and love not Potions you may use these following Pills Take Citrine mirabolans rubarb of each half a dram aloes washt in the decoction of sena one scruple make them up into Pills with syrup of Fumitory then anoint your self going to bed with this oyntment Take Brimstone an ounce and a half salt and sallad oyle one ounce grind the salt and sulphur exceeding small mix them with the oyle and when you go to bed use it for three or four nights only chafing it very well into the palms of the hands then draw on a pair of gloves and keep them on all night it will cure all itch and scabs throughout the body Take as much mans urine as will serve to bath the diseased up to the knees add thereto charecoal of oak poudered and black hellebore but more hellebore than coal bath therewith the leggs for fifteen mornings together and longer if need requite This hath its effect on every member of the body so that whether it be Totter Leprosie Itch or running Scab in short time it is cured with this medicine Mercur. and other experienced Physitians commend the success that these ointments have if they are applied to the pulse Take oleum laurinum six drams quicksilver one dram and a half borace three drams ceruse one dram cummin-seeds one scruple make them into an ointment Or Take equal parts of borace and aloes a third part of prepared quicksilver as much oyle of Lawrel make them into an Unguent and with either of these anoint the pulses going to bed after you have bathed your arms for some while in warm water I find these much extol'd but I would not have you use them before you have tryed something else because of the quick-silver Before you practice with any medicine remember to purge the body of that humor which is the cause of your distemper I shall here only add two or three odoriserous waters which cure all such infirmities and make the skin smooth and delicate Take Bawm what quantity you please beat it well then set it to macerate one night in white wine the next morning draw off the water in a glass still It is exceeding sweet and in a short time cures all scabs throughout the body if you add a grain of musk and bath it therewith mixt with natural balsame and anointed on the face 't will make it of a lively rose colour Take dried Sage eight ounces nutmegs five ounces ginger cloves cinnamon grains of paradice of each four ounces bruise them and then set them to digest for twenty four hours in good white wine afterward distil them according to art in an Alembick The water drawn from thence is so excellent that if you drink it in a small quantity for three dayes fasting it cures all Tetters and Scabs breeds good blood and causes a lovely complexion Take Turpentine a quarter of a pound honey two ounces aquae vitae three ounces wood of aloes beaten small sweet saunders of each three drams gum arabick one dram nutmegs two drams ambergreece one dram powder all small and distil them with a gentle fire and in your operation you shall draw three several sorts of liquors the first is clear the second when the fire is increased falls in drops like burning coals the third descends a little blacker and thicker than honey The first is called mother of balsame the second oyle of balsame and the third artisicial balsame If you anoint your self with the first of these it is exceeding good for spreading Scabs or itching Tetters kept in the mouth it sweetens the breath fastens preserves and whitens the teeth anointing the face therewith it makes it smooth and ruddy The second and third liquors recover complexion lost are good for any bruise cure all distempers arising from the blood or phlegme corrupted CHAP. VIII To adorne the scurffie and mealy Complexion That Complexion is said to be mealy and scurffie which appears full of little white scales that fall off like small bran when the face or other part is rub'd with a woollen cloth The thin and meager constitution is most frequently troubled with this distemper and it proceeds from thick and grosse humors detain'd betwixt the cuticle and the under skin which corrupt after some continuance and then corrode that slender covering into a scaly dust To embellish such a complexion the chiefest care must be to dislodge those humors that lye betwixt the Epidermis and the grosser skin for which intent you may use urine or white wine wherein sliced limmons have been boiled a lixivium made with the ashes of beets and coleworts wherein boile lupins and beans and in the streined liquor dissolve a spoonful or two of honey or gall or something of the like nature to bath the face withal If the face be very lean instead of the foregoing Fomentation you may use this that is not so drying Take the leaves of buglosse borage pellitory mallows fumitory violets cichory endive lettice poppy fengreek cleans'd barly boyle them together in water adding a little bran bound up in a bag after the face hath been bathed wash it with this water Take bitter almonds the meal of beans and vetches of each one ounce allum borace mastick olibanum gum tragant of each half an ounce juyce of limmons seven ounces water of plantane roses and white lillies of each three ounces new Goats milk four ounces mix all together and distil them with a gentle fire Take Mel rosatum rose water juyce of limmons of each two ounces gum tragagant mastick ceruse prepar'd starch olibanum of each three drams allum white corral cuttle bone borace of each two drams sal gem a dram and a half bean meal one ounce the whites of three eggs snails beaten with their shells six ounces camphire half a dram cinnamon half an ounce mix them and distil them in Balneo Maris then apply the water to the face Take Enula campan burdock roots of each two ounces boile them in strong vinegar pound them and passe them through a streiner add solphur vive two drams salt calcined a dram and a half juyce of limmons two ounces dip a cloth in this composition and so bath the skin with it Take the water that is found in cavities of oaks wash the skin therewith Or Take the juyce that is newly prest from agrimony incorporated with salt and vinegar or the juyce of burdock mixt with sulphur vive The Decoction of scabious drank for some mornings together cures the skin of this infirmity Or Take the roots of scrofulary out of the ground in Autumne beat them together with fresh butter put it into an earthen pot close stopt set it in a moist place twelve or fifteen dayes the butter will soon dissolve strein it and keep it to anoint the body CHAP. IX How to polish the Skin when it is disfigured with Scars or marks of the Small Pox. VArious are the supprising casualties that deform a polisht Skin each wound is a
grave where Loves dumb orator lyes inshrin'd and Chirurgeons usually the unskilful Plaisterers that make an ill-rais'd cicatrice the swelling monument to departed beauty The feature fretting Pox if it sets but a foot within that paradice of perfections the face it leaves more disfiguring impressions there than a Coridons clouted shoes on a Cedar floor Now to smooth Ladies and polish your skins after such disasters prise the medicines commended to you in this Chapter as rarities they 'le make the hills and dales of uneven faces meet without a miracle levelling them to such a smoothness that little Cupid though blind may sport himself there and never stumble Take mastick two ounces gum arabick one ounce saffron half an ounce turpentine three ounces old sallad oyle two ounces make the mastick and gum arabick into a grosse pouder then put them into the oyles and turpentine distil all together in a glasse Alembick and anoint the face with the water going to bed in the morning wash with warm water wherein the finest flower hath been infused It is exceeding good for any disfiguring scarr that appears after the consolidation of a wound Of the same nature is the next that follows Take oyle of Tartar and the mucilage of Psyllium seeds extracted with rose water of each one ounce ceruse dissolved in oyle of roses as much borace and sal gem of each one dram incorporate them well together and make an oyntment Or Take Tartar well burnt boile eggs hard take out the yolks after you have slit them and fill up the cavities with the burnt tartar put them in a moist place and keep the water that comes from thence as excellent for scars Take litharge of gold two ounces ceruse and salt of each half an ounce vinegar rose and plantane water of each three ounces camphire half a dram mingle and filtre it so keep it for use Or Take wild cucumer roots finely powdred one ounce allum two drams sulphur vive nitre of each one dram incorporate all together with lard well washt use it as an ointment These two are of the same vertue with the former Take oyle of Lillies capons grease oyle of roses of each one ounce and a half wash these well in rose and lilly water then add to them the whites of four or five eggs half boiled in their shells oyl of sweet and bitter almonds of each one ounce incorporate them together in a marble mortar and in the working put in the mucilage of melon seeds litharge of gold and chalk poudred of each two drams make them into an Unguent applied to the face it takes away all those scars the Small Pox too frequently makes there Hares blood if you bath the skin often with it warm fills the cavities with flesh and makes the skin even and plain It is likewise an approved experiment That the water which comes from Sheep or Goats hoofs burnt is very good for the same Or use this following Take Litharge of gold washt nine times in rose water and sifted as often two drams reed roots dried and pounded rice meal powder of burnt bones bean meal of each one dram beat all together very small then sift it through fine tiffiny incorporate it with the mucilage of flax seed fengreek and psyllium extracted in lilly water and so bring it into the form of an Unguent Apply it to the face going to bed on the morrow wash with barly water Bath the places with warm water then strew thereon the cinders of burnt Tartar either alone or with myrrhe Or bath the places with water wherein cinnamon hath a long time boiled then put thereon the powder of litharge it will in short time take away all marks of the Small Pox. Take wheaten starch blancht almonds of each two drams sweet costus gum tragacanth of each half a dram reed roots half an ounce barly meal whole melon seeds beans dryed and pounded three drams saffron one scruple powder and sift the whole mingle them with equal parts of rose water and juice of orange peel make a liniment and with a feather anoint the scars of the pox leaveing it so all night on the morrow wash with the decoction of camomile and mellilot CHAP. X. How to remove spots in what part of the body soever I Have seen faces from whose features beauty her self might have taken copies had not nature studying too much neatnesse plaid the curtezan and spoiled that which was handsome before by two much patching Yet most Ladies never think themselves Venus's for beauty except they have some artificiall mole though such stellae nebulosae ecclipse more then increase the native lustre and especially where nature is too free in her spots they are alway reputed blemishes not ornaments Those then that have beauties characters defac'd with such blots if they have recourse to these following directions shall find themselves quickly freed and their features so ravishing that were it the mode of this age to dedicate shrines to beauty there is noâ—e of them but would have their Altar where the most generous heart should glory to be a sacrifice To take away any spot whatever Bath them for three mornings together with allum dissolved in oile of Tartar wash after with lye and lupine meale Or take two parts of plantaine water and one of rosewater sulphur vive powdred two ounces rock allum beaten small one ounce boile them over the fire till a fifth part be consumed then take it off and stir it well till it be cool afterward strein it through a fine cloth and keep it for use It takes away all kind of spots Take sugar candie white frankincence of each two ounces dissolve them in juice of limmons halfe a pinte boile them gently in a little skillet then anoint the spots with it after they have been washed with barly water Take lye made of Vine ashes juice of coleworts ox-gall of each a pound and a halfe dissolve therein half an ounce of allum and three whole egs beaten wet a cloth in this composition and bath the spots therewith Take turpentine and masticke tutia prepared of each two ounces camphire halfe an ounce steep them three daies in strong vinegar distill them in an alembick and keep the water for use To cleer the skin of black spots Take the distilled waters of dock and melon roots of each one quart ten swallow eggs salt nitre half an ounce white Tartar two ounces pound the nitre and tartar then mix them altogether let them stand 24 hours then distill them in an alembick in B. M. wash the black spots with the water in the morning at night wash them with oile of tartar and sweet almonds mixt together Take mastick powdred sulphur vive of each one ounce bay berries as many steep them in warme water for the space of ten days stirring them carefully once or twice a day then wash the black places with that water Take roots of iris Florent wild cucumers briony of each two pound dittany
four ounces flowers of beanes pellitory of the wall of each one handfull flowers of water lillie two handfuls steep them in white wine then mix them with goats milke after distill them in an alembick and keep the water to wash the spots For white spots These proceed commonly from a pituitous humour abounding in the body and are thus remedied Take barly lupines red Vetches the roots of the greater and lesse dragon wort of each one ounce pound them and incorporate them with the whites of eggs make them up in little bals and dry them in the sun when you have occasion to use them dissolve one or two in rose-rosewater and so anoint the spots going to bed in the morning wash with the infusion of the crum of white bread Take the ashes of asphodill roots mix them with vineger and apply them Or steep the rind of Caper roots in strong vineger Or verdegreece finely powdred macerated a day and a night in juice of limmons wet a linnen cloth therein and bath the spots For green spots Powder the dryed roots of dragon wort to two ounces of this powder adde ceruse half an ounce and as much cuttle bone powdred worke them together with rose water and make them into little bals dry them and keep them for your use when you have occasion dissolve a couple in a quantity of rose water and therewith anoint the skin Take the juice of chelandine strong vineger make it into an ointment and apply it Or take brimstone myrrhe frankincence camphre of each two drams steep them in rose water the space of 8 daies stirring it once a day then let it settle and use it to wash the face For red tawny spots Take Venetian ceruse one ounce lapis calaminaris litharge of each two drams prepared tutia spodium of each one dram powder them very small then adde the water of plantaine housleek red roses of each two drams mingle them and keep it for your use In the morning fasting chew in the mouth a bit of mastick as soon as you perceive it to dissolve anoint the spots therewith Or powder pigeons dung flax seed French barly soake them in strong vinegar and anoint the spots CHAP. XI To reduce the body that is too fat to a meane and handsome proportion IT can be no pleasing sight to see a soul prest under a mountaine of flesh and the body stretcht to such dimensions that make it represent a walking barrell Were there nothing more then this 't were sufficient to deterre any from such an unwildie magnitude that it always proves its own accuser exposing in too legible characters Sloth to every one that can but read For when ere the carcase swels it self into a bulk too voluminous idlenesse is there describ'd in folio Have a care Ladies then to keep your bodies in a mean proportion and if ever they enlarge themselves to extravagant limits use these directions to reduce them to their former bounds so you may regaine your credit and your beautie too Rise early in the mornings and use some violent exercise to sweat often fast much rise halfe satisfied from your meals let your first course be oily and fattie things that the appetite may be soon satiated and the body kept soluble the second course sharp salt and bitter things out all your meats with vineger pepper mustard juice of oranges and limmons sleep at night on a quilt It is good to bleed largely twice a year the right arme in the spring the left in the autumne purge the body in those seasons with strong physick once a week take some laxatives as pillulae â—â—uffi extractum Rudii every morning chiefely in winter use this powder Take the feeds of annis fennel agnus castus rue carroway cummin pepper ginger mace nutmegs galingale smallage dryed marjerom gentian round birthwort of each equall parts take one dram of this powder in a glasse of white wine half an hour before meals Cooling applications may be layd to the heart or liver as the juice or decoction of plantane shepheards purse horstaile lettuce white henbane adding the powder of camfre mirtle or the like If any one particular part be too corpulent for the rest of the body you may bring it to a correspondent proportion if you use this unguent Take Fullers earth ceruse and lead mix them with the juice of white henbane and the oile of mirtle anoint the part therewith having first bathed it with vinegar wherein brimstone salt nitre and rock allum have been dissolv'd Some use with ligaments to bind those passages whereby the member is supplyed with nourishment CHAP. XII To make the body or any part thereof plump and fat that was before too leane IN a contrary extreame to corpulency are those breathing Skeletons that carry Lent in their face at a Christmas feast and look so meagerly that their Confessours since they have nothing leaft but skin and bones dare not for feare of a Soloecisme injoine them pennance to mortifie the flesh No part about them thrive so well as their bones and these look as lustie as if they had eaten up the flesh and were readie to leap of the skin to fall upon others Truly Ladies such leannesse is a ravenous guest and will keep you bare to maintaine him if you have a mind to be rid of his company observe these prescriptions following and I dare ingage he shall not long disturb you Let your chamber in the summer time be kept something cool and moist with violets lillies or the like fresh flowers before you eat chafe the body till it look red then walke and stirre about some houswifes imployment When you eate take nothing that is salt or sharp bitter or too hot but let your meats be sweet and of good nourishment as fresh egs mutton veale capon and for three hours after meat take your recreation in dauncing singing discoursing c. use some baths twice a month and in the mornings this electuary Sweet almonds pistach nuts white poppy seed butter and sugar beat them up into the forme of an electuary take thereof morning and evening the quantity of a walnut it quickly fattens and gives a good complexion Take twelve or thirteen Lizards or outs cut off their heads and tailes boile them and let the water stand to cool take of the grease mix it with wheaten flower feed a Hen therewith till shee be fat then kil her and eat her this often used will make you exceeding sat keep it for a rare and true secret Take a young Capon the flesh of veal four calves feet white wine faire water of both 3 quarts boile all in an earthen vessell scumming of all the fat Then put this broth into a new vessell with a pound and a halfe of sugar cinnamon half an ounce a dozen cloves boile it gently againe then adde thereto the whites of two egs reboil it and passe it through a streiner before it cool mix a little musk and
