a powder searce them fine and then mingle them together and drinke thereof morning and evening and all times of the day Approved A speciall Medicine for the Collicke TAke Horehound halfe an handfull of Sage and Hysope of either as much twelve leaves of Betony of Centaury sixe crops one Alexander-root foure penie weight of Enula-campana roots powdered Spikenard of Spaine one penie worth seethe all these in three quarts of fine wort to a pottle and draw it through a linnen cloth and take three spoonfuls at once morning and evening To take away rednesse of burning of the Eyes TAke the white of an Egge and beat it very well with a spoonfull or two of red Rose-water then put thereto the pap of a rosted apple mingle them well together and spread it upon a little Flaxe so lay it on the eye binding it on with a linnen cloth For the Rheume in the Eyes TAke the white of an Egge and so much Bolearmoniacke as will thicken it and spread it on a round plaister of sheeps leather and lay it on the temples on that side the Rheume is The Oyntment for the same TAke Lapis Tutiae and burne it in a fire-shovell of quicke coales quench it in a poringer of womans milke do so halfe a score times then grinde it in a cleane morter till it be very fine powder then mingle it with fresh Barrows grease till it looke russet anoint your eyes with a little of it when you go to bed For Deafenesse TAke Rew and rub it betweene the palmes of your hands untill it be so brused that you may make thereof a tent then dip it in sweet sallet oyle and put in each eare one so that you may pull them forth againe This doe for seven or eight dayes and change the tent every day Take a quarter of a pinte of Angelica water of Cardus Benedictus water and of white wine of either a like quantity mingle them together dividing the same into two equall parts drink it in two severall mornings then the next night after the taking of the second draught of water take the fish of an oyster and put it into a fayre linnen cloth and stop the same into the eare that is thickest of hearing and lie on that side as long as you can in the morning pick that eare as cleane as you can and after that take a draught of the best ale you can get with a toast of houshold bread toasted very dry a reasonable quantity of nutmegs use the same every morning for five or six dayes fasting after the taking hereof two houres every time you take it For the cough of the lungs TAke two handfuls of Rosemary and strip it of the stalk one of Hissop and seethe them in a pottle of running water till it come to a quart and then put a quarter of a pound of fine sugar and let it seethe a little and scum it drink it morning and evening A present remedie for all manner aches and bruises in the Bones TAke a good quantitie of Wallwort and a certaine quantity of Balme and Smallach and stamp them and take a pound of May Butter and temper them very well together then make them into round bals and let them lye for the space of eight dayes after and then stampe them againe as you did before then take it and fry it and straine it and put it into an earthen pot This will helpe the bruise be it never so blacke For burning or scalding TO take out the fire beat onyons very small and binde them to the place To heale it take halfe a pound of sheeps suet as much sheeps dung a quarter of a pound of the inner rinde of an Elder-tree and a little Housleeke fry them altogether and straine it and use it as a plaister or make a serecloth of it and apply it to the grieved part For Burstnesse of old or young TAke nine red Snailes lay them betweene two tyles of clay so that they creepe not nor slide away and bake them in the hot embers or in an oven till they may be powdered then take the powder of one of the Snailes and put it in white wine and let the patient drinke it in the morning at his rising and fast two houres after and drinke these nine Snailes in eighteene dayes that is every other day one And if the sicknesse be so old that it will not heale in eighteene dayes begin againe and drinke other nine Snailes and he shall be whole Probatum est A Salve for all sores TAke a pound of sheepes-tallow and a pound of Turpentine and a pound of Virgin-waxe a pint of Sallet oyle a quarter of a pound of Rosin take also Bugle Smallach and Plantaine halfe the quantitie of the other or so much as will make a pint just boyle all these together upon a soft fire of coales alwayes stirring it till a third part be consumed then take it from the fire and straine it through a new canvas cloth into an earthen pot For Bleeding TAke a blacke Toade in May drie it betweene two tile stones and hang it in Sarcenet about the parties necke To procure sleepe TAke Betony Roseleaves Vinegar Nutmeg and the crummes of Rye-bread put this in a cloth warme to the poll of the head For the Cough TWo handfuls of last Saverie steepe it five dayes in white wine vineger put into the vineger halfe an ounce of Pepper at the five dayes end draine out the vineger and as soone as the bread is drawne set them in a Pewter dish into the oven and stop it up and let them stand all night In the morning take them out of the Oven and powder them Take of this powder and drinke it with Sacke so much of it as will lye on a three-pence A Gargill for the â—vula TAke a pint of good strong Ale and as much Sacke and a good quantitie of long pepper and bruise it grossely and boyle it from a quart to a pinte and let the parties gargle their mouthes and throats as warme as they may suffer it If the pallat of the mouth be downe it will fetch it up For Deafnesse very excellent good TAke the hoofes of the Neats feet after they be sodden and hold them in a cloth so warme as may be to your eare divers times together one after another they will last to be warmed in the same they were sodden in some three or foure dayes without sowring FINIS
the top of the upper vessell In the top of the upper vessell let there bee another pipe reaching from the bottom of the upper vessell and extending it selfe out of the vessell a good way let the top of it hang ouer the tunnell In the top of the upper vessell let there be a hole besides to be stopped with cork or otherwise when you will use it open the cork-hole and fill the upper vessel with water then stop it close againe and poure water into the tunnell and you shall see that the water in the upper vessell will run out of the pipe into the tunnell againe and so will continue running untill all the water in the upper vessell be run out The reason thereof is this the water in the tunnell pressing the ayre in the lower vessell maketh it ascend the pipe in the partition and presse the water in the upper vessell which having no other way but the pipe it runneth out thereat The forcing of water by pressure that is the naturall course of water in regard of its heavinesse and thinnesse artificially contrived to break out of what image you please LEt A B C D bee a cestern placed upon a curious frame for the purpose let the bottom of this frame be made likewise in the form of a cestern Through the pillers of this frame let there passe hollow pipes from the bottom of the upper cestern and descend to the bottom of the lower cestern and then run all to the middle thereof and joyne in one and turne up into the hollow body of a beast bird fish or what your fancy most affecteth let the hole of the image whereat the water must break out be very small for so it will run the longer Fill the upper cestern with water and by reason of the weight thereof it will passe through the pipes and spin out of the hole of the image Experiments of forcing water by Engins LEt there bee an even streight barrell of brasse of what length and bignesse you please let the bottom of it be open and let the top be closed but so that it be hollow on the outside like a basin in the midst whereof let there bee a straight pipe erected open at both ends also let there be another short pipe at the side of it which let bee even with the top of the basin on the outside but stand a little from it on the side Having thus prepared the barrell fit a good thick board unto it so that it may slip easily up and down from the top of the barrell unto the bottom nayle a lether about the edges of it and another upon the top of it on the underside of it let there be fastned a good stiffe but flexible spring of steele which may thrust the board from the bottom to the top of the barrell let the foot of this spring rest upon a barre fastned acros the bottom of the barrell let this board also have tied at the middle a little rope of length sufficient When you use it bore a little hole in the table that you set it on to put the rope thorow and pull the rope down which will contract the spring and with it draw down the board then poure in water at the basin untill the vessell be full Note then as you let slack the rope the water will spirt out of the pipe in the middle and as you pull it straight the water will run into the vessell againe You may make birds or divers images at the top of the pipe out of which the water may break Another manner of forcing water whereby the water of any spring may be forced unto the top of a hill LEt there be two hollow posts with a succur at the bottom of each also a succur nigh the top of each let there be fastned unto both these posts a strong peece of timber having as it were a beame or scale pinned in it and having two handles at each end one In the tops of both these hollow posts fasten two brasse barrels made very even and smooth within unto these two barrels let there be fitted two forcers lethered according to art at the tops of these forcers must be fastned two yrons which must bee linked unto the aforesaid beam from each post below towards the end of the barrels let there bee two leaden pipes which afterward meet in one to conduct the water up to the place desired which if it bee very high there will be need of some succurs to catch the water as it cometh The description of an Engin to force water up to a high place very usefull for to quench fire amongst buildings LEt there be a brasse barrell provided having two succurs in the bottom of it let it also have a good large pipe going up one side of it with a succur nigh unto the top of it and above the succur a hollow round ball having a pipe at the top of