche we promised to speake of in the Chapiter of the Sciatica Folio 32. A notable secrete to heale a madde manne be it that the madnesse came vnto hym by a whirlyng or giddinesse in the heade or braine or otherwise Idem Pilles of Master Michaell a Scotte the whiche heale the grief or paine of the heade be it inueterate or recent purge the braine clarifie the sight cause a man to haue a good memorie good colour in the face and be also verie good for many infirmities Folio 33. Against the paines of womens breastes a verie excellent remedie Folio 44. To ripe a Fellon Cattes heere Botche Boile or other apostumes or swellynges whiche haue neede of quicke and sodain ripyng Idem To resolue a Fellon Cattes heere Botle or Botche at the first beginnyng Idem To make Emplastrum Aureum whiche is of a wonderfull vertue for all sortes of woundes Idem An other excellent secrete whiche was brought out of India and is very good for diuers accidentes of mannes bodie Folio 44. Against al maner of coghes as well inueterate and old as recent and newe a certain and sure remedy fo 35. An excellente conserue againste the choghe and all anguishe of the breast whiche also mondifieth and clenseth the stomacke causeth a good voice and a faire coloure in the face Idem A goodlie and pleasaunte Secrete to heale the cogh in rubbyng the solles of the feete and is a thyng verie easie and certain Folio 36. A verie goodly and easie remeadie to heale in a daie or twaine al maner of inueterat old woundes wherin is growen deade and superfluous fleshe woundes that can not be cured by any other medicines Idem Against al maner of pestilence or plague be it neuer so vehemente a moste certain and proued thing Idem A verie good parfume against the plague Idem An other remedie very good against the plague Idem For hym that is sicke of the plague Idem An ointment to make an apostume breake and the sore of the plague to fall of Idem An other remedie against the plague Folio 38. An other verie good remedie against the plague Idem An other perfite receipt against the plague Idem An other against the plague Idem A thyng oftentymes proued and experimented against the plague Idem A preseruatiue against y e plague oftētimes proued Idē An other Folio 39. An other Idem In a suspecte tyme of a plague Idem An other wel tried proued against the pestilence Idē A verie parfite secrete against the plague Idem An other verie good secrete Idem To make a carbuncle and all other botches apostumes and plague sores to breake a presente remedie and verie easie to make Folio 40. A verie good remedie against the markes or spottes of the plague commonly called Gods markes Fo. 40. Against the mortalitie of the Pestilence a verie perfite remedie Idem To make little rounde Apples or balles againste the plague Idem An oinetment to kill the plague Fol. 41. A verie perfite oile against the plague al poison Idē A merueilous secrete for to preserue a manne from the plague and hath been proued in Englande of all the Phisitions in that greate and vehement plague in the yere 1348. whiche crepte throughout all the worlde and there was neuer man that vsed this Secrete but he was preserued from the plague Idem A verie sure and parfite remedie to cure a manne of the Pestilence and some there hath been that haue been cured in a nighte the saied remedie is also good for Goddes markes and Carbuncles Boiles Botches and soche like sicknesses as saincte Anthonies fire and soche other Idem A verie goodlie and present remedie for to heale the pestilence and drawyng out the venime frō the botche or sore or other like accident Fol. 42. An aduertisement or warnyng of greate importaunce to preserue a man in tyme of pestilence Idem To dresse and order the Iuice of Citrons for the vse of it as is afore saied Fol. 44. Of the seconde booke TO make oile Imperialle to perfume the heere or bearde of a manne to rubbe his handes or glooues with and to put also into the Lie or water wherein Princes or greate mennes clothes are wasshed and this oile maie a man make with coste inough and also with little charge or expense Fol. 44. To make oile of Ben with small charge the whiche of it self wil be odoriferous or soote in sauour and very excellente whereof parfumours doe vse aptly for to parfume gloues or other thyhges with all Fol. 45. To make an odoriferous swete water very good Idē The seconde odoriferous water Idem The third swete water Folio 46. The sowerth swete water Idem The fift swete water Idem The sixt swete water Idem The seuenth swete water Idem The eight swete water Folio 47. The nineth swete water Idem The tenth swete water Idem Oile of Orenges verie excellent Idem