amber dissolved in rose-rose-water Take the flower of rice half a pound dissolve it in as much milke as is sufficient adde thereto the flesh of a young Capon boild tender sweet almonds 24. beat them well in a morter then mix them with the milke and rice streine all through a course cloth putting thereto what quantity of sugar you please Boile all over a soft fire till it coagulate into the forme of a gelly when it begins to cool adde of amber and muske dissolv'd in rose water as much as will give it a gratefull odour often take a small quantity of it If one part fall away and be are no proportion to the rest of the body you may bring it to even terms thus Take oile of Foxes an ounce and a halfe oile of lillies the greace of Capons and Geese of each two ounces greek pitch pine rosin and turpentine of each two ounces boile all these together in an earthen glazed vessell adding oile of elder one ounce then take it from the fire and adde new wax as much as will suffice to make it into a stiffe cerecloth when it is almost cold spread it upon a strong cloth as much as will wrap up the member then apply it and leave it on all night if you find any inconvenience in it use this following bath Boile in claret wine halfe a handfull of roses wormwood stoechas calamint squinanth rosemary sage cammomile of each one handful let a third part of the wine be consum'd while it is warme bath the place where the cerecloth was applyed this bath doth draw nourishment to the part and strengthens its retentive virtue Thus much of what concernes the beautifying of the body in generall PART II. Of the Head Necke and Breasts YE that intend Ladies to subdue hearts and command with soveraignty in the mint-house of others Affections must be carefull to keep in tune the harmony of these parts remembring that they were intended for beauties glorious Frontispiece to allure Spectators eyes and with a Phoebeau lustre make them its obsequious Heliotropes By what means you are to preserve their splendor you may be instructed in this Second Part. Where you shall learn how to give the Face such a commanding Beauty that all who view it shall yield obedience and none rebel but those who cannot see how your Eyes may be made Cupids chrystal burning glasses to kindle devotion in your Captives hearts and your bushy Hair Venus's Grove in whose twyning Maeanders a pleasing imprisonment shall breed a dislike of former Freedom In a wotd how to advance your Features to such a pitch of dazeling glory that shall make Beauty it self out of countenance and put Cupid hardly to it among so many fair ones to know his Mother CHAP. I. To cure Redness and fiery Pimples in the Face AN inundation of crimson'd blood often drowns the flowry Elysium of a charming face disfigoring it with such a flaming hue as if the juycie god had made it his vineyard and planted it with rubie Grapes To abate the fury of such high colours and fright them into a pleasing paleness call to your assistance the following Receipts As to the general cure you are to abstain from wine except it be very well qualified as also from all meats which heat the blood as those which are sharp or spicy or are easie to be corrupted in the stomack as milk cheese c. use in your broths lettuce spinage purslain sorrel and the like Blood-letting is exceeding good chiefly in the median vein in both the arms some dayes being interposed then in the vein of the forehead afterwards in the neck apply cupping-glasses to the shoulders and neck especially under the chin and sometimes to the thighs and leggs you may also apply leeches to the cheeks and chin to evacuate the blood that is amassed under the skin For more particular remedies if the malady be inveterate begin with Emolients digestives and things that do attenuate not only to rarifie the skin but also to subtilize the humor For if at first you use cold things and repercussives you will condense the skin through which the humors ought to exhale and impact the humor into the substance of the flesh and make it the more contumacious to be dissolved whereby the complexion is made more black and swarthy Prepare then a Decoction of figgs raisins of the Sun washed and ston'd oatmeal soap french barley the leaves of pellitory of the wall camomil mallows violets receive the fume of this Decoction up into the face covering the face and neck with a napkin to keep the fume from dissipating continue this three or four times that the face may be supple and the skin fitted to receive the vertue of your medicines the better Instead of this Decoction you may spread on the visage the warm blood of a pigeon pullet or capon drawn newly from under their wings let the blood lay on all night in the morning wash it off with warm water or the decoction of soap oatmeal or the like Or else in the place of these remedies Take fresh flesh of a neck of beef veal or mutton cut two or three thin slices lay them on the red places and change them often or else they will stink And in case you have no fresh flesh you may take slices of stale put them on the coals and so apply them warm to the redness The next morning wash the face with fine rags dipt in the forementioned decoction When you find that those remedies do something mitigate the fiery colour of your face and asswage the pimples you may proceed to other medicines that have vertue to repercuss the thin and subtle blood and bind the skin that it may not be so apt to receive such noxious vapours nor long retain them Such are these that follow Take a pint of rose water put it into a glasse and steep therein camphire and sulphure finely powdred of each one ounce myrrhe and frankincense of each half an ounce set it in the sun twelve or fifteen dayes Often wash the face with water Take Brimstone one ounce ceruse washed two drams juyce of limmons half a pint juyce of onyons two ounces cuttle bones and camphire of each one dram pound what is to be pounded and incorporate your pouders with your juyces anoint the face therewith going to bed in the morning wash it off with the decoction of bran Take the roots of the greater and lesser serpentary of each one ounce bruise them boile them with as much water of plantane roses water lillies and vinegar as will suffice to bring them to a mash then beat them in a mortar with oyle of roses two ounces adding the finest pouder of burnt oyster shells one dram and a half camfre one scruple Venetian ceruse two drams salt powdred brimstone of each one dram juyce of citrons one ounce make all these into a Liniment for your use Take litharge of gold sulphure viue of each
it off with warme water Take what quantity you please of juice of limmons put it into a glasse bottle adde thereto fine sugar and borace pounded set it in the Sun eight days shake it well together once a day after use it Or fill a thick strong glass bottle with rosemary flowers bury it half a yeare in a dunghil having stopt it close in that time the flowers will be turned to water wash the face therewith it is exceeding good against the freckles Take calcin'd tartar one pound mastick one ounce camphre half an ounce incorporate them with the whites of eggs and apply it where it is needfull Beat radish seed and dragon roots together put them in aqua vitae and set them in the Sun eight days together then distil them in a Limbeck and you shall draw a water admirable against all spots in the face Boile litharge in white wine vinegar till half be consumed then streine the vinegar take a little thereof mix it with an equall quantity of oile of tartar it will be as white as milk bath the freckles therewith Wash the face with sope and warme water then moisten the freckles with oile of tartar or oile of allum continue this for some weeks Beate as much sandarack with hony as will make it pretty thick apply it to the freckles keep it on so long till it scorch the skin then dissolve galbanum with a little nitre in vinegar and bath therewith And when any of these medicines offend the skin wash it with warme water or anoint with oile of roses or oile of sweet almonds CHAP. III. To whiten a tan'd visage and to keep the face from Sunburn AMber haird Hyperion spying faces to dawn with a world of dazeling features that might rob him of his Persian votives or withdraw the Heliotrope from its wonted homage to secure his brightnesse from being eclips'd by such teeming beauties clouds them in the shadie covertures of night while he makes day to all the world beside but to make your beams of beauty break through such sable curtaines take these prescriptions following White bryony water two drams rose water one ounce the white of one egge oile of tartar two drams verjuice one ounce mix them and wash the face therewith then dip a linnen cloth in it and lay it to the face all night Mix ceruse with oile of mirtle and white wine bath the face therewith going to bed Or take rose water two ounces womans milke one ounce pounded myrthe two drams the white of an egge beate them together going to bed wash the tann'd places with it Make pomatum with oile of sweet almonds wax and camfre Else take the roots of Sowbread scrape them presse out the juice boile it to the consistence of hony then use it to anoint the face Or mix the powder of burnt cuttle bones with hony apply it in forme of an unguent to the face To keep the face from Sunburn you had best wash with water drawn from the whites of eggs or juice of soure grapes or annoint the visage with a liniment made of powdred Mastick and oile omphacine Or take goats suet well washed in cleare water beat it in a mortar with rose water strein it through a thick cloth then take oile of sweet almonds one ounce sugar candy two drams camfre half a dram boile them all together stirring them continually that they may be white when it hath boiled a pretty while put it into a glass for your use If you goe abroad in the Sun or Wind anoint the face with it and 't will preserve your complexion Take pepper wort roots of basill serpentary the less of each three ounces boile them in a quart of water make a liniment to apply to the face for an houre then take it off and wash with warme water it is exceeding good to cleare the face from Sunburn Briony roots boiled in oile or cuttle bones burnt and mixt with hony if they are applyed have the same effects CHAP. IV. To remove running Tettars or spreading Pustules TEttars which some call Ringworms are the noxious vermine that greatly damage beauties paradise and crap its fairest flowers defacing quite the lillies and roses that use to flourish with a lovely grace in the fruitful soile of a comely cheek To secure your faces flowry Elysium from such wasteful insects Take vinegar of Squills two ounces aloes powdred two drams juyce of dock roots oyle of tartar of each half an ounce incorporate them together in form of an oyntment then apply it Make a Decoction of dock roots mallows fengreek in strong vinegar and use it then apply leeches or make small scarifications that some quantity of blood may issue forth then anoint the place with the oyle of tartar or apply dock roots steept in vinegar Take sublimate prepared three grains put it to half a pint of water put it in a glasse into a boyling pot till the sublimate dissolve Keep the water as a choice experiment for any spreading tettar or pustule Take Tartar two drams burnt allum three drams powder and incorporate them with the whites of eggs for an ointment Or Take sulphur vive two drams and a half nettle seed one dram camfre half a dram fresh butter two ounces make an ointment wash it in rose water then use it Take plantane water two ounces white vitriol two drams and a half burnt allum one dram mix them to bath your tetters or pimples withal Or else Take grains of paradice half a dram cloves gum tragaganth ginger of each half an ounce brimstone six drams reduce all to a fine powder to be workt well together with lard to make an ointment CHAP. V. How to help the Complexion when it is marr'd with blue and congealed blood or black and blue proceeding from a stroak or bruise THere often happens an effusion of the blood betwixt the flesh and the skin where it stayes and is congeal'd to the great disadvantage of the face The cause of this distemper may be either internal as corrupted blood in the body or external as a cold chilling air stroak or fall If the cause be internal powder rubarb steep it some dayes in strong vinegar and bath the face therewith Or chew in the morning fasting cummin or mustard seed or calamus aromaticus and anoint the face with it Turneps boyld in honey aloes mixt with honey or honey incorporated with the ashes of burnt garlick are exceeding good in this case When this blewness of the visage proceeds from cold there is nothing better than to chafe the face often with the hand or a course cloth or else which is more effectual you may use for a Fomentation aqua vitae warm'd If after a fall or bruise the face or any other part remain blewish it will be convenient to discusse the congeal'd blood which may conveniently be done thus Take the roots of marsh mallows of the great and lesser serpentary of white lillies wash them