it made to screw another pipe upon it to direct the water to any place Then fit a forcer unto the barrell with a handle fastned unto the top at the upper end of this forcer drive a strong screw and at the lower end a screw nut at the bottom of the barrell fasten a screw and at the barre that goeth crosse the top of the barrell let there be another screw nut put them all in order and fasten the whole to a good strong frame that it may stand steddy and it is done When you use it either place it in the water or over a kennell and drive the water up to it and by moving the handle to and fro it will cast the water with mighty force up to any place you direct it Experiments of producing sounds by ayer and water LEt there bee had in a readinesse a pot made after the forme of the figure following having a little hole at the top in the which fasten a reed or pipe also another little hole at the bottom presse this pot into a bucket of water and it will make a loud noyse Another LEt there be a cestern of lead or such like having a tunnell on the top let it bee placed under the fall of a Conduit and at the one end of the top let there come out of the vessell a small pipe which let bee bent into a cup of water and there will be heard a strange voice Over this pipe you may make an artificiall tree with diuers birds made to sit therein How to make that a bird sitting on a basis shall make a noise and drink out of a cup of water being held to the mouth of it PRovide a cestern having a tunnell at the one end of the top and a little cane coming out of the other end of the vessell on the top of which let there be a bird made to sit also at the bottom of the cestern let there bee a crane to carry away the water as it runneth into the vessell Place this
TAke of white lead foure ounces of Indicum two ounces put them into a leaden pot with vinegar boyle them well and that which swimmes on the top is the colour A purple or violet Colour THis is a compounded colour and it is made either by mixing a quantitie of Azure and a portion of Turnsole or else by mixing a quantitie of russet and a quantitie of Azure Sanguine or Blood-colour THis is likewise a compounded colour and it is made by mixing a good quantitie of Cinaper with a little blacke Orange-tawny THis colour is compounded of a bright red and a bright yellow A Lyon-tawny THis colour is made by mixing red lead and Masticot together A Carnation or Flesh-colour FIrst you must lay on a white colour tempered with gumme-gumme-water and when it is drie you must go it over againe with Vermillion or lake or else you must temper ceruse and vermilleon together and being dry go over it againe with lake or vermillion A Peach Colour This is compounded of Ceruse and Vermillion A Skie Colour This colour is compounded of vermilleon and azure A Blood red THis colour is made of Cinaper and afterwards sadded with Vermilleon at the sides or else with a browne colour A bloudy colour grinde Cinaper Lake and Cinaper tops put them into good water and if they be too light put to them a little Turnsole A Lincoln-greene THis colour is compounded of a good greene and Saffron A Poppin-jay greene This colour is compounded of azure and masticot A good yellow TAke Saffron or Cambugium and temper it with gum-gum-water Sad it with Vermilleon A sable or blacke TAke a Torch hold it under a lattyn Bason temper that blacke with gumme-gumme-water A velvet-blacke BVrne harts-horne on a Colliers hearth then grinde it with the gaul of a neat put it into a shell and let it dry in the shade when you would use it grinde it againe with gumme-gumme-water To write gold with Pen or Pensil TAke a shell of gold and put a little gum-water unto it and temper it together and then you may write with it as with other colours To make Azure or bise sadder TAke blew Turnsole wet it in gum-water and then wring it out and mixe it either with Bise or else overshadow the Bise with it Red Colour TAke Vermillion and temper it with gumme water His false colour is two parts vermillion and a third part ceruse Another Red. TAke russet and temper it with gumme-water clay it with ceruse and sad it with it selfe Another Red. TAke Brassill in grosse powder allum in powder steep them in gum water a night and a day then straine it and keepe it for use A greene Colour TAke Copper plates put them in a copper pot put distilled vineger to them set them in a warme place till the vinegar become blew then put it out into another leaded pot and poure more vinegar into it again let it stand so till it become blew this do so many times till you thinke you have enough then let it stand till it be thicke To make good Inke TAke two handfuls of gauls cut each gaul into three or foure peeces poure into them a pint of beere or wine then let it stand eight houres straine it from the gauls and put vitreoll therein and to the vitreoll a third part of gumme set it on the fire to warme but let it not seethe and it will be good Inke and of these gauls you may make Inke foure or five times more To seethe Brasill TAke an ounce of Brasill twelve ounces of beere wine or vinegar put it in a new pot let it stand a night and in the morning set it on the fire and let it seethe till halfe be consumed then put into it two peny worth of allum beaten together and as much beaten gum-Arabicke stirre them well together and let them seethe againe if you desire to have it somewhat darke then scrape a little chalke into it when it seetheth let it not seethe over the pot when it is cold straine it through a cloth and put it into a glasse well stopt Aurum Musicum TAke one ounce of Salarmoniack one ounce of quick-silver of counterfein halfe an ounce of brimstone bruise the brimstone and set it on the fire but let it not be over hot lest it burne then take the Salarmoniacke and the quicksilver being in powder mixe them well together then mingle with them the brimstone stirre them well and quickly with a sticke till the brimstone become hard then let it coole grinde it on a stone and put it in a glasse well stopt with waxe and set it in a pan with ashes make a fire under it and let it stand halfe a day in that manner but not over hot till a yellow smoke riseth on it and when the yellow smoke is gone it is prepared Argentum Musicum TAke an ounce of Tynne melt it and put thereto one ounce of tartar and one ounce of quicksilver stirre them well till they be cold then beat all in a morter and grinde it on a stone temper it with gumme-water and write therewith and afterward polish it To write a gold colour TAke a new hennes egge make a hole at one end and let the substance out then take the yolke without the white and foure times as much in quantitie of quicksilver grinde them well together and put them into the shell stop the hole thereof with chalke and the white of an egge then lay it under an henne that sitteth with sixe more let her sit on it three weeks then breake it up and write with it To write with gold out of a Pensil TAke honey and salt a like quantitie grinde them well and put to them a leafe of gold with a little white of an egge put it into a mussell shell and let it purifie then temper it with gumme-water and write with it pollish it Or else grinde a leafe of silver or gold very small with gumme-water and wash it in a mussell shell as aforesaid To temper Azure of Bise TAke Azure or Bise and grinde it on a stone with cleane water then put it in a broad glasse or shell and when it hath stood a while all the dregs will fleet above and the cleane colour will fall to the bottome then poure out the water with the dregs and poure the azure in cleane water againe then stirre the colour and water together and let it stand and fine and after that poure out the water and dregs againe do thus till it be well purged then grinde it againe on a stone with gumme-water and put it into a horne or shell when you paint or write stirre it and let the sticke drop into the pen for it will sinke to the bottome as lead To temper Turnsole TAke Turnsole and wet it once or twice in cleare water and let it lye till it be well steeped then wring it into a dish till the colour be good and sad with this
you may flourish red letters or vestures and this colour shall be darked sadded or renewed with blacke inke To make colouring called Vernix to varnish gold silver or any other colour on vellem paper timber stone c. TAke Bengewine and bray it well betwixt two papers then put it into a viol and poure on it Aqua vitae that it may stand aboue the bengewine three or foure fingers and let it steepe so a day or two then put to it for halfe a violl of Aqua vitae fiue or sixe chieues of Saffron slenderly stamped this done straine it and with a Pensil vernish therewith any thing gilded which will become bright and shining drying it selfe immediately and will continue the brightnesse many yeares But if you will vernish on siluer then take the white that is found in Bengewine and dresse it with Aqua vitae as afore leauing out the Saffron and the said vernish made with these onely is very good to varnish all things as well painted as not painted for it maketh Tables of Walnut tree and Hebene to glister if it bee laid on them and all other things as Iron Copper or Tin gilded or not it maketh bright preserveth and aideth the colour and dryeth incontinent without taking dust To make a double size to lay gold or silver on an embossed ground TAke Venice Ceruse white lead plaister of an old Image or chalke any of these made in fine powder and ground with the white of an egge and a little water this will make a good bottome to lay silver on But when you use any of these to lay under gold put to it a little Saffron put not too much water mingle it after discretion and looke the size be thicke standing put the size thus tempered in a horne or shell in some Celler or shadowed place where it may stand moyst seven dayes till it be perfect clammy and rotten and once a day stirre it the elder the size is it is the better If there stand any bubbles on the size put in eare waxe for that is a remedy thereto and before you lay it on your worke lay the size on a scrow and dry it and when it is dry bend it and if it bend and breake not then it is perfect and if it breake put to it a little water to make it weaker and proue if it cleaueth fast to the booke if not put