Oile of Iasemine and of Violettes Idem Oile of Nutinegges verie perfite Idem Oile of Bengewin verie excellent Folio 48. Oile of Storar verie excellent Idem Oile of Myrrhe good for them that haue their flesh full of humours and carraine leane for to make it tractable quicke naturall and strong Idem The maner to make that oiles shall neuer waxe mouldie nor putrifie Idem Poulder of Iris. Idem Poulder of Violettes Idem A white poulder to put in little bagges Idem Poulder of Cypres Folio 49. White Musked Sope. Idem An other kinde of odoriferous white Sope. Idem To make Damaskine Sope Musked Idem To get out the milke of Macaleb Folio 50. Poulder of Ciuet verie exquisite Idem A principall poulder Idem A white odoriferous poulder Idem A redde poulder Idem A blacke poulder Idem Poulder of Cipre verie exquisite Idem An other waie to make it verie perfite Folio 51. A swete and odoriferous poulder verie excellent to laie in chestes and cosers Fol. 51. An odoriferous and swete poulder Fol. 52. Oyle of Bengewine Idem A very good and odoriferous poulder to cary aboute a man or to laye in cofers Idem Balles agaynste the pestilence or plague whiche also geue an odour vnto all thinges Idem A princely lycour
Idem Liquide and soft sope of Naples Idem To make the sayd sope muskt Idem A very excellent paste and sweete made with muske whiche eaten causeth a swete breath Folio 53. Another very excellent Idem Dentifrices or rubbers for the teeth of great perfection for to make them cleane Idem Oyle of Bengewine odoriferous Idem Oyle of Storar Calamita Idem To make oyle of Labdanum Fol. 54. Oyle of Nutmegges Idem Another maner Idem A very exquisite sope made of diuers thinges Idem Sope with Ciuet. Fol. 55. Sope with diuers and excellent oyles Idem Sope rosat Idem White sope of a good sauour and odour Idem Perfect sope Idem Whole and massiue blacke sope Idem Damaske parfume Folio 56. Another parfume of damaske Idem An excellent pommaunder Idem Another pommaunder Fol. 57. Another pommaunder Idem Excellent Ipocras Idem To make little cusshins of parfumed roses Fol. 58. Matches or litle lightes of a very good odour Idem A composition of Muske Ciuet and Ambergrise Idē A parfume for a chamber very excellent Idem Sope of Naples Fol. 59. Perfume for a lampe Fol. 59. A shorte perfume Idem An odoriferous perfume for chambers Idem A very good perfume for to trymme gloues wyth lytle cost and yet will continue longe Idem A very exquysite Cyuet to perfume gloues and to annoynt a mans handes with Fol. 60. Oyle of roses and floures very parfyte Idem Oyle of Cloues very noble Idem To make an excellent parfume to perfume chambers garmentes Couerlettes Sheetes and al other thinges belongyng to any prince Fol. 61. Rounde apples or balles to take out spotes of oyle or grease Idem To make a past or dowe for sweete beades or beadstones Idem Of the thirde boke A goodly secrete for to condyte or confite Orenges citrons and all other fruytes in syrop whiche is a notable thinge Fol. 62. The maner howe to purifye and prepare honnye and suger for to cōfyte Cytrons and al other fruites 63. To confite Peches after the spanyshe facion Idem To make conserue or confyture of Quynces called in latyne Cotoneatum Cidoniatum or Cidonites as they do in valence whiche also the Geneuoys do vse Idem To make a past of suger wherof a man maye make all maner of fruytes and other fyne thinges with their forme as platters dyshes glasses cuppes and suche like thinges wherwith you maye furnyshe a table and when you haue done eate them vp A pleasante thinge for them that sitte at the table Fol. 64. To make a confection of Melons or ponpones Idem To make Melones 〈◊〉 swete very delicate 65. To confyte orenge pilles whiche maye be done at all tymes of the yeare and chiefly in May bycause than the sayde pilles be greater and thicker Idem To confite Walnuttes Folio 65. To confite Gourdes Idem To confite Cherries Folio 66. To make little morselles as thei vse in Naples an exquisite thyng for thei be verie sauorous doe conforte the stomacke and make a swete breath Idem Of the fowerth booke AN odoriferous and precious water wherewith a manne maie weate or bath any linen cloth to wipe or rubbe his face whiche will make his fleshe white and well coloured the more a manne rubbeth his face with it the fairer it is and also continueth sixe monethes a thyng experimented and proued yea and it wer for a quene Foli 67. To make a water that will make a white and pale persone well coloured Idem A verie good water to make the face appere of the age of .xxv. yeres Folio 68. A water to beautifie the face and all other partes of the bodie Idem A water to make the