half an ounce make a mass with the Decoction of Nutgalls and Walnut shells oyle of Camomile two ounces Or Take litharge of gold two ounces ashes of calcined Tartar half an ounce quick Lime an ounce and a half dissolve all in mans urine till it come to be as thick as an ointment then use it for the hair Take Privet and Vitriol what quantity you please put them in oyl set it over the fire till it begin to boyle anoint the hair therewith having a care that it doth not touch the skin for 't will make it very black Dogs urine kept in glasse four or five dayes if you anoint your hair therewith will dye it of dark black colour Take Litharge of Silver quick Lime burnt Lead crude Antimony of each one ounce pound and infuse them in the distilled water of Walnuts Or Take Sulphur Vitriol Nutgals quick Lime Litharge of each two drams pouder them fine and incorporate them with running water to make a mass wherewith rub the hair going to bed in the morning wash it off with warm water and white wine CHAP. XIX How to cleanse the Hair of Scurffe or Dandruffe DAndruffe or Scurffe is a mealy dust that over-clouds the hair of the Head Brows and Beard It proceeds from corrupted serous humors which by reason of their acrimony corrode the cuticle from the subjacent skin and fret it into little pieces like bran Those who are subject to this distemper if they would ease themselves must use this method If the body abound with ill humors first purge it with some convenient medicine afterward wash the head or other part affected with this Lye Take the ashes of the roots of Beets and Coleworts make a lixivium therewith wherein boyl Lupins and Beans a sufficient quantity then strein the Decoction and add a sixth part of Honey When the Head hath been well washt with this dry it carefully with a warm course cloth then anoint it with this Unguent Take bitter Almonds lightly heated in an oven old Walnuts of each six ounces Sulphur half an ounce Vitriol two drams Honey of Squills two ounces the dregs of old Wine three ounces make it into a Liniment for your use with red Wax Take the ashes of Figtree boyl them in water and vinegar till the third part be consumed then adde Lupines and Beans boyle them again till a third part be consumed take it from the fire strein and use it Or boyle the roots of wild Cucumers in vinegar to the consistence of honey anoint the Head with it all over Take Ox gall and salt temper them with the juyce of Beets anoint therewith two or three dayes Then wash with this following Lye Take the strongest vinegar and fair water two pound set it over the fire and when it begins to boyle put in a little Salt and flowers of Camomile wash the head often therewith Take oyle of Rue one pound Sope one ounce Salt finely beaten half an ounce work them together into one mass then wash with this following Boyle Beets Fengreek Briony roots Bean meale in fair spring water set all together over the fire till half be boyled away then take it off and when it is coole use it to bath the head withal CHAP. XX. How to beautifie the Forehead THE Forehead is the Ivory throne where Beauty sits in state it must therefore be smooth and raised to a decent height for if it be too low 't is much beneath the grandure of her commanding majesty and if furrowed with wrinkles it will put her too much in mind of humane frailty to let her take a pleasing recreation there To make the Forehead high eradicate the hairs which incroach too much upon its boâ—nds thus Take as much Mastick as you shall have occasion to use steep it in warm water till it be so soft that you can spread it upon a filler then bind that fillet to the Forchead all night and in the morning twitch it off So you may take hair from any part of the body And when they are thus pul'd away that they grow not again use these medicines Take a pretty quantity of Henbane seed wrap it in a Colewort lease and roast it under the cinders then beat it in a mortar and press out the liquor adde to it a little Orpiment poudred and make thereof a Liniment to apply to the part Or else Take the gall of an Eele mix it with oyle of Roses or the blood of a Bat and use it Or Take quick Lime Lizards dung boyl them in an equal quantity of vinegar and oyle of Henbane till the vinegar be consumed make it into an Unguent for your use To smooth and pollish the Forehead when it is wrinkled Take the shavings of Hartshorn boyl them in water till there come a kind of oyliness on top with the scum of the water and Bean meal make a paste which you must make into small balls Keep the water wherein you did boyl the Hartshorn and when you have occasion to use it dissolve so many little balls in a small quantity of the water as will make it into the thickness of a Cearcloth apply it to the Forehead all night and in the morning when you take it off wash with warm water Use this method often Or else Take your whitest Mutton suet wash it half a score times in cold water mix it with the froth of whites of eggs made in a mortar beating them together with a Pestle and a little butter then add a little Mastick and Frankincense beaten to pouder and anoint the face often therewith CHAP. XXI How to beautifie and adorne the Brows THe two Brows are Cupids groves of pleasure where he shelters himself from the too violent heat of the inflaming eyes Or rather as a controuling Intelligence made superintendant to the Chrystal Sphares below him he keeps his residence there that he might with the more facility direct their beamy influencies when and whither he pleases You may Ladies by these means make them beautiful If the hairs on the brows grow too thick or irregular you may pull them up by the rootr with a pair of mullets and afterward use those means which we have formerly described to keep the hair from growing If the brows themselves fall too low over the eyes You must work a little Mastick together with the joyce of Coleworts and going to bed put the brow up into its place and apply the Mastick to it all night in form of a Plaister When the hair sheds from the brows the use of those things is good which we have already given you to fasten the hair Or else Take the small filings of Lead and incorporate them with Goose grease to anoint the brows withal Or if ye please Take black Henbane seed two drams Maiden hair one dram unguentum irinum three spoonfuls bruise what is to be bruised afterward make it up with oyle into the form of an Unguent to anoint the brows withal after
belong to her kitchin the Stomack If they happen through any mischance to be rusted over the best way to scour them will be every morning to rub the teeth with poudred Tartar after wash them with white Wine if it be in the spring or with cold water if it be in the summer Take rock Allum Salt Nitre of each four ounces pound and dissolve them in Vinegar then distil them to one ounce of this water adde juyce of limmons three ounces and rub the teeth therewith Take rock Allum burnt poudred coral Sanguis draconis Pumice stone pouder them all pretty fine and rub the teeth therewith Or Take white Coral Cuttle bone white Tartar dryed roots of Florentine iris of each a like quantity a little burnt Allum Make of them all a fine pouder and keep it dry to rub the teeth Take calein'd Salt three drams Galingale two drams Hartshorne burnt four drams flowers of Schoenanthum and Roses dryed one dram make them into a Pouder to rub the teeth with If the teeth be very black you may touch them slightly with oyle of Sulphure or Vitriol but not too often When the teeth are loose your best way to fasten them will be to Take Galls Pomegranate flowers Cyperus Roses Sumach a like quantity of each Take half the quantity of these in rock Allum pouder all and rub the teeth and gums therewith Or else Take Galls one ounce Myrrhe half an ounce Pomegranate bark one scruple boyle them in vinegar and make a Gargarisme to wash the mouth Some dissolve Allum in vinegar to wash the mouth withal To keep the teeth from rotting Take calcin'd Hartshorne cypress leaves of each one dram Cinkfoyle roots two drams Maiden hair burnt one dram Rose leaves a dram and a half bring all into a pouder and use it as a Dentifrice to rub the teeth with It makes them white and keeps them sound If the teeth are already rotten and corroded Take Opium Myrrhe Storax of each one dram white Pepper Galbanum Saffron of each half a dram beat them together and apply them to the corroded tooth Or Take Pepper Pellitory of Spain juyce of Spurge Galbanum of each a like mix altogether and put it into the rotten tooth Boyle Sage leaves in wine wash the teeth well therewith then Take black Hellebore mix it with Honey and put it into the hollow tooth Others only put burnt Allum into it and find much good by it CHAP. XXVIII To Sweeten the Breath WHen your breath Ladies by reason of exulcerated Lungs or rotten Teeth sends forth a stanch more noysome then old Saturns sweaty socks make your application to these following medicines and you shall embalm the air with so rare a sent that all the aromatick fumes of Flora's garden shall never enrich it with a more delicious sweetness Take Cloves Nutmegs Cinnamon of each one ounce Mace sweet Saunders of both half an ounce Wood of Aloes an ounce and a half Musk half a dram after you have poudred these make them up with rose-Rosewater Sugar and gum Tragant into small bullets to hold in the mouth Take wood of Aloes Galingale Myrtle leaves three sorts of Myrabolans prepared Cinnamon Mace Pepper Ginger Nutmegs Cardamoms Laurel berries of each two drams Musk Amber Camfre of each half a dram Sugar two ounces make all into a pouder and take one dram thereof in a morning it is exceeding good to strengthen the Stomack and sweeten the breath Or else Take gum Tragant one ounce Sanguis Draconis two drams sleep them two dayes in Rosewater then put them into a mortar adding an ounce of Sugar Starch half an ounce Musk dissolved in Rosewater one scruple pound them well then mix them together with a Spatula and make them up into little pellets as big as barley corns dry them and after that they are thoroughly dryed put one now and then into your mouth and let it dissolve Take Cinnamon half an ounce cloves two drams nutmegs mace citron pill of each one dram Florentine iris the lesser galingale of each half a dram yellow Saunders wood of Aloes of each one scruple ambergreece musk of each half a scruple steep them when they are poudred in a quart of the best Malmsey Wine ten or twelve dayes then strein it through a woollen cloth afterward put it into a Bottle and keep it close stopt for your use Take a spoonful or two of it in the morning fasting it sweetens the breath exceedingly and strengthens the heart and stomack If the breath be infected by rotten teeth Take the best Styrax two drams sweet Asa one dram the best iris root half a dram gallia moschata yellow saunders of each one scruple Distil'd oyle of Roses half a scruple mix them and with a little gum tragant dissolved in cinnamon water make a mass out of which you may form little long pills to put into the hollow teeth When the breath smells of Garlick Onyons or any thing else that is eaten Take coriander seeds or zedoary chew them in the mouth and drink a good draught of Wine after it will take away the sent of any thing that was eaten before The same effect hath Mint if it be chewed in the mouth Fennel seeds or Galingale champt after the drinking of Wine takes away the smell of the Wine so do sour Apples and Quinces CHAP. XXIX How to beautifie the Neck NOthing more commends the Neck for comely than to be white and smooth for 't is a part usually exposed to sight and ought to represent a Pillar of pollisht ivory that supports the head with a lustre becoming that place where the understanding seats his throne It is usually impaird by Kernels Kings evil hard Tumours and Swellings For Kernels which usually breed in those places where the emunctuaries of the nobler parts are if they come in the neck after the body hath been purged and the Cephalicke veine opened in the arm apply mollifying and discussive Fomentations with spunges dipt in strong vinegar then apply a Plaister of Oxycroceum adding a little gum ammoniac bdellium sagapenum opoponax pouder of euphorbium For the Cure of the Kings evil the pouder of Sarsaparilla drunk to the quantity of half a dram for forty dayes morning and evening in white Wine availes marvellously The like operation have all your nitrous and vitriolick waters for an external Plaister you may use Emplastrum divinum In Autumne Take the root of Scrofulary beat it together with fresh butter put it into an earthen vessel well covered in a moist place leave it so fifteen dayes then melt the butter over a gentle fire strein it and use it to anoint the place Take a live Mole skin'd three or four Serpents skins the roots of Scrofulary Solomons seal Briony wild Cucumers of each three ounces boyl them together in an equal part of wine and water so long till the liquor be evaporated adde at last a little white VVine vinegar first anoint the place with two spunges dipt
in strong vinegar and applyed as hot as you can endure then make use of the ointment The swellings and tumours of the Neck I mean those which arise betwixt the skin and the aspera arteria are thus to be ordered First purge the body with Cephalick Pills use a drying and temperate dyet Then Take sal gem amber allum burnt cuttle bone nutgalls long and black pepper cinnamon ginger pellitory of Spain of each half an ounce pouder all very fine and adde four ounces of Rosewater Take every morning in the waine of the Moon a spoonful of this pouder and so continue using it with your meat when it is gone make it again and use it Foment the place with the Decoction of Briony wild Cucomers Beets Sage Camomile Melilot Or put them all into a bag and apply them as hot as the Patient can endure then put on the part affected a plaister of diachylum to which you may adde euphorbium sulphur verdigreece If the beauty of the Neck be any whit impaired by Freckles Spots Wrinkles or Leannesse you may use the same remedies which we have before prescribed for these Maladies in the Tenth and Twelfth Chapters of the First Part and the Second and Sixt in this Second Part. CHAP. XXX How to keep the Breasts from growing too big and to make them plumpe and round YOur care Ladies to preserve the the Beauty of these parts must not be inferiour to that wherewith you cherish any for the Breast must be made remarkable with an outvying splendour that so the graceful rising of those snowy hills might like a pair of stately promontories tempt wandring Lovers and make them take your Microcosms for the only fortunate Islands If ye sear they will grow too big ye may be these means keep them within their bounds Put as much pounded Cummin seed into water as will suffice to make it into the consistence of a plaister bind it when you are young somewhat streight to the paps with a fillet dipt in water and vinegar letting it remain three dayes then take away the Cummin and apply the roots of white Lillies incorporated with water bind it likewise to the breast pretty streight and keep it on other three dayes Use this plaister often Bath the paps with Rosewater and vinegar whereto you may adde a little Camfre and Tutty Or pouder rock Allum mix it with oyle of Roses and anoint the paps with it Or with oyle of Myrtle and juyce of Henbane mixt together Some use to drink in their beer half a score grains of Hares dung to keep the breasts from growing too big If the Breasts have already exceeded their dimensions the dyet that you use must be more sparing and drying that there be not too great plenty of blood care must likewise be had to draw the blood downwards from the breasts Ye may apply this to hinder the breasts from receiving too much blood Take the juyce of Hemlock with the water of Myrtle Prunella a small quantity of Vinegar and Allum dip a linnen cloth therein and apply it to the breasts When the Breasts are flaccid and hang down too low you may make them round and plump thus Take Quinces green Grapes a like quantity beat them well together adde a little bole seed of Plantane Annis Fennel Cummin with the juyce of Plantane and vinegar mixt spread it upon the breasts in form of a Plaister The same effects have dryed Figs incorporated well with Cummin and a little vinegar You may likewise dissolve Pitch mix it together with oyle and apply it to the breasts CHAP. XXXI Remedies for Inflammations or Hardness of the Breasts and chaps in the Nipples WHEN some intestine heat impairs the radiant whiteness of those snowy hills or curdles the milky nectar of the breasts into such a hard and compacted thickness that not being able to get forth it must of necessity lye and generate sharp corroding streams which fret the tender out-lets of Cupids fountains Ye may Ladies in this Chapter furnish your selves with recuring remedies For your Breasts when they are first Inflamed Take the green leaves of Plantane Mallows of each four handfuls Earth-worms newly prepared six handfuls oyle of Roses three ounces oyle of Camomile and Mellilot of each one ounce Barley meale three ounces boyle all these together and with a sufficient quantity of this Decoction adding Bdellium dissolved in vinegar two drams make a Plaister and apply it to the breasts Or else Take the crum of white bread Barley meal of each one ounce and a half the meal of Beans and fengreek of each half an ounce Roses and the flowers of Camomile poudred of each two drams boyle them then adde rose vinegar one ounce oyle of Camomile and Roses of each one ounce make it into a Pultiss and apply it Take the leaves of Lettuce Purslane of each one handful red Roses half a handful boyle them in water and adde to the Decoction two ounces of vinegar dip cloths therein and apply them to the breasts If great pain doth accompany the Inflammation you may use this as a singular remedy Take Album Graecum powder it very fine make it into a plaister with white wine or vinegar and apply it warme to the breasts Sometimes there is hardnesse in the breasts which accompanies the inflammation in such a case take bean barly meal of each one handful the meale of the seed of flax fenugreek of each half a handful the oile of roses three ounces saffron one scruple mix them together and make an ointment If after this the paps remaine hard apply some repercussive medicines that the breasts may not draw more blood then they can digest anoint the breasts and under the armpits with this medicine take bole arm one ounce with a sufficient quantity of oile of roses of myrtle and vinegar make an unguent To the paps apply this discussive cataplasme take dry mint two handfuls worme wood one handfull boile them to marsh strein them add the meal of beanes lupines of each half an ounce make a pultis with the oile of lillies and apply it If the blood be curdled dissolve it with this take smallage four ounces oxymel two ounces meal of red vetches lupins of each two ounces make them into a cataplasme When the paps are subject to chaps and clefts use things mollifying and attenuating before the milke come to the breasts wherefore it will be good for married Ladies before they lye in to use some mollifying poultises or to anoint the paps with wax workt well together with oile or fresh lard Or else take Bole arm myrrh of each half a dram ceruse two scruples with a sufficient quantity of Ducks fat make an unguent for the paps Or else you may anoint them with oile of sweet almonds The pomatum described in the 25 chap. of this Part is exceeding good in this case PART III. How to Beautifie the Arms Hands Leggs and Feet A Mongst those best meanes that