glayr thereto and make it more stedfast the like size may you make of Gipsium Bolearmoniacke red or yellow Oker Orpment or Masticot with browne of Spaine or red lead if euery of them be ground seuerally and tempered as afore Of painting in Oyle HEre you must provide one thing more then you did before that is a Pallet so called by Artists whereupon you must put a small quantitie of euery such colour you are to use the forme whereof followeth The colours to be used are altogether such dry substances as I mentioned formerly as Oker Vermilion red lead Vmber Spanish browne Lam-blacke Gambugice Masticot Orpment Ceruse or Spanish white blew and greene Bise Verdigrease and a multitude of such like which may be had at the Rose in Cornehill London Your colours must be ground all very finely and tempered with Linseed oyle and to preserve them put them in little earthen pans and put water upon them and cover them that the dust come not at them thus they may be kept a great while and from thence you may take them as your use doth require There are divers colours which without the admixture of another colour will not be dry a great while as Lake Verdigrease Lam-blacke with such you must temper a little Vmber or red lead Divers Painters there are that having haste of worke doe use to temper their colour with one part of fatte oyle and two of common Linseed oyle and by this meanes they make the colours dry the sooner this fat oyle is onely Linseed oyle exposed to the weather and so it becommeth thicker yea sometimes you shall see it so thicke that you may cut it almost like Butter it may bee made likewise by boyling of it a little while but the former is the best As for the tempering of your colours I can prescribe no surer way then experience with diligent observation Of Graving IT is possible for one to be a good Painter and yet not to be able to draw well with the pen because there is not required in a Painter such a curious and exact carriage of the hand but it is impossible for one ever to Grave or Etch well except he can draw well with the pen. First therefore presupposing you can doe the first before you attempt the second you must provide divers graving tooles both long and short some for hard worke some for sweet worke some for smaller worke and some for greater also a peece of a Beaver hat and a good oyle stone smoothed on one side and free from pin holes and plates of Copper or Brasse exactly polished Of Gravers THere are two principall sorts of Gravers the long and the short the long are straight and for to engrave Plates withall especially the greater and these are to be held as the figure following doth expresse where you may note that the pummell of the Graver resteth against the ball of the thumb and the point is guided with the forefinger And there ought to bee a little bagge of sand under your Plate to the end that you might turne your plate upon it as your worke doth require The second sort is a short Graver and turneth up somewhat at the end and that is to engrave Letters and Scutchions in plate seales and smaller plates being fastened in some convenient instrument this must be held likewise according unto the expression of the figure following where it is to be noted that the pummell of the Graver is stayed against the further part of the hand and is guided by the inward side of the thumbe It were needfull that there were a piece of leather like a Taylors thimble about the end of the thumbe waxed or glued whereby to guide the Graver more steadily and stay it upon occasion How to make Gravers PRovide some good crosse-bow steele and cause it to be beaten out into small rods and softned then with a good file you may shape them at your pleasure when you have done heat them red hot and dip them straight downe into sope and by so doing they will bee hard indeed Note that if in the dipping of them into the sope you turne your hand never so little awry the Graver will be crooked These Gravers made and hardened after this manner doe farre exceed all the other Gravers If your gravers be too hard heate them a little and thrust them into tallow and they will be tougher The oyle stone is to whet your gravers on drop one or two drops of sallet oyle upon it and whet your graver thereon and it will have an edge presently How
powder of calcined flints of each â„¥ vj. these powders must bee tempered with a Lixivium that is made with quick lyme and wine adde unto the whole a little salt then make thereof what you list then boyle them in linseed oyle How to make Pearles of Chalk TAke some Chalk and put it into the fire there let it lie untill it break temper it then with the whites of egs Then make of it divers fashions of Pearles both great and small wet them being dried and cover them with leafe gold and they are done An approved and excellent plaster for ach in the raines of the back or in any other part whatsoever TAke one pound of black Sope and foure ounces of frankincense and a pinte of white wine vineger boyle all together upon a gentle fire untill it be thick spread it then upon a lether and apply it unto the grieved place If the ach bee very great and fervent then adde unto it a little aqua vitae and it will be much better An excellent oyntment for the Shingles Morphew Tetters and Ringwormes TAke a quarter of a pound of sope and mingle with it two drams of the powder of black Ellebor litharge of silver in fine powder two ounces vardigrease halfe an ounce and a quarter of an ounce of glasse in powder and as much quicksilver make them all into an oyntment by stirring them well together wherewith anyont the grieved parts This is approved and true An excellent Balme or water for grievous sore eyes which commeth either of outward accident or of any inward cause TAke two spoonfuls of the juyce of Fennell and one spoonfull and a halfe of the juyce of Celandine and twice as much hony as them both then boyle them a little upon a chafingdish of coales and scum away the dregs which will ascend but first let it coole somwhat and then let it run through a fayre cleane cloth then put it into a violl of glasse and stop it close Put a little quantity of this into the eye This medicine is approved and more precious than gold A speedy way to asswage the paine of any scald or burne though never so great and to take the fire out of it TAke old lawn rags dip them into Runnet for want of it dip them into verges and apply them cold upon the grieved place shifting them for halfe an houre together as oft as they dry this I have known to give ease in an instant and quickly to take out the fire An approved oyle for to heale any burne or scald TAke of housleek one handfull and of brooklime as much boyle them in a quart of creame untill it turne unto an oyle boyle it very gently with this oyle a little warmed anoint the grieved place twice a day and it will soone make it well An oyntment very excellent and often proued for the same TAke a good quantity of mosse scraped from off a stone wall fry it in a fryingpan with a call of mutton suet a good while then straine it and it is done Dresse the grieved part therewith once or twice a day as you shall see fitting Another oyntment for a burne TAke one part of sallet-oyle and two parts of the whites of egs beat them together exceeding well untill they come to be a white oyntment wherein dip the feather of a black hen and anoynt the grieved place divers times every day untill such time as the scales fall off using in the meane while neither clothes nor any outward binding This sayth Minshet the authour though it seeme to be a thing of no estimation yet was there never found any more effectuall for a burn than it is An excellent oyntment for a green wound TAke foure handfuls of Clownes Allheale bruse it and put it into a pan and put to it foure ounces of barrowes grease sallet-oyle halfe a pound Bees wax a quarter of a pound boyle them all untill the iuyce be wasted then straine it and set it over the fire againe and put unto it two ounces of Turpentine then boyle it a little while more and it is done Put hereof a little in a saucer and set it on the fire dip a tent in it and lay it on the wound but first lay another plaister round about the wound made of diapalma mollified a little with oyle of Roses This cureth very speedily all greene wounds as saith M. Gerard. A Balsam of wonderfull efficacy TAke Burgundie pitch brimstone and white frankincense of each one ounce make them into an oyntment with the whites of egges first draw the lips of the wound or cut as close as you can then lay on some of this spread upon a cloth and swathe it ouer afterwards An excellent healing Water which will drie up any old sore or heale any greene wound TAke a quarter of a pound of Bolearmoniacke powder it by it selfe then take an ounce of Camphire powder it also by it selfe also take foure ounces of white Coppras in powder mixe the Coppras and Camphire together and put them into a melting pot and set them on the fire untill they turne unto water afterwards stirre it untill it come to be as hard as a stone then powder it againe and mixe it with the Bole-armoniacke keepe this powder close in a bladder when you would use it take one pinte and a halfe of faire water set it on the fire and when it is even ready to boyle put into it three spoonfuls of the powder then take it off from the fire and put it into a glasse and let it stand untill it be cleare at the top then take of the clearest and wash the sore very warme therewith and dip a cloth foure double in the same water and binde it fast about the sore with a rowler and keepe it warme dresse it thus twice a day A Water for a Fistula TAke one pint of white wine 1 ounce of juyce of Sage three penie weight of Borace in powder Camphire in powder the weight of foure pence boyle them all a prettie while on a gentle fire and it is done Wash the Fistula with this water for it is certainly good and approved to be true A Water for the Toothache TAke ground ivie salt and spearemint of each an handfull beat them very well together then boile them in a pint of vineger straine it and put a spoonfull of it into that side that aketh and hold downe your cheeke Another Water approved for the same TAke red rose leaves halfe a handfull Pomegranate-flowers as many two gaules sliced thinne boyle them all in three quarters of a pint of red wine and halfe a pint of faire water untill the third part be wasted then straine it and hold a little of it in your mouth a good while then spit it out and take more Also if there be any swelling on your cheeke apply the strainings betweene two clothes as hot as may be suffered This I have knowne to do good unto divers in