skinne white and to take awaie the Sunne burnyng Idem An other water to beautifie the face and to make it appere of the age of rv yeres Idem An easie water for ladies and gentlewomen Idem To make a goodly lustre or beautifiyng of the face good for ladies and dames Foli 69. To take out spots lentilles or pimpels in the face Idē A verie good waie how to giue a lustre or shewe to all distilled water Idem To make a water of white Melōs that maketh a faire skinne Idem To make a verie good water of Gourdes as well garden Gourdes as wilde Folio 70. An ointment for the face whiche beyng kepte on or vsed continually the space of eight daies altereth the skinne and reneweth it finely Idem For hym that hath naturally a redde face Folio 71. Ta make Aqua argentata or siluer water whiche maketh a white ruddie and glistryng face and is made like a water and not like an oyntment that the Dames of Italie for the moste parte dooe vse although that fewe men make it as it ought to be made Idem To make an ointment for the face Idem To make a redde colour for the face Folio 72. To make the face faire Idem To make the face faire an other waie Idem To make the face faire Idem To make a water that maketh the face white Idem An other maner to make the face faire Idem To take spottes lintelles or redde pimples out of the face Idem To take of a ring worme or tetter that renneth al ouer a mannes called in Frenche Le fru volant Folio 73. To driue awaie Lise Idem To make a water that taketh awaie al stainyng diyng and spottes from the handes of artificers that get thē by working and maketh them very white and faire it is also good for them that be sunne burned Idem To make a water that make the fleshe and skinne of a manne or woman verie faire and will be kept like a precious baume Idem A verie goodlie water to washe the face necke and the breast whereof a manne maie make a greate quantite for the more there is of it the better it is it maketh the skinne and the fleshe of the face faire not hurtyng or destroiyng the teeth and shall seme that the face is nothyng at al holpen with any colour but that is euen so by nature Folio 74. To make a verie excellente redde coloure for the face whiche is naturall and continueth long vppon the face makyng it alwaies gaier and fairer Idem An other kinde of redde verie good for the face easier to make and with lesse coste Fol. 75. An excellent white aboue al other Idem To make heare as yellow as golde Idem To make lye to washe the head whiche beside that it comforteth the brayne and the memory maketh the heare longe fayre and yellow like golde Idem Lye to make heare blacke Fol. 76. An oyle for to annoynt the heare whiche maketh it yelowe lyke golde longe and glistering lyke burnished golde Idem A very goodly way or maner howe to make yellowe aberne heare without standing longe or nothinge at al in the sonne a rare and a very excellent secret Idē An oyntment to make the heares fall from any place of the body Fol. 77. An oyle or lycour
to make the heare fall of and maye be kept as longe as a man wyll It is also good for all occasions Fol. 78. An aduertisement or lesson for them that will make the heare fall of Idem To cause that the heare shall grow no more or to make them come out thinne and fine lyke the fyrst soft hear or mosines of the face Idem To make a kind of cloth or plaister to take the heare froÌ„ the face neck handes or froÌ„ any part of the body 79 A merueilous secrete whiche the greate lordes of the Moores do vse wherby they make that their children haue no hear vnder their armes or other place wher they wyl And this secrete found I in Siria the year 1521 by the meanes of a lorde of the countrey whose doughter I healed Idem To make a kind of cloth called cloth of Leuant wherwith women vse to colour their faces Fol. 80. The same another way Idem To dye a white beard or heare of the heade into a fayre blacke Idem A noble and excellent poulder to make cleane the teeth to make them fast and white to conserue the gommes a better thinge can not be found and it were to present to a Quene or princesse Fol. 81. To make a very excellent conserue to scoure the teeth to comforte the gommes and to make a swete and good breath Idem An aduertisement or lesson concerning the makynge of poulders and conserues for the teeth Idem An exceding white and good poulder to scoure the teeth whiche is meter for lordes and great men than anye of the other before Fol. 82. A distilled water excellent for to make the teeth white immediatly and to preserue them wonderfully f. 83. Thre aduertisementes or lessonnes of importaunce to kepe the teeth white and vncorrupt and also a swete breath