dissolve both that and the ambergreece in rose water then mix them with the former Composition Take of the former Trochisks of roses half an ounce the best labdanum two ounces Styrax Calam. Benjamin of each one ounce violets poudred one ounce amber and musk of each half a dram pouder what is to be poudred and work them well together into a paste out of which ye may make Pomanders of an excellent and durable sent If ye like a perfumed Composition to carry about with ye in a silver box ye cannot have a better than this Take your true Jasmine butter half an ounce essence of orange flowers essence of cinnamon oyle of orange peel oyle of nutmegs essence of roses of each half a scruple flowers of benjamin one scruple essence of musk amber and civet of each half a scruple all these ye must work well together in a cold and small marble mortar then put it into your box CHAP. II. Pouders for the Hair Linnen and Sweet Baggs IF after ye have used all hitherto commended ye meet with any that defies your charms and is obstinate do not yet despair Ladies for this Chapter teaches ye how ye shall tickle his nose and fetch him about with a pouder which will give ye so rich a sent that the roses and violets in all your cheeks shall not make ye half so sweet Take Florentine iris roots finely poudred one pound Benjamin four ounces Cloves the like quantity Storax two ounces pouder them all very fine and mix them together This ye may use to sent your hair-pouder withal adding about three ounces of this pouder to a pound of Starch sifted and pounded or else to a like quantity of Rice pouder of Post or French Beans being first pounded and then sifted Take Iris roots six ounces red Rose leaves poudred four ounces Cyperus half a dram Marjoram Cloves and Storax of each one ounce Benjamin yellow Saunders of each half an ounce Violets three drams Musk one dram If ye pouder them grâ—sly they may serve to put in sweet bags to lay amongst linnen but if ye pouder them small and seirce them through a seive ye may keep the grosser part for the former use and with the more fine ye may perfume your hair-pouders This ye may observe in your other pouders Take Iris roots three pound Cyperus roots Benjamin yellow Saunders lignum Rhodium Citron peel Storax Calam. Cloves Cinnamon pâ—re Labdanum of each one ounce sweet Marjoram twelve handfuls flowers of Roman Camomile and Rosemary leaves of sweet Musk Tyme and Savory of each two handfuls and a half the best Musk a quarter of an ounce Civet half so much Ambergreece half a dram let all be driven into a grosse pouder except the Amber Civet and Musk which must be finely poudred and afterward mixed This is an excellent pouder for Linnen and Bags it will endure sixteen years exceeding strong and is as good a Composition as any where you can meet with If ye mix a lesse proportion of Zibet Musk and Amber it cannot be expected to be so pleasant nor lasting Take from the Apothecaries common Iris roots poudred one pound calamus aromaticus two ounces roses four ounces coriander seeds two ounces lignum Aloe one ounce marjoram orange peels of each one ounce storax calam ten drams Labdanum six drams Trochisks of Roses two ounces Lavender four ounces Cloves two ounces Bay leaves half a dram galingale two drams mix all these and pouder them fine then adde musk and amber of each half a dram Take yellow Saunders one ounce calamus aromaticus a like quantity marjoram three drams the leaves of damask Roses and Violets poudred of each two drams Nutmegs and Cloves of each one dram musk half a dram all must be beaten into a grosse pouder then put it into silken bags to lay amongst Linnen Take the roots of Florentine Iris four ounces Violet flowers newly dâ—yed one ounce the root of round Cyperus two drams the true distilled oyle of Roses a dram and a half reduce all these into a very fine pouder This gives a very delightful and pleasing smell and is composed for their sakes who do not affect those strong Perfumes that are made with musk and Zibet Ye may put it in silken taffity bags to lay amongst linnen or else it may serve to strew on the hair or cloaths Take the pressings that which remains after the oyle is drawn forth of sweet and bitter Almonds of each four ounces the flower of French Barley and Lupins of each two ounces the roots of the best Iris pounded one ounce white Roses dryed Benjamin six drams salt of white Tartar whitest Chalk poudred Sperma Coeti of each half an ounce oyle of Rhodium one scruple of Cloves and Lavender half a scruple mix and make them into a pouder it gives the hands and skin an excellent odour makes them white and smooth if ye often rub it on them or use it to wash withal CHAP. III. Sweet Waters Oils and Essences SUch Ladies is the efficacie of these liquors that they 'l cherish rather then extinguish the flames of love they 'l put ye in so sweet a pickle that will make ye dainties shall sharpen the appetite of those that have no flomack to fall on a Ladie In a word the Pope and all his Conclave shall never do so many wonders with their holy water as you may do with these Take three pints of damask rose water malmsey half a pint the flowers of lavender and spike of each two ounces Florentine flower de Luis roots two drams nutmeg styrax Calam of each half a drum Infuse altogether for a fortnight in a close stopt bottle then distill them in a glasse alembick putting into the nose of it a scruple of musk as much amber greece Ye may mix this water with ordinary water for your hands or put some of it on a chafing dish of coals it will recreate the sences with a pleasing vapour An equall quantity of rose water and vinegar set on the coals does the same Take rose water four ounces cinnamon half an ounce yellow saunders poudred wood of aloes citron peel cloves of each half a scruple musk two grains mix them and they will make an excellent sented water Take oiles of musk one dram of cloves six graines of lillies of the vally three graines a little Virgin wax mix them together according to art and you shall have an odoriferous balsam that comforts the brain and revives the sâ—irits if ye anoint the nostrils with a little of it Take cloves cinnamon lavender nutmegs of each two drams oiles of cloves angelica spike lavender of each half a scruple wax four drams musk and amber of each three graines make them into a Balsame which will be of the same virtues with the former Take musk finely powdred a dram and a half put it into a glasse alembick poure thereon two quarts ' of rose water distil this over a gentle fire in B.
is received is not as yet discharged of its excrements and pituitous superfluities and the appetite is not as then excited for that the animal spirits which are the causes of it are yet dull and drowsie Moreover in the morning Nature being careful of its oeconomy is imploy'd to drive outward those humid redundancies which were heaped the night before up in the body but such unreasonable eating diverts Nature from that expulsion and constrains her to retire inward to promote concoction so that being distracted by two such contrary motions she performs neither so as much to farther the bodies health Thus much for that course of life which ought to be observ'd by those who would have their ravishing features penetrate those flinty breasts against which Cupids shafts seem too blunt and dull the next Chapter supplyes you with Remedies which shall so set off the loathsome imperfections of a blear-ey'd and wither'd Maegaera that she shall be taken for some attractive and heart subduing Venus CHAP. III. External means to gain a good Complexion IF in the flowry enamell of Natures garden there be any sensitive plant t is beauty for though it may thrive and flourish perhaps in the face that Elysium of delights during the youthfull May of warmer yeares yet even then must it be cherish'd with a tender care for so sensible is it of the softest touch that if the Sun intending to borrow some of its lustre to increase his owne do but gently salute it with its subtle limber rayes it presently shrouds it selfe in a mantle of Jet as if resenting his mildest embraces as a rude indignity it were resolv'd to benight the face in a gloomy coverture in spight of his world of glory So againe if sullen Aeolus come so nere to blow upon it with his chilly breath it presently contracts its expanded roses as if it had rather degenerate into a deformed nature then expose it self to the saucie blasts of that blustring courtier We can't then be too carefull of a flower which is so nice and tender neither can any with discretion blame those Ladies that through an innocent care of enamouring looks use some artificiall waters to preserve and cherish those features which are of themselves too apt to fade and wither I must here yet give them this caution to avoid those things which rather adulterate then adorne the skin such as Spanish white and Mercury the least inconveniences they must exâ—ect from such drugs except prepared by a very skilfull Artist are a wrinkle-furrowed visage stinking breath loose rotten teeth So that it will be more safe and better to use decoctions Pomatums ointments and such like applications as you find described here which are not in the least dangerous and doe exceedingly adorne the beautie As for the use of them before they are applyed the part must be washed with warme water and after with water and sope or some other detersive liquor which may prepare and fit it for the action of the ensuing medicaments Such preparative liquors may be distilled waters of mallows elder beanes water lillies cows milke distilled infusion of white bread decoction of French barly or any thing of the like nature whereof you may have your choice in this Chapter When the part is cleansed apply some of the following Cosmeticks let them lye on all night and in the morning wash with bran and water or else with Violet water The most approved Compositions for the beautifying of the Body are these Take the Roots of Dragonwort Arum or Cuckoe-pintle Briony of each one ounce sweet almonds peel'd half a pound bean bran half an ounce Camphire sal gem sal ammoniac borace rock allum all poudred of each two drams incorporate them together with the whites of eggs and form thereof little balls which dissolve in cold water wash your face therewith going to bed let it lye on till the morning and then wash it off with this water following Take a pottle Pot well glaz'd fill it half full with the roots of white or marsh mallows washed and slic'd adde thereto a pint of white wine a dozen egg shells clean washt and poudred afterwards pour in so much river or spring water as will fill up the Pot boyl all these together to the consumption of a third part and then adde the crum of a penny white loaf and as much as a bean of verdigreese pounded and tyed up in a little bag strain the decoction into a basin and adde to half thereof an ounce of finely poudred sugar moisten a fine white ragg in this water and wash the face therewith without wiping after it Take two white pigeons pull them and cast away the guts head wings and leggs then mince them into small pieces then put them into a glass alembick strowing the bottom with some plantane leaves adde thereto oyle of sweet almonds three ounces butter four ounces a pint of Goats milk the crum of a white loafe borace and sugar candy of each two drams burnt allum and poudred camphire of each three draws the whites of 24 eggs let all these infuse for the space of twelve hours then carfully stop the alembick and distil them in Balneo Mariae put the distilled water into glass viols to settle in a cool celler strein it through a fine cloth and wash your face there with morning and evening it makes the face or any other part exceeding comely and is that pigeon water which hath been so much pris'd by the Court Dames at Paris Take allum sal gem of each one ounce borace and camphire half an ounce oyle of Tartar four ounces beat and work them together then adde a pint of briony water distill them altogether in B.M. the water you draw from them will be of marvellous vertue to beautifie any part and make it of a ruddy complexion Of the same effect is that which follows Take madder frankincense myrrhe oriental saffron mastick of each like quantities bruise them all and steep them in white wine anoint the face therewith going to bed in the morning wash either with cold or warm water it will purple any part with a gallant and pleasing blush Or take fraxinella roots chew them and tye them in a fine ragg and bath the face This following is much commended for making the face white and clear as alablaster Take myrrhe two ounces frankincense half an ounce white ginger three drams cinnamon and sublimate of each two drams camphire one dram whites of three or four eggs put all these together in the belly of a young pullet or capon well wash'd and cleansed add thereto Goats or Asses milk distil all together and you shall have such a water that few things can equal it If you fear it because of the sublimate after you have used it two or three times you may discontinue it and use this following Take the white of an egg beat it together with rose water anoint the face therewith and when it hath
sometime been dried on wash with rose water Or often bath the face with rose water camphorated It is exceeding good to prevent those inconveniencies which may happen from the use of such things as too much dry and parch the face Slice four oranges and as many limmons take white sugar and rock allum of each one ounce infuse them three or four hours in a quart of milk then distil them in B. M. and wet some fine cloth in the water to lay over the face when you go to bed Or take Goats milk one quart juyce of citrons one pint white wine vinegar half a pint the flowers of beans water lillies fumitory of each three handfuls the whites of half a dozen eggs camphire two drams distil and use them as the other Oyle of myrrhe is singular good to preserve the beauty if when you go to bed you wash your face with the distilled water of bean flowers and afterwards anoint it with that oyle It is thus prepared Take new laid eggs and boyl them hard slit them and take out the yolks then fill them up with poudred myrrhe close them together lay them in a moist cool place and the myrrhe will dissolve into a water which is the oyle After the same manner you may prepare oyle of Tartar if you calcine and put it into the eggs it is an exceeding good Cosmetick Take Unguentum Citrinum three ounces sperma coeti an ounce and a half salt of Ceruse half an ounce oyle of eggs as much mash them together and make a liniment To make salt of Ceruse you must pouder the ceruse very fine and mix it with some distilled vinegar so that to one ounce of ceruse there may be four ounces of vinegar let it infuse three or four dayes then draw it off by filtration and and set that which is drawn off over the fire in an earthen pot well glaz'd and dried till it become a salt as they make their cauteries Take prepared snails that is drawn out of their shels and washt so long in salt and water till they loose their slime then pound them and lay one bed of them in the bottom of an Alembicke and on them make an other bed of sal gem allum frankincense borace camphire of each pounded two drams then poure on so much juice of limmons as may cover them two fingers so let them macerate 5 or 6 hours together and then distill them in Bal. Maris Take twelve limons as many hen egs halfe a pound of turpentine well washt put the turpentine in the bottome of the alembick boile the egs hard and distill all in B. M. this water is excellent to whiten the skin and change the complexion if you wash wish spring watar and dry the face and after wash with this without wiping This bath is very good Take two handfulls of sage leaves the like quantity of lavender flowers and roses a little salt boile them in spring water and therewith bath your body remembring that you are never to bath after meals for it will occasion many infirmities bath therefore two or three hours before dinner it will cleare the skin revives the spirits and strengthens the body the same effects hath this following Take rose water vineger salt boile all together in faire water take thereof a pint mix some bran with it and wash the body all over with it let it dry on then wash it off nothing can be better to mundifie the body Some Ladies delight much in sweet baths therefore into half a pint of water they put 5 or 6 drops of oile of spickenard some beside this adde musk amber civet lignum aloes benjamin storax myrrh cloves roses limmon and orange flowers rosemary lavender mint penny-royall But your chymicall extracts far excell all these if you mix but halfe a dozen drops with your bath such are the oile of oranges cloves mace nutmegs and the like When your bath is provided remember if you prise your health or beauty that it be not too hot for then it scorcheth the skin and makes it rough and causes very many untoward infirmities Thus much for the meanes to gaine a good complexion I come in the next place to give some speciall remedies how to correct the more particular vices of an ill complexion as a pale and swarthy colour a rough harsh grosse or sluttish skin sweat spots itch scab leprosie scurf and the like CHAP. IV. How to beautifie a white and pallid complexion Such colours when they annoy the complexion principally proceed from ill humours which abound in the body are expelled forth to the externall superficies of the skin wherefore those that desire to correct any vitious colour that offends their bodies must in the first place by some purgation evacuate that humour whereto their distemper ows its originall Now the palenesse of the complexion in women is principally occasioned by obstructions of the spleen and liver which cause in them a suppression of their monthly purgations which cause being by an orderly course of physick removed the body must be replenisht by a good and commendable dyet If this doe not recover their decaying beauty they may proceed to externall applications and to make their cheeks and lips ruddie and lively with good success use these things following Dissolve the shavings of Brasil and Orkanet in allum water wherewith after you have sufficiently cleansed the face with water of lillies or bean flowers bath the cheeks and lips letting it dry on Or else bath the cheeks lips or any other part that is too pale and white with allum water wherein a pciee of red turnsoile hath been often steeped or rub those parts with a peece of shipskin coloured red To chafe the parts often with the hand or a course cloth makes them look red and lively for such frictions draw the blood and spirits outward Or in case of necessity use Pomatum and Vermilion made of cinnaberis Or Take red Saunders bruise and steep it for 3 dayes in Aqua Vitae then boile it for an hour over a gentle sire adding a little allum and gum arabick than strein it and bath the parts therewith Take rock allum unc 1. boile it in a pinte of running water when it is dissolved take it off from the fire let it cool then adde to it Vermilion finely powdred one ounce boile them againe to a consumption of half streine the decoction and keep it for your use Take Brasil one ounce Cloves halfe a score grains of Paradise two scruples boile them with a pint of rectified Aqua vitae in a covered vessel use it when it is cold CHAP. V. To smooth a rough and uneven Skin THe skin is the bodies native shirt which if it be of a courser thread it is some of Natures homespun houswifry carelesly hudled up when she was in hast to finish a finer peece To smooth such rugged canvas and bring it to a pleasing evennesse that may vie with the polisht Alablaster art here