this Citie when as they have beene extreamely pained To make a Water for the eyes TAke Lapis Calaminaris and burne it in the fire nine times and quench it in white wine and beat it into powder and when you use it put it into rose-rose-water and drop the water into the eye For Deafenesse TAke a good quantitie of Camomill and two handfuls of greene Wormewood and seethe them in a pot of running water till they be very well sodden and put a funnell over it and let the steame go up into the eare and then go to bed warme and stop your eare with a little blacke wooll and a grain of Civet do this morning and evening and with Gods assistance you shall finde ease An excellent Electuary for the Cough Cold or against Flegme TAke of Germander Hissope Horehound white Maidenhaire Agrimony Bettony Liverwort Lungwort and Harts-tongue of each one handfull put these to nine pints of water and let them boyle to three pints then let it coole and straine it To this juyce put of clarified honey halfe a pound fine powder of Liquorice fiue ounces fine powder of Enulacampana root three ounces boyle them to the thicknesse of an Electuary Take of this at any time but specially in the morning fasting as also at night when you go to bed or two houres after supper the quantitie of a Wallnut or Nutmeg A very excellent salve to heale well proved for any old sore or new wound TAke of Waxe Rosin Sheeps suet Turpentine of each a like quantitie Sallet oyle also as much mixe them all together and take the juyce of Smallach of Planten of Orpin of Buglosse of Comfery of each a like quantitie let them boyle untill the iuyce of the hearbes be consumed and in the seething put a quantitie of rose-Rose-water and it will be a very good Salue A soveraigne Water to heale a greene wound and to stanch bloud TAke a pottle of running water and put thereto foure ounces of Allum and one ounce of Copras and let them seethe to a quart and then straine it and keepe it in a glasse and wash the wound and wet a cloth and lay to the sore and with Gods helpe it will soone be healed For the Byting of a mad Dogge TAke brine and bathe the wound then burne Claret wine and put in a little Mithridate and so let the patient drinke it Then take two live pigeons cut them through the middle and lay them hot to his hand if he be bitten in the armes If in his legges to the sole of his feet An Oyle for any Ach. TAke a pound of unwashed butter and a handfull of red mints and a handfull of camomill a handfull of rew two ounces of oyle of Exeter stamp the herbs to a juyce and boyle them with the butter straine them in a cloth and rub them out very well this so done take the oyle of Exeter and put to them and stir them well together and put them into a gally pot and where the ach is anoint the place against the fire and lay a browne paper on it and wrap a cloth about the place and keepe it warme proved to be excellent To stanch the bleeding of a cut TAke a peece of a felt hat and burne it to a coale beat it to powder and put it in the cut and it will stanch the bleeding presently Or else apply linnen rags that in the spring of the yeere have beene often washed in the sperm of frogs and afterward dried in the Sunne For an ague to bee layd to the wrists Take a handfull of soot a spoonfull of bay salt halfe a spoonfull of pepper bruse them together and temper them with two yelks of egs spread it on a cloth and lay it to the wrists Almond milke for the cough of the lungs TAke foure spoonfuls of French barly well washed and boyle it in three wine pints of faire water unto a pint and a halfe then take it from the fire and let it coole and settle then take the cleere liquor and straine therewith a quarter of a pound of sweet almonds blanched and beaten then set it on the fire and let it boyle a while till it begin to grow thick then beat two yelks of egs and put them to it stirre them well together and put to it as much fine suger as will sweeten it and a spoonfull of damask rose water and so let it boyle a while longer till it be as thick as good creame eat of it warm twice or thrice a day but at breakfast especially For a scald head TAke a pinte of running water and as much Mercury as a good walnut three or foure branches of Rosemary boyle these all together till a third part be boyled away or thereabout and every morning and evening wash the infected place with some of this water cold and a quarter of an houre after or lesse anoint the place with lamp oyle and every morning after the first dressing try to pull up some of the hayre as easily as you can have care where you set this water for it is poyson If you shave the head and apply a plaster called Emplastrum Cephalicum cum Euphorbio it is also excellent For to heale a red face that hath many pimples Proved TAke foure ounces of barrowes grease and as much oyle of bayes halfe an ounce of quicksilver killed with fasting spettle then take two spoonfuls of wilde tansie water or honisuckle water and let all be ground in a morter three houres at the least untill you see nothing of the quicksilver and so keep it close in a glasse the older the better and when you go to bed anoint the face and look that you keep it from your eyes To wash the Face if it be given to heat TAke Snailes beat them shels and bodies together steep them a night in new milke then still them with the flowers of white Lillies To make Vsquebach TAke a gallon of the smallest Aqua vitae you can make put it into a close vessell of stone put thereto a quart of Canary Sacke two pounds of Raisons of the Sunne stoned but not washed two ounces of Dates stoned and the white skinnes of them pulled out two ounces of Cinamon grossely bruised foure good Nutmegs bruised foure good Liquorish sticks sliced and bruised tye up all your Spices in a fine linnen cloth and put them into your Aqua vitae and tye up your pot very close and let this infuse a weeke stirring it three times a day then let it runne through a jelly bagge close covered keepe it in glasse bottles To make Almond Butter TAke two pound of Almonds and blanch them and let them lye all night in cold water then grinde them in a mortar very small and put in a blade of Mace or two then straine it through a strong cloth as neare as you can that the milke be not too thin and let it seethe a prettle while then put in a little Rose-water and
under a grinstone into the which such yron as hath beene from time to time ground away hath fallen and there setled The making of a Pumpe to draw water SVppose A B C were a deepe Wel wherein you would make a Pumpe to draw water to the surface or superficies of the earth First therefore you must prouide a pipe of Lead or a peece of timber bored through so long as will reach unto the bottome of the Well that part that standeth in the water must bee cut with two or three arches as it were if it be wood if Leade it must haue somewhat to beare it a little from the bottome that the water may thereby bee let into the pipe Towards the bottome of the pipe in the water there must bee fastned a succur also another of these succurs must be fastned about two foot aboue the top of the ground then haue a bucket fitted unto the hole of the wood or leaden pipe let it bee well leathered about and haue a clacke at the bottome of it and let it bee hanged with a sweepe as the figure sheweth note that after you haue filled the distance betweene the lower succur and the bucket with water that if you lift up the sweepe it will thrust downe the bucket upon the water and presse it the water being pressed upon by the bucket beareth up the clacke and comes into the bucket then if you pull downe the sweepe the clacke shutteth and so the water remaynes in the bucket which being drawen upward there being nothing to follow but water both the succurs open and there commeth into the pump so much water as the buckets drew out The making of an Engin whereby you may draw water out of a deepe Well or mount any River water to be conveyed to any place within three or foure miles of the same Also it is used in great ships which I have seene SVppose A B C D to be a deepe Well and E F to be a strong peece of timber fastned athwart the same a good way in the water In this planke let there bee fastened a peece of timber with a strong wheele in it as G H hauing strong yron spikes droue athwart the wheele within the creuise and strongly riueted on each side let them be three or foure inches distant from each other Let there bee likewise made in the sayde planke two holes in which set two hollow posts that may reach to the top of the Well or so much higher as you desire to mount the water let them bee made fast that they stirre not In the bottom of one of these posts there must be fastned a barrell of brasse as G H made very smooth within and betwixt those two posts at the top let there bee fastned unto them both another peece of strong timber to hold them fast lest they start asunder and in the midst of that make a mortice and in it fasten a strong peece of timber with a wheele like to the former mentioned the pin whereof ought to bee made fast unto the wheele and haue a crooked handle to turne about that by turning of it you may turne the wheele also Then prouide a strong yron chayne of length sufficient hauing on euery third or fourth linke a peece of horne that will easily goe through the brasse barrell and a leather of each side of it but somewhat broader then the horne put this chayne under the lower wheele in the Well upon both the hollow posts draw it ouer the upper wheele and linke it fast and straight Turn then the handle round and it will turne the chayne round whose leathers comming up the brasse barrell will beare the water before them this goeth very strongly and therefore had neede bee made with wheeles and wrought upon by horses for so the water is wrought up at Broken Wharfe in London To make an Engin which being placed in water will cast the same with violence on high LEt there be prepared a strong