Idem A decoction to washe and scour the mouth to fasten lose teeth to consolidate and make sounde the gommes and to make the flesshe growe agayne if it were decayed or fallen a waye Fol. 84. Of the fyste boke TO make parfit Asure suche as cometh from be yond the seas Fol. 84. To make a fine confection of grayne called Lacca of grayne Fo. 86 To dye bones into a grene colour Idem Another maner howe to die bones or Iuâ—rye into the colour of an Emeraude Idem To die bones redde blew or of any colour you wil. IdeÌ„ A very goodly secrete to die or colour wood of what colour a man wil which some ioyners dovse that make tables and other thinges of diuers coloures and do esteme it among them selues to be of such excellency that one brother will not teache it another Fol. 87 To counterfeit the black wood called Hebenus or Hebenum to make it as fayre as the natural Hebene whiche groweth no where but in India Idem To die scinnes blew or of the colour of Asure Idem To dye skynnes in Chickweede called in latyne Rubra maior or Rubra tinctorum into a redde coloure Fol. 88. To dye Skinnes greene Idem To dye the saied Skinnes an other waie Idem An other waie to dye Skinnes of Asure coloure and faire Folio 89. An other maner to dye Skinnes greene Idem To dye Neates leather into a grene colour as well in gal as in leaues Idem To dye Skinnes grene with the flower of Ireos fo 90 To dye bones in a Turkishe or redde colour Idem To dye Hogges bristelles and other thynges for to make rubbars and brusshes Idem To dye the saied bristelles yellowe grene or blewe or any other colour Idem To make Purple whiche is a colour wherewith men vse to make a coloure like golde for to painte and write with Idem To make Lacca of Brasill Foli 91. To make white tables to write in with the poinct of a wire soche as come out of Germanie Idem To make Roset or ruddle Idem To gilte ouer Parchemente Leather or other soche woorke whiche menne vse in steade of hangynges or Tapistrie Folio 92. To dye Crimson silke Idem To prepare and trimme Brasill for to make of it foure diuers colours Idem To make Roset of Brasill an other waie Foli 93. To make beyondsea Asure without Lapis lasuli Idem To make a grene coloure to write or paint with IdeÌ„ To braie fine golde wherewith a manne maie write or painte with a pensill Idem The same an other waie Idem An other waie with purpurine Folio 94. To make a grounde to gilte vppon with burnisshed Golde Idem To laie or settle golde with a single ground Idem An other waie to laie on golde Idem To make colours of all kinde of metalles Idem To laye golde on a blacke ground Idem To make letters of the colour of gold without gold Id. To make syluer letters without siluer Idem To make greene letters Fol 95 To make white letters in a blacke field Idem To make a greene colour for to write and paynt withall Idem To trimme and dresse Asure Idem To dresse or trimme Cinabrium for to write or paynte with Idem A ground to lay golde vpon any metall or yron Idem To gylt the edges of bookes Fol. 96. To kepe and preserue whites of egges as long as a maÌ„ wyll without corrupting and without putting Arsenick to it A secrete not muche knowen Idem The maner howe to make the grounde or foundation for Indicum Idem Another perfit ground for the same thinge Idem A goodly way howe to make gold and siluer into poulder a thinge easy to be done and there wyll come of it an excellent colour This is a very rare secret whiche hath not ben vsed nor knoweÌ„ vntil this preset 96 To make a very fayre Vernix to vernish the said gold and all other workmanshippe Fol. 97. To braye or break gold or siluer easely after the comen maner that the best workmasters do vse Fol. 98 To make a lyeour that maketh a golden colour without gold Idem Another lycour of the colour of golde for to wryte and to gilt iron wode glasse bone other like things 98 Another goodly licour to make a golden colour with litle cost and is a thinge easy to be done Fol. 99. To make incke or a coloure to write with in a verye good perfection Idem A good waye and maner howe to make ynck for to cary about a man in a drye poulder whiche whan he will wryte with he must temper with a lyttle wyne water or Vinaigre or with some other licour and than he may incontinent putte it in experience With the sayd poulder all other yncke maye be amended be it neuer so euill Idem To make a great deale of ynck quickely and with lyttle coste Fol. 100. To make Printers inck Idem To make yncke so white that althoughe a man write with it vpon white paper it may easely and perfitlye be redde A very goodly thinge Idem To make a poulder to take of blottes of yncke fallen vpon the paper