presents an inventory of of its best directions so often prov'd that I presume any course skin'd Ladie who will be so much her own friend to use them may soon be freed from doing pennance in natures sackcloth Take peeld Almonds six pound mastick prepard ceruse and gum dragant of each four ounces the whites of 4 eggs pound all together very carefully let it stand 5 or 6 days pounding it every day once then put them in a presse and keep the oile that comes forth to anoint the skin withall Take hempseed pound it small moisten it with a little aqua vitae then heat it in a frying pan made very clean so hot that you cant endure to touch afterward put it into a bag and presse it the oile that comes from it is exceeding good for the roughnesse of the skin Anoint any part that is too rough with oile of rape seed or bitter almonds or oile of wheat Or take sweet almonds cleansed and peeled foure pound moisten them with the spirit of wine rose water mixt together of each one ounce beat them together and fry them when they begin to smoke put them in a bag so presse them and there will come forth an oile very cleare which you must put into a pot of raine water and beat it together til it become exceeding white then keep it as a rare secret to smooth and pollish the skin CHAP. VI. How to cleans the sweatie and sluttish Complexion THE microcosme through the sordid sluttishnesse of some is often drownd in a nastie deluge of sweat out a designe perhaps to take Cupid captive and birdlime his wings with such clammie excrements but if they have no other tempting bait then the greasie pomatum which their own ill stuff'd bodies supply them with I am afraid though being blind he cannot see them he 'l smell them a mile off and so keep his distance They would doe much better to break off this petty plot upon Cupid and scour their bodies well with these abstersives Take bryony roots half a handfull serpentary the lesse or friars Coule pellitory of the wall elecampane of each three ounces whole beanes rice white vetches French barly of each two ounces and a half flowers of camomile melilot of each one handfull Boile all these together in raine water receive the fume up in the face If you would have it for your whole body double the quantities boile them powre them forth into a bath set a stoole in the bath cast a sheet over you and so receive the vapoure Vnguentum Citrinum is of great efficacy to help this distemper if you adde thereto a little sublimate carefully prepared or a little white hellebore finely powdred The fumes of the decoction of the shavings of Guajacum is exceeding good Take bean meale white vetches sweet almonds blanched gum dragant bryony roots of each half an ounce pound them a part then mix them and incorporate them with whites of egs make them up into little balls When you have occasion to use them dissolve them in barly water and bath the skin therewith going to bed next day wash with water wherein the finest flower hath been steept Take the roots of serpentary sliced dry them in the sun powder and sift them next incorporate them with rose water into a past dry them againe in the sun and powder them then adde a third part of ceruse prepared so as is directed in the 2. part c. 1. then worke all together with rose water dry them in the sun and at last bring it with beating it in a morter to a very fine powder When you would use it mix it with the juice of limmons and so make it into a liniment for a sweatie part Take barly half ripe two pound goats milke three pints the whites of a dozen eggs mix and distil them in balneo maris then use it Or take sifted bran the best leaven two pound as much vinegar as shall be requisite the whites of eight eggs mingle them and make it into a paste then distil it in B. M. Take thirty Snails prepared a quart of Goats milk hogs suet three ounces camfre poudred two drams beat them together and distil them in an Alembick The sluttishness and sweat of the skin may proceed either from an external cause as negligence to wipe and cleanse the face from that filth and ordure which may be ingendred by the aire or any other accident and then there needs no more to beautifie it than a constant washing and rubbing it Or from an internal as fuliginous vapours dâ—â—ain'd betwixt the Cutis and Epidermis by reason of its density This is the more frequent cause and for the more general cure of it the body must throughly be purged of those humors which produce such excrements and for topical applications you are to use such things as are set down in this Chapter Or you may scour and cleanse the body with water wherein fine wheat flower or the crum of white bread hath been infus'd adding to it a small quantity of the juyce of limmons Or with the decoction of mallow roots or lillies As also with the infusion of the roots of briony with the juyce of the roots of sowbread or wild cucumers incorporated with bean meal with the oyle of sulphur or tartar mixt either with clear fountain water or else with any of the former decoctions Thus far concerning the nasty sweat of the skin the next inconvenience that damages the beauty and which we intend to give remedies how to correct are itch and scabs CHAP. VII How to repair the beauty of an itchy or scabby skin I Am afraid Ladies that whilst I prescribe remedies for so loathsome a skin-defiling malady you will think I have forgot ye and am now addressing my self to your kitchin maids I must confesse these fretting exulcerations are more frequently incident to such as are forced to content themselves with courser commons as amongst the fleecy troops those are soonest scabby that feed in unwholsome pasture Yet the highest and best fed are not alwaies exempted from the infection nor are the most delicate Ladies especially if any thing irregular or intemperate wholly secured that they shall be no fuller of ill humors than their skins can hold If ever then your ill disposed humors grow so strong to break their way through the inclosing skin it will do you no harm to have something in readiness that may check their presumption Take Fumitory water an ounce and a half succory water three ounces syrup of fumitory and succory of each one ounce mix altogether and take it for your mornings draught use it for five dayes together then use this excellent medicine Take Sena two drams rhubarb one scruple annis seeds half a scruple white wine half a pint put all into an earthen bottle stopit close and set it over warm embers all night in the morning strain it out and drink it if the stomack be weak
half an ounce powder and put them into a glasse with vinegar and rose-rose-water moisten a fine ragg in this water apply it to the face all night in the morning wash with bran and water Take sulphure vive one ounce litharge and ceruse of each half an ounce powder and incorporate them with two ounces of fresh lard well washt with the juyce of citrons adding a little camphire beat them sometime in a mortar then keep it stopt in a glasse for your use Or boyle strong vinegar with bean and rose water soak white raggs therein and apply them to the face If your red pimples yield to none of these external remedies you must have recourse to things more violent Some use Vesicatories made of Cantharides and Soap mixt together Others flea the Epidermis or superficial skin of the face with aqua fortis and after skin it with other waters But such medicines are too offensive to the face by reason of inflamations and greater redness that happen too often through such tampring It were better if necessity compels you to apply sublimate and quicksilver for they are much safer than Vesicatories or aqua fortis so they be prepared after that fashion which I shall here describe To prepare Quicksilver chuse that which is most clear white and fluid strein it through a sheepskin it will cleanse it of all its dross the oftner you strein it the purer 't will be then boyle it in vinegar with sage rosemary tyme camo mile melilot then strein it again through a sheepskin at last mortifie it with juyce of limmons or fasting spittle Being thus prepared it may with little danger be mixt with ointments plaisters or waters Others steep quicksilver in strong vinegar and salt for ten or twelve dayes changing the vinegar and salt every day then they purifie it with the crum of hot white bread in an earthen pot three or four times then they passe it nine or ten times thorow a sheepskin and at last mortifie it with juice of limmons Sublimate is prepared divers ways the most assured preparation for our purpose is this following Take Sublimate four ounces bray it in a mortar with a wooden pestle till you make it so fine that it doe not grate betwixt your fingers then moisten it with juice of limmons beating it all the while then take quicksilver prepared carefully as you were taught before one ounce worke it together with the sublimate in the mortar wherein you should have first pounded half a dozen almonds to make the mortar slippery and the sublimate more easy to powder after this work them well together with a wooden pestle for the space of 3 or 4 days without ceasing especially the first day taking no rest when you have beat it one whole day adde one pound of the whitest Salt calcind the next two days work and incorporate them together so that of black or grey it may become white as snow and if at 3 days end it be not sufficiently white continue your trituration till it be so when this is done put it into a pot well glazed powre thereon a sufficient quantity of spring water stir it about with a wooden Spattula then cover it and let it settle till the water become clear change the water three or four times for the foure first days then stirre and change the water once a day for nine days following setting it all the while in some shadie and moist place When this is done and the water cleare draw it off by inclination and put the Sublimate in some vessell to dry in the Sun stirring it up and down that it may dry the better then keep it in a leaden pot The use of Quicksilver prepared as you were taught before is thus Take lard often washt in vineger two ounces prepared quick silver two drams allum sulphur vive of each half a dram beat them together in a leaden mortar and make them into an Unguent Take Lillie roots roasted under the embers three ounces pound and streine them fresh butter and lard washt in vineger of each one ounce sulphur vive three drams juice of limmon six drams common salt half an ounce camfre one scruple work altogether and make it into an ointment The most efficacious remedies for this distemper are made of Sublimate the best ways of using it are these Take Vnguentum citrinum pomatum washt in juice of limmons of each one ounce sublimate well prepared half an ounce ceruse washt in rose water and borace both finely powdred on a marble of each two drams camphre powdred half a dram incorporate these together then steep them 2 or 3 days in distil'd vinegar Take sublimate prepared half an ounce burnt borace two drams grinde them on a marble after make them into little bals with the whites of egs brought to a water which upon occasion you may dissolve in rose water to wash the face But since Sublimate and Mercury though never so well prepared often injure the teeth and cause a stinking breath it will be good when you apply them to the face to take something that may withstand such inconveniences as often as you use them to wash the mouth with oile of sweet almonds or else to keep a peece of gold in the mouth When you make any application of quicksilver or sublimate consider whether the face be grosse and corpulent or leane and meager if it be grosse you must mix them with such things as dry excedingly as borace ceruse calcin'd tartar unguentum citrinum if it be lean you must use them with oile of sweet almonds pomatum mucilage of gourd seeds c. CHAP. II. How to free the face from freckles FReckles are the product of fuliginous vapours and like smoke usually molest those most that have the fairest skins as if beauty jealous of being outvi'd by too cleare complexions did bestow that yellow livery on others which she deserv'd to weare her selfe The best means to remove such disfiguring spots are these Take Oile of tartar one dram milke of the figtree hony of each two drams incorporate them well together and bath the face therewith Or take cummin seed beaten three ounces salt two ounces brimstone one ounce put them in a marble mortar and beat altogether with the juice of celandine and urine make it into an ointment wash the face there with going to bed in the morning wash with fair water Take roots of wild cucumbers lillies briony borage daffodill dragonwort of each one ounce date stones bitter almons of each as much white corall meale of lupines and beans chrystall cuttle bone nitre sal gem white marble burnt sarcocolla of each two ounces ceruse five ounces beat all these into an exceeding fine powder make them into little bals with the juice of limmons and dry them in the Sunne when you would use them take one or two and mix them with Oxe or Sheeps gall and so anoint the face let it lye on three or foure hours then wash