table with a sweepe fastened at the one end thereof to lift up and downe unto the end of the sweepe let there be linked a peece of yron hauing two rods of length sufficient let there bee made a hole quite through the midst of this table whose diameter let be about fiue or six inches then prouide two peeces of brasse in forme of hattes but let the brim of the uppermost be but about one inch broad and haue diuers little holes round about it also in the crown of this must bee placed a large succur and ouer it a half globe frō the top of which must proceed a hollow trunke aboute a yard long and of a good wide bore then take good liquored leather 2 or 3 times double put betweene the board and the brims of this and with diuers little screws put through the holes of the brimme screw it fast unto the top of the table Note that the table must bee leathered also underneath the compasse of the brimme of the lower brasse Now the lowermost brasse must be of equal diameter in hollownesse unto the other but it must be more spirall towards the bottome and must haue eyther a large clacke or succur fastned in it also the brim of this must be larger then that of the uppermost and haue two holes made about the midst on each side one bore then 2 holes in the table on each side of the brasse one answerable unto the holes of the brim of the lower brasse throgh which holes put the two rods of the yron hanged unto the sweepe through them and riuet them strongly into the holes of the lower brasse Place this in water and by mouing the sweepe up and downe it will with greater violence cast the water on high Experiments of forcing water by ayer compressed LEt there bee a large pot or vessell hauing at the side a peece of wood made hollow hauing a clacke of leather with a peece of lead upon it within the vessell also let there be a pipe through the top of the vessell reaching almost to the botom of it at the top of which let there be a round hollow ball and on it a small cocke of brasse Note that if you fill the said vessell halfe-full of water and blow into the hole of the pipe at the side your breath will lift up the clack and enter the vessell but when it is in it will presse down the clack blow into it oftentimes so shall there bee a great deale of ayre in the vessell which will presse so hard upon the water that if you turne the cock at the top the water in the vessell will spin out a good while Another LEt A B C D be a great vessell having a partition in the middle let there bee a large tunnell at the top of it E F whose neck must go into the bottom almost of the lower vessell let there be a hollow pipe also coming out of the partition and almost touch
vessell with its tunnell under the fall of a conduit of water and the bird will sing and if you hold a cup of water under his bill hee will drink and make a noise A device whereby severall voyces of birds cherping may be heard PRepare a cestern having divers partitions one above another let them all have cranes in the bottoms to carry the water from one to another also let each cestern have his severall pipe all of them coming out at the top of the cestern on whose tops let birds bee artificially made with reeds in them also in the top of the upper cestern let there bee a tunnell Place it under the fall of a conduit of water and you shall heare so many severall voyces as there are birds A device whereby the figure of a man standing on a basis shall be made to sound a trumpet PRepare a cestern having within on the lid fastned a concave hemisphere in whose bottom let there bee made one or two holes let there also be a hole in the top of the sayd cestern whereby it may bee filled with water as occasion serveth Also let there bee made to stand on the top of this cestern the image of a man holding unto his mouth a trumpet this image must likewise have a slender pipe coming out of the cestern unto the trumpet in this pipe or cane there must be a cock nigh unto the cestern Also there must come out of the concave hemisphere at the side of the cestern a little short pipe having a clack on it within the vessell Fill the cestern about two thirds full of water and then cork it up fast blow then into the vessell at the pipe on the side divers times and the ayer will force the water out of the hemisphere and make it rise up on the sides of it turne then the cock and the weight of the water will force the ayer out of the pipe and so cause the trumpet to sound Hercules shooting at a Dragon who as soone as he hath shot hisseth at him LEt there be a cestern having a partition in the midst in the partition let there bee a deep succur having a small rope fastned unto the top of it let the one end of the rope come out of the upper lid of the cestern and bee fastned unto a ball the other part thereof let it be put under a pulley fastned in the partition and let it be carried also out of the upper cestern and be fastned unto the arme of the image which must bee made to slip to and againe and to take hold of the string of a steele bow that is held in the other hand At the other end of the cestern let there bee made an artificiall image of a Dragon through whose body must come a small pipe with a reed artificially fastned in the upper part thereof Note then that when you put up the ball the image will draw his bow and when you let it fall the Dragon will hisse Experiments of producing sounds by evaporation of water by ayer PRepare a round vessell of brasse or latin having a crooked pipe or neck whereto fasten a pipe put this vessell upon a trevet over the fire and it will make a shrill whistling noyse To make two images sacrificing and a Dragon hissing PRepare a cestern having an altar of brasse or tin upon it let therebe in the cestern a hollow pipe turning up out of the cestern at each end also in the middle within the altar also on the side of the altar into the body of a dragon artificially made with a reed in the mouth of it Let there bee two boxes at the tops of the pipes on the ends of the cestern having two crooked pipes or cranes comming out of them Fill the boxes with water when you occupy it also put fire upon the altar and the dragon will hisse and the water in the two boxes being wrought upon by the heat of the fire comming thorow the pipes will drop into the fire These two boxes ought to be inclosed in the bodies of two images and the two short cranes comming out of them in her armes and hands Experiments of producing sounds by Engins PRepare a vessell after the forme of the figure marked with the letters A B C D place it upon a frame as F G H this vessell must have a hole in the bottom with a pipe fastned in it as Q to convay the water conteyned in it into a vessell or tub set under it marked with the letters R S T also a frame must bee fastned at the top of it as G H L having so many bels with little beaters or hammers to them artificially hanged as are requisit to expresse your de-desired tune Lastly provide a sollid peece of timber whose lower part must bee fitted unto the aforesayd vessell so that it may easily slip up and down and so high as that its foot resting upon the bottom of the vessell the upper part thereof may stand somewhat above all the bels Note likewise that that part of this wood aboue its bottom or foot must be cut away about three quarters of an inch Vpon this wood thus fitted must bee fastned severall pins equall unto each bell from the top unto the foot thereof so disposed that they may orderly presse down the inward ends of the hammers of each bell according as the tune goeth when you use it fill the cestern almost with water and put the fitted peece of timber into it and as the water runneth out at the bottom it it will play upon the bels note that it were very requisit to haue a cock fastned to the pipe on the bottom of the vessell that therewith you might at your pleasure stay the water The like engines might be made to play upon wyer strings disposed upon a concavous water to make the musick resound but because this description giueth light enough for the framing of diuers other I thought good here to omit them Experiments of motions by rarifying water with fire LEt there be an altar having a pipe comming out of it and entring the body of a hollow ball let there come out of the same ball a crane whose lower end make to hang ouer a bucket fastned to a rope and hanging ouer a pulley of which rope the other end must bee wound about two spindles hauing two doores fastned unto them and at the and of the same rope let there bee a waight fastned So the fire on the altar will cause the water to distill out of the ball into the bucket which when by reason of the water it is become heuier then the weight it will draw it up and so open the said gates or little doores Experiments of motions by rarifying ayre by fire LEt there be a round vessell of glasse or horn and on the top of it a vessell of brasse and in the midst a hollow pipe spreading it selfe into foure seuerall branches at the