dissolve them in rosewater to wash your face withal at night the next morning wash with water of Lillies This Ceruse is exceeding good to take away all stains spots and freckles from the face After the same manner is made the Ceruse of the roots of Briony wild Cucumers Water lillies Thus much concerning the preparation of Ceruses Take litharge of silver and gold of each one dram put them into strong white Wine vinegar adding camfre and allum of each half a scruple musk and cloves to sent the Composition boyle all in a little vinegar then filtre and keep it then boyle a little rock allum in water keep it a part for your use mingle these two waters together and bath the face neck or breasts Take Camfre one dram allum borace two drams oyle of tartar one ounce all being finely poudred boyle them in two quarts of rosewater strein and keep it 'T is excellent to whiten the face neck or breasts Take bitter Almonds peeled one pound and a half the whites of thirty eggs with their shells the tender branch of a fig-tree cut into small bits incorporate them together and distil them in a glass alembick over a gentle fire adde to the water which you draw sugar candy borace and camphre of each one ounce olibanum two ounces pounded all small then still them again and preserve the water that you draw as a secret to beautifie either the face or breasts CHAP. X. How to fasten the Hair and keep it from falling off HAir Ladies is the silken fringe to Beauties bed or if you will the slender sleaves that nature spins for Cupid thereof to weave his heart-surprising nets if once it fails that amorous god looses a considerable part of his artillery and after never acts but weakly for ye So that it concerns ye who triumph over intangled Captiveâ— to tender its preservation You may keep that you already have a fast Friend to you thus Take myrtle berries gals emblick myrobalans of each a like quantity boil them in oyle of roses It is a Receipt as old as Galen but as good as most if it doth not succeed use the next Take myrrhe pine bark myrtle leaves maiden hair pound them together very well then adde a double quantity of labdanum pounded put all into white Wine and oyle of Radish seed anoint the head very well with it going to bed next morning wash it with this bath Sorrel leaves maiden hair emblick myrobalans boyle them in water and adde a little pounded myrrhe it very much fastens the hair Or else Take the leaves of Willow Plantane rock Allum boyle them in water adding a little poudred Tutty and Myrrhe make a bath and wash therewith Take the juyce of the youngest Myrtle leaves two ounces juyce of wild Olives four ounces red Roses dryed two ounces Roman Wormwood two drams boyle all these in a quart of white Wine till half be consumed then strein it and adde a little poudred labdanum and use it to wash the head The golden water drawn from hony in a glasse still is much commended Or take the leaves and roots of vervaine put them into oile of green grapes set them in the sun many daies then streine it and keep it for your use Take an equall quantity of labdanum wormwood juniper berries nigella seeds vervaine bind them up in a linnen cloth and macerate them five daies in oile there is nothing better to fasten the haire or to make haire grow CHAP. XI Remedies for the want of haire how to make it grow on any bald place or there where it never came before IF some disaster Ladies have trod too hard on your heads kild those pleasant plants that use to flourish there you may againe attire them with their native beauty and repaire all former ruines thus Take marsh mallow seed boile it in sallet oile ' til it become thick with this oile anoint the head 6 or 7 times in an houre going to bed when that is done take what quantitie you please of the same seed boile it wel with water and wash the head therewith it makes the haire come exceeding thick the same effects hath this which follows Boile in white wine oile of mastick tree mirtle and labdanum of each two ounces maiden haire macerated two days in the same wine four ounces set them over the fire til the wine be evaporated after apply it as an ointment to the head Nigella romana burnt incorporated with hony Bees and Wasps burnt and incorporated with oile gals and the ashes of hasel nuts mixt with hony the kernels of peaches pounded and boiled in vinegar the cinders of cantharides southernwhod maidenhaire lilly roots mixt with bears greace are exceeding good for those that have but thin haire Take Euphorbium laurell berries rocket seed of each two drams sulphur vive white hellebore burnt of each halfe a scruple make a linement with wax dissolv'd in oile of laurel if applyed it will soon supply you with haire If you would cause haire to grow on any bald place do thus Pound elme roots boile them in water til there remaine a slimy scum on top gather that for your use then rub the bald place with a cloth til it look red and after anoint it with that scum Or take pumice stone beaten exceeding fine rub the skin therewith so long as you can endure it then bath it with vinegar mixt with an equall quantity of nitre sal armoniack sulphur vive your own experience will approve it Take barly bread and salt role them up in parchment burne them in a crucible and reduce them to a pouder which make into an ointment with bears grease It is a secret of nature Or take cantharides fling away the head and feet rub them on the bald place and so leave them blisters will rise first and then haire CHAP. XII How to take away haire and keep it from growing againe WHen the Lillies and Roses of your Faces Elysium are oretopt by the hastie growth of superfluous excrescencies you may secure the glorious hue of your beauties pride and eradicate those aspiring weeds that disturb you by taking Quicke lime four ounces auripigmentum one ounce and a half Florentine iris root one ounce sulphur nitre of each half an ounce lye made with the ashes of bean stalks one quart mix all together and boile it so long in a glaz'd earthen pot till putting a pen therein all the feathers peel off then add half an ounce of the oile of spike or any other perfume and from what part of the body soever you are minded to take away the haire anoint it with this unguent and in a quarter of an hour you shall find the effects but remember when the haire fals away to anoint with oile of roses Take Orpiment and quick lime of each an ounce and a half the seeds of fleawort and henbane of each half an ounce sublimate two drams ivie gum one dram and a half opium one
scruple pound all small and steep them in as much common lye as may cover them four fingers then boile them as the former Take quick lime half a pound steep it in common lye or urine adde to it half an ounce of orpiment boile it to the consistence of a sirrup As for the use of the foregoing medicines you are to foment the place with warme water a little before you apply them a quarter of an hour after wash with hot water and when the haire is taken away anoint the place with some cooling oile as oleum rosat oile of henbane the ointment of Rhasis camphorated After that the haire is taken from any part if you would keep it from growing againe take the gall of a Hedghog the ashes of muscle shels burnt mix them with bats blood and use it as an ointment Or else bats blood the juice of ivy and radish roots goats gall mix and use them or take opium and henbane finely beaten mix them with vinegar so anoint therewith any of these will keep the haire from ever growing the same effects have these following Take the blood of Frogs terra sigillata sumach roses of each as much as shall be sufficient beat them together and steep them in the juice of nightshade for four twenty hours then distil them wash with the water the depilated places Take ivie gum emmets eggs orpiment colophonie of each one ounce leeches burnt half an ounce grind and mingle them with frogs blood and make an ointment Take juice of henbane sanguis draconis gum arab frankincense of each three drams juice of nightshade as much as will suffice to make it into an ointment CHAP. XIII How to make the haire Curle TWining curls are now much the mode and none thought paragons for Beauty save those whose gracefull locks do reach the breasts and make spectators think those ivory globes of Venus are upheld by the freindly aid of their crispie twirls If any affect the fashion they may serve themselves with these directions so advantagiously that none shall desire to be free that may have the glory to be fetter'd with their curled haire Take gall nutts filings of steel cipresse leaves quince seeds as much as you please quick lime half as much as either of the first steep them in water wherein rye hath been boiled let it stand one day then boile it to the thickness of hony anoint the haire therewith and curle it up going to bed Boile salt in water gather the scum thereof mix it with myrrhe it is marvelous in curling the haire Some to make their haire curle wind it up going to bed upon a hot Tabacco pipe or iron Others dissolve gum arabick or mouth glew in water moistning the haire with it afterward they let it dry Some instead thereof use the white of an egge or else beare or ale But to give you farther better directions first rub the haire well with lye or urine that so it may be washt very clean then take 20 oak gals maiden haire two ounces and as much salt water boiled to the consistence of hony worke them all well together and for two days anoint the haire therewith on the third wash it with this following Bath Boile firn roots beet leaves of each a like quantity so long in water till a third part of the water be consum'd then take it from the fire put in a little gum arabick and when it is cool use it Take oile of fenugreek oile of white henbane mix therewith mirrh and gum arabick and use it for an ointment Or take beets and mirtle a like quantity dry them in the shade powder them then mingle one ounce of the powder with two ounces of oile olive and use it as the other Take mallow roots seeds of flax and psyllium boile them a long time together strein it and wash the haire therewith Or make lye with oake ashes boile therein nutgals roots of dane wort maiden haire afterwards dissolve therein a little litharge bole armeniake gum dragant wash the haire with it when it is dryed in anoint with oile of mirtle CHAP. XIV To make the Haire Lank and flag THE bushie forrest of the head is sometimes labarinth'd with mazie and rude maeanders while the locks themselves retreat in such recoiling twirls as if they rook the breasts for a paire of snowie mountaines and were afraid their tender tops should touch them they may be forc'd to extend themselves to a pleasing length if you follow these prescriptions Take oile of lillies oile of roses of each one ounce oile of violets two ounces green marsh mallows finely beaten three ounces boile them altogether anoint the haire throughly therewith combing it afterward very well Take borage mallows beat them small and work them well together with common oile let them stand together in a warme place a day a night next morning put them in an alimbeck distil them ore a gentle fire the water that you draw from them keeps the haire from frisling and makes it flag and smooth Take oile of roses four ounces worke it well together in a great bottle with an equall quantity of faire spring water then anoint the haire twice a day therewith CHAP. XV. To lengthen the Haire HAire though an excrement is yet carefully cherisht as a plant of value for most fancye it to be the microcosmical flax whereof Cupid twists his bow-strings To see it I confesse in the female sex of a more then usual length is a pleasing spectacle and if therebe any Lady that desire it she may by these means efffect her wishes Use first this unguent take a wild gourd hollow it within fill it with oile of laurel orpiment henbane leaves boile it over the fire and anoint therewith then use once a week this bath following Take agrimony elm bark vervaine boile all in a sufficient quantity of water till the third part of the water be consum'd and wash therewith while it is warme Take the hardest and stiffest hony boile it for some while over the fire into three pound of this hony while it is over the fire breake 20 eggs take them out when they are hard and put in so many more at last take onely the yolks of the eggs and beat them with the hony into a past then put them into an alembick and with a gentle heat draw from thence a liquor to wash the haire withall if you would increase its length Take lavender white saunders cardamoms costus of each one ounce in the spring time steep all these for 24 houres in a pint and a half of the best white wine then set it on the fire that you may receive the vapour of the decoction up into the haire afterward wash the head with it Take old white lard three pound mince and beat it small till it come to a past then distill it in a limbick and keep the water that arises from it to anoint the haire it will make
the hair of a faire length soft Take willow peel wormwood and southernwood dryed roses of each two ounces steep them in a quart of faire water for a night or two then set it over the fire till a third part of the water be evaporated keep it and often wash the haire with it Take the ashes of maidenhaire politrik reed roots flax seed make a lye of all these ashes wherein dissolve a little myrrhe adding thereto a third part of whitewine and then use it CHAP. XVI To soften the Haire when too harsh and stiffe THE Haire on some hangs like thatch on a country Cottage and serves more for use then ornament to secure them from the impetuous injuries of wind and weather rather then with its soft and tender sleaves to delight admiring eyes Such stiff bristles are usual attendants to churlish Corydons who are represented by nothing better then the parallel emblem of surly swine Those then who desire a more graceful covering and and would alter the harsh conceit that others are apt to entertaine of their hoggish natures may to their great advantage use these directions Take the roots of galingale fig leaves camomile melilot mirtle berries what quantity you please make thereof a decoction wherein dissolve salt nitre and rock allum of each two drams adding the like quantity of pumice stones and cuttle bones set all over a gentle fire and while it is warme bath the head therewith before the fire or else in the Sun Take the roots of white and black hellebore briony birthwort round and long wake Robin dry and then powder them afterward rub the haire well therewith Or else make a lye of vine twig ashes wherein boile the meale of beans vetches barly and lupines streine the lye and adde thereto a little white wine then use it Take Emets eggs henbane seed rock allum psyllium and opium of each a like quantity boile them in distilled water of vinegar bathe the haire wel therewith when you have done this make this pouder Take salt Nitre four ounces Pumice stone poudred two ounces Lilly roots and Cuttle bone of each two drams beat them all very fine and rub the hair with it After you have done this use again the former Decoction Take white Saunders and Rhodium of each two ounces Myrrhe and white Amber of each two drams Gentian roots one dram pouder these and use it If it be for any person of quality you may adde two or three grains of Musk. This Pouder is excellent good for the hair CHAP. XVII Remedies for the Hair when it splits VVHen Nature hath spun the slender hair to its utmost length if it be not carefully kept 't will be fray'd and ravel'd at ends by sundry accidents which seem to envy that work they cannot better Your best provision against such injuries are these When you go to bed Take Oyle and Water a like quantity put them into a bottle and incorporate them well together anoint the hair well with it going to bed next morning wash it with this following Take marsh mallows fleabane willow bark boyle them in spring water and use it to wash the head This will keep the hair from splitting but if it be split already you must use this Take Myrtle and Willow leaves of each two ounces poudred labdanum six scruples emblick myrobalans poudred half a dram oyle of Myrtle four ounces white wine two ounces boyle all these over a gentle fire to a consumption of the third part then use it to anoint the extremities of the hair therewith Take the juyce of Willow leaves and Myrtle leaves of each one ounce boyle and evaporate half a way after adde poudred labdanum one ounce then mix all with oyle of myrtle keep it for your hair CHAP. XVIII To make the Hair of what colour you please YEllow Hair was much in request among the antients whence the Poet Forma placet nivensque color flavique capilli Yet now this colour is loaded with obloquies for 't is a fancy generally received that the locks can never sparkle with golden flames without except there be some cherishing heat of lust within so that of late Black is more the fashion being lookt upon as a quality congregating not the sight only but hearts and affections too To make the Hair yellow If any Lady be in love with this colour she may order her hair thus Take shavings of Box stechas cedar liquorice roots scraped and bruised coltsfoot roots maiden hair of each two ounces and a little saffron set all these over the fire till two parts of the water be consumed then strein it and wash the hair therewith Or Take rock Allum Sandarach of each three ounces Saffron one ounce Madder four ounces Vine twigge ashes two drams beat the ashes very small with the Madder boyle the mixture in water till half be consumed then take it from the fire and strein it afterward adde the Saffron Sandarack and Allum keep it close in a bottle when you would use it first comb the hair very well then take a spunge and bath it with this Composition When it is dry wash it with water wherein Fengreek Barly Cumin and Soap have been boyled Make Lye with the ashes of Ivy bark wherein boyle over a gentle fire Madder roots Gentian Celendine shaving of Box yellow Saunders Liquorice cleansed from its outward bark of each one ounce Orange peele and the inner rinde of Barberry tree of each half an ounce green Lupines pounded two ounces Broom flowers yellow Stoechas moth Mullein a sufficient quantity of each bath the hair with a spunge dipt in this Decoction then dry it gently in with warm cloaths evening and morning use likewise a Combe steeped in this Decoction it gives a graceful colour to young peoples hair Take the first buds of the black Poplar pound them with fresh butter set them in the Sun for five days then strein them and presse out the butter wash it with lye made of the ashes of Box tree then use it to anoint the hair To make the Hair or Beard black though before grey The hair either of head or beard will be as black as Jet if you Take the shells of green Walnuts bark of Oak roots of each three ounces the oldest and deepest coloured red Wine eight ounces boyle them to the consumption of half then strein the juyce and press it hard whereunto adde one pound and a half of oyle of Myrtle set in six dayes in the Sun in a leaden Mortar and stir it with a leaden Pestle then use it Take burnt Lead three ounces Nutgals Walnut shells of each four ounces terra sigillata the like quantity Roman vitriol six ounces sal gem one ounce and a half Nutmegs Cloves of each one ounce sal amoniac aloes of each half an ounces pouder and steep them three dayes in sharp vinegar then distil it in an Alembick and afterward keep it for use Take quick Lime one ounce of both the litharges
bind it over the eyes going to bed and often wash them with cold water and salt CHAP. XXIV To make the Lips ruddie PAleness when once it affects the lips makes the world believe that those rubie portals of the mouth have lost their varnish by being too much knockt at Those Ladies whose lips lye under such a suspicion may beutifie them witha corall complexion thus Take the juice of briony wild cucumers reeds rose water of each one ounce clarified hony four ounces boile all together strein it and keep it in a glasse it is exceeding good to anoint the lips and gives them a ruddie and vermilion hue Take the shavings of your deepest coloured brasil three ounces make them into a very fine powder steep it three daies in three pints of faire spring water then adde fix drams of icthyocolla or fish glew bruised and minc'd let it stand til it becomes soft and dissolves then set it over the fire againe and adde grana tinctoria chermes berries foure ounces rock allum one ounce borace three drams boile all these til half be consumed streine it and in a glasse vessel keep it close stopt eight daies before you use it It gives a very amiable redness to pale or blue parts whether lips or cheeks that which you put on at one time will last 8 daies in which time it will not be done off either by sweat or water Take fine filings of brazil two ounces madder one ounce Chermes berries half an ounce infuse them in strong white wine the space of four dayes then adde half an ounce of rock allum and boile altogether to a consumption of half filtre it and keep it for your use It is of very great efficacy to vermilionize either the lips or cheeks Of the like virtue is that which follows Take rock allum fish glue of each one ounce shavings of brasil two ounces steep all three daies in faire water then boile them strein them and put them in a glass to use at your pleasure It will make any pale or blewish part to be very faire and lively ruddie CHAP. XXV How to smooth the Lips when they are rough and chapt WHen those pretty sister Rubies have been kist too hard either by a chilly and cold mouth'd Boreas or a scorching and hot lipt Sol to repaire the breaches such rude embraces make on their cherrie Skins use these things following Ladies they will make them seem such smooth and blushing wax as Cupid will think himself honourd to imprint his kisses on Take Stags suet two pound fresh lard six ounces wash them often in white wine then worke them well together till all the white wine be pressed out then put it into an earthen glazed vessel adding nardus Indicus three graines cloves half an ounce nutmegs two drams seven or eight pippins pard cord and slic'd steep all these one whole day in a sufficient quantity of rose water then keeping it covered set it over a gentle fire stirring it up and down with a woden spatula till all the rose water be evaporated strein it through a thick cloth into a clean vessel half full of rose water let it stand till the suet be cold and swim on the top of the water then put it againe into an earthen pot adding oile of sweet almonds six ounces Virgins wax four ounces melt all these over the fire strein it againe into rose water through a thick cloth let it as before stand till it is cold then take that off which swims on the top of the rose water and wash it well in some sented water till it be as white as snow then keep it for your use in a dry place that it do not mould Some adde to this pomatum coral finely powdred to make it the more drying others adde juice of alkanet to give it a vermilion colour there is nothing better then this for any chaps whatever Make an ointment of oile of roses and a little wax anoint the lips therewith or champ a little gum tragagant in your mouth and afterward moisten your lips with your tongue Take oile of violets mucilage of quince seeds hens fat of each one ounce litharge and gum dragant of each one dram make them into an ointment and apply it to the lips All fats and marrows are very good Take the mucilage of quince seeds oile of mastick of each one ounce goose fat beef marrow of each half an ounce a little new white wine make these up into an ointment with as much wax as shall suffice Or take a fine linnen ragg dip it in the juice of housleek and apply it to the lips Michael Nostredame a Frenchman much commends cotton dipt in common oile and laid to the navel going to bed It is an easie thing and soon tryed CHAP. XXVI Remedies for such vices as are incident to the Nose BEauty is a nice cleanly Dame that loves to have the nose though but the sink to convey filth from the braine kept neat and handsome as well as the other parts which are designd for more honourable uses Stanch and snivell do very much impaire the credit of this patt The stanch of the nostrils proceeds sometimes from a fool stomack for if the kitchin be nastie the chimny seldome sinels well if this be the cause you must have recourse to the Physitian But sometimes the fault is in the nose it self as when it is affected with some fore or ulcer then you may follow this method Take Calamus Aromaticus damask roses galingale lavender reduce all into a fine powder then sift it and snuff it up into the nostrils Or take one scruple of London Theriacle dissolve it in white wine and draw it severall mornings up into the nose Take Roses Cloves lignum aloes of each two drams Spicknard one dram Musk two graines pouder what is to be poudred and make them all into a past with the best white wine and so make them into little pils when you would use them dissolve one in a little rose water and drop it into the nostrils but first wash the nose well with white wine wherein roses and lavander have been boiled this will both cure the distemper cause a sweet breath If the nose be to much charged with snivell the frequent use of gentle clysters and vomits is very good Or else anoint the head with some heating oile if it be a cold distillation and with a cooling oile if it be a hot When you go to bed rub the feet with pitch dissolv'd in oile and wash the nose in wine wherein put a little poudred myrrhe By the use of these things you may sufficiently purge the dregs which distil from the beake of your dropping Alembick CHAP. XXVII How to fasten cleanse and preserve the Teeth LEast the Microcosme might be supprized by any treacherous invader the teeth are set as ivory Portcullis's to guard its entrance Or rather Nature hath made the sharpset teeth as so many mincing knives to
ye have Ladies to get your selves in Fames immortalizing Calendar canoniz'd for Beauties it is one to studie the ornament of these parts which though they seem the outbranches onely of rationall trees yet conduce much to the splendour of beauties Paradise CHAP. I. To remedie sweating of the Armpits and other inconveniences proceeding thence SOmething is seems of miracle that Ladies armes should keep those they once incircle such fast prisoners that few of them are ever known to regaine their former freedome Nothing inferiour to Cupids magick spels they never surround any but by their inchantments work on them so strange a metamorphosis that they leave them nothing may speak them men but humane shape If any Ladie find that her embraces have no such powerfull charms she may justly suspect there is something that frights the amarous vermine from the bait before they have leisure to be intoxicated Such sents are thus remov'd After the body hath been purged use a bath made with bawme mirtle lavender and other herbs of a good sent in wine or water wherewith bath the places affected or else bath them with wine and rose water wherein you have boiled allum myrrhe calamus aromaticus lignum aloes cloves If you bath the armpits with any sort of allum dissolv'd in water it will condense the pores and hinder the sweat from streining through the skin Or else you may often wash the arm pits with white wine wherein nutmegs or mace have been boiled or wherein three graines of musk have been dissolved it hinders the transpiration of sweat and gives a pleasing odour to the body Monsieur Liebault a French man adviseth to keep this pomander under the armpits Take Styrax calamite ladanum benjamin of each half a dram cloves mace lignum aloes lavender flowers of each half a scruple musk one graine with gum tragagant dissolvd in rose water and a little turpentine make them up for use As for internall remedies to alter the ill constitution of your bodies I would commend this to ye Take the best Marmalade of quinces two ounces candid ginger one ounce green calamus aromaticus preserved half an ounce nutmegs cassia lignea the lesser galingale mace of each one dram the seeds of coriander prepared of bishops weed of each half a dram oile of Cloves and Cinnamon of each one scruple the whitest sugar dissolv'd in cinnamon water one pound mix all these and according to art make them into pectoral lozenges a dram whereof taken in a morning doth wonderfully strengthen a cold stomack repair a decayed complexion and utterly take away all foetid fumes that use to exhale from the body CHAP. II. For Chaps and Warts in the Arms or Hands YOur Alabaster Armes and Hands Ladies are the fleshie altars whereon your superstitious Inamorato's offer to you as female Deities the first fruits of their devotion in zealous kisses Your care should be to keep them in such a soul-inchanting symmetrie that might confirm your Idolizing lovers in the opinion they have conceived that you are more then mortal If the hands or armes are chapt in the morning as soon as you are up bath the chaps with spittle then anoint them with Capon or Duck grease well washt with rose water Or else take a little mastick finely powdred incorporate it with oile of roses and white wax you may likewise mix poudred mastick with the white of an egg and anoint the chapt places with it Or take Olibanum mastick of each two drams oile of roses new wax and Capons grease of each half an ounce make them into an unguent and use it If the chaps proceed from heat take hens grease and camfre mix them to anoint the chaps withall every night in the morning wash with bran and water if the hands are chapt with cold use this Litharge of silver mirrhe ginger powdred a like quantity of each mix them with oile of roses and new wax make an unguent first bath the chaps with spittle then anoint with this ointment let it lye on all night in the morning wash with warme water it heals the chaps and makes the skin faire and cleare To free your self from warts apply to them a plaister of Cantharides but let it touch no part else and it will eat them away by little and little Or bath them often with the milke that issues from the figtree Take Litharge one pound quick Lime half a pound sal Armoniac half an ounce common Vitriol three drams boyle all in water to the consumption of three parts of the water then strein it and bath the Warts therewith The best way is to touch them with oyle of Vitriol very slightly for if you lay on any great quantity it will quickly eat to the bone Warts when they come first and are tender may be removed with black Soap mixt with burnt Salt salt of Nitre milk of Spurge juyce of Celondine juyce of wild Cucumers pouder of Cantharides Some rub them with a piece of raw Beef and afterwards bury it Others use Marigold leaves CHAP. III. How to make the Hands fair and white and to lessen the Veins when they appear too big IF any Lady be already the Cynosure to neighbouring eyes and would be elevated to the highest altitude in peoples aestimation besides the attractive lure of a pleasing face she ought to have hands whose radiant whiteness might dazle spectators eyes that so they might go on blindfolded in the fond humour of admiring her And then I dare secure her men will be such close captives to her imperious tyranny that she need never fear being disdain'd by any apostate Lover The best means to bring the hands to such a lillied splendour follow here Take the pressings of sweet and bitter Almonds which remain after the Oyle is drawn from them of each four ounces Bean meal two ounces your finest French Barley ground and sifted meal of Lupins of each an ounce and an half pouder of Florentine iris one ounce red Roses dryed Benjamin of each six drams salt of white Tartar the whitest Chalk washt and prepared burnt ivory fresh sperma coeti of each half an ounce oyle of Rhodium one scruple oyle of Cloves and Lavander of each half a scruple mix them all well together and with a little of the mixture often rub and wash the hands it is of an excellent sent and makes the hands exceeding white smooth and soft Take Venice Soap dissolved in juyce of Limmons one pound white virgin Honey four ounces prepared Sublimate white Sugar candy the roots of Florentine iris of each one ounce salt of white Tartar whitest sperma coeti Sugar allum Venetian borace of each half an ounce true sented Balsame of Peru two drams gallia moschata one dram oyle of Rhodium Cinnamon Cloves of each one scruple Use the mixture to wash and rub the hands withal It is of the same efficacy with the former Take Venice Soap what quantity you please cut it in small pleces set them so long to
dry in the Sun that you may bring them into a pouder Afterward Take one pound of this pouder iris root and Saunders poudred of each four ounces starch six ounces beat them altogether in a mortar adding liquid storax and oyl of benjamin what quantity you please anoint the hands with this Composition and it will marvelously whiten smooth and sent them Take half a pound of Figs as many Raisins of the Sun ston'd and a like quantity of bitter Almonds beat them all severally in a mortar as small as you can then mix them together adding two Limmons par'd and minc'd and two good handfuls of Bean meal boyle all these in a pinte of white Wine vinegar stirring them continually when it hath boyled so long that it sticks no more to the Posnet then put it forth into a gally pot and keep it use some quantity of it to scour your hands every time you wash Take Labdanum four ounces Styrax calam three ounces Benjamin two ounces put them into a brazen mortar heated work them together with a hot Pestle till they are pretty soft adde poudred Soap two pound then strew thereon liquid Storax two ounces make it into a Composition with a little Rosewater and keep it to scour your hands Take Starch meale of Beans Lupins Rice iris roots of each four ounces pouder them very small searce them and then mix them together when you wash your hands take a little of this pouder and moisten to rub them withal If you like an Ointment do thus Take oyle of sweet Almonds four ounces take a little white Wax and put to it boyl it over the fire adde one dram of Camfre and make it into an Unguent it will both keep the hands from sun-burn and make them exceeding white When the milky whiteness of the hands is eclyps'd by the azure veins that swell too big chaff them well with water wherin allum hath been dissolved then wash them in warm water presently after annoint them with an unguent made of Ceruse Take wax an ounce and a halfe turpentine three ounces frankincense fenugreek mastick of each two ounces a half three graines of musk dissolve the wax and turpentine in a new pipkin then add half a pound of common oile when it begins to boyl strew in the masâ—ick frankincense senugreek all being powdred incorporate them together and make an ointment CHAP. IV. For the Hands when they are swoln and look red or blew with cold IF your hands like the flowry fields dismantle themselves of their richest livery at the approach of the crabbed winter laying aside their youthful lovelinesse do shelter themselves under some more serious colour that may better suit with the humour of that grave decrepit season Ye may I adies reapparell them with their native whiteness by the help of these directions following Often bath your hands in wine wherein you have boiled nettles rosemary time rue penny royall the frequent use of this decoction will keep them from swelling As soon as they begin to swell and rise into knobs apply a repercussive plaister made of barly meale and juice of limmons or take litharge oile of roses and vinegar work them wel together into a liniment to anoint the affected places If the swellings do not yeild to these medicines Take the yolks of five eggs calcine them and mix them well with barrows grease anoint the hands well therewith going to bed draw on a paire of smooth gloves and so lye all night Take turpentine mix it with half its quantity of salt stir them well together till they are pretty thick then apply it to the swoln hands Take oyl of dil oyl of sweet almonds of each one ounce mucilage of gum tragaganth made with pennyroyal water three drams powdred starch eight drams mix and make them into an ointment it takes away the cold swellings of the hands and reduces them to their former Colour CHAP. V. Remedies for those vices which are incident to the nails THE nails are pearlie helmets wherewith prudent nature hath arm'd the active fingers to which if they are neatly burnisht they give a commanding comliness and may at a pressing exigencie be fit materials to head Cupids piercing shafts their oriental beautie is thus preserved When the nails are spotted remove the spots with these medicaments Incorporate myrrhe with a sufficient quantity of turpentine and apply it Or else take sulphur vive work it together with a convenient quantity of pitch and tarre use it as a plaister you may if you please add a little vinegar Mix flax seed beaten with hony and wax put it to the naile that is spotted If the naile be bruised and becomes black by reason of the blood that congeals underneath apply a cerecloth that is made of capons grease sheeps grease with oile of cammomile or dil afterward to dissolve the setled blood use goats dung tempered with sulphur Or incorporate cummin seed with diachylum ireatum and oile of camomile in forme of an unguent Ducks grease mixt with Euphorbium is singular good to discusse the condensed blood By some mischance or other the top of the finger is oftentimes so bruised that the naile comes off to make it come again foment the part with wine wherein dates have been steeped Take Flaxseed one ounce cardamoms three drams as much hony as will make it into a plaister this will make a naile that is cleft or rotted to come away the same effect hath the juice of stinking orach When the naile by these means is fallen off to make it grow againe you may use that which was before prescribed If the flesh or skin grows too much over the nails milk of spurge dropt thereon is very good Or take salt barly meal and costus poudred mix them with so hony as will make them into a plaister and apply it to the flesh CHAP. VI. Remedies for the galling fretting and sweating of the feet THE Body that fleshie pallace of a deathlesse guest would sink beneath its own magnificence were it not upheld by the feet those beauteous pedestals to the sister columns that more immediately support the structure If they are once fretted or stand on too moist a foundation they may chance to slip and so the whole aedefice of beauty hazard it self by catching a fall Your wisest way will be to secure them thus When the feet are galled take emplastrum diachalcit dissolve it in oile of mirtle and use it to anoint the feet Oile of eggs made by expression or else oyl prest from wheat betwixt two iron plates is very good You may likewise use those things which have been formerly commended to take away chaps Vnguentum album or diapomphol are not applyed without good successe the like might be said of the oile of flax fresh butter the yolk of an egg made into an unguent The feet if they are often subject to troublesome sweatings may thus be ordered bath them in warm water wherein