bottom the ends of two of the branches must turn up the ends also of two must turn down upon these foure branches fasten a light cord with seuerall images set upon it Rarifie the ayre thē by laying a red-hot iron upon the top of the brasse or tin vessell and it will turn the wheele about so that you would think the images to bee living creatures Another way FIrst prepare a round peece of wood hauing a brasse box in the midst such as they make to hang the mariners compasse with but a good deale bigger round about this peece of wood fasten divers shreds of thin lattin standing obliquely or ascew as the figure doth represent round about these fasten a coffin of thin pastbord cut into seuerall formes of fishes birds beasts or what you please Prepare a lantern with oyled parchment sufficient to conteine it in the midst of whose bottom must bee erected a spindle with a narrow point to hang the pastbord cut into formes upon upon each side let there be a socket for to set a candle in also let there bee made a doore in the bottom to put the candles in at and after to be shut and it is done If you set two candles in the sockets the heat of them will turne the whole pastbord of formes round Amongst all the experiments pneumaticall there is none more excellent than this of the Weather-glasse wherefore I haue laboured to describe the making thereof as plainly as it possibly might be What the Weather-glasse is A Weather-glasse is a structure of at the least two glasses sometimes of three foure or more as occasion serueth inclosing a quantity of water and a portion of ayre proportionable by whose condensation or rarifaction the included water is subject unto a continuall motion either upward or downward by which motion of the water is commonly foreshewn the state change and alteration of the weather For I speak no more than what mine experience hath made me bold to affirme you may the time of the yeere and the following obseruations understandingly considered bee able certainly to foretell the alteration or uncertainty of the weather a good many houres before it come to passe Of the severall sorts and fashions of Weather-glasses THere are diuers seuerall fashions of Weather-glasses but principally two 1 The Circular glasse 2 The Perpendicular glasse The Perpendiculars are either single double or treble The single Perpendiculars are of two sorts either fixt or moueable The fixt are of contrary qualities either such whose included water doth moue upward with cold and downward with heat or else upward with heat and downward with cold In the double and treble Perpendiculars as the water ascendeth in one it descendeth as much or more in the other In the moueable Perpendicular the glasse being artificially hanged moueth up and down with the water How to make the water I Must confesse that any water that is not subiect unto putrifaction or freezing would serue the turne but Art hath taught to make such a water as may bee both an ornament to the work and also delectable to the eye Take two ounces of vardigrease in powder and infuse it so long in a pint of white wine vineger untill it hath a very green colour then poure out the vineger gently from the vardigrease take also a pint and a halfe of purifide May-dew and put therein 6 ounces of Roman vitreoll in grosse powder let it stand till the vitreoll bee throughly dissolved then mix this with the former water and strain them through a cap paper and put it into a cleane glasse well stopped and ' its ready for use Another TAke a gallon of rayn water that hath setled infuse therein a day and a night 4 pound of quick lyme stir it about with a cleane stick oftentimes in the day in the morning poure the cleere water off from the lyme into a brasse pan and adde thereto 3 pound of sal armoniack let it stand fiue or six houres afterwards stir it about untill it be of a perfect blew colour then straine it through a browne paper rowled within a tunnell and reserue it for your use This water is not so good for use as the former How to make the Circular glasse FIrst you must prepare two glasses the fashion whereof let be like unto the figures marked with the letters A B and C D. The glasse C D is open at both the ends also in the middle there is a neck comming up of sufficient widenesse to receiue the shank end of the glasse marked with the letters A B. Then fill the glasse C D a third part with either of the waters and diuide the glasse into so many equall parts as you would haue degrees rarifie the ayre in the head of the glasse A B by holding it to the fire which being yet warme reuerse the shank of it into the neck of the glasse C D. Note that if the water do not ascend high enough you must take the glasse A B out againe and heat it hotter if it ascend too high heat it not so hot If it be in the dog-dayes and extreme heat of summer 1 and 2 are good degrees if the weather be most temperate then 3 and 4 are best if a frost 9 or 10. When you haue hit an indifferent degree lute the joynts very close and fasten a ribben unto the top of the glasse to hang it by In this glasse the water will with cold ascend the glasse A B with heat it will descend the glasse A B and ascend the hornes of the glasse C D. How to make the single perpendicular glasse whose water ascendeth with cold and descendeth with heat PRepare two glasses after the fashion of these figures underset F G I I. Alwayes chuse those upper glasses that haue the least heads else they will draw the water too fast and presse it too low also let not the shank of the glasse bee too wide it is no matter to bee curious in chusing the lower glasse Hauing prouided both these glasses make a frame for them about one inch longer than the shank of the glasse F G hauing a hole at the top to put the same thorow There ought to be a great deale of care had in making the frame so that the foot thereof may bee of a greater compasse than the top to the end that it may stand firm and not be subject to be turned down which will distemper the whole work After you have provided the frame proceed to the making of it after this manner Put both the glasses into the frame and then divide the shank of the glasse F G into so many equall parts as you would haue it haue degrees write figures upon paper and paste them on with gum tragagant dissolued in faire water then fill the bottom glasse 2 thirds with the water and rarifie the ayre in the glasse F G so often untill you haue hit such a degree as is most fitting for the temper
nine or ten times upon a roller as A B and choake the one end of it fill it then with whole gunpowder and then choake the other end also then cover all the Saucisson with cord and glew it over then pierce one end of it and prime it with a quill filled with gunpowder dust place it upon a forme having a a hole for the quill to passe thorough then fire it by a traine of gunpowder layd under the frame it will give a report like a canon marke the figure F F. How to make the flying Saucisson to be delivered out of the morter peece MAke a coffin for this as you did for the former first fill it almost with whole gunpowder then put upon that gunpowder dust which you must ramme hard into the coffin so that it may bee one finger thicke then choake it close and arme and prime it as you did the former It is represented by the figure K M. How to make a fire sword YOu must make a sword of woode having a deepe channell in the backe of it wherein place first a Rocket for the ground then two or three serpents upright with their mouthes inward let the stoupell that primeth the Rocket come under the mouth of the serpents so that being kindled it may set them on fire and enter the breech of the next rocket so fill the channell quite full with rockets and serpents binde the rockets fast into the channell but the serpents must be placed so that being once fired they may fly out of the channell and it is made mark the figure G P. The description and making of three sorts of Fire-lances TO make the first Fire-lance whose figure is noted A you must make a hollow trunk of what length or bignesse you please either of wood paper or pastbord rowled on a rowler and armed with some cord and glew first put into the bottom of whole gunpowder about one or two fingers thick then ram upon it a pastebord peirced with a little hole in the middle hauing a quill fastned in it which quill must be filled with a slow composition or else with gunpowder dust this quill must stand up in the lance two or three inches then fill the coffin up to the top of the said quill with starres and strew among the starres some gunpowder dust then put pastebord ouer them having a hole for the quill fastned in the former bottom of pastebord to passe then upon this pastebord ram gunpowder dust one or two fingers thick then put a row of serpents in and in the midst of the serpents put a cane open at both ends and filled with gunpowder dust this cane must be somewhat longer than the serpents and it must passe through a pastebord which must bee put ouer then put some more gunpowder dust and ram it in upon it and upon that put another row of serpents with a cane in the midst of them filled with a slow composition and upon them put gunpowder dust or else a slow composition ramming it in till the lance bee full then put a pastebord upon it and in the midst of the pastebord put a little cane filled with a slow composition then fasten it upon a staffe of what length you will and it is made To make the second Fire-lance you must prepare a trunk like unto the former first ram in the bottom of it some of the composition of rockets for the earth about two fingers thick then put a pastebord upon it having a petard fastned in the middest this pastebord must bee pierced in three or foure places round about the petard that thereby the powder that is rammed ouer the pastebord may take fire then ram in some more composition upon the petard about two or three fingers thick then another petard then more composition so doing untill you have filled the trunk then fasten it upon a staffe and and prime it as you did the former it is represented by the figure noted B. The description and making of two sorts of Fire-clubs TO make the first you must make an ovall ball of pastebord canvasse or parchment glewed together which you must first fill with a slow composition ram it in and then bore divers holes round about it and put therein serpents fire bals or what you will fasten it upon a staffe and prime it in the top with a cane filled with a slow composition this is represented by the figure A A. To make the second you must fill divers canes open at both ends and of a foot long or more or lesse as you think fit with a slow composition and binde them upon a staffe of foure or five foot long prime them so that one being ended another may begin you may prime them with a stouple or match prepared as before make an osier basket about it with a hole in the very top to fire it by and it is done The figure F F representeth the staffe with the canes bound upon it The figure marked G representeth the staffe having a basket wrought over it How to make a Fire-target MAke a Target of osier twigs or else of light wood binde upon it divers canes filled with a very slow composition the canes must bee open at both ends and primed with stouple that one may give fire unto another in the midst of all you may set up a large cane also if you please which you may fill with the same composition as you did the others Mark the figure L M N O Of Fire-works for the water How to make Rockets for the water THe diameter of hollownesse of the mould for Rockets that swim on the water must be one inch and eight inches long let the breech enter into the body of the Rocket one inch and it must have no broach at all in it Let the diameter of the thicknesse of the rowler bee three quarters of an inch the rammer must be a thought lesser then ram it full of the composition of Rockets for the water joyne to the upper end of it a Saucisson then couer it all over with melted pitch rosin wax or tallow to the end that the water may not spoyle the coffins and to make it float along the water binde a rod about two foot long as you did unto the rockets for the ayre now if you would have the rocket to change his actions that is to swim one while above the the water and one while under the water then put into it in the filling one spoonfull of composition and ram that in then one spoonfull of whole powder and ram that in and then another of composition and after that another of whole gunpowder so do untill you have filled it quite If you would have it change colour then shift the composition divers times that is put in one spoonfull of the composition of rockets for the water then another spoonfull of the composition of rockets for the ayre or rochpeter and gunpowder mixed untill you
have filled it How to make a Rocket that shall burne a good while in the water and then mount up into the ayre FIrst you shall make a rocket for the water and binde unto the lower end a stick about two foot and a halfe long having a large hole in the end thereof then tie unto it but loosly so that it may easily slip out a rocket for the ayre and let the stouple that primeth for the rocket for the ayre enter into the breech of the water rocket then let the end of the rod of the rocket for the ayre enter into the hole of the rod of the rocket for the water besmeare then both the rockets with tallow grease or wax or any oyle colour that the water may not spoyle the coffins of the rockets then hang a stone at the bottom of the stick that hath the hole in it to make it sink down into the water then fire the water rocket and cast them into the water the fired rocket will burne in the water and being consumed will giue fire unto the other rocket which being loosly tyed will slip the bond and mount up into the ayre This is represented by the figure G G. The floating rocket mentioned before is expressed by the figure noted I K. The description and making of two sorts of fire bals for the water FOr to make the first you must make a ball of Canvas about the bignesse of a Foot-ball or bigger if you please and fasten in it a double Rocket for the water if you will also you may stuffe the rest of the ball with the composition that will burne under the water and cut holes in the sides and therein fasten other bals and petrards in them then cover the ball over with Tallow Pitch or painting except the place where the Rocket is primed and it is done It is represented by the figure noted with A and it will tumble up and downe in the water To make the second fire-ball you must first make a ball of Canvas Pasteboard or such like and cut a wide hole in the top of it and place in it a channell of Tinne pierced in divers places fill the channell with the compositions of Rockets for the water against every hole therof place a petrard cover it with a cover pitch it over and prime it then ballast it with leade or a stone that the vent may burne upwards and it is done It is represented by the figure B. How to make a Dolphin YOu must make the body of it of Pasteboard glued together fill the body with the composition of Rockets for the water pierce it in the back with divers little holes wherein put Serpents besmeare the body all ouer with the following pap Take gunpowder dust foure ounces camphire and sulphur or brimstone in powder of each one ounce make them into a soft pap with oyle of tiles then binde unto it a large Rocket for the water which Rocket must be armed as afore that the water may not hurt it then ballast it with a wyre hauing at each end a piece of lead of weight sufficient and it is done Marke the figure I might haue beene infinite in the describing of such like with Ships Towres Castles Piramides But considering that it would but increase the price of the booke and not better your understanding since all consist of the former workes which are so plainely described as that the most ignorant may easily conceiue thereof and if any whit ingenious thence contriue others of what fashion they list FINIS THE THIRD BOOKE Of Drawing Limming Colouring Painting and Graving By I. B. LONDON Printed by THOMAS HARPER for RALPH MAB 1634. THE THIRD BOOKE of Drawing Painting Limming Graving THe Art of Drawing is in it selfe most excellent and most worthy commendations in whosoever it is yea it is an Art so necessarie unto all ingenious Artists as that in no wise they can be without it and my selfe haue found it to bee true that the sight of a good draught is more unto an ingenious person then a whole Chapter of Information Wherefore I have according unto my knowledge and practise therein faithfully penned the same for the use of all such as beare affection unto the Art and are desirous to be instructed therein And for that divers persons cannot attaine unto it or perhaps are loath to bestow any time to practise it whereby they might come to a requisite perfection for such I have set downe certaine directions and those so facile and easie that persons altogether unskilfull may having a patterne worke very well But before I begin it behooveth that I prescribe what things are to be had in readinesse to worke withall first therefore provide good smooth and cleare paper divers plummets made of blacke leade oker or blacke chalke or else Charcoals made of Ash Sallow or Beech split in sunder and pointed also a wing having provided these your implements you shall thus begin to worke First let the thing whose pourtrature you intend to take stand before you so that the light be not hindred from falling upon it and with a pointed peece of charcoale draw it rustically which when you have done consider a while whether all the parts thereof are proportionable and whether it carry the semblance of the thing that you drew it from which if it do not wipe it out with your wing and begin anew but if it be faulty on one part onely wipe onely that part out and draw it againe whensoever it liketh you or that you have so drawne it that you can finde no great fault in it wipe it over gently with your wing so that you may perceive the former strokes then with your blacke chalke or blacke lead plummets draw it as perfectly and as curiously as you can and shadow it according as the light falleth upon it This way is workeman like and the most difficult of all yet by a little practice may easily be attained unto so that the persons stand well affected unto the Art Instead of white paper you may take light coloured blew paper and draw upon it with charcoale and white chalke pointed which will shew very wel but note that after you have made your draught you must wet it in faire water and let it dry of it selfe this will make the drawing to hold fast on which would otherwise easily be wiped off This may serve for such as are contented to take some paines to attaine so noble a Science But for others there are divers other helps which follow in order How to take the perfect draught of any printed or painted Picture TAke a sheete of Venice or in stead thereof of the finest white paper that you can get wet it all ouer with cleane sallet oyle then wipe the oyle off from the paper as cleane as you can so that the paper may be dry otherwise it will spoyle a printed picture by the soaking through of the oyle hauing thus prepared your
bruise the ribs and veines on the backe-side of it afterwards wet that side with Linseed-oyle and then presse it hard upon a peece of cleane white paper and so you shall have the perfect figure of the said leafe with every veine thereof so exactly exprest as being lively coloured it would seeme to bee truly naturall by this we learne that Nature being but a little adjuvated or seconded with Art can worke wonders Now for the farther information of such as are desirous of exemplarie instruction I have set downe in order following the delineation of the proportion of such things as in my iudgement seemed most necessarie for young beginners and those in such easie demonstrations as for the most part they consist of equall squares and require no more for their right understanding then diligent observation I might have filled a whole Booke of such like but having considered that what I had done was a sufficient ground for a farther procession I thought fitting to leave each person to the exercise and practise of his best Invention I thought fitting to give you a word or two wherefore I have not made the crosse pricked lines to passe through the figures The reason is 1 because the figure would have beene thereby somwhat defaced 2 because some chuse rather to draw without such rules 3 for others with a ruler and black lead plummet they may crosse the figures through and with white bread crums take out the same againe at pleasure Of Painting THe principall end and subject of this Art is to set out things both in proportion of parts and livelinesse of colour For the former the proportion of parts I have given sufficient information for the meanest capacitie in the precedent part of this tractat now therefore I will speake of the other the colouring or setting out in colours But first provide a frame or Easel called by Artists which is very necessary to worke upon especially in greater pieces of worke the forme whereof followeth Also you must provide divers little shels to put your colours in also pensils of all sorts both for priming and other a light ruler of one foot and a halfe or two foot long and colours of all sorts ground very fine upon a porphire or marble Having provided these you shall set to worke observing the subsequent directions Painting may be performed either with water colours or with oyle colours First I will speake of water colours wherein I shall observe two things First the diversitie of colours and preparations Secondly their mixture and manner of laying them on the ground First of the first the diversitie of colours and their preparation Colours are either simple or compounded