allum hath been dissolved or else wash your feet in water wherein the flowers and berries of myrtles the leaves of cypresse tamarisk mint marjoram and after you have washt them well anoint them with litharge powdered and mixt with hony There is yet another distemper incident to the feet which I had almost forgot they are often apt to be numb'd with a kind of pinching chilness You may Ladies free your selves from this distemper thus Make a decoction of the roots of enula campana angelica flowers of camomile melilot and once or twice a week bath your feet in it You may likewise boile mint marjoram sage laurel pepper wort in white wine and use it as the former decoction CHAP. VII Remedies whereby to be freed from Kibes and Cornes THE servile feet though they vaile bonnet to all the nobler parts and are leveld with that below which they cannot well feare a fall yet seem to have something of pride while they often swell into tumours and to those dimensions they cannot reach themselves they arive in needless excressencies You may check this their petty ambition and securely trample upon them if your hands will take but the paines to walke to your feet and apply these medicines For the kibes or those red hard itching tumours that are troublesome to the feet in frostie weather bath them well till they are very soft in warme water wherein mallows or senugreek have been boiled or in hot graines or oats boiled in aqua vitae then apply to them an unguent made of oile of mastick oile of spike and wax of each a like quantity Take the powder of gum tragaganth incorporate it with oile of mastick and use it for a liniment Or take goats suet one pound Galls powdred one ounce melt and strein the suet then add the gals use it as an unguent Or take neats foot oile two ounces galbanum half an ounce boile them till they are pretty thick then anoint the kibes therewith having first well bathd them Boile half an ounce of litharge in oile stirring it continually then adde three drams of galbanum and make it into an ointment Take ammoniack half an ounce rosin one ounce mastick frankincense of each one dram meal of fenugreek half an ounce wax and oile as much as shall be sufficient dissolve the gum ammoniac and the rosine over hot embers then add the wax and the oile when it is all melted add the meale of fenugreek and the frankincense powdred make it into an unguent Beares grease sea water the decoction of leeks frankincense incorporated with lard pomegranate peels boiled in wine all these if they are applyed are very good But if the kibes are broken and exulcerated anoint them with unguenâ—um apostolorum strewing thereon powder of mastick incense myrrhe then bind up the part affected with a fillet steept in hot white wine and cover it with a warme cloth Corns in the toes or feet may be removed by the same means which we have prescribed for warts Or take pure galbanum new wax soften them with your breath and work them together apply them as close to the corne as you can First soften the corne with some fomentation then apply a cautery some use leaven others the powder of the root of rest harrow Wash the feet and apply to the corns the milk of fig leaves then shave them with a razor to the quick and if there happen any inflammation anoint them with unguentum rosatum Bruise the leaves of rue and bind them to the corns quick lime likewise kils them Or take water of tartar three ounces black sope one ounce quick-silver half an ounce boile these nine times every time when they begin to boile make it cease by powring in cold water then wash the cornes with this water morning and evening then shave them to the quick then wash them againe as before then shave them and they will be quite taken away Some apply ox gall changing it every day till the cornes fall away PART IV. Sents and Perfumes fitted for severall occasions YE have heard Ladies how to furnish your selves with a Beauty so transcendent that shall puzzle Rhetorick to studie Hyperbolies to express it by so captivating that none shall dare stile himself a Platonick or at most he onely whom your divine features shall make believe that ye are more than mortal The former receipts shall furnish each of ye with loveliness enough for your whole Sex make ye Pearls in beholders eyes these following shall make ye walking gardens so that ye shal lead your servants by the noses after ye they shal all turn Camoeleons and live on that aire which ye perfume CHAP. I. Perfumed Pomanders for Bracelets QUestion not Madams but Pomander Bracelets conduce much to the making of your Captives numerous though they bind only your arms yet they take men your prisoners for none can have the courage to resist that once see how much bracelets make ye Women of your hands The best directions for making them are such Take two ounces of the best damask rose buds the whites being cut off musk ambergreece of each forty grains civet twenty grains let your roses be beaten fine as is usual for Conserves then adde the former things with a little Labdanum beat them well together and make them up with gum tragaganth dissolved in rose-water Take Styrax Calamite Labdanum of each a dram and a half Benjamin one dram Cloves Mace wood of Aloes Lavender flowers of each half a scruple musk ambergreece of each four grains a little turpentine gum traganth dissolved in rose-rosewater as much as will suffice mix them well together in a warm mortar and make all into a Pomander according to art Take Florentine iris roots Cloves Mace Cinnamon of each half an ounce yellow Saunders Styrax calam sweet Asa of each two drams Ambergreece one dram Musk of Alexandria half a dram sweet Balsame of Peru oyle of Rhodium of each one scruple mix all well together and adde two drams of Civet This Composition will be dear but ye may make it in less quantity taking either half or a quarter of the doses Beside the exceeding pleasant smell it is good in Pestilential times and in Fits of the Mother Take the shavings of the greenest Cypress wood one ounce Florentine iris six ounces Cloves three ounces Calamus aromaticus three drams wood of Aloes fix drams pound them altogether in a still place Take three or four hundred red damask Roses clean pickt beat them in a mortar with a wooden Pestle when they are half beaten put in the former pouders then pound them again moistning them with a little damask Rose water and when they are well mixt make them up into small Trochicks and dry them in the shade Of this Composition ye may make musk soaps sweet pouders and pomanders and to make the Composition more excellent ye may put what musk ambergreece ye please so that ye pouder the musk and
M. keep the water that ye draw from thence in a glass close stopped it may be serviceable to Queens and Empresses Take rose water three quarts assa dulcis poudred one ounce storax cloves wood of aloes camfre of each one dram musk and civet of each one scruple put all these into a glasse bottle close stopped which boile for the space of four houres in water then take the vessel wherein the water is and let it cool by degrees when it is cold streine it through a thick cloth then put it into another glasse vessel with fifteen graines of musk stop it close and set it in the Sun five dayes This perfume is so strong that if you mix one part thereof with twelve of water t wil be exceeding sweet Take Lavender flowers seven handfuls rosemary flowers clove July flowers orange peel of each three handfuls mint sage bay leaves elder flowers pennyroyall of each one handful cloves four ounces galingale nutmegs calamus aromaticus ginger cinnamon of each one ounce the best sented white wine three quarts powder all the spices and steep them in white wine put all into a glasse vessel stopped set it in the Sun eight dayes then put it into a glasse alembick with musk and distill all in B. M. Whether it be distilled or not it is a very sweet water excellent to wash the hands if ye mix one drop of it with a hundred of common water if it be applyed to the face it will free it from spots and freckles Take twenty graines of musk nutmegs cloves galingale spikenard grains of paradise mace cinnamon of each one ounce powder all very small and put them all into a pinte bottle of rose water let them steep four daies then pour on more rose water and after distil them in B. M. Or tye in a very fine rag musk and civet of each one dram put the bag into a three quart bottle fild with rose water expose it some days to the sun and ye shall have a rich sented water Take the purest Benzoin twelve ounces powder it very fine then take liquid styrax as much as will suffice to make it into a past when it is well mixt put it into a glasse alembick with a glasse head which ye must set in ashes or sifted sand and cement a receiver to the nose of the alembick with potters clay and the whites of egs very close that the vapours may have no vent forth which if they have they 'l be so strong that to most they 'l seem a stink rather then a perfume and to some persons may be very prejudicial when things are thus fitted kindle fire under it by degrees afterwards make the fire stronger at first ye shall draw a yellow water in a small quantity and worth little but presently after there will arise a vapour white as snow that will stick to the alembick when ye perceive that this rises no more then make the fire stronger but not too violent then will an oile ascend that is sweeter then the former and according to the colour of your oiles remember to change your receivers your last oile wil be an excellent Balsame But to make an exact perfume take an ounce and a half of the white snow oile of sweet almonds newly drawn four ounces melt both over a gentle fire stirring it continually with a spattula till the snowie part be dissolv'd and to give it a reddish colour put in a small piece of the root of alkanet so ye may have a perfume of an excellent sent Is you would have this oyl of a richer odour ye may dissolve therein one scruple of amber greece The black oile that remains at the bottome of your alembick is of a very strong smel but mixt with liquid styrax will make excellently sented pomanders if ye keep it by it self ye were best to keep it open that so the strong sent may evaporate CHAP. IV. Sweet Candles and Perfumes to burn YE are much beholding Ladies to ordinary Candles for when the sooty night would be-friend your Chamber-maids and make them seem as handsome as your selves that which discovers the cheat and makes ye be prefer'd before them is the friendly light those Candles lend they shew the difference betwixt a beauty and the foiles that usually attend her But if those common ones do ye much service these will more for if ye can once procure these ignes fatui to lead them ye may be sure to make fools of men and never fear but ye shall have servants after ye have got such enamouring flames Take Labdanum two ounces Storax one ounce Benjamin and Cloves of each half an ounce Mace a quarter of an ounce beat all to a pouder in a brasen mortar and when they are finely poudred set the mortar over a gentle fire and work them well together then take rosewater eight spoonfuls dissolve therein musk and civet of each three grains afterward put it with the rest of the ingredients into the mortar when ye have mixed all throughly together make the whole mass into small long roles when they are dry you may put them into a silken bag and lay them amongst linnen or burn them in your chamber or any where else at your pleasure They are a pleasing Perfume and will last good seven years Take Labdanum two drams Styrax calam a dram and a half benjamin frankincense white amber wood of aloes red roses wood of cypress cinnamon cloves of each two scruples amber musk of each five grains make them up into small cakes with gum tragaganth dissolved in spirit of roses one whereof cast upon the coals sents your chamber with a delightful vapour Take Labdanum one ounce and a half dryed charcoal made of willow one ounce myrrhe wood of aloes styrax calam of each one ounce and a half amber musk of each seven grains dissolve half an ounce of gum tragant in rose-rosewater with a little spirit of wine and make them up into roles like small candles Take gum styrax calam benjamin of each equal quantities dissolve them in the best rose-rosewater as soon as they are dissolved strein them hard thorough a thick cloth afterwards dry them and pouder them and keep the pouder for your use Take of this pouder thus prepared one ounce the weightiest wood of aloes poudred two drams red roses dryed ambergreece of each one dram zibet musk of each half a dram sweet balsame of Perâ— oyle of Rhodium of each one scruple ivory burnt till it be black as much as will suffice powder what is to be powdred then mix all with rose water and work them together into a kind of black paste make it into small bals which you must wrap in rose leaves and dry them in the shade then keep them well stopt in glasses This is a perfume for Persons of quality One or two of them cast upon coals or put into a quantity of rose water that is set over the coals will fill the room with a ravishing and coelestiall vapour that refreshes the braine and vitall spirits and corrects the malignity of any contagious aire Take Styrax calam prepared as before benzoin of each half an ounce your best wood of aloes two drams Zibet that is not adulterate one dram Gallia moscata one scruple oile of roses and of cloves of each half a scruple mix them according to art and with damask rose water make them into little bals They are of the same virtue with the former and used in the same manner CHAP. V. How to perfume Gloves TO adde the roses sweetness to the lillied loveliness of your snowie hands sent your gloves with these perfumes and they who take ye by the hand shall find all pleasures graspt in a handfull wherein all ravishing objects are that can convey those charming delights to the admiring fancy that both please the sight and feast the other senses too First then perfume your gloves thus Take a pair of smooth new Cordavan gloves wash them well for two or three daies once a day in good white wine pressing them well and smoothing them after every washing after the last washing when they are almost dry wash them in rose water wherein musk hath been dissolved let them lye in that water for one day then pull one of the gloves on your hand and with your other hand smooth and dry it then do the same to the other glove When this is done steep in water for four or five daies four ounces of gum tragagant the whitest you can get musk amber dryed marjoram of each one scruple boil them gently altogether and in the boiling add half a scruple of Zibet put these into a coverd vessel till they are cold then chaff and rub it well into the gloves afterward lay them in some place to dry Or wash those gloves ye intend to perfume first well in white wine then dry them in the shade after wash them in a pint of rose water sented with oile of cloves jasmine nutmegs labdanum of each half a scruple then take musk zibet ambergreece of each five graines beat them together in a mortar with a little oile of spike and mucilage of gum tragagant dissolv'd in rose water chaff this composition into the washt gloves before the fire FINIS