meerely tinctures of vegetables or substances of minerals or both the simple colours are such as of themselves being tempered with the water or oyle doe give a colour The compounded are such whose ingredients do exceed the number of one Vegetables are rootes juces berries and such like things as grow out of the earth Minerals are such as are dig'd out of the earth as earth and stones c. All which follow in order as well their preparations as description First note that every colour to be ground ought first to be ground with the gall of a neat then let them dry of themselves in a cold place afterwards grinde them with gumme water for your use Now I am come to the second thing observable to wit the mixture and laying the colours on the grounds which is thus your colours prepared for use ought to be tempered according unto direction still observing a meane and to that end mixe them by little and little till the colour please you first you must lay on the ground colour and let it dry throughly then with a small pensill pricke on the second colour else it will be apt to run abroad nor can you worke it so well to make it seeme liuely as you may by pricking it on especially in small peeces If you are to paint ouer maps or printed pictures that haue writing in them they use to lay on the thinnest colours and alwaies before you lay any colours upon paper wet the backe side of it with faire water wherein store of Allum hath beene dissolued and let it dry of it selfe after wet it againe and let it dry doe it the third time for this will strengthen the paper that the colour shall not sinke through it and moreouer it will make the colour shew the brighter and last the better To make Gum water to temper your Colours with TAke cleane water and put into it of gum Arabicke a little and let it stand untill the gumme be dissolued Now you must haue a care that it be neither too thicke by reason of the Gumme nor yet too thin for with the one you cannot worke well and the other will not binde the colour fast A Purple colour TAke two pound of Heidleber two ounces of Allum halfe an ounce of ashes of Copper halfe a pound of water put them into a Skillet and let them boyle till a third be consumed when it is cold straine it into a cleane vessell and let it stand a while then straine it into another and then let it stand till it be thicke enough A Crane Colour You must onely grinde blacke Lead with Gum water Browne Colour TAke good browne and grinde it with Gumme water his false colour is made with two parts browne and a third part white lead sad it with the same browne Hayre Colour Take Vmber or Spanish browne grinde it temper it with Gumme water A Blew Boyle Mulberries with Allum An Emerauld Colour TAke Verdigreese and grinde it first dry and put unto it a little of the Gall of a neat also of Saffron and the juyce of Rew of each a little grinde them together and put them into a shell and let it dry there when you would use it grinde it againe with Vineger or Verjuce and a little neats gall dissolved in either of them His false colour is two parts greene and a third ceruse it must bee sadded with a good greene A Motlie greene This colour is compounded of red and greene A blacke Colour FIrst you must lay on a light blacke mingled with white lead and afterwards when it is dry sad it with good blacke for sad blacke mixe Indie Baudias with Gumme water A marble or ashe colour This is compounded of blacke and white A russet or sad Browne This colour is made by compounding a little white with a good quantity of red A browne Blew Take two parts of Indie Baudias and a third of ceruse and temper them with gumme water A Brasse Colour This is compounded of Masticot and Vmber A gold yellow for Armes TAke Orpment and Masticot grinde each by themselves but in grinding of the Masticot adde a little Saffron and worke with them Note you may alay your Orpment with chalke and sadde it with browne of Spain or O ker de Luke Azure
to smooth and pollish Copper Plates BEcause that in the printing with Copper Plates the least scratch though it be scarce visible receiveth its impression and so many times disgraceth the worke I have set downe a way to smooth plates for impression First take a piece of Brasse or Copper of what bignesse you intend of an indifferent thicknesse and see as neere as you can that it bee free from fire flawes First beat it as smooth as you can with a hammer then rub it smooth with a pumice stone that is void of gravell least it race it so cause you as much more labour to get thē out burnish it after with a burnishing iron having first dropped a drop or two of sallet oyle on it then rub it over with a cole prepared as is after taught and lastly with a peece of beaver hat dipt in sallet oyle rub it very well for an houre thus you may polish it exactly How to prepare your Coales TAke Beechen charcole such as when they are broke doe shine such as are void of clifts and such as breake off even burne them againe and as soone as they are all through on fire quench them in chamber lye after take them out and put them in faire water and reserue them for your use Having prepared all things in a readinesse you must haue a draught of that you intend to cut or engrave Take the plate then and waxe it lightly ouer and then either pounce the picture upon it or trace it or by drawing ouer the lines of the picture with ungummed inke reprint it upon the Plate then worke upon it obseruing the shadow so that being printed it may stand right for it will be backward upon your plate when you haue cut one stroke drop a little sallet oyle upon your peece of Bever and rub over the said stroke for by this meanes you shall better see the stroke and how to cut the next equall unto it and so the rest proportionally distant one from another but to worke by a Candle you must place a glasse of faire water betweene the Candle and a paper betweene that and the Plate which casteth a true light or you will never be able to worke truely and aright Of Etching ETching is an imitation of engrauing but more speedily performed Things may be expressed to the life thereby but not so sweetly as by the Graver It is thus performed the Plate you are to etch upon must first exactly be pollished afterwards ouerlaid but very lightly with a ground made for the purpose of which anon and thereupon must be pounced drawne or traced the thing that you are to etch then the said ground is to be pierced with diuers stiles of seuerall bignesse according as the shadowes of the picture doe require afterwards the edges of the Plate are to be raised with soft waxe and strong water for so they terme it It is to be had at the signe of the Legge in Foster Lane a Distiller is to be put upon it which in those places were the strokes are required to be lightly performed is to be abated or alayed with faire water which hauing dured a while upon the plate will eate into it as it were engraven then put it into cold water and wash it about and it will leaue eating further and then take off the ground and it is done Ared ground for Etching Take red lead grinde it very well and temper it with varnish A white ground TAke one ounce of Waxe and two ounces of Rosin melt them together and adde thereto a quarter of an ounce of Venice Ceruse ground fine lay it on while it is hot A blacke ground TAke Asphaltum two parts Bees waxe one part melt them together and being warme lay it on very thinly with a fine lawne ragge If it seeme somewhat red in any one part hold it over the smoake of a Linke or waxe candle and it will be amended Note that it is a principall thing in this Art to lay the ground on aright Another way how to engrave with water TAke Verdigrease Mercury sublimated vitreoll and allum a like quantity beate all to powder put them into a glasse and let it stand so halfe a day and stirre it often then lay on the plate waxe mingled with Linseed oyle or red lead with Linseed oyle and write in it that you meane to grave then put the water on it and let it so remaine halfe a day if you will have it very deepe let it lye longer If you will engrave Images c. lay the waxe on the Iron or Steele thin and draw what you will theron that it may touch the mettall then put the water into the strokes and it will be engraven How to engrave on a flint stone TAke a Flint and write on it what you will with the fat or tallow of an Oxe afterward lay the flint in vineger foure dayes FINIS Place this betweene folio 14. and 15. THE BOOKE OF EXTRAVAGANTS Wherein amongst others is principally contrived divers excellent and approved Medicines for severall maladies By I. B. LONDON Printed by Thomas Harper for Ralph Mab 1634. To the Reader COurteous Reader forasmuch as there were divers experiments that I could not conveniently or rather my occasions would not permit me to dispose in such order as I would have done I thought it would not bee amisse to call them by the names of Extravagants and so to set them downe as I found them eyther inserted amongst other my notes as I put them in practise or as they came into remembrance How to make a light burne under the water being a very pretty conceypt to take fish LEt there be a glasse as A having a hole at the bottome to put a candle in with a screwed socket The socket must have a loope at the bottome whereunto you must hang a weight of such heavinesse that it may draw the body of the glasse under water The necke of this glasse must bee open and stand above the water also about the necke must bee fastened a good broad peece of wood round about which but on that side of it that is next unto the water must be placed divers peeces of looking glasses so the light of the candle in the glasse body will bee multiplied according unto the number of them All the fishes neere unto it will resort about it as amazed at so glorious a sight and so you may take them with a cast net or other How to make an image hang in the middle of a glasse MAke the lower part of the image of hard wax and the upper part of wood and overlay it with oyle colours then put it into a globe glasse filled with fayre water and which way soever you turne the glasse the image will still hang in the middle and stand as it were upright which to my knowledge hath been a thing causing no small admiration among divers that have not understood the cause of it How to